python trademark at risk in europe
Hi I don't mean to mail un-softimage-related information but since Python is supported by softimage (and most of the other packages in the CG industry) I though this was worth a mention: "For anyone who works in a company that has an office in a EU Community member state, we need your help. There is a company in the UK that is trying to trademark the use of the term "Python" for all software, services, servers... pretty much anything having to do with a computer" ... http://pyfound.blogspot.ca/2013/02/python-trademark-at-risk-in-europe-we.html It'd probably be much cheaper for all the U.K divisions of the various companies that make use of python to team up and fight this with the python guys, rather than have to change the "python" trademark to whatever else just because some other company managed to copywrite it. -- Kind Regards, Jared Glass | Technical Lead
Re: Getting Vertex positions from a Hair primitive with python
Sorry I should have been clearer that I
wanted to get the vertex position off the actual render hairs
(which appears can only be done with c++ and the
GetRenderHairAccessor function).
So I'll try acheive a similar effect by getting the guide hairs
with the "activeprimitive.geometry.points.positionarray" Alok
mentioned (which wasn't off at all ;) and the code from Stephen's
Link looks very useful for this purpose.
Thanks Alok and Stephen.
On 2012/12/04 12:55 PM, Stephen Blair wrote:
This may help:
http://softimage.wiki.softimage.com/index.php?title=Hair_%28XSISDK%29
On 04/12/2012 3:15 AM, Alok Gandhi wrote:
Ofcourse this is possible. I am not near a machine, but you
can find it through
activeprimitive.geometry.points.positionarray.
I may be a little bit off on this but it is something like
that.
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wrote:
Hi
Can anyone share the method to accomplish this (if it's even
possible :p ) please?
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Re: Python equivalent of C++'s GetRenderHairAccessor
As Xavier said it appears you cannot access the actual render hairs to retrieve their data via python. The geomerty.points.positionarray returns guide hairs which aren't really what I'm after but might I may be able to acheive a similar effect using those instead of the render hairs so will try that. Thanks Xavier and everyone else for all the help :) On 2012/12/03 12:33 PM, Xavier Lapointe wrote: Maybe by inspecting the hair.GetActivePrimitive2() you could find something, but I doubt it (and I can't test it since I don't have XSI at home). GetRenderHairAccessor return aCRenderHairAccessor object which I would be surprised if it would be COM compliant (for lack of a better word, just saying I don't know how it would be possible to return it to python via a custom command). But while I'm typing these lines, it seems like the object model has something calledsiRenderHairAccessorID ... might worth investigating. good luck On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 9:17 PM, Simon Anderson simonbenandersonl...@gmail.com wrote: Why you no use ice! XD haha.. jokes aside, what you trying to achieve, havent looked at soft hair in a long time. On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 6:01 PM, Jared jared.gl...@triggerfish.co.za wrote: RenderHairAccessor -- --- Simon Ben Anderson blog: http://vinyldevelopment.wordpress.com/ -- Xavier -- Kind Regards, Jared Glass | Technical Lead
Getting Vertex positions from a Hair primitive with python
Hi Can anyone share the method to accomplish this (if it's even possible :p ) please? -- Kind Regards, Jared Glass | Technical Lead
Python equivalent of C++'s GetRenderHairAccessor
Hi ...and Happy Monday :p I'm doing some work with Xsi's hair in python and have hit a wall. Does anyone know if it is possible to access the RenderHairAccessor of a Hair Primitive via python and if so, how? -- Kind Regards, Jared Glass | Technical Lead
Python and PyQt for Softimage - Beginner to Advanced Lessons
Hi A while back I had to train up some guys in python for Xsi who were interning from a local university. Also quite a few of my colleagues have shown interest in scripting/programming in Softimage so I put together some short and simple lessons. Ranging from the very basics (Turning echoed commands into buttons, etc) to relatively advanced (PyQt, Classes etc) stuff with quite a few examples. I've tried to keep it as practicle as possible so that people don't experience the problem of learning things they're "never" going to use. If you want to check it out see - http://codingforxsi.wordpress.com/category/start-here/ I hope this proves useful to some of the Xsi users out there ;) -- Kind Regards, Jared Glass | Technical Lead
Storing a variable within the softimage application
Hi I need to store a vairable created by a plugin and then access it later on from a different plugin. For individual plugins I know you can keep variables in the plugin's UserData. Is there something like this say maybe like Application.Data? Or any other ideas? -- Kind Regards, Jared Glass mailto:jared.gl...@triggerfish.co.za | Technical Lead Triggerfish Animation Studios http://www.triggerfish.co.za Zambezia Movie http://www.zambeziamovie.com/ | Khumba Movie http://www.triggerfish.co.za/khumba/
QtSoftimage - Access a PyQt dialog from another plugin
Hi Is it possible to create a PyQt dialog within one plugin and then later access that exact same dialog (if still running) from another plugin? I've sent out another email trying to see if there is a way for me to store the dialog in a variable within xsi and call the variable to get the dialog back later on but is there somewhere within xsi I can search for the running PyQt dialog? -- Kind Regards, Jared Glass mailto:jared.gl...@triggerfish.co.za | Technical Lead Triggerfish Animation Studios http://www.triggerfish.co.za Zambezia Movie http://www.zambeziamovie.com/ | Khumba Movie http://www.triggerfish.co.za/khumba/
Re: Get objects visible by camera
Thanks Brent.
