Re: A Fistful of Updates (copy/paste Mootzoid Newsletter #53)

2014-05-16 Thread Dan Yargici
Hi Eric, Seeing as you are officially mr isofield, what are your thoughts on implementing this paper? I can think of a lot of people who would be queuing up with wads of cash in hand if you did :) http://rodolphe-vaillant.fr/permalinks/implicit_skinning_project.php It seems to me that you've

Re: Re:

2014-05-09 Thread Dan Yargici
Was already done by Florian Witzel :) Making of 'Milk' - Rigging the Waves https://vimeo.com/4697942 On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 9:35 AM, Sebastien Sterling sebastien.sterl...@gmail.com wrote: https://vimeo.com/86852625 the hair guide system by the same dude is amazing ! On 9 May 2014

Re: XSI GUI for Maya

2014-05-08 Thread Dan Yargici
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/xsi_list/KkzGNexn1ME/Wn-m3RDVPOEJ DAN On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 3:22 PM, gareth bell garethb...@outlook.com wrote: Just out of idle curiosity. A while back someone posted a picture of an XSI UI/Skin that someone made for maya. Anyone know where that is?

[OT] Regarding Blender

2014-05-03 Thread Dan Yargici
I've just slapped together this video to really quickly run through a few of the features of Blender for those that might not know anything about it. I find it can be quite an eye-opener for people when they first see these things that we've been longing for for so long in Softimage.

Re: [OT] Regarding Blender

2014-05-03 Thread Dan Yargici
and window.. making HUGE hit on workflow and learning curve. That is for me it feels like a bunch of good ideas duck-taped together :( On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 10:11 PM, Dan Yargici danyarg...@gmail.com wrote: I've just slapped together this video to really quickly run through a few

Re: HQV Causing Major Slowness with File Save and Reference Model Updates

2014-04-16 Thread Dan Yargici
Thanks for the warning! DAN On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 9:49 AM, Nuno Conceicao nunoalexconcei...@gmail.com wrote: Uau! Thanks Andy :) On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 3:36 AM, Andy Jones andy.jo...@gmail.com wrote: *FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE* *April 15, 2014* *SOFTIMAGE QUALITYBLEED VULNERABILITY*

Re: instance shape from ICE to MAX?

2014-04-16 Thread Dan Yargici
Hi Chris. If the instances are offset individually in time, you are opening a whole can of worms. If not, it's quite easy. I can send you over something if that's the case. DAN On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Chris Johnson chr...@topixfx.com wrote: I haven't looked into this yet...sorry

Re: instance shape from ICE to MAX?

2014-04-16 Thread Dan Yargici
What I mean is, are you using ShapeInstanceTime to offset the animated geometry of the instance sources. You'll still need a means of caching out this geo though. As long as the topology doesn't change (i.e. if you're not deleting pointcloud points over the sequence) then I think the smoothest

Re: [OT] Fuse : Automated Character Creation

2014-04-11 Thread Dan Yargici
Not forgetting the open source Make Human http://www.makehuman.org/ On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 9:49 AM, Sebastien Sterling sebastien.sterl...@gmail.com wrote: is it not on part with DAZ 3D and Poser ? On 11 April 2014 07:45, Alok Gandhi alok.gandhi2...@gmail.com wrote: Interesting -

Re: Sort Controller - Open Source Release!

2014-04-06 Thread Dan Yargici
Thanks Jonah! and PSYOP! On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Ed Harriss ed.harr...@sas.com wrote: Thanks PSYOP! This is very a nice tool. Ed On 4 April 2014 02:43, Ed Manning etmth...@gmail.com wrote: An excellent timesaver that I've missed when at shops other than PSYOP. Thanks,

RE: Another alternative to Softimage

2014-04-01 Thread Dan Yargici
to Softimage +1, Paulo I'm still not prepared to let go of Softimage, but would definitely give Blender a chance. On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Dan Yargici danyarg...@gmail.com wrote: +1 I think it's foolish to dismiss Blender as some kind of joke DCC. It has a lot of nice

Re: Another alternative to Softimage

2014-03-28 Thread Dan Yargici
That's not what I meant to imply at all in my case. I absolutely believe I could use it for a commercial project, however I as I work primarily as a ICE TD (and Generalist) for pretty much all my work, I'm unable to; just as I am unable to use Max or Maya... As I freelance for other companies I

