Re: Get rid of your flip phone and get current on maya!

2015-07-14 Thread John Richard Sanchez
I didn't know they meant urine colored bright. On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 12:46 PM, John Richard Sanchez youngupstar...@gmail.com wrote: The Future is Bright! On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 12:23 PM, Jason S jasonsta...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/14/15 9:46, Chris Marshall wrote: Is it me

Re: Get rid of your flip phone and get current on maya!

2015-07-14 Thread John Richard Sanchez
The Future is Bright! On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 12:23 PM, Jason S jasonsta...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/14/15 9:46, Chris Marshall wrote: Is it me or is this rather expensive? Comparing rental with upgrading after a few years can be steep, but the difference between rental and traditional

Re: Is purchasing a new softimage license impossible?

2015-05-15 Thread John Richard Sanchez
That is 80 % of the time i get an error On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 2:54 PM, John Richard Sanchez youngupstar...@gmail.com wrote: Going from mesh to sub d with the + and _ uttons I will miss. In Maya when I try to modify convert to Sub D I get an error 8 % of the time. (I think because it has

Re: Is purchasing a new softimage license impossible?

2015-05-15 Thread John Richard Sanchez
Going from mesh to sub d with the + and _ uttons I will miss. In Maya when I try to modify convert to Sub D I get an error 8 % of the time. (I think because it has to have all quads to work) I am not a fan of the mesh smoothing. On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 12:21 AM, Bradley Gabe witha...@gmail.com

Re: Softimage 2015 - 400 usd?? what?

2015-04-07 Thread John Richard Sanchez
there are some fake sites that will steal your money. I was going to post a similar page a few months ago to see if anyone knew if it was legit. F ound out it was fake here. http://www.scamadviser.com/check-website On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 10:19 PM, Jason S jasonsta...@gmail.com wrote: A

Re: OT Some great Maya work

2015-03-13 Thread John Richard Sanchez
artist... ), and capturing-it And this makes me more impressed at the artist than Maya. Indeed awesome work though! On 03/12/15 13:46, John Richard Sanchez wrote: For all the crap we give Maya you can still do some amazing work. This is probably the best Facial Rigging/ Texturing I have

OT Some great Maya work

2015-03-12 Thread John Richard Sanchez
For all the crap we give Maya you can still do some amazing work. This is probably the best Facial Rigging/ Texturing I have ever seen. https://vimeo.com/121259910 www.johnrichardsanchez.com

Re: OT: Epic going completely crazy

2015-03-02 Thread John Richard Sanchez
Now they gave me an offer I couldn't refuse. On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 1:14 PM, Nicolas Esposito 3dv...@gmail.com wrote: Personally I switched a bit ago to UDK and now UE4 due to my lack of scripting...in short, in Unity if you want something you have to code it ( ehm...Maya anyone? ) UDK

Re: Check this!

2015-03-02 Thread John Richard Sanchez
sooo whatever became of this? Was this a joke video? On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 1:00 PM, Cristobal Infante cgc...@gmail.com wrote: wait a sec, what year is it? On 23 February 2015 at 17:56, Ed Manning etmth...@gmail.com wrote: this is nearly 7 years old... -- www.johnrichardsanchez.com

Re: mountain collapse

2015-02-17 Thread John Richard Sanchez
, but the simulation starts with a 'pop', so all chunks explode outwards initially. I'll keep digging. Any thoughts? On 2 February 2015 at 18:17, John Richard Sanchez youngupstar...@gmail.com wrote: yes On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 12:58 PM, Chris Marshall chrismarshal...@gmail.com wrote: OK So

Re: Maya Rotoscope

2015-02-12 Thread John Richard Sanchez
There is a script floating around that makes it more like rotoscope lock mode will see if I can dig it up. I know I have it somewhere. On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 8:58 AM, christian papag...@gmail.com wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhDV4pmf3E0 On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 2:55 PM, Simon Reeves

Re: @autodesk maya request

2015-02-05 Thread John Richard Sanchez
am I missing something? It has been a while since using light linking. ( a while since I worked in Maya primarily) But is there a way to just exclude one object from the lights illumination. Instead of selecting everything I want to it to illuminate and linking it to a light set? In XSI you just

