RE: Small Annoying Things

2012-09-23 Thread Jack Kao
Setting Show Keys to Keyable Parameters on the time line will not display keys on proxy parameters even if those params are keyable. Setting it to All (filters) will hide custom parameters keys.

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-09-21 Thread Eugen Sares
It's an aliasing problem. In a perspective view, when looking at a flat angle, the horizon becomes one gray mess. Is there a way to switch on anti-aliasing? If not, it would be nice if they were updated in whatever way to become more appealing to the eye. Am 21.09.2012 03:55, schrieb Raffaele

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-09-21 Thread Eugen Sares
- In the Visibility options, turn on NURBS Boundaries. - Create a Text Curve object. - Enter Subcurve (or any other) component filter. - only the first Subcurve is displayed yellow (with the red/green boundary marker). All other subcurves are displayed white, which is wrong.

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-09-20 Thread Eugen Sares
Zooming out of an ortho view with Grid displayed, at some point the vertical gridlines disappear, and only horizontal ones remain. Yuck! This is a relic from the old ages. How about fading those lines in/out?

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-09-20 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
That's usually a difference in resolution. The vertical lines most of the time will simply be less visible, and at one point, when far enough, you will only see very faint vertical lines and not horizontal ones. More elegant would be something ala ICE background (as in looking like that, not that

RE: Small Annoying Things

2012-09-20 Thread Szabolcs Matefy
Signed up. Hopefully accepted :D From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Raffaele Fragapane Sent: Friday, September 21, 2012 3:55 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Small Annoying Things That's usually

RE: Small Annoying Things

2012-09-18 Thread Eric Cosky
If you have two RT shaders with different extensions, you can't distinguish between them in the render tree shader list. Ie MyShader.cgfx MyShader.fx Show up in the list as: MyShader MyShader Mildly annoying is how when the Realtime/CgFX category is selected, shows both .cgfx

RE: Small Annoying Things

2012-09-10 Thread Chris Chia
with me that this is not a defect? Regards, Chris From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Steven Caron Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2012 10:49 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Small Annoying Things i dont

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-09-10 Thread Steven Caron
: Saturday, September 08, 2012 10:49 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Small Annoying Things i dont remember this behavior being in previous versions and i want to log it as a bug, where is that bug report page on automaze's website? regardless, there is nothing to throw away

RE: Small Annoying Things

2012-09-10 Thread Matt Lind
@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Small Annoying Things thanks, its logged using my work email. Render Region is lost after save scene or open file dialog i mention it in the report, you dont even need to save the scene, just open a file dialog (save as, open, merge, etc) s On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 8:40 PM

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-09-10 Thread Ahmidou Lyazidi
*To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Re: Small Annoying Things ** ** thanks, its logged using my work email. Render Region is lost after save scene or open file dialog i mention it in the report, you dont even need to save the scene, just open a file dialog (save

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-09-08 Thread Eugen Sares
Hi Chris, May I ask - the stuff posted in this annoying thread - is it going down the drain if we don't log it again over there? You see, since Softimage is not quite open source, people need a litte reassurance they get heard before the king, so to speak... Thanks! Eugen Am 08.09.2012 05:40,

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-09-08 Thread Chris Chia
Everyone in the team is aware of this... I believe certain action will be taken... And we definitely need time to verify all the issues addressed here. Some might just be personal preference... Chris On 8 Sep, 2012, at 2:22 PM, Eugen Sares softim...@keyvis.at wrote: Hi Chris, May I ask -

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-09-08 Thread Eugen Sares
That's great to hear, thanks a lot! You know, it's still a bit unclear how to best address you with bugs/wishes. If the mailinglist is fine, allright, yet what's your opinion regarding a better feedback system with all the bells and whistles? All entries visible for everyone, a voting system

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-09-08 Thread Eric Thivierge
I can attest that I've had a few CER's sent in and the dev team has contacted me about it. They are definitely taking them seriously. Eric Thivierge http://www.ethivierge.com On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 6:17 PM, Chris Chia chris.c...@autodesk.com wrote:

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-09-08 Thread Steven Caron
thanks, its logged using my work email. Render Region is lost after save scene or open file dialog i mention it in the report, you dont even need to save the scene, just open a file dialog (save as, open, merge, etc) s On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Chris Chia chris.c...@autodesk.com wrote:

