PS: and it has been scientifically proved that websites using HTML tables
for non-tabular data can't be serious.
lol, that one killed me dude.
2013/9/23 Graham D Clark mailgrahamdcl...@gmail.com
No I don't think they are based in Scottsdale thats Domainsbyproxy.com,
maybe go down the
well job Gene,
I would now spent a bit of time on the code itself to make it more
flexible. It would be great to have clear separation between plugins, core
lib and ui code imho.
@Alan, don't do that please...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
2013/7/11 Alan Fregtman
alan.fregt...@gmail.comwrote:
*Oh my...*
So what's the ideal short-form datetime storage? A long string?
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 2:00 AM, jo benayoun jobenay...@gmail.comwrote:
well job Gene,
I would now spent a bit of time on the code itself to make it more
flexible. It would
Hey Gene,
that's a very good idea and if well developed could de facto become useful
to many studio outta here (most comes with their own because of this lack
of standard that would answer any needs).
Some rough notes though if I may:
- unit: as soon as you store transforms in a file, you want to
Hey Gene,
no worries, I don't take it wrong. It is tough to compile a set of
arguments in a so short amount of time, but I'll give it a try.
So forgive me if I repeat myself or I am not enough detailled.
At the end there is always a good reason mostly driven by our own
experience, the production
Hey Vincent,
multithreading is different of multiprocessing...
short long story, multithreading is about running many threads in the same
memory space (so shared memory and so use of patterns such as mutex,
semaphore,...)
while multiprocessing is about running different external processes (all
I wasnt expecting this. Really surprised as it looks really good, congrats
to the team for the release!
-- jo
Le mercredi 1 mai 2013, Christopher a écrit :
The next one will make a louder dino sound, that is what it will
differentiate it from the other 30 :)
::Christopher
Andre De
actually, this is not really new and is quite similar to the way
envelopping is done for years in the in-house 3D package at R+H from what
I remember. They had a complete different way to do rigging/skinning that
I was used to see in other studios. I wouldn't be surprised, this
feature is coming
I am still amazed by seeing what big studios with a few software developers
can produce as amazing technologies in a year and what is released every
year for 3d packages by AD...
I can clearly say that the status of technologies last time I checked were
ten times more exciting (in rigging,
Hey Enoch,
unless I missed something, the way you're doing is already the fastest on
my machine...
for reference:
# INFO : tag operation1 (tag): 2.13486326588
# INFO : tag operation2 (tag+): 18.2174550721
# INFO : tag operation3 (OM): 18.2086833524
# INFO : get operation1 (tagparams):
:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:
softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *jo benayoun
*Sent:* Thursday, February 28, 2013 2:49 PM
*To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
*Subject:* Re: fastest way through script to get all parameters in a
scene of certain value
a...@andynicholas.comwrote:
You guys should check this out. It might give you a good start...
http://xsisupport.com/2012/10/06/saturday-snippet-getting-a-list-of-properties-and-methods-with-python-introspection/
On 04 January 2013 at 00:54 jo benayoun jobenay...@gmail.com wrote:
The Softimage API
hey Stefan
I would say, the most important is to make the right difference between the
asset and the file on disk.
The asset is just a concept, often just an entry in whatever storage unit
you choose with metadatas and bind to a file on disk.
So to keep things simple, why not considering your
looks like Eric is already preparing the 2013 contest by creating new
threads that he solves himself! nice try Eric but no ...
:P
--jon
2013/1/4 Eric Thivierge ethivie...@gmail.com
Scratch that.
oItem = PPG.Item(myItemName)
lUIItems = oItem.UIItems
The Softimage API (object model) is not visible because its all about
dynamic dispatching at runtime. This is like thinking your editor will be
natively enough smart to detect attributes you would add dynamically when
overriding the __getattr__ method of a class.
Happily for us the dispatching is
hey david,
you shouldn't need to update your widgets every time the user has changed
its selection (completely behind steve on that one) but everytime focus has
changed back to your widget.
overload QWidget::enterEvent or QWidget::focusInEvent and update your
highlight buttons when the widget is
Hey Martin,
I am afraid that the software is not aware of this concept assuming this is
only revealed when drawing into the texture editor viewport. You can still
deduce it by scripting. what about this:
- get the texture projection elements
- create a bitmap matching the uv space (minmax u
I guess the plugin is loaded once for discovering and registration (plugin
manager), and then reloaded for getting the actual features (actual
extension of features).
Usually, plugin systems use a specification file for each new plugin (xml
or other) that is in charge of describing (description,
hey Gareth,
if I remember correctly and in the case where the multi-selection flag is
not on, you can do something like this:
values = ['red', 'orange', 'blue']
formatted = list()
[formatted.extend(x) for x in enumerate(values)]
['red', 0, 'orange', 1, 'blue', 2]
values[listbox.Value]
no ?
