Re: 2013 save scene = no load in 2012?

2012-04-17 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
What we said was that allowing the software to load a scene from a future version is very difficult. Adding feature that allows the software to save a file compatible with one version back is a much simpler problem. Much less to test, and no time machine required. On Apr 17, 2012 5:01 PM, Eric

Re: Softimage development

2012-04-18 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
Last paragraph offsetted by two years.. we were sold to Avid in 1998, and shipped XSI in year 2000. On Apr 18, 2012 5:40 PM, Raffaele Fragapane raffsxsil...@googlemail.com wrote: Actually I can think of a couple names that drifted in and out that I recognized across different lists and stuff.

Re: Intro to the new team (was RE: Softimage development)

2012-04-19 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 9:39 PM, Kiril Aronofski flyone...@gmail.com wrote: Am I wrong in thinking that those who moved over to maya FX project are people largely responsible for ICE work in Softimage? Seeing how most of the new guys come with a strong game software engineering background,

Re: Friday Flashback

2012-04-20 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
-Eric Rousseau Sent: February-05-12 10:43 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.commailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Friday Flashback From: Maurice Patel Sorry if there was confusion, I was referring to my memory being selective (as a caveat to my accuracy) not yours. I actually

Re: Nodes galore II (not ICE)

2012-04-28 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
Industry gossip: Joe Alter has been on a patent warpath lately, and Yeti announced they can't be sold in the US http://peregrinelabs.com/2012/04/to-our-us-customers/ On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 7:17 AM, Raffaele Fragapane raffsxsil...@googlemail.com wrote: It's not really, but it isn't a standard

Re: Nodes galore II (not ICE)

2012-04-29 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Ed Manning etmth...@gmail.com wrote: Now I'm no lawyer (do we have any on the list? would that be a good thing or not?) but I'm pretty sure that once he'd reached a settlement with Disney, he *obligated* himself, under the hurtful and dated system (how right

Re: Uh oh, GoogleGroups archive admin, you need to confirm

2012-05-29 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
I think it's Patrick Boucher. It's not useful to bother him about the google group doing weird things (formatting, missing mails, etc). It's a google issue (they're changing stuff all the time), and it's not like there is a fix it button. That group is just a mailing list subscriber like anyone

Re: XSI Import troubles

2012-06-07 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
You can use the FBX library to import the .obj directly, without going through the converter, in Softimage 2013. Go in File-Crosswalk-ImportFBX, and change the filter to .obj The FBX .obj importer will be used instead of Softimage's native one. FBX also offers .3ds, .dxf and collada

RE: Convert Position Fcurves key's tangents in 3d space

2012-06-10 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
I'm not aware of any bugs with GL_Select on ATI, except that it wasn't hardware accelerated and therefore slow .. although it seems they addressed that On May 10, 2012 8:40 AM, Brent McPherson brent.mcpher...@autodesk.com wrote: We use a combination of OpenGL and custom (raycast) picking

Re: price increases?

2012-06-19 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
they're not raising the price of Softimage specifically, it applies to most Autodesk products On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Eric Lampi ericla...@gmail.com wrote: Prices rise from time to time, there has to be some profit in it. Since the port to Windows NT back around '95/'96, SoftImage's

Re: wire colors

2012-06-29 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
because it's a toolbar that was made to copy exactly the wireframe palette at the bottom left of Softimage |3D interface. On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Paul Griswold pgrisw...@fusiondigitalproductions.com wrote: I guess I should have phrased that better. Why, when you click on the Palette

Re: Reload PSD

2012-06-29 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
I do not understand specifically the problem you are having, but you can refresh the image clips by toggling this value on them SetValue Clips.noIcon_pic.ImageDefinitionType, 0 SetValue Clips.noIcon_pic.ImageDefinitionType, 1 Which reminds me.. when you used .pics, it was sending the path to

Re: Malaware on XSIbase

2012-07-03 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
I think the forum software was written from scratch in php as a pet project. I do like the site. Btw as a result of this latest infestation, xsibase.com is blocked at autodesk - or at least in the north america offices ;) On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 9:12 PM, Alan Fregtman

Re: Logging to the history window from a custom renderer

2012-07-06 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Nicolas Burtnyk nico...@redshift3d.com wrote: Is the VC++ version associated with each version of Softimage documented somewhere? E.g. what VC++ version should be used for Softimage 2012? It's not documented, apparently. That link that Stephen sent doesn't

Re: Logging to the history window from a custom renderer

2012-07-06 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
: On 7/6/2012 9:58 PM, Luc-Eric Rousseau wrote: The clean way to switch thread is to create a hidden window when your plug-in is initialized. Plug-ins are loaded and initialized in the main UI thread. Then, you use PostMessage() to your window in your worker thread to get it to do something. When

Re: can we get something similar for our community?