Re: OT: Pixar showing PRESTO

2014-03-28 Thread Dan Yargici
Fun fact Friday: Dirk Van Gelder is the chap I mentioned in the other thread who is working to integrate Open SubDiv into Blender by the way... DAN On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Cristobal Infante cgc...@gmail.comwrote: Don't think I have ever had a better look at Pixar's proprietary

Re: Another alternative to Softimage

2014-03-27 Thread Dan Yargici
+1 I think it's foolish to dismiss Blender as some kind of joke DCC. It has a lot of nice things going for it. I've been looking over the 2.70 features this morning (before the government here decided to turn off YouTube...) and it's once again taken some good strides. DAN On Thu, Mar 27,

Re: Attribute to increase ICE primitive resolutions?

2014-03-26 Thread Dan Yargici
Hmmm, not working for me in 2013 SP1 DAN On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 6:54 PM, Chris Marshall chrismarshal...@gmail.comwrote: shaperesolutionU On 26 March 2014 16:47, Dan Yargici danyarg...@gmail.com wrote: Am I right in remembering that there is a hidden attribute to increase the resolution

Re: Attribute to increase ICE primitive resolutions?

2014-03-26 Thread Dan Yargici
an integer into a set data node, it should work. self.shaperesolutionu On 26 March 2014 17:16, Rob Chapman tekano@gmail.com wrote: Has to be an Integer? On 26 Mar 2014 17:09, Dan Yargici danyarg...@gmail.com wrote: Hmmm, not working for me in 2013 SP1 DAN On Wed, Mar 26, 2014

Re: Attribute to increase ICE primitive resolutions?

2014-03-26 Thread Dan Yargici
Doh! I lose my particle colors with instances. Oh well, they'll have to stay as they are in my captures. DAN On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 7:23 PM, Chris Marshall chrismarshal...@gmail.comwrote: Yes this is only at render time. On 26 March 2014 17:22, Dan Yargici danyarg...@gmail.com wrote

Re: humanize maya, SOFT top 5

2014-03-25 Thread Dan Yargici
For God's sake why is EVERY THREAD being ruined by this SELF-INDULGENT smartass bullshit? On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Mirko Jankovic mirkoj.anima...@gmail.comwrote: Humanize and Autodesk in same sentence. heh On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 11:56 AM, David Saber davidsa...@sfr.fr wrote:

Re: Softimage user migrating to Maya

2014-03-21 Thread Dan Yargici
Me too... On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Martin Chatterjee martin.chatterjee.li...@googlemail.com wrote: *On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 3:17 AM, Steven Caron car...@gmail.com car...@gmail.com wrote: * *thank you for posting this, i was struggling whether i should post something like this.

Re: my first experiment with rigging in Houdini :-))))

2014-03-21 Thread Dan Yargici
I don't think anyone would argue with you there Max. I've started learning it myself and I'm really enjoying it. What's a drag though, is that while a use ICE in %90 of the work I do, I use everything else that's great about Softimage (and not so great in Houdini) %100 of the time. DAN On

Re: What use is ICE really?

2014-03-21 Thread Dan Yargici
Shall we just keep this thread for it's original purpose and not turn it into a discussion? i.e. posting work with descriptions of how ICE was used. DAN On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 1:39 PM, Artur Woźniak artur.w...@gmail.com wrote: We tried that for the last couple of years. Ice was self

Re: What use is ICE really?

2014-03-21 Thread Dan Yargici
Can I suggest again that we keep this thread for it's intended purpose and not turn it into a discussion... DAN On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 6:24 PM, Stephen Davidson magic...@bellsouth.netwrote: I have to ask Are you saying that AD doesn't know the value of ICE added to Softimage, or they

Re: Softimage transition webinar is starting in 10 minutes

2014-03-19 Thread Dan Yargici
for downstream you're welcome ;-) On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 7:53 AM, Dan Yargici danyarg...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Ciaran, seems quite nice so far! I guess it's really the hundreds of little things I'll miss in the end. For instance I've been doing some tutorials on material editing

Re: Softimage transition webinar is starting in 10 minutes

2014-03-18 Thread Dan Yargici
of many little things... I'm committed to Houdini for the long haul though in one shape or another, for sure. DAN On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Ciaran Moloney moloney.cia...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 6:50 PM, Dan Yargici danyarg...@gmail.com wrote: I'm starting to think

Re: I'm Pissed

2014-03-18 Thread Dan Yargici
Emilio had that nailed dys ago... On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Eric Thivierge ethivie...@hybride.comwrote: I'm pissed because all of this jibber jabber of the EOL of Softimage is going to mean that I probably won't be in the top 5 posters for this year. Damnit! :( Eric T.

