RE: Never a dull moment in MR land: 'FATAL: mental ray has encountered a fatal error condition...'

2012-04-26 Thread Chris Chia
for investigation. Let me know if u need the help. Regards, Chris Chia QA Analyst / ICE, FaceRobot and General Specialist, Autodesk Media and Entertainment From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Tim Crowson Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012

RE: Scripting: Closest Point On a Point Cloud?

2012-05-03 Thread Chris Chia
Hi Alan, Very nice Math equation! And the python function is very neat. Great job Regards, Chris Chia QA Analyst / ICE, FaceRobot and General Specialist, Autodesk Media and Entertainment From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf

RE: Why is Material::operator private?

2012-05-03 Thread Chris Chia
what they will do. Regards, Chris Chia QA Analyst / ICE, FaceRobot and General Specialist, Autodesk Media and Entertainment From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Nicolas Burtnyk Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2012 8:10 AM

Re: Scripting: Accessing ICEAttributes at a specific ID using GetDataArrayChunk?

2012-05-03 Thread Chris Chia
Hi Bradley, Ha, i think the examples in the documentation are better coded. Mine is a hack. Hope you can understand it. Yes, do post back when you have a working one. Cheers! Regards, Chris Chia QA Analyst Sent from my iPhone On 3 May, 2012, at 10:31 PM, Bradley Gabe witha

Re: Scripting: Accessing ICEAttributes at a specific ID using GetDataArrayChunk?

2012-05-03 Thread Chris Chia
Hi Bradley, Just a small note: Move this out of your python function for a neater code. from win32com.client import constants Import module should always be done at the top of your script. Cheers. Regards, Chris Chia Softimage QA Analyst On 3 May, 2012, at 11:12 PM, Bradley Gabe witha

Re: Scripting: Accessing ICEAttributes at a specific ID using GetDataArrayChunk?

2012-05-03 Thread Chris Chia
think it's fine. Cheers. Regards, Chris Chia Softimage QA Analyst Sent from my iPhone On 3 May, 2012, at 11:27 PM, Bradley Gabe witha...@gmail.commailto:witha...@gmail.com wrote: Indeed, it is good manners. I just wanted it in there so folks could copy/paste the function and have it work. If I

Re: CgChannel coverage

2012-05-04 Thread Chris Chia
May, 2012, at 8:03 PM, Matt Morris matt...@gmail.commailto:matt...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Chris, the article makes a lot of assumptions based on the information that came out in the mailing list. An official announcement/press release might help? Regards, Matt On 4 May 2012 12:27, Chris Chia

Re: [ICE] curve manipulation issues

2012-05-07 Thread Chris Chia
Hi Martin, I will bring this up to the development team to see how it should support with the curves. I will handle the filing of defects. If you ever find any defects in the future, you can report it here in this mailing list. Cheers. Regards, Chris Chia On 7 May, 2012, at 9:46 PM, Martin

RE: Strange issues with keyboard

2012-05-08 Thread Chris Chia
Hi Szabolcs, We have seen the defect you have logged with our Support Staff, Manny. We are able to reproduce this defect. Ticket: SOFT-6072 We have sent this issue to our developer for investigation. We will reply you once we have certain findings. Regards, Chris Chia QA Analyst / ICE

Re: Strange issues with keyboard

2012-05-08 Thread Chris Chia
Hi, Many thanks for your intention to narrow the problem. Just give us some time to investigate this problem. If you don't hear from us by this week, could you send a reminder to this email thread? Many thanks. Regards, Chris Chia Softimage QA Analyst On 8 May, 2012, at 4:21 PM, Szabolcs

RE: Material Manager - sort materials by name in library?