2012-07-12 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
Give it time, the maya one is just a few days old. On Jul 12, 2012 8:09 AM, Vladimir Jankijevic vladi...@elefantstudios.ch wrote: Hello Softimage users and Softimage devs, I would like to start the discussion on something I stumbled upon today. Do you think it would be a benefit to have

Digital Dimension, Leviathan + Softimage

2012-07-27 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
Was this posted? Digital Dimension, Softimage and the Autodesk Entertainment Creation Suite http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__AhuYOizWI Leviathan uses Autodesk Softimage in their pipeline for a Skrillex concert http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDAVC3EnHLgfeature=plcp

Re: Siggraph dinner details - ITTA 10

2012-07-29 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
No one from the old team is going to be there... On Jul 29, 2012 6:01 PM, Eric Thivierge ethivie...@gmail.com wrote: First Siggraph I'm missing in years. :\ Have fun whomever is going. Eric Thivierge http://www.ethivierge.com On Mon, Jul 30,

Re: inspect multiple objects as one by script

2012-07-31 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
Just a note, in the ui often time the InspectObj command is being called with the General keyword, and that gives different results On Jul 31, 2012 3:41 PM, Mathieu Leclaire mlecl...@hybride.com wrote: I tried that, but it lists all the various objects parameters as seperate parameters. I don't

Re: sharefolder

2012-08-02 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
you guys actually clicked something called infected-post? I'm beginning to understand how malware is so successful. :P On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Richard Bensley richardbens...@gmail.com wrote: Urr thanks for showing us your internal processes. Nothing like some exposed PHP! I would

Re: GetResolvedPath broken?

2012-08-02 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
I'm pretty sure that's the way it's supposed to work, although the documentation makes it sounds as though the Pass token would get the parent pass of the object. In practice, the file object doesn't know where it is in the scene hierarchy; the tokens resolves global variables, which in this

Re: viewport navigation performance

2012-08-10 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 7:29 PM, Ahmidou Lyazidi ahmidou@gmail.com wrote: I suppose those benchs are still valid :http://jonpeddie.com/publications/whitepapers/quantifying-performance-in-3d-modeling-and-animation-software/ you can also have a look at this video: https://vimeo.com/45316255

Re: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-18 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
It's not possible to turn it back to win7, but it's my understanding that it's only the Start menu you'd miss when you run the desktop? It's on the ARM that the desktop might go away, but on intel i'm pretty sure it's here to stay. On Aug 17, 2012 10:50 PM, Sam Bowling sbowl...@cox.net wrote:

Re: undo event??!!

2012-08-20 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Ana Gomez agomezalca...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, you both are right. I think I got a shock when I've found out that this event doesn't exist. And I've entered in an infinite loop of how this is possible XD I'm not surprised there isn't one, because the whole XSI

Re: undo event??!!

2012-08-21 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
if selection changes and you don't get notified, it's definitely a bug. report it. the Selection Change command that you can set in the preference-Tools-Selection is called in that case. however, it's not called when new objects are created selected - also a bug IMHO On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at

Re: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-21 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Gene Crucean emailgeneonthel...@gmail.com wrote: They're mac users after all. You know you are talking down to just about everybody these days right? Apple was just reported as the worlds most valuable company.

