Re: Triggerfish?

2013-04-26 Thread Ben Davis
@Ben - Out of curiosity, what are the limits of doing your company trick? Can you stay more than 3 months for a long job? What if you have family, kids in school, etc? -- Ben Davis www.moondog-animation.com +33 6 88 48 54 50 On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 12:40 AM, Ben Beckett nebbeck...@gmail.com

Re: Triggerfish?

2013-04-26 Thread Ben Beckett
It's no trick you. Firstly you have to tell the company concerned you will be billing through a company so you do not go no there books. When you do your return it is better if the are multi sources of income coming from different places. The best thing to do is talk to a good accountant he or

Re: Triggerfish?

2013-04-26 Thread Sandy Sutherland
Ben - are you in London by any chance? Would not mind chatting if you are, I am coming over there for May still looking for something and doing a gig while I am there. BTW instead of me posting about myself on this thread to bore everyone, anyone who might be interested, I have a linkedin

Friday Flashback #117

2013-04-26 Thread Stephen Blair
Friday Flashback #117 March 2000 A milestone: SOFTIMAGE|3D v3.9 is the first Softimage release distributed via world wide web http://wp.me/powV4-2Ha

Re: Friday Flashback #117

2013-04-26 Thread Jens Lindgren
World wide web... how come no one is using those words any more? :) /Jens On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Stephen Blair stephenrbl...@gmail.comwrote: Friday Flashback #117 March 2000 A milestone: SOFTIMAGE|3D v3.9 is the first Softimage release distributed via world wide web

Re: Friday Flashback #117

2013-04-26 Thread Stephan Haidacher
and still there was a 6 months waiting period for xsi (2.0? i think) keys :D On 4/26/2013 12:49 PM, Stephen Blair wrote: Friday Flashback #117 March 2000 A milestone: SOFTIMAGE|3D v3.9 is the first Softimage release distributed via world wide web http://wp.me/powV4-2Ha - No virus found

Creating new camera view in the Layout Editor

2013-04-26 Thread Adam Seeley
Happy Friday Folks, Does anyone know how to add extra Camera Views to a Layout? I'd like to use the Layout Editor to create some extra camera views on my 2nd monitor in a dual layout mode. Camera isn't one of the selectable views though when I create a new Pane. View Manager is a selection,

Re: Creating new camera view in the Layout Editor

2013-04-26 Thread Eric Thivierge
You can use an object view and set the view attributes to use specific cameras. Eric Thivierge === http://www.ethivierge.com http://www.exocortex.com/species On 26/04/2013 11:02 AM, Adam Seeley wrote: Happy Friday Folks, Does anyone know how to add extra Camera Views to a Layout?

Re: Creating new camera view in the Layout Editor

2013-04-26 Thread Vincent Ullmann
I suppose you could ony have one ViewManager, becouse ist some limitation. The only solution i came up with: Create a Object View (Alt + 8) and set it to View- All Objects Am 26.04.2013 17:02, schrieb Adam Seeley: Happy Friday Folks, Does anyone know how to add extra Camera Views to a Layout?

Re: Creating new camera view in the Layout Editor

2013-04-26 Thread Alok
Yep that is the only solution that works. Select and lock all objects once in Object view. Only there is no default shortcut key assigned to object view. Alt+8 is for XSI Explorer. ALOK GANDHI / chef directeur technique - lead technical director alok.gan...@modusfx.com

Re: Reseller in the NYC area

2013-04-26 Thread Daniel H
George you don't have to use a reseller from NYC. You can use any reseller you want to use in the US. Daniel VFXM On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 3:52 PM, George Schermer stubblef...@gmail.comwrote: Ncholas, Yeah, that's kinda been my gripe with the online store. It's really hard to talk to a

Re: Creating new camera view in the Layout Editor

2013-04-26 Thread Martin yara
I wrote a simple script to create an object view with your selected camera or active view. Maybe it helps a little The blog is in Japanese but the script is in JScript :P http://myara.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-171.html Martin On 2013/04/27, at 1:18, Alok alok.gan...@modusfx.com wrote: Yep that