2012-05-11 Thread Chris Chia
Hi Rob, You might want to consider using the Explorer to view the Materials. The explorer should do a better job in this. Regards, Chris Chia From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] on behalf of Rob Wuijster [r

Re: Another ICE workshop event in NYC

2012-05-15 Thread Chris Chia
Thanks for sharing! Regards, Chris Chia On 15 May, 2012, at 7:38 PM, Vladimir Jankijevic vladi...@elefantstudios.chmailto:vladi...@elefantstudios.ch wrote: Hi Gang, here is a small sneak peak of one of the things that I presented at this event. Todd is preparing the recordings of the event

Re: XSI on linux

2012-05-17 Thread Chris Chia
Yup Sandy, you are a perfect example. This is because Softimage has been tested heavily on Fedora 14. Regards, Chris Chia Softimage QA Analyst On 18 May, 2012, at 1:13 AM, Sandy Sutherland sandy.sutherl...@triggerfish.co.zamailto:sandy.sutherl...@triggerfish.co.za wrote: We run Softimage

RE: XSI on linux

2012-05-18 Thread Chris Chia
My mistake: For Softimage version 2012 and 2013, fedora 14 would be a better option. Cheers. From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Chris Chia Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 6:44 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re

RE: retrieving edge indicies after slicing polygons, ICE Modeling

2012-05-20 Thread Chris Chia
Hi Sebastian, There's another method here :D See attached image Regards, Chris Chia Softimage QA Analyst From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] on behalf of Sebastian Kowalski [l...@sekow.com] Sent

Re: Split ice cloud into randomised collections.

2012-05-24 Thread Chris Chia
You could get the groups' name (from the multiple groups you have created) and set a custom data using set data node. Then your point cloud will inherit this data. Cheers. Regards, Chris Chia On 24 May, 2012, at 6:39 PM, Adam Seeley adam_see...@yahoo.commailto:adam_see...@yahoo.com wrote

Re: Animation layers info

2012-06-09 Thread Chris Chia
Hi all, If you guys encountered any complicated scene which has the animation layers messed up, just email me the scene file. I will like to take a look. Thanks. Regards, Chris Softimage QA Analyst On 9 Jun, 2012, at 8:03 AM, Enrique Caballero

Re: ICE caching question

2012-06-26 Thread Chris Chia
Hi Szabolcs, I believe what u meant is the cache system outside of ice. If that's the case, what it does is actually creating a cache object and of course this would not have the Ice tree. It's just a cache... U will be able to see an extra point cloud (in a different color from a browser )

Re: WHATTA HELL???????

2012-07-06 Thread Chris Chia
Thanks Szabolcs! Will wait for your scene file ;) Chris On 6 Jul, 2012, at 1:54 PM, Szabolcs Matefy szabol...@crytek.commailto:szabol...@crytek.com wrote: Hey guys, So it is sure it was not Species. I just referred to it because I have a species figure in my scene, and someone mentioned he

Re: WHATTA HELL???????

2012-07-06 Thread Chris Chia
Hi Tim, Just fyi, we treat every SI crash very seriously. If you have a scene file that causes a crash when opened or have performed certain operations in Softimage which lead to a crash, please let us know. Ps: but please ensure that you do not have any custom operator in the scene. Chris

Re: WHATTA HELL???????

2012-07-07 Thread Chris Chia
Cheers, tim On 06.07.2012 14:55, Chris Chia wrote: Hi Tim, Just fyi, we treat every SI crash very seriously. If you have a scene file that causes a crash when opened or have performed certain operations in Softimage which lead to a crash, please let us know. Ps: but please

Re: Simulate Bullet Rigid Bodies evaluates even when condition is False?!

2012-07-11 Thread Chris Chia
Same here, can't repro this as both the if node and mute in the simulate bullet node are working. Can you elaborate abit more on what you meant by Simulate Bullet Rigid Bodies, it STILL EVALUATES. Chris Sent from my iPhone On 11 Jul, 2012, at 3:55 AM, Grahame Fuller

Re: Creating a dual polyhedron

2012-07-12 Thread Chris Chia
it shouldn't be too difficult as all the tools are there, not sure about a smooth or relax tool though. I'll post any hassles I find here ;-) -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Chris Chia

Re: 2012 SAP sometimes decides to ignore the ALT key

2012-07-17 Thread Chris Chia
Just curious, are you using any keyboard mapping? Or is the Alt setting having a conflict with the multi-language switch context in Windows? Chris Sent from my iPhone On 18 Jul, 2012, at 12:19 AM, Tim Crowson tim.crow...@magneticdreams.commailto:tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com wrote: I'll be

RE: What’s a CER?