On 2012/06/12 12:39 PM, Brent McPherson wrote:
Hi Jared,
I can think of one easy way to do this with the tool SDK.
The tool can call Pick using rectangle raycast to quickly get a list
of objects (or components) that are visible in the view.
Of course, this would require you to use a tool but you could have the
tool exit after it builds the list.
The PickTestTool example that ships with Softimage is a good place to
start and here is the code to pick everything visible in the view
using rectangle raycast:
CRefArray visible;
CLongArray l_points;
LONG x, y, width, height;
CStatus GetViewport( x, y, width, height );
l_points.Add( x );
l_points.Add( y );
l_points.Add( x + width );
l_points.Add( y + height );
in_ctxt.Pick( l_points,
siPickMultipleObjects,siPickRectangleRaycast, L, CRefArray(), visible );
if ( visible.GetCount() 0 ) {
// etc...
Hope this helps.
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Glass
*Sent:* 12 June 2012 08:02
*To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
*Subject:* Get objects visible by camera
Hi
I know this may be a bit ambitious but I am looking for a way to get
all the objects or a count of faces visible by the camera. I don't
want all the objects within the camera's near and far clip planes
because some objects may not be visible due to being behind other
objects and therefore will not contribute to render times. I've done a
bit of research and so far the simplest solution looks like I'd need
to write my own simple ray-tracer which emits rays from the camera and
then returns the objects that the rays hit...though I must admit with
my current programming and xsi knowledge this is a bit over my head
(for now ;)
Can anyone point me in the right direction, or does someone have any
idea how I could acheive this please?
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Re: Merging Scene Fixes qtSoftimage plugin error why?
Yeah, sorry Eric I did mean Pyqt not quicktime. And Steven, when the plugin gives errors I mean that the command Application.getQtSoftimageAnchor() gives an error so your example plugins don't work either. Im not at all saying its the plugins fault but I am wondering what could cause this to happen to any softimage plugin. As Sandy said, there are greater forces at work here, lol. I'm trying to find out what could be causing them and how to prevent them. On 2012/05/18 08:25 AM, Sandy Sutherland wrote: Steven I saw you mentioned it does not persist any data - BUT we have had some wierd stuff go down here, including scenes that completely lose render options. You could render a region, but try and render the scene either preview or proper and you get script errors all over the place. Also scenes that crash on the farm AND the batch crash on local machines first time, then if you just leave them they suddenly work fine. There are greater forces at work here [tongue in cheek] S. _ Sandy Sutherland Technical Supervisor sandy.sutherl...@triggerfish.co.za _ *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] on behalf of Steven Caron [car...@gmail.com] *Sent:* 18 May 2012 08:02 *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Re: Merging Scene Fixes qtSoftimage plugin error why? as i said, the plugin does not depend on any data persisted in a scene. if the example plugins run without issue then its not the plugin's fault but the gui/app they are trying to run. s On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Sandy Sutherland sandy.sutherl...@triggerfish.co.za mailto:sandy.sutherl...@triggerfish.co.za wrote: Maybe there is something in the scene data that Qt uses/needs? And that data is fubar in that scene at scene level. S. _ Sandy Sutherland Technical Supervisor sandy.sutherl...@triggerfish.co.za mailto:sandy.sutherl...@triggerfish.co.za _ *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] on behalf of Eric Turman [i.anima...@gmail.com mailto:i.anima...@gmail.com] *Sent:* 17 May 2012 22:07 *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Re: Merging Scene Fixes qtSoftimage plugin error why? Did this scenes happen to originate in an older version of Softimage where QuickTime wasn't supported by 64 bit? On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Jared Glass jared.gl...@triggerfish.co.za mailto:jared.gl...@triggerfish.co.za wrote: Hi Steven and Jo A few days back I had to open an animators scene to do some tests and for some reason the qtSoftimage plugin just wouldn't work at all. Xsi would load the scene and it would automatically report that COM Error: Out of present range. (0x-7ffdfff6) error. Luckily this doesn't happen too often anymore, but with this specific scene no matter how many times I closed and reopened it, not once did the plugin work. BUT...when I merged it into a new scene all of a sudden the plugin started working again, without any issues. This new merged scene I have opened and closed several times just to make sure this isn't random and so far the plugin has been absolutely fine. My question to you is do you have any idea as to why this could happen? And to the rest of the list; does anyone know what is stored in an xsi scene that gets lost when the scene is merged that could cause conflicts/errors? Thanks for all the help so far :) -- Kind Regards, Jared Glass mailto:jared.gl...@triggerfish.co.za | Technical Lead Triggerfish Animation Studios http://www.triggerfish.co.za Zambezia Movie http://www.zambeziamovie.com/ | Khumba Movie http://www.triggerfish.co.za/khumba/ -- -=T=-
Merging Scene Fixes qtSoftimage plugin error why?