Re: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-21 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
) is almost identical. On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Luc-Eric Rousseau luceri...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Gene Crucean emailgeneonthel...@gmail.com wrote: They're mac users after all. You know you are talking down to just about everybody these days

RE: Softimage 2013 with Mudbox 2012

2012-08-22 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
Send To is just for Live Linking though. You can export with FBX manually. Send To simply automates FBX export/import On Aug 22, 2012 6:20 AM, Szabolcs Matefy szabol...@crytek.com wrote: As we Hungarians say, you just pulled the word from my mouth… ** ** ** ** *From:*

Re: Softimage 2013 with Mudbox 2012

2012-08-22 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
=17012833linkID=11937425 On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Rob Wuijster r...@casema.nl wrote: But do you need matching release versions for Live Linking to work? Rob \/-\/\/ On 22-8-2012 16:10, Luc-Eric Rousseau wrote: Send To is just for Live Linking though. You can

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-24 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
I think this Display as List is a pre-XSI 1.0 experiment we forgot to remove after the developer left. There is an almost impossible to find Tab-Style Property Editors user preference option that's been a little more popular in some crowds On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Eugen Sares

RE: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-24 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
[mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Luc-Eric Rousseau Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 9:24 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Small Annoying Things I think this Display as List is a pre-XSI 1.0 experiment we forgot to remove after the developer left

Re: Some more questions about PyQt in Softimage

2012-08-27 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
If Softimage is changing the look of the controls in your dialog box in an unpleasant way, use the method SuspendWin32ControlsHook before creating the dialog, and call RestoreWin32ControlsHook afterwards http://softimage.wiki.softimage.com/index.php?title=Desktop_Cpp_Class

Re: Some more questions about PyQt in Softimage

2012-08-27 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
() desktop.RestoreWin32ControlsHook() On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Steven Caron car...@gmail.com wrote: these are only exposed to the cpp api right? so i need to expose this to scripting in the QtSoftimage plugin... s On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Luc-Eric Rousseau luceri...@gmail.com wrote: If Softimage

Re: Offtopic: Project Skyline and Maya

2012-08-29 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
The latest public update about Skyline is this video from GDC 2012, 5 month ago http://gameware.autodesk.com/projects/skyline On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 12:10 PM, David Rivera activemotionpictu...@yahoo.com wrote: I think here´s a review chopped-down to the development and presentation of Skyline:

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-31 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Xavier Lapointe xl.mailingl...@gmail.com wrote: So Luc-Eric, that means that we are stuck pretty much for ever and ever on Python2.5 unless the new team rewrite Soft and get rid of Mainwin (... seems unlikely.)? Nope, it's possible to update python without

Re: Friday Flashback

2012-08-31 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
It's terribly sad to see a few of my colleagues go this week. Stephen had worked for many years at Softimage an SDK documentation writer and had ended up in support following cuts at Avid. Manny continues to handle Softimage support and Chris continues to take an active role in the community.

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-09-03 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
I didn't mention that yes, indeed, you could just make python bindings to the c++ sdk, because the ideal scenario is to have it works through the standard scripting interface. That way the history log would work, the ppg logic, and the script remain compatible. Marc Andre did toy around with the

Re: XSIBase safe?

2012-09-04 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
I've been going every day with Google Chrome, nothing's happened. On Tuesday, September 4, 2012, Adam Seeley wrote: Hi, I'm still getting warnings about going to XSIBase. Is it safe to visit or a no go area? Cheers, Adam.

Re: XSIBase safe?

2012-09-05 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
russians seems to care .. I think that malware site it links to is down btw :P On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Rob Wuijster r...@casema.nl wrote: Maybe one of the mods can tell what's going on. I don't think people don't care, it's the way the site is built that seems to be the problem. It

Re: ICE in Maya is an engineer's worst nightmare

2012-09-06 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
There is not as much enthusiasm in having ICE in Maya internally as you'd think, and I think that mail from Chris means to infer that to the community to cause some reactions, and to look beyond ICE. One reason is that unlike XSI 6.0, Maya has always been node-based, so it would not be as much as

Re: ICE in Maya is an engineer's worst nightmare

2012-09-06 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Stefan Kubicek s...@tidbit-images.com wrote: Scalability is a good buzzword, but what does it actually mean? In the specific context of FX, scalability means very large number of objects, billions of particles, huge fluid grids, etc. Stuff that may not even fit

Re: ICE in Maya is an engineer's worst nightmare

2012-09-06 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Williams, Wayne wayne.willi...@xaviant.com wrote: What I'd like to know is how the devs feel about the core of Maya in comparison to Soft now that they have access to the code (I'm guessing this is the case, please let me know if wrong). Are there any things

Re: setting undo level via script

2012-09-07 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
it does work, but the pref is restored after the script exits. You can change it permantely through c++ On Sep 7, 2012 6:30 PM, Matt Lind ml...@carbinestudios.com wrote: I’ve looked through my email archives and have seen plenty of discussion about the undo history level not being permanently

Re: In case you missed it..

