Re: Softimage and Alembic?

2013-11-19 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Mirko Jankovic mirkoj.anima...@gmail.com wrote: Well, we're responsible for the windows port of Alembic and other integration work. And we develop feature with it like the GPU cache, alembic caching in xgen, support in scene assembly and other things for

Re: spreadsheet - setting UIItems in combo box items

2013-11-13 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
your enumeration strings only exist in the PPG Layout object. Some stuff internally may work differently, but your not your stuff. On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 8:26 PM, Matt Lind ml...@carbinestudios.com wrote: I have many spreadsheet queries which display information stored in custom properties in

Re: Fastest way to store an action ?

2013-11-13 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
SIStoreAction is a low-level command implemented in C++. StoreAction is a front-end command implemented in VBScript, in action.vbs actually called StoreActionProc, which calls SIStoreAction after the command arguments code has done its magic (perhaps parsing the selection list, for example), and

Re: Mootz!!! What we reallly need is EM_SewingMachine

2013-11-13 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 8:36 PM, Sebastien Sterling sebastien.sterl...@gmail.com wrote: Cloth, hair/fur, Sculpt, it's what is missing, we need a character pipe :P Maya only wins this because it has them, there archaic and most good stuff is third party, but they are available. Shouldn't be too

Re: Mootz!!! What we reallly need is EM_SewingMachine

2013-11-13 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
to mention Yeti :(. I guess it's always nice to be reminded that the grass is indeed greener on the other side of the fence ? :P On 13 November 2013 19:56, Luc-Eric Rousseau luceri...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 8:36 PM, Sebastien Sterling sebastien.sterl...@gmail.com wrote: Cloth

Re: Cloth Character Workflow in Soft

2013-11-09 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
In film, people love Maya nCloth. But another one that comes up a bit is Qualoth. also a maya plug-in. http://www.qualoth.com

RE: Friday Flashback #145

2013-11-08 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
The real story is cloud rendering 13 years ago, imho. But good point on softimage being Metro ui 13 year before Windows 8 :-) Le 2013-11-08 13:07, Marc-Andre Carbonneau marc-andre.carbonn...@ubisoft.com a écrit : Softimage was so much ahead of its time using flat design way back in the 90’s!

Re: Controlling a parameter live via slider through scripting

2013-11-07 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
Hello, assuming this is pretty much the script you wrote, aren't you just setting the bevel value when InspectObj returns? That command will only return after the user clicks OK on the dialog On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 6:29 AM, Christian Gotzinger cgo...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi list, My script

Re: Object importer

2013-11-07 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
There are two .obj importers in recent versions of Softimage. The second one is through the FBX Import options; you should be able to change the file filters to *.obj and then the FBX library will do the importing, if you do not have that option, you can download the FBX Converter from Autodesk

Re: Friday Flashback #144

2013-11-01 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
mixed feelings about this one. The word says freedom, but the design says big brother. On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 6:59 AM, Stephen Blair stephenrbl...@gmail.com wrote: Friday Flashback #144 FREEDOM circa 2001 http://wp.me/powV4-2TN

Re: SI selections driving me nuts...

2013-10-31 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
You can still use Ctrl + Shift + A to deselect all in paint select and right click paint to deselect a few. The hotkeys Deselect All, Ctrl+Shift+A, or Deselect All Using Filter, Ctrl+Shift+F have always made me laugh. It's a super uncomfortable hotkey that takes about two seconds to correctly

Re: what

2013-10-30 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 7:04 PM, Mc Nistor nisc...@gmail.com wrote: Ah I see. It even says so in the header of the page, LOL Well, how do I do that? Need I have an google+ account? houdini will likely be too complicated for you. ;)

Re: what

2013-10-30 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 7:08 PM, Eric Turman i.anima...@gmail.com wrote: There used to be a digest mode...anyone remember how to activate that? send mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with the subject help to get the commands it's probably set digest send commands to that address,

Re: SI selections driving me nuts...

2013-10-30 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
Paint selection is probably the best point raycast mode. On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Grahame Fuller grahame.ful...@autodesk.com wrote: There is no a shortcut for point raycast. You'd need to set the raycast tool and the point filter separately, or create a command that does both.

