Re: Project Structure

2012-05-01 Thread Stephen Davidson
One of the things that I always do, when I save scenes is to check the box Copy External Files under Project. I do this knowing that models and textures, etc. will be duplicated, but it allows for total portability of the Softimage database files. I even do my composites in After Effects and save

Re: OT: Image Based Modeling

2012-05-25 Thread Stephen Davidson
I forgot to add a link for the open source image based modeling software called insight3D. This one is also geared toward architectural modeling, but could be used for other purposes. http://insight3d.sourceforge.net/ On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Byron Nash byronn...@gmail.com wrote: At

Re: OT: Image Based Modeling

2012-05-25 Thread Stephen Davidson
One last thing If you are going to model from a series of photos, you will need to deal with camera lens distortions in the photos that you use for reference. here is a good tutorial on this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xZFjo1aIQc On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Byron Nash

Re: Softimage 2013 SDK Guide

2012-06-03 Thread Stephen Davidson
siClose is also not listed in the index. It seems that it is this particular command that is missing from the help documentation. On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 8:35 AM, Stefan Kubicek s...@tidbit-images.com wrote: It seems to be working for me, though it keeps complaining that Opera is not a

Re: Boolean

2012-06-26 Thread Stephen Davidson
I was trying to find the same thing and found BoolTrace which is part of the Binary Iris addon. This is supposed to do boolean functions on solid models, at render time, though the use of it as a shader. It was tough to find as Binary Iris seems to have gone away. I found id it via the wayback

Re: Boolean

2012-06-26 Thread Stephen Davidson
verify if these issues have been addressed? On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Len Krenzler l...@creativecontrol.cawrote: If you're OK with booleans at render time then 3Delight does a nice job of that. Might be worth looking into, the trial (2core) is free. On 6/26/2012 11:28 AM, Stephen

Re: Boolean

2012-06-26 Thread Stephen Davidson
it working in 2012 with some tinkering. Probably the same process to make it work in 2013. I had to regenerate the presets or something like that. I'll check when I have some proper free time. On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Stephen Davidson magic...@bellsouth.netwrote: I was trying

Re: Boolean

2012-06-26 Thread Stephen Davidson
I understand that ImplosiaFX does have a Boolean function that puts the regular Boolean function, in Softimage, to shame. The price of the license made it an overkill for me. Too bad they don't just sell the Boolean function. :) On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Ben Houston b...@exocortex.com

Re: Boolean

2012-06-27 Thread Stephen Davidson
Thanks, I will try the free version 1.1. BTW, I just noticed that a single node locked licence is $249, but a site license is $2499. I was assuming I would have to buy a site license, since I have multiple render machines, networked. (16 cores), but maybe not. I agree that Softimage should buy

Re: Malaware on XSIbase

2012-06-27 Thread Stephen Davidson
Thanks, Matt. I was starting to think I had some virus. :) On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 5:27 AM, Matt Morris matt...@gmail.com wrote: Hi list, The problem with xsibase has been fixed. The site still needs to be re-indexed with google so you will still get warnings for the time being. Please

Re: Make a pass non-renderable?

2012-07-19 Thread Stephen Davidson
I cheat it by setting the start and stop frames to zero (I still get one frame) I would also like the ability to make a pass non-renderable. It is great for tweaking a scene after you have all your passes created. I also can create a pass called do not render and make the view visibility and

Re: Make a pass non-renderable?

2012-07-19 Thread Stephen Davidson
Upon experimentation, disabling the main frame-buffer (un-checking it) seems to be the best solution. It produces an error, but does continue to render the rest of the passes. I know this seems like it is something that you wouldn't use, but when you have a dozen passes created, all with render

Re: Make a pass non-renderable?

2012-07-20 Thread Stephen Davidson
a boolean per pass sort of like Maya does so you could still hit render all but ignore certain passes. On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:30 PM, Stephen Davidson magic...@bellsouth.net wrote: Upon experimentation, disabling the main frame-buffer (un-checking it) seems to be the best solution

Re: Make a pass non-renderable?