2012-07-18 Thread Chris Chia
a CER? Are they Windows-only? Because I never see one pop up in my CentOS at work when SI segfaults. On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 9:38 PM, Chris Chia chris.c...@autodesk.commailto:chris.c...@autodesk.com wrote: Hi all, A lot of users don’t know what a Crash Error Report (CER) is or why they’re

Re: ICE: Setting Data in Groups

2012-07-20 Thread Chris Chia
Yes, agreed! setting attributes in the ice tree and allowing other objs to retrieve it via its own ice tree. Chris On 20 Jul, 2012, at 10:51 PM, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.com wrote: Sure you can... store it in a custom attribute on any object. If you have Show Values enabled to

Re: Make a pass non-renderable?

2012-07-24 Thread Chris Chia
Nice to have everyone sharing their renderfarm info. Seems like RR is the trend... Chris On 24 Jul, 2012, at 3:36 AM, Stephen Davidson magic...@bellsouth.netmailto:magic...@bellsouth.net wrote: Thanks for the info, Sandy. That makes sense, now. Not a huge deal to make the server static. I was

Re: The boy who cried wolf

2012-07-26 Thread Chris Chia
Just wondering cos Arnold was used... U meant 2011.5? Anyway, indeed nice hair touch! Chris On 27 Jul, 2012, at 9:05 AM, Frederic Servant frederic.serv...@gmail.commailto:frederic.serv...@gmail.com wrote: Not sure, I think it was 9.5. Why? -- Fred On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 2:00 AM, Chris Chia

RE: The boy who cried wolf

2012-07-26 Thread Chris Chia
:33 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: The boy who cried wolf Yes 2011.5, sorry we have not switched to the marketing version numbering on xsi yet. I think we started using Arnold on xsi 8 (2010), or was it 7.5? On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 2:09 AM, Chris Chia chris.c

RE: The boy who cried wolf

2012-07-26 Thread Chris Chia
Core 11 but we have now switched to CentOS 6.2. The version of Arnold was 4 something for this job, we are now using 4.0.6.0. -- Fred On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 2:37 AM, Chris Chia chris.c...@autodesk.commailto:chris.c...@autodesk.com wrote: One more quick info needed, is it running on CentOS

Re: Particle collision behaves differently after particle count 4000

2012-08-08 Thread Chris Chia
Hi Stefan, Would you mind if you could share the 'group with model having referenced iceteee' crash scene? And did you work on 2013SP1? Chris On 8 Aug, 2012, at 5:14 AM, Stefan Kubicek s...@tidbit-images.com wrote: Guys, I just had a different hickup with the exact same setup where

Re: Particle collision behaves differently after particle count 4000

2012-08-09 Thread Chris Chia
Hi Eugen, Are you on SI2013SP1? I will check with the other version if needed... Chris On 9 Aug, 2012, at 2:27 PM, Eugen Sares softim...@keyvis.at wrote: Hello Chris, tried a precision value of 1000. Still the spheres overlap. Also, thought that a slower trajectory might give the collision

RE: open rendertree on startup

2012-08-13 Thread Chris Chia
layout = Application.Desktop.ActiveLayout viewer = layout.CreateView(Render Tree, Render Tree) Cheers From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Nick Angus Sent: Monday, August 13, 2012 2:44 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com

RE: Particle collision behaves differently after particle count 4000

2012-08-13 Thread Chris Chia
Hi Stefan, Thanks for the repro steps and I am able to repro the crash. As for Why does the output type change at all? The instance is a piece of geometry just like the non-instanced sphere, or at least it should be interpreted like that, I will file this as an improvement. Many thanks. Chris

RE: Frezze ICE-UVs to TextureEditor

2012-08-13 Thread Chris Chia
The crash happens when you are projecting a planar texture on an Empty mesh. I will log that as a defect, as it shouldn't crash XSI. Chris From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Vincent Ullmann Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012

RE: Autodesk Masters

2012-08-14 Thread Chris Chia
Congrats! Impressive! From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Jeremie Passerin Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 1:30 AM To: softimage Subject: Autodesk Masters It seems that Todd Akita and myself are nominated to be Autodesk

Re: Excluding objects in lightmap rendering stage

2012-08-14 Thread Chris Chia
Why can't you break your scene into passes? With the point cloud hidden in the light map pass? Chris On 13 Aug, 2012, at 10:20 PM, Rémi ARQUIER arqu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi list I would like to know if it is possible to exclude objects in the ligtmap rendering stage. Specificaly I would

