RE: SI 2014

2015-07-01 Thread adrian wyer
Mostly running 2014SP2 here (have 2015, but only used for smaller projects, current job approaching 19 months in production so far!) Only problems we've had are Arnold constantly crashing soft when you fiddle with shader settings, whilst the region is live A Solid Angle issue I guess

RE: SI 2014

2015-07-01 Thread adrian wyer
also take into consideration that, on average, our Redshift renders are 10-20 times as fast as Arnold, so you would need less farm machines/lics a _ From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Matt Morris Sent: 01 July

RE: SI 2014

2015-07-01 Thread Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES]
I went with 2014SP2 just because it was the easiest to do without requiring a license manager install. So good to know that's probably the best solution at the moment. And yeah, it didn't fix the problem. So I started getting geometry errors upon reloading the scene. Think I've managed to

Re: SI 2014

2015-07-01 Thread Francois Lord
We switched from 2013SP1 to 2015 last fall but stepped back to 2014SP2 this winter because there were too many bugs in 2015. But now we realized that the display LUT in 2014SP2 doesn't support the full dynamic range of the region. So we are thinking to go back to 2015 just because of that.

Re: SI 2014

2015-07-01 Thread Matt Morris
Depends what the licensing covers I suppose - one Redshift license includes the plugins for soft and maya (and max when its out of alpha). Octane/Vray you have to pay per plugin. On 1 July 2015 at 13:57, Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES] j.ponthi...@nasa.gov wrote: Seems a bad moment to

RE: SI 2014

2015-07-01 Thread Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES]
Seems a bad moment to try to justify anything that plugs into SI and costs money I guess? -- Joey Ponthieux LaRC Information Technology Enhanced Services (LITES) MYMIC Technical Services NASA Langley Research Center __ Opinions stated here-in are

Re: SI 2014

2015-07-01 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
Honest question here, but can't you just drop MRay and move to a decent engine? On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 5:13 AM, Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES] j.ponthi...@nasa.gov wrote: I’m running Soft 2014. I am experiencing a lot of render crashes where Mental Ray is being purposely disabled by

Re: SI 2014

2015-07-01 Thread Matt Lind
When mental ray is disabled, it's usually a sign something is wrong with the scene. Changing versions of Softimage won't fix that problem. You'd be best advised to investigate the problem and fix it. That said, latest service pack for any version is generally the most solid release. I

ERROR : 2000 - Mesh structure error (corruption)

2015-07-01 Thread Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES]
Has anyone found anything relevant to this error? I read a scene and it reports this along with corrupted edge or vertex and poly. I delete the geometry in one model then save and upon rereading it appears again in another model. Has anyone had issues with this? -- Joey Ponthieux LaRC

Re: SI 2014

2015-07-01 Thread Mario Reitbauer
Same for Arnold. You buy the license and get it for all available applications. 2015-07-01 14:19 GMT+01:00 adrian wyer adrian.w...@fluid-pictures.com: also take into consideration that, on average, our Redshift renders are 10-20 times as fast as Arnold, so you would need less farm

Re: SI 2014

2015-07-01 Thread Tim Leydecker
I´ve worked quite a while on Softimage 2014Sp2 but didn´t use mental ray, happily ran Redshift3D with it. Mind you, I don´t do serious animation, fx or stuff like that, only modeling, lighting and shading elements. Can´t say how well 2014SP2 would hold up for massive scenes or in terms of