Re: Deltas and shader editing on referenced models

2012-08-21 Thread Orlando Esponda
I think it should work if your remove the changes from the deltas, just need to save and reopen the scene. Orlando. On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:16 AM, Nick Angus n...@altvfx.com wrote: Hi Folks, ** ** I am trying to get my head around reverting shaders after editing them in a shot

RE: Deltas and shader editing on referenced models

2012-08-21 Thread Nick Angus
Thanks Orlando, that seems to do the trick, strange that it can't be done interactively Cheers, Nick From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Orlando Esponda Sent: Tuesday, 21 August 2012 4:53 PM To:

RE: Deltas and shader editing on referenced models

2012-08-21 Thread Matt Lind
Why can't you right-click the model and choose Update Referenced Model after the delta has been edited? Matt From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Nick Angus Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 12:08 AM To:

Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-21 Thread Nic Groot Bluemink
There's the new Galaxy Note with a Wacom pen. Underwhelmed a bit in the review though- http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/15/3243546/samsung-galaxy-note-10-1-review -Nic On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 6:56 PM, Stephen Davidson magic...@bellsouth.netwrote: Bottom line, for me, Windows 8 is fine to use on

RE: Deltas and shader editing on referenced models

2012-08-21 Thread Nick Angus
Thanks Matt, also works!, that has refined my workflow somewhat... Cheers, Nick From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Matt Lind Sent: Tuesday, 21 August 2012 5:15 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: RE: Deltas and

Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-21 Thread Stephen Davidson
Nice that it has a pressure sensitive pen (Wacom) Like you said, the review is not great. And it's Android OS which does not support Photoshop. I don't know of any decent paint program for Android Thanks for trying, though. On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 3:48 AM, Nic Groot Bluemink

Re: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-21 Thread Stefan Andersson
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 7:49 AM, Sam Bowling sbowl...@cox.net wrote: What $0.99 video format converters do you know of that will give you real professional quality results, because I couldn't find any. Also there are a ton of free programs for synchronizing your drives on windows and I

Re: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-21 Thread Paul Griswold
Wow, my simple question on Windows 8 took quite an interesting turn... For the time being I think I'll keep trying to figure out why Windows 7 is so crash-prone on my main system perhaps do a fresh install. Thanks for the lively discussion guys. Paul

RE: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-21 Thread Szabolcs Matefy
+1 to all comments...seriously...and fix the slider issue with split edge with ratio -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Stefan Kubicek Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 9:27 PM To:

Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-21 Thread Dan Yargici
I've made Soft work on 12.04, but if you were to now ask me how the bottom line is that if you go through all the Linux related posts on Stephen's blog you'll get it running totally fine in the end. As an aside, I have to say that I love Gnome Shell (just called Gnome now in 12.04). Unity

Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-21 Thread Martin Chatterjee
Dan, cool - have you actually done any production work on this install? Does opening/saving/merging scenes work for you? And can you read/write icecaches? I personally haven't spent any time trying to get it to work because I've read all these reports about these show stopper type problems

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-21 Thread Chris Chia
Hey Szabolcs, Look out for the next release... ;) Chris On 21 Aug, 2012, at 5:58 PM, Szabolcs Matefy szabol...@crytek.com wrote: +1 to all comments...seriously...and fix the slider issue with split edge with ratio -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-21 Thread Chris Chia
I meant for the slider issue ;) Chris On 21 Aug, 2012, at 7:30 PM, Chris Chia chris.c...@autodesk.com wrote: Hey Szabolcs, Look out for the next release... ;) Chris On 21 Aug, 2012, at 5:58 PM, Szabolcs Matefy szabol...@crytek.com wrote: +1 to all comments...seriously...and fix the

RE: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-21 Thread Szabolcs Matefy
So, the question is if I move to Windows 8, Softimage will perform well? From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Martin Chatterjee Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 1:06 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: OT:

Disable frame snapping for time slider? And Lattices...

2012-08-21 Thread Stefan Kubicek
Good morning, two noobish questions I could not find an answer to: I would like to disable frame snapping for the time slider in the Time Line (and Animation Editor), but could not find a preference for that. I want to be able to position the time slider between two frames, similar to what's

Re: Disable frame snapping for time slider? And Lattices...