Re: Excluding objects in lightmap rendering stage

2012-08-14 Thread Chris Chia
in our workflow and it would complicate it to add other ones just for a shader. We need something transparent in the user side. 2012/8/14 Chris Chia chris.c...@autodesk.commailto:chris.c...@autodesk.com Why can't you break your scene into passes? With the point cloud hidden in the light map pass

Re: Excluding objects in lightmap rendering stage

2012-08-14 Thread Chris Chia
it for final illumination of the ICE Particle Clouds. In stage 1, the ICE Particle cloud *must not* be presents for casting ray speed optimization. In stage 2, the ICE Particle cloud *need* to be present since they are visible by all rays. 2012/8/14 Chris Chia chris.c

RE: InstanceShape not cached correctly with 2013 Sp1

2012-08-15 Thread Chris Chia
Hi Dominik, It is working perfectly (both in Cache Manager and Cache-On-File node). Not a bug! 1. For cache manager, 2. Select the pointcloud you wish to cache. 3. Use cache manager with the WRITE tab . 4. Make sure you have Added the Selection “pointcloud” to the

Re: InstanceShape not cached correctly with 2013 Sp1

2012-08-15 Thread Chris Chia
@googlemail.com wrote: Chris, It's not quite so perfect once you have separate sim and render scenes and separate instance and fx models. I mean, it might work, but in those situations it's pretty rare in my experience. On 15 August 2012 10:46, Chris Chia chris.c...@autodesk.commailto:chris.c

Re: InstanceShape not cached correctly with 2013 Sp1

2012-08-15 Thread Chris Chia
a 'feature'. :) On 15 August 2012 11:52, Chris Chia chris.c...@autodesk.commailto:chris.c...@autodesk.com wrote: Oh no, I guess I have missed out on that. Will try to reproduce it when I get to my workstation. Do you guys mean that something broke in 2013SP1? Or has it been there before? Chris Sent

Re: InstanceShape not cached correctly with 2013 Sp1

2012-08-15 Thread Chris Chia
(QUÉBEC) H3A 1P8 T 514 849-1555 F 514 849-5025 WWW.SHEDMTL.COMhttp://www.shedmtl.com/ On 8/15/2012 5:46 AM, Chris Chia wrote: Hi Dominik, It is working perfectly (both in Cache Manager and Cache-On-File node). Not a bug! 1. For cache manager, 2. Select the pointcloud you wish

Re: ICE string to integer/scalar conversion + reading numbers from object names from within ICE

2012-08-16 Thread Chris Chia
U r doing a great job! Great effort in the contributing! Chris On 16 Aug, 2012, at 10:07 PM, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.commailto:alan.fregt...@gmail.com wrote: Oh d'oh, I can do the whole number. I'm gonna go hide in a hole now... Anyone else need a coffee? :p On Thu, Aug 16, 2012

Re: Graphic card for a workstation again

2012-08-17 Thread Chris Chia
I would personally choose Nvidia over ATI... ;) Chris On 18 Aug, 2012, at 3:24 AM, Len Krenzler l...@creativecontrol.camailto:l...@creativecontrol.ca wrote: A lot of people that were testing on XSIbase were getting drastically better performance from the ATI cards (about 2x-3x) and the point

Re: Graphic card for a workstation again

2012-08-17 Thread Chris Chia
...@exocortex.com wrote: Chris Chia and I think a few others in the Singapore Softimage team are ex-NVIDIA guys. ;-) -ben On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 12:06 AM, Mirko Jankovic mirko.janko...@aeonproduction.com wrote: Any reason for that kind of personal preference, when all tests shows that nvidia

Re: ICE string to integer/scalar conversion + reading numbers from object names from within ICE

2012-08-19 Thread Chris Chia
Oops... I already wrote one myself. Lol. Thanks Vincent anyway ;) Trying to some experiment ;) Chris On 19 Aug, 2012, at 3:30 PM, Vincent Ullmann vincent.ullm...@googlemail.commailto:vincent.ullm...@googlemail.com wrote: 2012/8/19 Chris Chia chris.c...@autodesk.commailto:chris.c

