RE: Soft - Maya : 23.98 to 24 FPS Problem

2012-09-27 Thread Brent McPherson
[mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Alok Sent: 27 September 2012 00:04 To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Soft - Maya : 23.98 to 24 FPS Problem Ok so if I understand correctly that means you cannot have fractional fps in Maya because it has to be integral number

RE: Soft - Maya : 23.98 to 24 FPS Problem

2012-09-27 Thread Marc-Andre Carbonneau
Of Greg Punchatz Sent: 26 septembre 2012 17:12 To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Soft - Maya : 23.98 to 24 FPS Problem We bring the animation in Maya, but in Maya there is no custom FPS setting available Wow is that true??? and this is the next generation app AD thinks

Re: Soft - Maya : 23.98 to 24 FPS Problem

2012-09-27 Thread Christian Keller
@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Soft - Maya : 23.98 to 24 FPS Problem We bring the animation in Maya, but in Maya there is no custom FPS setting available Wow is that true??? and this is the next generation app AD thinks is the strongest of the lotLOL next thing you will tell me

Re: Soft - Maya : 23.98 to 24 FPS Problem

2012-09-27 Thread Alok Gandhi
*To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Re: Soft - Maya : 23.98 to 24 FPS Problem ** ** We bring the animation in Maya, but in Maya there is no custom FPS setting available Wow is that true??? and this is the next generation app AD thinks is the strongest of the lotLOL next

Re: Soft - Maya : 23.98 to 24 FPS Problem

2012-09-27 Thread Ben Beckett
@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Re: Soft - Maya : 23.98 to 24 FPS Problem ** ** We bring the animation in Maya, but in Maya there is no custom FPS setting available Wow is that true??? and this is the next generation app AD thinks is the strongest of the lotLOL next thing you will tell me

Re: Soft - Maya : 23.98 to 24 FPS Problem

2012-09-27 Thread Alok
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Soft - Maya : 23.98 to 24 FPS Problem

Re: Soft - Maya : 23.98 to 24 FPS Problem

2012-09-27 Thread Alan Fregtman
But isn't Maya supposed to have over-reaching circles in all areas of excellence? :p On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Eric Turman i.anima...@gmail.com wrote: Greg, you should realize that it takes a particle system to work at 23.976 ;) On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 4:12 PM, Greg Punchatz

Re: Soft - Maya : 23.98 to 24 FPS Problem

2012-09-27 Thread Alan Fregtman
: 23.98 to 24 FPS Problem Ok so if I understand correctly that means you cannot have fractional fps in Maya because it has to be integral number of frames ? [cid:image001.gif@01CD9CA5.782F6000] On 26/09/2012 6:57 PM, Luc-Eric Rousseau wrote: I think it has to do with animation being

Re: Soft - Maya : 23.98 to 24 FPS Problem

2012-09-27 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Ben Beckett nebbeck...@gmail.com wrote: While we are on this subject, does am one know how to force maya to open and have the scene prefs all ready set at lets say 25fps not 24fps. its caused us some problems in the past. there is a magic trick to set your

Re: Soft - Maya : 23.98 to 24 FPS Problem

2012-09-27 Thread Ben Beckett
You Star! Luc On 27 September 2012 16:12, Luc-Eric Rousseau luceri...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Ben Beckett nebbeck...@gmail.com wrote: While we are on this subject, does am one know how to force maya to open and have the scene prefs all ready set at lets say 25fps

Re: Soft - Maya : 23.98 to 24 FPS Problem

2012-09-27 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
My apologies, I confused things. Maya supports a number of frame rates (about 40), but they're all multiple of 1/6000 and does not support 23.983. Neither does Max, afaik, We support support that stuff in XSI because we based on DS and we defaulted to 29.97 which in fact causes a lot of trouble

Re: Soft - Maya : 23.98 to 24 FPS Problem

2012-09-27 Thread Alok
Thanks for clearing up ! On 27/09/2012 1:06 PM, Luc-Eric Rousseau wrote: Myapologies, I confused things. Maya supports a number of frame rates (about 40), but they're all multiple of 1/6000 and does not support 23.983. Neither

