Re: ADSK *can* be very helpful :)

2018-03-15 Thread Dan Yargici
Hey guys and gals, I stayed subscribed to the list over these last few years since I moved over to Houdini (haven't touched Softimage in 2 years now!) as occasionally a little nugget of useful, non-Softimage specific information would still surface through the Autodesk-hating noise (I should add

Re: Multiple objects copy

2017-09-29 Thread Dan Yargici
3GWp_KDLcZF62K46L26sRotCYY0=> > > 2017-09-29 11:12 GMT+02:00 Dan Yargici <danyarg...@gmail.com>: > >> I'm very surprised by this result then! >> >> Unless you're running Houdini on a laptop from 2005 and not telling us... >> :) >> >> >>

Re: Multiple objects copy

2017-09-29 Thread Dan Yargici
I'm very surprised by this result then! Unless you're running Houdini on a laptop from 2005 and not telling us... :) On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 9:46 AM, Olivier Jeannel <facialdel...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes I did remember :D > > 2017-09-29 10:25 GMT+02:00 Dan Yargici <da

Re: Multiple objects copy

2017-09-29 Thread Dan Yargici
Did you remember to tick "Multihread when compiled" on your foreach_end? On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 8:38 AM, Olivier Jeannel wrote: > Mmm, unless I made a mistake replicating his copy + switch + compile, I'm > getting a rough 33s to copy 10 object other 35 points. > >

OT: 13inch laptop for occasional noodling in Houdini...

2017-07-14 Thread Dan Yargici
Hello Softimage peoples. I've been waiting for the new HP Envy range of 13inch laptops to arrive since the announcement in May so I can finally replace my current, ancient, (2006 - eeek!) machine. The new Envy range seemed to have all the boxes ticked for my needs, with modern ports (no

Re: Houdini Digital Assets for Softies

2017-03-31 Thread Dan Yargici
I think people need to accept that just as they understandably expect SideFX to push the software to be more approachable for themselves they really ought to try and push themselves in the opposite direction also. If there was a theoretical race to DCC dominance, I'd really favour Houdini right

Re: Latest Houdini Wrangle Masterclass

2017-03-28 Thread Dan Yargici
Packed Primitives are so ace that it's hard to put into words. Polysoups are awesome also... The only corner case niggle I've encountered with Packed Primitives so far is that you if you simulate them with a Pop Solver you need to manually update the primitive Transform intrinsic to reflect the

Re: Random Thoughts about H.

2017-03-25 Thread Dan Yargici
I just wish you could disable drop on line per context. I would hate to work in the network editor without it, but I hate it ferociously in VOPs... Sent from my phone... On 24 Mar 2017 5:52 pm, "Andy Nicholas" wrote: > +1. Literally found that happening to me too today

Re: Soft to Houdini custom shelf / scripts.

2017-02-23 Thread Dan Yargici
Quick tip, Jason. You can middle click on any node in SOPs and at the bottom it will tell you if it's a time dependent cook or not. If it's not, the result is cached and the branch is only reevaluated on a change upstream. DAN Sent from my phone... On 22 Feb 2017 8:09 pm, "Jason S"

Re: Soft to Houdini custom shelf / scripts.

2017-02-22 Thread Dan Yargici
Hey Tim, No, you could just stick a null at the end, lock it and delete everything that lead up to it. You'd still have the geo 'frozen' in your scene. I think it's a psychological thing really. I still find myself feeling the way you describe, and it does feel kind of wrong, but you have the

Re: Xsi to Houdini Quick Start Tutorials

2017-01-28 Thread Dan Yargici
Yes, I also wondered this. Also, POP Wrangle and POP VOP nodes have already been setup to use the opstreamname expression internally which enable nodes to respect streams themselves. The sop solver itself will not limit itself to the stream it resides in afaik. On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 3:12

Re: mountains

2017-01-12 Thread Dan Yargici
I plan on being there also. Deadlines permitting... On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 5:09 PM, Matt Morris wrote: > I'll be there, hoping to bump into some old softies ;) > > On 12 January 2017 at 17:05, Jonathan Moore > wrote: > >> Stay tuned to Feb 6th… I

Re: Xsi to Houdini Quick Start Tutorials

2017-01-12 Thread Dan Yargici
Peter Quint's video on Pop Streams shows a fairly straightforward approach to creating states. On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 1:40 PM, wrote: > I'll do it in dops because it's trickier, but I'll set it up in vops just > because it's closer to ICE > > Skickat från min iPhone