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-21 Thread Chris Chia
Hey Szabolcs, Look out for the next release... ;) Chris On 21 Aug, 2012, at 5:58 PM, Szabolcs Matefy szabol...@crytek.com wrote: +1 to all comments...seriously...and fix the slider issue with split edge with ratio -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-21 Thread Chris Chia
I meant for the slider issue ;) Chris On 21 Aug, 2012, at 7:30 PM, Chris Chia chris.c...@autodesk.com wrote: Hey Szabolcs, Look out for the next release... ;) Chris On 21 Aug, 2012, at 5:58 PM, Szabolcs Matefy szabol...@crytek.com wrote: +1 to all comments...seriously...and fix

Crowdfx @ Siggraph 2012

2012-08-22 Thread Chris Chia
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Re: Crowdfx @ Siggraph 2012

2012-08-22 Thread Chris Chia
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Re: Friday Flashback

2012-08-24 Thread Chris Chia
My memories working with Softimage 3D on a SGI... Sent from my iPhone On 24 Aug, 2012, at 10:47 PM, Stephen Blair stephen.bl...@autodesk.commailto:stephen.bl...@autodesk.com wrote: Friday Flashback #84 Japanese brochure for good ol' #SOFTIMAGE 3D http://wp.me/powV4-23R From:

Re: Autodesk Layoffs

2012-08-24 Thread Chris Chia
Soft is still very strong... On 24 Aug, 2012, at 11:25 PM, Greg Punchatz g...@janimation.commailto:g...@janimation.com wrote: Not wanting to start a doom and gloom thread, just wanted to know if this is going to affect us sooner than later, and whether or not we have lost any of our friends

Re: ICE modelling: topo cache when polygon count is changing

2012-08-24 Thread Chris Chia
Hi Rob, From what I know, you can force a custom attribute to be cached if you deliberately force it by display its attribute while you are caching from the 'real object'. Anyway, I have written a small ice node plugin (during the wkends) and this node reads some attributes from ice cache in

Re: 2 things about bullet particles

2012-08-30 Thread Chris Chia
and Simulate Bullet RBD issues, starting Aug. 2nd 2012 and Particle collision behaves differently after particle count 4000, starting Aug. 7th 2012 Chris Chia and gang promised to look into it, don't know the current status or when a fix is available. Hey guys two questions

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-30 Thread Chris Chia
I don't understand. You can't get Linux Python to work? Chris On 30 Aug, 2012, at 11:50 PM, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.commailto:alan.fregt...@gmail.com wrote: Not being able to use the system Python is a little annoying too. In Linux we're stuck in Py2.5 because only the built-in

RE: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-31 Thread Chris Chia
If segmentation fault starts at XSI Startup, try clearing the following folders: ~/Autodesk /var/tmp/Mw_* Restart XSI :) From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Ciaran Moloney Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 11:51 PM To:

Re: Friday Flashback

2012-08-31 Thread Chris Chia
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Re: Bye Bye

2012-08-31 Thread Chris Chia
Please take care Guillaume. And thanks for all the guidance all this while. Ps: And if you are involved in FabricEngine, do sign me up on your Beta ;) Chris On 1 Sep, 2012, at 10:49 AM, Guillaume Laforge guillaume.laforge...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Guys, I just wanted to say thank you for

RE: Windows7 question (Aero on? off?)

2012-09-04 Thread Chris Chia
There is a ICETree Explorer UI Refresh issue in Softimage 2013 SP1 when the Aero is set to OFF. We have yet hear any problem when Aero is set to ON. Chris From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Stefan Andersson Sent:

RE: Quick scripting question about griddata

2012-09-04 Thread Chris Chia
Providing a sample of your script which you encountered the error would truly help... rather than telling everyone here that it is not working. Not knowing which part of your script went wrong, I can only refer you to:

RE: ice distance to expression/driven

2012-09-05 Thread Chris Chia
Have tried and expression works in ICE. Chris From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Nick Angus Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2012 2:32 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: RE: ice distance to expression/driven I

Re: nulls2mesh

2012-09-05 Thread Chris Chia
@gmail.com wrote: for sure! but it was Mr Pankhurst who asked first :) On 5 September 2012 12:57, Chris Chia chris.c...@autodesk.commailto:chris.c...@autodesk.com wrote: Hey Rob, do you need a compound for building the description? I might have a plugin for you... Chris attachment: winmail.dat