Re: what

2013-10-30 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 8:39 PM, Mc Nistor nisc...@gmail.com wrote: @luceric I'm subscribed to this group however it is not possible to post unlike other groups. I know how to do my research, but I thought I'd take the lazy route and ask around here first. This isn't the google group, this

Re: FaceRobot

2013-10-29 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
the flag makes XSI connect to the FaceRobot workgroup, and all the code to face robot is in that workgroup. I don't have the time to test it, but in theory if the workgroup is not present I think it could just do nothing and fail gracefully. If that doesn't work, actually enabling face robot on

Re: FaceRobot

2013-10-28 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
something up? On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 6:16 PM, Luc-Eric Rousseau luceri...@gmail.comwrote: Try deleting the face robot workgroup from.disk Le 2013-10-26 07:40, Ognjen Vukovic ognj...@gmail.com a écrit : Is there a way to remove face Robot from a work-group and generally from existence

Re: FaceRobot

2013-10-28 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
which in itself is a mammoth task. And if by any chance you skipped one thing your back at square one, because all it takes is one model somewhere to infect everything again... On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Luc-Eric Rousseau luceri...@gmail.comwrote: disabling face robot and saving

Re: FaceRobot

2013-10-26 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
Try deleting the face robot workgroup from.disk Le 2013-10-26 07:40, Ognjen Vukovic ognj...@gmail.com a écrit : Is there a way to remove face Robot from a work-group and generally from existence? We are having a awesome time as someone in the early phases of the project had it open somewhere

Re: I'd like to punch Softimage in the face today

2013-10-24 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
some crash in the simulation operator while changing the kinestate of an object. Nothing really helpful there. if you're on subscription you can contact support and escalate the issue. On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Paul Griswold pgrisw...@fusiondigitalproductions.com wrote: Yep - running the

Re: I'd like to punch Softimage in the face today

2013-10-24 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
I'm pretty sure he tired merging. in anycase, whatever you do try to be at frame 1 when you do it. there could be issues if you are not On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 11:20 AM, David Barosin dbaro...@gmail.com wrote: merge the scene rather than load it. It might give you a fresh sim environment

Re: Global Python interpreter?

2013-10-18 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Raffaele Fragapane raffsxsil...@googlemail.com wrote: If you want something to be available across the board you can simply write it, register it as a module, and push it. No need for it to exist as a file. I've read the link, but I can't see how you could use

Re: Friday Flashback #142

2013-10-18 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
I never really used it beyond doing a tutorial, but I loved the interface, the widgets and the opengl look. It had manipulators which softimage 3D also did not have. So much more modern than softimage|3D; hard to believe it's from 1995, and you would only get a new softimage GUI 5 years later. I

Re: Friday Flashback #142

2013-10-18 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Marc-Andre Carbonneau marc-andre.carbonn...@ubisoft.com wrote: I totally agree with you Luc-Eric, it had some pretty slick stuff that Softimage didn't have. I don't remember how many particles you could have in your scene before slowing it down? In 1997 we

Re: Autodesk´s Sales model

2013-10-17 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
Sharing a broad overview of where they see the individual products heading isn’t an issue either as long as it’s done on the level. unfortunately, that's not the case. Because plans can change, so where a product is heading can change too. And those change will screw up the booking of

Re: Autodesk´s Sales model

2013-10-17 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
It's a video and it's in Spanish, but I think it's modeling and rendering that was done in Maya Le 2013-10-17 19:02, Bradley Gabe witha...@gmail.com a écrit : The least you guys could do is issue forth a correction. One way would be to color correct (darken) and composite the Maya logo into the

Re: Autodesk´s Sales model

2013-10-16 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Mirko Jankovic mirkoj.anima...@gmail.com wrote: As I recall salesman is supposed to attract customer to gain their trust and support. Now it is other way around??? Customers should give their total support and money in order to be treated like customers??

Re: Unofficial Softimage user voice

2013-10-11 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Matt Lind ml...@carbinestudios.com wrote: 4) Seeing the requests on file would allow items which no longer apply to be more quickly filtered out so you can spend more time on the ones that are important. I cannot possibly remember every single thing I’ve

Re: Unofficial Softimage user voice

2013-10-11 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Matt Lind ml...@carbinestudios.com wrote: Well good news, we deleted all the requests logged before 2009, so you don't have to worry about them. Certainly explains a lot of things. Why would you do something like that? Imagine the work involved in ordering a

Re: Unofficial Softimage user voice

2013-10-10 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
on the first day, weren't votes unlimited? What happened to these votes after you set the limits? It is possible that some early suggestions have a disproportionate number of votes?