Re: @autodesk maya request

2015-02-04 Thread John Richard Sanchez
That's great but most post houses are not using Maya 2015 ext 1 in production. he ones I know are still on 2013 some 2012 etc. On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 9:34 AM, Mario Reitbauer cont...@marioreitbauer.at wrote: Oh kk, gonna take a look. Was working on SP2. 2015-02-04 15:06 GMT+01:00 Graham Bell

Re: maya graph dependencies

2015-02-03 Thread John Richard Sanchez
I would like to see what that looks like in the Hypergraph On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 10:27 AM, Raffaele Fragapane raffsxsil...@googlemail.com wrote: I abuse bookmarks and some custom filters and related scripts. If I selected all DG nodes in the scene and simply graphed them all out for a shot

Re: Sad days...

2015-02-02 Thread John Richard Sanchez
I have to admit. I have been making my peace with Maya the last few weeks. On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 7:56 AM, Jason S jasonsta...@gmail.com wrote: Denial or perhaps some belief that this; *...arguably the most creative, agile, and powerful pieces of 3d software in the VFX industry.* ...

Re: mountain collapse

2015-02-02 Thread John Richard Sanchez
Of the top pf my head. Use the shatter script then use rigid bodies. Plot it and in the Animation editor you can play with the timing. On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 11:29 AM, Chris Marshall chrismarshal...@gmail.com wrote: hi All, I need to very quickly destroy a mountain, well a bit like those

Re: mountain collapse

2015-02-02 Thread John Richard Sanchez
http://www.threesixty3d.com/software/ or http://vimeo.com/28138992 On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 11:46 AM, Chris Marshall chrismarshal...@gmail.com wrote: the Shatter script? On 2 February 2015 at 16:42, John Richard Sanchez youngupstar...@gmail.com wrote: Of the top pf my head. Use

Re: mountain collapse

2015-02-02 Thread John Richard Sanchez
: the Shatter script? On 2 February 2015 at 16:42, John Richard Sanchez youngupstar...@gmail.com wrote: Of the top pf my head. Use the shatter script then use rigid bodies. Plot it and in the Animation editor you can play with the timing. On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 11:29 AM, Chris Marshall

Re: mountain collapse

2015-02-02 Thread John Richard Sanchez
chunks explode outwards initially. I'll keep digging. Any thoughts? On 2 February 2015 at 18:17, John Richard Sanchez youngupstar...@gmail.com wrote: yes On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 12:58 PM, Chris Marshall chrismarshal...@gmail.com wrote: OK So I've managed to shatter my object quite nicely

Re: test feathers

2015-01-30 Thread John Richard Sanchez
Evgrafov summ...@gmail.com: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOAWqMLNt7c 2015-01-30 11:47 GMT+03:00 Max Evgrafov summ...@gmail.com: first test http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e0i4UoJmUE 2015-01-23 20:14 GMT+03:00 John Richard Sanchez youngupstar...@gmail.com: MB Feather tool? On Fri, Jan 23

Re: Digital Tutors - All tutorials free for 3 days (if I read correctly).

2015-01-29 Thread John Richard Sanchez
Yes I should finally get around to watching those. Thanks for the reminder. On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 10:30 PM, Jason S jasonsta...@gmail.com wrote: These are probably way better ET_rigging courseware videos http://vimeo.com/album/1512001 On 01/28/15 16:00, Raffaele Fragapane wrote:

Re: test feathers

2015-01-23 Thread John Richard Sanchez
MB Feather tool? On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Emilio Hernandez emi...@e-roja.com wrote: Nice. -- www.johnrichardsanchez.com

Re: Maya freelance list

2015-01-21 Thread John Richard Sanchez
. On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 10:58 AM, Tim Crowson tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com wrote: What a world we live in, where brother turns against brother... -Tim On 1/21/2015 9:37 AM, Raffaele Fragapane wrote: You can't be using Maya and be willing to identify yourself as Maya people and

Re: convert back to 2014

2015-01-08 Thread John Richard Sanchez
Interesting. I only have one license so didn't think it was possible. On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 3:44 PM, Jason S jasonsta...@gmail.com wrote: You (now anyone) can currently get the Soft/3DS or Soft/Maya bundle from a reseller, or from here (below) if you don't want to deal with resellers or

Re: convert back to 2014

2015-01-08 Thread John Richard Sanchez
The real question is how can you open a soft 2015 and 2014 at the same time. I can never do that without a license error. :) On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 12:04 PM, Gerbrand Nel nagv...@gmail.com wrote: The ice trees were easy in the end. Open one soft2015, and one 2014. copy and paste across.