2012-07-20 Thread Stephen Davidson
/resources.html ** ** MAC ** ** *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Stephen Davidson *Sent:* Friday, July 20, 2012 11:00 AM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Re: Make a pass non-renderable

Re: Make a pass non-renderable?

2012-07-20 Thread Stephen Davidson
That is lame. Other than that, how do you like Rebus for rendering? On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Byron Nash byronn...@gmail.com wrote: I put in a feature request at REBUS to enable and they just said to delete the passes. That's a lame response. I am sure their system is sending those

Re: Make a pass non-renderable?

2012-07-20 Thread Stephen Davidson
I tried SquidNet, once but it was too complex and I never could get it to run with Softimage. Too bad, because it also works with After Effects. The docs were not that helpful. It was a while ago. It may be better, now, I don't know. On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 12:05 AM, Chris Chia

Re: Make a pass non-renderable?

2012-07-21 Thread Stephen Davidson
www.ruisantos3d.com - Original Message - *From:* Stephen Davidson magic...@bellsouth.net *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Sent:* Saturday, July 21, 2012 6:15 AM *Subject:* Re: Make a pass non-renderable? That is lame. Other than that, how do you like Rebus for rendering? On Fri, Jul 20, 2012

Re: Make a pass non-renderable?

2012-07-23 Thread Stephen Davidson
...@listproc.autodesk.com] on behalf of Stephen Davidson [ magic...@bellsouth.net] *Sent:* 23 July 2012 17:51 *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Re: Make a pass non-renderable? The one thing that stopped me from trying Royal Render is that you must have a static IP address

Re: Make a pass non-renderable?

2012-07-23 Thread Stephen Davidson
...@listproc.autodesk.com [ softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] on behalf of Stephen Davidson [ magic...@bellsouth.net] *Sent:* 23 July 2012 19:10 *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Re: Make a pass non-renderable? the installation guide says, specifically, to set the IP as static for RRserver

Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-17 Thread Stephen Davidson
I haven't tried Windows 8, yet, but I do have Windows 7 64 bit Pro. My machine was acting flaky, also, so I reformatted the drive and re-installed Windows and all my APPS. It took me an entire day, with all the Windows updates, and drivers, but it was worth it. Much more stable, now. I had heard

Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-20 Thread Stephen Davidson
Bottom line, for me, Windows 8 is fine to use on my tablet, but there is no reason to use it on my workstation, unless they force me to, by dropping support for Windows 7, like they will, for XP, on April 8th 2014. I have a laptop/tablet pc that I use for drawing (it has a Wacom pressure

Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-21 Thread Stephen Davidson
...@gmail.com wrote: There's the new Galaxy Note with a Wacom pen. Underwhelmed a bit in the review though- http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/15/3243546/samsung-galaxy-note-10-1-review -Nic On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 6:56 PM, Stephen Davidson magic...@bellsouth.netwrote: Bottom line, for me

Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-23 Thread Stephen Davidson
, fill out forms, communicate on the go, etc…). ** ** ** ** Matt ** ** ** ** ** ** *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Stephen Davidson *Sent:* Tuesday, August 21, 2012 1:13 AM *To:* softimage

Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-23 Thread Stephen Davidson
Oh, that's not good. You must have a way to switch of the touch screen when you use the pen. How crazy, not to be able to do that. On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Matt Lind ml...@carbinestudios.com wrote: Our lead animator has the Slate running windows 7. It’s not bad, but has a few obvious

A sad day, in this part of the country, for digital artists.

2012-09-08 Thread Stephen Davidson
200 + laid off from Digital Domain, Ft. St. Lucie, FL. City and State officials were scammed. http://www.wptv.com/dpp/news/region_st_lucie_county/port_st_lucie/family-moves-cross-country-for-nonexistent-digital-domain-job

Re: A sad day, in this part of the country, for digital artists.

2012-09-10 Thread Stephen Davidson
Oh, I'm sure that is not the case. Textor managed to get 116 million out of his various deals and this kind of pump and dump scheme, as far as the stock goes is quite common. The way it works is you buy short (you are betting on it going down) as well as selling the initial shares before the

Re: A sad day, in this part of the country, for digital artists.

