dual Xeon 1366 workstation motherboard.
I rate my military spec (but gaming) sabretooth motherboard, still going strong
4 years in https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/SABERTOOTH_X58/
On 9 December 2016 at 03:13, Sam Bowling <sbowl...@cox.net> wrote:
I’m in the process of replacing my 20
...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Angus Davidson
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2016 10:04 PM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: RE: OT dual Xeon 1366 workstation motherboard.
Out of curiosity, why move to Sierra ?
From: Sam Bowling [mailto:sbowl...@cox.net]
Sent: Friday, 09
I'm in the process of replacing my 2010 mac pro with a windows system
because Sierra is the biggest pile of crap OS I've ever used. I'm planning
on putting together a dual 6 core LGA 1366 system using two Xeon 3.6 cpus.
I'm also planning on having about 12TB (about 6-8 drives) of storage since I
is a composer who has a large catalog of free, royalty free music
available.
http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/
On 6/24/2015 8:54 PM, Sam Bowling wrote:
I’ve just spent about half a day trying to find stock similar to the music from
a commercial sent us by a very picky client
I’ve just spent about half a day trying to find stock similar to the music from
a commercial sent us by a very picky client with no luck, so I thought I would
ask you guys where you get your stock music when you need it. Our music library
is very small and honestly not that great (most of it
The problem with Paying monthly for all you software is that it starts to add
up real quick. People don't want to pay for their software every month, they
want to pay for it once and then forget about it for a year or two, or maybe
even more. Subscriptions also leads to extremely buggy
That’s the big difference between Autodesk and adobe. For $49 you get
everything that adobe makes. Most people can afford that. With Autodesk it’s
more like having another car payment, which most people cannot afford.
From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com
Unfortunately all that power is wasted behind one of the most terrible user
interfaces since …. Lightwave. Cinema 4D seems to make much more sense to me.
It is sooo much less cluttered and is not full of garbage that I shouldn’t have
to deal with in the first place for doing simple things. The
Just wondering if anyone has done any real character animation in C4D. I bought
version 9 when I dumped Lightwave and the character animation tools were pretty
much crap (which is why I own Softimage now). I heard they updated them a while
back, but I can’t really find any tutorials or even
...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Sam Bowling
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2014 6:32 PM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: RE: Cinema 4D an option?
Just wondering if anyone has done any real character animation in C4D. I bought
version 9 when I dumped Lightwave and the character
comment on Blender, since I have yet to get my hands dirty with it.
Cheers!
Sergio Muciño.
Sent from my iPad.
On May 2, 2014, at 1:24 AM, Sam Bowling sbowl...@cox.net wrote:
I’ve been looking around at alternatives to Softimage and not having any luck.
Modo have some great features
I’ve been looking around at alternatives to Softimage and not having any luck.
Modo have some great features, but the interface is just crap. There are way
too many different layouts for things that should mostly be done in one or
maybe 2 different layouts. Things like snapping rotations (or
They ever get a working bevel tool for blender? Last time I looked at it,
there wasnt even a decent way to do bevels and that was where I stopped
looking at it. A tool that has been around this long lacking one of the
most basic modeling tools is just sad. Sure, its great for free, but its
LOL! Moving from Softimage to LW would be like moving from a Ferrari to a
rusted out VW beetle that doesn't have an engine, steering wheel or seats.
Can you undo things in the dope sheet editor yet, or do you still have to
save your scene every time you are about to make any changes so that if you
- A new word from
Brad Peebler
I'm just hearing a lot of hate mixed in with some factual inaccuracies. I
guess the other grown-ups here should be grateful they have you watching
their backs?
-Tim
On 3/7/2014 10:32 PM, Sam Bowling wrote:
For Gods sake try the demo before you buy! Last I used
From the sound of it, there are a lot of people who have or are ready to put
down a lot of money to buy Modo. I think this would be a huge mistake. As
you said, Modo is not a complete replacement for Softimage, but the offers
(such as the one from Brad) do indeed imply that. Honestly, these kind
For Gods sake try the demo before you buy! Last I used Modo (a very long
time ago) it was severely lacking in a lot of features. Many may have been
fixed, but Many may have not. Curves were a complete joke when I used it.
They were absolutely terrible. Once you draw out your curve and drop the
Brad Peebler is a good guy and that's a very generous offer they have, but I
just don't feel that Modo is a professional quality product. It's got a lot
of improvements over Lightwave, but again, it has all the same weaknesses
and they have made all the same mistakes they made when they developed
To me, the upgrades haven't been worth the upgrade price lately (still on
2013 for Softimage), what makes them think I would pay full price for the
next one? If it comes to dropping that much money on an upgrade I'm going to
do some serious looking around before spending anything. Autodesk has
If you really feel like reinstalling an OS, reinstall windows 7, you will
get a performance increase because it's a fresh install and you will get all
the fun of reinstalling all of your programs but you won't get the crap that
is windows 8 in the process. Don't waste your time or money on windows
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, Aug 19, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Sam Bowling sbowl...@cox.net wrote:
One of the big surprises when I started working at this company that uses
a
lot of macs was the complete lack of free utilities available on a mac.
You
can get almost any kind of converter/utility for windows for free, but
EVERYTHING
wasn't that terrible either.
also having used Linux for almost 2 years at work I've realized you can get
used to and be quite happy with anything, its just a matter of using it long
enough really, even though I still would never bother using linux at home..
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Sam
You realize that there are still a ton of people that are still running windows
XP, right? You also seem to be forgetting Vista (which I actually liked, but
most other people didn’t).
From: Andreas Bystrom
Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2012 1:05 AM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject:
We use macs where I work and upgraded last year, right after Lion came out.
Quicktime is just garbage compared to what it used to be and even with the
latest updates, the OS is still full of bugs (especially if you use 2
monitors). Maybe with Jobs out of the way things will improve, but I sort
the desktop?
It's on the ARM that the desktop might go away, but on intel i'm pretty sure
it's here to stay.
On Aug 17, 2012 10:50 PM, Sam Bowling sbowl...@cox.net wrote:
Interesting because no one seems to have been able to find it yet. I haven’t
tried the actual RTM version.
From: Matt Lind
, but you would have to
activate it from the control panel.
Matt
From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com
[mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Sam Bowling
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 7:33 PM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: Re: OT: Windows 8
to the par your work and cost sits
at now.
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 1:35 PM, Sam Bowling sbowl...@cox.net wrote:
CrowdFX I'm finding it harder and harder to find a reason to upgrade this
software. I love the program, but there's just nothing new being added other
ice stuff and that is really
Macs are obscenely overpriced for what you get. Look at the price of memory on
the Apple web site, then go to newegg.com and look up the same memory. The
difference is about 4 time more for the memory from apple($150 for 4Gigs vs.
$37). Considering that the original mac g5 had a 50% failure
Before they Bin OSX? Another release like lion and it will be gone before
Softimage!
From: Simon Pickard
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 9:09 PM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: Re: Intro to the new team (was RE: Softimage development)
Bit selfish I know but can I get an OSX
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