Re: Maya - what were they thinking 2 - transforms

On 09/13/17 17:27, Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES II] wrote: Still, it’s not uncommon for a transform group hierarchy to resemble something like this:   Master     Translation

RE: Maya - what were they thinking 2 - transforms

Yes. I think an "intermediate parent" is one way to put it and is a reasonable assumption. But it can be variable. For example, If you know that you need local translations of Z at a specific non-zero orientation, you use the parent to set the orientation that governs the local transform axis

Re: Maya - what were they thinking 2 - transforms

It seems to be the same issue in these threads. CGTalk - how to "zero to parent" CGTalk - roll / pan / tilt of camera So any item you would want to animate by it's local axis (or to refer to it's local transforms in expressions) needs an intermediate parent item?

Re: Soft 2014 in Linux is "always-on-top"?

Thanks Thomas I appreciate your help a lot, as I am struggling with this for some time now, and I am quite new to Linux too so you mean renaming the original /usr/lib64/libx11.so.6 ? won't this affect other apps on my computer? here is what I got running those commands source

Re: Soft 2014 in Linux is "always-on-top"?

You still have to remove/rename libX11.so.6 .You can try to compare to my libraries:in a termianl run:tcshsource /usr/Softimage/Softimage_2015_SP2/.xsi_2015_SP2cd $XSI_HOME/Application/binldd XSI.binMy output:linux-vdso.so.1 (0x7ffdba7bb000) libadlmint.so.9 =>

Re: Soft 2014 in Linux is "always-on-top"?

Hi Thomas I guess I will have to dig out the centos 6 libraries as I tried this and got same error message Thanks Ahmed On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 12:40 AM, Thomas Volkmann wrote: > It's a long time since I made a clean install on a linux system. > From what I

Re: softimage pass trick in houdini

Thanks. They seem a bit above my IQ grade, but will give them a go :) G On 2017/09/13 10:59 AM, ralph.schoeneb...@t-online.de wrote: Hi You could a use scenewide stylesheet for that, should be quite fast to setup (hope the jpg comes through) Ralph -- Originalnachricht -- Von:

softimage pass trick in houdini

Hey guys and girls. Back when life was simple and softimage was still a thing in my life, There was this thing called passes. I know houdini has takes, and they are awesome, but There was this nifty trick in soft where a new empty pass automatically had everything in your scene grouped under

Re: Soft 2014 in Linux is "always-on-top"?

It's a long time since I made a clean install on a linux system. >From what I remember you have to put these libs into the Application/bin >folder: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ph864dr6c831s6h/AABMwRSBkIO5eSheJ6aTgyg8a?dl=0 These are libs from the last Fedora version that ran out of the box