Disable and save scene. That's it. Is the property really is an infection?


On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 7:41 AM, Angus Davidson
<angus.david...@wits.ac.za>wrote:

>  Have to agree. For all the good that face robot can do. Especially with
> students who hit the incorrect buttons on occasions its a lifetime of grief
> trying to get rid of the damn thing. Face Robot should not have a default
> key binding. Plain and simple. Also when you deactivate face robot you
> should be given a prompt to remove the rest of its infection from the file.
>
>
>
>   From: "pete...@skynet.be" <pete...@skynet.be>
> Reply-To: "softimage@listproc.autodesk.com" <
> softimage@listproc.autodesk.com>
> Date: Monday 28 October 2013 at 12:13 PM
> To: "softimage@listproc.autodesk.com" <softimage@listproc.autodesk.com>
> Subject: Re: FaceRobot
>
>    given the insidious behaviour of FaceRobot, this should really be
> given some thought for the future.
>
> In every studio I went since FaceRobot exists, it has been perceived as
> something akin to a virus, spontaneously messing around and infiltrating
> production scenes. Every single production, some time is spent to keep it
> out reliably and do some housekeeping after it reared its ugly head. I
> think many people don’t want anything to do with it because of this. It’s
> the obnoxious child that everyone dislikes.
> Surely it could be taught more appropriate out of the box behaviour?
>
> I mean, if ICE was acting like that, people would be on the barricades,
> raiding what’s left of Softimage headquarters.
>
>
>  *From:* gareth bell <garethb...@outlook.com>
> *Sent:* Sunday, October 27, 2013 7:40 PM
> *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
> *Subject:* RE: FaceRobot
>
>  oh - and that can be scripted....
>
> Application.DisableFaceRobot()
>
>
>  ------------------------------
> From: garethb...@outlook.com
> To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
> Subject: RE: FaceRobot
> Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 18:20:06 +0000
>
> Yeah we've had this before. Normally just disabling facerobot (whilst
> switched to softimage layout) and then saving (probably a new version is
> safer) tends to get rid of it. Also try unloading it in your workgroups and
> deleting the custom property too.
>
>
>  ------------------------------
> Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 17:48:08 -0400
> Subject: Re: FaceRobot
> From: stephenrbl...@gmail.com
> To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
>
> Don't you have to disable Face Robot in the scene?
>
> http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=15241146&linkID=12544120
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Michael Heberlein <micheberl...@gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
> If deleting the property is enough, you could do this in an
> "siOnBeginSceneSave[As]" event.
> Am 26.10.2013 21:06 schrieb "Ognjen Vukovic" <ognj...@gmail.com>:
>
>  Hi Philipp,
>
>  Not having much luck, the number of scenes is already in the triple
> digits so maybe some automation would solve everything but i have to take
> into account that the deadline is in three days so i think it would be to
> risky
> now to try anything, i contemplated seriously deleting it from disk while
> the project was running but im going to wait a couple more days and nuke it
> from orbit the day we hand over the final.
>
>  Ogi.
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 8:47 PM, philipp seis <dpi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> hello Ognjen...yup thats nasty. Could you fix it already ? If not: We
> batched all infected scenes: opening it, disabling facerobot by deleting
> the facerobot custom property, saving and closing it. voila. I recall, that
> my first approach was also fiddeling with the workgroup, but with not much
> success. Good luck !
>
>
> 2013/10/26 Ognjen Vukovic <ognj...@gmail.com>
>
> I was considering it but we are in the middle of a project, what are the
> chances it will botch something up?
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 6:16 PM, Luc-Eric Rousseau <luceri...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> 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 in their scene and now it has reared its ugly
> tentacles into the whole project, literally every model, scene and project
> have been infected, in all this chaos i am sure i even saw it initialize
> once when someone opened up after effects...
>
>  Is there a way to exorcise face robot from this project without offering
> a sacrifice to Cthulhu?
>
>  Thanks in advance,
>  Ogi.
>
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