Re: capturing spherical HDRi's?

2013-01-17 Thread Leonard Koch
You can shoot a chromeball with any kind of lens sort of well. Telephoto lenses are preferable because they allow you to stand further away and thus be a smaller object in the reflection on the chrome ball. On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 3:53 PM, olivier jeannel olivier.jean...@noos.frwrote: Thank

Re: capturing spherical HDRi's?

2013-01-17 Thread Martin Contel
You don't need a macro lens, because you want to place yourself far away from the wall. The longer the lens (more tele) the less distortion and more detail your chrome ball photo will have. On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 2:53 PM, olivier jeannel olivier.jean...@noos.frwrote: Thank you Phil, To

Re: TANK + Softimage

2013-01-17 Thread Tony Barbieri
We have been able to get it to work. We pushed back to them the beginnings of a Softimage engine. It's basically at the same level as the Maya or Nuke engine. If you email them they should be able to provide you a location to download it. -tony On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 9:46 AM, ste dalton

Re: TANK + Softimage

2013-01-17 Thread Tony Barbieri
We being Psyop. I forget that I use my personal email for this list. -tony On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Tony Barbieri great...@gmail.com wrote: We have been able to get it to work. We pushed back to them the beginnings of a Softimage engine. It's basically at the same level as the

Re: Pipes and tools u can't live without

2013-01-17 Thread Alan Fregtman
And in the case of FTP, one cannot undelete. At least in Dropbox you have 30 days to restore deleted files. It's bad either way. Also I think it's unwise to divulge ftp details on a public mailing list. All it takes is 1 jerk to ruin it for everybody. (I don't think anyone on the list would, but

Re: Pipes and tools u can't live without

2013-01-17 Thread Alan Fregtman
Maybe if we could have something like apt-get or Sublime's Package Control style tool to list, install and update addons? On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.comwrote: And in the case of FTP, one cannot undelete. At least in Dropbox you have 30 days to restore

Re: TANK + Softimage

2013-01-17 Thread ste dalton
Brilliant thanks Tony, i will email them. (have you found it useful/ worth the money, by the way) On 17 January 2013 15:14, Tony Barbieri great...@gmail.com wrote: We being Psyop. I forget that I use my personal email for this list. -tony On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Tony Barbieri

Re: Pipes and tools u can't live without

2013-01-17 Thread Stefan Kubicek
I like the initiative, but what would be the advantage over rray.de? One could also upload malicious files up to Dropbox and they would spread to all those who share the folder, right? Does not sound very safe. 2013/1/17 Eugen Sares softim...@keyvis.at If we use dropbox we have to make

Re: TANK + Softimage

2013-01-17 Thread Tim Crowson
We haven't done anything with Tank per se, but we've done something similar using ActionMenuItems, custom protocols and an open socket in Soft. We're able to send commands from Shotgun to Soft directly that way. Works great for loading stuff, and we're still in the process of expanding that

Re: Pipes and tools u can't live without

2013-01-17 Thread Eric Thivierge
I'm with Alan on a package control type setup. But there would need to be a central databaseto maintain the package list. Too bad Autodesk can't find the time and money for something like this.

Re: TANK + Softimage

2013-01-17 Thread Tim Crowson
Apologies if I post this twice. I'm having email trouble and I'm not sure if my first reply went through or not... We haven't done anything with Tank per se, but we've done something similar using ActionMenuItems, custom protocols and an open socket in Soft. We're able to send commands from

Re: Pipes and tools u can't live without

2013-01-17 Thread olivier jeannel
A survival kit à Rray.de sounds better imho. That's where we all go, no ? Le 17/01/2013 16:45, Stefan Kubicek a écrit : I like the initiative, but what would be the advantage over rray.de? One could also upload malicious files up to Dropbox and they would spread to all those who share

Re: TANK + Softimage

2013-01-17 Thread Tony Barbieri
I have. There is quite a bit to do but it is definitely evolving pretty quickly. The team has been very helpful and accommodating. If you use Shotgun and haven't written a bridge between it and your infrastructure, then I would recommend looking into Tank. In short it handles folder creation,

Re: Pipes and tools u can't live without

2013-01-17 Thread Jason S
I think the dump would be mostly for collection convenience purposes, or for browsing while knowing it's a raw dump with some things unfinished yet potentially still useful. But we could then go through all that and pick-out / organize and make available in a neat way on RRay.de the specially

Re: Pipes and tools u can't live without

2013-01-17 Thread Andy Moorer
The nice thing about a workgroup is you can connect to it whenever/wherever, without picking thru items and installing stuff. You just connect, see what's there, give it a try. But such a thing would have to be moderated and maintained, plus secure. This kind of sharing is one of the untapped

Re: Pipes and tools u can't live without

2013-01-17 Thread Gene Crucean
Wow major gmail fail. Lots of new replies and non of them showed up before I replied. Sorry about that folks. On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 8:40 AM, Gene Crucean emailgeneonthel...@gmail.comwrote: Yeah count me *out* of any dropbox solution. 3 main reasons... 1: I would go freaking MAD if anyone