2012-08-21 Thread patrick nethercoat
Don't know about the time snapping, but I think you need to use the pre-deformed lattice as a cage deformer instead. On 21 August 2012 13:58, Stefan Kubicek s...@tidbit-images.com wrote: Good morning, two noobish questions I could not find an answer to: I would like to disable frame

Re: Disable frame snapping for time slider? And Lattices...

2012-08-21 Thread Stefan Kubicek
You mean: create and deformed the lattice, then selected the mesh and click Deform-by Lattice? I tried that, but it applies the existing deformation to the mesh too :-( Cheers, Stefan Don't know about the time snapping, but I think you need to use the pre-deformed lattice as a cage

Re: Disable frame snapping for time slider? And Lattices...

2012-08-21 Thread patrick nethercoat
Create and deform the lattice, select mesh and Deform by Cage. On 21 August 2012 14:22, Stefan Kubicek s...@tidbit-images.com wrote: You mean: create and deformed the lattice, then selected the mesh and click Deform-by Lattice? I tried that, but it applies the existing deformation to the

Re: Graphic card for a workstation again

2012-08-21 Thread Byron Nash
This is an aside, but if you plan on using Adobe stuff at all NVIDIA is the way to go. CS6 relies heavily on the Cuda technology. I know many of you on here probably don't use After Effects and Premiere but many small shops run these apps on a workstation with 3D stuff. On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at

Re: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-21 Thread Stefan Andersson
Well... I came off a little harsh there. My apologizes, it was not intended to be that harsh. *stefan goes off and hides under a rock* I hope no one (especially Sam) wasn't offended, it was never my intention. best regards stefan andersson On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 11:10 AM, Stefan Andersson

Re: Graphic card for a workstation again

2012-08-21 Thread Sajjad Amjad
Just a note that Adobe has been moving away from CUDA on to OpenCL.I recall reading some news items a while ago which announced this shift ( http://www.amd.com/us/press-releases/Pages/amd-and-adobe-creative-suite-6-2012apr23.aspx ) According to the GPU FAQ for CS6, the new Mercury Graphics Engine

Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-21 Thread Dan Yargici
Hi Martin, No production work no. Opening and Saving definitely worked! I don't recall having had to merge and I wasn't doing any caching with ICE (but I was using ICE extensively)... I didn't encounter any issues at all and it seemed very stable to me. I've used 2011 and 2013 with Ubuntu

Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-21 Thread Martin Chatterjee
Hi Dan, awesome, thanks! :-) I just dug out the old thread I vaguely remembered - if you want you can check it out here.https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!searchin/xsi_list/ubuntu$20segfault/xsi_list/OgyvRv4X22w/yQOE9qb5UxsJ That was a year ago on Ubuntu 11.04 - keeping my fingers

Re: Disable frame snapping for time slider? And Lattices...

2012-08-21 Thread Alan Fregtman
* Frame snapping: In the Animation Editor, it's in Edit-Snap to Frame. Uncheck it to disable. * Lattice: Like others suggested, cage would work better for that situation. With lattices you may adjust the Pre-Deformed Size XYZ proportions in its settings. This lets you kinda scale it to the cube

Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-21 Thread Dan Yargici
Hmmm. Nope, seems I have those exact same issues! Even the batch issue that Patrick mentions in the last thread. Sorry for creating the false hope! :/ DAN On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Martin Chatterjee martin.chatterjee.li...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Dan, awesome, thanks! :-) I

Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-21 Thread Tim Thorburn
You can try out the RTM version now and see if it works for you, and the software you use. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/evalcenter/jj554510.aspx This will get you a 90 day evaluation copy of Windows 8 Enterprise, unfortunately, there's no option to purchase a serial number after Win8

Re: undo event??!!