You mean like the .spdl and .preset formats?
nope at all, I mean like a specification file. plugins specifications are
usually little xml/json files where all informations relative to the plugin
are written (what you do with the PluginRegistrar::Put* calls). This has
mainly two big advantages
The different API usages have already been mentioned there for reference:
https://groups.google.com/forum/m/?fromgroups#!topic/xsi_list/1HqDKBMspyE
Pyside shouldnt have the same problem tho because of their design choices.
Hey Cesar,
there is no limitations nor bugs, its just softimage is setting new
controls to use its style and qt lets do. Use this and you should be safe.
void
hey Tony,
welcome aboard. I did not find any explicit message that would match what
you get (I quickly grep the source code, this would deserve much more
investigations).
As you're the first one to report this kind of problem, and as you have
compiled pyside, Ive emitted the idea that it could be
regular expressions are clearly a must have ... you clearly see their power
when switching to linux.
because when you have a dude who called you to his desk to say Hey that
cmd gives me an error like what the *bip* has no subscriptions to the *bip*
but in the *bip* it turns out it has ...
well,
FYI, if you guys get this funded and need some help rigging you know who
to call.
thanks dude for referencing me, I appreciate. =D
2012/10/12 Eric Thivierge ethivie...@gmail.com
FYI, if you guys get this funded and need some help rigging you know who
to call.
wait a sec, a framework written in purebasic, based on open techs with a
Softimage UI ... the headlines sound cool but ...
if Guy is planning developing a framework that will be used to build a 3d
software like what he has in mind, I would hear more about how he is
thinking the architecture than
Hey Tim,
there is many ways to bring back a window to the foreground, and the way
you're going is one of them. In any cases, you will need the window handle
to manipulate the right window.
There is many ways to retrieve this handle, start looking thru the Fusion
SDK, if they are not exposing it
Hey Jeremie,
Here is what I am coming with on a character with thousands of expressions:
# method 1 took 5.42011094882 and find 3 expressions.
# method 2 took 2.31037755754 and find 3 expressions.
# method 3 took 5.41616293425 and find 3 expressions.
I would recommend you to take a look at a
Hey Miquel,
looks terrific! thanks for sharing this with us!
-- jo
Le lundi 23 juillet 2012, Miquel Campos a écrit :
Hello Softimage fellas,
At shed we did some tools for the animators and one of them is
shed_poseLib a Pose manager to help speed up the animation process. The
tool stores
@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks Jo,
That was more a thinking I had rather than a real intention to do it...
I'm looking for different way to organize my code. Thanks for the advice !
On 11 July 2012 12:10, jo benayoun jobenay...@gmail.commailto:
jobenay...@gmail.com wrote:
Hey Jeremie
Hey Jeremie,
considering the COM architecture (interfaces inheritance) + the python
binding (dynamically invoking), this is really a bad idea to even think to
inheritance... The most easiest and elegant way that I think of is to wrap
the desired object into a class.
On another hand, you're able
for completeness...
-- Jo
def get_bbox_pos(obj):
pos = [0, 0, 0]
res = Application.GetBBox(obj)
xmin, ymin, zmin, xmax, ymax, zmax = res
x = (xmin + xmax) * 0.5
y = (ymin + ymax) * 0.5
z = (zmin + zmax) * 0.5
return (x, y, z)
def marker_at_center(comp):
pos =
No need of plugins Eric, when coding on Notepad, you know you have to be
aware of everything and can't trust anything. That makes your code looking *
sublime*, smarter and more professional ! :D
-- Jo
2012/6/7 Eric Thivierge ethivie...@gmail.com
Notepad might have a plugin for all of that...
Sublime has this shiny side I don't like and do definitively less than an
emacs or cie, its the perfect tool to develop snippets and little tools tho
...
What a good IDE should have:
- a good code editor
- an awesome project manager
- an amazing debugger
- a without-effort integrated build
Hey Ana,
I'm agreed with you about how softimage events are managed for now is not
the best way to go ...
Ideally, we should have QEvent subclasses for Softimage events and one and
unique method with the following signature
SoftimageWidget::softimageEvent(QEvent *event) to handle them (and fit
Hi Enrique,
You can still (as suggested by Stefan) subscribe to the siOnValueChanged
which will give you back a reference to the parameter to retrieve its new
value.
A good option would be to implement a custom engine.
You can imagine a mechanism implemented in your main SynopticWidget which
will
PyQtForSoftimage and I'm wondering some questions.
As far as I know, this plugin is based on Blur tools. So, which are the
differences between them? Do they have the same features? (of course, from
the point of view of PyQt)
Thanks in advance and thanks to Steven Caron and Jo Benayoun for sharing
it.
