Re: May 30th, 2010: 20th Anniversary of XSI 1.0

I think I saw that too... just download Blender or Natron, or Toxik :P Even Digital Fusion is free now I think, somewhere in Da Vinci Resolve. What a great time to be frugal! On Tue, 9 Jun 2020 at 15:34, Sven Constable wrote: > Hey Luc-Eric, > > > > just because the FXTree was mentioned… when

Re: animation editor display error

It's not worth running "runonce" or re-installing the product or the video driver. What you first need to do is delete your Softimage user preferences. Facerobot probably changed them, and now they are saved so you keep getting it back even if you disable FaceRobot On Mon, 8 Jun 2020 at 19:28,

Re: May 30th, 2010: 20th Anniversary of XSI 1.0

;>> >>> On 4 Jun 2020, at 03:20, Gregor Punchatz wrote: >>> >>> That was an exciting time in CGI, it was a blast to be around for the >>> ride. >>> >>> Gregor Punchatz >>> CGI/VFX/Animation >>> 214-288-0364 >>> >>>

Re: animation editor display error

I've answered this before, I cannot recall the details. The changes you see are probably due to the face robot plugin being loaded and changing user prefs I think you need to disable facerobot and save the scene again. There is some explanation for the UI for that here:

Re: May 30th, 2010: 20th Anniversary of XSI 1.0

We're not getting any younger... On Mon, 31 May 2010 at 12:35: > did you know... Yesterday was the anniversary of Softimage|XSI > > MONTREAL--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 30, 2000 > Softimage Co., a subsidiary of Avid Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVID), > today announced the first shipment of its

Re: Midterm Exam

I don't think re-installing or runonce would fix a tool like this. It is necessarily a user preference. It can also be the interaction mode in the file menu. If you choose Softimage3D, the manipulators will be disabled. If I'm not mistaken, when you first start the software after a clean install,

The Softimage mailing list

Hi. The 11th anniversary of the Softimage acquisition, and therefore this version of the list, has come and gone last month. I started working at Softimage in 1997, and it's been part of my life ever since. My black t-shirts are faded, and my children recently found some XSI "tattoos" and

Re: test

For replying/editing, it’s a downgrade as the message is a picture/object that cannot be trimmed/edited in a message. You'd think by 2018 somebody would've figured this out by now. Matt Message: 1 Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2018 18:59:36 + From: Luc-Eric Rousseau <l

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Re: What were they thinking....

On 30 August 2017 at 04:44, Matt Lind wrote: > I've also experienced 'ghost' hotkeys in some other cases. Here it happens > with certain modeling operators, let's say when M or R is pressed after > extruding, Maya tries to switch the worskpace to modeling or rigging, >

Re: What were they thinking....

it is an uncalled for action that has the potential to cause severe > loss of data. Which is what happened in my case, because when I went to > delete the 40,000+ extra copies that I did not need, it was still trying to > delete them a day later. > > Joey > > > > -

Re: What were they thinking....

> Ctrl-V executes a scene read, of the currently saved scene into the > existing scene > This happens if you are in the outliner > Its basically the equivalent of import scene I think you're confused about this one. Ctrl+V is just the "paste" command and the clipboard is implemented by

Re: PlayblastVR for Softimage

I will certainly give this a try with my GearVR, but I would have named the plug "Viewport Capture VR" myself :) On 2 May 2016 at 17:58, Tenshi . wrote: > Oh i though it was free...because you know.. EOL... But it seems like a > good addon. Thanks for sharing. > > On Mon,

Re: OpenGL in Object View

Do you not have a drop down to pick change the viewing mode to Realtime Shader? If that doesn't do what you expect, chose the same camera that you're using in the viewport. the viewing mode is a camera property On 29 April 2016 at 05:35, Martin Yara wrote: > Hi, I've always

Re: Max has a new uv editor texture

I'm pretty sure we owe noicon.pic to Dave Lajoie Ironically, I recall the max uv editor was the model for the XSI texture editor. On 24 April 2016 at 08:08, Graham Bell wrote: > Heh, I wondered what many would think of that if it was picked up. > > In some ways it does mean