Re: Softimage mailing 2016 year in review

2017-01-11 Thread Dan Yargici
"Where’s Porl when you need him?" *Porl twitches, stops chewing, and looks up from the carcass of the random internet commentator he was devouring in some dark, long forgotten corner of the internet... the black fog clears from his eyes and a grin slowly spreads across his face...* ...or

Re: Softimage mailing 2016 year in review

2017-01-10 Thread Dan Yargici
to follow. > > 2017-01-10 14:00 GMT+01:00 Tim Bolland <tim_boll...@hotmail.co.uk>: > >> Thank you, just signed up. >> >> >> -- >> *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com < >> softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.co

Re: Softimage mailing 2016 year in review

2017-01-10 Thread Dan Yargici
I'm mrDan on there if you do join btw. On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 12:08 PM, Dan Yargici <danyarg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry, yeah. Maybe this is the correct link: > > https://discordapp.com/invite/b8U5Hdy > > > > On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 12:04 PM, Rob Chapman <

Re: Softimage mailing 2016 year in review

2017-01-10 Thread Dan Yargici
n? > > On 10 January 2017 at 11:50, Olivier Jeannel <facialdel...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi Dan, >> I installed your "thing", but what should I do to "see" you guys ? >> >> 2017-01-10 12:30 GMT+01:00 Dan Yargici <danyarg...@gmail.com>

Re: Softimage mailing 2016 year in review

2017-01-10 Thread Dan Yargici
Hey Tim! Also check out the discord server that someone set up recently. It's actually quite active and pleasant/feature-rich to use. There are some good people one there and SideFX employees also. I haven't been massively involved there but it feels like the future for this type of

Re: Softimage mailing 2016 year in review

2017-01-09 Thread Dan Yargici
You'll always win on word count though, Matt ;) DAN On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 10:01 AM, Matt Lind wrote: > Well, to put it into perspective: > > In 2014 there were 14,000+ posts and only the top 3 posters from this > year's > rankings would've cracked the top 25 in

Re: Questionable spam emails

2017-01-02 Thread Dan Yargici
I just got one also. Sent from my phone... On 2 Jan 2017 1:21 pm, "Morten Bartholdy" wrote: > I have received a couple of those too - apparently coming from the mailing > list with a file attached with my name and doc added. > > Not sure what is going on. > > Morten > > >

Possibly the most random sighting of XSI yet...

2016-12-18 Thread Dan Yargici
Was just perusing randomly on Banggood and stumbled across this... http://www.banggood.com/VOYO-V1-Quad-Core-Apollo-Pentium-N4200-Windows-10_1-System-4G-RAM-32G-eMMC-128G-SSD-Mini-PC-TV-Box-p-1105331.html -- Softimage Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send a mail to

Re: Softimage EOL 2017 - The chronicles of a giant (documentary)

2016-12-07 Thread Dan Yargici
gt; 4th Floor >>> 4 Bath Place >>> Rivington Street >>> London >>> EC2A 3DR >>> ++44(0) 207 580 0829 <+44%2020%207580%200829> >>> >>> >>> adrian.w...@fluid-pictures.com >>> >>> www.fluid-p

Re: Softimage EOL 2017 - The chronicles of a giant (documentary)

2016-12-07 Thread Dan Yargici
Are you insane? Come on everyone, get over it. Life's too short... Sent from my phone... On 6 Dec 2016 10:20 pm, "Pierre Schiller" wrote: > Hi. Has anyone started any documentary on how AD hit our jobs (increasing > an already bad economic year)? > Has anyone

Re: SI|3D Flashback

2016-11-11 Thread Dan Yargici
One of my favourite underrated but powerful tools back in the day was +Replace. It was one of the Pison tools I think. It just let you swap out objects' geometry but keep all their parameters. It felt like magic when I discovered it. Stupid really looking back. Wasn't Halfdan originally one of

Re: What does this mean for Arnold ?