2012-09-10 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
Making Charts: not in their Area of Excellence. On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Ben Davis benjamincliffordda...@gmail.com wrote: Well, on the bright side Softimage still has 3% in excellence range, Motionbuilder isn't even fully functional :)

Re: In case you missed it..

2012-09-13 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Daniel H vfxc...@gmail.com wrote: Maya is only more prevalent in studios because it started out much cheaper than Softimage ($10K vs. $100K). Softimage is 24 years old and Maya is only 14 years old. All this time Maya has only been trying to play catch-up to

Re: CLSID error and XSI base

2012-09-14 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
it sounds like it; the clsid probably changed in the process. I could find zbumb for xsi with google search.. it shouldn't be too hard On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Eric Thivierge ethivie...@gmail.com wrote: If I remember correctly zbump was integrated as the default bump shader a while

Re: unsupported ice kinematics

2012-09-26 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
Starting with Softimage 2011, you must not have the environment XSI_UNSUPPORTED_ICE_KINEMATICS set That feature is now officially supported. The blogs that talk about this environment variable were written for XSI 7.0 and 2010 On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Brent McPherson

Re: Menu Icons

2012-09-26 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
Not possible through sdk On Sep 26, 2012 4:55 PM, Miquel Campos miquel.cam...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, is it possible to add icons to the menus? Didn't found anything on the sdk, but apparently it is possible. Thanks, Miq

Re: Soft - Maya : 23.98 to 24 FPS Problem

2012-09-26 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
I think it has to do with animation being in seconds in xsi while it's in frames in maya On Sep 26, 2012 6:52 PM, Alok alok.gan...@modusfx.com wrote: Finally solved it. Instead of changing in Maya, I just changed the FPS in Softimage from 23.98 to 24.0, keeping the option of scaling the

Re: Soft - Maya : 23.98 to 24 FPS Problem

2012-09-27 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Ben Beckett nebbeck...@gmail.com wrote: While we are on this subject, does am one know how to force maya to open and have the scene prefs all ready set at lets say 25fps not 24fps. its caused us some problems in the past. there is a magic trick to set your

Re: Soft - Maya : 23.98 to 24 FPS Problem

2012-09-27 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
wrote: Hi Luc Eric, can you tell me exactly how to set custom frame rate in Maya. I am missing the point here On 27/09/2012 11:38 AM, Luc-Eric Rousseau wrote: Maya does support custom framerates..

Re: Softimage CIP Data - Screen Resolution

2012-09-28 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
autodesk devs are mostly all at 1280x1024 On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Matt Lind ml...@carbinestudios.com wrote: From 1993 thru 2005 when I worked on 21 inch CRT monitors, I worked in 1280 x 1024 resolution and had no problems doing work. ** ** The issue is whether the image on the

Re: XSIBase safe?

2012-10-05 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
from what I read on si-community.com looks like xsibase.com has quietly closed down forever, this time.

Re: EMDL file description

2012-10-10 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
it's a practically impossible file format to decode outside of Softimage; if we could have documented it or write a utility to dump it to ascii (bin2ascii), we would have done it already. 7zip is able to open it because it's an OLE Compound File, but it's gets very complicated from there, with

Re: EMDL file description

2012-10-10 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
version? (That is, assuming no new tech was used that didn't exist in the old version.) On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Luc-Eric Rousseau luceri...@gmail.comwrote: it's a practically impossible file format to decode outside of Softimage; if we could have documented it or write a utility

Re: EMDL file description

2012-10-10 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Luc-Eric Rousseau luceri...@gmail.com wrote: Needs to be investigated. As far as I know, it doesn't use the version stream to do that validation, but rather some byte in main data stream. It's in the stream TLShell-VersionInfo stream I think, but I don't know

Re: EMDL file description

2012-10-10 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Luc-Eric Rousseau luceri...@gmail.com wrote: Needs to be investigated. As far as I know, it doesn't use the version stream to do that validation, but rather some byte in main data stream. It's in the stream TLShell-VersionInfo at the begining, but I don't know