Re: subscribing and unsubscribing from the Softimage mailing list

2012-09-05 Thread Chris Chia
Ha, people are addicted to this list, who would bother to know how to unsubscribe... J On 5 Sep, 2012, at 10:54 PM, Luc-Eric Rousseau luceri...@gmail.com wrote: You are so much to me list.. I wish I knew how to quit you! To subscribe: Send an email to

Re: subscribing and unsubscribing from the Softimage mailing list

2012-09-06 Thread Chris Chia
at 11:09 AM, Chris Chia chris.c...@autodesk.commailto:chris.c...@autodesk.com wrote: Ha, people are addicted to this list, who would bother to know how to unsubscribe... J On 5 Sep, 2012, at 10:54 PM, Luc-Eric Rousseau luceri...@gmail.commailto:luceri...@gmail.com wrote: You are so much to me

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-09-07 Thread Chris Chia
feature I have barely touched - Strings - and yes Chris you are correct , I can use in 2012 the fairly new 'file path' node. So this small annoying request is hereby officially withdrawn ! thanks! :D On 7 September 2012 09:59, Chris Chia chris.c...@autodesk.commailto:chris.c...@autodesk.com

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-09-08 Thread Chris Chia
- the stuff posted in this annoying thread - is it going down the drain if we don't log it again over there? You see, since Softimage is not quite open source, people need a litte reassurance they get heard before the king, so to speak... Thanks! Eugen Am 08.09.2012 05:40, schrieb Chris Chia

RE: Small Annoying Things

2012-09-10 Thread Chris Chia
softimage's memory dump style of saving a scene needs an exception to not include the region memo cam buffers but also not throw them away in current memory. s On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 7:24 PM, Chris Chia chris.c...@autodesk.commailto:chris.c...@autodesk.com wrote: It seems like it is optimised

RE: unsubscribe

2012-09-10 Thread Chris Chia
That one was just a confirmation email to tell everyone here that the subscriber has unsubscribed from the mailing list. I have removed his subscription. Chris From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of javier gonzalez Sent:

RE: Clip time property expression is not refreshing..

2012-09-12 Thread Chris Chia
Hi Szabolcs, We have logged this as a defect. In the meantime, our Dev has suggested to do a GetValue of that scale param to force XSI to evaluate the expression in order to update the animation mixer. Regards, Chris From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com

Re: 2013 SP1 Compile Error in VS2010 SP1

2012-09-13 Thread Chris Chia
it seems like it does not recognise XSISDK_ROOT? We usually execute the command prompt from the workgroup (right click and choose command prompt) inside XSI and it will inherit the env_variable, and execute 'devenv' for VS... Chris On 13 Sep, 2012, at 9:08 PM, Julian Johnson

Re: picking up ICE attribute in RenderTree still buggy???

2012-09-14 Thread Chris Chia
The pass issue is a known bug and has been worked on... But to workaround it, save and open the scene in that pass and the ice attribute should be evaluated fine (in that pass)... Chris On 14 Sep, 2012, at 7:19 PM, Juan Brockhaus

Re: getting user defined ice attributes c++

2012-09-22 Thread Chris Chia
Forcing it to display will prevent the optimisation from affecting the data... Chris On 22 Sep, 2012, at 10:26 PM, Alok Gandhi alok.gandhi2...@gmail.commailto:alok.gandhi2...@gmail.com wrote: The custom attributes have a lazy update implementation and are evaluated on as needed basis. If you

Re: unsupported ice kinematics

2012-09-26 Thread Chris Chia
Snapshot would be easier to understand why ;) Chris On 26 Sep, 2012, at 11:48 PM, adrian wyer adrian.w...@fluid-pictures.commailto:adrian.w...@fluid-pictures.com wrote: was this shitcanned? first time i really need it and i cant write to global kine on geometry arse a Adrian Wyer Fluid

Re: Broken spine with new scene

2012-10-02 Thread Chris Chia
Hi Matt, Send me the scene. Can we repro this problem by opening the scene? Chris On 2 Oct, 2012, at 7:39 PM, Matt Lowery ma...@glassworks.co.ukmailto:ma...@glassworks.co.uk wrote: Well I must confess that I didn't re-name the prefs and run the runonce but this was spotted by a colleague on

Re: ICE questions again

2012-10-02 Thread Chris Chia
|direction m +49 179 69 36 248 f +49 40 386 835 33 chris3...@me.com gesendet von meinem iDing Am 02.10.2012 um 17:53 schrieb Chris Chia chris.c...@autodesk.com: Hi Szabolcs, I am seeing two IF nodes in your screenshot. I am assuming that you were referring to the centre IF node

Re: Chinny lives!

