Autodesk 3DsMax suite - Softimage licence?

2015-02-09 Thread Pierre Schiller
Good day everyone. Feb 2014 had a hard hit on SI community. Back then AD announced the reshuffle of their entertainment suites. Either you bought Maya (and as an added package Softimage was included) or you bought 3DsMax (with the same bonus of Softimage). Anyhow, today, over a year of grief, I

Re: Custom Param Set

2015-02-09 Thread Eric Thivierge
You'll probably have to script this. Type in the name of the camera in the text area, have a button next to it to run the script to do a find and replace in the expression. Eric T. On 2/9/2015 11:07 AM, Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES] wrote: Hello, I have an expression. Part of that

Re: Custom Param Set

2015-02-09 Thread Mario Reitbauer
Have you thought about using a Reference Model which contains the Camera ? This way you could easily swap it and the expressions would update them self (maybe you can only swap it through overriding the model on the disk, not sure if the expressions would break if you swap the model in the scene,

Re: Autodesk 3DsMax suite - Softimage licence?

2015-02-09 Thread Jens Lindgren
You should contact your reseller and he/she should fix it for you. You can choose from 3ds Max with Softimage or Maya with Softimage. The cross grade is free. We did this recently and it was quick and painless. /Jens On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 4:47 PM, Pierre Schiller

Re: Custom Param Set

2015-02-09 Thread Matt Lind
Ooops! Let out my dark secret. Umph!.mustrecover.quic- Create a custom property in a central location where it's easily accessible, such as the scene root. Create an integer parameter called Camera_Index with range [0...N] where N is at least the number of cameras in

Maya Rotoscope

2015-02-09 Thread Martin Yara
Hi, another Maya question. I've been using Maya for years but almost always modeling in Softimage (because it is way faster and better) so I never used Image Planes that much. Is there any Softimage like Rotoscope lock button (magnifying glass button in Softimage) in Maya? Thanks Martin

Re: Wireless MIDI device capture for Softimage - Tutorial

2015-02-09 Thread a...@andynicholas.com
Hi Pierre, A couple of weeks ago I needed to write a device driver for a standard steering wheel controller and pedals. Once I got over the stumbling block of getting Softimage plugins compiling correctly on Windows, it wasn't too hard. It was just a case of combining the mouse example device

Re: Custom Param Set

2015-02-09 Thread Matt Lind
I cannot remember for sure, but I believe you cannot access the value of a string parameter stored in a CustomParamSet from an expression because expressions can only reference animatable parameters (eg; numbers, boolean, vector, color, ...). Strings are not 'animatable' in Softimage. You

RE: Custom Param Set

2015-02-09 Thread Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES]
Ugh. I can't seem to shake the idea that I have done something like this in the past. Just can't remember the context. Thanks -- Joey Ponthieux LaRC Information Technology Enhanced Services (LITES) MYMIC Technical Services NASA Langley Research Center

Re: Custom Param Set

2015-02-09 Thread Leonard Koch
Are you sure that ice has the ability to convert strings to references and not just the other way around, Matt? On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 11:34 PM, Matt Lind speye...@hotmail.com wrote: I cannot remember for sure, but I believe you cannot access the value of a string parameter stored in a

si3d poll

2015-02-09 Thread Matt Lind
Out of curiosity, how many of you have data from Softimage|3D you'd like to get out and into something else, even if just for archiving purposes? After spending many weeks looking at my options and tinkering with various avenues to get data out of Softimage|3D, I've hit a crossroads where I have

merge parent and children through scripting?

2015-02-09 Thread Jeff McFall
I have a large set of extruded poly objects which have their detached caps as children. I need to merge these caps into the parent geometry. There are several hundred of these and manually doing each is pretty daunting. This is beyond my scripting abilities. Anyone have any suggestions or

Re: Custom Param Set

2015-02-09 Thread Eric Thivierge
yeah if you know how to do this magic I'm interested! Eric Thivierge http://www.ethivierge.com On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 5:46 PM, Leonard Koch leonardkoch...@gmail.com wrote: Are you sure that ice has the ability to convert strings to references and

Re: Custom Param Set

2015-02-09 Thread Alok Gandhi
I would go with Eric's approach. Surely have done this before. If I find that script I will post a snippet. Sent from my iPhone On 10-Feb-2015, at 1:39 am, Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES] j.ponthi...@nasa.gov wrote: Ugh. I can’t seem to shake the idea that I have done something