Re: EMDL file description

2012-10-11 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Luc-Eric Rousseau Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 12:30 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: EMDL file description Needs to be investigated. As far as I know, it doesn't use the version stream to do that validation, but rather some

Re: Raafal

2012-10-11 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
The guys at NothingReal told us at the time that Shake UI look was influenced by Softimage DS and Sumatra's look, and it's quite obvious. Mirai was also influenced. I don't think the XSI UI looks dated, but I do think that it's better to try innovate by creating new UI rather than replicating the

Re: Raafal

2012-10-11 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
a fun fact for everyone. A french guy did start to make a Softimage|3D (not XSI) open source clone back in the late 1990s! It was called Moonlight|3D! (yep, cloned the | pipe as well) Here is a screenshot: http://www.creativecrash.com/downloads/applications/3d-apps/c/moonlight-3d-atelier The

Re: Installing AddOns Softimage 2012 SP1

2012-10-11 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
a global hook on all mouse messages that's going to call the python interpreter, looks like a performance nightmare! What you can do in a windows hook is very limited, certainly sending new messages wouldn't be part of it (you're already in the middle of a message being processed) What you would

Re: 2 graphic cards for SLI

2012-10-14 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
no benefit to XSI playback or viewport performance, afaik On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Leoung O'Young digim...@digimata.com wrote: Does put 2 graphics card for SLI see benefits in XSI interface performance and help also help rendering in GPU plugins like Exocortex Fury 2? Thanks, Leoung

Re: Camera Capture: Alternate scale possible?

2012-10-25 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
It's probably only the ui that resets it to 1, if you capture from scripting, does it use it? On Oct 25, 2012 4:15 PM, Bradley Gabe witha...@gmail.com wrote: I don't think this works. The ImageScale Parameter is a combo box, where the index value corresponds to the denominator of the fraction.

Re: SDK: When *exactly* does XSIUnloadPlugin get called

2012-10-26 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
sounds like if you put some code in the constructor of a global variable, then you'd be called twice per xsi session, since your dll will be loaded and unloaded twice? On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Marc-Andre Belzile marc-andre.belz...@autodesk.com wrote: Sorry for not being clear enough.

Re: SDK: When *exactly* does XSIUnloadPlugin get called

2012-10-26 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Nicolas Burtnyk nico...@redshift3d.com wrote: I'm confused. I just tested this and global variable constructors only get called once in my plugin (on 2012 SP1). how did you test this.. if you're in the debugger the .dll probably remains in memory due to the

V-Ray for Softimage review

2012-11-16 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
Saw this on the Twitters.. http://www.3dworldmag.com/2012/11/14/v-ray-for-softimage-review/

Re: 16 bit tif from photoshop not working in softimage?

2012-11-16 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
Tiff are indeed fine - unfortunately many apps have not implemented the full API of Tiff and support multiple channels. Does this tiff load in the flipbook or fxtree? I saw an bug report here about the latest mental ray version not being able to load tiff that had more than 4 channels, maybe

Re: 16 bit tif from photoshop not working in softimage?

2012-11-16 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
Mental ray on supports 8 bit png, afaik On Nov 16, 2012 1:26 PM, Gene Crucean emailgeneonthel...@gmail.com wrote: png is an excellent format regardless of what it was designed for. But yes, it's true they aren't for everything. On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Steven Caron car...@gmail.com

Re: 16 bit tif from photoshop not working in softimage?

2012-11-16 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
XSI really doesn't have a Native format, it just has a default value in the rendering ppg .pic is just a file format like the others; there is no additional conversion when using the other format in Softimage, or loss of meta-data. All the image file formats in softimage have the API. Plus, if

Re: 16 bit tif from photoshop not working in softimage?

2012-11-20 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 10:48 PM, Schoenberger x...@digidragon.de wrote: Not like .IFF, which can also do everything (even maya scene files are actually the .IFF format). MAC and PC save the format differently, RGB + CMYK + YCbCr + CIE Lab, 5 different compressions (lzw required a paid

Re: zPics broken in 2013?

