Re: everybody's favorite question...

2013-01-12 Thread Rob Wuijster
Talking tablets, what about one of these new W8 tablets, like the MS Surface Pro, Linovo Thinkpad Tablet 2 or the Asus VivoTab? Additional bonus on these tablets is a full digitizer/pen setup... These are running full W8, so less walled garden than a Apple iPad. Due to specs only light 3D work

Re: everybody's favorite question...

2013-01-12 Thread Tim Leydecker
Hi Matt, for people in the US, there´s pretty good refurbished hardware available from Apple, Dell, HP and possibly a bunch more: HP http://www.hp.com/sbso/buspurchase_refurbished_specials.html? Dell (laptop link but there´s more if you search for refurbished on the site)

Re: Lagoa: filling a bottle quickly

2013-01-12 Thread David Saber
Gustavo, Javier, thanks for the help! Your information helped me, but the bottle was still not filling quickly enough. What I did: 1) increase the size of the particles in lagoa emit grid resolution per unit 2) I found that increasing the “surface tension” in “lagoa material liquid water” had a

Getting the selected framebuffer/channel

2013-01-12 Thread Tim Crowson
I asked this a few weeks ago but never got a response. Still wondering how to do this... I need to do two things: 1) get the menu anchor point for the context menu that appears when right-clicking on a framebuffer/channel in the pass properties PPG. (the default menu has two options: 'Browse'

Re: Getting the selected framebuffer/channel

2013-01-12 Thread Stephen Blair
afaik, you can't do that. There's no menu anchor for that popup. I bet that that popup is implemented by the FrameBufferWidget itself. maybe the FrameBufferWidget supports GridWidget.IsRowSelected, that's all I can think of. On 12/01/2013 11:18 AM, Tim Crowson wrote: I asked this a few

Re: mesh to particle?

2013-01-12 Thread olivier jeannel
Tad... https://vimeo.com/52587496 with a download scene :) Le 12/01/2013 17:41, Manuel Huertas Marchena a écrit : Hi There, I am doing some product renderings for a chemical company, and need to convert some (of the products) liquid meshes into a powdery element. I dont know very well

Re: Getting the selected framebuffer/channel

2013-01-12 Thread Tim Crowson
Bummer. Thanks! -Tim On 1/12/2013 11:07 AM, Stephen Blair wrote: afaik, you can't do that. There's no menu anchor for that popup. I bet that that popup is implemented by the FrameBufferWidget itself. maybe the FrameBufferWidget supports GridWidget.IsRowSelected, that's all I can think of.

RE: mesh to particle?

2013-01-12 Thread Manuel Huertas Marchena
Olivier, that's exactly what I was looking for!! Thanks a lot man! Cheers -Manuel Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 18:25:33 +0100 From: olivier.jean...@noos.fr To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: mesh to particle? Tad... https://vimeo.com/52587496

installing on opensuse64 12.1

2013-01-12 Thread Eric Gunther
I want to install Autodesk_Softimage_2011_English_Linux_64bit_r1.tar.gz on opensuse 12.1, but have not been successful. Is there someone who can provide me generic step by step installation tips? Or a link/hint for them I have looked at the InstallGuide on the wiki, and googled a bit,

Re: installing on opensuse64 12.1

2013-01-12 Thread Stephen Blair
Hi There's always an error in the setup log. What happened when you tried to run XSI? Here's a thread about installing on linux (fedora mostly) https://groups.google.com/d/topic/xsi_list/_oBqQwXZKAw/discussion On 12/01/2013 2:26 PM, Eric Gunther wrote: I want to install

Re: installing on opensuse64 12.1

2013-01-12 Thread Eric Gunther
Hi, Thank You very much for the reply:: *me*@*here*:/usr/Softimage/Softimage_2011/Application/bin ./xsi Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified xset: unable to open display :0 Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified xset: unable

Re: everybody's favorite question...

2013-01-12 Thread Milady Bridges
Hi Matt, I don't have much to say in terms of laptops, but I did recently buy a CPU for home. I had it custom built by a guy who runs a PC Repair shop. It has everything you mentioned, the SSD hard drive, multi-core CPU (4+), USB 3.0, and 32 gb RAM. It runs incredibly fast, and the SSD makes a

RE: everybody's favorite question...

2013-01-12 Thread Marc Brinkley
I have a Surface RT and the hardware is pretty slick. Looking forward to getting a Surface Pro at work. If anyone has questions on the Surface let me know. Sent from my car while driving From: Rob Wuijster Sent: 1/12/2013 1:00 AM To: