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 Ja

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 asks

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 topic

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 stand

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 a

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 wit

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 for

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" Subject: Re: particles save - crash To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Probably true - Process Monitor to the rescue! I just

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 wrote: > Going from mesh to sub d with the + and _ uttons I will miss. In Maya when I > try to mod

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 wrote: > I can say

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 ha

Re: particles save - crash

2015-05-15 Thread Paul Griswold
I have 3 ICE trees but none are frozen.  2 have caches on file. I'm checking process monitor, but so far haven't found anything incredibly obvious.   For now I'm taking a break from that job & going to zen out on some voxel modeling. On May 15, 2015, at 1:01 PM, Leonard Koch wrote: Maybe we

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: Mario

Re: particles save - crash

2015-05-15 Thread Leonard Koch
Maybe we need to build you a little bot that listens for new emails coming in and if certain keywords like "crash, memory and inexplicable" are hit, it automatically sends out an email suggesting Process Monitor :) But that's probably a https://xkcd.com/1205/ problem... I had the problem of a cras

Re: particles save - crash

2015-05-15 Thread Paul Griswold
Probably true - Process Monitor to the rescue! I just tried going in, disabling all ICE trees as well as hiding them, and still ran in to the same issue - the moment it got to Saving Particles, crash. The drive has 2 TB free and I can't find any write protected directories, so I'm not sure what

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. > > W

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: 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

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: 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 : > 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 kind of way with So

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

2015-05-15 Thread Andres Stephens
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 kind of way with Softimage - hopefully still legal and acquirable after 2016 without Autodesk.(though I hope my studio partners will be able to buy a few seats for Redshift before

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.

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: 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 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 > Thanks Graham, you w

Re: Friday Flashback #223

2015-05-15 Thread Mr Alexei Godek
brilliant catch ! On 14 May 2015 at 22:08, Luc-Eric Rousseau 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, wrote: > >> ​​ >> This were my second set of manuals after the first upgrade I reci

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, b