Re: Unofficial Softimage user voice

2013-10-10 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Gregory Ducatel gduca...@gmail.com wrote: Also, if AD is willing to provide me with a list of suggestions and requests already in there system, I will be more that happy to add those suggestion inside this users voice system so it will be accessible for

Re: OT: Softimage Cross Grade

2013-10-09 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
as far as I know it's something that requires all apps in the suite to be updaded and because of that will have to wait for the 2015 of the suite. maybe the problem dooesnt show up if you've at least installed on autodesk app on the c: drive to get the synergy folder with some stuff it needs

Re: attachments

2013-10-09 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
mmm.. I don't see them as attachments in gmail, even with Adrian's HTML mail. Is this a problem with the email client? On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Angus Davidson angus.david...@wits.ac.zawrote: Well most mailing lists will attach some form of unsubscribe information (as far as I know in

Re: attachments

2013-10-09 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
I'm not seeing the on my end in gmail, but I can remove the footer if it drives many people nuts. Or I can even force all emails to text. There are a lot of questions about how to unsubscribe from this mailing list, that's why it's there. On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 12:51 PM, adrian wyer

Re: New Plugin: LK Fabric

2013-10-09 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
unfortunately, some people have totally ruined the use of the word fabric for plugin names. ;)

Re: New Plugin: LK Fabric

2013-10-09 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
RTFM: Realtime Textile Fiber Maker. You're welcome.

Re: SetValue question...

2013-10-08 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 9:24 AM, Sergio Mucino sergio.muc...@modusfx.com wrote: I'm not too fond of the Softimage script editor... like Maya's, I only use it when I want to execute command-line style querying or commands, or copy/paste my scripts onto it. That's about it. Maya's script editor

Re: OT: Softimage Cross Grade

2013-10-08 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
send to apparently doesn't work if the apps are not installed on the c: drive On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Daniel Brassard dbrassar...@gmail.com wrote: Hello List, I took the opportunity to cross-grade from Softimage 2014 to the Entertainment Creation Suite Ultimate over the weekend. I

Re: SetValue question...

2013-10-08 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Eric Turman i.anima...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah the very first time I wrote a script in MEL--a couple dozen lines or so) I used the editor (like I would in Soft) and ran it to test it, I was like okay, it mostly works...if I just tweak the code a little...wait.,

Re: OT: Softimage Cross Grade

2013-10-08 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
http://mayastation.typepad.com/maya-station/2013/05/file-send-to-function-fails-in-custom-install-of-entertainment-creation-suite-2014.html On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 6:35 PM, Graham Bell graham.b...@autodesk.com wrote: The C drive thing is a new one on me. The Send To option will only appear if

Re: Friday Flashback #139

2013-09-27 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
13, 22 and 32 million dollar loss. nice. can't believe that stuff was public.. (can you really have flashbacks about stuff you didn't know :P ) On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Greg Punchatz g...@janimation.com wrote: 1? the one being ILM? In 1998, how many customers accounted for a little

Re: Friday Flashback #139

2013-09-27 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
...@gmail.com wrote: Yea nice flashback... But how accurate are those figures? Chris On 28 Sep, 2013, at 12:28 AM, Luc-Eric Rousseau luceri...@gmail.com wrote: 13, 22 and 32 million dollar loss. nice. can't believe that stuff was public.. (can you really have flashbacks about stuff you

Re: Friday Flashback #139

2013-09-27 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
Looking over the numbers a little closer: fyi, those 1998 numbers are for Softimage|3D and Softimage|DS. XSI was released only two years later. DS sold for 130,000$ -- To unsubscribe: mail softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with subject unsubscribe and reply to the

Re: Autodesk 2014 Extensions Released - Softimage Left Out

2013-09-20 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
When you're on subscription, you get a few benefits including 1) free update to the next version if it comes within the sub period 2) rights to run previous versions 3) access ahead of time to features of the next release *if they are ready*. #3 can only really happen if those features were

Re: HDR 32 bit colors in SI and Photoshop.

