Re: Midterm Exam

That is one hard test! On 2019-12-20 10:04 p.m., Matt Lind wrote: > I used to give this to my students as the midterm exam for an Advanced > XSI course which focused on the animation mixer and mental ray > rendering.  It is a closed book exam which means no notes, no books, > no computers, no

Re: The Softimage mailing list

w-3D-3D_a6oQc7tnfcb0GKvoO27fPkrQ0ATQyF1SDBXJOg7-2FbuTI7jNFrhHpo4Oh8S2uuIfY0n5H0St8s5TRxbf5JfVO55b8n-2BSVmD10xnQNECmAf4kC9HEWo9h6AVCI3w0fW1AeShepV1UytdL2PTyIYSG27rdupuyTrwTOtYdfFgPkb4L5qC8zgW3b8DdSBYzdMeix-2BG5syqlqa72EPvKE4OHgBHZDCg-2F4Ss-2BVksWFODX4Mbs-3D>? > :) > >   > > On Mon, Nov 18, 2019, 8:48 PM Francois Lord <mailto:li...@francoislord.com>> wrote: > > W

Re: Any Dinosaurs Still Lurking?

I must admit I lurk less and less. I look at the emails subjects from time to time. This one called me. ;) On 2018-05-11 01:53 PM, Bill Hinkson wrote: > I still lurk. > > On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 1:05 PM, patrick nethercoat > > wrote: > >

Re: Softimage mailing 2016 year in review

Wow, I'm no longer in the top 25 posters. Times change! On 01/06/2017 01:33 PM, Stephen Blair wrote: http://wp.me/powV4-3nR -- Softimage Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. --

Re: SI|3D Flashback

Ah yes the Grabber! It became the Volume Deform in XSI. I thought it worked better as a modeling tool in soft, but was a better deform tool in XSI. Conscious also made the MetaMesh plugin if my memory serves me well. It was an implementation of subd in Soft|3D. On 11/11/2016 01:31 PM, Sven

RE: testing list

age- > From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com > [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of > Francois Lord > Sent: Friday, September 02, 2016 10:23 PM > To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com > Subject: Re: testing list > > This is is getting so quiet

Re: Wiki EOL soon

Softimageblog.com is managed by Patrick Boucher. I know he thought about closing this site several times in the past years. But I convinced him not to. I sent him an email about the current matter. We'll see how he reacts. F On 2016-08-19 08:35, Fabian Schnuer Gohde wrote: > Speaking of

Re: Motion Tracking

d interface for combining all kinds of matchmove , object tracks, stabilization, undistortion, redistortion etc. Its cheaper by a long shot than 3dEq, though I can't speak for the rental aspect costs. >>>>> >>>>> On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Francois Lord <f

Re: Motion Tracking

Syntheyes for low price, precision of 2D tracking and speed of 2D tracking. PFTrack for overall speed and versatility. 3DEqualizer for difficult shots and precision of 3D track. NukeX for simple shots if you already have a license. If you need to choose just one, I would pick PFTrack. The

Re: Camera export - converting camera axis orientation?

Yep, That's what I would do. On 2016-06-09 11:18, Thomas Volkmann wrote: > You could try to create a new camera, change the rotation-order in kinematics-localtransform, constrain it to the original camera and use it for export (plotting first maybe?). > > good luck, > Thomas > >>

Re: New render layers in maya

in production, but I say it's promising. F On 2016-04-19 02:58 PM, Francois Lord wrote: > This is the key to success. It made it very simple to work with > overrides in XSI but it didn't deal well (at all) with references that > change all the time. Using expressions is the way forward

Re: New render layers in maya

This is the key to success. It made it very simple to work with overrides in XSI but it didn't deal well (at all) with references that change all the time. Using expressions is the way forward. Houdini is using expressions in its stylesheets, Katana is using the equivalent with nodes, we are

Re: Growth in ICE

Here is something I did a few years back to reveal a map. https://vimeo.com/26487726 It's a simulated weightmap. You take an irregular geo (polygon reduction is perfect to create these) and apply a fractal weightmap to it. Then you create a new weightmap and add a simulated ICE tree to it. For

Re: City generator?