Hi Steven and Jo A few days back I had to open an animators scene to do some tests and for some reason the qtSoftimage plugin just wouldn't work at all. Xsi would load the scene and it would automatically report that COM Error: Out of present range. (0x-7ffdfff6) error. Luckily this doesn't happen too often anymore, but with this specific scene no matter how many times I closed and reopened it, not once did the plugin work. BUT...when I merged it into a new scene all of a sudden the plugin started working again, without any issues. This new merged scene I have opened and closed several times just to make sure this isn't random and so far the plugin has been absolutely fine. My question to you is do you have any idea as to why this could happen? And to the rest of the list; does anyone know what is stored in an xsi scene that gets lost when the scene is merged that could cause conflicts/errors? Thanks for all the help so far :) -- Kind Regards, Jared Glass mailto:jared.gl...@triggerfish.co.za | Technical Lead Triggerfish Animation Studios http://www.triggerfish.co.za Zambezia Movie http://www.zambeziamovie.com/ | Khumba Movie http://www.triggerfish.co.za/khumba/
Re: OT : Recommend Mailing List that about VFX Compositing.
If you are looking more into the technical side of nuke, there are also http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-dev http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-python but the nukepedia website (www.nukepedia.com) is also a great resource of plugins, tutorials etc. Are you looking for anything specific? -- Kind Regards, Jared Glass mailto:jared.gl...@triggerfish.co.za | Technical Lead Triggerfish Animation Studios http://www.triggerfish.co.za Zambezia Movie http://www.zambeziamovie.com/ | Khumba Movie http://www.triggerfish.co.za/khumba/ On 2012/05/08 10:23 PM, Francois Lord wrote: The Nuke mailing list. http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users On 08/05/2012 01:17, Byungchul Kang wrote: Do you know Mailing List for VFX Compositing? Pls, Let me know. -- *Byungchul Kang* | MBC CG TEAM [http://imbc.com] http://cgndev.com http://www.triggerfish.co.za/khumba/
Re: PyQt For Softimage - COM Error: Out of present range. (0x-7ffdfff6)
Thanks Steven and Jo Steven: It appears that when I grossly simplify the workgroup, some of the plugins that were crashing before are now stable. I just removed a few toolbars and many commands. I don't know if it is possible for a line of code in one of the plugins to cause the getQtSoftimageAnchor command to error suddenly but it does not seem like it happens after a specific plugin is run. Jo: I don't know exactly how to go about getting the address but by running the following statement in the script editor print id(Application.getQtSoftimageAnchor()) When connected to a simplified workgroup where the qt plugin runs perfectly I get a number like: 5329276408 but on the workgroup with all the plugins where the qt plugin is unstable I get a number like: 2204642632 these numbers change with each new print but if I run just print Application.getQtSoftimageAnchor() working workgroup: 1011313040 broken workgroup: 597175648 Of course when attempting print id(Application.getQtSoftimageAnchor()) once the command has started to throw errors returns: # ERROR : Traceback (most recent call last): # File Script Block , line 1, in module # print id(Application.getQtSoftimageAnchor()) # File COMObject Application, line 2, in getQtSoftimageAnchor # COM Error: Out of present range. (0x-7ffdfff6) - [line 1] -- Kind Regards, Jared Glass mailto:jared.gl...@triggerfish.co.za | Technical Lead Triggerfish Animation Studios http://www.triggerfish.co.za Zambezia Movie http://www.zambeziamovie.com/ | Khumba Movie http://www.triggerfish.co.za/khumba/
