Re: Autodesk acquires Solid Angle

We have needed to do just this, ship hard drives to and from our clients and it still sucks. 3 TB of data doesn't just come online instantly once it is in the building. But yea... scaling past your capacity is one of the major points for us too. It still has a cost that needs to be evaluated per

Re: The best news all week. H indie supports redshift3d.

There is note that it will not be possible to output scene files. 'Rendering in Houdini Indie will go directly to the renderer without saving out render description files.' \-- **Micic Srecko** \--- **Mail:** [srecko.mi...@gmail.com](mailto:srecko.mi...@gmail.com)

Re: Autodesk acquires Solid Angle

Fiber should be pretty cheap in most major cities by now, if not it will be soon. I think the most difficult part of cloud rendering is that unless you're on a service like Zync you really need a couple of pipeline/IT guys to work out your imaging, mounting and data transfer tech and strategies.

Re: Distribute between knots? Know the percentage position of a knot?

Matt I'm guessing what triggered your response was the word "slow". Notice that I was mentioning me as an instruction creator being slower with code to get to what I wanted not execution performance wise as nodes give me that super power: Do more mistakes faster which is helpful to path-find an

Re: Autodesk acquires Solid Angle

On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 4:09 PM, Steven Caron wrote: > Then some forget it isn't so much the upload of your assets, you can make > an extremely efficient scene to upload but downloading those 2k (now 4k) > exr sequences with many AOVs (don't forget about deep) can take much

Re: script log at startup

Gotta be someone changed the permissions, somewhere. That's my guess. Best Regards, * Stephen P. Davidson* *(954) 552-7956*sdavid...@3danimationmagic.com *Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic* - Arthur C. Clarke On

Re: Autodesk acquires Solid Angle

Ya Vancouver is quite small so laying fiber was, I think, much easier and cost effective than in other cities. How you are physically connected to the data center will drastically change how you approach cloud rendering. We're waiting for a new center to come online closer to us, even with the

RE: script log at startup

The best you can do is activate real time script logging including verbose mode in your scripting preferences. There might be an additional environment variable or two which can be activated, but those would be for specific contexts such as debugging operators. When faced with this problem I

RE: script log at startup

No, not really. Tuesday they worked. Thursday they didn’t. thanks -- Joey Ponthieux LaRC Information Technology Enhanced Services (LITES II) Science Systems and Applications Inc. (SSAI) NASA Langley Research Center __ Opinions stated here-in are

Re: Autodesk acquires Solid Angle

> I don't know, but an 'already determined (& rather bleak) fate' > sounds alot to me like 'death row', which I really don't think at-all > ever applied to XSI until.. (ice) No, that's an error on your part. 'Fate' is a long term outcome based on development of events outside one's control.

Re: Friday Flashback #272

And 2 from Vancouver and 1 from Toronto ;) Graham D Clark phone: why-I-stereo http://www.linkedin.com/in/grahamclark > On Apr 22, 2016, at 1:00 PM, Marc-Andre Carbonneau > wrote: > > Ya, technically they had no choice but also they had recruited and flew >

Re: Distribute between knots? Know the percentage position of a knot?

UmI don't think your assessment is correct. The SDK is single threaded, but in this context ICE is too. Past tests have shown that ICE performs ~30% slower than the SDK in single threaded tasks because of the additional overhead with nodes/tree evaluation. If you can parallelize the

Re: Distribute between knots? Know the percentage position of a knot?

"if you're extremely smart and educated :D" = "if you're *NOT* extremely smart and educated :D" lol Cheers On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 12:15 AM, pedro santos wrote: > Matt > I'm guessing what triggered your response was the word "slow". Notice that > I was mentioning me as an

Re: Distribute between knots? Know the percentage position of a knot?

Will do Matt, one day. Got that C++ plus course I referenced. Seems great. But now I have to deliver something x) I apologize if this is cringy for you!! Yes the bits you talk about are the most annoying for me, building the algorithms in straight up code is already a bit slower but the SDK part

Re: script log at startup

Presumably you want higher level than strace/ltrace if running under Linux? On 04/22/2016 12:21 PM, Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES II] wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Does anyone know if it is possible to make XSI run a script log of > everything it does at startup? > > > > -- > > Joey

script log at startup

Hello, Does anyone know if it is possible to make XSI run a script log of everything it does at startup? -- Joey Ponthieux LaRC Information Technology Enhanced Services (LITES II) Science Systems and Applications Inc. (SSAI) NASA Langley Research Center

RE: script log at startup

No. This started yesterday. In 30 years computing this is about one of the weirdest things I’ve ever seen. It can mount the remote drives, see everything there, save files, then reads files created within the active session. But any file not created during that session can’t be read and gives

Re: script log at startup

And it's always been like this? Sounds like you should use strace or Process Monitor. There's no log that Softimage itself will write out. On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 2:04 PM, Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES II] < j.ponthi...@nasa.gov> wrote: > I just need to know what the software does on

Re: Autodesk acquires Solid Angle

Mmmm… I am not convinced at all Cloud is what is going to save the day, I think you got it wrong. jb > On 22 Apr 2016, at 18:41, Luc-Eric Rousseau wrote: > > Right now the press interviews are saying the Arnold acquisition will > help "accelerate the drive to the cloud"

Re: Autodesk acquires Solid Angle

Agreed! I don't believe that narrative of consuming patents as a reason for purchasing Softimage. On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 10:41 AM, Luc-Eric Rousseau wrote: > > > I think all of this makes more sense than a story built around > mythical patent folios. > > -- Softimage