Re: Crowd Simulation - Off Topic

2015-01-06 Thread John Richard Sanchez
I don't think it is off topic if you will be using Crowd FX in Softimage. There are some good basic tutorials on line. I hope to do a few shots this year as well for a personal project.

Re: Is SI Community working today?

2014-12-30 Thread John Richard Sanchez
thanks for the update. On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 12:20 PM, Leendert A. Hartog hirazib...@live.nl wrote: I can confirm there were problems, but at my end it seems to be working again now. Greetz Leendert -- Leendert A. Hartog AKA Hirazi Blue Administrator NOT the owner of si-community.com

Is SI Community working today?

2014-12-29 Thread John Richard Sanchez
Is SI Community working today? I cant seem to get in this morning. www.johnrichardsanchez.com

Lets Hope Autodesk Buys the Foundry!

2014-12-15 Thread John Richard Sanchez
Lets Hope Autodesk Buys the Foundry! They can EOL Nuke/ Mari in a few years. The future would be bright! ( sarcasm) http://www.thedrum.com/news/2014/12/15/special-effects-company-foundry-expected-sell-200m www.johnrichardsanchez.com

Re: ICE VorleX Muscle System

2014-09-17 Thread John Richard Sanchez
nice! On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 3:26 PM, Stephen Davidson magic...@bellsouth.net wrote: Here is a more recent version. https://vimeo.com/85228649 On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Sebastien Sterling sebastien.sterl...@gmail.com wrote: That looks amazing. so nice :P On 17 September 2014

Re: BUG!?: Path-constrain tangency on closed curves

2014-09-13 Thread John Richard Sanchez
...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *John Richard Sanchez *Sent:* Friday, September 12, 2014 4:27 PM *To:* XSI List to post *Subject:* Re: BUG!?: Path-constrain tangency on closed curves Did anyone hear back about this? I my camera shakes

Re: BUG!?: Path-constrain tangency on closed curves

2014-09-12 Thread John Richard Sanchez
Did anyone hear back about this? I my camera shakes when I put a tangent on the path constraint. On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 8:35 PM, Andres Stephens drais...@outlook.com wrote: Thanks for this, great to hear. =) -Draise PH: 313 811 6821 *From:* Hsiao Ming Chia hsiao.ming.c...@autodesk.com

Re: 2015 SP1

2014-07-08 Thread John Richard Sanchez
I am using it now for a project and I am noticing more crashes than usual. I save constantly (more than I used to). There is nothing I can put my finger on as to why so I don't really have anything to report. On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 2:02 AM, Hsiao Ming Chia hsiao.ming.c...@autodesk.com wrote:

Re: Bump not able to interpret UV Wrap?

2014-06-29 Thread John Richard Sanchez
the problem. On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 6:43 PM, John Richard Sanchez youngupstar...@gmail.com wrote: I don't think I have run into this before but I was trying to use a bump map with a cylindrical projection. However I had to scale the uv's in the V direction in order to get the look I

Re: Bump not able to interpret UV Wrap?

2014-06-27 Thread John Richard Sanchez
I am using Mental Ray in Soft 2015. :) On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 2:45 AM, Jens Lindgren jens.lindgren@gmail.com wrote: What renderer are you using? /Jens On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 3:43 AM, John Richard Sanchez youngupstar...@gmail.com wrote: I don't think I have run into this before

Bump not able to interpret UV Wrap?

2014-06-26 Thread John Richard Sanchez
I don't think I have run into this before but I was trying to use a bump map with a cylindrical projection. However I had to scale the uv's in the V direction in order to get the look I wanted.Therefore I used a wrap v for the texture in the uv editor but it does not show the bump past the 1 by 1

Re: old vid from Jurassic park

2014-06-23 Thread John Richard Sanchez
Wow that T rex model is VIdeo Game resolution.:) On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 12:29 PM, Leendert A. Hartog hirazib...@live.nl wrote: Well, technically they EOLed the successor to the software that helped create that. Softimage|3D was EOLed long before Autodesk... Greetz Leendert --

Re: OT: What strong features have you found in y our new transition software that SI didn´t have?

