RE: Friday Flashback

2012-04-27 Thread Anthor
Very Cool. The black-cover manual was actually my 'Inside Softimage 3D' book. Maggie got softimage to license it from me, because it was cheaper than printing all the original manuals…. ATR On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:40:10 +, Stephen Blair wrote: Friday Flashback #67 2002 customer quote:

RE: Friday Flashback

2012-04-27 Thread Stephen Blair
Yes, I have a copy of that book :-) -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Anthor Sent: April-27-12 12:40 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: RE: Friday Flashback Very Cool. The

Re: install directories

2012-04-27 Thread Steven Caron
thanks jo Something in mind or happened to you ? nope, just improving my cmake search directories On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 10:24 AM, jo benayoun jobenay...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Steve, I install on vm, my softimage versions in the same legacy folder than before adsk acquisition meaning

Re: install directories

2012-04-27 Thread jo benayoun
Oh ! I see, makes sense :) You can still look in the winreg, you have the install paths per version and per machine. You launch a shell or a pyscript from your cmake at compile time to retrieve those informations. 2012/4/27 Steven Caron car...@gmail.com thanks jo Something in mind or

RE: loft instances on melena strands

2012-04-27 Thread Sandy Sutherland
Hello - sorry for the delay - we are actually doing just this on our current movie - using Melena as a base to build on our own further system to do fur and now feathers! I have been trying to see if the powers that be will be happy to provide compounds and help - it should be possible, as we

RE: Evaluating ice weight map gen per frame

2012-04-27 Thread Simon Van de Lagemaat
Thanks Graham, it's all changed now anyway. I'm trying to scatter a bunch of objects in an area that is centralized around the highlight of a light (null attached) and am using a weight map to adjust the particle density in that area. I forgot to take into account the fact that the highlight

Re: install directories

2012-04-27 Thread Alok Gandhi
well its cmake, i wouldn't want to put too many windows specific functions for finding software through the registry. You can always use sys.platorm/sys.platform.startswith in pyscript to make it work with darwin, win and linux. It makes more sense to have something that's all procedural and

Re: install directories

2012-04-27 Thread Steven Caron
alan jones' find_softimage module already works on linux and windows, his module is simple and is easy to maintain. i have no intentions to rewrite this module. i also have no experience programming for the OS on linux and very little with windows, i dont have access to a linux machine to test it.

Re: install directories

2012-04-27 Thread Steven Caron
great! thanks On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Alok Gandhi alok.gan...@modusfx.comwrote: In the defualt folders on windows C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Softimage 2012.SAP and I am guessing on linux would be \usr\local\ On 4/27/2012 2:10 PM, Steven Caron wrote: alan jones'

Re: install directories

2012-04-27 Thread Xavier Lapointe
On Linux it's /usr/Softimage/[Soft Version] But for other reasons we go outside of the system directories in our place. 2012/4/27 Alok Gandhi alok.gan...@modusfx.com In the defualt folders on windows C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Softimage 2012.SAP and I am guessing on linux would be

Re: loft instances on melena strands

2012-04-27 Thread Halim Negadi
Hello Sandy and thanks for the answer. Of course we're stil interested, please keep us posted. Cheers, H. On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 7:51 PM, Sandy Sutherland sandy.sutherl...@triggerfish.co.za wrote: Hello - sorry for the delay - we are actually doing just this on our current movie - using

RE: Evaluating ice weight map gen per frame

2012-04-27 Thread Grahame Fuller
I assume it's fairly straightforward, because raytracers do this all the time. But never having written a raytracer myself... Just thinking out loud here... You could take the normalized crossproduct of a vector from a surface point to the camera with the normal (in that order), and the

Re: This is a growing problem in the VFX industry.

2012-04-27 Thread Eric Turman
Apparently from the cover picture it isn't the onion...it is most likely one of two lesser known publications either the sausage or the cabbage XD On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Meng-Yang Lu ntmon...@gmail.com wrote: Dr. Lippid?? C'mon. Is this the Onion? -Lu On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at