2016-07-31 Thread Dan Yargici
It looks to me like it's still a loong way off. Sent from my phone... On 31 Jul 2016 1:39 a.m., "Steven Caron" wrote: > https://mobile.twitter.com/arnoldrenderer/status/758753755911159809 > > *written with my thumbs > > On Jul 30, 2016 3:27 PM, "Sebastien Sterling" < >

Re: Motion Tracking

2016-07-26 Thread Dan Yargici
Actually it looks like it wasn't one of the projects accepted by google. Or no one picked it up... https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/GoogleSummerOfCode/2016 Sent from my phone... On 26 Jul 2016 10:50 p.m., "Dan Yargici" <danyarg...@gmail.com> wrote: > It's a summer

Re: Motion Tracking

2016-07-26 Thread Dan Yargici
It's a summer of code project so it's fairly likely. https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/GoogleSummerOfCode/2016/Ideas Sent from my phone... On 26 Jul 2016 10:49 p.m., "Dan Yargici" <danyarg...@gmail.com> wrote: > It is quite usable but it currently has no lens

Re: Motion Tracking

2016-07-26 Thread Dan Yargici
It is quite usable but it currently has no lens distortion workflow afaik. I think it may be coming in 2.78 however. Sent from my phone... On 26 Jul 2016 9:30 p.m., "Adam Seeley" wrote: > Innnteresting. > > On 26 July 2016 at 08:14, Gerbrand Nel

Re: Motion Tracking

2016-07-20 Thread Dan Yargici
I worked on a job where a colleague was tracking 4 ~2000 frame sequences in the same world space with SynthEyes and the speed and results he was getting were jaw-dropping. It's crazy fast, if that's what's important to you. It's priced very attractively also. To call the interface fugly would

Re: Momentum / implosiafx plugins

2016-05-26 Thread Dan Yargici
Thanks Oleg! Very generous! ...and great tools BTW! DAN On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 5:45 PM, Laurence Dodd wrote: > Very generous, many thanks Oleg! > > Laurence > > On 26 May 2016 at 15:24, Oleg Bliznuk wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Since the EOL of Softmage

Re: Realflow plugin not working - quick Q

2016-05-13 Thread Dan Yargici
Hey Morten. Adrian had some issues with it recently and emReader came to his rescue. Might be worth a look... http://www.mootzoid.com/plugin/emreader On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 9:18 AM, Morten Bartholdy wrote: > Before I contact Next Limit I thought I would check up with

Re: slightly OT: realflow mesh loader

2016-03-29 Thread Dan Yargici
Hi Adrian. Might not be the answer you're looking for, but I've never used Realflow so the only suggestion I can contribute is try emReader... :/ http://www.mootzoid.com/plugin/emreader On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 12:49 PM, adrian wyer < adrian.w...@fluid-pictures.com> wrote: > hey guys,

Re: OT:PLUG houdini to blender workflow

2016-03-19 Thread Dan Yargici
That's great! Cheers Gerbrand! DAN On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 2:27 PM, Gerbrand Nel wrote: > Hey guys > Anyone interested in getting scenes from Houdini into blender, Check > this out! > The main guy behind it all is Johannes Kollmer. > > We are trying to expand this to all

Re: Beta of new Binary Alchemy shaders available for free

2016-03-07 Thread Dan Yargici
That's great, cheers Holger On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 10:40 AM, Adam Seeley wrote: > Absolutely great Holger.. many thanks. > > Adam. > > > > On 7 March 2016 at 09:05, Morten Bartholdy wrote: > >> Great stuff - thanks Holger! >> >> Morten >> >> >> >> >

Re: OT Houdini build Array VOP question (and a bit of rant)

2016-03-04 Thread Dan Yargici
Cheers Andy. Will do. On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 9:45 AM, Andy Nicholas <a...@andynicholas.com> wrote: > Hi Dan. You can send them feedback directly via supp...@sidefx.com. > A > > > On 04/03/2016 09:29, Dan Yargici wrote: > > Thanks Jordi. I would like to do this actu

Re: OT Houdini build Array VOP question (and a bit of rant)

2016-03-03 Thread Dan Yargici
Love Houdini, but coming from ICE, VOPs are an absolute horror to use IMO. They need to drag it out of the 90's and introduce some more modern interaction workflows... DAN On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 4:45 PM, Christopher Crouzet < christopher.crou...@gmail.com> wrote: > VOP graphs are being

danyTools

2016-02-09 Thread Dan Yargici
In case anyone's interested, I've just posted a workgroup of compounds on si-community. Some are useful, some are potentially embarrassing, but I thought I'd just stick em all out there regardless... http://www.si-community.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=19=6237 DAN

Re: Render Region and Autosave

2016-02-08 Thread Dan Yargici
Reinhard (mr. rray.de) made a save reminder event script. Rather than actually saving, it just reminds you to save. Combine that with Mirko's suggestion and you have the best solution IMO. Search for SaveRemind on http://rray.de/xsi/ DAN

Re: this is the end......