2014-06-13 Thread John Richard Sanchez
I really like that I can drag and drop FBX files into Maya. I had brought some models for a project and unfortunatly there were about 20 seperate fbx files all at 000 origin. I would have had to file-import each one into xsi but in Maya I just dragged and dropped and then sent to Softimage. On

Re: Softimage Rigging Videos

2014-06-09 Thread John Richard Sanchez
Thats great. Thanks. On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 5:40 AM, Stephan Haitz sha...@3d-agenten.de wrote: Surely for non AD-products too... Hello all, Since Softimage is EOL, I figured that I could share these videos with everyone. It's a series of videos I created while teaching at Rutgers

Re: RPF files?

2014-05-23 Thread John Richard Sanchez
, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.com escribió: Nope. On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 4:48 PM, John Richard Sanchez youngupstar...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any way to render out .rpf files from XSI? Thanks John -- www.johnrichardsanchez.com -- www.johnrichardsanchez.com

Re: RPF files?

2014-05-23 Thread John Richard Sanchez
:) On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 11:42 AM, sue jang suejan...@gmail.com wrote: strangle that compositor! On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 11:33 AM, John Richard Sanchez youngupstar...@gmail.com wrote: I am not sure. A compositor was asking if I could give him .rpf files. On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 10

RPF files?

2014-05-21 Thread John Richard Sanchez
Is there any way to render out .rpf files from XSI? Thanks John -- www.johnrichardsanchez.com

Re: SI and Houdini

2014-05-13 Thread John Richard Sanchez
This looks really cool. https://vimeo.com/64140693 On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 1:40 PM, Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.com wrote: Its a very big application... It was a year ago although they did wrap a few things nicely. :-) Sent from my iPhone On 8 Apr 2014, at 22:52, Chris Johnson

Re: First Softimage - Maya transition videos posted

2014-05-12 Thread John Richard Sanchez
Well it is a start. It is actually the same thing I did before dusting off my old Maya skills. Use the same/ similar hot keys from XSI in maya which others have said in other threads not to do. :) Dont use a XSI gui in maya, dont use shelves, no xsi hot keys its not allowed. You wont learn the

OT: Maya/NUKE user group in NYC tonight.

2014-04-30 Thread John Richard Sanchez
For those of you who would be interested there is a combined Maya / Nuke user group tonight. http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?ca=a73639b5-4132-4c06-9235-bf601757385ac=a7efdb30-4627-11e3-b60a-d4ae52733d3ach=aa462740-4627-11e3-b677-d4ae52733d3a www.johnrichardsanchez.com

Re: Houdini Engine for Cinema4D

2014-04-23 Thread John Richard Sanchez
I would take Houdini over Bifrost any day of the week. The means to escape Autodesk is just extra incentive. But yes Ideally you want to stick to doing things in one package and for me that package would be Softimage/ ICE not Maya/ Bifrost. On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Cristobal Infante

Re: SI2015 alembic vs maya

2014-04-22 Thread John Richard Sanchez
Good Question. On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 6:25 AM, Szabolcs Matefy szabol...@crytek.comwrote: Is there any differences between the alembic coming out from Maya and Softimage? Chhers Szabolcs ___ This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual

Re: HQV Causing Major Slowness with File Save and Reference Model Updates

2014-04-16 Thread John Richard Sanchez
Awesome! Now I can watch more Houdini Tutorials! On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 5:02 AM, Matt Morris matt...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Andy and researchers! On 16 April 2014 09:59, Dan Yargici danyarg...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the warning! DAN On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 9:49 AM, Nuno

Re: Humanize Maya project

2014-04-11 Thread John Richard Sanchez
Whether you use this GUI or not you HAVE to make maya more fast even if its making your own shelf because you will go crazy otherwise. If a TD is having a problem just delete prefernces and everything gets reset. Yes you do need to know where to dig out the tool 2 leagues under the interface (

Re: Humanize Maya project

2014-04-10 Thread John Richard Sanchez
Eric I agree 100% you need to know how Maya works. However; more often than not you can bring in your shelves, preferences, hotkeys etc. ( at least that has been my experience.) If not no biggie but the work flow will be slow. Same with having your own XSI workgroup. If you can't use it you just

