Re: Beginners Guide to Python

2012-05-07 Thread Andy Moorer
I was lucky enough to take Raff's workshop back when, and I highly recommend it. It's fantastic to hear it's going to be available soon. Sent from my iPad On May 1, 2012, at 10:24 PM, Raffaele Fragapane raffsxsil...@googlemail.com wrote: If you can hang in there for a month or so, some time

Re: PyQt For Softimage

2012-05-07 Thread Enrique Caballero
Just bringing this thread back to life. We are getting more into using PYQT here and I am looking into completely replacing synoptics and use PYQT instead. I was hoping somebody could help me figure out how to get information from XSI sent to PYQT currently everything that I have done has been

Re: [ICE] curve manipulation issues

2012-05-07 Thread Martin Chatterjee
Hey Sebastian, hey Chris, awesome, both solutions work perfectly - cheers for that! :-) Wasn't aware at all of both *Get Element Index* and *Build Array From Set. * Thanks again, Martin -- Martin Chatterjee [ Freelance Technical Director ] [http://www.chatterjee.de] On Mon,

Re: PyQt For Softimage

2012-05-07 Thread Stefan Kubicek
I'm just diving into it as well, but the way I'd do it is to implement a siOnTimeChange event that either calls a function in your UI (or menu) to update it's parameters, or, if you want the UI to respond to value changes happening without the time slider being moved (somebody changes a

Re: [ICE] curve manipulation issues

2012-05-07 Thread Martin Chatterjee
Hi Chris, well, I don't want to be a pain - but I've used Get Closest Points quite often and very successfully with both PointClouds and PolyMeshes. I mis-used it to get an array of all Point Locations in the per-object context (as I didn't know Build Array From Set ... :-/ ) This node works

Re: [ICE] curve manipulation issues

2012-05-07 Thread Chris Chia
Hi Martin, I will bring this up to the development team to see how it should support with the curves. I will handle the filing of defects. If you ever find any defects in the future, you can report it here in this mailing list. Cheers. Regards, Chris Chia On 7 May, 2012, at 9:46 PM, Martin

Re: [ICE] curve manipulation issues

2012-05-07 Thread Martin Chatterjee
Excellent, thanks Chris. Cheers, Martin -- Martin Chatterjee [ Freelance Technical Director ] [http://www.chatterjee.de] On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Chris Chia chris.c...@autodesk.com wrote: Hi Martin, I will bring this up to the development team to see how it should

Re: Getting the objects to which a material was assigned in siOnEndCommand

2012-05-07 Thread Nicolas Burtnyk
XSI already takes care of telling my renderer when we need to render. That includes preview renders, region renders and batch renders for animation. These all happen using the same mechanism - by calling the custom renderer Process callback. Since all these types of rendering are handled by a

Re: PyQt For Softimage

2012-05-07 Thread jo benayoun
Hi Enrique, You can still (as suggested by Stefan) subscribe to the siOnValueChanged which will give you back a reference to the parameter to retrieve its new value. A good option would be to implement a custom engine. You can imagine a mechanism implemented in your main SynopticWidget which will

Re: Getting the objects to which a material was assigned in siOnEndCommand

2012-05-07 Thread Steven Caron
yes, we need improvements to the SDK to bring parity to the mental ray integration in regards to scene graph changes. On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Nicolas Burtnyk nico...@redshift3d.comwrote: It's absolutely essential for the system to not miss anything - a false negative will mean we're

Re: PyQt For Softimage

2012-05-07 Thread Steven Caron
hey enrique i have been meaning to create an example 'synoptic' but haven't had time. my current inspiration for a synoptic view is very similar to paolo's zvgui... http://www.paolodominici.com/products/zvgui/ there are a lot of fancy aspects to it, but i think the built in synoptic editor and

Species in NYC

2012-05-07 Thread Eric Thivierge
Hey everyone, Just wanted to drop a note that Chris Covelli and I will be in the city tomorrow doing some demos at some of the studios. We are planning to go out tomorrow night for a few drinks. We would love to see anyone who is around. Not sure where we are meeting for drinks yet but will post

Re: PyQtForSoftimage vs Blur-dev

2012-05-07 Thread jo benayoun
Hi Ana, Qt on windows relies on the win32 api as well as Softimage (MFC). As they share a common base, both are hackable. So, whatever the strategy that is used, it still remains the same ... hooking a widget into the main softimage app by going thru the win32 api. The only main difference I

Re: PyQtForSoftimage vs Blur-dev

2012-05-07 Thread Steven Caron
hey ana originally i planned on exposing blur's pyqt implementation and simplify it but its proved a lot harder (not impossible). then jo came along and showed us a much easier way to host a pyqt app inside softimage. so pyqtforsoftimage is a lot lighter than blur's implementation. the python key

OT: @ fmx

2012-05-07 Thread Thiago Costa
Hi fellows, I'm here in Germany. We'll be presenting a new project we are workinghttp://getteamup.comon at FMX. If you are around, please drop by at our Session on the 10th, or just drop me a line. Sorry for the plug, but I thought this might interest you. :) cheers, -Thiagoq

Re: OT: @ fmx

2012-05-07 Thread Paul Griswold
For those of us who can't make it, I hope you'll be sharing lots of details soon! Paul On May 7, 2012, at 7:57 PM, Thiago Costa thiagocost...@gmail.com wrote: Hi fellows, I'm here in Germany. We'll be presenting a new project we are workinghttp://getteamup.comon at FMX. If you are around,

Re: PyQtForSoftimage vs Blur-dev

2012-05-07 Thread Enrique Caballero
i was looking into implementing PYQT at our studio for a while. I used both blur and PYQT for softimage and in the end decided to go with PYQTforSoftimage because it is much lighter. As jo and steven said, the blurcore has a lot of overhead, and I did not want to bloat our pipeline with tools

RE: Why is Material::operator private?

2012-05-07 Thread Bosheng An
Hi Nicholas, My name is Bosheng and I am a developer from Softimage. Thank you for your statement here and your mention is true, but I think we designed these comparison logic purposely. We just defined our CRef and that way. I guess what you would like to do is twisting the predicate in

Re: OT: @ fmx

2012-05-07 Thread Steffen Dünner
Cool, I will be there :-) Cheers Steffen Sent from no IPhone Am 08.05.2012 01:57 schrieb Thiago Costa thiagocost...@gmail.com: Hi fellows, I'm here in Germany. We'll be presenting a new project we are workinghttp://getteamup.comon at FMX. If you are around, please drop by at our Session