Re: rendering help

Rebus is limited by software.doesn’t have Arnold licensing issues I think Garage render bad GUIslow download Zync (AWS) has a great/simple GUI, good upload/download speeds (as you go), but limits to 500 machines, 100/job. Miserable tech supportyou have to wait 4 day’s even

Re: maya in line calculations

rogram On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 12:40 PM, Mirko Jankovic <mirkoj.anima...@gmail.com> wrote: as most of things with maya it makes no sense.. just make it a bit more complicated then it could be hehehe On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 9:21 PM, John Clausing <jclausin...@yahoo.com> wrote: Y

Re: maya in line calculations

Yes, but the syntax is different Highlight the factor you want to change, then type in the variable "*=4".for instance So if the value you have is 10, and you want to make it 12.. Highlight "10" Then type "+=2" J Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 29, 2016, at 3:10 PM, Eugene Flormata

Re: Autodesk acquires Solid Angle

They (solid angle) had to know the reaction They'd get from this.and did it anyway :( Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 18, 2016, at 9:06 AM, Ed Schiffer wrote: > > they'll surely continue Arnold, but not on the same pace I'd say. > > and probably end up StoA. > >

Re: Growth in ICE

Id like to point out that I have this EXACT challenge right now in Maya and it stinks I wish I were still on Softimage Harrumph :( Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 1, 2016, at 7:52 PM, Jason S wrote: > > This may also be of help, > > Detailing the creation of

Color shift w/ QuickTime

Hey all We're making a sequence in 3D that's lit and rendered fine, (Arnold , exr), composited in Nuke, and rendered from Nuke as 8 bit . Tiffs..then brought into After Effects to edit and make a QT, for Facebook. Up until the QT is made, the color is just right, upon viewing the QT, the

Re: parenting in Softimage vs. Maya.....confusion

at 5:49 PM, john clausing jclausin...@yahoo.com wrote: i've had the following conversation regarding parenting and hierarchies over on the he3d/maya page. would someone mind translating into Softilanguage for me? this seems like a crucial difference to me. and i don't like it as follows

parenting in Softimage vs. Maya.....confusion

i've had the following conversation regarding parenting and hierarchies over on the he3d/maya page.would someone mind translating into Softilanguage for me? this seems like a crucial difference to me. and i don't like it as follows: This is probably helpful for anyone transitioning from

Re: Maya thinks they're clever....and that's the problem

I was going to go a whole nother way with that question..lol Sent from my iPhone On Feb 25, 2015, at 6:40 AM, Chris Marshall chrismarshal...@gmail.com wrote: Somewhere maybe Autodesk Managers should now be placed? On 25 February 2015 at 11:37, Andi Farhall hack...@outlook.com wrote:

Re: Maya thinks they're clever....and that's the problem

to that point.if i hear just one more Maya guy say that oh, that's just something we script, for an obvious feature.i may blow a gasket (yes, i know, there's always good things about scripting, and scripting is valuable for customizing function.but scripting shouldn't be an excuse

Re: Maya thinks they're clever....and that's the problem

i feel absolutely comfortable blaming Brad.not just for the cool names, but for virtually everything.dangit Brad.why haven't you fixed Ebola yet sheeesh On Wednesday, February 18, 2015 2:54 PM, Ed Harriss ed.harr...@sas.com wrote: #yiv3992397248 #yiv3992397248 -- filtered

Nulls used in Maya.....thoughts?

hey y'all, i typically (in Soft) set up a translational and rotational hierarchy with nulls and make the icons look like a box and sphere with Soft's ability to change the look of the nullsscaling too. then, i'm free to select these in any window and animate.. the closest analog to this

Re: Nulls used in Maya.....thoughts?

. On 2/18/2015 10:31 AM, john clausing wrote: hey y'all, i typically (in Soft) set up a translational and rotational hierarchy with nulls and make the icons look like a box and sphere with Soft's ability to change the look of the nullsscaling too. then, i'm free to select these in any

Re: Maya thinks they're clever....and that's the problem

supporting their Hanta virus cure. No worries, if you do contract Ebola, you can just use the Hanta treatment. Granted, it doesn't effectively treat Ebola, but a virus is a virus. Sent from my iPhone On Feb 18, 2015, at 2:01 PM, john clausing jclausin...@yahoo.com wrote: i feel

Maya thinks they're clever....and that's the problem

DAG or directed acyclic graph.what they mean is object hierarchyHypershade..what they mean is material editorHypergraph..what they mean is schematicGraph Editor.what they mean is animation editorVisorstill no ideaGroup.what they mean is null sorta, but it's called null

Re: Maya thinks they're clever....and that's the problem

you can argue that tree might be incorrect, that it should be skin rather than envelope..but i get all of those in any case. but..they actually use HYPER in several things, and they actually used Directed Acyclic Graph... i mean C'MON! :) On Tuesday, February 17, 2015 2:20 PM,

