Re: [OT] Autodesk - another angry customer

2017-03-09 Thread Demian Kurejwowski
that's why companies like luxology and side effects succeed,  no secrets or lies behind, you pay for what they have done,   no convoluted ways,   if they cant handle 2 electronic ways of payment, how is like companies like home depot are able to maintain billions of products from several

Re: Workgroup equivilent for Maya

2017-03-09 Thread Eric Thivierge
Also look into Maya Modules which is as close to a plugin directory / package as you're probably going to get. Eric Thivierge http://www.ethivierge.com On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 12:22 PM, Sandy Sutherland wrote: > Hi Darren,

RE: Houdini tutorial | Building the orientation matrix for local rotation

2017-03-09 Thread Jonathan Moore
Just a thought with regards to the creation of the ‘up vector’ via the Point SOP. This has been deprecated in H16 and in its place you would use the Attribute Expression SOP (you can still call it on the tab menu via Point…) as this is multithreaded. The workflows a little different but just a

Re: Workgroup equivilent for Maya

2017-03-09 Thread Sandy Sutherland
Hi Darren, You can launch Maya with a set of environment variables set before launch, as Andy mentioned you can use Rez or we are using a modified version of Ecosystem here. Starting from this page, you can see which ones you might need to set.

Re: Workgroup equivilent for Maya

2017-03-09 Thread jentzen mooney
Thank you Andy!! On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 3:42 AM, Andy Nicholas wrote: > Hi Darren, > I would highly recommend looking into Rez as it'll let you configure your > environment on a per project (or per anything) basis: > >https://github.com/nerdvegas/rez > > You can use

Re: [OT] Autodesk - another angry customer

2017-03-09 Thread Martin
They have only announced an increase in the maintenance price, not subs so I asume the price won't change. The price would of course depend on where do you live. Right now, the subscription (rental) costs about 2.5 times a maintenance (old subscription) if we don't count the initial price of a

RE: Houdini tutorial | Building the orientation matrix for local rotation

2017-03-09 Thread Jonathan Moore
Nice clear explanation Oliver. From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Olivier Jeannel Sent: 09 March 2017 13:40 To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Houdini tutorial | Building the orientation matrix for local

Houdini tutorial | Building the orientation matrix for local rotation

2017-03-09 Thread Olivier Jeannel
I made a little tutorial on how to get local rotation when working in houdini. https://vimeo.com/207626604 Build an orientation matrix Rotate using the orient attribute before the copy sop Rotate objects after the copy sop. And it's all VOP ! -- Softimage Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send a

Re: [OT] Autodesk - another angry customer

2017-03-09 Thread Cristobal Infante
What would be the cost of Maya in 2019 if you are on subscription? On 9 March 2017 at 08:13, Andi Farhall wrote: > > > ...and once you're all on subscription see what we do to the sub prices > then > > even more reason to be on the Houdini boat >

Re: Workgroup equivilent for Maya

2017-03-09 Thread Andy Nicholas
Hi Darren, I would highly recommend looking into Rez as it'll let you configure your environment on a per project (or per anything) basis: https://github.com/nerdvegas/rez You can use it to define which project uses which plugins and takes care of any complex interdependencies (e.g. v1.5

Workgroup equivilent for Maya

2017-03-09 Thread Darren Macpherson
Hi all, Its been awhile since I was around these parts. I know this has been covered a fair amount and I have been going through previous posts and general looking around on line, so sorry if there's a bit of overlap and noise. We're looking to give Maya a try on a shot with a current project. I

Re: [OT] Autodesk - another angry customer

2017-03-09 Thread Andi Farhall
...and once you're all on subscription see what we do to the sub prices then even more reason to be on the Houdini boat From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com on behalf of gareth bell