2013-09-20 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
:46 AM, olivier jeannel olivier.jean...@noos.fr wrote: Hey Luc Eric, I'm rendering with RedShift. I've opened it in the FX Viewer and it's yellowish as well. If you think of something, let me know... Cheers, Olivier Le 20/09/2013 17:27, Luc-Eric Rousseau a écrit : the image clip ppg image

Re: HDR 32 bit colors in SI and Photoshop.

2013-09-20 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
the image clip ppg image is just an 8-bit preview with cooked conversion. render out with mental ray to see the actual image. or look at it in the fxtree fxviewer , which does support floating point images. Of course, any hdr value will clip if you are not using any tone mapping On Fri, Sep 20,

Re: OT Match mover questions

2013-09-13 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
the rumors is you have to export to .vbs for Softimage|XSI and every other option is just there for a good laugh On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Gerbrand Nel nagv...@gmail.com wrote: I know the rest of the world is on pf track, but we have allot of shots to track and only 1 pf license. I

Re: Object View to Orthorgraphic via scripting

2013-09-12 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
I think there is nothing you can do to know the real name of the camera if it's not a scene camera. The camera will be one of those under Application/Views/List/View#/UserCamera. but there is no way for you to know for sure the # if you have multiple object views. On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 11:58

Re: Object View to Orthorgraphic via scripting

2013-09-12 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
there is no technical reason for that attribute return value to be so terse, but I'm not sure exactly what you need. maybe you need a user pref to the default camera mode, or maybe you want to open the object view with a scene camera that you control (which should be possible with setattribute)

Re: A little something new!

2013-09-12 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
are these colors NTSC-safe? :P On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Kris Rivel krisri...@gmail.com wrote: Nice work!! Kris On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 1:25 PM, john clausing jclausin...@yahoo.com wrote: Here's something new we made at Poetica Poetica.tv https://vimeo.com/74391910

Re: Poll. How frequently 2014 SP2 crashes, and when?

2013-09-11 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
for crashes with just standard modeling tools, I'd recommend looking at the graphic card driver. I've read in an internal newsletter last month that an nVidia driver update was causing higher instanced of crash reports in all ME applications. Older driver may be better. On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at

Re: Article on Bifrost

2013-09-11 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
which version of Maya? it looks a lot like ICE in a dark theme in 2014 Le 2013-09-11 18:53, Octavian Ureche okt...@gmail.com a écrit : For me the problem is not in what it does. (which is everything that the hypergraph/hypershade did and more). When i first heard they were going to create a

Re: Softimage Rental?

2013-09-09 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 1:17 PM, Angus Davidson angus.david...@wits.ac.za wrote: Apart from the glaring omission of SI from that list the things that worries me in the FAQ is that rental options dont have previous version rights. Unless I have read that incorrectly your SOL if your client

Re: Would you like to recover your scene?

2013-09-09 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
if you had ascii you could delete part of the scene file until it loads.. right now it's impossible to do that. when merge scene avoid the crash, the problem is usually loading the information (cameras, modes, etc) for the viewports or some other view in the layout that saves extra information in

Re: Maya LT in education

2013-09-02 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
the answer to that is in thr Maya LT FAQ here http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Autodesk-Maya-LT-General/Maya-LT-FAQ/td-p/4383656 and it is yes On Monday, September 2, 2013, Angus Davidson wrote: Anyone know if there are plans for a edu version / licence of Maya LT. We weoudl look at it for

Re: unsubscribe

2013-09-02 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
true story Le 2013-09-02 17:53, Guillaume Laforge guillaume.laforge...@gmail.com a écrit : So did the Autodesk big boss... :) On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Eric Thivierge ethivie...@gmail.comwrote: Don't let Guillaume fool you. I fired him the other day when he didn't bring me some Tim

Re: undocumented flag for Command.SetFlag()

2013-08-31 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
yeah, because this is clearly the fix my bugs hidden command flags that we have been hiding from you. On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 6:59 AM, Sebastian Kowalski l...@sekow.com wrote: There is NO thing like weekend in the industry . . . Am 30.08.2013 um 21:42 schrieb Chris Chia

Re: Dx11?