2012-11-23 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
you must render a .pic (not another image format) to go with that .zpic, and they need to be named the same (i.e. beauty.1.pic beauty.1.Zpic) are you doing this? On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Adam Sale adamfs...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Guys. Pics don't seem to be working for me. I am adding

Re: filename length limit

2012-11-30 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
it's the Windows API that usually has a 260 char limit, unless you specially code your app to use long paths (there is a weird UNC trick) It's not a limit of NTFS or the network backend, but of most of the APIs. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365247(v=vs.85).aspx On

Re: Get parameters driven by a custom parameter (python)

2012-12-09 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
this is the correct anwser. the StackInfo API opens up browsing XSI's graph in both directions. it's just too bad the dev decided to dump it in XML instead of making it proper API. I could probably be wrapped in a cleaner python API. On Thursday, December 6, 2012, Xavier Lapointe wrote:

Re: Any one running Window 8 yet

2012-12-11 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
Happens often when people run xsi.exe instead of xsi.bat On Dec 10, 2012 11:46 AM, Leoung O'Young digim...@digimata.com wrote: I upgraded one of my systems from win7 pro to win8 and I tried to install XSI V7.1, everything went fine with the installation, sees the license servers but when I

Re: Softimage crashing on launch

2012-12-12 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
dudes, Microsoft Security Essentials is free and safe, and nag-free. don't use these random antivirus products. On Wednesday, December 12, 2012, Stephen Blair wrote: http://windowsexplored.com/2012/01/04/the-case-of-the-disabled-script-engines/ On 12/12/2012 6:13 AM, Stephen Blair wrote:

Re: Any one running Window 8 yet

2012-12-12 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
In place upgrades or clean install? As you know, with any clean install of windows, you run a risk of missing dlls, like the various c runtime libraries that have been installed over the year and lord knows if the plugins handle that well. For sure you need to plan some time to investigate why

RE: Softimage crashing on launch

2012-12-12 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Luc-Eric Rousseau *Sent:* Wednesday, December 12, 2012 2:13 PM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Re: Softimage crashing on launch ** ** dudes, Microsoft Security Essentials is free and safe, and nag-free. don't use

Re: Rumors

2012-12-19 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
Tim and others should feel free to post here, and as one of the admin of this list I will make sure he continues to have the rights to, as per Autodesk social media policy, and plain common sense. I fought for this mailing list to stay up; it exists for users to talk to each other. On Wed, Dec

Re: congrats to centreNAD

2012-12-20 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
Ho god, those of you who don't speak french are missing something. There is even an ornithologists and falcon specialist in there that's saying the video is fake because of feathers on the tip of the wings aren't the right color :P The girl got her 10 seconds of fame :P There is also an XSI

Re: Rumors

2012-12-22 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
we moved out of that building on 2008. Avid is there Le 2012-12-22 08:44, Eugen Sares softim...@keyvis.at a écrit : Ok, so there's nobody except the janitor roaming in that Softimage brick building in Boulevard Saint-Laurent (says Google)? Am 2012-12-22 13:49, schrieb Paul Doyle: Many

Re: URGENT Softimage license question within a company !!!

2013-01-08 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
you can't use a trial version for any commercial work Le 2013-01-08 05:19, Dan Yargici danyarg...@gmail.com a écrit : Could you ask them to install a trial in the meantime? DAN On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Sebastien Sterling sebastien.sterl...@gmail.com wrote: I bought it in the EU

Re: URGENT Softimage license question within a company !!!

2013-01-08 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
If you're miserable modeling in Maya, I'd suggest using the NEX plug-in for Maya. It's very softimage-like, with a tweak tool and a command panel like XSI https://draster.com/nex-1.5/overview.html On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 10:12 AM, David Gallagher davegsoftimagel...@gmail.com wrote: if you have

Re: Change default settings?

2013-01-11 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
I'm not aware of any method to trap the creation of the material from the preset in the Get-Material menu and change the default. I would suggest simply not using them... if you really want to continuing using that menu, there should be an anchor point there to plug your own Create Phong command.

Re: softimage and it's binary format

2013-01-28 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
There is really no technical reason why Softimage could not save the equivalent of the current binary scene as ASCII, and it may not even be slower. It's hard to explain why this project has never been scheduled in the last 15 years without pointing fingers. priority should go on exposing more

Re: Sublime definitions for Softimage

2013-02-02 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
the Japanese thing is because pywin isn't compiled Unicode, unlike xsi. it's not proper Japanese, just garbage. I thought we had done something about that. .

