Re: Lets Hope Autodesk Buys the Foundry!

2014-12-16 Thread Stephan Hempel
Best thing would be if the community i.e. some big and small studios would unite to a cooperative, throw in their money and would buy the whole thing. Very unlikely though that this happens. Stephan. am Dienstag, 16. Dezember 2014 um 12:37 schrieben Sie: pbc Its starting to feel that the safest

Re: registeronce browser gotcha?

2014-11-23 Thread Stephan Hempel
I had the same issues this year with registering Si2015 and the SiMaya Bundle with Firefox. The only way was registering through Autodesk support directly. Cheers, Stephan.

Re: WireD plugin

2014-05-13 Thread Stephan Hempel
In 2015 it works. Be sure to use the latest version from www.rray.de/xsi. I first tried an older version I had laying around which threw an error, too. Cheers, Stephan. am Montag, 12. Mai 2014 um 17:03 schriebst Du: Anyone still using this? I get an error when installing on 2014sp2. Thanks

Re: Update to the Softtimage Transition Plan

2014-03-09 Thread Stephan Hempel
Since there still seems some chance for improvement of the current situation I have yet another suggestion although I am sure that we can't turn the wheel back. It was stated that quite some schools use Softimage for teaching 3D for obvious reasons. There shouldn't be a reason why they are

Another obituary

2014-03-07 Thread Stephan Hempel
http://www.redsharknews.com/post/item/1517-autodesk-shuts-down-softimage Cheers, Stephan

Re: A way forward - We are kingmakers.

2014-03-05 Thread Stephan Hempel
at such a depressing moment it Softimage history. Thanks again, Alex On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 11:10 PM, Stephan Hempel elh...@gmail.com wrote: after laying around the whole night and couldn't sleep here are my 2 cents on the whole situation. When you look at the history of Softimage it's quite

Re: A way forward - We are kingmakers.

2014-03-04 Thread Stephan Hempel
everybody tries to build something themselves, shouldn't people try to bundle forces? And I'm not only talking about individuals here. I'm talking about small to medium size companies who couldn't afford to build something like this alone. -- Mit freundlichen GrĂ¼ssen Stephan Hempel

Re: License to END if you migrate?!

2014-03-04 Thread Stephan Hempel
I have always had the impression that at Autodesk more lawyers are employed then developers. This seems to prove it. Ohh I hate lawyers! They make the world so complicated! By the way can Autodesk be sued for damages for nonperformance? At least the big studios have a mayor financial damage by

Re: Softimage Devs petition

2014-03-03 Thread Stephan Hempel
Maybe Autodesk should sell the whole ME division to the community before they dump any valuable asset into the ground and therefore decrease the total value of ME. Given that ME only contributes 7% to their profits lets me wonder why they moved into this business in the first place. I think

Re: Softimage Devs petition

2014-03-03 Thread Stephan Hempel
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Stephan Hempel elh...@gmail.com wrote: PG Maybe Autodesk should sell the whole ME division to the community PG before they dump any valuable asset into the ground and PG therefore decrease the total value of ME. Given that ME only PG contributes 7% to their profits

Re: ocean surface generation - arete stylee

2013-08-23 Thread Stephan Hempel
are you looking for something like this: http://www.si-community.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=4t=3504 Stephan. am Donnerstag, 22. August 2013 um 23:23 schriebst Du: Hi, For those that remember the old Arete Psunami plugin... I always liked ocean surface geometry generator, the one that gave

Re: Dealing with CAD files format

2013-08-14 Thread Stephan Hempel
Hi would strongly recommend step-Files and convert them with MoI. So you have full control over how the geometry gets meshed (MoI has quite some options for tuning). And ask the client to keep the assembly groups intact. So you have all building blocks properly named as separate objects and don't

Re: Dealing with CAD files format

2013-08-14 Thread Stephan Hempel
. __ eisblau | produkt + prozessvisualisierung | animation + visual effects Stephan Hempel stephan.hem...@eisblaufx.net Tel +49.(0)3643.251186 Goetheplatz 9b www.eisblau.deFunk +49.(0)179.1356295 99423 Weimar am Mittwoch, 14. August 2013 um 16:36 schrieben Sie: LOY Stephan, LOY So

Re: Mia architectural highlights, bug?

2013-02-15 Thread Stephan Hempel
It seems like the infamous burned highlights problem which occurs when you are lighting with IBL and normal lights. When you are using the already mentioned Advanced MIA material you have to activate Clamp Maximum for HDR rendering at the bottom of the Optimization Tab and set to something

Re: Normal Maps in Softimage

2012-12-12 Thread Stephan Hempel
2 color node set to mix with RGB at .5 and B at 1 doesn't quite cut it.. Is there a good working solution that I am simply missing? A better normalMap node perhaps? Irie.. Adam -- Mit freundlichen GrĂ¼ssen Stephan Hempel mailto:hempli...@web.de