Re: asset library + version control

Hey Guys, good tips here. I'll have a look at it. Alan, with "not as nice..." I meant, that my solution goes not far enough without rewriting and the other stuff has to much extra functionality + is overcomplicated for what I want from it. I'll have a look all your suggestions. If someone of

RE: asset library + version control

We use perforce, and I can script it within Softimage, and as far as I know there was addon for Softimage too... From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Andreas Böinghoff Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2014 9:40 AM To: softimage@li

Re: asset library + version control

Perforce is the only solution I'd personally recommend. All other stuff it's just not suitable for large amount of binary data. Of course, it "only" provides versioning. All front end/middle end (asset database) work is up to you. On 30 January 2014 09:11, Szabolcs Matefy wrote: > We use perfo

RE: asset library + version control

If you are OK with scripting, using the system command you could do the commands on your own. I did the same ☺ From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Andreas Böinghoff Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2014 11:02 AM To: softimage@lis

Re: The Lego Movie: Behind the Scenes and How They Made the Movie

Cell animation isn't 2's, it's just a varying rate depending of the motion speed, it can be 1,2,3's sometimes more. And for stop motion, it really depends, for example when aardman and dreamworks did Flushed Away, they freeze 1 frame every 4 frames to mimic their stop motion look. It might also be

Re: asset library + version control

We use our own MySQL database with a PyQt front end. It's basic, but custom built for our needs. On 30 January 2014 10:56, Szabolcs Matefy wrote: > If you are OK with scripting, using the system command you could do the > commands on your own. I did the same J > > > > *From:* softimage-boun...

raysat does not start

Hello, trying to get mental ray satellite to work on 2014SP2 (it did for SP1 methinks a while ago)... but... I query the service, and it says it's stopped. So I try raysatsi2014_3_11_1_1server.exe /start and it logs raysatsi2014_3_11_1_1server error: (1069) StartService: the system cannot find the

Re: raysat does not start

I'd run Process Monitor and see if there really is a file it cannot find. On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 7:03 AM, Eugen Sares wrote: > Hello, > trying to get mental ray satellite to work on 2014SP2 (it did for SP1 > methinks a while ago)... but... > I query the service, and it says it's stopped. So I

Re[2]: raysat does not start

Thanks, Stephen... process monitor - where and how? (always some other skill you need...) -- Originalnachricht -- Von: "Stephen Blair" An: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Gesendet: 30.01.2014 13:28:07 Betreff: Re: raysat does not start I'd run Process Monitor and see if there really is

Re: raysat does not start

Process monitor: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx Really useful tool for all sorts of things...Put in a filter so that you can check for what the raysat service is looking for though without having to look through a lot of events! Yours sincerely, Siew Yi Liang

Re[2]: raysat does not start

Thanks, guys, I'll try... -- Originalnachricht -- Von: "Siew Yi Liang" An: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Gesendet: 30.01.2014 14:07:24 Betreff: Re: raysat does not start Process monitor: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx Really useful tool for all sorts o

Re: asset library + version control

Has anyone ever transitioned from keeping all version files to a diff-based version control system the likes of git or the others? Are the storage benefits considerable when using a system that only stores binary differences between versions vs keeping all the files in full? On Thu, Jan 30, 201

Re: The Lego Movie: Behind the Scenes and How They Made the Movie

It also varies by studio. Laika , for example, is famous for really fluid (and dare I say beautiful) animation, like in their awesome *ParaNorman * film, which was all painstakingly shot on 1's (from what I heard.) http://

Re: The Lego Movie: Behind the Scenes and How They Made the Movie

Links gone, was it a leak? On 30 January 2014 15:15, Alan Fregtman wrote: > It also varies by studio. Laika , for > example, is famous for really fluid (and dare I say beautiful) animation, > like in their awesome *ParaNorman >

Re: The Lego Movie: Behind the Scenes and How They Made the Movie

It was poorly edited; maybe they reuploaded? I can't remember the name of the publication though. Anyone got a backup? :/ On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Cristobal Infante wrote: > Links gone, was it a leak? > > > On 30 January 2014 15:15, Alan Fregtman wrote: > >> It also varies by studio.

Re: Getting weight values for given points...

Hi, I had a quick test as well and I got the same issue. The only way I could get it to work is by leaving the position input at 0,0,0 (on the closest location node). This is probably due to what Stephen suggested? Although since the ice tree is on the null I don't think is possible to convert the

RE: Getting weight values for given points...

Position inputs for geo queries like Get Closest Location are local to the object with the ICE tree. (Ditto for positions returned from locations.) So if the ICE tree is on the null and you want the closest location to the null, then (0, 0, 0) is indeed the input position you should use. gray

Re: Getting weight values for given points...

now it makes sense then! I've read/know that the closest location returns values in global space, I assumed that the feeding positions should be in global space as well. Thanks Gray, this cleared up things! On 30 January 2014 17:17, Grahame Fuller wrote: > Position inputs for geo queries like Ge

Re: Getting weight values for given points...

Hi Sergio, This works for me. To clarify on the position attribute position of the Get Closest Location, it is the position within "Object Space" or local *from* where you want the find the location data *on* the geometry. Since in your case, it is a null, hence the position on the null in the lo

Re: Getting weight values for given points...

Thanks all. Sorry for the late replies. We've been having email problems all morning. Yes, that was the problem I found earlier today. I just had to parent everything to a new object and subtract this parent's global position from each null's object position, and it works

RE: The Lego Movie: Behind the Scenes and How They Made the Movie

I used to be a cel animator, I'm pretty sure it's on 2's for the general case. Matt From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Ahmidou Lyazidi Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2014 3:07 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject:

Re: The Lego Movie: Behind the Scenes and How They Made the Movie

Except for the old Marvel cartoons from the 70's... those were like... 12's... :-D On 30/01/2014 1:33 PM, Matt Lind wrote: I used to be a cel animator, I’m pretty sure it’s on 2’s for the general case.

Re: asset library + version control

Thanks, looks very interesting… the most interesting of them… Is this something you guys use for actual 3D assets or you mix all of it, from production documents to other assets? thx Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.com On 30 Jan 2014, at 09:40, Michal Doniec wrote: > Perforce is the only soluti

RE: asset library + version control

We've been using perforce for a long time. You can put art content into it, but it's really designed for managing code. There are bugs where it doesn't handle binary data correctly in some situations, and the scripting/programming API is pretty weak. It's basically a UNIX command line even if

Re: The Lego Movie: Behind the Scenes and How They Made the Movie

It entirely depends on budget. 2s is more like the most cels any given character gets in a very fluid shot, often multiple characters get their holds and actions interleaved, if it's not jarring, to give the impression of 1s. Rarely you get 2s or 3s held with facial on 1s if there's actual lip sync

Re: asset library + version control

Tank.. err.. *Shotgun Pipeline Toolkit* is great. We use it here. That said, he requested: *>> We don't need it in combination with an job- user- taskmanagment, but just as an server+database where we could upload our files and drag-and-drop our assets to softimage.* If you get Tank you get Sho

Re: asset library + version control

Issue filled, I will take a closer look :) On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 5:45 PM, Alan Fregtman wrote: > That is cool but it's "regular git" and will be pretty slow for large > files as Helge pointed out. > > > > On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 1:50 PM, Angus Davidson > wrote: > >> https://github.com/csae

RE: asset library + version control

Anyone know if Mecurial handles large files better? I have only thrown 30-50mb files at it and it handles those fine. From: Cesar Saez [cesa...@gmail.com] Sent: 31 January 2014 01:14 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: asset library + version contro