2016-02-03 Thread Dan Yargici
I'm pretty sure Luc-Eric meant "not HQViewport and ICE Crowds" Mirko. DAN On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 2:31 PM, Mirko Jankovic wrote: > wait what" if I understood well it was "don't do anything for > animation and rigging, but do something else?" :( > > > On Wed, Feb

Re: this is the end......

2016-02-03 Thread Dan Yargici
...and I'd have agreed with him too for what it's worth! On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 2:43 PM, Dan Yargici <danyarg...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm pretty sure Luc-Eric meant "not HQViewport and ICE Crowds" Mirko. > > DAN > > On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 2:31 PM, Mirko Jank

Re: Can not create partitions in Softimage 2015

2016-02-01 Thread Dan Yargici
Hi Morten, is the scene name the same as one of your passes? DAN On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 2:22 PM, Ognjen Vukovic wrote: > http://www.si-community.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=4=5115 > > This might be a solution, if it wouldn't take to long to implement. > I haven't really

Re: Can not create partitions in Softimage 2015

2016-02-01 Thread Dan Yargici
, Morten Bartholdy <x...@colorshopvfx.dk> wrote: > Hi Dan, > > > > No they are not even remotely similar :) > > > > Scene: Sh0010_36 > > > > Pass: Beauty_All, Beauty_Product, Beauty_Env etc. > > > > > > MB > > > > >

Re: Redshift users?

2016-01-19 Thread Dan Yargici
Might want to double check with Holger first, I may be wrong about RR. DAN On 19 Jan 2016 6:59 pm, "Tony Bexley" wrote: > Oh okay, I think I got it now. We're still on RR 6 but maybe we need to > upgrade to 7 so we can have multiple render nodes on machines. > > Guess I

Re: Plugin cached?

2015-12-11 Thread Dan Yargici
ld get the PPGLayout object and pass that to your > rebuild function. > > On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 5:08 AM, Dan Yargici <danyarg...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> OK, I'll admit I'm little wet behind the ears when it comes to this sort >> of thing. >> >> Could someon

Re: Plugin cached?

2015-12-11 Thread Dan Yargici
phen Blair <stephenrbl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Plugins are cached (right click one in the Plugin Manager). > > And there's a cache of PPG layouts. > > Never had the global PPG not defined problem. > > On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 4:54 PM, Dan Yargici <danyarg...@gmail.com>

Plugin cached?

2015-12-10 Thread Dan Yargici
I have been tearing my hear out for hours now while working with a plugin not knowing if I'm seeing the updates I've been making. It's total voodoo. Sometimes when I reload, all is well, sometimes I'll break something on purpose to be certain that it's reloading/updating correctly only to find

Re: Python not showing in preferences.

2015-12-07 Thread Dan Yargici
a GUID value that will take you to another registry > entry, something like this: > > HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{163D5231-715E-4C16-AB21-8235184E2685} > > > > > > On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 7:43 AM, Dan Yargici <danyarg...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Manu, >> >

Python not showing in preferences.

2015-12-07 Thread Dan Yargici
I am currently using 2013 (not SP1, but can possibly push the case to upgrade) and I can't see Python available in my preferences. I've tried running runonce.bat with no joy. Anyone have any ideas? I don't see anything related to this in the SP1 changes... Cheers, DAN.

Re: Python not showing in preferences.

2015-12-07 Thread Dan Yargici
I should add - Windows 7 and no other Python versions installed. On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 11:08 AM, Dan Yargici <danyarg...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am currently using 2013 (not SP1, but can possibly push the case to > upgrade) and I can't see Python available in my preferences. &g

Re: Python not showing in preferences.

2015-12-07 Thread Dan Yargici
gards > > > 2015-12-07 12:15 GMT+01:00 Dan Yargici <danyarg...@gmail.com>: > >> I should add - Windows 7 and no other Python versions installed. >> >> >> On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 11:08 AM, Dan Yargici <danyarg...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>

Re: POLY | Manipulating polygons

2015-12-07 Thread Dan Yargici
Looks great Olivier! Thanks! DAN On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 12:54 PM, Oscar Gonzalez Diez wrote: > This is great stuff, thanks so much for sharing! > > > > On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 12:47 PM, Andy Nicholas > wrote: > >> Thanks for sharing! Great work.