2012-10-04 Thread Chris Chia
Is that Edna's voice? On 4 Oct, 2012, at 10:07 PM, Brent McPherson brent.mcpher...@autodesk.commailto:brent.mcpher...@autodesk.com wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Zugp9W620slist=PLC4040C7FF264D722index=1feature=plcp Virtual Chinny anyone? Thanks to Edna for the link. ;-) -- Brent

Re: Chinny lives!

2012-10-04 Thread Chris Chia
...@listproc.autodesk.commailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Chris Chia Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2012 12:05 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.commailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Chinny lives! Is that Edna's voice? On 4 Oct, 2012

Re: xsi man animated short

2012-10-05 Thread Chris Chia
Match moving is quite accurate ;) On 28 Sep, 2012, at 12:22 AM, jahirul amin aminjahi...@yahoo.commailto:aminjahi...@yahoo.com wrote: Could this be the one? http://vimeo.com/28501846 J On 27 Sep 2012, at 17:13, Francisco fra...@yahoo.commailto:fra...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello everyone!

Re: custom toolbar under linux

2012-10-05 Thread Chris Chia
Francisco, may I ask which SI version are you using with Fedora 14? I seriously doubted that it works as well in CentOS. This is generally a Linux behaviour. Chris On 5 Oct, 2012, at 9:38 AM, Francisco fra...@yahoo.commailto:fra...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi all! guys does any of you know why

Re: Runtime Error R6025

2012-10-05 Thread Chris Chia
Yes agree with Eric in the separate workgroup and plugins... We received quite afew crashed scenes which are often caused by 3rd party plugins, addons and compounds... Hence it's always better to design a workgroup for scalability and extensibility. Chris On 6 Oct, 2012, at 2:26 AM, Eric

Re: Drag and Drop files onto viewport

2012-10-06 Thread Chris Chia
I used to rely on Netview for drag and drop of any asset in my project (including scripts). But u will need to program a simple web page ;) On 6 Oct, 2012, at 3:58 PM, Szabolcs Matefy szabol...@crytek.commailto:szabol...@crytek.com wrote: Is it possible to use drag and drop for example FBX

Re: Drag and Drop files onto viewport

2012-10-06 Thread Chris Chia
wrote: Thanks guys. Chris, how do you rely on Netview? Cheers Szabolcs From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.commailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Chris Chia Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2012 11:30 AM To: softimage

Re: test

2012-10-08 Thread Chris Chia
Welcome Keith Chris On 8 Oct, 2012, at 7:36 PM, Keith Fallon keithmfal...@gmail.com wrote: attachment: winmail.dat

Re: Softimage crash when loading a 2gb scene

2012-10-19 Thread Chris Chia
It might be nice to know what version of XSI, whether it's a x64 or 32, and the amount of ram your machine has? Chris On 19 Oct, 2012, at 12:06 AM, Jean-Sebastien Guillemette j...@shedmtl.com wrote: Hey guys, I have an heavy scene with alot of objects. The scene opens fine up until a

Re: OT: Anyone living in China?

2012-11-09 Thread Chris Chia
Do u need a guy who is living in China? Or do you need a guy who can speak Chinese? Chris On 9 Nov, 2012, at 6:40 PM, Paul Griswold pgrisw...@fusiondigitalproductions.commailto:pgrisw...@fusiondigitalproductions.com wrote: Are there any Soft users on this list living in China currently (who

Re: Render Region won't refresh

2012-11-17 Thread Chris Chia
Try merging your scene into a new scene... Chris On 17 Nov, 2012, at 6:01 AM, Byron Nash byronn...@gmail.com wrote: Every so often my render region just quits rendering. I can open and close it or move the camera and it just keeps whatever pixels were last rendered. The only fix is to