2012-09-10 Thread Stephen Davidson
LOL...as well as me being rejected for we have no positions for a person with your skills and a suggestion that I attend their school. On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 1:27 PM, rob...@texturelighting.com rob...@texturelighting.com wrote: Does this mean that I will no longer be receiving emails

Re: A sad day, in this part of the country, for digital artists.

2012-09-10 Thread Stephen Davidson
AM, Stephen Davidson magic...@bellsouth.net wrote: Oh, I'm sure that is not the case. Textor managed to get 116 million out of his various deals and this kind of pump and dump scheme, as far as the stock goes is quite common. The way it works is you buy short (you are betting on it going down

Re: A sad day, in this part of the country, for digital artists.

2012-09-10 Thread Stephen Davidson
I don't know if this flow chart will make our discussion list, but I will try and send it. It helps a person understand the complexities of this deal (robbery) On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Stephen Davidson magic...@bellsouth.netwrote: oops...sorry typo... I mean 16 million... total

Re: A sad day, in this part of the country, for digital artists.

2012-09-10 Thread Stephen Davidson
It appears the 16 million was earned in 2011. This does not include any stock holdings. http://www.cartoonbrew.com/business/john-textor-made-16-million-in-2011-while-digital-domains-revenue-dropped.html On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Eric Thivierge ethivie...@gmail.comwrote: I haven't read

Re: A sad day, in this part of the country, for digital artists.

2012-09-10 Thread Stephen Davidson
. Eric Thivierge http://www.ethivierge.com On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 2:06 AM, Stephen Davidson magic...@bellsouth.netwrote: It appears the 16 million was earned in 2011. This does not include any stock holdings. http://www.cartoonbrew.com/business

Re: A sad day, in this part of the country, for digital artists.

2012-09-10 Thread Stephen Davidson
. Eric Thivierge http://www.ethivierge.com On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 2:06 AM, Stephen Davidson magic...@bellsouth.net wrote: It appears the 16 million was earned in 2011. This does not include any stock holdings. http://www.cartoonbrew.com/business/john-textor

Re: A sad day, in this part of the country, for digital artists.

2012-09-10 Thread Stephen Davidson
. Eric Thivierge http://www.ethivierge.com On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 2:06 AM, Stephen Davidson magic...@bellsouth.net wrote: It appears the 16 million was earned in 2011. This does not include any stock holdings. http://www.cartoonbrew.com/business

Re: In case you missed it..

2012-09-13 Thread Stephen Davidson
I find it strange that the Autodesk layoffs and Softimage’s future blog refers to Softimage as XSI Just sayin' On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Andy Nicholas a...@andynicholas.comwrote: +1000 Yep, well said Jules. The main reason we started up the London user group again was to try to

Re: Chinny lives!

2012-10-04 Thread Stephen Davidson
LOL...as you can see our zombie is very polite and obviously a fan of English literature. priceless! On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Edna Kruger edna.kru...@autodesk.comwrote: yep, but just the narration - not the zombie ;-) From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:

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

2012-11-15 Thread Stephen Davidson
I use PSD files, as textures in Softimage, no problem. It evens sees the transparency (32 bit). I have had issues with TIFF On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 9:12 PM, Steven Caron car...@gmail.com wrote: oh i should add, tifs are perfectly fine in arnold... they have been a pain in the past with mental

Re: Semi OT : Charging the modelling

2012-11-16 Thread Stephen Davidson
I always estimate per hour. I have found that I can be quite accurate with an hourly estimate by breaking down the modeling to it's most basic components. For example, on a character model, how long to model each eye. How long to model basic body shape. How long to model hands, face, expressions

Re: Semi OT : Charging the modelling

2012-11-16 Thread Stephen Davidson
is a maximum. But, really I'd like someone to give me a price example. are you usually speaking in hundreds or thousands of euros ? I don't really know... Le 16/11/2012 16:36, Stephen Davidson a écrit : I always estimate per hour. I have found that I can be quite accurate with an hourly

Re: Semi OT : Charging the modelling

2012-11-19 Thread Stephen Davidson
mailto:olivier.jean...@noos.fr wrote: Ok Thank you ! So, 400$ * 4 or 5 days for 1 character is not over-priced according to you ? Le 16/11/2012 22:47, Stephen Davidson a écrit : I would then price it per day. 8 hour days. I charge approx. $400/day (314.2924 euros

Re: Semi OT : Charging the modelling

2012-11-19 Thread Stephen Davidson
can vary greatly in detail and complexity. Stephen Davidson has it correct by evaluating time per component and then charging by an hourly rate to establish a starting base point. You must also master how to convey value to your client. You can't just spit-out an overall price or a day rate

Re: in case you didn't notice

2012-12-03 Thread Stephen Davidson
Breathtaking! On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Tim Borgmann i...@bt-3d.de wrote: Thanks Sebastian, and thank you all for the really great feedback :) Tim i know that tim is to humble to post it here, but these are to great and beautiful to go without some proper recognition. nissan

Exploring the power of Non-Linear Character Setup with Autodesk Softimage

2012-12-10 Thread Stephen Davidson
I just finished watching the AU Master Class presentation on the AREA Exploring the power of Non-Linear Character Setup with Autodesk Softimage presented by Adam Sale. This was an excellent advanced rigging tutorial (at least is was advanced for me). Adam did a fantastic job of explaining each

Re: Softimage crashing on launch

2012-12-12 Thread Stephen Davidson
Security Essentials allowed a serious virus on my machine. It claimed to have removed a Trojan horse, but when re-booted, it claimed to have removed it again. Every time I rebooted the PC it would claim to have removed the same virus, which led me to believe that the virus was not being removed.

Re: Normal Maps in Softimage

2012-12-12 Thread Stephen Davidson
does this help? http://vimeo.com/19399592 On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 10:40 AM, Adam Sale adamfs...@gmail.com wrote: hey Wayne.. Thanks for the tips. My case is for Rendering with Mental / Vray I just can't believe that OOTB SOftimage still doesn't have a proper Normal Map. Its been requested

Re: Softimage crashing on launch

2012-12-12 Thread Stephen Davidson
at 7:03 AM, Stephen Davidson magic...@bellsouth.netwrote: Security Essentials allowed a serious virus on my machine. It claimed to have removed a Trojan horse, but when re-booted, it claimed to have removed it again. Every time I rebooted the PC it would claim to have removed the same virus

Re: ICE Instance Memory Leak?

2012-12-27 Thread Stephen Davidson
a good solution to this is using Kim Aldis's KA_BatchMaker script. It allows you to render in a controlled number of frames. find it here: http://rray.de/xsi/ just search for ka_batchmaker On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 7:13 AM, Antonieo anton...@163.com wrote: There're bunch of particles in my

Re: Normal Maps and multiple tile UV set up

2012-12-29 Thread Stephen Davidson
This should help: http://vimeo.com/19399592 On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 9:37 AM, Sofronis Efstathiou sefstath...@bournemouth.ac.uk wrote: Hi all, ** ** I’m having problems trying to get a number of normal map to work across a character which has a multiple tile UV set up. ** **

Re: Google SketchUp export

2013-01-08 Thread Stephen Davidson
SketchUp Pro has .xsi export, but I haven't had much luck with that. The resulting imported .xsi model has way to may components so it makes it hard to manage the resulting hierarchy. The .xsi export from SketchUp also assigns each mesh with a separate material, even if they are identical. The

Re: everybody's favorite question...

2013-01-11 Thread Stephen Davidson
why offline? I'm interested in peoples comments on this too. 3D on a laptopevery 3D'ers dream? maybe with a good network and NAS? If it's not time, it certainly is close. On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 10:15 PM, Matt Lind ml...@carbinestudios.comwrote: …What computer should I get? (for

Re: everybody's favorite question...

2013-01-14 Thread Stephen Davidson
so, something like this might do the trick?: http://dealnews.com/Lenovo-Ivy-i7-Quad-16-Laptop-w-Quadro-2-GB-GPU-for-1-205-free-shipping/657079.html On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Matt Lind ml...@carbinestudios.com wrote: Basically what I'm hearing from everybody is laptop still isn't cost

Re: everybody's favorite question...

2013-01-14 Thread Stephen Davidson
...or even this refurbished laptop: http://www.buy.com/prod/hp-elitebook-8740w-wh276ut-17-led-notebook-intel-core-i7-i7-720qm-1/214983440.html?listingId=235509521 On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Stephen Davidson magic...@bellsouth.netwrote: so, something like this might do the trick?: http

Re: everybody's favorite question...

2013-01-14 Thread Stephen Davidson
If money is not an issue (twice the price of my previous post), this one is good, but short battery life... http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2376739,00.asp OK... sorry for the multiple postsI'm done. I hope this helps. On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Stephen Davidson magic

Re: everybody's favorite question...

2013-01-23 Thread Stephen Davidson
, Stephen Davidson magic...@bellsouth.netwrote: If money is not an issue (twice the price of my previous post), this one is good, but short battery life... http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2376739,00.asp OK... sorry for the multiple postsI'm done. I hope this helps. On Mon, Jan 14, 2013

Re: Last day

2013-02-28 Thread Stephen Davidson
Sad news, Sandy. Good luck on your future, and keep checking in, here. On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 4:06 AM, Sandy Sutherland sandy.sutherl...@triggerfish.co.za wrote: Hi All, Just letting you all know today is d-day for us at Triggerfish - end of day today the entire staff has been set loose.

Re: SI 2014 sneak peek

2013-02-28 Thread Stephen Davidson
Editing includes transitions like cross fades, wipes, cuts, etc. This looks like a cuts only tool, or what I call primitive editing. On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Christian Gotzinger cgo...@googlemail.comwrote: I don't quite follow the concept of you don't edit in 3d. Editing real life

Re: Rendering to video and formats

2013-03-19 Thread Stephen Davidson
Hi Joey, Most of my stuff ends up in broadcast. I use 1280 x 1080 1.5 pixel aspect ratio and 1.7778 picture aspect ratio (16x9) I use this because it conforms to DVCPRO 100 specs. I use After Effects to composite my animation layers so I can dial up the final output format there, depending on

Re: Adobe Maxon join forces

2013-03-19 Thread Stephen Davidson
I have been using Softimage/XSI with After Effects for over 20 years and find them to be quite compatible. What do you want to work better? Maybe I can help. On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Paul Griswold pgrisw...@fusiondigitalproductions.com wrote: I really wish Softimage worked better with

Re: Adobe Maxon join forces

2013-03-19 Thread Stephen Davidson
easily. So, while they work do together, I wouldn't say Softimage is in the same league as the competition. Adobe's partnership with Maxon will just deepen the connection. -Paul On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Stephen Davidson magic...@bellsouth.net wrote: I have been using Softimage

Re: Rendermap layout help

2013-03-21 Thread Stephen Davidson
I wouldn't spend the time worrying about the amount of negative space. Just make sure you are using an image format that will compress with run length encoding. This will keep you image maps small in file size. On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Pete Edmunds pete3dmu...@gmail.comwrote: I'm

Re: Softimage 2014

2013-04-02 Thread Stephen Davidson
Autodesk site says 39 days until trial On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Stephen Blair stephenrbl...@gmail.comwrote: Maya and 3ds Max are supposed to ship on 12 April. Probably the same for Softimage. On 02/04/2013 1:26 PM, Steven Caron wrote: does anyone know when 2014 products are

Re: Advice on creating particles effects

2013-04-10 Thread Stephen Davidson
A wonderful tool for designing particle effects is actually not Softimage. Particle Illusion http://www.wondertouch.com/index_2.asp is great for designing a look very quickly. It is inexpensive. The particles are not 3D, however. So if you need 3D integration you will need to learn particles in

Re: Softimage promo

2013-04-15 Thread Stephen Davidson
you can pin the .bat file (XSI.bat) which launches Softimage On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 9:13 AM, Szabolcs Matefy szabol...@crytek.comwrote: I’m curious when Softimage will be pinnable to Task Bar and Start Menu?*** * ** ** *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:

Re: unresponsive under win7

2013-04-16 Thread Stephen Davidson
Is there a lot of disk activity during the not responding ? On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Sebastian Kowalski l...@sekow.com wrote: it doesnt matter if I have aero switched on or not, soft is unresponive, switching to other apps in the background or freezing up when running some heavier

