Hi Jordi

Will definitely need to test this myself.  Which version are you  using? 8 or 9 
? We have an intro to 3D course (modelling , texturing, simple animation with a 
pre defined rig) which I was going to boot camp for. This may be an easier 
solution.






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From: Jordi Bares [jordiba...@gmail.com]
Sent: 21 January 2014 10:20 PM
To: David Rivera; softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: Re: Solutions for running softimage on a MAC Station?

It worked for me perfectly using Parallels, speed wise is perfect but there is 
one thing to take in account, you need more memory as you are holding both 
operating systems plus the software, render data, etc…

And two, you are sharing the memory card of your graphics card (you can 
fine-tune this) but I felt this was the key limiting factor for me, big big 
scenes overflow the 2Gb Graphcs card I have… :-P

Other than that it is actually extremely fun to virtualise Softimage, you can 
share data between systems, your devices (usb keys for example) are going to be 
piped wherever you want… etc… truly amazing.

And also you can make your mac video capture record your Softimage session and 
still the machine works perfectly so there is a lot of power under the bonet.

So, my conclusion is that if you are going to do power user work it is better 
to bootcamp as a solution, if you are doing production work but does not 
require massive amount of graphics card memory you are better of with Parallels.

hope that helps.

Jordi Bares
jordiba...@gmail.com<mailto:jordiba...@gmail.com>

On 21 Jan 2014, at 18:40, David Rivera 
<activemotionpictu...@yahoo.com<mailto:activemotionpictu...@yahoo.com>> wrote:

Hi list, I talked to an IT guy the other day.
He says that the MAC/WIN problem with softimage could be solved by virtualizing
the MAC so Softimage can run in it.

So I suggested that virtualization probably won´t take full advantage of the 
graphics
card (as it is only an emulator of a "safe" display for windows in any case).
So we agreed on making heavy-test-renders to see that point happen.

In any case, are there any other solutions to installing Softimage into Mac 
stations?
I´ve been googling and found no good - liable results.

If anyone on the list with experience on network rendering / installing shares
his/her experience on a softimage environment on MAC, would be greatly 
appreaciated.

Thanks.
Cheers.

David.


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