2012-08-21 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
if selection changes and you don't get notified, it's definitely a bug. report it. the Selection Change command that you can set in the preference-Tools-Selection is called in that case. however, it's not called when new objects are created selected - also a bug IMHO On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at

[SDK] [C++] How to get the Modeling Shape into a custom operator

2012-08-21 Thread RĂ©mi Arquier
Hi list, I have a custom C++ operator attached to a UserDataBlob (Property of the X3DObject) and I would need to get the geometry at Modeling stack level = siConstructionModeModeling. The custom operator takes as input port a ref of a primitive and ouput a UserDataBlob. I saw the method

Re: Replace a geometry on an existing SI object via CMeshBuilder

2012-08-21 Thread Kamen Lilov
On 8/20/2012 10:29 PM, Steven Caron wrote: i have never tried to do such a thing but i think you have the right idea, at least thats what i gather from reading the CMeshBuilder class documentation. i would be weary of the clusters on the new mesh... maybe purge clusters before rebuilding?

Re: undo event??!!

2012-08-21 Thread Ana Gomez
Writing a command on Selection Change in the preferences doesn't work. It is never called, nor when you select something nor when you undo a selection. I have to see if i can report bugs. Thanks.

Re: undo event??!!

2012-08-21 Thread Ciaran Moloney
Works here in Soft 2013 for selection and undoing selection. What string are you putting in there? Ciaran On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Ana Gomez agomezalca...@gmail.com wrote: Writing a command on Selection Change in the preferences doesn't work. It is never called, nor when you select

Re: undo event??!!

2012-08-21 Thread Ana Gomez
Perhaps I'm not using it right: First test: Application.LogMessage(foo) Second test: Application.MyCommand() (a custom command that prints something)

Re: undo event??!!

2012-08-21 Thread Ana Gomez
I'm using 2012

Re: undo event??!!

2012-08-21 Thread Ciaran Moloney
Also works for me in 2012 SAP and SP1. I don't have anything earlier... On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Ana Gomez agomezalca...@gmail.com wrote: I'm using 2012

RE: undo event??!!

2012-08-21 Thread Stephen Blair
How do you select? Select in a viewport, not in explorer. From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Ciaran Moloney Sent: August-21-12 12:23 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: undo event??!! Also works for me in

Re: undo event??!!

2012-08-21 Thread Ciaran Moloney
If it logs one and not the other then I guess it is a bug... On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Stephen Blair stephen.bl...@autodesk.comwrote: How do you select? Select in a viewport, not in explorer. From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:

Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-21 Thread Paul Griswold
Well, for grins and giggles I installed Windows 8 RTM on my laptop. Softimage 2013 SP1 runs ok from what I can see. There's some interface weirdness, such as the top menu bar is pure white and Softimage 2013...etc etc. is centered at the top of the screen instead of on the left. I loaded a

Re: undo event??!!

2012-08-21 Thread Ana Gomez
Ok. I was selecting in the explorer. If I select in the viewport the command written in the 'Selection Change' is executed. Anyway, I think there is a bug when you register the event siOnSelectionChange. I think It should be fired when a selection is undone. If someone wants to reproduce... 1.

RE: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-21 Thread Stephen Blair
You need to disable Face Robot. From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Paul Griswold Sent: August-21-12 12:44 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone? Well, for grins and giggles I installed

Re: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-21 Thread Gene Crucean
They're mac users after all. You know you are talking down to just about everybody these days right? Apple was just reported as the worlds most valuable company. http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/story/2012-08-20/apple-most-valuable-company/57161260/1(check the dates on that

Re: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-21 Thread Gene Crucean
Sorry I forgot to reply to Paul. Win7 is by far the best version of windows I've used in a long time. To me, it sounds like you just need to re-install that badboy. On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Gene Crucean emailgeneonthel...@gmail.comwrote: They're mac users after all. You know you

Re: Replace a geometry on an existing SI object via CMeshBuilder

2012-08-21 Thread Steven Caron
so you need to reassign and preserve cluster info? there is a pretty good chance any clusters made by the user will no longer be aligned with your new data, so preserving the old data would be quite difficult from my perspective. also any topological operators will fail to be useful. from what i

Re: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-21 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Gene Crucean emailgeneonthel...@gmail.com wrote: They're mac users after all. You know you are talking down to just about everybody these days right? Apple was just reported as the worlds most valuable company.