Re: Idea- Just keep Mental Ray and FBX support - Softimage free w/Maya or Max or any Suite.

2014-03-17 Thread Dan Yargici
Hi Chris, I've had to ignore the list for the last week for personal reasons, so apologies if this has been mentioned somewhere across the myriad threads... I keep hearing yourself, Maurice, Graham, and everyone else from Autodesk who have stuck their heads above the parapet continuously mention

Re: Autodesk response

2014-03-17 Thread Dan Yargici
For example, only a small proportion of our Softimage customers are actually current on the Softimage software. Many are using older versions. These customers will be able to continue to do so in perpetuity. Given that they are productive using older versions of the software, this decision should

Re: Softimage transition webinar is starting in 10 minutes

2014-03-17 Thread Dan Yargici
It works for me in Turkey. DAN On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 6:08 PM, Rob Chapman tekano@gmail.com wrote: it stutters - have to keep clicking on it for playback. hopefully this will be recorded right? On 17 March 2014 16:05, Marc-Andre Carbonneau marc-andre.carbonn...@ubisoft.com wrote:

Re: Autodesk webinar

2014-03-17 Thread Dan Yargici
Er Been going a while now Adrian! :) DAN On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 6:23 PM, adrian wyer adrian.w...@fluid-pictures.com wrote: for those not in the know, the Autodesk 'we don't care about the small fish' webinar starts in 40 minutes; http://area.autodesk.com/softimagetransition

Re: Softimage transition webinar is starting in 10 minutes

2014-03-17 Thread Dan Yargici
Me too... On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 6:25 PM, Greg Punchatz g...@janimation.com wrote: just lost link -- *Greg Punchatz* *Sr. Creative Director* Janimation 214.823.7760 www.janimation.com On 3/17/2014 11:23 AM, Ognjen Vukovic wrote: Just wow. On Mon,

Re: Softimage transition webinar is starting in 10 minutes

2014-03-17 Thread Dan Yargici
Lost it at 38:49 On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 6:26 PM, Dan Yargici danyarg...@gmail.com wrote: Me too... On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 6:25 PM, Greg Punchatz g...@janimation.comwrote: just lost link -- *Greg Punchatz* *Sr. Creative Director* Janimation

Re: Softimage transition webinar is starting in 10 minutes

2014-03-17 Thread Dan Yargici
Thanks for the heads up Jordi. I'm in Turkey at the moment so I won't be able to make it. If I'd had a bit more notice I might have flown over for it. I'm starting to think Houdini-land might be where I build my new home - or at least a holiday home... Next time! It'd be great to catch up for

Re: Softimage transition webinar is starting in 10 minutes

2014-03-17 Thread Dan Yargici
be drinks? I will probably go anyway ;) thanks, Cris On Monday, 17 March 2014, Dan Yargici danyarg...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the heads up Jordi. I'm in Turkey at the moment so I won't be able to make it. If I'd had a bit more notice I might have flown over for it. I'm starting

Re: Softimage transition webinar is starting in 10 minutes

2014-03-17 Thread Dan Yargici
Thanks. On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 11:24 PM, Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.com wrote: Will keep it in mind and make sure there is a bit of time. Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.com On 17 Mar 2014, at 21:21, Dan Yargici danyarg...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Jordi, it would be great if you do put

Re: Translate handle doesn't work

2014-03-13 Thread Dan Yargici
I've seen this before and it was the viewport camera clipping min value in that instance. Hope that helps! DAN Sent from my phone... On 13 Mar 2014 07:52, Martin Yara furik...@gmail.com wrote: Today my colleague was working in SI and suddenly he couldn't move anything in the scene. I've

Re: A more graceful retirement - my counter offer

2014-03-11 Thread Dan Yargici
Great suggestion Greg! DAN On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 5:33 AM, Sylvain Lebeau s...@shedmtl.com wrote: ;-) love it *Sylvain Lebeau // SHED* V-P/Visual effects supervisor 1410, RUE STANLEY, 11E ÉTAGE MONTRÉAL (QUÉBEC) H3A 1P8 T 514 849-1555 F 514 849-5025 WWW.SHEDMTL.COM

Re: [OT] Some musings regarding Blender...