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-09-07 Thread Chris Chia
...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Rob Chapman Sent: Friday, August 31, 2012 5:46 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.commailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Small Annoying Things having a path input for compounds that contain 'cache on file' nodes attachment: winmail.dat

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-09-07 Thread Steven Caron
when a region is set to use pass render options, and you choose the 'options' from the drop down, could we inspect the pass render options and not just a property page that says 'Use Current Pass Options'!? s On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Steven Caron car...@gmail.com wrote: but my sessions

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-09-06 Thread Peter Agg
[ softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] on behalf of Alan Fregtman [ alan.fregt...@gmail.com] *Sent:* 05 September 2012 18:57 *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Re: Small Annoying Things One more thing, irrelevant to the PyQt discussion but relevant to the thread

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-09-06 Thread Stephen Blair
CTRL+Y did work when I tried. But maybe it's like CTRL+C and CTRL+V, which work, except when they don't. I think maybe using the right-click menu will sometimes kickstart the keyboard shortcuts back into working...I'll try to remember and check next time it happens On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 12:38

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-09-06 Thread David Barosin
Thanks Stephen. I cleared my user preferences and it seems to have come back. I had my prefs on so many machines it seemed like the norm :P Cheers, -Dave On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 6:28 AM, Stephen Blair stephenrbl...@gmail.comwrote: CTRL+Y did work when I tried. But maybe it's like CTRL+C

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-09-06 Thread Eugen Sares
- In perspective/user view, Isopoint selection is jumpy and almost unusable, because the selection tolerance is zero. You have to hover exactly over the curve to place the Isopoint. In ortho views, it works conveniently. Also, after task switching, snapping seems to somehow hang - although it

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-09-06 Thread Greg Punchatz
This little guy is really annoying http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080330011925/starwars/images/a/a9/Crumb_btm.jpg

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-09-05 Thread Alan Fregtman
One more thing, irrelevant to the PyQt discussion but relevant to the thread: - dragging a long list of objects to another (to reparent) in the Explorer results in individual CopyPaste() commands for each object which is crazy slow compared to a single ParentObj() command if I were to use the

RE: Small Annoying Things

2012-09-05 Thread Sandy Sutherland
...@listproc.autodesk.com [softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] on behalf of Alan Fregtman [alan.fregt...@gmail.com] Sent: 05 September 2012 18:57 To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Small Annoying Things One more thing, irrelevant to the PyQt discussion but relevant to the thread

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-09-04 Thread Stefan Kubicek
Nice thread! Below are some points I could not find covered in any other post above. They're neither sorted by severity or topic and I hope I haven't listed any duplicates. Thanks Matt for your comprehensive list, +1 on all of your points, you saved me from typing a lot more than I ended up

RE: Small Annoying Things

2012-09-04 Thread Matt Lind
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 8:57 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Small Annoying Things Nice thread! Below are some points I could not find covered in any other post above. They're neither sorted by severity or topic and I hope I haven't listed any duplicates. Thanks Matt

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-09-03 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
I didn't mention that yes, indeed, you could just make python bindings to the c++ sdk, because the ideal scenario is to have it works through the standard scripting interface. That way the history log would work, the ppg logic, and the script remain compatible. Marc Andre did toy around with the

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-09-03 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
It's the same idea I toyed with (including using boost, and had a brief and disgusting venture into SWIG territory too), while a bit above my par, I might have pulled together the education and learning needed to do it over some time, but the initial effort to get anything going was well above

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-09-03 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
Which is ironic. MEL and their first python implementation were so FUBAR that they could just do (buy, really) what needed doing by introducing a completely separate way of working. They had no object orientation or coherence worth speaking of outside of the cpp API before then, so even with all

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-09-03 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
Agreed on all accounts, but that's a shortcoming of the API's design and a show of its age in some regards, not a flaw in the idea, given the material they worked with it's actually more than ok, especially when compared to the way things were before. And practically anything beats by a mile the

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-09-02 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
All it would take is some proper python bindings of the cpp API. It could easily be done outside of mainwin as the cpp API was done a while ago diverging from the silly COM business which mainwin helps taking care of. It'd probably turn out better than stff like pyMEL (which has a similar