Re: Replace a geometry on an existing SI object via CMeshBuilder

2012-08-21 Thread Kamen Lilov
On 8/21/2012 8:09 PM, Steven Caron wrote: so you need to reassign and preserve cluster info? there is a pretty good chance any clusters made by the user will no longer be aligned with your new data, so preserving the old data would be quite difficult from my perspective. also any topological

Re: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-21 Thread Nicolas Burtnyk
As you know there is no link between the valuation on the gambling market that is the stock market, and the actual results of a company. Microsoft has sold more than 650 million licenses of Windows 7 in three years, but the stock is cheap because it doesn't attract gamblers. Actually Apple

Re: Replace a geometry on an existing SI object via CMeshBuilder

2012-08-21 Thread Steven Caron
could you use your own operator which sits at the bottom of the stack? On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Kamen Lilov kamen.li...@chaosgroup.comwrote: I control both the old data and the new geom data. We are building a preview mesh for a piece of external geometry, a.k.a. VRay Proxy / Arnold

RE: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-21 Thread Matt Lind
What slider issue? -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Chris Chia Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 4:32 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Small Annoying Things I meant for the

Re: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-21 Thread Kiril Aronofski
RE: desktops are doomed Don't forget all this mobile devices are consumerist in nature - someone will somehow still have to create the content for them to consume. Desktop sales are in decline as most people realize they can survive with a tablet and a phone. In my opinion Microsoft is trying to

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-21 Thread Nic Groot Bluemink
Has someone mentioned a gradient shader with more than 8 color inputs yet? If we can pretend it's a small issue for the purposes of this topic, that. Nic On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Matt Lind ml...@carbinestudios.com wrote: What slider issue? -Original Message- From:

RE: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-21 Thread Matt Lind
The tablet comes with Photoshop Touch installed. I have the Galaxy Note phone, which ironically has the same screen resolution as the tablet. The apps are pretty nice but do take some getting used to. While the Note comes with a stylus, can be used to paint and other creative things, it's

Re: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-21 Thread Gene Crucean
but the stock is cheap because it doesn't attract gamblers. Actually... it's cheap because why would I dump money into a stock that hasn't done jack sh** in 5 years, vs dumping money into a company that's exploding. Proof: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/403879/AppleVsMS.png ... but feel free to

Re: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-21 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
That's the gambling market.. money is made by speculating about how much one could sell the stock to someone else in the future. The way the stock market was supposed to work was that you bought shares in a company in order to own part of it and get dividends, proportional to your number of

RE: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-21 Thread Matt Lind
Yes, we've formally requested it long ago. Back to the annoyances: 52) when creating a combo box menu in a PPG, if more than one item in the combo box have the same label, the items will be consolidated into a single item. Matt From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com

Re: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-21 Thread Thomas Helzle
Interesting how heated this is still getting when the differences are actually growing smaller every day. :-) Windows Explorer has grown as crappy as the stock Finder, but for both there are good replacements (I use XYplorer and Pathfinder but there are many). I run both systems on a MacPro and

Re:

2012-08-21 Thread Sam Cuttriss
one more oddity, (that may be overcome with the griddata you mentioned) what would cause the layout to not be initialised after a model is published? _sam

RE: Re:

2012-08-21 Thread Stephen Blair
The layout of a dynamic PPG isn't saved. Then the next time you load the scene or model, you'll get the default layout when you inspect the property. From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Sam Cuttriss Sent: August-21-12 3:11

Re: FindChildren2 with multiple search strings

2012-08-21 Thread Alok
oLightNulls = [mdl for mdl in oModel.FindChildren2( ,c.siNullPrimType,,True) if lamp in mdl.Name or light in mdl.Name] Alok On 21/08/2012 4:47 PM, Sam Cuttriss wrote: oLightNulls = oModel.FindChildren2(*lamp* or *light* ,c.siNullPrimType,,True) the above does not work, im just curious if

Re: FindChildren2 with multiple search strings

2012-08-21 Thread Ciaran Moloney
oLightNulls = oModel.FindChildren2({*light*,*lamp*},c.siNullPrimType) On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 9:47 PM, Sam Cuttriss tea...@gmail.com wrote: oLightNulls = oModel.FindChildren2(*lamp* or *light* ,c.siNullPrimType,,True) the above does not work, im just curious if there is a notation that

OT Wing rigger needed!