Re: Humanize Maya project

2014-04-09 Thread John Richard Sanchez
WOW! That looks great. Though I dont think the center will work like we expect. :) On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Darren Cullis 3d.dar...@gmail.com wrote: I'd love for him to release it or sell it to Autodesk even . Maybe kick starter project :) he says he needs to update it and would

Re: Humanize Maya project

2014-04-09 Thread John Richard Sanchez
I agree Eric. However; it's been my experience that most people bring their preferences/ shells/ scripts with them. If this is the same then not bad at all. On Wednesday, April 9, 2014, Doeke Wartena clankil...@gmail.com wrote: It's nice if your forced to use maya. 2014-04-09 22:44 GMT+02:00

Re: Crowd FX 2014 help

2014-04-08 Thread John Richard Sanchez
scene done in the new CrowdFX system here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/81523789/FooFighter.zip From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of John Richard Sanchez Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2014 12:01 AM To: XSI List to post

Re: Center mode (was RE: humanize Maya, SOFT top 5)

2014-04-07 Thread John Richard Sanchez
Is there a reason that Maya does not save my preference for 30 frames per second ( I hit save preferences) but when I open a new scene it goes back to 24 fps? Is this a new feature? I am using 2014 sp2. I went to do a new project for a client and of course after the render I realize its not

Re: Center mode (was RE: humanize Maya, SOFT top 5)

2014-04-07 Thread John Richard Sanchez
the opinions of NASA or any other party. *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *John Richard Sanchez *Sent:* Monday, April 07, 2014 2:57 PM *To:* XSI List to post *Subject:* Re: Center mode (was RE: humanize Maya

Re: Center mode (was RE: humanize Maya, SOFT top 5)

2014-04-07 Thread John Richard Sanchez
Thanks Jill. That seems to have worked. :) On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 3:30 PM, John Richard Sanchez youngupstar...@gmail.com wrote: I did. But will try it again after I re Render. J On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES] j.ponthi...@nasa.gov wrote: Did

Re: Center mode (was RE: humanize Maya, SOFT top 5)

2014-04-03 Thread John Richard Sanchez
People that haven't used Maya that much don't realize how useful that n SI feature was because they though it was so basic that they assumed every DCC had it. Center is one of those. Exactly. I had my shock moment actually working on a project with a deadline looming. At first, I though that

Re: Please Trim posts!!

2014-04-03 Thread John Richard Sanchez
I hate threads about trimming posts. On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 3:33 PM, Jason S jasonsta...@gmail.com wrote: Lol! Rite ;) On 04/03/14 15:29, Leendert A. Hartog wrote: Considering the mangled posts coming from mobile phones these days, autocorrect should be avoided at all cost IMHO. ;)

Re: Center mode (was RE: humanize Maya, SOFT top 5)

2014-04-02 Thread John Richard Sanchez
I don' know if you saw my rant about this on a Maya job I did last week but all I can say is HELL YES we use the center a lot. I am not sure why you even have to ask. On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 5:50 PM, Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES] j.ponthi...@nasa.gov wrote: I'm not sure I see how that

Re: Center mode (was RE: humanize Maya, SOFT top 5)

2014-04-02 Thread John Richard Sanchez
that with maya because I didnt want to do the redundant workflow of point constraining locator to ear bud group and then removing constraints. Again one click in XSI. Match all transforms. On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 6:33 PM, John Richard Sanchez youngupstar...@gmail.com wrote: I don' know if you

Re: A Good Read!

2014-04-01 Thread John Richard Sanchez
Hi Maurice I have to say I did get up and running in Mudbox pretty quick and was able to fix some textures on a character pretty quick after a few hours driving it for the first time. On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 3:55 PM, Sebastien Sterling sebastien.sterl...@gmail.com wrote: Maurice, did you see

Re: humanize Maya, SOFT top 5

2014-03-28 Thread John Richard Sanchez
...@listproc.autodesk.com [ mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.comsoftimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *John Richard Sanchez *Sent:* Thursday, March 27, 2014 2:34 PM *To:* XSI List to post *Subject:* Re: humanize Maya, SOFT top 5 oh and try to search rotate pivot in the docs