Re: Autodesk acquires Solid Angle

Right now the press interviews are saying the Arnold acquisition will help "accelerate the drive to the cloud" and that Arnold is "Cloud Ready". http://tinyurl.com/jmvc7ke It's a perfectly logical explanation, rendering services is an obvious cloud service. For softimage, the actual text of the

Re: New render layers in maya

Hello, layers are passes, and collections are groups. There is no equivalent of partitions. Collections are interpreted with the last rule overriding what came before, and can be re-ordered. http://tinyurl.com/j3orwg4 On 21 April 2016 at 06:42, Jean-Louis Billard wrote: >

Re: Autodesk acquires Solid Angle

On 21 April 2016 at 08:50, Angus Davidson wrote: > > Wasn’t patents the excuse AD used to not sell it / Open source it ? What? No. It looks like you don't understand what a patent is. A patent is published and documented, it's not protected by hiding source code that

Re: Autodesk acquires Solid Angle

On 21 April 2016 at 05:26, Matt Lind wrote: > So what happened to cause the numbers to drop significantly in 2008? > Hmmmlet me think...Oh, that's right, XSI v6.0 was released on the last > day in 2006 (call it 2007) - the biggest lemon and disaster in XSI's > history.

Re: Autodesk acquires Solid Angle

Oh my god, parents again? Patents are worth nothing if you are not in the business of licensing patents, which Autodesk isn't in. Where these millions dollar patents exactly, and how is that worth 35 miliions? Hiring dozens of people in one shot plus a working business is worth millions, not

Re: New render layers in maya

Maybe it's because I know how this stuff works, but I think that video seems to make it looks more complicated than it is. XSI's render setup system has passes, groups, background/forground partitions, creating an override prop, drag and dropping from ppg divot or explorer to some dead spot on

Re: Autodesk acquires Solid Angle

I think they meant the .pdf FAQ here http://www.autodesk.com/solidangle On 18 April 2016 at 10:14, Ognjen Vukovic wrote: > Eric i just saw that now. Do you know which press release the article was > referring to, i would love to see that. -- Softimage Mailing List. To

Re: Using viewport stats will slow down interaction speed

If they added that in 2015, they shouldn't have... It sounds like it's the same problem that Edit->Info Scene: showing the number of triangle causes the mesh to be triangulated and that blow up in term of CPU and GPU ram and additional processing. Unfortunately, once that triangulation has been

Re: XSI and Window 10, the bright future

If you're the kind of person that's using "Classic Shell" you should probably not upgrade to windows 10. Just leave that machine on windows 7 until it dies, and you'll get windows 10 on the next PC. There is a way, however, you can keep your "free windows 10" option open forever and not worry

Re: scripting Weights

0.3 can't be expressed exactly in floating point numbers. It's possible through manipulation that you can get it to a number that the code that the function which prints the number happens to neatly truncate back 0.3, but the value isn't actually ever stored as 0.3.

Re: si runs out of contiguous memory

that are linked on the character are not linked up (remote job, > only have the model). > > > On 22 February 2016 at 15:32, Luc-Eric Rousseau <luceri...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> The image library has a message that says "Cannot allocate xx bytes of >> contiguous mem

Re: si runs out of contiguous memory

any images loaded - all my viewports are wireframe or shaded, and the >> textures that are linked on the character are not linked up (remote job, >> only have the model). >> >> >> On 22 February 2016 at 15:32, Luc-Eric Rousseau <luceri...@gmail.com> wrote: >&g

Re: si runs out of contiguous memory

The image library has a message that says "Cannot allocate xx bytes of contiguous memory" This might happen if you are using a lot of very large images. On 22 February 2016 at 10:16, Matt Morris wrote: > I was thinking it must be a leak of some sort. Running win 7 64, an i7 >

Re: Goodbyes (was this is the end...)

There is about 950 members, but unfortunately that includes tons of people with invalid email addresses. I don't know how to extract the active members, and there are also people that I know are subscribed but don't read. On 4 February 2016 at 14:15, Stephen Blair wrote:

Re: this is the end......