RE: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-31 Thread Chris Chia
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Small Annoying Things Wait, can I call mysterious segmentation faults on Linux a 'small annoying thing'? attachment: winmail.dat

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-31 Thread Rob Chapman
having a path input for compounds that contain 'cache on file' nodes

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-31 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Xavier Lapointe xl.mailingl...@gmail.com wrote: So Luc-Eric, that means that we are stuck pretty much for ever and ever on Python2.5 unless the new team rewrite Soft and get rid of Mainwin (... seems unlikely.)? Nope, it's possible to update python without

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-30 Thread Eric Thivierge
:* Wednesday, August 29, 2012 5:44 PM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Re: Small Annoying Things ** ** When using the Pick button on a get data node, it doesn't default to using self. or this_model. for the reference path

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-30 Thread Chris Chia
I don't understand. You can't get Linux Python to work? Chris On 30 Aug, 2012, at 11:50 PM, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.commailto:alan.fregt...@gmail.com wrote: Not being able to use the system Python is a little annoying too. In Linux we're stuck in Py2.5 because only the built-in

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-30 Thread Xavier Lapointe
So Luc-Eric, that means that we are stuck pretty much for ever and ever on Python2.5 unless the new team rewrite Soft and get rid of Mainwin (... seems unlikely.)?

RE: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-30 Thread Sven Constable
: Re: Small Annoying Things another one...and I do like that term, Mental Delay MR only uses 1 core to calculate FG points (in rendermap anyway) doing a 4k rendermap with FG just took me 8 hours...to calculate the FG..11 cores sitting idle On Friday, August 31, 2012, Luc-Eric Rousseau wrote

RE: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-30 Thread James De Colling
*Subject:* Re: Small Annoying Things ** ** another one...and I do like that term, Mental Delay ** ** MR only uses 1 core to calculate FG points (in rendermap anyway) doing a 4k rendermap with FG just took me 8 hours...to calculate the FG..11 cores sitting idle On Friday, August 31

RE: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-30 Thread Matt Lind
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Small Annoying Things ok, normal render uses 100% cpu for FG point calculation, rendermap only uses 1 thread. (I tried the refinement passes option, to no avail) can anyone else confirm? Cheers, james, On Friday, August 31, 2012, James De Colling wrote

RE: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-29 Thread Matt Lind
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Small Annoying Things When using the Pick button on a get data node, it doesn't default to using self. or this_model. for the reference path. Eric Thivierge http://www.ethivierge.com

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-28 Thread Peter Agg
Yeah, dispatch creep does make every update a bit tedious. Though in terms of scripting I find the times where a second attempt or print statement actually fixes something to be the most worrying! On 28 August 2012 06:13, Xavier Lapointe xl.mailingl...@gmail.com wrote: Dispatch Issue in

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-28 Thread Ciaran Moloney
Wait, can I call mysterious segmentation faults on Linux a 'small annoying thing'?

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-28 Thread Dan Yargici
Again, +1! Sent from my phone... On 28 Aug 2012 18:37, Toonafish ron...@toonafish.nl wrote: Another thing I just noticed is that Match All Transforms does not take ChildComp setting into account. All children move with the parent when the parents transforms are matched with another

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-27 Thread Xavier Lapointe
Dispatch Issue in Python :) This is __super__ annoying.

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-26 Thread Eugen Sares
In the Explorer context menu on a Render Pass, Duplicate is missing. Must be called via Render Pass Edit Duplicate. Small annoying thing...

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-26 Thread Orlando Esponda
In the Explorer context menu on a Render Pass, Duplicate is missing. Must be called via Render Pass Edit Duplicate. Small annoying thing... ...or just select it (Explorer View) and use Ctrl+D.I think it's even faster than using a context menu. -- -- IMPRESSUM: PiXABLE STUDIOS GmbH

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-26 Thread Eugen Sares
Thanks, good tip. Anyway, there's always a workaround, is it not. If a menu is useless, ditch it. If not, make it complete. Am 26.08.2012 20:15, schrieb Orlando Esponda: In the Explorer context menu on a Render Pass, Duplicate is missing. Must be called via Render Pass Edit