CityEngine is amazing, but very expensive. We've used it several times in the past. I think it now has some sort of link to Houdini to be able to work procedurally directly in Houdini. On 2016-02-25 10:11 AM, Morten Bartholdy wrote: > Thanks Chris, but I am looking for something that allows for

The future of this list (was: Goodbyes)

Hi everybody! This list is managed by Autodesk and they can close it at any time they wish. However, there is already a solution in place in case this happens. The archives are located in a Google group, and I am the owner of that group. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/xsi_list In the

Re: Arnold (SiToA) for toon shading?

Yes. http://s3aws.obliquefx.com/public/shaders/help_files/Obq_Toon.html On 01/21/16 17:52, Pierre Schiller wrote: Hello. I was looking at Transformers Devastation videogame and I got across this article:

Re: Can't be more OT than this!: The Science of choosing the Perfect Job

Alok, you rock! This is the kind of thing I always wanted to do when I had a big personal decision to make, but never took the time to clarify my ideas about it enough and actually do it. Your criterias are a good starting point for anyone. I added "Stress" and "Doing what I love" in the Work

Re: Please explain Maya pivot points to a Softimage thinker

Does this help? https://youtu.be/Z8zVjLoHWjk?list=PLP5KnnScX57byOldVy9rQlBRARrX6gy4b On 2015-11-04 09:34, Byron Nash wrote: I'm trying to get some objects zero-ed out in Maya but keep running into what I assume is a paradigm difference between how Maya and Soft handle center points and

Re: OT:Houdini indie render solution

Hi Gerbrand. Did you consider the cloud rendering solution that's integrated in Houdini Indie? It's not free, but it's very easy to use. I have used it last summer for a personal project and i could use 13 machines to render the 13 frames I needed. The only problems I found was that I had to

Re: Rendering Vertex color - Uvs are present

You can use a Vertex_Color node in the render tree to make the ColorAtVerticesMap visible on the object and then just do a normal rendermap. On 2015-09-30 10:04, Pierre Schiller wrote: Hi, good day. I´ve done a little test quickly modeling a face and I did: 1. Applied property->Color at

Re: Continued use of Softimage question

Goehler wrote: Yes, when using packed Alembics (default) only the object declaration is written to the IFD. The actual geometry is referenced to the Alembic file on disk, hence IFDs stay reasonably small. On Aug 20, 2015, at 16:46, Francois Lord flordli...@gmail.com mailto:flordli...@gmail.com

Re: Continued use of Softimage question

What about disk space? Can you, in Mantra, reference alembic deforming geometry directly so it doesn't have to be part of the ifd file at each frame? On 2015-08-20 10:40, Sandy Sutherland wrote: At Sunrise we had 5 IFD generating machines (Engine lics), and I wrote a tool to submit renders

Re: Continued use of Softimage question

I know some companies in Montreal are still using Softimage, while preparing their exit. In our case (Oblique), we are moving more slowly than I was expecting. There are several reasons for this. Change resistance from the artists is one. But also the lack of a good pass system in the other

Re: Continued use of Softimage question

Well, it shouldn't discourage you. Houdini is still better than Maya (yet) in that respect. I want to try a small project in Houdini to see how I can bend it to my needs. I know I will lose some things in there, but I will gain others. The digital assets (ref-models) in Houdini are amazing.

Re: Continued use of Softimage question

Hi Andy. Did you move to Mantra, or stayed with Arnold? Softimage crashing too often in lookdev is the #1 reason why I'm actively looking elsewhere. On 19-Aug-15 10:35, Andy Goehler wrote: We at Fiftyeight moved on from Softimage to Houdini for scene assembly and rendering. While Houdini’s

Re: Continued use of Softimage question

in the scene that you want to affect all takes (like moving en object), you have to go in the Main take, make the edit, and go back to the take you were editing to see the effect. But takes allow you to override about anything, which is good. On 19-Aug-15 10:09, Francois Lord wrote: Well

Re: Continued use of Softimage question

Yes, however the development speed is impressive. On 19-Aug-15 16:51, Juhani Karlsson wrote: Floating license price is just bit too much...

Re: Momentum setup ?