Re: Maya, sheesh!

lawrence, found some solutions first, you want weighted tangentsso you can do that in the GUI, in the menu or, rt clicking also (and better) in prefs, you can go to animation, and set it to default to weighted tangents close to what you're after On Tuesday, February 10, 2015 4:42 PM,

Re: Maya, sheesh!

its really the worst..i can't find a way to easily tug on one handle and lengthen it...or adjust it numerically as you can in the animation editor. the nearest i can come to helping is to use some combination of both non-weighted tangents and free tangent weights On Tuesday,

Purchase 3rd party Softimage

hello list,can i purchase Softimage to revise an old file from a 3rd party not using their copy?we want to be totally legit with this anyone have any ideas? is there a market for this? thanks, john

Re: A freelance job.... really?

i feel he should have written at the top I'M DOING YOU A FAVOR On Friday, June 27, 2014 10:06 AM, Tim Crowson tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com wrote: I know, that's why it seemed odd. Seriously though, is that a legit ad? On 6/27/2014 9:04 AM, Eric Thivierge wrote: No, that seems awfully

Re: A freelance job.... really?

3 minutes = 4k$.um. On Friday, June 27, 2014 10:37 AM, Tim Crowson tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com wrote: Everybody contact him, tell him exactly what he wants to hear, then start underbidding... -Tim On 6/27/2014 9:19 AM, Stefan Kubicek wrote: I was torn between flagging it

Re: Softimage Rigging Videos

Thanks Eric! Nice Sent from my iPhone On Jun 8, 2014, at 12:39 PM, Eric Thivierge ethivie...@gmail.com wrote: 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 University around

Re: softimage interaction

brad, i have this problem. everytime i open up maya i blurt out curses. is that something you can diagnose? On Friday, April 25, 2014 3:06 PM, Eric Thivierge ethivie...@hybride.com wrote: Switch to Maya, then your arm won't hurt, just your head. Eric T. On 4/25/2014 2:35 PM, todd peleg

particles bouncing off instanced fur geometry

hello all, i have a surface with hair, and instanced cylinders on the hair can these be used as collision obstacles with another point cloud? it hasn't worked thus far, thanks, john

softimage to maya equivalents

hey everyone, i started a thread for those of us trying to make the shift to maya i thought it might be helpful to throw quick keys, shaders, etc equivalents into a list. as they build up, i'll organize them in the Softimage waymodelling, animation, etc.

Re: An Open Letter to Carl Bass

Last year, we were fortunate to be written up in 3D World..a rare occurrence for a Softimage project. We sent a press release to Softimage and never heard a word. At that point it was clear to us that AD wasn't even trying. I would have thought you could sell that sort of PR, but they

Re: An Open Letter to Carl Bass

Last year, we were fortunate to be written up in 3D World..a rare occurrence for a Softimage project. We sent a press release to Softimage and never heard a word. At that point it was clear to us that AD wasn't even trying. I would have thought you could sell that sort of PR, but they

Re: Idea- Just keep Mental Ray and FBX support - Softimage free w/Maya or Max or any Suite.

Chris, I admire you for having the courage to come on this list and tell us your side. But let's be clear, you don't get to be frustrated, angry, or abusive. You need to win us over, you have let us down, pure and simple. You have to convince us that there is a good reason to use your product,

Re: Idea- Just keep Mental Ray and FBX support - Softimage free w/Maya or Max or any Suite

Gosh, I hope you're sincere. Please let us know where we can find such transition vids. Sent from my iPhone On Mar 15, 2014, at 12:02 PM, Chris Vienneau chris.vienn...@autodesk.com wrote: Agreed. I am running the transition training program and we need more ideas on how to help seasoned

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

is it too late to add my email for MODO? here it is jclausin...@yahoo.com On Friday, March 14, 2014 9:20 AM, Perry Harovas perryharo...@gmail.com wrote: Tim, thank you so much! Great explanation, and thanks for taking the time to explain. Here is more info: I also found that these three

Re: Re[2]: A more graceful retirement - my counter offer

Maurice, Well if there is someone to blame for that it was me not Autodesk I'm not sure what to say about that..are you falling on your sword to protect AD? I don't suppose protecting AD is even possible to us on the list... I'm devastated by the loss of a software I've used for 20

Re: A paranoid theory about the demise of Softimage...

