Re: Impressive Rubik's Cube rig

2012-06-27 Thread Rob Wuijster
I still get the Google Malware message page when entering xsibase... :-\ Rob Wuijster E r...@casema.nl On 5-2-2010 19:03, Dan Yargici wrote: Not sure if anybody's seen this yet. Haven't has time to test the rig, but from the video it looks like it's very nicely done

RE: Boolean

2012-06-27 Thread Szabolcs Matefy
I returned to the free (1.1) version of ImplosiaFX. I think that Boolean is so important, and I think Softimage should buy this awesome ubercool etc tool to include it in regular Softimage. Cheers Szabolcs From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com

Re: Impressive Rubik's Cube rig

2012-06-27 Thread Mirko Jankovic
same

Re: Impressive Rubik's Cube rig

2012-06-27 Thread Eric Thivierge
Having delt with this before myself: a) you have to get rid of the virus, malware, etc. b) confirm with Google Webmaster that you've removed it and have their spider crawl your site again a and b can take a good long while to get done in some cases.

Re: Impressive Rubik's Cube rig

2012-06-27 Thread Simon Anderson
Yip, I think the guys saw this a few days ago and are already fixing it. but as Eric said it takes a while :\ On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Eric Thivierge ethivie...@gmail.comwrote: Having delt with this before myself: a) you have to get rid of the virus, malware, etc. b) confirm with

Storing a variable within the softimage application

2012-06-27 Thread Jared Glass
Hi I need to store a vairable created by a plugin and then access it later on from a different plugin. For individual plugins I know you can keep variables in the plugin's UserData. Is there something like this say maybe like Application.Data? Or any other ideas? -- Kind Regards, Jared

QtSoftimage - Access a PyQt dialog from another plugin

2012-06-27 Thread Jared Glass
Hi Is it possible to create a PyQt dialog within one plugin and then later access that exact same dialog (if still running) from another plugin? I've sent out another email trying to see if there is a way for me to store the dialog in a variable within xsi and call the variable to get the

Re: Storing a variable within the softimage application

2012-06-27 Thread patrick nethercoat
A quick and dirty one would be to create a custom parameter. On 27 June 2012 10:06, Jared Glass jared.gl...@triggerfish.co.za wrote: Hi I need to store a vairable created by a plugin and then access it later on from a different plugin. For individual plugins I know you can keep variables

Re: Malaware on XSIbase

2012-06-27 Thread Matt Morris
Hi list, The problem with xsibase has been fixed. The site still needs to be re-indexed with google so you will still get warnings for the time being. Please excuse the delay, Cheers, Matt On Saturday, 23 June 2012, Matt Morris matt...@gmail.com wrote: Hi chaps, raff is looking into it, no info

Re: Malaware on XSIbase

2012-06-27 Thread Eric Thivierge
No apologies needed, thanks for taking quick action once it was brought to your attention. We all appreciate xsibase in one way or another. Its absence is noticed. :) Eric Thivierge http://www.ethivierge.com On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 7:27 PM, Matt

Re: Malaware on XSIbase

2012-06-27 Thread Rob Wuijster
very true in all cases. +1 Rob \/-\/\/ On 27-6-2012 11:36, Eric Thivierge wrote: No apologies needed, thanks for taking quick action once it was brought to your attention. We all appreciate xsibase in one way or another. Its absence is noticed. :)

Re: Malaware on XSIbase

2012-06-27 Thread Byungchul Kang
Same here 나의 iPad에서 보냄 2012. 6. 23. 오후 11:48 Javier Vega javierelas...@gmail.com 작성: Yes, I see the same. El 23/06/2012, a las 16:42, Adam Sale escribió: just tried surfing over to the base and hit a block page in Chrome letting me know the site may have been hacked.. anyone getting

final gathering points as particles

2012-06-27 Thread Helge Mathee
Hey folks, long time no see. or talk. quick one: wasn't it possible somehow to import a final gathering map as particles for inspection? -H

