Re: emPolygonizer5 release (Softimage, Modo, Fabric Engine, Maya, command line)

2014-10-28 Thread Steffen Dünner
Great! Thanks a lot for your continued support for Softimage. And I'm especially glad about the MODO plugin. That's a good sign for the future! :) Cheers Steffen P.S.: Are there plans for some sort of view / camera dependent meshing? Eric Mootz e...@mootzoid.com schrieb am Tue Oct 28 2014 at

Re: emPolygonizer5 release (Softimage, Modo, Fabric Engine, Maya, command line)

2014-10-28 Thread Steffen Dünner
depending meshing as well as adaptive meshing. Best, Eric Am 28.10.2014 12:11, schrieb Steffen Dünner: Great! Thanks a lot for your continued support for Softimage. And I'm especially glad about the MODO plugin. That's a good sign for the future! :) Cheers Steffen P.S

Re: SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage 2014...any interest??

2014-06-03 Thread Steffen Dünner
2014-06-03 13:25 GMT+02:00 Ed Manning etmth...@gmail.com: TransitionSoftware|UeberTage? Joint sponsorship from Maxon, Foundry, and Side Effects? That would be totally awesome! Cheers Steffen -- PGP-ID(RSA): 0xD6E0CE93 Fingerprint: 879F 572C FEE4 9DE5 53A8 3C1C 22A9 C8DE D6E0 CE93

Re: SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage 2014...any interest??

2014-06-03 Thread Steffen Dünner
Maybe we could also ask Vanilla Ice and Ron Jeremy? ;) And for the german speaking guys: Call the event RueberTage. Would make it clear that a transition is in progress :D 2014-06-03 13:37 GMT+02:00 Oliver Weingarten li...@pixelpanic.de: Hey Ed..! Well... I already have those guys on my

Re: A Fistful of Updates (copy/paste Mootzoid Newsletter #53)

2014-05-16 Thread Steffen Dünner
tested it yet. Let me know and - if necessary - I will make a build for 801, no problem! Cheers Eric Am 15.05.2014 17:01, schrieb Steffen Dünner: Very nice, Eric! BTW are there plans to update / recompile emReader for Modo 801? Cheers Steffen 2014-05-15 10:37 GMT+02:00 Eric

Re: A Fistful of Updates (copy/paste Mootzoid Newsletter #53)

2014-05-15 Thread Steffen Dünner
Very nice, Eric! BTW are there plans to update / recompile emReader for Modo 801? Cheers Steffen 2014-05-15 10:37 GMT+02:00 Eric Mootz e...@mootzoid.com: Hey there, The following addons for Softimage|XSI have been updated: - emFlock2 (v. 2.400) - emNewton2 (v. 2.150) -

Re: softimage to modo

2014-05-07 Thread Steffen Dünner
The schematic in Modo is becoming more and more powerful. But with great power comes great responsibility! What I mean is, that it's equally important to have tools to cleanup and organize your node graphs as it is to add more features / nodes. What I currently miss most is something like a group

Re: softimage to modo

2014-05-07 Thread Steffen Dünner
2014-05-07 20:10 GMT+02:00 Sergio Mucino sergio.muc...@gmail.com: I just discovered the other day that the Edge Bevel tool has some crazy preset profile shapes. And whilst talking about recent discoveries: I found that the modeling falloffs (and there are plenty of them, most with

Re: softimage to modo

2014-05-06 Thread Steffen Dünner
Yes, we have. And we're digging it more and more each day. My hint would be: Watch tutorials first! Especially about the shader tree, decoupled shading, the principle of items and the way you can copypaste polys, edges, vertices etc. in and out of them and the tool pipeline stuff. Don't open up

Re: Anyone in the SI list transitioning to MODO? -Please add your mail here

2014-03-09 Thread Steffen Dünner
We'll jump on the Modo train (at least partly as long as Softimage still runs on current hardware). I think it has great potential and at that pricetag it's really a no-brainer to add to ones arsenal. ;) I've been watching / evaluating it for some time now and so far I have only been pleasantly

Re: Luxology Modo 50% off for this mailing list

2014-03-05 Thread Steffen Dünner
Click. License bought. Thanks Brad!!! :) 2014-03-05 11:42 GMT+01:00 Simon Reeves si...@simonreeves.com: Very generous Simon Reeves London, UK *si...@simonreeves.com si...@simonreeves.com* *www.simonreeves.com http://www.simonreeves.com* *www.analogstudio.co.uk

Re: Softimage and Alembic?

2013-11-19 Thread Steffen Dünner
Modo has it... sort of. It doesn't support changing topology and imports the Alembic as blendshapes. This means the Alembic file isn't referenced but imported once. But now that Modo is in the good hands of TheFoundry, I guess / hope this will change soon. 2013/11/19 Ognjen Vukovic

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

2013-08-08 Thread Steffen Dünner
2013/8/8 Eugen Sares sof...@mail.sprit.org Wait, wasn't there a 3rd 3D application among those? Yes, this: http://area.autodesk.com/products/features/extensionmudbox :( Cheers Steffen -- PGP-ID(RSA): 0xD6E0CE93 Fingerprint: 879F 572C FEE4 9DE5 53A8 3C1C 22A9 C8DE D6E0 CE93