If it makes anyone feel better, I harass my colleagues here about how we did things in Softimage to the point of turning it into a running joke where I preface meetings by saying "as you know, I must legally mention Softimage twice a day..." And although I meant that as an annoying

Re: Goodbyes (was this is the end...)

Oh, nobody wants an Autodesk guy moderating an XSI list, this is just something the list got stuck with :P I'm not aware of the list being at risk of going away, however nothing can last forever. I cannot help you with moving the users elsewhere, the list of subscribers is protected by the

Re: this is the end......

There is kind of an architectural glass ceilling with ICE modeling, unfortunately. As it's implemented, it's like writing a script that calls the functions we have internally, there is no actual geometry going through the ICE graph. I'm more curious about what we could have done for animation and

Re: Installing ECSU2016 Softimage on renderfarm?

The "R2" build of Softimage 2016 is the one you use when you use Softimage with a "2016" product, like the suite or the "maya 2016 with softimage" package. In other words, it's "release 2" because there is no Softimage 2016. You can download softimage service packs here:

Re: So.. Maya rigging is still a thing...

On 27 January 2016 at 05:03, Martin Yara wrote: > Being said that, I haven't being able to open Maya 2016 scenes in older > versions, haven't tried that hard though. I guess I'll have to do some ASCII > edition of the scene. It's in Preferences->File/Projects->Version->[ x ]

Re: Stepped curves a´la Maya in Softimage?

It used to be called "Curve>Constant". It was renamed to "Curve->Stepped" in Softimage 2012 to match the name in Maya. On 18 January 2016 at 06:48, gareth bell wrote: > > I think "Softimage" is Esperanto for "Just works out-of-the-box" > > --

Re: OT Maya: (Please god tell me i'm not alone with this)

snapping is on perhaps? On 18 January 2016 at 04:01, Martin Yara wrote: > I see, I don't know any setting to change this behaviour or solution other > than use drag select instead of click select when you are using move or > rotation tools for selection, or use the selection

Re: OT: Benchmarking Maya´s performance at render time. MentalRay benchmarks between SI

I don't think it's meaningful to compare Maya and XSI, because they render differently. If you do a render in XSI from the GUI, it renders with the embedded mental ray and shows you the progress. If you do batch render from Maya, it launches mayabatch in the background and then you can continue

Re: Copying animation with layers?

What about the Copy Animation menu command? http://softimage.wiki.softimage.com/xsidocs/ani_proc_CopyingAnimation.htm#Rcm28446 On 16 December 2015 at 08:06, Morten Bartholdy wrote: > I am moving animation from one character onto an almost identical one. The > original one

Re: Friday Flashback #249

-Original Message- > From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com > [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Luc-Eric > Rousseau > Sent: Friday, December 04, 2015 2:07 PM > To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com > Subject: Re: Friday Flashback #249 > > Tha

Re: Friday Flashback #249

That was more because we had no graphic designer at all since maybe 2004. On 4 December 2015 at 13:29, Brent McPherson wrote: > Awww, brings back fond memories of frankenstein-ing together new UI elements > from the existing bitmaps in MS Paint. :-) > > The lack of

Re: Windows 10 - what's the current verdict.

There isn't going to be anythings called service packs for Windows 10, it's continuous updates The big fall update was released three weeks ago. I've had trouble (audio not working, sleep issues) with my cheap HP laptop and had to go back to win7, but there is actually a button in windows 10 to go

Re: VS2012 Debugg CString CValue

right, you set your watch like filename.m_pData->m_WDebugString You can also make a functions in your plugin that returns what you want to see as a "const char *" and add a call to that function in your watch window. It'll print the value there. You can call c++ methods and functions in many

Re: Small Scripty Thing - open render location in Explorer

Not the Windows Explorer, but you can right-click on the spreadsheet "Render ChannelsOutput" in the pass ppg and open a XSI file browser there by choosing "Browse". worse case it makes it easier to copy/paste the path somewhere else On 9 November 2015 at 09:20, Ognjen Vukovic

Re: Leasing Softimage?