Re: final gathering points as particles

2012-06-27 Thread Helge Mathee
precisely! thanks On 6/27/2012 11:49, Benjamin Paschke wrote: hello Helge, Is this what you're thinking of? http://xsi.jankin.com/jv_mapminer/ On 27/06/12 21:05, Helge Mathee wrote: Hey folks, long time no see. or talk. quick one: wasn't it possible somehow to import a final gathering map

Re: [ICE] random tip about array-per-array ops

2012-06-27 Thread Christian Gotzinger
Ww! This looks super useful, and I've been wanting to do this kind of thing many times before. Particularly the Find in Array has made me use Repeat loops way too often. Thank you for discovering and sharing! On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Oleg Bliznuk

Re: [ICE] random tip about array-per-array ops

2012-06-27 Thread Sebastian Kowalski
i have the gut feeling this is something amazing, but i dont understand a damn thing... Am 27.06.2012 um 13:02 schrieb Christian Gotzinger: Ww! This looks super useful, and I've been wanting to do this kind of thing many times before. Particularly the Find

Re: Boolean

2012-06-27 Thread Ben Houston
Hi Szabolcs, I just re-downloaded the released version of ImplosiaFX (which was released back in February), installed it fresh and then created a sphere and a cylinder mesh in Softimage 2013 and then applied the IFX boolean operation and it worked immediately without error. I believe you likely

Re: [ICE] random tip about array-per-array ops

2012-06-27 Thread Fabricio Chamon
i have the gut feeling this is something amazing, but i dont understand a damn thing... lol, me too. But I think this is a way to use find in array node to find arrays inside arrays. If so this is very useful indeed. Thanks for sharing Oleg! one thing I noticed when recostructing the tree: when

Re: [ICE] random tip about array-per-array ops

2012-06-27 Thread Sebastian Kowalski
no i got it... indeed nice one Am 27.06.2012 um 14:54 schrieb Fabricio Chamon: yes, very cool! thanks again! debug.jpg

Re: Boolean

2012-06-27 Thread Stephen Davidson
Thanks, I will try the free version 1.1. BTW, I just noticed that a single node locked licence is $249, but a site license is $2499. I was assuming I would have to buy a site license, since I have multiple render machines, networked. (16 cores), but maybe not. I agree that Softimage should buy

Re: Malaware on XSIbase

2012-06-27 Thread Stephen Davidson
Thanks, Matt. I was starting to think I had some virus. :) On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 5:27 AM, Matt Morris matt...@gmail.com wrote: Hi list, The problem with xsibase has been fixed. The site still needs to be re-indexed with google so you will still get warnings for the time being. Please

Re: Asymmetrical GATORing

2012-06-27 Thread Alan Fregtman
Hey Chris, Here's an oversimplification, if it helps you or others visualize it better: 1. For every point on the source mesh, find the closest triangle our target's mesh our point fits in -- a quad has 2 triangles, of course, so one of them. 2. Imagine that triangle's edges are

RE: Storing a variable within the softimage application

2012-06-27 Thread Sandy Sutherland
Please do not tell us this a 2012 thing - as we are still on 2011! S. _ Sandy Sutherland Technical Supervisor sandy.sutherl...@triggerfish.co.za _ From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com

Re: Storing a variable within the softimage application

2012-06-27 Thread Ciaran Moloney
Hi, You can access a plugin's UserData from outside of the plugin, even from another plugin. Ciaran On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 5:06 AM, Jared Glass jared.gl...@triggerfish.co.zawrote: Hi I need to store a vairable created by a plugin and then access it later on from a different plugin. For

Re: Storing a variable within the softimage application

2012-06-27 Thread Alan Fregtman
It's the first docs I had handy. If you read the page closer, you'll see it's an old feature. :) Introduced v5.0 On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Sandy Sutherland sandy.sutherl...@triggerfish.co.za wrote: Please do not tell us this a 2012 thing - as we are still on 2011! S.

