Re: Opinion gathering

I had a talk with one of teams Head in our place. I asked him about clarisse and what he told me was something unexpected. He said that Houdini is the best assembler for their team to render projects. He was also excited about the discount that's currently on, planning to buy more seats. If my

Re: Opinion gathering

Hey Felix, I know what you mean and I still have some reservations about it as a pure get-things-done-dirty moddler and scene assembler. Although I'm hoping I just need to learn more to get comfortable with it. However this video might help a bit wth selections and the scene model.

Re: Opinion gathering

May be there is an opportunity to send a video to SideFX about how do you want to work, what you miss, , etc… they surely will look at it as they have done in the past with some of my suggestions. :-) jb > On 20 Feb 2017, at 23:04, Felix Geremus wrote: > > I am

Re: Opinion gathering

I am on the Houdini train for a couple of months now. And I really like it for the most part, especially the more technical aspects are incredible and way better than Softimage ever was. But I am still confused by all the praise for Houdini in certain areas like poly modeling or scene assembly.

Re: Soft to Houdini custom shelf / scripts.

> On 20 Feb 2017, at 22:19, Matt Lind wrote: > > You have to keep in mind Houdini is a non-linear system. > > Softimage's freeze and freeze modeling operations operate on construction > histories for individual objects. All the operators live in the same > construction

Re: Soft to Houdini custom shelf / scripts.

Softimage freeze does just that, stores the data in the file, hence the huge files sometimes so if you don’t have a problem in Softimage you should not worry about freezing by locking the node. The history will be there if you need it which is a bonus. :-) jb > On 20 Feb 2017, at 21:44,

Re: Soft to Houdini custom shelf / scripts.

You have to keep in mind Houdini is a non-linear system. Softimage's freeze and freeze modeling operations operate on construction histories for individual objects. All the operators live in the same construction history, so computing the result of the freeze is fairly straightforward as you

Re: Soft to Houdini custom shelf / scripts.

Hi Olivier and Andy, nice tip. So there is no other way to just collapse everything? I find it's a little strange that I can't do a true modeling collapse, the better way I find is export .obj and import again. 2017-02-20 18:36 GMT-03:00 Andy Goehler : > Be

Re: Soft to Houdini custom shelf / scripts.

Be advised, this will increase your file size. A lock on a node is essentially caching at that node. If you must, I’d advised to collapse to subnets. Andy > On Feb 20, 2017, at 10:30 PM, Olivier Jeannel wrote: > > Ctrl click on the red (left side of the node (not the

Re: Soft to Houdini custom shelf / scripts.

Ctrl click on the red (left side of the node (not the yellow) ) This will lock the node like a "freeze". Everything above is computed and "locked". 2017-02-20 22:19 GMT+01:00 Paulo Cesar Duarte : > Hey Pierre and Ed... > I'm starting with Houdini too, just studying SOP

Re: Soft to Houdini custom shelf / scripts.

Hey Pierre and Ed... I'm starting with Houdini too, just studying SOP for now. There is a simple way to freeze modeling like XSI? Without the need of caching geometry, just freezing or collapse? Cheers. 2017-02-10 19:48 GMT-02:00 Jordi Bares : > A few thoughts of mine..

Re: Momentum 4 (free) how to plot?

Quoting Ace Ventura : "All righty theenn" :D Thanks. I´ll see how this goes. Cheers. On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 12:11 PM, Jonathan Moore wrote: > If you only have access to 2014 you'll need Alembic Crate. This archive > has all builds from 2010 till now (don't have

Re: Momentum 4 (free) how to plot?