2014-03-11 Thread Dan Yargici
There are a few free ones on CG cookie. You have to pay for the courses though. http://cgcookie.com/blender/ On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Daniel Kim danielki...@gmail.com wrote: Wow, blender has improved a lot. I am learning Modo with trial versikn now, but definetly will try Blender

Re: A more graceful retirement - my counter offer

2014-03-11 Thread Dan Yargici
BRILLIANT post. Perfectly articulated Peter, well done! DAN On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 1:46 PM, pete...@skynet.be wrote: Hi Greg, this is pretty much along the lines of what I've been thinking.

Re: Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-10 Thread Dan Yargici
Great words Alastair. Sums it up really well in my opinion. DAN

[OT] My take on recent events.

2014-03-10 Thread Dan Yargici
How we got here. I believe the reason we are where we are has been touched on in the various threads of the last few days. Sure, not having visibility on the Autodesk site or seeing banner ads for Max and Maya and none for Softimage on the various social media platforms has some influence on

[OT] Some musings regarding Blender...

2014-03-10 Thread Dan Yargici
I started to write this post at the end of last summer and it sat unfinished in my Drafts folder, so I've just corrected a couple of things and I'm throwing it out there as is DAN I've recently (well, on and off over the last year or so and more frequently of late) started learning Blender

Re: [OT] Some musings regarding Blender...

2014-03-10 Thread Dan Yargici
14:08 GMT+01:00 Dan Yargici danyarg...@gmail.com: I started to write this post at the end of last summer and it sat unfinished in my Drafts folder, so I've just corrected a couple of things and I'm throwing it out there as is DAN I've recently (well, on and off over the last year or so

Re: [OT] Some musings regarding Blender...

2014-03-10 Thread Dan Yargici
There is a thread on BlenderArtists.org where people are submitting mockups and the like where there are some really nice suggestions (and a few terrible ones). Hopefully the right ones will filter through.

Sadness about the state of the list...

2014-03-09 Thread Dan Yargici
I just want to go on the record and say that I've found it really disappointing reading the list over the last week. It seems that there is quite a number people who are very new to it that have just come here to vent in a totally inappropriate manner that goes against all that this list has been

Re: Softimage 2015 Last Release Announcement

2014-03-06 Thread Dan Yargici
Them's some strong words! and I'm saying that as a Blender evangelist... Quoted from thread: Originally Posted by *renderdemon* http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?p=2583802#post2583802 I have an eagle model that needs a decent set of feathers,maybe with your nodal system I can reach

[OT] For those of us who plan to stick with Soft just a little while longer... ;)

2014-03-05 Thread Dan Yargici
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuEdU_lrtZk

Re: Salvage the list.

2014-03-05 Thread Dan Yargici
As this is potentially quite an important thing we are talking about here, can we please not rush this or end up with 10 different initiatives... Polling each decision seems to me to be the best way to approach this from the outset. DAN On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Rob Chapman

Re: SI and Houdini

2014-03-05 Thread Dan Yargici
Great to see you back here Halfdan. Shame about the circumstances! I have started to look at Houdini and I already have a lot of questions... Sent from my phone... On 6 Mar 2014 00:08, Halfdan Ingvarsson half...@sidefx.com wrote: Hello there It's been a while. I thought I'd post here and

CG Cat's face and Budgie by Glassworks.

2014-03-04 Thread Dan Yargici
Because I know how modest everyone over at Glassworks is and that it wouldn't occur to anyone to share this, I'll go and do it myself! http://www.glassworks.co.uk/news/how-we-made-freeviews-catandbudgie Be sure to watch the making-of video! Amazing work from all involved! It's poignant at this

Re: CG Cat's face and Budgie by Glassworks.

2014-03-04 Thread Dan Yargici
amazing work Dan. Congrats to all you guys, really impressive. On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 9:55 AM, Dan Yargici danyarg...@gmail.com wrote: Because I know how modest everyone over at Glassworks is and that it wouldn't occur to anyone to share this, I'll go and do it myself! http

Re: CG Cat's face and Budgie by Glassworks.