Re: TANK + Softimage

2013-01-17 Thread ste dalton
Thanks Tim and Tony, really useful info there, i think we will give tank a go. thanks again ste On 17 January 2013 16:23, Tony Barbieri great...@gmail.com wrote: I have. There is quite a bit to do but it is definitely evolving pretty quickly. The team has been very helpful and

Re: Pipes and tools u can't live without

2013-01-17 Thread Alan Fregtman
I'm not sure that concept scales... I don't wanna load a crapton of addons I don't know the purpose of. What if some of them conflict with each other? What if someone poorly coded a few events? Hell naw! Besides, with something like Package Control, you gotta be savvy enough to put up a repo and

Re: Pipes and tools u can't live without

2013-01-17 Thread César Sáez
+1 On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 6:04 PM, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.comwrote: I'm not sure that concept scales... I don't wanna load a crapton of addons I don't know the purpose of. What if some of them conflict with each other? What if someone poorly coded a few events? Hell naw!

Re: PyQt Softimage Linux?

2013-01-17 Thread Steven Caron
hey stefan PyQtForSoftimage doesn't currently work in linux. Its open sourced because i hoped someone with experience on linux would port it. the cpp has some extra stuff in there that isn't actually being used right now, which i need to clean up. if you have the time please give it a shot and

Re: PyQt Softimage Linux?

2013-01-17 Thread Andy Nicholas
there is also Aloys' method with a timer event which for some reason no one seems to be trying. That's what we're doing at The Mill, but I'm not sure if Michal here has modified it at all. It's workable, although there are some problems, mainly to do with not being able to easily obtain a

SaveDeformKey returns the key???

2013-01-17 Thread Miquel Campos
Hello, I have a little issue with this command: SaveDeformKey In the documentation say that the command Application.SaveDeformKey() Returns the key. But I can not catch it . The resulting variable is None. For example: Application.CreatePrim(Cube, MeshSurface, , )

Re: SaveDeformKey returns the key???

2013-01-17 Thread Stephen Blair
Hi The doc is wrong. There is no return value. SaveDeformeKey is implemented by a subroutine in uixsiscripts.vbs (SaveDeformKeyProc). BUT that subroutine calls functions that do return values, so... On 17/01/2013 2:35 PM, Miquel Campos wrote: Application.CreatePrim(Cube, MeshSurface, , )

Re: SaveDeformKey returns the key???

2013-01-17 Thread Miquel Campos
Thank you Stephen! I will check it :) 2013/1/17 Stephen Blair stephenrbl...@gmail.com uixsiscripts.vbs Miquel Campos www.akaosaru.com

Re: PyQt Softimage Linux?

2013-01-17 Thread Steven Caron
i dont follow... PyQtForSoftimage plugin isn't linking against python. so the plugin itself cares not about your python version. what is important would be the version of Qt libraries you link against. that version should probably match the version of PyQt your are using. do you mean getting a

Re: PyQt Softimage Linux?

2013-01-17 Thread Xavier Lapointe
There's no way to use PyQtForSoftimage in linux since it relies on windows, and on linux you need pyqt/Qt that is compatible with the python version. But to be honest I'm not entirely sure about this, just what I've seen so far points in that direction. Anyway .. On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 9:59

Re: PyQt Softimage Linux?

2013-01-17 Thread Steven Caron
ok yes, i thought you were suggesting you needed to link the plugin to python version, which i was pointing out isn't the case. you do need a pyqt/qt version that works with the version of python (2.5 in this case). it was probably semantic mis understanding, i just don't want people to think they

Re: PyQt Softimage Linux?

2013-01-17 Thread Alan Fregtman
One of the pipeline TDs here has got PySide to compile for Python 2.5 and this morning it was showing a rudimentary pyqt modal dialog without segfaulting. No victory dance yet, but it's a start. On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 6:32 PM, Xavier Lapointe xl.mailingl...@gmail.comwrote: There's no way to

Re: PyQt Softimage Linux?

2013-01-17 Thread Steven Caron
pure python implementation, using timer event? On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.comwrote: One of the pipeline TDs here has got PySide to compile for Python 2.5 and this morning it was showing a rudimentary pyqt modal dialog without segfaulting. No victory

Re: PyQt Softimage Linux?

2013-01-17 Thread Simon Anderson
crap wrong thread! XD On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Simon Anderson simonbenandersonl...@gmail.com wrote: The market place could be a soft plugin or Qt plugin On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Simon Anderson simonbenandersonl...@gmail.com wrote: I was thinking a while back, why not

Re: Pipes and tools u can't live without

2013-01-17 Thread Simon Anderson
I have always thought there great assets/plugins/ code snippets. a marketplace/databank could be a simple solution to easily find things on the web for softimage. On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Simon Anderson simonbenandersonl...@gmail.com wrote: I was thinking a while back, why not make