2012-08-21 Thread Pablo Tufaro
Hello list, sorry for the spam but we are kind of desperately needing a rigger that can be capable of rig a pigeon wing, and the body of course in softimage. We are modelling the wing and placing the feather, so we will be delivering a correct wing modeling. The body is already done. This is

Re: FindChildren2 with multiple search strings

2012-08-21 Thread Sam Cuttriss
nice one, thanks so much. ciaran, i wouldnt have considered using python dictionary brackets. where in the help is the info on these types of syntax? all the standard xsi expression type syntax ( im not sure of the search term, so im sure im missing out in a great deal of handy tricks) _sam

Re: FindChildren2 with multiple search strings

2012-08-21 Thread Steven Caron
list comp is awesome but sometimes they just get unreadable and hard to maintain, simply put abuse of an awesome feature On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Alok alok.gan...@modusfx.com wrote: oLightNulls = [mdl for mdl in oModel.FindChildren2( ,c.siNullPrimType,,True) if lamp in mdl.Name or

Re: FindChildren2 with multiple search strings

2012-08-21 Thread Alok
agreed ! On 21/08/2012 5:29 PM, Steven Caron wrote: list comp is awesome but sometimes they just get unreadable and hard to maintain, simply put abuse of an awesome feature On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Alok alok.gan...@modusfx.com mailto:alok.gan...@modusfx.com wrote: oLightNulls

Re: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-21 Thread Daniel H
Win 8 will be fine; it's already outperforming Win 7 in the benchmarks. Mac influence in the desktop world is very minor compared to Windows dominance. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems Windows = 70.42% Mac = 7.46% Linux = 1.53% Daniel VFXM

RE: OT Wing rigger needed!

2012-08-21 Thread Nick Angus
I would try contacting this person! https://vimeo.com/edysusanto Cheers, Nick -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Pablo Tufaro Sent: Wednesday, 22 August 2012 7:06 AM To:

Re: OT Wing rigger needed!

2012-08-21 Thread Edy Susanto Lim
Hi. I could take a look. The latest bird rig I did is for this commercial : http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embeddedv=6J4GH9AXAAo http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embeddedv=_eG6foUo6Yw The rig was done in xsi, but the rest I believe is in Maya. I was only in charge for the

Re: OT Wing rigger needed!

2012-08-21 Thread Steven Caron
that was nice! very high quality and believable! s On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Edy Susanto Lim edysusant...@gmail.comwrote: Hi. I could take a look. The latest bird rig I did is for this commercial : http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embeddedv=6J4GH9AXAAo

RE: OT Wing rigger needed!

2012-08-21 Thread Nick Angus
No Problem Edy, Hopefully I won't just be referring you, the next job we have with feathers I definitely want you on my team! Cheers, Nick From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Edy Susanto Lim Sent: Wednesday, 22 August

Re: OT Wing rigger needed!

2012-08-21 Thread Bradley Gabe
Sorry, I originally read the thread title as Right Wing rigger needed, and since I consider myself more of a moderate I ended up ignoring the post.

RE: OT Wing rigger needed!

2012-08-21 Thread Matt Lind
Funny, I misread it to be 'wringer needed'. From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Bradley Gabe Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 8:14 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: OT Wing rigger needed! Sorry, I

RE: OT Wing rigger needed!

2012-08-21 Thread Nick Angus
Reminds me of this classic for some reason... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skkM2zPFPy0 From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Bradley Gabe Sent: Wednesday, 22 August 2012 1:14 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject:

Re: FindChildren2 with multiple search strings

2012-08-21 Thread Ciaran Moloney
No problem. Look for string expressions in the docs. On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 10:23 PM, Sam Cuttriss tea...@gmail.com wrote: nice one, thanks so much. ciaran, i wouldnt have considered using python dictionary brackets. where in the help is the info on these types of syntax? all the standard