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-26 Thread Steven Caron
just to add some context... the duplicate pass menu item was added because Ctrl+D can break the pass. on one of my first jobs users were duplicating passes and they wouldn't appear. through scripting they were there but not in the explorer. after some research we found that if the duplicate

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-26 Thread Steven Caron
an image clip should always show the source! often i will click the 'plug' icon when navigating a material's render tree. i will navigate down to the image node then the clip and i dont see the source. s

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-25 Thread Peter Agg
Talking of symmetry mode: it would be nice if you didn't have to be at zero for it to work - I know there's a menu, but it doesn't seem to actually do anything! There's also an odd one where symmetry mode seems to turn off the ability to move things in global space using the right-hand side bar!

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-25 Thread Ciaran Moloney
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Peter Agg peter@googlemail.com wrote: Talking of symmetry mode: it would be nice if you didn't have to be at zero for it to work - I know there's a menu, but it doesn't seem to actually do anything! This works as expected here.

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-24 Thread Eugen Sares
Hi, here's a small bug regarding PPGs: - open some PPG - RMB on the property name, Display as list - RMB on the property name, Refresh - the list sectors disappear, except the first. You have to choose Display as Tab Deck to make it display correctly again. Best, Eugen

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-24 Thread Eugen Sares
I used it to compare/copy params from one shader to another, side-by-side, and for screenshots showing everything at one glance. A rare case maybe. Besides, if the list header bars were a bit more pronounced in the colour or size, it would probably be used more often. Thanks, Eugen Am

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-24 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
I think this Display as List is a pre-XSI 1.0 experiment we forgot to remove after the developer left. There is an almost impossible to find Tab-Style Property Editors user preference option that's been a little more popular in some crowds On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Eugen Sares

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-24 Thread Alan Fregtman
An animator pointed out to me today that even after turning AutoKey Modified Parameters Only OFF in the Preferences (Animation), autokey still won't follow the chosen keying mode, for example Key All Keyable. (Bug?) On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Luc-Eric Rousseau luceri...@gmail.comwrote:

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-24 Thread Peter Agg
I still get annoyed every time I go to add a ICETree to the object I'm working on, only to create on on some random object I had selected. I can't even select the object inside the ICETree view either. :( On 24 August 2012 18:07, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.com wrote: An animator pointed

RE: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-24 Thread Matt Lind
AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Small Annoying Things I think this Display as List is a pre-XSI 1.0 experiment we forgot to remove after the developer left. There is an almost impossible to find Tab-Style Property Editors user preference option that's been a little more

RE: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-24 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
[mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Luc-Eric Rousseau Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 9:24 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Small Annoying Things I think this Display as List is a pre-XSI 1.0 experiment we forgot to remove after the developer left

RE: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-24 Thread Grahame Fuller
...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Matt Lind Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 01:26 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: RE: Small Annoying Things If Display as List was supposed to be removed, then why is it the default behavior out of the box? Matt -Original Message- From: softimage-boun

RE: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-24 Thread Matt Lind
...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Luc-Eric Rousseau Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 10:33 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: RE: Small Annoying Things Display As List is not the default, try it. On Aug 24, 2012 1:27 PM, Matt Lind ml...@carbinestudios.commailto:ml...@carbinestudios.com

RE: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-21 Thread Szabolcs Matefy
@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Small Annoying Things In that case it would be cool if the Right-Click Explorer menu would allow for muting the Operator/Compound if it has a Mute Parameter. I forgot one very important annoying thing: 51) ICE Trees should show up in a PPG just like other operators

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-21 Thread Chris Chia
[mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Stefan Kubicek Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 9:27 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Small Annoying Things In that case it would be cool if the Right-Click Explorer menu would allow for muting the Operator

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-21 Thread Chris Chia
...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Paul Griswold Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 9:09 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.commailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Small Annoying Things Is the new dev team making a list out of this? This list is gold. I'd absolutely love to see

RE: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-21 Thread Matt Lind
What slider issue? -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Chris Chia Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 4:32 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Small Annoying Things I meant

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-21 Thread Nic Groot Bluemink
: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Chris Chia Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 4:32 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Small Annoying Things I meant for the slider issue ;) Chris On 21 Aug, 2012, at 7:30 PM

