Re: Hiding background partitions etc

2013-05-21 Thread Adam Seeley
Peter Agg To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Sent: Tuesday, 21 May 2013, 13:51 Subject: Re: Hiding background partitions etc "So how do you handle visibility animation? That gets screwed on “show members” partitions doesn’t it?" Animating visibility is something on my 'don&#x

RE: Hiding background partitions etc

2013-05-21 Thread Ed Harriss
I could not agree more. Like many others I do leave the "default pass" alone for modeling and other misc. tasks though. Ed From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Andi Farhall Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 5:38 AM To: softimage

Re: Hiding background partitions etc

2013-05-21 Thread Peter Agg
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RE: Hiding background partitions etc

2013-05-21 Thread Andi Farhall
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Re: Hiding background partitions etc

2013-05-21 Thread peter_b
-- From: "pete...@skynet.be" To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Sent: Tuesday, 21 May 2013, 12:14 Subject: Re: Hiding background partitions etc yes and no. hiding the default partitions for geo and lights is common practice – almost an absolute rule afaic for light

RE: Hiding background partitions etc

2013-05-21 Thread Andi Farhall
ey/ http://spylon.tumblr.com/ From: peter@googlemail.com Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 12:52:52 +0100 Subject: Re: Hiding background partitions etc To: adam_see...@yahoo.com; softimage@listproc.autodesk.com "I'll normally have a working/Default pass where

Re: Hiding background partitions etc

2013-05-21 Thread Peter Agg
/vimeo.com/adamseeley <https://vimeo.com/album/2280465> > > > > > ---------- > *From:* "pete...@skynet.be" > *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com > *Sent:* Tuesday, 21 May 2013, 12:14 > *Subject:* Re: Hiding background partitions etc >

RE: Hiding background partitions etc

2013-05-21 Thread Gareth Bell
ttps://vimeo.com/adamseeley<https://vimeo.com/album/2280465> From: "pete...@skynet.be" To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Sent: Tuesday, 21 May 2013, 12:14 Subject: Re: Hiding background partitions etc yes and no. hiding the default partition

Re: Hiding background partitions etc

2013-05-21 Thread Adam Seeley
"pete...@skynet.be" To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Sent: Tuesday, 21 May 2013, 12:14 Subject: Re: Hiding background partitions etc yes and no.   hiding the default partitions for geo and lights is common practice – almost an absolute rule afaic for lighting/rendering scenes. (it’s  inexcus

Re: Hiding background partitions etc

2013-05-21 Thread Simon Reeves
I agree with the last reply. I never force show, I like to hide objects themselves (or groups)and for that to propagate though the passes (temporarily). That's how I've taught the new soft users at work! And after a day they can see the massive benefits of that workflow and the pass system. Sim

Re: Hiding background partitions etc

2013-05-21 Thread Adam Seeley
Well you know my take on it Any other workflow unless it's script driven is asking for trouble. Adam - Yoyo Digital Ltd. http://www.linkedin.com/in/adamseeleyuk https://vimeo.com/adamseeley From: Andi Farhall To: "softimage@listpr

Re: Hiding background partitions etc

2013-05-21 Thread peter_b
yes and no. hiding the default partitions for geo and lights is common practice – almost an absolute rule afaic for lighting/rendering scenes. (it’s inexcusable not to do this in production scenes for rendering with more than a handful of passes) every newly added object gets hidden by default

Re: Hiding background partitions etc

2013-05-21 Thread Martin Chatterjee
That's the only sane way to work as far as I'm concerned... Cheers, Martin -- Martin Chatterjee [ Freelance Technical Director ] [ http://www.chatterjee.de ] [ https://vimeo.com/chatterjee ] On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Stefan Andersson wrote: > +1 it's the way to go. > >

Re: Hiding background partitions etc

2013-05-21 Thread Stefan Andersson
+1 it's the way to go. Regards Stefan -- Sent from a phone booth in purgatory On May 21, 2013, at 11:55, Peter Agg wrote: Yep, you're entirely correct on this one - don't let them try to tell you otherwise. :) On 21 May 2013 10:49, Dan Yargici wrote: > Hi Andi. > > I agree with you

Re: Hiding background partitions etc

2013-05-21 Thread Peter Agg
Yep, you're entirely correct on this one - don't let them try to tell you otherwise. :) On 21 May 2013 10:49, Dan Yargici wrote: > 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 wrote: > >>

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 wrote: > My particular workflow is to always hide background partitions for both > geometry and lights and to explicitly set visibility of all partitions, an