I did that just yesterday and indeed... it gives you lots of control and speed. You have no collisions, but sometimes it's enough. For destruction stuff however, I doubt it. I used the same technique on this shot 2 years ago. https://vimeo.com/55545305 The length of the shot and the deadline

Re: I'm back !

oh, hi Gmail! On 06-Aug-15 18:20, Gmail wrote: :) Olivier

Re: Color at Vertices from Clusters

Try this plugin. It's very old but still works. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/399522/TEMP/PB_ColorAtVerticesFromClusters.py On 04-Aug-15 00:33, Francisco Criado wrote: Hi list! As i never used vertex colors (shame on me) and now being in the situation of starting to use them frequently

Re: Color at Vertices from Clusters

:23 GMT-03:00 Francois Lord flordli...@gmail.com mailto:flordli...@gmail.com: Try this plugin. It's very old but still works. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/399522/TEMP/PB_ColorAtVerticesFromClusters.py On 04-Aug-15 00:33, Francisco Criado wrote: Hi list

Re: Color at Vertices from Clusters

Here is the file you need for line 15 to work. Put somewhere in your PYTHONPATH. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/399522/TEMP/progressBar.py On 04-Aug-15 11:55, Francois Lord wrote: uhhh... right... it needs tools from the library. line 14 can be replaced with those 4 lines

Re: SI 2014

We switched from 2013SP1 to 2015 last fall but stepped back to 2014SP2 this winter because there were too many bugs in 2015. But now we realized that the display LUT in 2014SP2 doesn't support the full dynamic range of the region. So we are thinking to go back to 2015 just because of that.

Re: Play forwards from current time?

Middle-click on the play button. On 27-May-15 15:30, Pierre Schiller wrote: Hi. I´ve been looking all around for an option to play the timeline from the current time. Say if my play head is on frame 80 and timeline is only 100 frames, if I push the play button it goes back from frame 1. Is

Re: Is purchasing a new softimage license impossible?

If Blender can do stuff at the same level than commercial DCCs, or if it can do better in some areas, I want to hear about it. And I want to hear about it here, where everybody is looking for alternatives. On 14-May-15 18:17, Sven Constable wrote: Then I'd like change wewith me in my

Re: OT: Hypershade changes in Maya 2016

Or in another software. On 14-Apr-15 11:50, Christoph Muetze wrote: Everything I would want to do in Maya I can do better and easier in Soft... I'm waiting for that to change.. Maybe in a couple of years? Cheers! Chris

Re: Self installing Prop survive New Scene

I never got it to work, but you can try this. http://download.autodesk.com/global/docs/softimage2013/en_us/sdkguide/si_cmds/SetGlobal.html On 23-Mar-15 11:07, Eric Thivierge wrote: Hello, Was wondering if there is a way to have a self installing property survive a New Scene call. Typically I

Re: Very OT: for the love of your career.. try houdini

If you are a Softimage power user, it will take a lot of time to get back to that level in Houdini. However, you don't need to be a Houdini power user to use Houdini. Learn the basics (basic modeling, basic UVs, basinc animation, etc) and then choose an area where you want to dive first. Most

Re: Softimage to render on alexa raw (log C?) curve?

Try this LUT with preconditioning set to Cineon. It will give you the extended dynamic range that a log file can provide. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/399522/TEMP/Lin709_to_LogCWidegamut.csp Cheers. On 27-Feb-15 21:14, Pierre Schiller wrote: Hi everyone. My usual workflow is to recieve

Re: H14 is out !

Yes, indie version is per year, as well as Houdini Engine indie and commercial. I think SideFX can do a one time conversion of your scenes if you need to go from indie to commercial. On 16-Jan-15 11:15, Patrick Neese wrote: Question, I saw the term of the indie version is 365 days from

Re: Ice texture

Instances are perfect copies of the original objects, you can't have a different projection on each. You can however, do something in the shader so that each instance picks up a part of the texture at render time. You can use the node Camera_Map in the render tree, but your moving particles

Re: Modo Sale again 40% off

Can anyone confirm that Modo801 can be installed without Bonjour? This was a big downer for us when we bought 701. Good thing we only paid half price for it. On 17-Dec-14 05:25, Simon Reeves wrote: Not sure anyone has mentioned it so just incase people aren't aware

Re: Modo Sale again 40% off

. *From:* Francois Lord [flordli...@gmail.com] *Sent:* 17 December 2014 04:46 PM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Re: Modo Sale again 40% off Can anyone confirm that Modo801 can be installed without Bonjour? This was a big downer for us when we bought 701. Good

Re: Exocortex Crate (the Alembic suite) goes open source.

