RE: Ben Houston, Thiago Costa and great plugins

2012-07-07 Thread Sandy Sutherland
Hear hear - I fully agree with you Graham, we are deep in FURY land on Khumba - which is set in the Karoo - lots of dust and fire and smoke! Which we could not have done without Ben! S. _ Sandy Sutherland Technical Supervisor sandy.sutherl...@triggerfish.co.za

Two ways to dispatch Application - whats the difference?

2012-07-07 Thread Stefan Kubicek
It is common practice to dispatch the Application object before using it, but I noticed there are at least two different ways of doing it: 1.) from win32com.client import dynamic as d App = d.Dispatch ('XSI.Application') 2.) from win32com.client import Dispatch App =

Re: WHATTA HELL???????

2012-07-07 Thread peter_b
the real lesson to be learned here is that ultimately scenes are not to be trusted, so try and rely on them as little as possible . not an easy task, but there are some good habits that can go a long way in making this work for you. models (emdl) are your friend. a major part what you produce

Re: WHATTA HELL???????

2012-07-07 Thread Chris Chia
Hi Szabolcs, Try this: 1. Start xsi 2. Open render tree window 3. With the render tree window opened, open scene now See whether this helps. Chris On 7 Jul, 2012, at 5:16 PM, Szabolcs Matefy szabol...@crytek.com wrote: And it happened again. The scene was saved successfully, I was working on

Animation Clip and Daisy Chaining

2012-07-07 Thread Gustavo Eggert Boehs
The new *Get Action Source at Frame* is a very useful addition. Nonetheless I am having some trouble with it and wish to know if anyone has a good workaround for this. As stated in the docs (

Re: Animation Clip and Daisy Chaining

2012-07-07 Thread Guillaume Laforge
If I remember correctly you can daisy chain using Get Data node(s) for the names before the parameter you want. But for the parameter, you need to use the Get Action Source At Frame. I think there is an example of such setup in the stadium wave sample scene. Cheers, Guillaume On Sat, Jul 7,

Re: Softimage 2013 SDK Guide in CHM format

2012-07-07 Thread Simon Anderson
Awesome!! Thanks Stephen, the html online version really isn't as friendly as the older CHM versions. On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 10:30 AM, jo benayoun jobenay...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks you Stephen, that's greatly appreciated! -- Jo 2012/7/6 Mitchell Lotierzo mitchlotie...@gmail.com Thank you