2014-03-04 Thread Dan Yargici
...@simonreeves.com si...@simonreeves.com* *www.simonreeves.com http://www.simonreeves.com* *www.analogstudio.co.uk http://www.analogstudio.co.uk* On 4 March 2014 13:15, Dan Yargici danyarg...@gmail.com wrote: I should point out that I did not work on this! I'm just sharing... :) On Tue, Mar

Re: I'm sure this is one of many...

2014-03-04 Thread Dan Yargici
E, can you stop doing this now Emilio, it's really annoying... On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 5:48 PM, Emilio Hernandez emi...@e-roja.com wrote: 2014-03-04 9:30 GMT-06:00 Arvid Björn arvidbj...@gmail.com: That was truly depressing. I was nodding in agreement, but I didn't smile. =/ The 2

Re: Softimage 2015 Last Release Announcement

2014-03-04 Thread Dan Yargici
While you try and find it, remind yourself of this little gem from not even a year ago! http://area.autodesk.com/2014unfold/products/softimage.html#future On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 10:58 PM, Eric Thivierge ethivie...@hybride.comwrote: Oh my god, this gets better and better with every passing

Re: ICE Object ID to make seed of Random as per object

2014-02-26 Thread Dan Yargici
, Dan Yargici danyarg...@gmail.com wrote: Here you go. Unfortunately, if you rename an object later you'll have to save and reload your scene to see the change as the ICE Reference to String node doesn't appear to refresh when you rename things. :( On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 9:58 AM, Dan

Re: Redshift3D Render

2014-02-17 Thread Dan Yargici
I've just started to look into Redshift and I can only say wow! It's really quite amazing. DAN On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 8:22 AM, Angus Davidson angus.david...@wits.ac.zawrote: I believe the expression is *Vrooom* That is incredibly fast -- *From:*

Re: MAYA to Soft, imageplanes

2014-02-15 Thread Dan Yargici
You missed the fact that Luc-Eric has become a forum troll! ;) DAN On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Stefan Kubicek s...@tidbit-images.comwrote: What? Where? I don't see it. The only thing I could find was the setting for fixed to camera (the point of which I don't get because the moment

Re: Nvidia GTX 660 and Softimage 2012/ 2014

2014-01-31 Thread Dan Yargici
Where *is* Daniel Rind? It's one of those mysteries of Softimage land... On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 6:06 PM, Stefan Kubicek s...@tidbit-images.comwrote: Afaik Gelato was written by Larry Gritz after he left Pixar and was based on his former work on PRMan and BMRT. The product did not do very

Re: Locations

2014-01-14 Thread Dan Yargici
Hi Simon. The sample set will constantly change with deformations. You have to emit from a static version and stick to a re-interpreted location on the deforming version. It's a little irritating, yeah. DAN On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 5:40 PM, Simon Reeves si...@simonreeves.com wrote: Hello

Re: Windows 8

2014-01-12 Thread Dan Yargici
Yeah, it's the first thing I run wherever I go! Anyone who's bothered by the Windows tablet features should definitely check it out. DAN On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 6:13 AM, Bruno-Pierre Jobin bpjo...@gmail.comwrote: Have you guys tried Fixmypen from Viziblr? It turns off all the annoying

Re: Render tree question

2014-01-10 Thread Dan Yargici
Stefano's Radio Shaders do just this if you are using MR, I believe. http://sjannuz.com/Arnold/sj_shaders/doc/sj_radio.html Not sure if they're still compatible with later versions of Soft though... DAN On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 9:28 AM, Stefan Kubicek s...@tidbit-images.comwrote: I found

Re: Render tree question

2014-01-10 Thread Dan Yargici
Looks like they're Arnold only now. On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Dan Yargici danyarg...@gmail.com wrote: Stefano's Radio Shaders do just this if you are using MR, I believe. http://sjannuz.com/Arnold/sj_shaders/doc/sj_radio.html Not sure if they're still compatible with later versions

Re: rumor, Soft dead within the next year

2014-01-08 Thread Dan Yargici
. However I'd still like some Softimage fairy dust sprinkled on some of Maya's UI though. Now when it comes to Max, don't get me started...:-) From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Dan Yargici Sent: 06 January 2014

Re: rumor, Soft dead within the next year

2014-01-06 Thread Dan Yargici
Softimage is the Dreamcast of DCC apps. Playstation had the slick marketing, Dreamcast had the tech but got chewed to pieces by the Playstation hype machine and Playstation won. When Sega finally gave up on the console business every man and his dog came out singing the praises of the Dreamcast.