I think that you might be overestimating the big houses software mobility. During the unfortunate ownership of Soft by Microsoft, the Big houses all developed pipelines based on maya, but heavily customizedafter all, if there is a pro side to maya for the big houses, it is that there

Re: Luxology Modo 50% off for this mailing list

i would love to buy this if only to mess with AD but..i dont even know of any facilities in NYC that use it .anyone? as a freelancer, that's kind of the key point On Wednesday, March 5, 2014 9:45 AM, Maurício PC goneba...@gmail.com wrote: I'm willing to buy it, but I don't know if

Re: Autodesk kills software that made Lego Movie, Jurassic Park, etc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg0xBjegI7A On Wednesday, March 5, 2014 1:14 PM, Ognjen Vukovic ognj...@gmail.com wrote: Doesnt he sort of stutter I think the future is exiting for Softimage Umm, no, we- e On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 7:03 PM, Greg Punchatz

Re: Retirement.....

It also says support till April 2016 As for me, as a freelancer, gotta go Maya. But I'm going to learn Modo and Houdini Sent from my iPhone On Mar 4, 2014, at 7:22 AM, Daniel Sweeney dan...@northforge.co.uk wrote: So they have spoken. Slow transition to another DCC then it is. I will use

Re: Softimage Devs petition

Here's some questions AD is a software seller right? So they should understand unique software abilities? Softimage is the best package of the AD 3, or at least has some awesome tech the others lack? So what does AD do with the Soft Dev that they own? Dump it? No, they understand software

Re: Solutions for running softimage on a MAC Station?

i've worked extensively on Macs with Softimage for years..(windows via Bootcamp) Bootcamp is WAY better than Parallels for this. never had an issue I could put down to the Mac when running Bootcamp. On Tuesday, January 21, 2014 8:30 PM, Simon Pickard m...@simonpickard.com wrote:

The Brigade

Anyone have any info on The Brigade some remote roster thingy? no other info. thanks, john

the Arnold list

anybody know where the Arnold Discussion List went? cant find it at the old location. thanks

create cluster nulls on curve script

howdy all, this is probably an easy one. i have multiple curves, and for each curve, i want to create a cluster with center at each (sequential) point along that curve. got lots of curves and could use a script. anyone know of one? i seem to rember seeing.. thanks,

A little something new!

Here's something new we made at Poetica Poetica.tv https://vimeo.com/74391910

Re: A little something new!

? :P On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Kris Rivel krisri...@gmail.com wrote: Nice work!! Kris On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 1:25 PM, john clausing jclausin...@yahoo.com wrote: Here's something new we made at Poetica Poetica.tv https://vimeo.com/74391910

Orientation of particles by curve

Hello all, I want to emit particles (rectangles) by volume from a subdivded cube deformed along a curve. I want the emitted particles (they don't move) to be within this volume and oriented by a tangent to the curve Basically, is there a way to get orientation from the curve. thank you,

Re: Orientation of particles by curve

Perfect Leonard, thank you, you should have seen the gymnastics i was going thru to get that done. lol really appreciate it john From: Leonard Koch leonardkoch...@gmail.com To: john clausing jclausin...@yahoo.com; softimage@listproc.autodesk.com

placing random sized shapes in ICE

hello all, i need to place particle instances.on a surface. each of 5 instances in a group are rectangular, but of different lengths. like boards in a floor. there can be no gaps. i can do this with similarly sized rectangles but fail in arranging these randomly and sensing their

Flow along curve speed control

hello all,.. i have an animated curve (translating) that emits an ICE cloud by position. the cloud travels by speed from emit on the curve with flow on curve. it all works fine with the exception of speed control..there is none, even when i change the speed in the flow on curve node. i

Re: Flow along curve speed control

. FlowAlongCurvewithConstantSpeed simply, normalize the velocity, and multiply it by you desired speed. Both solutions arent more or less a workaround and look aweful in my testScene, but thats more an Issue of my SinWave-AnimationSkills :-) Am 04.06.2013 23:47, schrieb john clausing: hello

Making a curve stick to a syflex cloth

Hello all, I have a syflex cloth onto which i want to draw a curve then make sure that the curve stays with the cloth throughout its simulation. anyone have any ideas? i was thinking of riffing off paul smiths vector flow sims. thanks, john

Re: Making a curve stick to a syflex cloth

reinterpret location eh? didn't know that one. im in the midst of setting up the whole get nearest point thingy. thanks From: Eric Thivierge ethivie...@hybride.com To: john clausing jclausin...@yahoo.com; softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Sent: Friday, May 31

Re: Making a curve stick to a syflex cloth

on the syflex cloth, run the script, then you will get nulls that are object to cluster constrained to cloth.  Once you have that, just envelope the curve to those nulls and you should be good to go. hope this helps! Nick On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 10:24 AM, john clausing jclausin...@yahoo.com wrote

Re: Making a curve stick to a syflex cloth

also, in light of this question,.this always messes me up what is the difference in get data (browse for point position) and get point position? From: john clausing jclausin...@yahoo.com To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com softimage@listproc.autodesk.com