If you only have access to 2014 you'll need Alembic Crate. This archive has all builds from 2010 till now (don't have Soft 2014 on it's own). https://d.pr/TTWU.zip Crate doesn't write as quickly as the native Alembic in 2015 but it's got a pile of useful tricks for manipulating the caches you

Re: Maya

I've always believed the long term strategy was to retire Softimage from the day it was part of the Autodesk portfolio. The assets they were buying were the development team. In the interim years parts of Maya have been informed by Softimage and MCG in Max is very much a cousin of ICE (with a

RE: Maya

Financial reports are always a bit confusing, have to be aware of the terms being used. But based on the businesswire link you posted: Firstly, those results are pretty old– they are from Nov 2014- Jan 2015. Autodesk fiscal years like its product versions are out 1 year. So ‘fiscal’ year 2015

Re: Implosia FX 4.6 - Boolean core is corrupted?

Thanks. Yes, intersecting geo doesn't get along. I will have to retopo. On Feb 20, 2017 6:19 AM, "Morten Bartholdy" wrote: > In my experience it can get picky about the input geometry. Try and > triangulate all meshes involved before the boolean operation, that usually >

Re: Momentum 4 (free) how to plot?

Thank you guys. I found on a SI community that indeed, alembic was chosen for "plotting". Question: I am using SI 2014 sp2 on this proyect How do I get alembic out? :( I ported my scene to a SI2015 and tried to export the sim to .abc and the scene crashed. At this point I am thinking to have the

Re: Opinion gathering

Houdini 16 launch event: https://vimeo.com/203373373 On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 5:05 PM, Bradley Gabe wrote: > Any chance you could post a direct link to this screencast? > > > On Feb 19, 2017, at 9:07 AM, Jordi Bares wrote: > > > > Have a look at the

Re: Maya

>Autodesk as a company had missed it's earnings per share and even though media made up 15% of its budget are you sure about that ? as far as i am aware the media and entertainment sector is just a tiny drop in the whole autodesk bucket. im not a finance guy so maybe i am getting the terms

Re: Opinion gathering

Any chance you could post a direct link to this screencast? > On Feb 19, 2017, at 9:07 AM, Jordi Bares wrote: > > Have a look at the screencast they did.. you will see why the excitement. > > Interesting times ahead. > jb -- Softimage Mailing List. To unsubscribe,

Re: Maya

Wasn't it to do with a bad investors' earnings briefing? Autodesk as a company had missed it's earnings per share and even though media made up 15% of its budget (or maybe because of that) the least successful of the three similar products got the chop. I think if there hadn't been a panicked push

Re: Opinion gathering

Actually, Flame has been upgraded very very nicely and the new pricing approach makes it very attractive against Nuke which, although very entrenched in film has not fully knocked Flame and the battle is on. Here at Glassworks we use both but Flame latest version has reinvigorated the

Re: Opinion gathering

I don't know, I'm well out of the loop now.And any knowledge I did have has probably expired by now. I'd be surprised if was to be chopped. Just look at the public records and you'll see that it makes alot of money. Look at their folio and offerings, maybe AD are doing a reshuffle both with

Re: Maya

I don't think people put a gun to the guys head, it was all part of the campaign that was running at the time. The general consensus was that the axe had already been wielded and fallen on Softimage and this was just lip service. But that wasn't the case, from my knowledge anyway. At that moment

Re: Implosia FX 4.6 - Boolean core is corrupted?

In my experience it can get picky about the input geometry. Try and triangulate all meshes involved before the boolean operation, that usually helps. That said, I have often found the boolean op could not cope and needed to shift things slightly to overcome what I guess is a troublesome

Re: Maya

Yes, it probably was unprofessional for which I apologise. It was an offhand remark made after a few beers on a Saturday. So probably not the best time to be posting. I might point out that the individuals who made him go on camera and tell everyone it was going to be fine when they had no

Re: Momentum 4 (free) how to plot?

As Sven says plotting moved to Alembic in Momentum 4 (but the PDF files weren't updated), The fastest way to export to Alembic in 2015 SP2 is by using the built in Alembic exported under the file menu rather than Crate. As a simple test, load scene 55 from the bundled scene content

RE: Momentum 4 (free) how to plot?

It was discussed on the list some time ago. They replaced the old plotting function with alembic what was more suitable and stable when it comes to changing topology. Unfortunatly the docs did't get updated on that. Just use alembic. From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com