Re: LK Lightning 2.5 Available & Now Free

2015-11-13 Thread Dan Yargici
Thanks Leonard! Very generous of you! Sent from my phone... On 13 Nov 2015 5:03 pm, "Adam Sale" wrote: > cheers man! > > On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 7:32 AM, Scott Lange > wrote: > >> Wow Leonard, Thank You! That is very generous. >> >> >> >>

Re: OT:Houdini indie render solution

2015-10-28 Thread Dan Yargici
Just to correct you here Stephen, Redshift has been able to render other shaped strands for a long time (18 months at the very least). It was very picky for a while about having the necessary clean and valid StrandOrientation and StrandSize attributes and the like, which might have been why yours

Re: Exporting Pointclouds to Houdini using Alembic.

2015-10-27 Thread Dan Yargici
ributes as well? the convert node is left default? > > Can't seem to see them in Houdini, it gives me some but not all of them.. > > On 11 October 2015 at 22:19, Dan Yargici <danyarg...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Ben, >> >> That's again for sharing this, ve

Re: Exporting Pointclouds to Houdini using Alembic.

2015-10-27 Thread Dan Yargici
l have to do something else inside houdini to > pass them as per point data. > > On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 8:04 PM, Dan Yargici <danyarg...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hey Cristobal. >> >> You need to make sure you force evaluation of the attributes you want to >>

Re: Exporting Pointclouds to Houdini using Alembic.

2015-10-11 Thread Dan Yargici
t; Best regards, > Ben Houston (Cell: 613-762-4113, Skype: ben.exocortex, Twitter: > @exocortexcom) > https://Clara.io - Online 3D Modeling and Rendering > > > On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 6:23 AM, Dan Yargici <danyarg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello all. > > > >

Re: Exporting Pointclouds to Houdini using Alembic.

2015-10-10 Thread Dan Yargici
OK, for anyone else in the future: Keep the defaults for loading (i.e. 'Alembic Delayed Load Primitives') and then use a Convert node to unpack the data. All good now! DAN On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 5:04 PM, Dan Yargici <danyarg...@gmail.com> wrote: > OK, my bad, I have the point pos

Re: Exporting Pointclouds to Houdini using Alembic.

2015-10-10 Thread Dan Yargici
t;b...@exocortex.com> wrote: > Crate should work on standard point clouds pretty well. > -ben > Best regards, > Ben Houston (Cell: 613-762-4113, Skype: ben.exocortex, Twitter: > @exocortexcom) > https://Clara.io - Online 3D Modeling and Rendering > > > On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 6:23 AM,

Re: Exporting Pointclouds to Houdini using Alembic.

2015-10-09 Thread Dan Yargici
. Are you not getting anything or are you missing > specific attributes? What Soft and Houdini version? > > Andy > > > > > On 09.10.2015, at 12:23, Dan Yargici <danyarg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hello all. > > > > Has anyone had any luck exporting

Re: Downloading Entertainment Creation Suite

2015-09-29 Thread Dan Yargici
Don't you have patients to attend to or something? ;) On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 12:14 AM, Bradley Gabe wrote: > Hiya folks! Long time no see. > > I'm attempting to download and install the creation suite from the > Autodesk website from the education center. It downloads the

Has .pc2 support been removed from the Cache on File node?

2015-09-28 Thread Dan Yargici
Hi there, Would I be right in thinking that .pc2 file support has been removed from the Cache on File node? If that really is the case, why? I can't imagine a single scenario where removing this functionality would anything other than detrimental! Could anyone confirm this? Seems to have gone

Re: OT'ish: Redshift renderfarm with Softimage setup?

2015-08-05 Thread Dan Yargici
you may find it helpful to register in the Redshift3D.com forums, afaik you´ll need to have at least one registered license to get access to the Registered users only forum area. Just to clear this up. I'm pretty sure you don't need to have a license to access the Registered Users section of the

Re: Is purchasing a new softimage license impossible?