Re: bend a grid

Fold works If you want some more control, use a lattice with clusters controlled by nulls. Animate the nulls. Sent from my iPhone On May 24, 2013, at 6:35 AM, Doeke Wartena clankil...@gmail.com wrote: thanks :) 2013/5/24 Gareth Bell gareth.b...@primefocusworld.com Fold

Re: Latest work from SHED - Behind-The-Scenes

very nice! From: jm khayat j...@moondog-animation.com To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Sent: Wednesday, May 8, 2013 10:08 AM Subject: Re: Latest work from SHED - Behind-The-Scenes Beautiful work guys, loved every part of it, character design, layout,

Re: Softimage Jedi Training

Ok, nuff you weirdos Sent from my iPhone On Mar 28, 2013, at 3:48 PM, Bradley Gabe witha...@gmail.com wrote: We already did that, Jeff! Don't you remember anything? Don't you remember my handkerchief that smelled like chloroform? On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Jeffrey Dates

Re: Who Uses Arnold Anyway ? an appeal to fans

We just finished this with Arnold http://vimeo.com/61292772 We love it,the integrated GI, and Final rendering are terrific. It takes a bit of time to figure out the optimization, but we love its very unique look. John Clausing Director of CG Poetica Sent from my iPhone On Mar 15, 2013, at 4

Re: Who Uses Arnold Anyway ? an appeal to fans

for external examples and observations. which might tip the balance. On 15 March 2013 22:16, John Clausing jclausin...@yahoo.com wrote: We just finished this with Arnold http://vimeo.com/61292772 We love it,the integrated GI, and Final rendering are terrific. It takes a bit of time

Re: Something new we made

would have improved upon that factor in my opinion. On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 11:30 PM, ivan t ivansoftim...@gmail.commailto:ivansoftim...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for sharing. It is beautiful! -Ivan On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 5:14 AM, john clausing jclausin...@yahoo.commailto:jclausin...@yahoo.com

Re: Runtime Error R6025

later. On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 2:23 PM, john clausing jclausin...@yahoo.commailto:jclausin...@yahoo.com wrote: yup, one giant workgroup :) but its ok now, i re-installed and updated arnold and all is well thanks everyone! john From: Eric Lampi

Re: Runtime Error R6025

generated. Please try again on Monday when everything will just work as if like magic. Adam. From: john clausing jclausin...@yahoo.com To: softimage list softimage list Softimage@listproc.Autodesk.com Sent: Friday, 5 October 2012, 18:11 Subject: Runtime Error

Re: Runtime Error R6025

no particles,.but lots of hair? j From: Rob Chapman tekano@gmail.com To: john clausing jclausin...@yahoo.com; softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Sent: Friday, October 5, 2012 1:41 PM Subject: Re: Runtime Error R6025 particles?  one pinged off

Re: In case you missed it..

to get a job here. there are multiple shops here in NYC that do the same. so you can give up if you want to Matt, but dont tell me kids cant get a job in Softimage, in NYC. From: Matt Lind ml...@carbinestudios.com To: john clausing jclausin...@yahoo.com

Re: In case you missed it..

As I said before, students are only part of the answer, but part none the less... It IS working and the beauty of it is that AD has to do very little, we (the pros in it) are already doing it, the recruiting, the training, etc., and it works. Some go back to Maya, but none in my experience

Hair using instances of group with multiple objects....misalign

hello all, i'm using hair, and using instances of a group with several objects in this group occasionally, the objects miss -align from each other when instanced. never run into this before.any ideas? thank you, john

Re: hide an instance by particle ID

that with a string and string array, worked perfectly. thanks as alway Alan.! john From: Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.com To: john clausing jclausin...@yahoo.com; softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 11:39 AM Subject: Re

Instanced group with textures

Hey all, I have an ice animation with grids Instanced to particles (Instanced groups) the is a randomize value node plugged into the id port. There are 5 different grids in the group, all with different timings of the same texture offset in time thru the image node. The image clips

Re: Animation layers info

we typically dont use layers in productionmainly because we use partitions and passes heavily in about everything we do. j From: Manny Papamanos manny.papama...@autodesk.com To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Sent:

working test?

Convert strands to curves

Is there a way to convert strands to curves? i have a good result on behavior with the strands, but am having a heck of a time getting geometry to work with the strands. If i could link curves to strands, i could easily deform the geometry on the curves. any ideas? thanks all, john

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

Title: Signature Yes, of course thank you Guillame, Chinny, etc. we all wish you the best.Is everyone really just sanguine about this? losing some of the best developers we've known of, and counted on for years?It goes without saying that this is not a reflection on the new folks that are taking

Autodesk Press Release Parody

Dear devoted Softimage users, in light of precipitously, or not so precipitously removing (all or many of) your long term development team, and in hopes of attenuating some of the deserved bitterness that you so rightly heap on our Hugeness,...we offer the following options for the