Re: Friday Flashback #223

2015-05-15 Thread Mr Alexei Godek
brilliant catch ! On 14 May 2015 at 22:08, Luc-Eric Rousseau luceri...@gmail.com wrote: Here is a set of those manuals being used as a prop on the set of Grey's Anatomy http://tinyurl.com/nsrlaan On 14 May 2015 at 15:09, emi...@e-roja.com wrote: ​​ This were my second set of manuals

Re: Friday Flashback #223

2015-05-15 Thread Rob Wuijster
Ha, I still have those manuals standing in the bookshelf, next to Rossano's Inside Softimage|3D book. ;-) I started dabbling with Softimage|3D 3.7 I think, on a blue and bubbly SGI 02, and picked up XSI at 3.0 on WinNT, replacing 3DSMax. Bought Foundation for dabbling at home at some point,

Re: End of the ride

2015-05-15 Thread Juan Brockhaus
Thanks Graham and all the best for the future! On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 1:50 AM, Daniel Brassard dbrassar...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you Graham for your help and advice in ICE and programming over the years. Good luck in your new ventures and keep in touch here. wish you the best, Dan

Friday Flashback #224

2015-05-15 Thread Stephen Blair
#Reboot on the #Softimage 3D 3.8 Extreme boxed set http://wp.me/powV4-3a4

RE: Friday Flashback #224

2015-05-15 Thread Emilio Hernández
Thanks Stephen! That is really nostalgia… I loved the Reboot series Still googling for the red manuals though... Those manuals were my pillow books for almost six months… haha.

particles save - crash

2015-05-15 Thread Paul Griswold
I'm having a weird problem with a scene today.  When I try to save, it gets down to saving particles and then crashes. When I check the debug info, it says XSI didn't have the appropriate access to write to a directory, but it doesn't say what directory.  I've checked every directory I could

Re: particles save - crash

2015-05-15 Thread Pierre Schiller
Read protected directory? temporary swapping of mapped drivers? Project managed remotely? There could be many variants to this. One thing happened to me yesterday, so I would recommend it: Make sure the simulation environment of the particle (caching .ice particles) doesn´t contain any other extra

Re: XSI Mod Tool - hard crash on object select - help?

2015-05-15 Thread Mario Reitbauer
Ur crazy :D Sry no idea, could be almost everything starting from graphic card issue over operating system 2015-05-15 16:56 GMT+02:00 Andres Stephens drais...@outlook.com: I have decided to… go back to the year 2009 and use XSI mod tool to keep on doing some productions in a fun workflow

RE: particles save - crash

2015-05-15 Thread gareth bell
Disk full? From: activemotionpictu...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 15 May 2015 11:09:22 -0500 Subject: Re: particles save - crash To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Read protected directory? temporary swapping of mapped drivers? Project managed remotely? There could be many variants to this. One thing

Re: Is purchasing a new softimage license impossible?

2015-05-15 Thread Eric Thivierge
I didn't find Chris' post anywhere near throwing everything in a pile and didn't consider it noise at all. How many times have people posted to the list about a cool feature in other software before the EOL and nobody lost their shit? Why now? I'm on a number of lists so I'm well experienced with

Re: particles save - crash

2015-05-15 Thread Matt Lind
I've run into similar issues when developing tools. Try doing a 'save as...' instead of 'save'. Matt Date: Fri, 15 May 2015 12:55:58 -0400 From: Paul Griswold pgrisw...@fusiondigitalproductions.com Subject: Re: particles save - crash To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Probably true -

Re: Is purchasing a new softimage license impossible?

2015-05-15 Thread Matt Lind
Some of us have been down this road before, Eric. Yes, people will be moving on, but that's not an excuse to throw everything into a pile as it's just noise, counterproductive, and a disservice to those who really need the list for something other than as a chat medium to pass the day. As

Re: Is purchasing a new softimage license impossible?

2015-05-15 Thread Chris Johnson
Wow...I've been buried deep in production and hadn't looked back at the list for a few days...sorry to cause the kerfuffle. Sven I've been using Softimage my entire career. 17 years. I've been on this list as long as I've been using this software. Last thing I would ever do is try to steer anyone

Re: Is purchasing a new softimage license impossible?

2015-05-15 Thread Stephan Haidacher
while i agree on your promotional point, (at least when its a clear promo, which wasn't the case here at all) whats wrong with freeware? (in this case its even opensource)? so by your list policy its: houdini: yeah, modo: yeah, maya: meh, max: meh, blender: no? cinema? is that ok by your

Re: Is purchasing a new softimage license impossible?

2015-05-15 Thread Tenshi S.
A valid point, and one that i support entirely. I enter here a while ago, because of Softimage, not because of Maya or Blender, if i would like to hear about those app i would go to the proper forums/mailing list, etc. Everytime i come to gmail and verifiy my forums section, i encounter a few

Re: Is purchasing a new softimage license impossible?

2015-05-15 Thread Mirko Jankovic
Again no need to police or something just common sense, If there is need mention solution in maya nd point to right discussion or forum but there is absolutely no need to start lengthy discussion how to do 1 click operation in SI with 20 scripts in maya... On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 7:37 AM, Mirko

Re: Is purchasing a new softimage license impossible?

2015-05-15 Thread Mirko Jankovic
I can only agree. Move other software things to other threads, it is one thing to mention something if it is solution to specific problem but to dedicate next bunch of emails to maya and others it is no place or that. There are maya and other software threads to discus that in debt. If someone

Re: XSI Mod Tool - hard crash on object select - help?

2015-05-15 Thread Andres Stephens
I’ll try copy over the work version and overwrite the one that isn’t working here, and see if it’s anything to do with the install, and if it works… I know this end installed wrong or something. If not, I will know it’s my operating system setup or graphic card or drivers. From:

Re: particles save - crash

2015-05-15 Thread Stephen Blair
This sounds like a case for Process Monitor... but I always say that On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 12:00 PM, Paul Griswold pgrisw...@fusiondigitalproductions.com wrote: I'm having a weird problem with a scene today. When I try to save, it gets down to saving particles and then crashes. When I

Re: Is purchasing a new softimage license impossible?

2015-05-15 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
The equivalent in Maya of the +/- buttons of softimage is to turn on subdiv preview with the 3 hotkey, and use pageup/pagedown to change subdiv level. On 15 May 2015 at 14:54, John Richard Sanchez youngupstar...@gmail.com wrote: Going from mesh to sub d with the + and _ uttons I will miss. In

Re: Is purchasing a new softimage license impossible?

2015-05-15 Thread John Richard Sanchez
That is 80 % of the time i get an error On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 2:54 PM, John Richard Sanchez youngupstar...@gmail.com wrote: Going from mesh to sub d with the + and _ uttons I will miss. In Maya when I try to modify convert to Sub D I get an error 8 % of the time. (I think because it has to

Re: Is purchasing a new softimage license impossible?

2015-05-15 Thread John Richard Sanchez
Going from mesh to sub d with the + and _ uttons I will miss. In Maya when I try to modify convert to Sub D I get an error 8 % of the time. (I think because it has to have all quads to work) I am not a fan of the mesh smoothing. On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 12:21 AM, Bradley Gabe witha...@gmail.com