And, may I ask what drove this decision? On 11-Dec-14 15:54, Ben Houston wrote: Hi Simon, We will continue to contribute to ExocortexCrate as need be. The Alembic suite though is a fairly complete product at this point -- the only major exception is Custom Attributes in Maya. We would though

Re: Exocortex Crate (the Alembic suite) goes open source. [nevermind]

nevermind, i just saw your port on the Exocortex-Alembic mailing list. On 11-Dec-14 16:50, Francois Lord wrote: And, may I ask what drove this decision? On 11-Dec-14 15:54, Ben Houston wrote: Hi Simon, We will continue to contribute to ExocortexCrate as need be. The Alembic suite though

Re: Service Pack 1 available

Yes, I was expecting more for a software that will be killed in 2016. On 02-Dec-14 16:06, Mirko Jankovic wrote: you really expected any more effort on software they already killed??? really? On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 9:26 PM, Leendert A. Hartog hirazib...@live.nl mailto:hirazib...@live.nl

Re: Need your opinion to improve Maya Outliner/ Attribute Editor

However, I would prefer to have a shortcut key pressed to be able to reparent things in the explorer. Right now, it's too easy to mess a hierarchy when selecting an object and slipping the mouse too much. You don't even realize you did it. On 26-Nov-14 05:39, adrian wyer wrote: Eric hit

Re: Need your opinion to improve Maya Outliner/ Attribute Editor

I disagree. They own the software, yes, but that doesn't mean they know what the users actually like in it. There is a ton of features in Softimage that I never use. The way I understood Shuting's questions was this: Now that you guys have played with Maya, how would you make the Outliner

Re: Buy Softimage - is this a real shop?

Microsoft snapped XSI's neck by not making it cross platform. It just took very long for it to die from the injury. Autodesk removed the cervical collar. Agreed, it wasn't nice of them. On 13-Nov-14 12:21, Mirko Jankovic wrote: And indeed made next step of all of them.. Then snapped it;s neck

Re: OpenVDB installation snag

in the VDB_shaderDefs_ai.pys, replace this line dllPath_release = Application.Plugins(Arnold Shaders).OriginPath + bin\\nt-x86-64\\tbb42.dll; by dllPath_release = Application.Plugins(ArnoldStaShaders).OriginPath + bin\\nt-x86-64\\tbb42.dll; On 31-Oct-14 08:48, Morten Bartholdy wrote: I

ICE attributes don't show

Allright. What's the deal with ICE attribute values that don't show up when they're asked to? I've never had this problem with earlier version but now since maybe 2013, it seems to be a increasing problem. I have a simulated mesh with 3 different ICE trees in different stack regions. I tried

Re: ICE attributes don't show

Ah, now it works. I had to remove the subdivision (!?) AND save and reload the scene and it works. thanks. On 30-Oct-14 12:02, David Barosin wrote: Just a quick check but is there a subdivision on the geo? On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 11:56 AM, Francois Lord flordli...@gmail.com mailto:flordli

Re: ICE attributes don't show

... http://xsisupport.com/2009/04/08/show-values-doesnt-work-if-you-have-geometry-approximation/ 2009!!! On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Francois Lord flordli...@gmail.com mailto:flordli...@gmail.com wrote: Ah, now it works. I had to remove the subdivision (!?) AND save and reload

Re: Export Meshed Particles Sequence

emPolygonizer. On 21-Oct-14 10:16, Will Sharkey wrote: I have a bunch of animating instanced spheres in a pointcloud that I'd like to export as an actual Geo sequence into another 3d application. What do you use to write the particles into geometry? Maybe some of Eric Mootz tools will write

Re: Friday Flashback #194

Softimage|3D 4.0 was still being used in Japan long after XSI was released. On 17-Oct-14 14:11, Stephen Blair wrote: Hi Matt That's the timestamp on the file, and on the wikipedia page for Cavia, it lists: * /Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex

Re: SI 2015 crash using Manipulate Mode

Yes. On 07-Oct-14 04:15, Stephan Haitz wrote: Hello everybody, Did anyone else notice a crash in 2015 when using Manipulate Mode / Tool (shortcut: B) and picking a corner? Hard crash: The whole Application disappears... Or is it only me? No problems in 2014SP2 Best regards Stephan

Re: Autodesk considering ditching perpetual licenses

Uhmm, isn't it the opposite? If you can skip the big purchase price and pay by the month, like Adobe did, it's a good opportunity for independants and small companies. You can also decide not to pay for 3 months because you are using another software on a specific project. But I doubt

Re: Change License from Standalone to Network?