Hey Nicolas,
I know, this is not answering directly to your issue here, but rethinking
to your problems (tracking FCurves, materials, etc) for the project you're
working, I would ask why not building a custom scene graph (something
relatively simple) where all nodes are just CRef (the
at this.
Thanks!
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 5:46 PM, jo benayoun jobenay...@gmail.com wrote:
Hey Nicolas,
I know, this is not answering directly to your issue here, but rethinking
to your problems (tracking FCurves, materials, etc) for the project you're
working, I would ask why not building
Well, you can still subscribe to an event like siOnValueChange or why not
a timer that will helps you to get an idea to when run your visitor thru
your custom scene graph.
It would be enough to make a trace between each user edit. At worst you can
adjust the stepping of your custom timer. Also
Hey Nicolas,
This depends of the frequency of your scenegraph traversal. For sure, if
you run it like this
Start: sphere with bend modifier, Material2 assigned (226)
traversal
Assign material 1 (206)
Change the bend angle 10 times (226)
traversal
the system will break. But visiting at this
Hey Nicolas,
I think there is a misunderstanding on what I'm suggesting and what you
could expect.
1/ When I was talking about increasing the frequency of the custom scene
graph traversal, I was thinking to it in the context of a quick preview
ala render region where things have to be updated
Hey Ahmidou,
Is the ref you try to add to the array is the ref returned by the
FCurve::GetRef() method ?
-jo
2012/5/2 Ahmidou Lyazidi ahmidou@gmail.com
Hi
Is it possible ? I can't get it working...
Thanks
--
Ahmidou Lyazidi
Director | TD | CG artist
http://vimeo.com/ahmidou/videos
response man!
A good way to paste code safely is to highlight it first:
http://tohtml.com/python/
then copy from the browser and paste into Gmail while Rich Formatting
is enabled.
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 2:19 PM, jo benayoun jobenay...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi Ahmidou,
looks quite nice
oops ! wrong topic :(
2012/5/2 Eric Thivierge ethivie...@gmail.com
PYTHON THUNDER DOME :D
2 coders enter, 1 coder leaves
Eric Thivierge
http://www.ethivierge.com
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 4:57 AM, jo benayoun jobenay...@gmail.com
def find_closest_point(obj, pos):
x, y, z = pos
points = obj.ActivePrimitive.Geometry.
Points
count = points.Count
points = points.PositionArray
xx, yy, zz = points
delta = [((x-xx[i])**2 + (y-yy[i])**2 + (z-zz[i])**2) for i in
xrange(count)]
return
Hi Ahmidou,
looks quite nice ! :)
For your problem, I would go in c by reproducing a kinda structure that
mimic FCurves ones like the following.
struct bezfragments {
double cps[4][3];
uint_t interp;
};
struct motionpath {
constchar_t *source;
ushort_t color[3];
uint_t
Hi Jared,
yo Steve,
Jared, you should unplug all the extras python modules and see how is
output the anchor's adress (is valid ? is bigger than a long on your
machine ?) from the cpp side.
That's where I would start.
jo
2012/4/30 Steven Caron car...@gmail.com
hey jared
i haven't seen
Hey Nicolas,
never ran into that, but should definitively logged as bug ! :(
jo
2012/4/30 Nicolas Burtnyk nico...@redshift3d.com
I ran into this today while trying to figure out why my code was broken.
Thought I'd pass this along and hopefully save someone some wasted time in
the future...
in this case,
CRefArray a1;
a1.Add(CRef());
a1.Add(CRef());
CRefArray a2(a1);
a2.Add(CRef());
The copy constructor is invoked and is not the one you mentioned Alok but
this one CRefArray(const CRefArray other) which have different behaviors
and purposes than the overloaded assignment operator.
or happened to you ?
nope, just improving my cmake search directories
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 10:24 AM, jo benayoun jobenay...@gmail.comwrote:
Hey Steve,
I install on vm, my softimage versions in the same legacy folder than
before adsk acquisition meaning D:\\Softimage\\whatever_name_I_use
*Couple people from PDI were around too saying they were using Soft|3D for
a show that would have blown our minds (which ended up becoming shrek).*
From what I heard, *Antz* has also been done with Softimage by PDI
(*Antz*was the first movie of the couple PDI-Dreamworks before
*Shrek*) ...
jo
Hi Bradley,
What about transferring the weights on a cav map (script or direct paint on
it ?), creating a group of siobjects and keep a relationship between both
by the display color - color at vertex (smooth weights should not be that
easy to process, but at least absolute ones should be ... )
Hi Eugen,
There is a bunch of tools like cython which are simply code generators (py
- c, a quick google search should give you a good list of them).
Imho, cython leads to ugly and unreadable python-like code and breaks the
ideas and concepts behind the language.
(there is a big bunch of devs
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