As far as I know, technology-wise, you cannot run versions of any product earlier than 2014 on rental license. They don't have the licensing component that recognize this type of license. On 3 November 2015 at 10:33, Morten Bartholdy wrote: > We currently have a need for

Re: Softimage 2015 Service Pack 2 is now available

If softimage is licensed as part of a 2016 bundle, it needs the 2016 licensing implementation, so it's a different build. Le 2015-10-06 06:18, "Leendert A. Hartog" a écrit : > Hi, > Thanks for that. > You wrote "the only difference is in the supported licensing year." > Could

Re: [CDH] again

the fltk examples demonstrates creating a thread to pump messages for FLTK, which I assume is also what you need to do to get messages from X or to a Qt window On 4 October 2015 at 21:17, Oleg Bliznuk wrote: > @Stefan > Thanks for pointing out, that example with qt brings the

Re: [CDH] again

I have not had any experience with it, but here is a 10 year old FLTK example (http://www.fltk.org/i) that supported linux https://www.dropbox.com/s/b2rm1badwh1pnvw/fltkCustomDisplay.cpp?dl=0 On 29 September 2015 at 19:38, Oleg Bliznuk wrote: > Hi list, > > does anybody have

Re: FBX: all takes in one import?

load mode is not undocumented, it's the radio button parameter on the ImportFBXOption property page. 3 is "update animation" On 2 September 2015 at 12:40, Leendert A. Hartog wrote: > Is there any way to figure out what other undocumented goodies > (similar to "LoadMode") are

RE: command port to XSI

The c# sample in the sdk is what creates the server that listens to a socket. There is no command port feature xsi otherwise Le 2015-09-02 18:31, "Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES]" < j.ponthi...@nasa.gov> a écrit : > Eric, > > > > Thanks. I found the files but can’t really tell if I am

Re: FBX: all takes in one import?

there are big problems with autodesk docs and google searches. try the properties documentation docs http://docs.autodesk.com/SI/2015/ENU/#!/url=./files/dataman_xwalk_props_ImportFBXOptionsDialogBox.htm On 2 September 2015 at 14:38, Leendert A. Hartog wrote: > Maybe my

Re: FBX: all takes in one import?

ld have said... > > --- Original Message --- > > From: "Luc-Eric Rousseau" <luceri...@gmail.com> > Sent: 2 September 2015 21:53 > To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com > Subject: Re: FBX: all takes in one import? > > there are big problems with autodesk docs and goo

Re: FBX: all takes in one import?

as far as I know, the fbx commands take all their parameters from that crosswalk property set at the scene root. http://softimage.wiki.softimage.com/xsidocs/import_export_xwalk4xsi_ScriptingCrosswalkForSoftimage.htm I don't think there is anything to query the number of takes. The actual

Re: FBX: all takes in one import?

what happens when you run the FBXImport script command, with different takeIDs, does it work? On 1 September 2015 at 11:18, Leendert A. Hartog wrote: > No, it wouldn't. > But they have already (and repeatedly) stated their initial goal to focus > on the Unity crowd. > > >

Re: Friday Flashback #238

I remember opening a softimage 3D asset in the DS timeline, and changing the texture placement on it, and having it re-render, right there in the editing timeline, with mental ray - 15 years ago. It wasn’t all that useful, but it hinted of some very exciting future links between 3D and

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Re: So this is where the MeshMixer dev has been hiding? Nice presentation.

that video seems to have gone MIA, but I've heard it might come back online later. There is another 1h video called Making Maya Easier to Use, from earlier on the month, which covers the 2016 modeling changes, some based on softimage feedback, along with other UI changes.

Re: ICE Tree UI takes ages to load and locks up.

Try turning off high quality text in the render tree options, if you have that turned on. Or turn it on if you're on ati

Re: FBX Problems: Image Clips don't appear on Tex.Editor after FBX exporting

I don't know if this helps, but the clip that's displayed in the OpenGL and the texture editor is selected in the Material node. Double click it in the SE and at the very top go to the OpenGL Display tab.