On 06-Aug-14 17:18, Matt Lind wrote: That’s why you can no longer have Softimage 2015 and 2015 SP1 (when it becomes available) installed side by side on your computer. Wait, what? You are saying that when Softimage 2015 SP1 comes out, and I want to start a new project on it but also have

Re: RealLens 2

, retType, argTypes) + args)// //# COM Error: OLE error 0x80020101 - [line 283 in \\fs1\g\_WORKGROUPS\softimage\2014\Addons\RealLens2\Application\Plugins\RealLens2.py]// //# ERROR : OLE error 0x80020101// //Application.ApplyRealLens2()/ -Tim On 7/14/2014 3:41 PM, Francois Lord wrote: Hi List. I

RealLens 2

Hi List. I finally updated my old plugin RealLens, 9 years later (!). It now creates a camera rig, applies the plugin on the camera and stays live on the camera. https://s3.amazonaws.com/public.francoislord.com/RealLens2.1.xsiaddon Get - Primitive - Camera - RealLens2 We've been using it in

Re: RealLens 2

]// //# ERROR : OLE error 0x80020101// //Application.ApplyRealLens2()/ -Tim On 7/14/2014 3:41 PM, Francois Lord wrote: Hi List. I finally updated my old plugin RealLens, 9 years later (!). It now creates a camera rig, applies the plugin on the camera and stays live on the camera. https://s3

Re: RealLens 2

are more stable... On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Francois Lord flordli...@gmail.com mailto:flordli...@gmail.com wrote: H... right. (Like most people) You're using the python that comes with Softimage, the one that's not patched for dynamic dispatch. I didn't think

2015 SP1

Anyone knows if 2015 SP1 is coming soon? I've been waiting for it to install 2015. But the projects that were begun on older versions are getting to an end and I would like to start the new ones on 2015. Usually it comes around June. Usually...

Re: way OT... Sony F55 XAVC S-Log 4k footage

I guess using ffmpeg to convert to png frames would be too time consuming? On 17-Jun-14 10:29, adrian wyer wrote: anyone ever come across this? can't read it in anything except Sony's media browser/Vegas neither of which can reliably write it out into another (usable) format (read: drop

Re: way OT... Sony F55 XAVC S-Log 4k footage

wyer wrote: vegas took nearly 2 hours to convert a 30 second clip to exr and it had drop frames a *From:*softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Francois

Re: Software company Autodesk creates synthetic virus

Soon, you'll need to pay your subscription just to stay alive! On 05-Jun-14 16:42, Marc-Andre Carbonneau wrote: Okay... https://www.seriouswonder.com/software-company-autodesk-creates-synthetic-virus/

Re: Extract two point positions from one edge?

Yeah, I started using them recently too and they are very powerful. Getting your head around the usage is not obvious, though. F On 03-Jun-14 13:49, Jens Lindgren wrote: Hehe no problem, Arvid :) I think all the Get SomethingToSomething data is underrated and very few examples are out there

Re: Houdini Weaknesses

That has been my intuition so far as well. On 22-May-14 03:55, Jordi Bares wrote: My feeling is that a transition period with FX and rendering in Houdini to later decide to either buy more time or commit to package X is the safest route right now. Plus render nodes are free and believe me,

Re: Houdini Weaknesses

maj 2014 o godz. 20:42 Francois Lord flordli...@gmail.com mailto:flordli...@gmail.com napisał(a): So... What are houdini weaknesses? What is missing in Houdini compared to Softimage? Would you run a company only using Houdini as 3D app? Why not?