Re: XSI and Hard disk LAN/Network massive slowdown

2013-02-08 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
watch out for any mapped drive (ex: drive Y: is mapped to a machine that's been turned off) that is connected to a machine or a device that is offline. Disconnect them. They may slowdown the XSI file dialog. Also test in Details mode rather than Thumbnail mode. On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 3:17 PM,

Re: Autodesk contest - all USA and Canada but not Quebec...

2013-02-20 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
tons of contest are not run available to resident of Quebec, I see this fine print all the time. bit frustrating; I blame the PQ On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Marc-Andre Carbonneau marc-andre.carbonn...@ubisoft.com wrote: LoL I sent an email to Sonja Muller.(the only contact that is on the

Re: Autodesk contest - all USA and Canada but not Quebec...

2013-02-20 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
here is what about.com says: Question: Why are So Many Sweepstakes Void in Quebec http://contests.about.com/od/sweepstakes101/f/VoidinQuebec.htm On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Luc-Eric Rousseau luceri...@gmail.com wrote: tons of contest are not run available to resident of Quebec, I see

Re: how to get rid of thumbnail folder generation????

2013-02-20 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
these thumbnails will speed up the XSI UI and lower the network bandwidth. feel free to delete them any time, they will be regenerated if necessary. you can turn the whole thing off in the User Preference -Rendering-Images-Image Proxies On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Szabolcs Matefy

Re: [ Linux ] maketx error in softimage

2013-02-24 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Stefan Andersson sander...@gmail.com wrote: I rather not since that might break softimage. And I would have to do that in each machine that has softimage. no, the point is that when you launch maketx from softimage, it inherits's softimage environment, so you

softimage rss feed

2013-02-25 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
Hi, for a few months now we've setup a weekly automated softimage newsletter that is automatically generated from twitter keywords and popular softimage blogs. It seems to be working pretty well. The links are posted to the twitter account below, have a look. Theoretically we could have had it

Re: softimage rss feed

2013-02-25 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
I haven't tried it, but there is a Subscribe button at the top right of the newsletter page On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Eric Turman i.anima...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any other way to get the newsletter other than twitter?

RE: SI 2014 sneak peek

2013-02-28 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
it does create a lot of opportunities for anger and complaints, not compensated by excitement. you get sneak peeks, silent videos that leave everything opened, then the launch a month later, where you only get the the 3 marketing bullet points, then you get the fix list only at ship time a month

Re: displaying parameters in the animation editor

2013-02-28 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 8:55 PM, Matt Lind ml...@carbinestudios.com wrote: Actually we just figured it out, though highly unintuitive: Keyable = off Flattening = flatten parameter hierarchy The keyable parameter filter is not on by default in Softimage 2013 with default user preference. It

Re: SI 2014 sneak peek

2013-03-01 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:39 PM, Sylvain Lebeau s...@shedmtl.com wrote: yeah good explaination Steven... thanks for your insights. We are so used here to just capture each cameras individualy and then go on a final cut pro editing station to do ... editing. The maya camera sequencer has FCP

Re: Maya realtime viewport

2013-03-12 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Greg Punchatz g...@janimation.com wrote: I would like a directx version of the viewport just like maya's, but I am sure that would not make Linux user happy. There was a LOT of moaning on the maya forums about this being windows only. Unlike Maya 2012,

Re: Maya realtime viewport

2013-03-12 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Steven Caron car...@gmail.com wrote: Unlike Maya 2012, softimage already supports DirectX, but I get what you're saying. just needs to be updated to support dx11 right? and someone to make the shaders or at least make them available? hmmm,.. unfortunately, a

Re: How to get notification if an operator input gets deleted

2013-03-22 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
imho if you had that callback, it wouldn't be very solid if you implemented it only when the property page is up. I think you'll see the deletion in the siOnObjectRemoved event On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 6:01 AM, Eugen Sares softim...@keyvis.at wrote: Hi, got a custom operator that has some

Softimage 2014

2013-03-25 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
http://www.autodesk.com/products/autodesk-softimage/overview

Re: Softimage 2014

2013-03-26 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
(before the end of the quarter)? On 26/03/2013 03:29, Stefan Andersson wrote: Is there a list somewhere for all the new features? Or was the wiki page correct? Regards Stefan -- Sent from a phone booth in purgatory On Mar 26, 2013, at 4:04, Luc-Eric Rousseau luceri...@gmail.com wrote

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