Re: Friday Flashback #149

2013-12-06 Thread Dan Yargici
Fugly to say the least... On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Martin Chatterjee martin.chatterjee.li...@googlemail.com wrote: Ek!!! -M -- Martin Chatterjee [ Freelance Technical Director ] [ http://www.chatterjee.de ] [ https://vimeo.com/chatterjee ] On Fri, Dec 6, 2013

Re: emPolygonizer4 v.4.250

2013-12-05 Thread Dan Yargici
Hasn't Steven already done this? On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Juhani Karlsson juhani.karls...@talvi.comwrote: Ah thats cool news - can`t wait for emfluid 5! I was interested because OpenVDB does very fast meshing of pointclouds to levelsets ect. http://www.openvdb.org/about/ Check the

Re: Subframe caching with Cache on File Node.

2013-12-05 Thread Dan Yargici
OK, I win the dunce award. My Cache on File node was outside Simulation in my stack... Duh! Sorry for the noise... DAN On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Dan Yargici danyarg...@gmail.com wrote: Possible? It's not working for me... DAN

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

2013-11-17 Thread Dan Yargici
Thanks Alok, much appreciated! DAN On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 3:01 AM, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.comwrote: At work we are, yeah. I'll see about getting it compiled. On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Alok Gandhi alok.gandhi2...@gmail.comwrote: Yea it may be that. I presume you are

RE: Autode sk´s Sales model

2013-10-17 Thread Dan Yargici
Not wanting to detail this thread (I have a lot of opinions on this topic also but I'm not masochistic enough to attempt to write them on a 7 inch tablet while on holiday!), but I really believe people should donate to Blender as a matter of principle. Even the occasional tiny donation. DAN

Re: siGroupID identifier bug?

2013-09-27 Thread Dan Yargici
).GetAsText() ) Thanks, Siongqiong From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Dan Yargici Sent: Friday, September 27, 2013 1:58 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: siGroupID identifier bug? Yeah, must be a bug I guess

Re: Looking for artists

2013-09-26 Thread Dan Yargici
+1bazillion On 25 Sep 2013 18:58, Eric Lampi ericla...@gmail.com wrote: You are illustrating exactly what is a consistent problem with artists in our industry. If people like yourself would pose the obvious questions and treat this as a business, we would all be far better off. As we all know

Re: SIC London next week

2013-09-26 Thread Dan Yargici
together! Register anyway and if you find time pop along for an hour or two ;) On 17 September 2013 16:20, Dan Yargici danyarg...@gmail.com wrote: I am actually in the country this time for once, but it's two days before a big delivery here so I can't imagine I'd be able to unfortunately

siGroupID identifier bug?

2013-09-26 Thread Dan Yargici
Hello all. When you run: from win32com.client import constants as c Application.NewScene(, ) Application.SelectObj(light, , ) Application.CreateGroup(, , ) Application.LogMessage(Application.FindObjects2(c.siGroupID).GetAsText()) You'll see that FindObjects2 returns only the Associated Models

Re: siGroupID identifier bug?

2013-09-26 Thread Dan Yargici
finds only the Associated Model group. And if you delete the light, FindObjects2 doesn't find any group at all. On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Dan Yargici danyarg...@gmail.comwrote: Hello all. When you run: from win32com.client import constants as c Application.NewScene

Re: OT Match mover questions

2013-09-18 Thread Dan Yargici
http://www.blender.org/blenderorg/blender-foundation/development-fund/ On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Rob Wuijster r...@casema.nl wrote: Seriously? Blender has a maintenance contract now? ;-P Rob \/-\/\/ On 18-9-2013 11:55, Dan Yargici wrote: I've done

Re: SIC London next week

2013-09-17 Thread Dan Yargici
I am actually in the country this time for once, but it's two days before a big delivery here so I can't imagine I'd be able to unfortunately... :( DAN On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 4:10 PM, adrian wyer adrian.w...@fluid-pictures.com wrote: ** ** ** ** ** Come on you lot, get yourselves