Re: Custom Op : Dynamic port connected to float parameters

that is probably the problem. the point of port groups is that you create a group of multiple ports and each port have a different filter to say what to connect to. then you call connectToGroup with the object, and it will connect each port in the group to the right thing on that object. We call

Re: ( Maya scripting question ): Create a picking session similar to MOTOR PPG

It's a bit trickier. The command is scriptCtx, which creates a tool based on the selection tool. If you run any of the examples, you'll notice that nothing happens. This is because the command defines a tool and you need to switch to that tool, for example setToolTo attachTool

Re: ICE team went to Maya (2011)

On 9 June 2015 at 23:07, Raffaele Fragapane raffsxsil...@googlemail.com wrote: They never said anything involving ICE AFAIK. Neither did Jason. They did mention that they are trying to make Houdini more pleasant to use, and want animation (the user facing, artist oriented part of it) to

Re: ICE team went to Maya (2011)

Of the lot probably only Fabric can lay a heritage claim of sorts I believe, not that it really matters though. All in all this is taking an odd turn, and I think part of it stems from a general misunderstanding of development by people who don't do it for a living. I like how you are the

Re: ICE team went to Maya (2011)

The people mentioned at the time of the EOL as working on Bifrost are still working on Bifrost. Whether it's the SDK, caching, geometry, etc, they're working on various things and mixing their experience and new things. On 5 June 2015 at 12:00, Pierre Schiller activemotionpictu...@gmail.com

Re: ICE team went to Maya (2011)

Andre here says at least 20 dev worked on ICE, so you're going to hear that kind of stuff a lot. I'm not considered as one of the dev working on bifrost, btw, I'm the team leader and lead architect of the Maya UI. My present contribution to bifrost was creating the architecture that allows

RE: Writing custom loaders for .emdl and .scn files in other apps

I wish there *was* a spec! On Jun 2, 2015 4:11 PM, Angus Davidson angus.david...@wits.ac.za wrote: Maybe now that Soft is EOL, the best goodwill gesture from Autodesk would be to actually release the file specs. It serves the purpose for them of allowing people a way forward without having to

Re: Heavy scenes with the GTX 970

intuitively you'd think adding the .exe in the nvidia panel has no effect, but I'm not 100% sure about that, because the drivers do have hard coded app-specific code certain apps including Softimage and there is a possibly that this could enable them. Would need to be verified. On 29 May 2015 at

Re: GATOR - A feature in Softimage since 2008

-05-28 17:57 GMT+02:00 Luc-Eric Rousseau luceri...@gmail.com: Or it might have been Sega or Capcomp.. it was definitely one of these three big japan Softimage client. This was all about transferring uv and weighting between game characters and same and different resolutions. On 27 May 2015

Re: GATOR - A feature in Softimage since 2008

designed and coded GATOR? I'm just curious. Thanks! MAC -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Luc-Eric Rousseau Sent: May-27-15 9:11 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: GATOR

Re: GATOR - A feature in Softimage since 2008

Sorry, what are you reacting to in Substance Designer and Mari? What's the link with transferring vertex attributes in XSI? On 27 May 2015 at 13:22, Pierre Schiller activemotionpictu...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you for sharing, you guys. I think the video is self explanatory. Mari and Substance

Re: GATOR - A feature in Softimage since 2008

GATOR was developed for/with one of our main game customers, Square I think. I'm not aware of a Gator sdk, what is that? There are attribute transfers in other apps, but it's generally separate tools for textures vs rigging things, reflecting on their architecture vs XSI On 27 May 2015 at 19:27,

Re: Is purchasing a new softimage license impossible?

The equivalent in Maya of the +/- buttons of softimage is to turn on subdiv preview with the 3 hotkey, and use pageup/pagedown to change subdiv level. On 15 May 2015 at 14:54, John Richard Sanchez youngupstar...@gmail.com wrote: Going from mesh to sub d with the + and _ uttons I will miss. In

Re: Is purchasing a new softimage license impossible?

