RE: Can't start Softimage - system failure

Interesting - this actually worked. I still can't start Soft on the usual account, so I guess I will have to proceed with deleting it and rename the new working one. Lots of crap to reestablish though. Bummer. It would be really nice to know how it can become corrupted like this. Last thing I did

Re: Can't start Softimage - system failure

Bizarre that different user works, but not renaming the user prefs - as effectively all that exists within the user is maybe a shortcut and the prefs folders. S. On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 11:44 AM, Sven Constable wrote: > Yes, a bummer. Maybe less work with just

Re: Can't start Softimage - system failure

I reinstalled this morning - still no joy, so Svens user account trick got me running again. I had tried running it as admin, but that doesn't work either. I have only previously run in to startup crashes that would be fixed by renaming prefs - this one is new, and somewhat worrying. MB Den

Re: Can't start Softimage - system failure

On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 8:33 AM, Morten Bartholdy wrote: > I reinstalled this morning - still no joy, so Svens user account trick got > me running again. > > > > I had tried running it as admin, but that doesn't work either. I have only > previously run in to startup

Houdini procedural

Hi All I am trying to track down a video. For the life of me I cannot remember where I saw it. Its a student project piece where one of the students uses Houdini to procedurally model a town. I was fairly sure it was on cgpress.org but i just cant seem to find it. Anyone remember this.

Re: Can't start Softimage - system failure

What about trying to 'run as a admin' on the xsi.bat and/or setenv.bat file? If that works, it's something in the user rights that got messed up somewhere. As an additional test to see what's going on? Rob \/-\/\/ On 12-1-2016 12:44, Sven Constable wrote: Yes, a

Re: Can't start Softimage - system failure

There is a hidden folder in the system drive with a set of files that usually don't get Uninstalled with SI and is not its preference and settings folder. It contains license data I think. I had a similar error. But renaming or deleting said folder fixed it (after reinstalling dozens of

Re: Houdini procedural

Hi Angus, Uff there so many city generators, was that one with the chinese houses? anything you can remember? On 12 January 2016 at 18:58, Angus Davidson wrote: > Hi All > > >> I am trying to track down a video. For the life of me I cannot remember >> where I saw

Re: OT: Benchmarking Maya´s performance at render time. MentalRay benchmarks between SI

Yes, I believe that's what they really mean... On Jan 11, 2016 2:18 PM, "Luc-Eric Rousseau" wrote: > I don't think it's meaningful to compare Maya and XSI, because they > render differently. If you do a render in XSI from the GUI, it > renders with the embedded mental ray