Re: SIC London next week

2013-09-17 Thread Dan Yargici
September 2013 16:20, Dan Yargici danyarg...@gmail.com wrote: I am actually in the country this time for once, but it's two days before a big delivery here so I can't imagine I'd be able to unfortunately... :( DAN On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 4:10 PM, adrian wyer adrian.w...@fluid-pictures.com wrote

[OT] Flux

2013-08-19 Thread Dan Yargici
For those mourning Autodesk's takeover of Naiad, it seems Flux is finally close to release (September if the FXGear store is to be believed). Looks pretty slick. http://www.qualoth.com/home/product/flux.asp

Re: Honda 'Hands' Commercial

2013-07-08 Thread Dan Yargici
Excellent! Great work! On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 1:22 AM, Amaan Akram xsil...@warpedspace.org wrote: Brilliantly done, Simon. On 6 July 2013 22:37, Andy Moorer andymoo...@gmail.com wrote: By the way those little models with the tiny tracking markers are awesome :P -- 3D Artist/TD @

Re: [OT] going to London

2013-05-24 Thread Dan Yargici
I'm arriving from Turkey on Saturday and was going to try and entice some Mill and GW people out for beers some time too. Wednesday at the Shakespeare's Head works for me. Or is the Shaston the preferred location these days? On 24 May 2013 09:27, Stefan Andersson sander...@gmail.com wrote: I'm

Re: particle count in display

2013-05-23 Thread Dan Yargici
Use an attribute display property and display the nbpoints attribute. On 23 May 2013 14:18, adrian wyer adrian.w...@fluid-pictures.com wrote: probably really obvious, but my brain hurts and i don't have much time. is there any way to show the particle count as a display attribute (like

Re: Hiding background partitions etc

2013-05-21 Thread Dan Yargici
Hi Andi. I agree with you %10. Working any other way is asking for trouble IMO. DAN On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Andi Farhall hack...@outlook.com wrote: My particular workflow is to always hide background partitions for both geometry and lights and to explicitly set visibility of

Re: Rigging Master Class from 2005

2013-05-20 Thread Dan Yargici
He is a pipeline specialist after all... On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Raffaele Fragapane raffsxsil...@googlemail.com wrote: We deal with enough shit from animators that the progression to geriatric nurse is probably a more natural path. Proctologist though might be an option, I think

Re: Running Softimage without installing it.

2013-05-19 Thread Dan Yargici
, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Sandy Sutherland sandy.mailli...@gmail.com wrote: Dan, I seem to recall so - let me check with my awesome IT guy back home and I will let you know the details. S. On 17/05/2013 14:07, Dan Yargici wrote: Is that a PXE boot-type solution Sandy? I looked into the idea

Re: Running Softimage without installing it.

2013-05-17 Thread Dan Yargici
Is that a PXE boot-type solution Sandy? I looked into the idea a while back, it still seems like an awesome solution for renderfarms. I'd love to hear more. DAN On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Sandy Sutherland sandy.mailli...@gmail.com wrote: At Triggerfish my IT guy had setup a

Re: String length in ICE... How?

2013-05-14 Thread Dan Yargici
That's a great trick, thanks Andy! Hope you're well mate, haven't seen you round these parts much lately... DAN On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Andy Nicholas a...@andynicholas.comwrote: You can do it without a loop, but you have to specify a character that you know will never be in the

Re: String length in ICE... How?

2013-05-13 Thread Dan Yargici
Digging up a reeeally old thread... Care to share? Coz it's eluding me... :) Thanks, DAN On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 12:43 AM, Malcolm Zaloon mzalo...@gmail.com wrote: Oh... i found a way just 10 seconds after send the e-mail... ;) On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 6:42 PM, Malcolm Zaloon

Re: String length in ICE... How?

2013-05-13 Thread Dan Yargici
- get array size ? :P On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Dan Yargici danyarg...@gmail.com wrote: Digging up a reeeally old thread... Care to share? Coz it's eluding me... :) Thanks, DAN On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 12:43 AM, Malcolm Zaloon mzalo...@gmail.comwrote: Oh... i found a way just

Re: String length in ICE... How?