Houdini Weaknesses

So... What are houdini weaknesses? What is missing in Houdini compared to Softimage? Would you run a company only using Houdini as 3D app? Why not?

Re: Houdini Weaknesses

to actually implement it. I could go on a lot longer, but all I'll say is that you have to be super careful when you decide to throw a job at Houdini. Make sure you have RD time built in if you haven't done a particular effect before. A On 21 May 2014 at 19:42 Francois Lord flordli...@gmail.com

Re: Houdini Weaknesses

just that the openness means that the workflow is very open to interpretation. Houdini's a bit like coding, everyone has their own style so you can get in a mess. It's very easy to add in quick little fixes which other people might look on as hacks instead. A On 21 May 2014 at 21:25 Francois Lord

Re: First Softimage - Maya transition videos posted

I remember when The Foundry asked me what I wanted in a script editor. I said: make it work like the XSI one. They said: everybody already said that but about the Maya one. I didn't know how the Maya one worked so I assumed it would be similar. When Nuke finally came with a script editor, I was

Re: C y'all

Exactly. I don't think it's necessary to launch a new list for the new and old people. Just stay here and share your knowledge of new tools and methods. This list will eventually morph into something far greater that just a single-software-mailing-list-community. It has already begun. Pretty

Re: C y'all

That's why I keep repeating it in different threads. If anything happens abruptly to this list, you all know what to do. Just go to the Google group, it will be converted to a mailing list. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/xsi_list Autodesk doesn't control it. But yeah, I might but too

Re: Houdini Engine for Cinema4D

So... who's up for the Softimage integration? ;-) On 23-Apr-14 10:42, Cristobal Infante wrote: By the way there is a Houdini Engine API so it can be ported to any aplication. So expect to see this implemented in other apps and game engines in the future.

Re: I'm still really PO'd and it's not getting better

Then I have a simple solution for you. Stick with Softimage for the time being. We stuck with Shake for 6 years after it was killed on Windows before something better came up. There was Digital Fusion, but we didn't feel it was better so we didn't switch. 6 long years without a single new

Re: [OT] Autodesk announces 2015 3D product updates.

If you think of it, it's pretty much exactly what we want. If they spend the next three years adding new features that we already have in Softimage, eventually we'll be happy. On 18-Mar-14 14:13, Andres Stephens wrote: Other than the viewport and some modeling features, I feel SI had a lot

Re: YOUR TOP 5

1- ICE 2- Pass system 3- Operator Stack 4- Models (namespace) and RefModels 5- Various transform modes (local, global, ref, proportional, plane, etc.) On 13-Mar-14 05:54, Alastair Hearsum wrote: Hello It seems as if I may have some contact with Autodesk shortly! I want to be armed with some

Re: STDOUT: ' ERROR : 21000 - Unspecified failure - [line 39]

I don't know Deadline, but usually when xsibatch.exe returns a big negative number, it's a crash. A crash can be caused by anything, you won't see it in the output log. I'm sorry I'm not helping much, but you should check if you can render the same frame in the UI. If not, then you can start

Re: STDOUT: ' ERROR : 21000 - Unspecified failure - [line 39]

Note to self: I really should read the entire post carefully before replying. On 07-Mar-14 08:57, Francois Lord wrote: I don't know Deadline, but usually when xsibatch.exe returns a big negative number, it's a crash. A crash can be caused by anything, you won't see it in the output log. I'm

Re: Camera pass overrides?

It seems you are right, Morten. You cannot change even the angle of the camera with an override. However, if you only want to change the lens shader, there is a parameter on the pass to do this (last tab, last parameter down). You can append a camera shader or you can override it entirely.

Re: Salvage the list.

Wow, this thread exploded fast. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/xsi_list The google group archive above is not controlled by Autodesk. It was created by Patrick Boucher (remember xsi-blog.com?) and he later handed me the admin privileges. I am following this list on a daily basis even

Re: Salvage the list.

transferred everyone to this server from Avid. On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Francois Lord flordli...@gmail.com wrote: Wow, this thread exploded fast. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/xsi_list The google group archive above is not controlled by Autodesk. It was created by Patrick Boucher

Re: Softimage transition audience poll

not even sure what Autodesk gains from that. Ben On 3/4/2014 11:00 AM, Francois Lord wrote: What I find interesting in the fact that people want to jump the Autodesk boat is that they seem to forget they have to buy a new software. For a company that relies entirely

Re: Best online resources to help with a Maya migration.