2013-08-31 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 3:38 PM, Stefan Kubicek s...@tidbit-images.com wrote: [...] Admittedly, judging by the amount of existing devices supporting DX only (XBox and Windows Phones?) vs the amount of devices supporting OpenGL (which includes Windows PCs, microwave ovens and probably even my

Re: Dx11?

2013-08-30 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
From: Matt Lind ml...@carbinestudios.com Our game has been DX11 for a while now. It would be nice to see our HLSL shaders applied natively to the assets instead of having to be wrapped inside of OpenGL shaders where we lose some functionality because not all HLSL features can be ported.

Re: How to read .MEL script in Softimage

2013-08-29 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Nicolas Esposito 3dv...@gmail.com wrote: Looking at the removed features I think that they want to sell it just as a modeling/UV/animation baking toolset to work with game engines on mobile ( thats why the 25k polys FBX export limit ), so thats what you get

Re: FCurve Editor SDK?

2013-08-29 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
isn't there a command-based way to hook into the fcurve editor for other versions, stephen? can't find referneces to it in the doc On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Stephen Blair stephenrbl...@gmail.com wrote: On 29/08/2013 10:49 AM, Michael Heberlein wrote: I'd like to add a custom menu to

Re: How to read .MEL script in Softimage

2013-08-29 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
n Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Greg Maguire g...@inlifesize.com wrote: The Maya LT model is really rental, it's between 33$ to 40$ per month More like Maya LT will be offered on $50/Month. With Quarterly, and Annual rental options that will also be available. No scripting and no set-driven

Re: Dx11?

2013-08-28 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
nope

Re: Dx11?

2013-08-28 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
95% hard work, talent and taste, 5% viewport technology, imho :) On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 8:17 AM, Szabolcs Matefy szabol...@crytek.comwrote: I’m droolin’ on this : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5fOwSmSaW8feature=youtu.be **

Re: Dx11?

2013-08-28 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
They simplified considerably the problem in Maya DX11: they created one big uber realtime shader that does offers all the parameters but it's a black box. You can't render it in mental ray or anything else. On the Softimage side, the high quality viewport's goal (let's avoid debating for now

Re: Friday Flashback #133

2013-08-27 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 8:25 AM, Xavier lapointe.xav...@gmail.com wrote: Eric in Action: http://bit.ly/1fggcCa Great. A wookie on a giant squirrel. *Thanks Obama.*

Re: Friday Flashback #133

2013-08-26 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
Don't worry, most of these patents and there children will have expired by the year 2025. only about twelve years to go! Le 2013-08-26 05:47, Stefan Kubicek s...@tidbit-images.com a écrit : Thx Alan, I knew about the render region, and I'm not surprised of the toon and quick stretch ones

Re: Friday Flashback #133

2013-08-26 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Eric Deren eric_l...@dzignlight.com wrote: I still have yet to figure out why folks unabashedly slam Joe. Yes, there are patent trolls and yes, there are serious problems with our patent system, but after evaluating the entire situation after the Yeti deal

Re: mail size limit?!?!

2013-08-23 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
Ha, you know, if this pushes people to discover how easy it is to setup a free free dropbox account, google drive, or skydrive and send a link instead of mailing copies of 700k scene files to a thousand people, I think it's a good thing. Heck, I even got 50 gig free drop box with my Samsung S3

Re: Softimage - Tablet issues

2013-08-22 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
by default, softimage should completely ignore tablets, unless you specifically went and set the environment variable to re-enable the buggy tablet pressure that was in older versions. On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 5:37 PM, Paul Griswold pgrisw...@fusiondigitalproductions.com wrote: Does anyone know

Re: Windows 7 or 8

2013-08-21 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
Maybe to automate it a bit more or just for your convenience... Here's a batch script that deletes all user temp files, that resides after a load of installations. Folder pathes apply to XP and Win7. that batch file doesn't really help much (and doesn't rebooting delete the temp files?),

Re: Sci-tech 2014 Oscars shortlist announced

2013-08-21 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
This is not an award given for stuff people think looks cool. It's an award that companies can submit themselves for to get recognized for discoveries and innovations have contributed in significant, outstanding and lasting ways to motion pictures, and then there is a peer process to validate

