softimage crashes on timeline change in the Animation Editor

2013-12-23 Thread Rob Wuijster
Hi all, I had this issue before, and am pretty sure this was fixed. The issue had to do with 3rd party renderers and the AE. Select some points on a curve, change timing vy typing a new value. Instant crash. It worked till now, but suddenly pops up it's ugly head again. SI2013SP1, SitoA2.10

Re: softimage crashes on timeline change in the Animation Editor

2013-12-23 Thread Stephen Blair
Fixed in Softimage 2014 SP1 http://images.autodesk.com/adsk/files/Autodesk_Softimage_2014_SP1.htm SOFT-8283 Softimage crashes when using the animation editor and 3rd party renderer On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 5:41 AM, Rob Wuijster r...@casema.nl wrote: Hi all, I had this issue before, and am

Re: rumor, Maya is still a piece of crap

2013-12-23 Thread Morten Bartholdy
:) Den 20. december 2013 kl. 18:39 skrev Greg Punchatz g...@janimation.com: rumors that Biofrost is simply awful, it is being discussed in the halls of AD that all the people that made the decisions to buy Niad and Xgen are going to be fired. Once Autodesk Shareholders realized by tuning

Re: rumor, Soft dead within the next year

2013-12-23 Thread Morten Bartholdy
Why don't you believe the drinking part Eric? Everyone knows the british drink a lot - especially the Soho ones ;) I bet Adrian is having a pint with Elvis, or more likely Kurt Cobain. Peace - Morten Den 20. december 2013 kl. 18:51 skrev Eric Mootz e...@mootzoid.com: I believe it, too!

Re: rumor, Soft dead within the next year

2013-12-23 Thread Morten Bartholdy
I wonder who would take interest in starting such rumours - I don't mean you Kris, but possibly someone inside AD... It will take a lot to pry XSI out of my hands, should it go that way. Morten Den 20. december 2013 kl. 18:03 skrev Kris Rivel krisri...@gmail.com: Sorry...can't resist. Nasty

RE: positivity

2013-12-23 Thread Morten Bartholdy
That would be a Boston Colorgraphics Lightspeed Qolor workstation - around 1986: http://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/cg/1985/12/04056044.pdf http://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/cg/1985/12/04056044.pdf no. 2 machine from top. 24 bit painting with a digitizer mouse with a crosshair - it could record

Re: positivity

2013-12-23 Thread Morten Bartholdy
Right back at you and the team, Chris! Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year for you and all of us! Morten Den 21. december 2013 kl. 11:24 skrev Chris Chia softimage...@gmail.com: Hi guys, Just popping by to greet all the fellows here a Merry Xmas and a Happy 2015 ahead! Stay Positive

RE: positivity

2013-12-23 Thread Ed Harriss
A bit... But there are plenty of you guys here that don't make me feel so old! ;) My first machine was a TRS-80 that I got sometime around 1977. Did some graphics, learned basic, played really bad games. 10 Print Cheese and Monkeys! ; 20 Goto 10 Lol. So much fun. I remember getting magazines

tips on working with dense reference models?

2013-12-23 Thread Paul Griswold
I don't work a lot with reference models, but I am now. The mesh is dense and has a lot of parts to deal with. When the mesh is local, Softimage handles it fine. But when it's reference, just moving through the timeline takes 8-10 seconds per frame. Even in Bounding Box mode, Softimage grinds

Re: tips on working with dense reference models?

2013-12-23 Thread Alan Fregtman
Is it as simple as building low res stand-ins and offloading? Pretty much... yeah. Is it a solid, (mostly if not completely) non-deforming thing like a vehicle? If that's the case, you may wanna consider making a null hierarchy where each null contains a selection of meshes that move as one.

Re: tips on working with dense reference models?

2013-12-23 Thread Paul Griswold
Thanks Alan! Yep, this is all solid, non-deforming stuff (CAD data). I have rigged it all with nulls the way you mention. The problem I'm having is just updating when I scrub the timeline. Even if the object has zero animation, simply scrubbing the timeline causes Softimage to freeze for

RE: positivity

2013-12-23 Thread Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES]
By todays standards almost everything was low end back then in regards to quality, but it was all superior to the slide rules we were using in the 60s and 70s! :) I too recall extracting dos batch file programming code one word at a time from a mag called DOS Resource Guide and then rewriting

Re: tips on working with dense reference models?

2013-12-23 Thread Cristobal Infante
another way is to use 2 resolutions for your reference models. One very low res, and only switch to the highres when you are ready to render. The trick is to use the same rig so the animation sticks. If you want to give this a shot I recommend you download the scn toc manager created by Alok to

RE: positivity

2013-12-23 Thread Mike Donovan
Hehe ... Yes he does ... he is very old ... but I think I am actually older. ;-) I just moved into a new house ... amongst the myriad of crap I had packed was a small porcelain white cup ... the inscription read ... MONKEES ... If you remember where that is from ... you too are old. Michael

Re: positivity

2013-12-23 Thread Emilio Hernandez
Reading all the oldies but goodies, and also being a guy that was born the year the man put a feet on the moon, without any supercomputer, I am more convinced that I donĀ“t need a nice viewport to get the job done... hahaha 2013/12/23 Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES] j.ponthi...@nasa.gov

RE: positivity

2013-12-23 Thread Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES]
You must be describing the Chinese restaurant in LA that Ed found for the mailing list meet and great back in 2001. You most certainly can't be referring to the band with the TV show I used to watch in the early 70s. -- Joey Ponthieux LaRC Information Technology Enhanced Services (LITES) Mymic

RE: positivity

2013-12-23 Thread Mike Donovan
Holy Crap ... Your old too !! Michael -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES] Sent: Monday, December 23, 2013 2:03 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com

RE: positivity

2013-12-23 Thread Ed Harriss
I've got that cup sitting on my desk! http://www.edharriss.com/fic/monkees.jpg Amazing! Ed -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Mike Donovan Sent: Monday, December 23, 2013 2:07 PM To:

Re: rumor, Soft dead within the next year

2013-12-23 Thread Arman Sernaz
Such a Great Work Walter ! It was a pleasure watching this :) 2013/12/20 wavo w...@fiftyeight.com Merry Xmas and a happy new Year: done with one of the last version of softimage: http://www.bang-awards.com/en/movie/362-mite -- *Walter Volbers* Senior Animator *FIFTYEIGHT* 3D

Re: positivity

2013-12-23 Thread Ognjen Vukovic
Would just like to pop in to wish everyone a merry Christmas and happy holidays, and a very fun filled break from work. Its great to see such a good atmosphere in the community, now all that's missing is cloud storaged ale, but im sure someone will come up with a way of synthesizing it one day,

Re: tips on working with dense reference models?

2013-12-23 Thread Peter Agg
If moving between resolutions is a pain then you can always have visible low-res geo with the high res stuff hidden. You don't get the same speed boost that you get with multiple resolutions, but sometimes it's enough to make it workable. On 23 December 2013 18:33, Cristobal Infante

Re: rumor, Soft dead within the next year

2013-12-23 Thread Aloys Baillet
C'mon! You have to trust that Everything is Awesome, with the LEGO movie entirely animated with Softimage! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ_JOBCLF-I Merry XMas everyone! On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Arman Sernaz arma...@gmail.com wrote: Such a Great Work Walter ! It was a pleasure