Oh you can post your little blender plugin appreciation essay..I just ban insults and large attachments ;) On May 14, 2015 5:19 PM, Eric Thivierge ethivie...@hybride.com wrote: Hey Sven, I'm not sure you have the right to police this list like that. I don't mind if this kind of stuff is

RE: Friday Flashback #223

-Eric Rousseau *Sent:* jueves, 14 de mayo de 2015 04:09 p. m. *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Re: Friday Flashback #223 Here is a set of those manuals being used as a prop on the set of Grey's Anatomy http://tinyurl.com/nsrlaan On 14 May 2015 at 15:09, emi...@e-roja.com

Re: Softimage Icon Removed from Mudbox?

On 28 April 2015 at 21:38, Sven Constable sixsi_l...@imagefront.de wrote: I never used that send to xyz. It was just too autodesk. I always wondered why to clutter a menue with somthing that’s basically not more than an export function. So you don't know what it is. It creates a live link

Re: Re: Softimage Icon Removed from Mudbox?

great! then you won't miss it. On 29 April 2015 at 10:26, Leo Quensel le...@gmx.de wrote: Oh and it also never works! What a feat! Gesendet: Mittwoch, 29. April 2015 um 16:19 Uhr Von: Luc-Eric Rousseau luceri...@gmail.com An: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com softimage@listproc.autodesk.com

Re: Softimage Icon Removed from Mudbox?

right... one thing though, send to is just a wrapper that automates calling FBX import/export menu command. You just have to do it manually when the Sent To option is not available. Same result. On 28 April 2015 at 03:53, Stefan Kubicek s...@tidbit-images.com wrote: 1.) afaik there will be no

Re: OT: Modeling changes in Maya 2016

Softimage-like Hide Polygons workflow didn't make it into Maya 2016, but there is a 10 minute silent video slash powerpoint that goes in excruciating detail about what has changed in Modeling and selection. It was meant for beta tester. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mv8nJp63eas On 15 April

Re: OT: Modeling changes in Maya 2016

this ? On 18 April 2015 at 14:31, Luc-Eric Rousseau luceri...@gmail.com wrote: Softimage-like Hide Polygons workflow didn't make it into Maya 2016, but there is a 10 minute silent video slash powerpoint that goes in excruciating detail about what has changed in Modeling and selection. It was meant

Re: OT: Hypershade changes in Maya 2016

:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [ mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Luc-Eric Rousseau *Sent:* 13 April 2015 17:11 *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Re: OT: Hypershade changes in Maya 2016 The node

Re: OT: Hypershade changes in Maya 2016

The node editor remembers the last graph when you reopen it. Tabs allow you to remember multiple graphs. On Apr 13, 2015 11:02 AM, Ognjen Vukovic ognj...@gmail.com wrote: What irkes me is the fact that you need to create tabs to save your network graph lay out. This should just be default

Re: Linux GUI weirdness

ok it's the wingdings font that's used for the checkbox. I think we ship that with XSI.. Otherwise you'd get it by installing the Microsoft core font package on linux On 4 April 2015 at 19:45, Luc-Eric Rousseau luceri...@gmail.com wrote: The missing checkmark in the spreadsheet control

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Re: Test

okay, thanks to the autodesk i.t. guy who fixed this on a Saturday of Easter.. On 4 April 2015 at 12:05, Francisco Criado malcriad...@gmail.com wrote: clear and loud ;) On Friday, April 3, 2015, Luc-Eric Rousseau luceri...@gmail.com wrote: Worky? -- Sent from Gmail Mobile

Re: Linux GUI weirdness

The missing checkmark in the spreadsheet control is something about font substitution. It's not a bitmap that's used, it's the checkmark symbol. In.. Arial font, perhaps. For the keyboard and the focus, I'm sure something can be fixed by fiddling with the window server's focus-follow-mouse

Re: Very OT: for the love of your career.. try houdini

On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 9:09 AM, Simon Reeves si...@simonreeves.com wrote: I've used it a decent amount as the guys at the foundation of our studio all use it, but I really dislike it (I used it years ago too before xsi) it is so dis-organised and slow, I think it breeds sloppy workflow with

Re: Self installing Prop survive New Scene

A custom user preference page are the only solution. Everything else will get flushed. On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 12:05 PM, Eric Thivierge ethivie...@hybride.com wrote: Not exactly what I was looking for. I want to attach my Property to something in the application so the UI stays open and valid

Re: Maxon sets up shop in Montreal

Alright.. it doesn't feel right to see my name so many times here ;) Btw, I thought the rain on my parade comment was about me questioning the 15k addressable user base number. About the rest of the comment I posted, I think got lost through repeated editing while being distracted with other

Re: Alembic performance?