Soft - Maya : 23.98 to 24 FPS Problem

2012-09-26 Thread Alok
We have tracked and animated objects in Softimage at 23.98 fps. We bring the animation in Maya, but in Maya there is no custom FPS setting available. The closest is 24 FPS, so obviously the animation does not match. The only solution I can think is to quickly script to

Re: Soft - Maya : 23.98 to 24 FPS Problem

2012-09-26 Thread Ben Houston
Pick other as the Playback speed and then you can set the frame rate explicitly in the number box to the right of that in Maya. Or at least that is how I thought it worked. -ben On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Alok alok.gan...@modusfx.com wrote: We have tracked and animated objects in

Re: Soft - Maya : 23.98 to 24 FPS Problem

2012-09-26 Thread Eric Turman
Greg, you should realize that it takes a particle system to work at 23.976 ;) On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 4:12 PM, Greg Punchatz g...@janimation.com wrote: We bring the animation in Maya, but in Maya there is no custom FPS setting available Wow is that true??? and this is the next generation

Re: Soft - Maya : 23.98 to 24 FPS Problem

2012-09-26 Thread Alok
Thanks Ben but that only changes the playback speed so the captures can be done at custom speeds, but it does not change the fcurves so the transform of the object in Maya is exactly the same as the transform of object in Softimage at the same frame.

Re: Soft - Maya : 23.98 to 24 FPS Problem

2012-09-26 Thread Xavier Lapointe
I think you can edit this section: optionMenuGrp -label (uiRes(m_createPrefWndUI.kTime)) -cc (prefWndUnitsChanged \time\) timeOpts; string $fps = (uiRes(m_createPrefWndUI.kFps));

Re: Soft - Maya : 23.98 to 24 FPS Problem

2012-09-26 Thread Alok
Well thanks Mr. X, that is really helpful if it works. I will test it. Sylvain also has no idea about it, there are a few experienced Maya users too here now in Sfx team but they all are of the opinion it is not possible to set a custom FPS.

Re: Soft - Maya : 23.98 to 24 FPS Problem

2012-09-26 Thread Alok
Finally solved it. Instead of changing in Maya, I just changed the FPS in Softimage from 23.98 to 24.0, keeping the option of scaling the curves and then send animation to Maya. Everything works ! And to imagine a "" ***particle plugin***"" like Softimage could

Re: Soft - Maya : 23.98 to 24 FPS Problem

2012-09-26 Thread Xavier Lapointe
Shawweet. On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Alok alok.gan...@modusfx.com wrote: Finally solved it. Instead of changing in Maya, I just changed the FPS in Softimage from 23.98 to 24.0, keeping the option of scaling the curves and then send animation to Maya. Everything works ! And to imagine

Re: Soft - Maya : 23.98 to 24 FPS Problem

2012-09-26 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
I think it has to do with animation being in seconds in xsi while it's in frames in maya On Sep 26, 2012 6:52 PM, Alok alok.gan...@modusfx.com wrote: Finally solved it. Instead of changing in Maya, I just changed the FPS in Softimage from 23.98 to 24.0, keeping the option of scaling the

Re: Soft - Maya : 23.98 to 24 FPS Problem

2012-09-26 Thread Alok
Ok so if I understand correctly that means you cannot have fractional fps in Maya because it has to be integral number of frames ? On 26/09/2012 6:57 PM, Luc-Eric Rousseau wrote: I think it has to do with animation being in seconds in

Re: Soft - Maya : 23.98 to 24 FPS Problem

2012-09-26 Thread Chris Gardner
i think that, from some murky memory, it's internally calculated as some multiple of 24fps (have a look at an nCache header). suffice to say, it's all messed up. and you can only set the frame rate to one of the predefined settings. if you open up a .ma file in a text editor, the units are stored

Re: Soft - Maya : 23.98 to 24 FPS Problem

2012-09-26 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
If only it could do subframes as well we'd have it all :) On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Chris Gardner chrisg.dot@gmail.comwrote: i think that, from some murky memory, it's internally calculated as some multiple of 24fps (have a look at an nCache header). suffice to say, it's all messed