RE: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-21 Thread Matt Lind
[mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Nic Groot Bluemink Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 10:54 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Small Annoying Things Has someone mentioned a gradient shader with more than 8 color inputs yet? If we can pretend it's a small issue

RE: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-20 Thread Juan Brockhaus
Jahnel Sent: 20 August 2012 09:29 To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Small Annoying Things I just export my preferences and re-import for a new installation or user profile...right click on the preferences and export, I know it doesnt really export all preferences like e.g

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-20 Thread Alan Fregtman
Yes. I was referring to how preferences are only saved on a successful clean quit of SI, not on closing the Preferences window. Therefore, if you crash, your changes aren't saved. (I do believe there is a SavePreferences() command or something like that though.) On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 10:45 AM,

RE: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-20 Thread Stephen Blair
http://xsisupport.com/2011/11/22/adding-a-button-to-save-preference-changes/ From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Alan Fregtman Sent: August-20-12 10:51 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Small Annoying

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-20 Thread Len Krenzler
One more that's extremely annoying. No color management in the viewport modes except for HQVP. If we have it on HQ why not the others? Can't be that hard. -- _ Len Krenzler - Creative Control Media Productions Phone: 780.463.3126

RE: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-20 Thread Matt Lind
] On Behalf Of Eugen Sares Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2012 12:52 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Small Annoying Things Impressive! Generally, for my part, I would love to see SI first and foremost evolve in this directions: - extensibility - customizability - consolidation

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-20 Thread Stefan Kubicek
to access a parameter to tweak. Matt From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Eugen Sares Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2012 12:52 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Small Annoying Things Impressive! Generally

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-19 Thread Eugen Sares
One more... - Preference to set the number of decimal places displayed in a PPG. I know SI remembers the correct floating point number entered, but it would be cool if it could also display it correctly. Stumbled across this trying to set VRay shadow bias, which needs to be rather small here.

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-19 Thread phil harbath
I find that when there is a point cloud with a heavy instance shape node attached, viewport interactivity takes a major hit even with the point cloud and shapes hidden. It is so bad I can't interactively create curves, however (again the point clouds and shapes models are hidden) if i detach

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-19 Thread Alan Fregtman
Another thing... How about a goddamn Save Preferences button? I know there's a command for it. So many times I've set preferences on a fresh install, worked a few hours, crashed, and my preferences had not been saved! :/ On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Eugen Sares softim...@keyvis.at wrote:

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-19 Thread Simon Anderson
Shape Editor and weight editor, weight editor they have updated, but i find if the value of a weight goes to 0 you cant update it after, also theres no smoothing(button smoothing) The shape manager shivers down my back.. On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 6:25 AM, phil harbath

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-18 Thread Ciaran Moloney
I'd rather it didn't do that to be honest. On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Eugen Sares softim...@keyvis.at wrote: Am 17.08.2012 15:42, schrieb Jeff McFall: If the render tree window is open and one assigns a new material to the selected object the window does not automatically refresh to

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-18 Thread Eugen Sares
As always, when people have different needs - checkbox in the RT preferences. Am 18.08.2012 08:17, schrieb Ciaran Moloney: I'd rather it didn't do that to be honest. On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Eugen Sares softim...@keyvis.at mailto:softim...@keyvis.at wrote: Am 17.08.2012

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-18 Thread Steven Caron
whats the behavior for two RT views open? lets say i have one open, locked, for reference. does that refresh? *written with my thumbs On Aug 18, 2012, at 12:03 AM, Eugen Sares softim...@keyvis.at wrote: As always, when people have different needs - checkbox in the RT preferences. Am

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-18 Thread Ciaran Moloney
I think you could easily script this behaviour. Since RT refreshing is based on selection only, you could have the new material automatically selected after creation using an EndCommand event. If the RT is not locked it will then update. Also, a bit harsh to describe it as a bug (we have enough

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-18 Thread Eugen Sares
...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Paul Griswold *Sent:* Friday, August 17, 2012 9:09 AM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Re: Small Annoying Things Is the new dev team making a list out of this? This list is gold. I'd