Done! https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/softimage2maya On 27-Feb-14 16:42, Lawrence Nimrichter wrote: I tend to think along these lines. There should possibly be a SI2Maya or SI2Modo etc list to help people make the transition over the coming years. I would think Autodesk would have an

Re: Softimage and Alembic?

On 19/11/2013 2:23 PM, Luc-Eric Rousseau wrote: That's my job even more than ever! I've recently become the head of the maya user interface team. We all know where this is going. One day, the developpers working on Maya will checkout the daily build and realize there is a new module added

Re: Dx11?

I tend to agree with Luc-Eric. It sure is nice to see the displacement in the viewport, but it wouldn't be as nearly as impressive if it were a sphere with a fractal texture on it. The design, modeling and texture work are very impressive. Besides, the video is a little misleading because we

Re: OT rayfire voxels

Besides, doing voxels that move and scale using different variables is definitely not something I want to do with the push of a button. I want full procedurability for this kind of stuff. Yes it takes longer to setup, but I can do exactly what I want. I can even do what the client wants. ;)

Running Softimage without installing it.

Hi. In my never ending quest to find a way to install Softimage automatically and simply on all machines, I have yet again hit a road block. Last year, after several days of failed attempts, I resorted to installing it manually on my machine and copying the folder on the other machines. I

Re: Softimage 2014

Usually, a complete new features list is released with the software. Which should happen, what... within 4 days (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 --

Re: 2014 New feature list... minor corrections list... you decide

...@gmail.com mailto:clankil...@gmail.com wrote: I would like if you can see the size of objects so it's easier to make models for 3d printing. 2013/3/14 Francois Lord flordli...@gmail.com mailto:flordli...@gmail.com +1 On 14/03/2013 09:45, Eric Lampi wrote: Guys

Re: Property editor losing tabs

Sounds like you are working on a scene that was built by someone else and made for Arnold. And you don't have Arnold. On 10/01/2013 13:12, Darrin Hofmeyr wrote: My shader properties open in one long tab and not multiple. Plus the names of each property is not diffuse or reflection etc but kd

Re: Rumors

On 20/12/2012 10:23, Szabolcs Matefy wrote: And what about the language, I don't speak French (yet) When you'll see the ladies, you will speak french! ;)

Re: Rumors

If you think Softimage will die when Maya gets an equivalent to ICE, you should have begun switching to another software some time ago. It was inevitable. On 19/12/2012 11:52, Tim Marinov wrote: If this really happens they are not going to remove the ICE from Softimage but Softimage will fade

Re: Texture Grid?

I don't think there is something in Soft to do it for you, but you can certainly script it. I've done it for an Earth asset with 32 textures 21k on a poly sphere with a standard spherical projection. It wasn't very hard. On 11/23/2012 6:08 PM, Ponthieux, Joey wrote: Hello, I want to create a

Re: Texture Grid?

from it name only, given you have the right projection already setup. On 11/23/2012 5:26 PM, Francois Lord wrote: I don't think there is something in Soft to do it for you, but you can certainly script it. I've done it for an Earth asset with 32 textures 21k on a poly sphere with a standard

Re: update on Creation integration to Softimage

Hi Andy. I attended the Montreal workshop last Thursday. I too see myself as a technical artist and I too was intimidated by it. But I spend the weekend thinking about it and I think it's normal to be intimidated right now, but things will change. It's a lot like ICE, except that you need

Re: OT: best python resource site in the world if you're on windows...

It's interesting to see how many modules are not yet available for python 3.x. On 09/11/2012 08:53, Jules Stevenson wrote: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/ http://www.lfd.uci.edu/%7Egohlke/pythonlibs/ Everything compiled for 64 bit. Whoever runs this deserves more than a medal.

Re: brick procedural texture

Have you looked in the DarkTree shaders. There's a bunch of free textures available. I'm sure there's a brick one in there. On 08/11/2012 12:13, Chris Marshall wrote: Procedural grids? The Grid texture is 2d. Checkerboard might do it, possibly, but it'll need work. Is there an alternative?

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