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: Looking for Autodesk high-res logos

2013-05-29 Thread Stephen Davidson
http://www.brandsoftheworld.com/search/logo?search_api_views_fulltext=autodesk On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Marc-Andre Carbonneau marc-andre.carbonn...@ubisoft.com wrote: Hello, I’m looking for bigger resolution of the new Maya, MAX, Softimage logos. It’s for

Re: Looking for Autodesk high-res logos

2013-05-29 Thread Stephen Davidson
** ** *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Stephen Davidson *Sent:* 29 mai 2013 10:32 *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Re: Looking for Autodesk high-res logos ** ** http

Re: Plant Factory

2013-05-29 Thread Stephen Davidson
Looks like it will work with VUE On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 11:23 PM, Sebastien Sterling sebastien.sterl...@gmail.com wrote: I know, they say it will come as stand alone and as a plugin for other applications, but they don't mention which ones, same goes for supported file formats... On 30

Re: Plant Factory

2013-05-29 Thread Stephen Davidson
quoted from their site: Plants created using The Plant Factory technology can be exported to any 3D Application using multiple export formats such as FBX, 3DS, OBJ, etc. On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 11:23 PM, Sebastien Sterling sebastien.sterl...@gmail.com wrote: I know, they say it will come as

the secret of animation

2013-06-04 Thread Stephen Davidson
https://vimeo.com/67501143 -- Best Regards, * Stephen P. Davidson** **(954) 552-7956 *sdavid...@3danimationmagic.com *Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic* - Arthur C. Clarke http://www.3danimationmagic.com

Re: Ice Spring Constraint

2013-06-15 Thread Stephen Davidson
does this help? http://vimeo.com/1743232 On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 2:26 PM, Tim Woods t...@analogstudio.co.uk wrote: Hi I'm fairly new to Softimage having recently jumped ship from 3dsMax. I've made a few compounds, but this one I'm trying has really got me stumped. I'm trying to create a

Re: path constraint via ICE

2013-07-08 Thread Stephen Davidson
Why not have a null follow the path, and have the object position constrained to the null? That way you can also control the center of the scale, and the object scaling will not effect the position, since it is based on the null position. On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Ponthieux, Joseph G.

Re: houdini engine

2013-07-11 Thread Stephen Davidson
s... should we start a website for artist to share/sell their ICE assets? We could call it Andbolt.com (the url is available) Then develop an ICE Engine app that could port ICE assets into Houdini, Cinema3D, 3DStudioMax, Maya, etc. On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 4:36 PM, Emilio Hernandez

Re: I can't believe there is no tutorial for Softimage on Autodesk webiste

2013-07-18 Thread Stephen Davidson
When you first open up Softimage a window opens up called Netview. In that Netview window, there are two links listed: Essential Skills Videos - Getting Started (this is a good place to start) and Softimage YouTube Learning Channel If you left click on Essential Skills Videos - Getting Started,

Re: I can't believe there is no tutorial for Softimage on Autodesk webiste

2013-07-18 Thread Stephen Davidson
about http://www.redi-vivus.com - where you can find tons of older Softimage training. Even though it's dated, the majority of it is still very useful and can help you get up to speed. -Paul On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Stephen Davidson magic...@bellsouth.net wrote: When you first

Re: Friday Flashback #129

2013-07-20 Thread Stephen Davidson
[image: Inline image 1] On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 2:49 AM, Ludovick Michaud ludovickwmich...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah check Greg's facebook. It's off my timeline. Took me 2 hours to fall asleep after seeing that monstrosity. That's what friends are for, right? Ludovick William Michaud mobile:

Re: Need a help for hair

2013-07-21 Thread Stephen Davidson
This may help get what you need... http://www.matkovic.com/anto/kristinka-hair.html On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 8:18 AM, Daniel Kim dani...@magicboxandapps.comwrote: Hi I need a help for hair. I need to make hair for Puddle. I've been trying with SI hair tool, but I am not sure if there are

