Re: Not getting any emais from the list

Same feel here, I´d expect around 30 mails/day on an average working day and at least 10-12 mails for a weekend´s day but got only 7 mails on monday... Spring, good weather, zee germans? Cheers, tim On 21.05.2012 21:16, Nicolas Burtnyk wrote: I unsubscribed and resubscribed (and received

Re: Strands deform by vector flow?

or just use the bend strand towards vector. This works nice for short strands On 2012/05/18 09:23 PM, Steven Caron wrote: for each particle you need to look up closest locations on the surface... you should be able to use an array of positions (StrandPosition) s On Fri, May 18, 2012 at

RANT warning: AD licensing ingeniousness

So I got around to installing Soft 2013 only to find that Autodesk in their wisdom designed the licensing activation procedure so that I should activate our Maya and Mudbox 2013 licenses simultaneously to avoid conflicts, and on top of that the licensing for older versions may break and need

RE: RANT warning: AD licensing ingeniousness

Hi I’m not sure I understand, but I’ll assume you have separate serial numbers for Soft, Maya, and Mudbox. You can activate all the individual network licenses and download the .lic files, you don’t have to update the server until you are ready. Even then you can add just Softimage if that’s

RE: RANT warning: AD licensing ingeniousness

Thanks for clarifying Stephen, but yes my problem is we have network licenses and so I will have to wait for Maya and Mudbox users and Maya rendering before I can get Soft running on the new license. I just wish they would be entirely separate so it was simpler to upgrade one or the other at any

RE: RANT warning: AD licensing ingeniousness

You know that you can stop the license server even when there are licenses in use - when you start it again, they just get picked up again, it is easy to install another license without shutting everyone down. S. _ Sandy Sutherland Technical Supervisor

Missing renderer options

Anyone met with the following issue? From time to time, render options (blue gradient squares with R) disappears from the pass lists in explorer, and opening up renderer options throw an error... I need some ideas where to look, what to look, etc. Cheers Szabolcs ___

Re: Missing renderer options

Usually then I will merge the scene back to a new one and try to rebuild the passes.That is definitely not a good sign... and I'm not sure what the cause is.-T-Original Message- From: Szabolcs Matefy Sent: May 22, 2012 8:56 AM To: "softimage@listproc.autodesk.com"

Re: Python Resources

I see some interesting topics there! Thanks for posting this, Eric! -Tim Crowson On 5/21/2012 6:06 PM, Eric Thivierge wrote: Hey I just stumbled upon a new python site that upon brief review looks really good. I thought it might be helpful to start a thread with Python resources (has this

RE: Softimage and Fedora14 - help please!

The libcustomdisplayhost.so error will not prevent Softimage from running. I get the same error here, and I can run Softimage 2013. Here's a recipe for setting up Softimage on CentOS: http://groups.google.com/group/xsi_list/msg/6d2d0f483a400e4e Here's a Fedora recipe posted by another

Re: __sipath__, why are you so useless :/

Saw here: http://xsisupport.wordpress.com/2010/10/24/python-importing-modules-into-plugins/ ...that I'm supposed to import from within my custom command? Not in the beginning of my file like I was doing. Are we really supposed to import (our module freshly added to the PATH) on every command we

Re: Softimage and Fedora14 - help please!

thanks steven, I had the same problem here and this is really something that makes me puke. If you state that the only supported distro of linux is Fedora14 and when you first run your setup it returns with an error, then something is really wrong with your testing on the supported platform. I

RE: Softimage and Fedora14 - help please!

Hi Vladimir This issue was found by QA and logged, but it couldn't be fixed for 2013. From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Vladimir Jankijevic Sent: May-22-12 10:43 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re:

Not getting emails from the list

I gather a few other people are suffering from this.. I haven't heard a peep since friday gareth bell | xsi artist t: +44 (0)20 7565 1000 e: gareth.b...@primefocusworld.com a: 37, dean street, london, w1d 4pt, uk. www.primefocusworld.com

Re: Not getting emails from the list

getting test mails like this but nothing else.

Re: Switching geometry emitter

Isn't the array idea essentially similar to using multiple emit nodes? Only culled down to the heart of the whole thing, multiple generate from sample set? The per-point attribute/delete scheme has the same 2 problems most post-generation filtering has. A lot of processing spent

Procedural textures on particles

Hey folks, I'm playing around with a simple particle system to which I've applied a material with a procedural texture (simple noise.) The result is a bunch of particles textured identically, the space sampled being local to each particle. In this case I would rather have each particle swim

Re: Switching geometry emitter

yep, that´s the way i´m doing it. you can use a scalar instead of the bool and control the individual emissionrate of each object. quite simple and performance wise not bad at all ! Am 22.05.2012 17:37, schrieb Andy Moorer: Isn't the array idea essentially similar to using multiple emit nodes?

Re: Softimage and Fedora14 - help please!

Hi Stephen, thanks for the help! On 05/22/2012 04:17 PM, Stephen Blair wrote: The libcustomdisplayhost.so error will not prevent Softimage from running. I get the same error here, and I can run Softimage 2013. too bad.. it was the only error i could find... Also important for FC14:

Re: Procedural textures on particles

Which shader are you using for the noise? Things like the fractal_scalar act that way by default. The other fractal (for eg) doesn't have any way AFAIK of controlling the texture coordinates for particles. I'll have a look... On 22 May 2012 16:53, Andy Moorer andymoo...@gmail.com wrote: Hey

RE: Softimage and Fedora14 - help please!

