btw: there's a new emTopolizer2 version

2014-04-26 Thread Eric Mootz
Hey list, There is a new version of emTopolizer2 available featuring the new polygonizer. Latter has been seriously improved and will now create god looking, flicker-free, non-blobby meshes... finally :) Here the release video (actually it was more of a test): http://vimeo.com/91071523 Some

Re: btw: there's a new emTopolizer2 version

2014-04-26 Thread Sebastien Sterling
Looks amazing Eric :), are all the licenses now 119€ ?! On 26 April 2014 08:13, Eric Mootz e...@mootzoid.com wrote: Hey list, There is a new version of emTopolizer2 available featuring the new polygonizer. Latter has been seriously improved and will now create god looking, flicker-free,

Re: btw: there's a new emTopolizer2 version

2014-04-26 Thread Eric Mootz
Thanks! No, the licenses of different plugins have different prices. Check out the price list here: http://www.mootzoid.com/order_information Cheers, Eric Am 26.04.2014 11:34, schrieb Sebastien Sterling: Looks amazing Eric :), are all the licenses now 119€ ?!

Re: btw: there's a new emTopolizer2 version

2014-04-26 Thread Sebastien Sterling
Yes i see, for some reason i remembered them priced around 299 or 399, so yea this a good kind of surprise :) On 26 April 2014 10:40, Eric Mootz e...@mootzoid.com wrote: Thanks! No, the licenses of different plugins have different prices. Check out the price list here:

Re: Free Student version of Softimage - Doesn't allow batch render - Any workarounds

2014-04-26 Thread Jon Hunt
Thanks for the response Angus, The student has a 3 minute film to render, each scene has 70 or so reference models. When you load each scene you have to press OK this many times to the dialogue box that says its been created in a student version. Absolute hindrance. Got a fix but its a good 20

Re: Free Student version of Softimage - Doesn't allow batch render - Any workarounds

2014-04-26 Thread Angus Davidson
No worries. I haven’t tried it on Maya. I seem to recall when I was grumbling to Graham about it a few years back he did mention that it was across the board I could be wrong though. From: Jon Hunt jonathan.m.h...@gmail.commailto:jonathan.m.h...@gmail.com Reply-To:

Re: Free Student version of Softimage - Doesn't allow batch render - Any workarounds

2014-04-26 Thread Ben Beckett
Does this work just a idea good luck put the following code into a Nopepad .txt change the .txt to .exe . add your file path and the pass name. run the file @echo off call C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Softimage 2012 SP1\Application\bin\setenv.bat C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Softimage 2012

Re: Softimage to Modo - Modo 801 global Launch

2014-04-26 Thread Sebastien Sterling
Yes Motoa would be sweet ! On 26 April 2014 04:38, Angus Davidson angus.david...@wits.ac.za wrote: It is completely parallel. They are just two different workflows to achieve the same thing.It creates them for you and you can tweak them to what you need using Modo very good curve editor.

Re: Softimage to Modo - Modo 801 global Launch

2014-04-26 Thread Sebastien Sterling
But i suppose, ironically, Modo is already a great renderer, in a way MR is so irrelevant, it makes third party renders all the more interesting. On 26 April 2014 14:16, Sebastien Sterling sebastien.sterl...@gmail.comwrote: Yes Motoa would be sweet ! On 26 April 2014 04:38, Angus Davidson

Tool Helper for Hire, Jentzen Mooney

2014-04-26 Thread jentzen mooney
Hello Everyone, I know, I know, kinda late in the Softimage game to post about about offering a service, especially with the news from AD last month. BUT.. If you are you in the need of some small Softimage tools(Python? JScript?) Maybe your a freelancer or know a freelancer in need of home/remote

RE: Softimage to Modo - Modo 801 global Launch

2014-04-26 Thread Manuel Huertas Marchena
Hi Simon, Thanks for your input, that was really helpful to have a better idea about what to expect in regards to modo renderer. I am learning the basics of the program, so there's still a lot of ground to cover for me, but after all what I see around happening... I think it'll be worth to

Re: Tool Helper for Hire, Jentzen Mooney

2014-04-26 Thread Rares Halmagean
Thanks for offering this service Jentzen. I imagine many of us freelancers and small outfits find ourselves wishing we had tools to automate a certain processes in our workflow, not currently developed. On 4/26/2014 3:19 PM, jentzen mooney wrote: Hello Everyone, I know, I know, kinda late in

ICE: member Group ID?

2014-04-26 Thread pedro santos
I am using MultiICEOphttp://xsisupport.com/2011/12/10/scripting-applying-an-ice-compound-to-multiple-objects/to apply the same tree to arbitrary objects.

Re: SI and Houdini

2014-04-26 Thread Jordi Bares
ha ha ha… lucky man. Ok, the first of the Constraints guide is now online… as usual https://www.dropbox.com/sh/y0ti6tyf7o3435u/thsQH1Kf2o HoudiniGuides_Chapter6_Rigging_3_ConstraintsI.pdf Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.com On 24 Apr 2014, at 15:48, Jon Swindells jon_swinde...@fastmail.fm

Re: ICE: member Group ID?

2014-04-26 Thread pedro santos
(Oh wow! Never press Ctrl + Enter in gmail. It will send the mail it right away :P ) So using that useful script to shotgun ICE Trees. My problem is that to circumvent the lack o reference tricks on can do in ICE to keep things automated, I'm trying to use two groups. So ICE is applied en masse

Re: ICE: member Group ID?

2014-04-26 Thread pedro santos
OK, Solution found. Hopefully string operations don't scale badly :S Basically find self Out Name in the Group_A and get the ID from that to Select from Array of Group B data, for correct match. Cheers ​[image: https://i.imgur.com/CQzG5ge.png] ​​

Re: Free Student version of Softimage - Doesn't allow batch render - Any workarounds

2014-04-26 Thread Siew Yi Liang
For the record, I have never experienced this issue when rendering via the command line when on the student versions, whether XSI/Maya. For the render farm here my school uses Muster which allows us to setup a custom 'template' (that's what they call it) that lets me modify what actual command