RE: Softimage crash when loading a 2gb scene

2012-11-26 Thread Chris Chia
Hi Guys, Is it possible to send us a 2gb scene? Make it available at dropbox or something... We are doing some investigation to see what we can do to this defect. Keep the files coming... Many thanks Regards, Chris -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com

RE: Softimage crash when loading a 2gb scene

2012-11-26 Thread Chris Chia
: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Chris Chia Sent: Monday, November 26, 2012 5:58 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: RE: Softimage crash when loading a 2gb scene Hi Guys, Is it possible to send us a 2gb scene? Make

Re: Course Introduccion a Softimage in Spanish

2012-11-28 Thread Chris Chia
Thanks for the effort! Chris attachment: winmail.dat

Re: Softimage crash when loading a 2gb scene

2012-11-28 Thread Chris Chia
on at the file size limit mark. You can give that a shot, maybe it still works, or rather, doesn't :) On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 9:01 PM, Chris Chia chris.c...@autodesk.commailto:chris.c...@autodesk.com wrote: Forgot to mention that it would be better to give us a working file (before it hits

Re: Match Transform command in 2013 ? Does it work ?

2012-12-19 Thread Chris Chia
hi Jack, Do you have a quick repro steps in 2013? I have noticed that when I try “match all transforms” on an object to something parented to it(a child), it tends to fail quite a bit. It looks like the rotation gets evaluated first and set, before the position. So the final position is not

Re: Rumors

2012-12-19 Thread Chris Chia
Hi Tim, ICE will not move to Maya but Maya may integrate a system similar to ICE. This move should actually benefit all Softimage users... Think about it, wouldn't all Softimage ICE users benefit this new system first with our prior knowledge of ICE compared to the newbies... As for whether

RE: Rumors

2012-12-19 Thread Chris Chia
Modini… LOL From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Andy Moorer Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2012 10:14 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Cc: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Rumors There's always been rumor

Re: Rumors II

2012-12-24 Thread Chris Chia
Yes don't be too serious on a Xmas Eve! Happy holidays guys! On 24 Dec, 2012, at 5:30 PM, Miquel Campos miquel.cam...@gmail.com wrote: Merry Xmas!!! Miquel Campos www.akaosaru.com 2012/12/24 olivier jeannel

Re: Rumors II

2012-12-24 Thread Chris Chia
Merry Xmas! [cid:A910BEB3-BF0D-496D-B29B-B69B2F5ACA50] On 24 Dec, 2012, at 7:58 PM, Sebastien Sterling sebastien.sterl...@gmail.commailto:sebastien.sterl...@gmail.com wrote: Joyeux Noel ! On 24 December 2012 11:47, Tim Marinov tim.mari...@gmail.commailto:tim.mari...@gmail.com wrote: Merry

Re: ICE Instance Memory Leak?

2012-12-27 Thread Chris Chia
Hi Antonieo, Is it possible to send me the scene file ( make it available at Dropbox) and tell me your repro steps. I will be able to determine whether it has mem leak... Chris On 27 Dec, 2012, at 8:13 PM, Antonieo anton...@163.commailto:anton...@163.com wrote: There're bunch of particles

Re: FBX and soft is rubbish

2012-12-29 Thread Chris Chia
fps never 25. But Importing via Maya back to xsi via crosswalk works a treat. but bit long winded! So It leaves me with one question why can't we force the FPS on FBX imports into XSI. Hope everyone a happy new thanks Ben On 29 December 2012 10:12, Chris Chia chris.c

Re: Override crashes scene

2013-01-04 Thread Chris Chia
folder didnt work. Thanks for the suggestion. Darren On 2013/01/04 05:02 PM, Chris Chia wrote: Hi Darren, Have you tried deleting XSI preference folder? And what XSI version are you using? Regards, Chris On 4 Jan, 2013, at 5:51 PM, Darren Macpherson darren...@gmail.commailto:darren

Re: Area Censorship

2013-01-05 Thread Chris Chia
Hi Fx Person, I still believe that you should at least be yourself when voicing out these concern and not use such an alias. Your posts are really quite depressing especially the ones you posted just before the holidays. Do let us know what you wish everyone here to do for you... Chris On 5

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