Re: File Referencing Editing In Situe

2014-06-23 Thread Sajjad Amjad
Hello, Depending on how much time you have, this may help. I made a layout maker which did something similar. For our purposes a layout is essentially a collection of models (referenced or otherwise). Our emdl exporter attached a custom property to each model which stored the current scene path

Re: PyQt or PySide

2014-06-10 Thread Sajjad Amjad
Hey Alok, I'm curious about where you're getting information about development of PySide. When I had to pick a horse I chose PyQt partly because the most popular thread on PySide was about PySide being dead :-) Things may have of course changed over the last few years. On 10 June 2014 15:45,

Re: Nike The Last Game

2014-06-09 Thread Sajjad Amjad
Not sure what kind of production details you're after, but software-wise, we used: Primarily Modo, Zbrush, Mudbox for modelling Mari and Photoshop for texturing Softimage for animation, crowds, fx Rendered with Arnold for Softimage Nuke for comping Marvelous Designer for cloth Houdini was used for

Re: Any notable advancements in Cloth ?

2014-05-30 Thread Sajjad Amjad
You can add Numerion's Carbon to the list. http://www.numerion-software.com/ On 30 May 2014 09:19, Sebastien Sterling sebastien.sterl...@gmail.com wrote: Have there been any new advancements in cloth sim recently ? New upcoming solvers, new workflows, gpu handled simulations ? compared to

Re: Houdini Weaknesses

2014-05-21 Thread Sajjad Amjad
How much custom plugin development do you have to do with Houdini compared to Softimage, Maya, etc...? Let's define a plugin as something you'd write as a script or C++ lib that gets included in the software as a reusable tool, perhaps providing it's own GUI front end (if applicable) and is

Re: Luxology Modo 50% off for this mailing list - A new word from Brad Peebler

2014-03-10 Thread Sajjad Amjad
And here I was, making some popcorn. Guess it's back to the mindless violence threads for me. On 10 Mar 2014 06:04, Raffaele Fragapane raffsxsil...@googlemail.com wrote: Bugger! That last mail was supposed to be private. Apologies in advance if anybody finds it out of line, particularly to

Re: Pose space deformation in ICE? i.e. how I maek posereaders?

2014-02-16 Thread Sajjad Amjad
Hello and welcome to the list, I'm not sure if I completely understand your question but you can certainly read orientations (bone, nulls, etc.) in ICE and you can also drive shape weights. I think it should then be possible to do what you require. Outside of ICE, have you looked at the Link

Re: Finding a group in python

2013-08-07 Thread Sajjad Amjad
Hi Sandy, What about iterating through model.Groups (this returns a GroupCollection)? On 7 August 2013 08:26, Sandy Sutherland sandy.mailli...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, How does one find a group - it appears FindChild does not support finding groups? Thanks Sandy

Re: softimage and it's binary format

2013-01-28 Thread Sajjad Amjad
Some oil for the fire: The terms 'non-trivial' and 'cost benefit to the customer' come to mind. * ducks out * On 28 January 2013 14:55, Ciaran Moloney moloney.cia...@gmail.com wrote: This has been a commonly requested feature over the years On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Stefan

Re: softimage and it's binary format

2013-01-28 Thread Sajjad Amjad
Just to clarify, those are some of the terms I heard from the AD end whenever someone brought this issue up. Like Ciaran said, this request has been brought up frequently. Anyone involved with trouble-shooting knows the benefits of having ASCII files, just need to convince the devs. On 28

Re: filename length limit

2012-11-30 Thread Sajjad Amjad
It's not really a Windows limitation anymore. My guess is that Softimage isn't converting paths to UNC (internally or accepting the forced UNC path format i.e. \\?\d:\32k path), details: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247.aspx#maxpath On 30 November 2012 12:20, Alok Gandhi