RE: script log at startup

I just need to know what the software does on startup. In particular what tests it runs or files it creates, updates, etc. In particular is there any part of the startup process that is failing but not preventing Soft to run. Currently Soft is able to save a scene, it can then read it back in,

Re: Autodesk acquires Solid Angle

Right now the press interviews are saying the Arnold acquisition will help "accelerate the drive to the cloud" and that Arnold is "Cloud Ready". http://tinyurl.com/jmvc7ke It's a perfectly logical explanation, rendering services is an obvious cloud service. For softimage, the actual text of the

Re: Autodesk acquires Solid Angle

I didn't see where Luc-Eric is claiming cloud rendering to be our saviors... he just points out how rendering on the cloud makes logical sense. The take away is those purchases don't have much to do with patents. On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 10:50 AM, Jordi Bares wrote: >

RE: script log at startup

Locally the system works fine. Your spidey sense is also on spot. A change was affected prior to all this. We suspect the same but can't prove it. I'm trying to rule out the application side first. What's weird is that it is strictly specific to Softimage only. Nothing else is affected. Until

Re: script log at startup

You might have mentioned this Joey, but in case not - did you try working with a scene locally, and see if the same thing happens - spidey sense is tingling my side to do with some sort of network issue, server issue - something like that. S. On 2016-04-22 07:22 PM, Ponthieux, Joseph G.

Re: script log at startup

Are their alembic caches in the scene? There are reproducible issues I’ve had with scenes crashing that have an alembic cache. > On Apr 22, 2016, at 3:16 PM, Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES II] > wrote: > > Trivial? > > don’t think so . > > > Open

RE: script log at startup

Maybe trivial but  to check:  running SI as Administrator and/or merging into a new SI-SceneWalter "Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES II]" hat am 22. April 2016 um 20:22 geschrieben:No. This started yesterday.  In 30 years computing this is about one of the weirdest

RE: script log at startup

Trivial? don’t think so . Open fails, Merge works! What the? -- Joey Ponthieux LaRC Information Technology Enhanced Services (LITES II) Science Systems and Applications Inc. (SSAI) NASA Langley Research Center __ Opinions stated here-in

Re: script log at startup

Mmm I don't think you can then worry about SI being the only one having issues, that could be anything, even the smallest thing, that just makes the SI file do it. I guess you revert your change, and you will be up and working again. I doubt you can prove what you need to prove, other than

Re: The best news all week. H indie supports redshift3d.

Woops, wrong article :) http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=59=1358289 On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 9:37 PM, Ognjen Vukovic wrote: > http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?p=8174979#post8174979 > -- Softimage Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send a mail to

The best news all week. H indie supports redshift3d.

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Re: The best news all week. H indie supports redshift3d.

One more. https://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_content=view=3206=66 On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 9:38 PM, Ognjen Vukovic wrote: > Woops, wrong article :) > > http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=59=1358289 > > On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 9:37 PM, Ognjen Vukovic

Re: Autodesk acquires Solid Angle

Fair point about the patents of course, it is a no brainer. I mentioned cloud because it is a subject it keeps popping out, specially since the Solid Angle acquisition and from where I stand can only make sense if there is a degree of certainty on costs and a clear advantage on scalability,

RE: script log at startup

Not in the scene, no. -- Joey Ponthieux LaRC Information Technology Enhanced Services (LITES II) Science Systems and Applications Inc. (SSAI) NASA Langley Research Center __ Opinions stated here-in are strictly those of the author and do not

Re: The best news all week. H indie supports redshift3d.

doh! how did I miss that? On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 1:34 PM, Srecko Micic wrote: > There is note that it will not be possible to output scene files. > > 'Rendering in Houdini Indie will go directly to the renderer without > saving out render description files.' > > --

Re: Autodesk acquires Solid Angle

San Francisco still struggles with fiber... why didn't 'Google Fiber' come here first? :) Many thousands of dollars per month... if you are using it or not. If they did metering like power bills maybe that cost wouldn't be so scary. We have played a little bit with Zync and talked directly with

Friday Flashback #272

Action Synthèse drops Max for #Softimage on The Magic Roundabout http://wp.me/powV4-3jt -- Softimage Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm.

RE: Friday Flashback #272

Ya, technically they had no choice but also they had recruited and flew fifteen 3D artists from Montreal who knew nothing else but Softimage. Adds its weight in the balance. ;) From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Stephen

Re: The best news all week. H indie supports redshift3d.

Great News! Best Regards, * Stephen P. Davidson* *(954) 552-7956*sdavid...@3danimationmagic.com *Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic* - Arthur C. Clarke On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 3:39 PM Ognjen Vukovic

Re: The best news all week. H indie supports redshift3d.

Hell yeah ! Le 22 avr. 2016 21:39, "Ognjen Vukovic" a écrit : > One more. > > https://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_content=view=3206=66 > > On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 9:38 PM, Ognjen Vukovic wrote: > >> Woops, wrong article :) >> >>

Re: script log at startup

Shot in the dark, here, but does the network path have an extremely long address? I have had issues with long path names and/or unusual characters in the path. Best Regards, * Stephen P. Davidson* *(954) 552-7956*sdavid...@3danimationmagic.com *Any sufficiently advanced technology is

Re: Autodesk acquires Solid Angle

and I agree with you on cloud, I am actually not crazy about it either, but a lot of people see it as the right way to scale. The cost becomes cheaper for some but could be more expensive for others. When someone makes the case to use it they *tend* to leave out what I think is the biggest

Re: The best news all week. H indie supports redshift3d.

should be interesting how they limit output resolution... i guess if you use houdini to launch the render they can do that but if you can export the scene to .ass/.rib then they can't block what resolution. i guess i am saying... remove the limit? On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 12:39 PM, Ognjen Vukovic