Re: Pipes and tools u can't live without

2013-01-18 Thread Eugen Sares
Am 18.01.2013 09:16, schrieb Thomas Volkmann: I agree, a workgroup/Dropbox solution is really not an option...somehow I was believing that mankind is good and no one would ever place malicious stuff or break things, not even by accident. But reality is cruel of course. @Gene: please go for it.

Re: Multiple extrude (on Strands)

2013-01-18 Thread Rob Chapman
and remember this one? https://vimeo.com/21307553 not same effect but still - great stuff and it reminds me of the one you showed :) cheers Rob On 18 January 2013 12:34, Rob Chapman tekano@gmail.com wrote: Hi Olivier, fairly certain you can achieve same effect - including using

Re: Multiple extrude (on Strands)

2013-01-18 Thread olivier jeannel
Hey rob, thank you ! For what I see in the demo, it seems in the ViDisconnect there is a direction parametter but it looks more like an integer. I don't know if it is possible to drive with strands, or at least to simply per polygonIsland bend the extrusion direction. Le 18/01/2013 13:34,

Re: Multiple extrude (on Strands)

2013-01-18 Thread olivier jeannel
Haha yes, they are cousins in some ways ;) Le 18/01/2013 13:42, Rob Chapman a écrit : and remember this one? https://vimeo.com/21307553 not same effect but still - great stuff and it reminds me of the one you showed :) cheers Rob On 18 January 2013 12:34, Rob Chapman

Re: Pipes and tools u can't live without

2013-01-18 Thread Nic Groot Bluemink
I like the idea, before I read your reply I was thinking something akin to a ninite.com for Softimage plugins/scripts? Checkbox select your desired plugins from a list, hit go, and download a workgroup ready to connected, with all the requested plugins/scripts in the right folders ready to be

Re: Pipes and tools u can't live without

2013-01-18 Thread Jason S
It would be handy if we could also be able to zoom-out, Since it's IE based I would have thought that it could but it can't.. pity. On 18/01/2013 3:48 AM, Eugen Sares wrote: rray.de/xsi inside Netview already works. Open local backup, dd an xsiaddon into a viewport. Nice! Some problems,

Re: Pipes and tools u can't live without

2013-01-18 Thread Alan Fregtman
In Linux, it's the Internet Explorer 5 engine. Making anything modern work on that is borderline masochistic. Any kind soul wanna build a Chromium netview? :p On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Jason S jasonsta...@gmail.com wrote: It would be handy if we could also be able to zoom-out,

Re: Creation trees + Softimage/ICE + Arnold

2013-01-18 Thread olivier jeannel
Clap clap clap (Sound of applause) ! :D Le 18/01/2013 18:16, Paul Doyle a écrit : https://vimeo.com/groups/fabric/videos/57690501 Hi guys – we thought you’d enjoy a look at a customer project we’re working on at the moment. It’s a good example of what’s possible with CP – procedural tree

Re: Creation trees + Softimage/ICE + Arnold

2013-01-18 Thread Alok Gandhi
Very nice! I like the idea of saving small data on disk and recreating it at render time. And of course very nice workflow presentation. Great times ahead ! Cheers! Alok. Sent from my iPhone On 2013-01-18, at 10:46 PM, Paul Doyle technove...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: Creation trees + Softimage/ICE + Arnold

2013-01-18 Thread Stefan Kubicek
I love the way how fast it simulates the movement of the trees :-) What's next? Seamless branching? https://vimeo.com/groups/fabric/videos/57690501 Hi guys – we thought you’d enjoy a look at a customer project we’re working on at the moment. It’s a good example of what’s possible with CP –

How to reset the view manager in C++ ?

2013-01-18 Thread Guillaume Laforge
Hi guys, I've got a small UI related question. I need to rest the four views of the Softimage View Manager. How do you do that in C++ ?: I tried it like that but it does nothing: Desktop desktop = Application().GetDesktop(); Layout activeLayout = desktop.GetActiveLayout(); View vm =

Re: How to reset the view manager in C++ ?