Re: Softimage 2015 User Survey

2013-08-20 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Doeke Wartena clankil...@gmail.com wrote: I wondered, are people that work on softimage ever active on the mailinglist apart from asking for a survey? In other words, how is the contact between the creators and the users? Songqiong, Min Rui, Hsiao, and John, to

Re: Friday Flashback #133

2013-08-19 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
.. and for the benefit of the list, charles is responsible for all of the softimage XSI/DS UI look. He left in 2000. On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 9:01 AM, Stephen Blair stephenrbl...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, it was him. On 19/08/2013 8:06 AM, Marc-Andre Carbonneau wrote: Hey Luc-Eric, Was it also

Re: Friday Flashback #133

2013-08-19 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Christoph Muetze c...@glarestudios.de wrote: ...He didn't just do the skin but also the functional design of the user interface, right? I was always under the impression that he was the designer behind the UI. Am i wrong about this? I always have a hard time

Re: Friday Flashback #133

2013-08-16 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
we joked with the designer that it looked like a man falling to his death once you see it... On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Stephen Blair stephenrbl...@gmail.com wrote: Friday Flashback #133 The Softimage Sumatra logo http://wp.me/powV4-2OV

Re: Future of Naiad

2013-08-15 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
skrev Luc-Eric Rousseau luceri...@gmail.comjavascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'luceri...@gmail.com');: The siggraph user group meeting videos were posted. The one with bifrost is called Behind the curtain of RD http://area.autodesk.com/Anaheim2013https://connect.autodesk.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=bK

Re: Future of Naiad

2013-08-15 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
...@yahoo.com wrote: Try to Copy paste the link instead of clicking on it... A. - Yoyo Digital Ltd. 07956 976 245 http://www.linkedin.com/in/adamseeleyuk https://vimeo.com/adamseeley From: Luc-Eric Rousseau luceri

Re: Future of Naiad

2013-08-14 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
The siggraph user group meeting videos were posted. The one with bifrost is called Behind the curtain of RD

Re: PIL's save() method crashes Soft 2014

2013-08-13 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
well you could just use the fxtree to scale images, including writing a script to generate that fxtree. With regards to PIL: if you use the built-in python in newer versions of softimage, it will have been built with Visual C++ 2010, and third party python modules from the web are usually compied

Re: Maya Xgen

2013-08-09 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
the principle of XGen is that you setup the scene description in maya - expressions, ptex property maps, etc - and then the instancing/interpolation/etc engine will run uring rendering, in the xgen geometry shader. So it has the upper hand with very large data sets because the data is not

Re: Maya Xgen

2013-08-09 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 7:46 AM, Greg Punchatz g...@janimation.com wrote: I thought the hair stuff looked very very nice... but the tree demo was simply sad. It SEEMED much slower than ICE for only a few low poly trees, and like you said I would expect it to very fast and scalable. The video

Re: [OT] Another one bites the dust...DS is EOL.

2013-08-06 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
doomed from the start by its deep attachment to the Windows platform. On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 4:51 AM, Fabrice Altman fabr...@studioaka.co.uk wrote: I think Luc-Eric did ‘a bit of work’ on that as well.

Re: [OT] Another one bites the dust...DS is EOL.

2013-08-06 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
Inferno, Flame, etc. I believe that now the DS solution has more life to go than AD pyrotechnics. As it integrates better from the editing to finishing pipeline and delivery pipeline. Cheers. 2013/8/6 Luc-Eric Rousseau luceri...@gmail.com doomed from the start by its deep attachment

Re: [OT] Another one bites the dust...DS is EOL.

2013-08-06 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Stephen Davidson magic...@bellsouth.netwrote: Avid has quite history of shelving products, that they buy. so 15 years is too soon?

Re: [OT] Another one bites the dust...DS is EOL.

2013-08-06 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
Putting elastic reality is something I did for fun on the side. It was already a node in Media Illusion, but the UI needed to be ported to the Fx tree Viewer. On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Paul Griswold pgrisw...@fusiondigitalproductions.com wrote: I think I remember Eric Goulette sent me a

Re: Force Soft to open on a specific monitor?