Re: Asymmetrical GATORing

2012-06-27 Thread Chris Covelli
Nah, not condescending at all. That definitely makes it more clear. Thanks again Alan! On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.comwrote: Hey Chris, Here's an oversimplification, if it helps you or others visualize it better: 1. For every point on the source

Re: Storing a variable within the softimage application

2012-06-27 Thread Bradley Gabe
Don't forget, you can also create a custom PPG and install it into the user preferences. Once there, Softimage saves all the values out to disk each time you quit a session, so it will persist. I use this technique for all of my custom tools so as to prevent a buildup of PPG chaff under the

Re: Boolean

2012-06-27 Thread Ben Houston
Hi Stephen, I do think there is an opportunity for just a Boolean tool priced somewhere around $99 with a site license priced at $499? I believe we should follow-up on this opportunity if Softimage isn't interested in licensing the technology (which would be great!) If you need to do an

Re: Boolean

2012-06-27 Thread Len Krenzler
I think it's gotten a lot better, however, according to the forum it may not work on 2013. I've only used it a little so I'm not sure how much of that has been addressed but the tests I did seemed a pretty close match for most materials as far as look. Only testing your scene will tell I

Offset fcurves on duplicate objects

2012-06-27 Thread Werner Ziemerink
Hi gang. How would I go about offsetting keys on fcurves? For example an cylinder with a bend opp that is animated...now duplicate this object 50 times. What would be a quick way to offset the keyframes per object say 10 frames? Anyone out there have a script for this? Regards Werner

Re: Offset fcurves on duplicate objects

2012-06-27 Thread Bradley Gabe
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Re: final gathering points as particles

2012-06-27 Thread peter_b
now please tell you had a stroke of genius and are thinking of developing an ICE particles to FGmap approach, lets call it FGparticles, that gives highspeed FGmap creation for speeding up FG rendering, bypassing the map creation, with creative possibilities? eg. fg particles sticking to

Re: final gathering points as particles

2012-06-27 Thread Ben Houston
There is an ICE to FG exporter here btw: https://vimeo.com/26510869 -ben On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 2:51 PM, pete...@skynet.be wrote: now please tell you had a stroke of genius and are thinking of developing an ICE particles to FGmap approach, lets call it FGparticles, that gives highspeed

Re: final gathering points as particles

2012-06-27 Thread Vladimir Jankijevic
ha ha, hey cool, it's been a long time since I got reference to this one. if you have any questions don't hesitate to ask. I think it won't work with the newer mentalray since fgmaps have changed. I still ha the source somewhere... cheers On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Helge Mathee

Re: Storing a variable within the softimage application

2012-06-27 Thread Simon Anderson
Thats pretty handy piee of code, especially for persisting data Thanks On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 2:40 AM, Bradley Gabe witha...@gmail.com wrote: Don't forget, you can also create a custom PPG and install it into the user preferences. Once there, Softimage saves all the values out to disk each

Re: QtSoftimage - Access a PyQt dialog from another plugin

2012-06-27 Thread Simon Anderson
Awesome! On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 8:31 AM, Steven Caron car...@gmail.com wrote: the QApplication class has 'allWidgets' method http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/static/Docs/PyQt4/html/qapplication.html#allWidgets haven't tried it but it should work. it would make another good example

Re: Storing a variable within the softimage application

2012-06-27 Thread Bradley Gabe
Thanks Simon. Just an additional note, these preference PPG's are saved out in your user install location: ~/Autodesk/Softimage_2012.SAP/Data/Preferences If any of these stored PPG's were created using registered plugins that are removed in the future, XSI will log warnings complaining about

Re: Storing a variable within the softimage application

2012-06-27 Thread Alan Fregtman
Alternatively, you could write your data to a dictionary saved out to a json file to that same path, and there wouldn't be errors ever. On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 7:21 PM, Bradley Gabe witha...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Simon. Just an additional note, these preference PPG's are saved out in your