2013-01-18 Thread Stephen Blair
Well, in Python that doesn't work either. I think you are mixing up name and type... l = Application.Desktop.ActiveLayout vm = l.FindView( View Manager ) print vm vm = l.FindView( vm ) print vm.Name print vm.Type # None # vm # View Manager Here's how the UI button does it, in VBScript set

Re: How to reset the view manager in C++ ?

2013-01-18 Thread Stephen Blair
Did you try FindView(Lvm) ? thx On 18/01/2013 2:31 PM, Guillaume Laforge wrote: View vm = activeLayout.FindView(LView Manager);

Re: How to reset the view manager in C++ ?

2013-01-18 Thread Eric Thivierge
Careful using names with the view manager as users often create custom layouts and name it differently. Should use the type instead. Eric Thivierge http://www.ethivierge.com On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Stephen Blair stephenrbl...@gmail.comwrote:

Re: Creation trees + Softimage/ICE + Arnold

2013-01-18 Thread Helge Mathee
We need to get Eric Mootz excited about this so he integrates a nice mesher. :) *hint hint* :) On 1/18/2013 8:02 PM, Stefan Kubicek wrote: I love the way how fast it simulates the movement of the trees :-) What's next? Seamless branching? https://vimeo.com/groups/fabric/videos/57690501

Re: How to reset the view manager in C++ ?

2013-01-18 Thread Stephen Blair
l = Application.Desktop.ActiveLayout # Find by type vm = l.Views.Find( View Manager ) print vm.Name print vm.Type # Find by name vm = l.FindView( vm ) print vm.Name print vm.Type On 18/01/2013 2:35 PM, Eric Thivierge wrote: Careful using names with the view manager as users often create

Re: PyQt Softimage Linux?

2013-01-18 Thread Steven Caron
thanks for your feedback michal. i did a bit of research... have you tried the way jo did the parenting of the window in PyQtForSoftimage plugin with this function? http://tronche.com/gui/x/xlib/window-and-session-manager/XReparentWindow.html i also found these discussions...

Re: PyQt Softimage Linux?

2013-01-18 Thread Michal Doniec
That's really interesting Steven, I'll definitely have a look at these as soon as I can. Thank you! On 18 January 2013 19:46, Steven Caron car...@gmail.com wrote: thanks for your feedback michal. i did a bit of research... have you tried the way jo did the parenting of the window in

Re: Pipes and tools u can't live without

2013-01-18 Thread Steven Caron
i am thinking more like a pyqt app which is a portal to rray.de/xsi (or any other database of content) rather than a generic web browser. just dreaming ;) On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 7:10 AM, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.comwrote: Any kind soul wanna build a Chromium netview? :p

Re: PyQt Softimage Linux?

2013-01-18 Thread Steven Caron
i would take a look myself but i dont have access to a linux machine and a development environment setup on it. so i can only make suggestions, but i would like to help as much as i can. let me know what you find out. On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Michal Doniec doni...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: PyQt Softimage Linux?

2013-01-18 Thread Simon van de Lagemaat
Our pipeline guy Ran Sariel wants to get in to this thread but he just joined the list and needs an email from this thread to get started. So ignore this... apparently the google group is just an archive and can't be used for replies. On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Steven Caron

Re: PyQt Softimage Linux?

2013-01-18 Thread Steven Caron
great to hear simon! we (whiskytree) will probably need this one in the future so i hope we can sort this out together. On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Simon van de Lagemaat si...@theembassyvfx.com wrote: Our pipeline guy Ran Sariel wants to get in to this thread

Re: PyQt Softimage Linux?

2013-01-18 Thread ran sariel
Hi Steven finally in the mailing list... I've looked at your plugin a while back and resorted to implement a python only approach for pyqt in softimage, basically as was mentioned by others making sure the qt application is global, I never had any issues with signals from the Gui beeing blocked..