2013-08-05 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
you need to make the monitor you want the primary monitor, in the control panel. you can drag and drop the monitor in the right order afterward in that applet Le 2013-08-05 16:58, Paul Griswold pgrisw...@fusiondigitalproductions.com a écrit : Is there a switch that can be set to get Softimage to

Re: OT: Yost Group - related to the Naiad/SIGGRAPH discussion

2013-08-03 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Angus Davidson angus.david...@wits.ac.za wrote: I always felt 3dsR4 was where it peaked . having to work with max 1 and 2 for me wasn't a very pleasant experience. I was very grateful to move off off that to a version of Softimage|DS I think the Autodesk

Re: OT: Yost Group - related to the Naiad/SIGGRAPH discussion

2013-08-03 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
and forgetful in example. MAX came in trying to shoulder Lightwave away in that sector, which had already been doing the good work of democratizing since Amiga days. 3DS for dos was possibly more significant in those regards. On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 3:10 AM, Luc-Eric Rousseau luceri...@gmail.com wrote

Re: Why did I pay support?? Why did I buy a suite ? I want my money back!

2013-08-01 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 4:21 AM, Morten Bartholdy x...@colorshopvfx.dk wrote: They probably pull straws at AD every two weeks to see who has to wear that hat for a while... it's not that bad.. as far as I know, it's just back to Cory (who took over after chinny left) full time instead of

Re: Why did I pay support?? Why did I buy a suite ? I want my money back!

2013-07-31 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 12:04 AM, Ahmidou Lyazidi ahmidou@gmail.com wrote: Nah, maya FX! ;) hey, could you please stop posting stuff like like this? When I switched the maya team I said I joined the Maya FX team. That's the name of the team that handles simluation and nucleus, etc, like

Re: Why did I pay support?? Why did I buy a suite ? I want my money back!

2013-07-30 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 9:57 PM, Raffaele Fragapane raffsxsil...@googlemail.com wrote: Chris might be a bit too high up. Soft got two new product manager/designer who have been kinda absent. Daniel Tutino replaced Cory, who was sort of temping in after Chinny... more or less, I guess. the

Re: Why did I pay support?? Why did I buy a suite ? I want my money back!

2013-07-30 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 9:51 PM, Matt Lind ml...@carbinestudios.com wrote: Originally known as ‘Softimage Digital Studio’ and started in the early 1990s for the IRIX platform (1992/1993), it was Softimage’s attempt to merge 2D and 3D into a single seamless end-to-end environment. The drive

Re: SP2

2013-07-29 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
looks alright to me. the build number change tell me SP2 is indistinguishable from SP1 except it's got some code change that caused 5 builds but dont affect API or scene file. However, if SP1 is indeed a 11.1 instead of 11.0, then there must have been API change or something that affects the

Re: Future of Naiad

2013-07-25 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 6:33 AM, adrian wyer adrian.w...@fluid-pictures.com wrote: lets face it, if the AD higher ups can't see that houdini is trousering them in the vfx dept, and that their best hope for a procedural approach to vfx, is to hit the ground running with ICE, then they deserve to

Re: Future of Naiad

2013-07-25 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Greg Punchatz g...@janimation.com wrote: I am not sure how many softies are still there...other than Luc Eric there are dozens of Autodesk employees who used to be Softimage employees. You can't swing a dead cat here without hitting one. Not that we swing cats

Re: I can't believe there is no tutorial for Softimage on Autodesk webiste

2013-07-22 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Angus Davidson angus.david...@wits.ac.za wrote: Softimage even used to ship with a free digital tutors CD in. downloadable here? http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112id=15505750linkID=12544118

Re: I can't believe there is no tutorial for Softimage on Autodesk webiste

2013-07-18 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 5:43 AM, Daniel Kim danielki...@gmail.com wrote: Softimage in NZ is almost $7k including subscription, but I can't believe they don't give any tutorials to customer. [...] AD seriously need to consider put some tutorials on their website or nicely run Softimage channel

Re: I can't believe there is no tutorial for Softimage on Autodesk webiste

2013-07-18 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
btw, every time you start Softimage, a little window pops up that says Important Information and contains a link to the softimage youtube channel.

Re: I can't believe there is no tutorial for Softimage on Autodesk webiste

2013-07-18 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
in addition to looking at the front page of the user guide, and area.autodesk.com, which is where all the tutorials are, http://www.autodesk.com/softimage-tutorials for the collection of first party and third party stuff On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Andy Moorer andymoo...@gmail.com wrote:

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