Re: trying to looking on the bright side......

2014-03-19 Thread Arvid Björn
Like someone else said, I can spend days in an ICE tree before caching anything, it seems to me that the instantness of ICE would be lost in a round-trip to an external process. But I'm sure it has a lot of advantages. A big one for AD being that they don't have to venture too deep into the Maya

Re: trying to looking on the bright side......

2014-03-19 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
The caching thing is a bit of a resentful point to be honest. Soft doesn't have a flip solver at all, if it had one, you would be caching a fair bit :) The transfer looks a bit klunky, but not knowing the data beneath I can't really tell if it's groan worthy or not. Bifrost's first version is

RE: trying to looking on the bright side......

2014-03-19 Thread adrian wyer
: 19 March 2014 12:28 To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: trying to looking on the bright side.. The caching thing is a bit of a resentful point to be honest. Soft doesn't have a flip solver at all, if it had one, you would be caching a fair bit :) The transfer looks a bit klunky

RE: trying to looking on the bright side......

2014-03-19 Thread Graham Bell
...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Raffaele Fragapane Sent: 19 March 2014 12:28 To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.commailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: trying to looking on the bright side.. The caching thing is a bit of a resentful point

RE: trying to looking on the bright side......

2014-03-18 Thread Andres Stephens
+1 --- Original Message --- From: Andi Farhall hack...@outlook.com Sent: March 18, 2014 10:31 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: trying to looking on the bright side.. my take on it all is that an undeveloped and unsupported soft will be the better tool than maya for the likes

Re: trying to looking on the bright side......

2014-03-18 Thread Arvid Björn
I was really surprised that Bifrost was some external process, and then even more surprised that they tried to tout this as a good thing. Here's the mental image I got during that demo: http://i.imgur.com/OUhV4wj.jpg On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 5:08 PM, Morten Bartholdy x...@colorshopvfx.dkwrote:

Re: trying to looking on the bright side......

2014-03-18 Thread olivier jeannel
LOL Le 18/03/2014 18:48, Arvid Björn a écrit : I was really surprised that Bifrost was some external process, and then even more surprised that they tried to tout this as a good thing. Here's the mental image I got during that demo: http://i.imgur.com/OUhV4wj.jpg On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at

Re: trying to looking on the bright side......

2014-03-18 Thread Alan Fregtman
*Always look on the bright side of life...* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2Wx230gYJw [**spoiler alert** if you've never seen Monty Python's 35-year-old classic *Life Of Brian*.] On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Arvid Björn arvidbj...@gmail.com wrote: I was really surprised that Bifrost

Re: trying to looking on the bright side......

2014-03-18 Thread Morten Bartholdy
He Den 18. marts 2014 kl. 18:48 skrev Arvid Björn arvidbj...@gmail.com: I was really surprised that Bifrost was some external process, and then even more surprised that they tried to tout this as a good thing. Here's the mental image I got during that demo: http://i.imgur.com/OUhV4wj.jpg

Re: trying to looking on the bright side......

2014-03-18 Thread olivier jeannel
That's the hole mailing list you have here :) Le 18/03/2014 18:56, Alan Fregtman a écrit : /Always look on the bright side of life.../ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2Wx230gYJw [**spoiler alert** if you've never seen Monty Python's 35-year-old classic /Life Of Brian/.] On Tue, Mar 18,

Re: trying to looking on the bright side......

2014-03-18 Thread Arvid Björn
Sorry, it kept bouncing, I don't know which ones made it through ;-) On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 7:03 PM, olivier jeannel olivier.jean...@noos.frwrote: That's the hole mailing list you have here :) Le 18/03/2014 18:56, Alan Fregtman a écrit :

Re: trying to looking on the bright side......

2014-03-18 Thread Sebastien Sterling
Yeah, but are you reeeaaallly surprised Arvid ? reeeaaallly ? :P On 18 March 2014 17:48, Arvid Björn arvidbj...@gmail.com wrote: I was really surprised that Bifrost was some external process, and then even more surprised that they tried to tout this as a good thing. Here's the mental image I

Re: trying to looking on the bright side......

2014-03-18 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
In my book that it's an external module is good for a very extensive number of reasons, and it has a good team behind it. The approach to the dev and release cycle though I find both questionable and insufficient to place it anywhere significant on the map any some than two to three years, and