2015-05-14 Thread Dan Yargici
Aren't we past being precious about the usage of this list since the EOL. Things here have pretty much ground to a halt on the list and there are plenty of threads discussing alternatives. Hell, people are even posting direct questions about Maya. I say lighten up... My 2 cents. DAN On Thu,

Re: End of the ride

2015-05-13 Thread Dan Yargici
Thanks for all the help, and good luck with whatever the future brings, Graham! All the best. DAN On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 9:42 AM, Amaan Akram xsil...@warpedspace.org wrote: Thank you Graham for all the years of support. All the best to you. On 13 May 2015 at 09:20, gareth bell

Re: OT: Modo 901 Sneak Peek

2015-04-10 Thread Dan Yargici
Sounds more like Blender's scenes philosophy to me from that description. Sent from my phone... On 10 Apr 2015 23:00, Andy Goehler lists.andy.goeh...@gmail.com wrote: More often than not, for whatever reason, Overrides in Soft were unreliable for our projects. Simple animation overrides on a

Re: Very OT: for the love of your career.. try houdini

2015-03-17 Thread Dan Yargici
I'm about to throw myself at Houdini so this is great to hear. Thanks Gerbrand! DAN On 17 Mar 2015 12:12, Gerbrand Nel nagv...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not getting anything out of posting this, except knowing I might save the life of a fellow artist. So I spent the last year learning Maya,

Re: query shader parameters

2015-03-03 Thread Dan Yargici
Ah, looks like you're trying to get the port type of a parameter object rather than a port. I'd check the SDK docs. I'd need to know more about the context of what you're trying to do to be of any help. DAN On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 9:50 AM, Dan Yargici danyarg...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Jan, Try

Re: query shader parameters

2015-03-03 Thread Dan Yargici
Hi Jan, Try: for i in oNode.Parameters : if ( i.PortType == 0 ) : print i siPortTypeDescription Enumerates the different kinds of ports. C# Syntax siPortType.siPortInput // 0 siPortType.siPortOutput

Re: Grease pencil for Softimage

2015-02-25 Thread Dan Yargici
(basically making a preconfigured shared network install impossible) The answer is always it's me who is using it wrong :) Dan Yargici danyarg...@gmail.com hat am 25. Februar 2015 um 11:19 geschrieben: Hey Thomas! Never could get anywhere with our Collada complaints could we ;) FBX import

Re: Grease pencil for Softimage

2015-02-25 Thread Dan Yargici
Hey Thomas! Never could get anywhere with our Collada complaints could we ;) FBX import works great now (I'm using it currently) with two caveats. 1 - You have to plot the transformations as they don't yet have support for accurately matching the various interpolation types/handles etc. (It's

Re: akeytsu animation software demo

2015-02-22 Thread Dan Yargici
Obligatory Blender version... https://vimeo.com/115518743 Sent from my phone... On 22 Feb 2015 04:58, Mario Reitbauer cont...@marioreitbauer.at wrote: Well at least in maya this is allready possible isnt it ? At least I saw a rig which didnt use any controllers. 2015-02-21 1:12 GMT+01:00

Re: Softimage 2015 SDK help not working

2015-02-11 Thread Dan Yargici
Sorry to drag up this old thread. Did anyone find a solution for this issue? The SDK help displays in ultra-simple unformatted mode and, even if I were able to ignore the ugliness, none of the seemingly clickable links actually work. I've attached a screenshot. It's happening for us on both

Re: Softimage 2015 SDK help not working

2015-02-11 Thread Dan Yargici
] *On Behalf Of *Dan Yargici *Sent:* Wednesday, February 11, 2015 7:51 PM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Re: Softimage 2015 SDK help not working Sorry to drag up this old thread. Did anyone find a solution for this issue? The SDK help displays in ultra-simple

Re: Wireless MIDI device capture for Softimage - Tutorial

2015-02-06 Thread Dan Yargici
David's posts *always* end up in my spam folder, not matter how many times I mark it as not spam. Thanks Eric. DAN On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 8:29 PM, Eric Turman i.anima...@gmail.com wrote: Checking through my spam folder somehow this had slipped in there. As I have not seen anyone else reply,

Re: AbcExport Command

2015-01-29 Thread Dan Yargici
Stupid question, but have you checked your script editor is set to Python? DAN On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 4:01 PM, Juhani Karlsson juhani.karls...@talvi.com wrote: H... now thats very curious.. weirdd.. hah ; D Maybe its time to test with other setup, Thanks, - J On 29 January 2015 at

Re: Feather System

2015-01-23 Thread Dan Yargici
Great stuff! Thanks Fabricio! On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 7:50 PM, Eric Turman i.anima...@gmail.com wrote: Wow! At first glance it looks great. Thank you! Will definitely check it out. Cheers, -=Eric On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 1:46 PM, Emilio Hernandez emi...@e-roja.com wrote: Hey Fabricio.