Re: Line-Up SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage2013

2013-08-07 Thread Steffen Dünner
This sounds too good to be missed! :) Cheers Steffen 2013/8/7 Oliver Weingarten li...@pixelpanic.de Hello there! I´m happy to announce this year´s line-up for SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage 2013! Teaser: http://vimeo.com/71882674 Here you go: Rüdiger Kaltenhäuser, 3D Lead at Glassworks,

Re: Softimage promo

2013-04-11 Thread Steffen Dünner
Adam Sale rocked the house... and in the end, ALL died! Awesome presentation! Cheers Steffen 2013/4/11 Tim Leydecker bauero...@gmx.de Hi guys, as part of the Autodesk Unfold event in Montreal, Softimage was a part of the show. A montage of the presentation can be seen here:

Re: Softimage 2014

2013-04-08 Thread Steffen Dünner
2013/4/8 Toonafish ron...@toonafish.nl the only thing that annoys me every time I model something in Modo is that with the Tweak tool, or Element move tool as it's called in Modo, you have to pick a vertex with pixel accuracy. It doesn't snap to the nearest component as with the Tweak tool in

Re: Industry Solidarity...

2013-02-25 Thread Steffen Dünner
We can deal with even the darkest and brightest shades of green! ;) Have you ever seen a perfectly lit greenscreen? 2013/2/25 Meng-Yang Lu ntmon...@gmail.com I think we should align our chroma greens a bit better. We don't wanna look like schlubs protesting if we can't even get the same

Re: Copy and paste ICE trees from two instances of Soft

2013-02-20 Thread Steffen Dünner
AFAIR it has *never* been possible for Render Tree nodes (which I always hated), but *always* been possible since the very first incarnation of ICE. 2013/2/21 Jason S jasonsta...@gmail.com It actually use to not be possible, while possible for rendertree nodes, And now it's NOT possible for

Re: Octane render

2013-02-14 Thread Steffen Dünner
2013/2/14 Ed Manning etmth...@gmail.com Will someone PLEASE put some edgeloops or hard edges on those blackboards so they don't shade like domes? +1 ;) My first thought as well.

Re: Rumors

2012-12-19 Thread Steffen Dünner
Hehehe, I hope The Foundry buys SideFX and gives us Modini! ;) I'd contact the Solid Angle guys and beg them to write MOtoA! Cheers Steffen 2012/12/19 Marc-Andre Carbonneau marc-andre.carbonn...@ubisoft.com Wish The Foundry had bought Softimage… ** ** *From:*

Re: Rumors

2012-12-19 Thread Steffen Dünner
I'd boot all people mentioning the two M-products from Ad on this list! ;) 2012/12/19 Andreas Bystrom andreas.byst...@gmail.com that would be a good idea yes On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Eric Thivierge ethivie...@gmail.comwrote: Can we boot people from the list for starting or

Re: New baEssential Shader version

2012-12-12 Thread Steffen Dünner
Thanks for your invaluable contribution, Holger! Cheers Steffen P.S.: You list the Softimage 2013 version as 2012 on the download page ;) 2012/12/12 Schoenberger x...@digidragon.de Hi I have released a new version of my essential package. Changes: Texture coordinate: world drag

Re: [BUG] Softimage crashing on workgroup unload containing a custom renderer and at least on .xsirtcompound file

2012-08-16 Thread Steffen Dünner
I would rather vote for fixing it where it's broken, i.e. on the Softimage side. :) Cheers 2012/8/15 Nic Groot Bluemink nicgrootbluem...@gmail.com Hey Martin, Though it's little help, I recall running across a warning in the SI docs that unloading custom renderers in-session could introduce

Re: Who has switched to Vray and loves it?

2012-06-21 Thread Steffen Dünner
There are _a lot_ more buttons in Vray than in Arnold! ;) The combination of GI algorithms ( primary / secondary) alone is intimidating. The funny thing in Arnold is that the result most of the time converges to the same image, only the rendertime varies if you e.g. shoot rays that you don't

Re: price increases?

2012-06-19 Thread Steffen Dünner
in Modo is not node based. I works more like Photoshop layers, just like in Lightwave, but a bit more advanced. There are some advantages over the Render Tree in Softimage, but even in a medium complex scene it becomes extemely flaky and very confusing. -Ronald On 6/19/2012 12:55 PM, Steffen

Re: OT: @ fmx

2012-05-07 Thread Steffen Dünner
Cool, I will be there :-) Cheers Steffen Sent from no IPhone Am 08.05.2012 01:57 schrieb Thiago Costa thiagocost...@gmail.com: Hi fellows, I'm here in Germany. We'll be presenting a new project we are workinghttp://getteamup.comon at FMX. If you are around, please drop by at our Session

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

2012-04-20 Thread Steffen Dünner
Interestingly Chinny didn't say that he works on Maya now but instead on something new. Cheers Steffen P.S.: It's just my wish that so much Softimage talent and passion doesn't get sucked up completely by the evil Mayans! ;) -- PGP-ID(RSA): 0xCCE2E989 / 0xE045734C CCE2E989 Fingerprint: 394B

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

2012-04-19 Thread Steffen Dünner
Welcome Singapore team, to the most awesome mailinglist of all of the Autodesk universe! :) 2012/4/19 Paul Griswold pgrisw...@fusiondigitalproductions.com Might I make a request? Could you guys post your twitter handles and/or Google+ info? +1 :) Cheers Steffen -- PGP-ID(RSA): 0xCCE2E989