Maya can stream alembic directly to the GPU without ever creating objects in the scene, so that may be another thing you saw On Mar 18, 2015 9:15 AM, Morten Bartholdy x...@colorshopvfx.dk wrote: I suspected this might be a factor - sux :/ MB Den 18. marts 2015 kl. 12:51 skrev Vincent

Re: Maxon sets up shop in Montreal

I don't know about that 5k number; the potential Cinema4D/softimage overlap is probably around 1500 seats total. After SI|3D, Alain was working out of Japan in consulting and not directly on the XSI product; he contributed the older user normal editing tool that was in the netview. On Wed, Mar

Re: OT maya random/linear in channel box

On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 10:56 AM, Jordi Bares Dominguez jordiba...@gmail.com wrote: Before someone jump in saying that maya is the worst thing in the universe It does to me as it breaks my thinking flow and momentum, exactly the same than someone asking to jump on a meeting while you are

Re: parenting in Softimage vs. Maya.....confusion

That vimeo video looks fine, but I can't make sense of the quoted forum discussion below. The video is telling that you Maya always branch select, i.e. when you pick a parent, the children are highlighted as well. So if you're still modelling on the components, the whole branch will be enabled

Re: Maya thinks they're clever....and that's the problem

Re:hotbox: I think this is an edge case, but actually, you can define your own user menu sets in Maya, and when you hide everything, it'll show the current menu sets, which means only what you want to see. And of course you can separately define a custom marking menu on any hotkey, they don't just

Re: Maya thinks they're clever....and that's the problem

and not just a procedure for the sake of being a procedure. From: Luc-Eric Rousseau [luceri...@gmail.com] On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES] j.ponthi...@nasa.gov wrote: (as already noted by another poster) If you have two primitives selected, and attempt to parent

Re: Maya thinks they're clever....and that's the problem

On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES] j.ponthi...@nasa.gov wrote: (as already noted by another poster) If you have two primitives selected, and attempt to parent constrain, the second selected object will constrain to the first (as already noted by another

Re: Maya thinks they're clever....and that's the problem

I'm not clear on how the Render Tree in XSI got to be called that, but I think there was a renderman-related product Shader Tree or ShadeTree that was hot at that time. We have often discussed internally that Render Tree was not a good name, you'd expect that to control the whole render process,

Re: test

everyone received your Softimage 2 Unreal post twice, but gmail won't show you your own post On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 7:58 PM, Francisco Criado malcriad...@gmail.com wrote: Already sent twice an email to the group, the first one 6 hours ago with a question and still doesn't appear...

Re: Buying 3dsMax to get Softimage - Help

a background process; it means it compute in a another process while you can do other things in Maya, client/server style. On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 4:13 AM, Nicolas Esposito 3dv...@gmail.com wrote: They're afraid to call it a plugin? 2015-02-13 10:07 GMT+01:00 olivier jeannel

Re: Maya, sheesh!

There's not a lot of meat in your original question. There are tons of modes, user preferences, tools and hotkeys in XSI, three different ways to do things, probably everyone uses it differently. Can you be more precise and compare specifically what you do in XSI vs Maya and people can answer

Re: Wireless MIDI device capture for Softimage - Tutorial

gmail sends everything posted from yahoo to mailing lists in spam folders. david should switch email. On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 3:41 PM, Mirko Jankovic mirkoj.anima...@gmail.com wrote: Same here no mater what David you always end up in Spam :) On Feb 6, 2015 9:38 PM, Dan Yargici

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