Re: Running Softimage without installing it.

2013-05-17 Thread Christian Freisleder
maybe this entry on stephens blog might help. http://xsisupport.com/2012/07/05/the-case-of-the-sideploy-install-that-silently-fails/ especially this: Softimage 2013 switched up to Visual C++ 2010, so you need to have those prereqs installed already for SIDeploy to work. hope it helps.

Re: Running Softimage without installing it.

2013-05-17 Thread Sandy Sutherland
At Triggerfish my IT guy had setup a kickstart sytem that deployed both a Linux setup to our render nodes and a windows one to the workstations. If you like I can find out the procedure to do it. It did work very well, especially on the Linux side, we could build a render node complete in

RE: Running Softimage without installing it.

2013-05-17 Thread Sven Constable
Sorry, I have no idea. From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Angus Davidson Sent: Friday, May 17, 2013 14:07 To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Running Softimage without installing it. Hi Sven We have

Re: Running Softimage without installing it.

2013-05-17 Thread Dan Yargici
Is that a PXE boot-type solution Sandy? I looked into the idea a while back, it still seems like an awesome solution for renderfarms. I'd love to hear more. DAN On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Sandy Sutherland sandy.mailli...@gmail.com wrote: At Triggerfish my IT guy had setup a

Re: Running Softimage without installing it.

2013-05-17 Thread Angus Davidson
After spending some time today looking at it I see that Ghost has actually been phased out ;( Theres a good solution for copying macs with windows partitions here. http://gigaom.com/2010/01/12/how-to-image-os-x-and-boot-camp-to-a-new-mac/ Kind regards Angus From: Sven Constable

Re: Running Softimage without installing it.

2013-05-17 Thread Angus Davidson
Opps forgot to add theres a more enterprise like solution here as well http://www.twocanoes.com/support/winclone/using-deploystudio-and-winclone-pro-to-image-a-lab-of-dual-boot-macs From: Sven Constable sixsi_l...@imagefront.demailto:sixsi_l...@imagefront.de Reply-To:

Memory Mapping Textures Image format Limit ?

2013-05-17 Thread Christopher
Is Softimage automatic memory mapped textures, limited to a specific array of image formats or all image formats work ? ::Christopher

Re: Memory Mapping Textures Image format Limit ?

2013-05-17 Thread Alan Fregtman
AFAIK, it should work for all image formats that Softimage can read. (Sorry guys for ruining your filter. :p) On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 9:47 AM, Christopher christop...@thecreativesheep.ca wrote: Is Softimage automatic memory mapped textures, limited to a specificarray of image formats or

Re: Memory Mapping Textures Image format Limit ?

2013-05-17 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
it's limited to the image formats mental ray can read, because we launch imf-copy to create the map Le 2013-05-17 11:38, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.com a écrit : AFAIK, it should work for all image formats that Softimage can read. (Sorry guys for ruining your filter. :p) On Fri,

Re: Memory Mapping Textures Image format Limit ?

2013-05-17 Thread Alan Fregtman
Wasn't there a thing that when mentalray doesn't understand a format but Soft does, Soft makes a bitmap that mentalray can understand under the hood? Or am I mixing this up with another renderer? On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 2:06 PM, Luc-Eric Rousseau luceri...@gmail.comwrote: it's limited to the

share invalid

2013-05-17 Thread Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES]
I'm losing access to my textures in Softimage. The external files manager reports all files on this server as redlined. From the script editor I frequently get the following error : // INFO : 4000 - Share '\\servername\drivename' marked as invalid for the next 300 seconds If I wait long

Re: Memory Mapping Textures Image format Limit ?

2013-05-17 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
that works for rendering, but for map auto conversion, what it does is launch the command line imf-copy Le 2013-05-17 14:16, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.com a écrit : Wasn't there a thing that when mentalray doesn't understand a format but Soft does, Soft makes a bitmap that mentalray can

Re: Memory Mapping Textures Image format Limit ?

2013-05-17 Thread Christopher
Luc-Eric, it does the same thing that the manual imf-copy does, manually, it's a confirm that it works on all image formats including EXR ? ::Christopher Luc-Eric Rousseau wrote: that works for rendering, but for map auto conversion, what it does is launch the command line imf-copy Le

Softimage 2012 Raysat Service

2013-05-17 Thread David Rivera
Hello. I´ve been looking at this page for the setup of satellite rendering: http://xsisupport.com/category/satellite/ And I did set up services file on: C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\  Adding the line:  mi-raysatsi2012_3_9_1_38 2564/tcp                #mental ray satellite Autodesk Softimage

Re: share invalid

2013-05-17 Thread Stephen Davidson
Just guess some drives (WD drives for one) go to sleep (spin down) when not in use. Some drives have the ability to switch that feature offsome don't On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES] j.ponthi...@nasa.gov wrote: I’m losing access to my textures in

RE: share invalid

2013-05-17 Thread Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES]
Yeah, I can think of numerous reasons why there might be a network delay. That isn't the question. The question is...why is Soft putting a 5 minute freeze on the process of reacquiring the asset? At least that's the way it looks. Joey From:

Re: Memory Mapping Textures Image format Limit ?

2013-05-17 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
well it won't work on formats they don't support, like .psd Le 2013-05-17 18:21, Christopher christop...@thecreativesheep.ca a écrit : Luc-Eric, it does the same thing that the manual imf-copy does, manually, it's a confirm that it works on all image formats including EXR ? ::Christopher

Re: Memory Mapping Textures Image format Limit ?

2013-05-17 Thread Christopher
I wasn't sure about this, why I asked. Others may know, others may not, atleast I don't have to manually convert :) Thanks Luc Alan, as always when a solution is solved, I am much appreciated. ::Christopher Luc-Eric Rousseau wrote: well it won't work on formats they don't support, like .psd