Re: I can't believe there is no tutorial for Softimage on Autodesk webiste

2013-07-21 Thread Stephen Davidson
When Softimage became XSI, I thought the learning curve went from easy to hard, but once I gritted my teeth, and decided to learn XSI, I was convinced it was worth the extra effort to learn a new package. Now that ICE has been added, What little ICE I have learned has made my 3D work easier. I

Re: OT: Vitaly Bulgarov timelapse

2013-07-22 Thread Stephen Davidson
Boolean does seem to be more robust, these days. ... or is it my imagination? On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 9:25 PM, Steven Caron car...@gmail.com wrote: 1:10:00 into the video he uses a boolean that i never would have attempted. i would have gotten a couple crashes before getting it jsst

Re: OT: Vitaly Bulgarov timelapse

2013-07-23 Thread Stephen Davidson
sometimes. With clean/handmodelled meshes like he had, it should be hard to crash the boolean operation at all. ** ** *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Stephen Davidson *Sent:* Tuesday, July 23, 2013 4:37 AM

Re: Environment sphere issues

2013-07-27 Thread Stephen Davidson
quite do it, so this plugin overcompensates? I still think implicit mapping would help, as the help files indicate, if I could get any image to show up on the sphere. Thanks again, Nancy On Jul 27, 2013, at 8:18 PM, Stephen Davidson magic...@bellsouth.net wrote: If you have Photoshop

Re: Environment sphere issues

2013-07-27 Thread Stephen Davidson
in Softimage mapping is trying to solve this and doesn't quite do it, so this plugin overcompensates? I still think implicit mapping would help, as the help files indicate, if I could get any image to show up on the sphere. Thanks again, Nancy On Jul 27, 2013, at 8:18 PM, Stephen Davidson magic

Re: Implicit texture projection not working

2013-07-28 Thread Stephen Davidson
You cannot implicit texture a reflection map, as the texture is applied to the environment, not the sphere's surface. On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 9:27 AM, Luca superposit...@gmail.com wrote: Strange. What you need to do is : 1 - Create Sphere 2 - set Sphere or UV projection. 3 - in the

Re: Environment sphere issues

2013-07-28 Thread Stephen Davidson
The other thread, that was started on this subject, confuses the issue by referring to implicit texture mapping which can be applied to surface texture mapping, but not environment mapping (reflection map). That is why implicit texture mapping is not the solution for reflections pinching at the

Re: Environment sphere issues

2013-07-28 Thread Stephen Davidson
Another method for creating reflection maps, that don't have pinching at the poles, uses Photoshop' stock filter distortpolar coordinates. You start with your seamless texture and select rectangular to polar. Paint out the pinching. and then reverse the distortion using polar to rectangular. Then

Re: Environment sphere issues

2013-07-29 Thread Stephen Davidson
, maybe ill find a use for that! But I still wonder why it's working for your images and not mine. Maybe it's in the type of image and what is happening visually near the bottom and top of the image. ** ** On Jul 28, 2013, at 1:19 AM, Stephen Davidson magic...@bellsouth.net wrote: Here

Re: NURBS improvements petition

2013-07-30 Thread Stephen Davidson
signed ... crossing fingers. On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Ognjen Vukovic ognj...@gmail.com wrote: Signed, And i sincerely hope that something comes out of this. On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Eugen Sares sof...@mail.sprit.orgwrote: Of course! The point is, it seems to be unclear

Re: Strands

2013-07-30 Thread Stephen Davidson
How's your Spanish? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHzo3cjnQ1g On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES] j.ponthi...@nasa.gov wrote: Hello, ** ** I’m trying to use strands again, and what I want to do is have a strand act as a trail along a curve. The

Re: Environment sphere issues

2013-08-01 Thread Stephen Davidson
it not read well in the render. Have you used it effectively when you need 360 degree correctness? Thanks! On Jul 29, 2013, at 4:39 PM, Stephen Davidson magic...@bellsouth.net wrote: Exactly. Then use the cross version (Pano2VR creates a horizontal cross) setting Softimage's environmental