Re: Copy vertex datas to plygon (color)

2015-01-08 Thread Dan Yargici
That's a new one to me also, cheers Ciaran! DAN On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 7:20 PM, olivier jeannel olivier.jean...@noos.fr wrote: Dude, I enjoy my life ! Can't believe I wasn't aware of that one ! Awesome! Thank you again and again ! Le 08/01/2015 17:56, Ciaran Moloney a écrit : No

Re: OT: Visiting London in January, anybody wanna meet for beers?

2015-01-06 Thread Dan Yargici
I'm also arriving on the 11th. Here until the end of Feb. Always up for drinking beer. DAN On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 11:18 AM, Helge Mathee helge.mat...@gmx.net wrote: I am in London from the 11th to 16th, so Thursday the 15th would work fine for me. Sorry just jumped onto the thread? Any

Re: OT: Visiting London in January, anybody wanna meet for beers?

2015-01-06 Thread Dan Yargici
It's true. Sorry 'bout that Alan. As you were. :) On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 11:55 AM, Cristobal Infante cgc...@gmail.com wrote: This thread is being Hijacked bigtime! On 6 January 2015 at 09:31, Dan Yargici danyarg...@gmail.com wrote: I'm also arriving on the 11th. Here until the end

Re: From the forge

2014-12-23 Thread Dan Yargici
Here's an oldie I spotted at the weekend! http://youtu.be/vD-_rzUuiIM?t=19m2s DAN On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Perry Harovas perryharo...@gmail.com wrote: He is correct, that is a whole other level of badassery! On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Sebastien Sterling

Re: How do you guys make sure XSI files and Softimage 7.5+ files will open in 2016?

2014-12-23 Thread Dan Yargici
Matt, I have to ask. What could you possibly have from the Softimage 3D days that you'd want to recover? No cynicism, just genuinely curious. :) Even things that I created and thought were amazing back then, I could (and would) re-make in days and to a far higher standard with modern tools.

Re: How do you guys make sure XSI files and Softimage 7.5+ files will open in 2016?

2014-12-23 Thread Dan Yargici
cut n' paste style hacky scripters, and also from some engineers who know bits n' bytes, but lack an understanding of production. It's not strictly about salvaging old data. Matt Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 11:56:59 +0200 From: Dan Yargici danyarg...@gmail.com Subject: Re: How do you guys

Re: Lets Hope Autodesk Buys the Foundry!

2014-12-19 Thread Dan Yargici
Indeed, that's what I was thinking also... I'd be interested to hear what Paul makes of it. On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 5:17 PM, Marc-Andre Carbonneau marc-andre.carbonn...@ubisoft.com wrote: Hmmm the idea sounds familiar to what Fabric is building, no? Interesting times. *From:*

Re: Lets Hope Autodesk Buys the Foundry!

2014-12-19 Thread Dan Yargici
to them if they pull it off - we can always Splice into it ;) On 19 December 2014 at 10:23, Dan Yargici danyarg...@gmail.com wrote: Indeed, that's what I was thinking also... I'd be interested to hear what Paul makes of it. On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 5:17 PM, Marc-Andre Carbonneau marc

Re: Merry Christmas everyone

2014-12-16 Thread Dan Yargici
Is he the sweaty one that was PM for something like 5 days? Great! Massive dose of sarcasm aside, merry Christmas and good luck with your future endeavors Jill. DAN On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 7:07 PM, Jill Ramsay (Contractor) jill.ram...@autodesk.com wrote: Hey guys, wishing you all the best

Re: Exocortex Crate (the Alembic suite) goes open source.

2014-12-12 Thread Dan Yargici
This is great news Ben. Very generous of you. Thanks! DAN On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 11:50 PM, Francois Lord flordli...@gmail.com wrote: And, may I ask what drove this decision? On 11-Dec-14 15:54, Ben Houston wrote: Hi Simon, We will continue to contribute to ExocortexCrate as need be.