Re: March 28, 2014

2014-03-28 Thread John Richard Sanchez
Well I just got my first Maya job ( didnt take long) and it really sucked. I was picking up a job from someone and having to make changes and I noticed this guy only renders in one pass. H I wonder why. Well my production time increased due to change to a convoluted workflow. The point is

Re: humanize Maya, SOFT top 5

2014-03-27 Thread John Richard Sanchez
So I got my first Maya job in years and here I am trying to figure out how to rotate a Pivot ( center in xsi). No you cant rotate a center in Maya you can just move it. WTF On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 7:32 AM, Peter Agg peter@googlemail.com wrote: Oh, and another one for my list: Maya's

Re: humanize Maya, SOFT top 5

2014-03-27 Thread John Richard Sanchez
stated here-in are strictly those of the author and do not represent the opinions of NASA or any other party. *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *John Richard Sanchez *Sent:* Thursday, March 27, 2014 12:38 PM

Re: humanize Maya, SOFT top 5

2014-03-27 Thread John Richard Sanchez
, afaik you can only rotate the rotation axis of your rotation pivot. Martin Sent from my iPhone On 2014/03/28, at 2:31, John Richard Sanchez youngupstar...@gmail.com wrote: Yes I did it finally. But I mean seriously I have to go through all that to rotate a center This is what we

Re: kinemocap

2014-03-27 Thread John Richard Sanchez
How about this one? Anyone use this? It is free. I think. http://www.freemocap.com/ On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 2:01 PM, Nicolas Esposito 3dv...@gmail.com wrote: I'm using iPi Motion Capture and its working pretty good! Just export the bvh file using the 3ds max option and in Softimage the

Re: crowdfx question

2014-03-27 Thread John Richard Sanchez
Hi Adam Do you know of there is a foo fighters example for 2014 crowds? On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 5:46 PM, Adam Sale adamfs...@gmail.com wrote: I remember something along those lines in 2013 as well. I do remember having to fix the uvs in the ice tree on the proxy. 2014sp2 is really stable

Re: Side Effects, Foundry watching this?

2014-03-26 Thread John Richard Sanchez
Thanks guys! This is great to know! On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 9:48 AM, Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.com wrote: Houdini has more than 20 years of development around VEX and VOPs, that feels like is going to be tough to catch I am afraid... jb On 26 Mar 2014, at 13:40, Srecko Micic

Crowd FX 2014 help

2014-03-26 Thread John Richard Sanchez
So I am working on crowd for the first time. I am trying to get one actor (Angels) to fight another actor (demons). Something like the Foofighters example. However, the foo fighters example is in the legacy (2013 crowd) mode so it is tough for me to reconstruct it in the 2014 workflow which I

Re: planned transitional training?

2014-03-26 Thread John Richard Sanchez
Here is some training to get you started right away. From Jeremy Birn author of Digital Lighting and Rendering. It is now free. How cool is that? http://www.3drender.com/DVD1/index.htm www.johnrichardsanchez.com

Re: humanize Maya, SOFT top 5

2014-03-26 Thread John Richard Sanchez
AMEN! On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 6:20 PM, Halim Negadi hneg...@gmail.com wrote: +10 Greg should be in every single drop down menu of every app. Are we safe AD is not going to claim patents ? Probably not, AD had no clue until very recently it had this in its catalogue :| On Wed, Mar 26,

Thoughts on Snow Drop

2014-03-21 Thread John Richard Sanchez
So what are your thoughts on Snow Drop? I Don't know much about game engines or working in Games but this looks really amazing. Is there any way something like this could be used in production? http://youtu.be/8z6rzPjcZL0 http://youtu.be/UXeH9OqygzI -- www.johnrichardsanchez.com

Re: ICE - When will we have todays functionality in Maya?

2014-03-21 Thread John Richard Sanchez
Is that the Softimage Beta or Maya Beta? :) On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Sebastian Kowalski l...@sekow.com wrote: I (we) understand, it is just that we want to be heard. Finally. Everything sounds promising and exciting, just do not take too long. Am 21.03.2014 um 18:41 schrieb Adrian

Re: Softimage to Maya rendering requests

2014-03-21 Thread John Richard Sanchez
Hi Laurence I appreciate the offer. I wish more Maya peeps would have chimed in years ago. One of the things I love most about Softimage are the Render Passes/ Partitions/ Overrides. I know Maya added render layers some time in 2008 I believe but from what I heard from maya users was that it

Re: What use is ICE really?