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-18 Thread Adam Sale
...@listproc.autodesk.comsoftimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Paul Griswold *Sent:* Friday, August 17, 2012 9:09 AM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Re: Small Annoying Things ** ** Is the new dev team making a list out of this? This list is gold. I'd

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-17 Thread Matt Lowery
One more thing, the inconsistent file browsers. The windows 7 file browser often seems to be standard browser for functions inside softimage. ( browsing to the out put path of a cache for example.) It would be better if all the file browsers were the standard xsi browser. On 17/08/2012

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-17 Thread Eugen Sares
Am 17.08.2012 12:48, schrieb Matt Lowery: I find the fact that Softimage often makes me doubt my own sanity by saying that the scene I'm about to close has never been saved, even though I saved it just two clicks earlier. Also having just launched Softimage, and gone to the file menu to open

RE: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-17 Thread Sandy Sutherland
...@listproc.autodesk.com [softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] on behalf of Eugen Sares [softim...@keyvis.at] Sent: 17 August 2012 15:03 To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Small Annoying Things Am 17.08.2012 12:48, schrieb Matt Lowery: I find the fact that Softimage often makes me doubt my own

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-17 Thread Toonafish
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Matt Lowery ma...@glassworks.co.uk wrote: One more thing, the inconsistent file browsers. The windows 7 file browser often seems to be standard browser for functions inside softimage. ( browsing to the out put path of a cache for example.) It would be better

RE: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-17 Thread Jeff McFall
If the render tree window is open and one assigns a new material to the selected object the window does not automatically refresh to show the new material Not sure if this is intent or not but I often end up changing the wrong material because I expected my new material to be there everything

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-17 Thread James De Colling
autosave resets the render in progress in the render region, not a big deal, but its annoying when it happens james, On Friday, August 17, 2012, Jeff McFall wrote: If the render tree window is open and one assigns a new material to the selected object the window does not automatically refresh

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-17 Thread Eugen Sares
Am 17.08.2012 15:42, schrieb Jeff McFall: If the render tree window is open and one assigns a new material to the selected object the window does not automatically refresh to show the new material Not sure if this is intent or not but I often end up changing the wrong material because I

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-17 Thread Paul Griswold
Is the new dev team making a list out of this? This list is gold. I'd absolutely love to see this kind of stuff addressed in 2014. -Paul On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Eugen Sares softim...@keyvis.at wrote: Am 17.08.2012 15:42, schrieb Jeff McFall: If the render tree window is open and

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-17 Thread Andy Moorer
We have a pretty nice stereo camera but can't capture right and left eyes for stereo captures, necessitating creating duplicate constrained cameras for L and R eyes solely for capture/playblasts. Sent from my iPad On Aug 16, 2012, at 8:41 AM, Eugen Sares softim...@keyvis.at wrote: Hi list,

RE: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-17 Thread Matt Lind
-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Paul Griswold Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 9:09 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Small Annoying Things Is the new dev team making a list out of this? This list is gold. I'd absolutely

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-16 Thread James De Colling
i'll add a few - texture editor - why is it proportional settings are so small for this? repeat key doesnt work clip-grid properties are in preferences...at least make a dropdown/slider in the toolbar (cant change colors either) default clip display res is 256x256...

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-16 Thread Xavier Lapointe
Meh .. - Expose a Color object in scripting so we don't have to create a light, and query the OGLLight ... this is really annoying. - Fix the Copy/Paste in Linux(!?!) - Euler filter (that works) in the Animation Editor I'm sure there are many little things here and there but .. this

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-16 Thread Toonafish
Oeh, let me add a few as well: - Raycast / no raycast toggle only works for default rectangle selection tool. Would be swell if all other selection tools would support this too, at the moment they are all only ray-cast, which renders them almost useless in most cases. - Hidden components should

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-16 Thread Votch
This same behavior with modal windows happens in win7 as well and can be very frustrating. On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 8:05 AM, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.comwrote: In Linux modal XSI windows aren't quite modal... You can accidentally click behind them and lose focus, wondering why XSI is

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-16 Thread Eugen Sares
- File dialog: Would be nice if renaming was possible. A list of available harddrives is missing. Could be a dropdown menu, or a separate, always visible part of the folder tree (the shortcuts button is more like a workaround for this). Am 16.08.2012 23:31, schrieb Votch: This same behavior