2013-05-13 Thread Dan Yargici
arbitrary string into a custom attribute. cheers vlad On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Dan Yargici danyarg...@gmail.com wrote: Nope, doesn't work for me. string(test) - String to Array - Get Array Size - Set Data(this.Debug) The output of the 'String to Array' is black and the 'Get Array

Re: String length in ICE... How?

2013-05-13 Thread Dan Yargici
Yeah, that works, thanks. It was probably the 'Embed Internal Compounds' checkbox. On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 6:12 PM, Vladimir Jankijevic vladi...@elefantstudios.ch wrote: hmm, strange. here it is again, sorry On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 5:02 PM, Dan Yargici danyarg...@gmail.com wrote

[OT] Free lightweight standalone tool for combining tiled renders?

2013-05-08 Thread Dan Yargici
Hi all, I've recently been exploring ways to quickly and easily combine tiled .exr renders. I'm preferably looking for a free, lightweight and standalone tool. I know I could do it in the FXTree or Nuke, but I'm looking for a lightweight and simple command line tool. The best candidate so far

Re: Graphics update problem in animation editors

2013-05-03 Thread Dan Yargici
I get it all the time in the Render Tree and ICE Tree, it can be really infuriating. DAN On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Morten Bartholdy x...@colorshopvfx.dkwrote: ** I am experiencing an annoying problem with lacking update in animation editors and other curve editors. I can select

Re: Graphics update problem in animation editors

2013-05-03 Thread Dan Yargici
...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Dan Yargici Sent: Friday, May 03, 2013 8:43 AM To: Morten Bartholdy; softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Graphics update problem in animation editors I get it all the time in the Render Tree

Re: Graphics update problem in animation editors

2013-05-03 Thread Dan Yargici
on? It should be. Sean From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Dan Yargici Sent: Friday, May 03, 2013 8:43 AM To: Morten Bartholdy; softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Graphics update problem in animation editors I get

Volume shader and StrandOrientation

2013-05-02 Thread Dan Yargici
While we're here talking about strands in conjunction with the volume shader, are there any special caveats regarding StrandOrientation that we should be aware of? I have a scene at the moment where I get strange streaks for each strand segment whereas when I use a compound to replace each strand

Re: Ultra sound or MRI scan formats to common 3D formats?

2013-04-20 Thread Dan Yargici
Extracted from Bens Modo forum Link - will try Segment as you can download for free and will have a play with Osirix, the guy on this list had success using some of these tools and he was using XSI at the time: hehe, look at the name of the guy who had success with XSI... ;) On Sat, Apr 20,

Re: Ultra sound or MRI scan formats to common 3D formats?

2013-04-19 Thread Dan Yargici
Ben's old Volume Loader shader could do that. I'm %99. sure it won't work with newer versions though... http://shaders.moederogall.com/ On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Angus Davidson angus.david...@wits.ac.zawrote: I Know when I was looking into is for Bio Med we used a program called

Re: Wots changed w/ cmd and/or bat rendering..

2013-04-19 Thread Dan Yargici
Do you get an error message? Could it be that your path contains spaces and you've forgotten to put it in quotes? DAN On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 2:56 AM, rob...@texturelighting.com rob...@texturelighting.com wrote: I used to be perfectly content to make a quick little .bat file, save to

Satellite rendering with 2012sp1

2013-04-18 Thread Dan Yargici
It's ages since I needed to do this (or even used MR for that matter...) but I'm familiar enough with it to say that I'm not a noob. I've also meticulously followed the guides on Stephen's blog to the letter. However, it doesn't work. No errors anywhere, just nothing. All services are running

Re: Satellite rendering with 2012sp1

2013-04-18 Thread Dan Yargici
OK, working now. It was down to Windows firewall. Needed to set an incoming port rule on the slaves. Thought I only needed to on the master. All good now. Thanks again, DAN On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Dan Yargici danyarg...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, guys, I'll delve deeper and let you

Re: AMD MAXON Cinema 4D.

2013-04-18 Thread Dan Yargici
Isn't that just a commercial? Not sure there's really anything groundbreaking happening there to be honest! DAN On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Leoung O'Young digim...@digimata.comwrote: Interesting development between Maxon and AMD Maxon is busy setting up partnerships, Adobe, and now

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