2014-03-21 Thread John Richard Sanchez
The answer is self evident. On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Tim Crowson tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com wrote: Am I the only one who finds it bizarre that we should illustrate to AD why ICE is cool? Shouldn't the applications of its product be well-known to them, considering the decision to

Subscription Rates are going up on March 28th

2014-03-21 Thread John Richard Sanchez
Just an FYI. My reseller told me that subscription rates will go up on March 28th. I am waiting on a check from a client to see if I should late attach my Subscription I let lapse in August due to non development of XSI. And of course there is also $100 penalty fee. :) In the meantime I am still

Re: Maya feature request from Softimage users

2014-03-20 Thread John Richard Sanchez
Not sure if this has been touched upon but I would love to lock the property page um I mean attribute editor. And I would love to have different attribute editors open for different objects. But what would really be boss is if I could drag and drop animation from one objects channel to anothers

Re: Guillaume's Nanode?

2014-03-20 Thread John Richard Sanchez
Looks like he saw the writing on the wall and left for MPC. On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Paul Griswold pgrisw...@fusiondigitalproductions.com wrote: I couldn't remember if Guillaume works at Fabric or not, but as everyone looks for an ICE-like replacement for the future, I was curious if

Re: Maya feature request from Softimage users

2014-03-20 Thread John Richard Sanchez
Great. Thanks. Though when I turn of list I cant have more than one AE open. When I select another object and hit Cntrl A I don't get a new AE. Using 2014 SP2 On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Luc-Eric Rousseau luceri...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 10:46 AM, John Richard Sanchez

Re: Guillaume's Nanode?

2014-03-20 Thread John Richard Sanchez
PM, John Richard Sanchez youngupstar...@gmail.com wrote: Looks like he saw the writing on the wall and left for MPC. On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Paul Griswold pgrisw...@fusiondigitalproductions.com wrote: I couldn't remember if Guillaume works at Fabric or not, but as everyone looks

Re: Siggraph in Vancouver this year

2014-03-20 Thread John Richard Sanchez
Good for you Eric. I wish I were so disciplined. On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 6:45 PM, Schoenberger x...@digidragon.de wrote: Yes, I will be there. But only if I get my Poutine :-) Holger Schönberger technical director The day has 24 hours, if that does not suffice, I will take the night

Re: ICE - When will we have todays functionality in Maya?

2014-03-20 Thread John Richard Sanchez
Yes. I was opening up Maya again today. I have tried through out the years to get the rust of my maya skills to try and get Maya work and it is just not worth it. I will use XSI and learn C4D and dabble in Maya for 2 to 4 years (maybe 6) at which point I may just leave the biz. I will still be

Re: Ancient lurker's response to the current developments

2014-03-19 Thread John Richard Sanchez
Well said Stefan and it needed to be said. On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 9:02 AM, Luc-Eric Rousseau luceri...@gmail.comwrote: So this guys says what maurice posted here about the acquisition is all bold face lies. It's true that in corporations, usually there is a this cycle of buy/layoff, I've

Re: Autodesk webinar

2014-03-19 Thread John Richard Sanchez
If you hold down W (short cut key for move) and click it will bring up a menu and you can change the setting to Normal Average On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Martin Yara furik...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Brent, Thanks for your detailed explanation. from a SI user POV yeah that isn't very

Re: A confession

2014-03-19 Thread John Richard Sanchez
+ 1 On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 6:32 PM, Raffaele Fragapane raffsxsil...@googlemail.com wrote: Sorry Luce-Eric, I have to disagree with this, and I find your examples defeat your own argument. I have had years to develop muscle memory in Maya, and I'm comfortable nearly anywhere in the

Re: Autodesk webinar

2014-03-18 Thread John Richard Sanchez
The more I learn from Autodesk the more I yell this out. Especially after that Webinar. http://youtu.be/exli6rGldBc On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Chris Marshall chrismarshal...@gmail.comwrote: Which bit failed? On 18 March 2014 14:51, Maurice Patel maurice.pa...@autodesk.com wrote:

Re: Autodesk webinar

2014-03-18 Thread John Richard Sanchez
At the time this statement was made we did not even have any plans for MayaLT. Unfortunately things can change very fast. Which is why IF they were listening to the XSI users they would change their minds about EOL instead of giving a webinar that pretty much is You are going to Maya or the