Re: Environment sphere issues

2013-08-01 Thread Stephen Davidson
this conversion? I just signed on to Adobe Creative Cloud...they ought to have something in all that software that would do this, you'd think? On Aug 1, 2013, at 2:57 PM, Stephen Davidson magic...@bellsouth.net wrote: I have use both sphere and cross (or cube) mapping for reflections. Both work fine

Re: Environment sphere issues

2013-08-02 Thread Stephen Davidson
conversion, internally to HDR shop, degrade or change the low dynamic range image? Moot of course if it crashes, but it does have the conversion I need. Dang it. I can't find anything else that does. Thanks, Nancy On Aug 1, 2013, at 5:34 PM, Stephen Davidson magic...@bellsouth.net wrote

Re: [OT] Another one bites the dust...DS is EOL.

2013-08-06 Thread Stephen Davidson
as FXTree nodes... https://vimeo.com/65641320 On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Stephen Davidson magic...@bellsouth.netwrote: Avid has quite history of shelving products, that they buy. One only has to go to Wikipedia to see the long list of discontinued purchases: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

Re: Why did I pay support?? Why did I buy a suite ? I want my moneyback!

2013-08-08 Thread Stephen Davidson
I think I can shed light on where Autodesk is going, as far as Softimage is concerned. Go to Google and search for Autodesk Softimage. What is the first paid search result? This is the one that Autodesk marketing paid Google money to display. There is your answer. On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 10:51

Re: Why did I pay support?? Why did I buy a suite ? I want my moneyback!

2013-08-08 Thread Stephen Davidson
people from SI to it.. he On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 6:33 PM, Angus Davidson angus.david...@wits.ac.zawrote: For those of us who dont seem to get the paid results could you copy and paste ? ;) -- *From:* Stephen Davidson [magic...@bellsouth.net] *Sent:* 08 August

Re: Why did I pay support?? Why did I buy a suite ? I want my moneyback!

2013-08-08 Thread Stephen Davidson
from your desktop and do your magic instead of wasting your time whining about some marketing bullshit? ;) On 8 August 2013 19:29, Stephen Davidson magic...@bellsouth.net wrote: to take it one step further If you click on the Maya link, and then click on products at the top of the page

Re: Why did I pay support?? Why did I buy a suite ? I want my moneyback!

2013-08-08 Thread Stephen Davidson
of wasting your time whining about some marketing bullshit? ;) On 8 August 2013 19:29, Stephen Davidson magic...@bellsouth.net wrote: to take it one step further If you click on the Maya link, and then click on products at the top of the page, Softimage is not listed. I think they are pushing

Re: Why did I pay support?? Why did I buy a suite ? I want my moneyback!

2013-08-08 Thread Stephen Davidson
, it is good for all. Just being selfish. :) You do know that all our clients think that all this software runs itself. ;) On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Paul Doyle technove...@gmail.com wrote: Why does it need to be a specific advantage vs a general one? On 8 August 2013 18:08, Stephen Davidson

Re: Advice on learning depth compositing Softimage files in AE?

2013-08-13 Thread Stephen Davidson
On the AE side...here is a good tutorial for using z-depth. http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorial/depth_compositing/ On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 1:12 AM, Nancy Jacobs illus...@mip.net wrote: Hi, Can anyone point me to a book or any other current information about depth compositing (the output

Re: Dealing with CAD files format

2013-08-13 Thread Stephen Davidson
Solid works can output to .stl and then import to MeshLab (open source) which can output .obj, which Softimage can read. On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 4:15 PM, olivier jeannel olivier.jean...@noos.frwrote: Hi guys, Next week I shall receive a mecanical pieces generated with Solidworks. Because

Re: Hard surface modeling question

2013-08-22 Thread Stephen Davidson
Assuming you used the bevel tool, check the hard edges option. If this is done totally through subdivision sect the edge loop on the inside part of the hole and make that a hard edge. On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 7:44 AM, Szabolcs Matefy szabol...@crytek.comwrote: Thanks James, ** ** I

Re: Hard surface modeling question

2013-08-22 Thread Stephen Davidson
well, but unfortunately the shading is still sucks. Maybe I’ll take the geo to Max to see, if it’s a shading issue, or whatever… ** ** *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Stephen Davidson *Sent:* Thursday

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