Setting workgroups via batch file

2013-04-26 Thread Gene Crucean
Hey guys, So I'm trying to set some environment variables via a batch script but this page ( http://softimage.wiki.softimage.com/xsidocs/EnvVars_EnvironmentVariableReference.htm) doesn't have a workgroup variable to set. I stumbled upon Stephens blog (

Re: Setting workgroups via batch file

2013-04-26 Thread Alan Fregtman
Hey Gene, The easiest and most reliable way to have complete control over workgroups is to rewrite your *default.xsipref* file before launching. You'll find in your program root under /Data/Preferences/default.xsipref The format is pretty straightforward. At work we made a 50 line module to

Re: Setting workgroups via batch file

2013-04-26 Thread Steven Caron
we are using the same method, change the xsipref file before starting up. its still a shame that all the options available for setting workgroups still fall short of what we actually need! On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.comwrote: Hey Gene, The easiest and

Re: Setting workgroups via batch file

2013-04-26 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
but then I'm forced to use the SI command prompt and to be honest I'm not even sure how to call that thing from within a bat file since call C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Softimage 2013 SP1\Application\bin\SIShell.bat doesn't seem to work. The SI command prompt is just a normal command prompt

RE: Setting workgroups via batch file

2013-04-26 Thread Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES]
As Luc-Eric said you can call the setenv anywhere in your bat file, but if you want to do it all in one line try this: call C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Softimage 2013 SP1\Application\bin\setenv.bat start /min cmd /c %XSI_BINDIR%\xsi.bat -w \\path\to\workgroup1,\\path\to\workgroup2 This kind

Re: Creating new camera view in the Layout Editor

2013-04-26 Thread Adam Seeley
Object Views worked fine... I'm creating a multi projector animation so  I've lined up the 7 cameras in a custom layout on my second monitor to keep an eye on what comes into view when. Peachy thanks, Adam - Yoyo Digital Ltd. http://www.linkedin.com/in/adamseeleyuk

Re: Setting workgroups via batch file

2013-04-26 Thread Gene Crucean
So echo data_management.workgroup_appl_path=\\tela\trsam\facility\pipeline\extensions\softimage2013\workgroups\Arnold %XSI_USERHOME%\Data\Preferences\workgroups.xsipref seems to work pretty good but does anyone how that is supposed to work with multiple workgroup paths? If I add that line

Re: Setting workgroups via batch file

2013-04-26 Thread Steven Caron
i believe you want semi-colons s On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Gene Crucean emailgeneonthel...@gmail.comwrote: So echo data_management.workgroup_appl_path=\\tela\trsam\facility\pipeline\extensions\softimage2013\workgroups\Arnold %XSI_USERHOME%\Data\Preferences\workgroups.xsipref seems

Re: Setting workgroups via batch file

2013-04-26 Thread Gene Crucean
Haha whoops. Thanks Steven! On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Steven Caron car...@gmail.com wrote: i believe you want semi-colons s On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Gene Crucean emailgeneonthel...@gmail.com wrote: So echo

Creating Hexagonal / Pentagonal Sphere with density control

2013-04-26 Thread Eric Thivierge
Anyone have any tools / plug-ins / compounds with the ability to create hexagonal / pentagonal sphere with density control? I'm not experienced with ICE topo or the maths behind creating this geometry so I'm looking for some scripts / compounds that can work without much hassle. Even if I

Re: GEAR question

2013-04-26 Thread Jeremie Passerin
Hey Steven, I've seen your email... sorry I'm super busy right now.. but I'll try to have a look at what you did when I have a minute... hopefully next week. On 24 April 2013 16:39, Steven Caron car...@gmail.com wrote: ok so i have made some changes, not exactly as you have suggested cause i

Re: GEAR question

2013-04-26 Thread Steven Caron
no sweat, i have worked around it. On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Jeremie Passerin gerem@gmail.comwrote: Hey Steven, I've seen your email... sorry I'm super busy right now.. but I'll try to have a look at what you did when I have a minute... hopefully next week. On 24 April 2013