Re: Compound Combo Value in spdl

2012-10-08 Thread Sajjad Amjad
Hi Keith, This isn't a direct solution, but you might want to have a look at the PPG logic in the 'Particle Renderer' factory compound, they use the siControlCombo. Hope this helps, Sajjad On 8 October 2012 13:10, Keith Fallon keithmfal...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there, I'm adding a UI to a

Re: rendermap on a farm with xsibatch

2012-10-05 Thread Sajjad Amjad
Hi Kris, I wrote this a while ago, it may help: http://www.sajjadamjad.com/plugins.html#Mapify It includes a command which enables render mapping through xsibatch. After installing the add-on read the help file for more info, I can't remember much :-) Cheers, Sajjad On 5 October 2012 17:07,

Re: [BUG] Softimage crashing on workgroup unload containing a custom renderer and at least on .xsirtcompound file

2012-09-05 Thread Sajjad Amjad
Apologies for bringing this slightly old thread back to life. I have been testing workgroup switching without having to restart Softimage. Specifically, I have two workgroups, where each workgroup has just one add-on installed in it. No .xsirtcompound files exist in any workgroup. The addon in

Re: Friday Flashback

2012-08-31 Thread Sajjad Amjad
O_o On 31 August 2012 11:54, Stephen Blair stephenrbl...@gmail.com wrote: Friday Flashback #85 The end part II http://wp.me/powV4-24o On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Chris Chia chris.c...@autodesk.comwrote: My memories working with Softimage 3D on a SGI... Sent from my iPhone On

Re: Friday Flashback

2012-08-31 Thread Sajjad Amjad
On 31 August 2012 11:58, Sajjad Amjad sajjad.am...@gmail.com wrote: O_o On 31 August 2012 11:54, Stephen Blair stephenrbl...@gmail.com wrote: Friday Flashback #85 The end part II http://wp.me/powV4-24o On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Chris Chia chris.c...@autodesk.comwrote: My

Re: Autodesk Layoffs

2012-08-24 Thread Sajjad Amjad
For what it's worth, FTA: An Autodesk representative tell us that while the company eliminated close to 500 positions Thursday, it plans to create that many new jobs over the course of the year. On 24 August 2012 16:24, Greg Punchatz g...@janimation.com wrote: Not wanting to start a doom and

Re: Graphic card for a workstation again

2012-08-21 Thread Sajjad Amjad
Just a note that Adobe has been moving away from CUDA on to OpenCL.I recall reading some news items a while ago which announced this shift ( http://www.amd.com/us/press-releases/Pages/amd-and-adobe-creative-suite-6-2012apr23.aspx ) According to the GPU FAQ for CS6, the new Mercury Graphics Engine

Re: bbc olympics titles

2012-07-06 Thread Sajjad Amjad
As far as I know, the jiggle on the pants is deliberate, under the arms not so much :-) I think the point being made is that MD allowed us to do cloth sims to a much higher quality given the time constraints. For the sake of comparison, we have a lot of experience with Syflex, and it still has

Re: bbc olympics titles

2012-07-04 Thread Sajjad Amjad
, Mirko Jankovic mirko.janko...@aeonproduction.comwrote: Any reason why not Arnold for all rendering? just curious :) And to join congratulations, amazing work! On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Sajjad Amjad sajjad.am...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Guys, Just confirming some of the stuff said previously

Re: bbc olympics titles

2012-07-04 Thread Sajjad Amjad
* * * On 4 July 2012 11:22, Mirko Jankovic mirko.janko...@aeonproduction.comwrote: Any reason why not Arnold for all rendering? just curious :) And to join congratulations, amazing work! On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Sajjad Amjad sajjad.am...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Guys, Just confirming some

Re: Get Scene File Version

2012-05-11 Thread Sajjad Amjad
Depending on the complexity of control you want, the following may not work. You could make a custom preference file per project. These preferences, amongst other things, could hold what app versions are allowed. A beginsceneload event could then check that the correct app version is the host. On