Re: OT pixar Inside out trailer

2014-12-11 Thread Dan Yargici
Fantastic stuff. Cheers! On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 12:40 PM, adrian wyer adrian.w...@fluid-pictures.com wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MC3XuMvsDI outstanding, as always! Adrian Wyer Fluid Pictures 75-77 Margaret St. London W1W 8SY ++44(0) 207 580 0829

Re: softimage 2015 heads up

2014-12-02 Thread Dan Yargici
I've just started using it and I have to echo Martin's comments. The productivity and speed gains using ICE are MASSIVE. When I think of the weeks (literally weeks) of time that these few small tweaks would have saved me over the years since ICE's introduction it makes me want to weep.

Re: Buy Softimage - is this a real shop?

2014-11-13 Thread Dan Yargici
Ha! Love it. Perfect analogy. I always thought of it as being forced to marry the spoiled brat useless daughter of the mob boss that killed your wife On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 6:00 AM, Gerbrand Nel nagv...@gmail.com wrote: I always thought of it as; being forced to marry the spoiled brat

Re: Muscle system. Free/

2014-09-24 Thread Dan Yargici
That's really generous, thanks! On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Miquel Campos miquel.cam...@gmail.com wrote: Awesome! Thank you Max!! Your muscle system lookd really great! Miquel Campos www.miquelTD.com On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at

Re: Re: VFX-UX

2014-09-22 Thread Dan Yargici
I hope your new life treats you well Eric! All the best. DAN On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Leo Quensel le...@gmx.de wrote: Hey Eric, let me say that you are definitely not alone with your decision. I have been playing with the idea of leaving this industry altogether before the

Re: Anyone seen that New Foundry Colorway Demo ?

2014-07-11 Thread Dan Yargici
Smells like a bunch of meh to me... DAN On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Sebastien Sterling sebastien.sterl...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.thefoundry.co.uk/events/live/colorway/?utm_campaign=GLOBAL%2014%20JULY%20Colorway%20event%20see%20you%20thereutm_medium=emailutm_source=Eloqua skip

Re: way OT... Sony F55 XAVC S-Log 4k footage

2014-06-18 Thread Dan Yargici
You missed Robert's post then... ;) On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 2:17 PM, adrian wyer adrian.w...@fluid-pictures.com wrote: someone from Sony got back to me, they recommend using Raw Viewer ; http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/rawviewer seems to work, aside from not compressing the

Re: Hiding an item from a PPG

2014-06-03 Thread Dan Yargici
parameters in those cases. Matt *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Dan Yargici *Sent:* Monday, June 02, 2014 9:38 AM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Hiding an item from a PPG I'd like my

Hiding an item from a PPG

2014-06-02 Thread Dan Yargici
I'd like my self-installed custom property to hide or show one dropdown depending on the value set by another, and I'm failing miserably. Do I need to completely rebuild my PPGLayout just to do this? That seems wrong to me. If that is the case, how should I best structure my code in order to

Re: Hiding an item from a PPG

2014-06-02 Thread Dan Yargici
No worries. Figured it out. I just created my own function and I'm all set. Sorry for the noise. DAN On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Dan Yargici danyarg...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like my self-installed custom property to hide or show one dropdown depending on the value set by another

Re: A Custom ICE Node for directly reading .pc2 file

2014-05-29 Thread Dan Yargici
Hi Alok. I'm using this for the first time and loving it, however my immediate crit would be that it would be great if it could resolve tokens. In my case [Project Path] specifically. Thanks again for this! DAN On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Dan Yargici danyarg...@gmail.com wrote

Re: A Custom ICE Node for directly reading .pc2 file

2014-05-29 Thread Dan Yargici
low-level c++ for resolving tokens might take some time which unfortunately I do not have right now. However, it is a good point that I will take into cosideration for future updates. Cheers ! On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 5:25 PM, Dan Yargici danyarg...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Alok. I'm using

Re: OT: Graphic card for optimous performance with Redshift

2014-05-21 Thread Dan Yargici
All said and done, Redshift is crazy-good though... Just saying. ...and how often are we rendering 100mio polys in commercials? In those instances I'll split my scenes into layers and render them 50x faster (not a joke) thank you very much. DAN On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 2:41 AM, Raffaele

Re: Friday Flashback #172

2014-05-19 Thread Dan Yargici
Does Will Mendez still have his 'stuck on' I wonder? ;) Sent from my phone... On 19 May 2014 11:36, Chris Marshall chrismarshal...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone remember the stick-on XSI Tattoos? On 19 May 2014 10:51, Chris Marshall chrismarshal...@gmail.com wrote: yes a red one, but mine still

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