Hanging while drawing the viewports often indicates a problem with the graphic card display driver. If you modify the default layout to hide the OpenGL viewports, does Softimage start up? http://usa.autodesk.com/getdoc/id=TS14691242 Can xsibatch run ? Try running a script with xsibatch Eg

Re: This list is not working on my gmail account...

ca marche ;) On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Guillaume Laforge guillaume.laforge...@gmail.com wrote: ... so I'm testing...

Re: This list is not working on my gmail account...

We don't accept Maya people ;) Le 22/05/2012 16:40, Guillaume Laforge a écrit : ... so I'm testing...

Re: Softimage and Fedora14 - help please!

I've had the problem on Fedora14 that softimage would start up after a reboot but will hang if I open it a second time in the same session. After rebooting again, it started up again. But then, this was in a virtual machine with no NVIDIA drivers. Do you guys have a running setup of a virtual

RE: Softimage and Fedora14 - help please!

I built one workstation with Nvidia driver a while ago - otherwise we crank out render nodes all on FC14 - and all work 100% - I will check tomorrow if we can remember how we did the one WS, which Nvidia driver etc... - BTW one thing I HAVE noticed is that you should update BIOS, we had lots of

Re: Softimage and Fedora14 - help please!

Hi Stephen, thanks a lot for helping me out on this! On 05/22/2012 06:18 PM, Stephen Blair wrote: Hanging while drawing the viewports often indicates a problem with the graphic card display driver. If you modify the default layout to hide the OpenGL viewports, does Softimage start up?

Convert strands to curves

Is there a way to convert strands to curves? i have a good result on behavior with the strands, but am having a heck of a time getting geometry to work with the strands. If i could link curves to strands, i could easily deform the geometry on the curves. any ideas? thanks all, john

Test

My work email is not receiving email any more so I set up a gmail instead since I suspect that MS is now blocking that email like last time. Is this thing on?

RE: Test

I see ya. From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Marc Brinkley Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 1:53 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Test My work email is not receiving email any more so I set up a gmail instead

Re: This list is not working on my gmail account...

I have the reverse problem. Work email does not receive emails from the list but my new Gmail set up does. On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Guillaume Laforge guillaume.lafo...@autodesk.com wrote: Shut up Oliver, no one noticed it yet ! More seriously, I can see all the emails from my AD

Re: Convert strands to curves

Fabricio Chamon made this nice plugin http://iceduous.blogspot.com/2010/07/ice-strands-to-curves.html On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 1:24 PM, john clausing jclausin...@yahoo.comwrote: Is there a way to convert strands to curves? i have a good result on behavior with the strands, but am having a heck

RE: Switching geometry emitter

Here’s another way. Save all the emission parameters as custom attributes. Read them back and use them to drive an Emit compound. Make a compound out of the Emit and Get Data nodes, and expose the Geometry (Emitter) input. Plug the output from the compound into a Select Case, and make another

Re: Softimage and Fedora14 - help please!

On 05/22/2012 07:12 PM, Sandy Sutherland wrote: I built one workstation with Nvidia driver a while ago - otherwise we crank out render nodes all on FC14 - and all work 100% - I will check tomorrow if we can remember how we did the one WS, which Nvidia driver etc... - BTW one thing I HAVE

Re: Softimage and Fedora14 - help please!

There also is another issue with /etc/hosts, apart from the wrong first line mentioned before. I can't recall it exactly, but if it isn't setup correctly you get errors in SI, and not being able to connect to DisplayHost (or whatever) sounds exactly like that. Actually that one was driving me nuts

Re: Softimage and Fedora14 - help please!

Hi Thomas, thanks for pointing this out! i'm painfully aware of the segmentation fault when you don't have the hostname in /etc/hosts. in my case: 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4) - segfault 127.0.0.1 localhost wireframe localhost.localdomain

Re: This list is not working on my gmail account...

Yeah I see you, but I also have been noticing a lack of emails delivered from the list as of late. When compared with the mail list archive, there have indeed been a few topics that never came through... Wonder what is going on? On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 1:44 AM, olivier jeannel

Re: pointvelocity to drive motion vectors on geometry - does it work?

Just thought I’d get back on this subject – as it’s only a partial solution. with usermotions you can influence the motion vectors allright, (using mip_motion_vectors) but it also adds actual blur – which renders the motion vectors useless. I’ve tried with and without motion blur in scene and

Executing system commands in Linux from XSI but outside of XSI's environment?

Hey guys, I'm stuck trying to run a compiled executable utility from a plugin in XSI in Linux (CentOS though, not Fedora) and I'm getting this: /path/to/softimage/linux/Softimage_2012.SAP/Application/bin/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.11' not found (required by /path/to/myprogram) Anyone

Re: Ping!

I'm here. I have seen a lot of these messages lately so something is probably wrong but I think everything is working for me at least. /Jens On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 11:48 PM, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.comwrote: I'm not getting any messages since May 18th. Anybody out there?? I think

Re: Ping!

I'm told by a friend one or more people replied to me on this ping... but I haven't seen a thing yet. *cue twilight zone theme* On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 5:48 PM, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.comwrote: I'm not getting any messages since May 18th. Anybody out there?? I think something is

Re: This list is not working on my gmail account...

I have gmail as well.and I am receiving them just fine...weird. On May 22, 2012 5:04 PM, Jens Lindgren jens.lindgren@gmail.com wrote: I think I get all the mails here on my gmail if it helps to know. /Jens On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 10:37 PM, Jack Kao jack@grapecity.com wrote: Yeah I

RE: Missing renderer options

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