Re: Autodesk webinar

2014-03-18 Thread John Richard Sanchez
I don't know about everyone else but this is what I am going to do. http://youtu.be/MWWtrW0oI1E On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Ed Manning etmth...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 1:15 PM, adrian wyer adrian.w...@fluid-pictures.com wrote: i would be VERY surprised to learn that

Re: Autodesk webinar

2014-03-17 Thread John Richard Sanchez
TOTAL F**ING BS On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Arvid Björn arvidbj...@gmail.com wrote: So we're doing this webcast thing for a Softimage users, I recon we'll need about... 10 streaming slots. That'll do. On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 6:19 PM, Adam Seeley adam_see...@yahoo.comwrote: Perhaps

Re: Autodesk webinar

2014-03-17 Thread John Richard Sanchez
To do exactly what is being done. Strip Softimage of its Intellectual Property, Kill it and bring all that they can into Maya. End of Story. I knew it from day one but didnt want to believe it and was actually comforted by a lot of the old timers saying that the death of softimage has been sung

Re: Open Letter to Carl Bass

2014-03-16 Thread John Richard Sanchez
I really hope it goes something like this. http://youtu.be/g4UeHWPeOrA On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Paul Griswold pgrisw...@fusiondigitalproductions.com wrote: I imagine questions like, what is this 'soft image' and why should I care? -- Sent from Mailbox

Re: Export rigs from Softimage to Maya

2014-03-12 Thread John Richard Sanchez
I highly recommend the Jason Schliefer Rigging Bundle as well as the books The art of Rigging Volume 1 and 2 if you can find them. On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 5:22 AM, Raffaele Fragapane raffsxsil...@googlemail.com wrote: I'm far from a Maya fanboi, in fact some of the shit I've given Maya was

Re: thinking out loud

2014-03-12 Thread John Richard Sanchez
That may not happen till after 2016 when they stop releasing updates. On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 12:55 PM, Chris Marshall chrismarshal...@gmail.comwrote: Hi All, I was thinking that Autodesk expect most people to carry on paying their annual support fee, and transition over, but as established,

Re: Cinema 4D an option?

2014-03-12 Thread John Richard Sanchez
I am looking at it as there is a big market for it in NYC. Now I have extra motivation to give it a real look. On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 3:32 PM, Meng-Yang Lu ntmon...@gmail.com wrote: Buddy of mine did a screencast of it for me over Skype. It looks and feels like a modern app. And it is

Re: Update to the Softtimage Transition Plan

2014-03-08 Thread John Richard Sanchez
Hi Maurice Thanks for the new info. My situation is this. 9. I did not renew my Subscription. Can I transition to Maya or 3ds Max? If you have purchased a new license or upgraded your Softimage within the last 365 days you can late- attach Subscription by paying the Late Renewal fee. Once you are

Re: Maya feature request from Softimage users

2014-03-07 Thread John Richard Sanchez
Right Click Extract Polygans with option to keep or Delete. I use this so much in so many ways. On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 3:23 PM, Halim Negadi hneg...@gmail.com wrote: As for shapes, I've never felt good with soft workflow. A few years ago we asked stargrav to develop us a soft version of BCS.

Re: mootzoid.com down?

2014-03-06 Thread John Richard Sanchez
cease and desist order from Autodicks Lawyers ? :) On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 10:03 AM, Mirko Jankovic mirkoj.anima...@gmail.comwrote: ok really stop joking, what happened to mootzoid.com? it is not time to scare people like that :) On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Szabolcs Matefy

Re: Luxology Modo 50% off for this mailing list

2014-03-04 Thread John Richard Sanchez
Is that just for UK store? Can I use that on NUKE? On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 10:52 PM, Sylvain Lebeau s...@shedmtl.com wrote: hahahahahahah amazing Raff! World is at war The Foundry have a good respectfull background so far. But also got a good pathway to monopolicy. The dark side.

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

2014-02-27 Thread John Richard Sanchez
I learned Maya first and I thought it was the greatest..until I started really using Soft image and that was it. I was sold. I have a hard time thinking about going back because I KNOW how clunky the workflow is. If I didnt know better I would be blissfully ignorant. Anyways to answer your

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