Re: Any Dinosaurs Still Lurking?

Still searching for a female Dinosaur! Apart from that ,still not hit by a meteor and working satiesfied with XSI. Walt -- *Walter Volbers* Senior Animator *FIFTYEIGHT*3D Animation & Digital Effects GmbH Kontorhaus Osthafen Lindleystraße 12 60314 Frankfurt am Main Germany Telefon +49 (0)

Re: Does anyone have any work going?

Hello Paul, I send you  a privat email! Walter Am 1/25/2018 um 3:45 PM schrieb p...@bustykelp.com: Hi, I’m just wondering if anyone out there has any need of a generalist? I’m in need of work at the mo. As a specialism I tend toward creatures / characters, but I’m happy to do anything.

Re: Animated booleans now and then

Hello, you can also try Implosia http://www.si-community.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=5=6373=momentum its now free, You can create booleans via Icetree or sricptedOp vie the PulldownMenu Am 8/28/2017 um 11:28 PM schrieb Sven Constable: ,, Hi list, I had several projects lately  

Re: test

haha, i thought I was the last! schönen urlaub noch. Am 7/27/2017 um 10:47 AM schrieb Andy Chlupka (Goehler): pong On Jul 27, 2017, at 10:14 AM, wavo <w...@fiftyeight.com <mailto:w...@fiftyeight.com>> wrote: test again -- *Walter Volbers* Senior Animator *FIFTYEIGHT*

test

test again -- *Walter Volbers* Senior Animator *FIFTYEIGHT*3D Animation & Digital Effects GmbH Kontorhaus Osthafen Lindleystraße 12 60314 Frankfurt am Main Germany Telefon +49 (0) 69.48 000 55.50 Telefax +49 (0) 69.48 000 55.15 _mailto:w...@fiftyeight.com http://www.fiftyeight.com _

Re: Alembic file from Maya to Softimage 2015

hello Leoung, when did it crash?! during the loading process or when softimage trys to build the scenery in the viewport? Did you try to merge the saved scene in a fresh new Scene, another option mute first the viewport/s and the merge, if this works check the Alembic-path. Maybe it can also

Re: Alembic file from Maya to Softimage 2015

hello Leoung, when did it crash?! during the loading process or when softimage trys to build the scenery in the viewport? Did you try to merge the saved scene in a fresh new Scene, another option mute first the viewport/s and the merge, if this works check the Alembic-path. Maybe it can also

Re: Maya

... Improvementsfor faster work! Walter m 3/1/2017 um 12:42 PM schrieb Artur W: Did you know Maya 2017 update 2 installs for half an hour. HALF AN HOUR? Why? What's in there? Unbelievable. Artur 2017-02-20 17:59 GMT+01:00 Jonathan Moore

Re: value field expression input not working anymore

Works both! Numlock on Your Keyboard activ?!and there was( I cant remember exactly) somthing with Decimal Symbol but maybe you can check my settings on win7 in the dropbox screenshot! https://www.dropbox.com/s/pqrjja5ugfncssy/decimal_symbol.png?dl=0 good luck Walter On 2/27/2017 2:46,

Re: fcurve in ice

Never ever thinking about this but why not?!, did you try to save inside the fcurve (Fcurve Editor) , File , Save (.fraw2) and then import inside icetree Fcurve via selcting first the existing Fcurve and then File Open ! Walter Am 2/13/2017 um 5:19 PM schrieb Chris Marshall: Sorry about

Re: OT - In Berlin

Hallo, wrong city ;-) have a nice time Walt Am 2/11/2017 um 12:53 AM schrieb Fabricio Chamon: Hey German folks, Sorry for the OT, I'm in Berlin for the next 2 months, maybe someone is up for a beer or two, chat about 3d, life or anything else. I know German has many great former

Re: Math behind Smooth Weights

Iam not a Maya-user, but what about with this plugin http://www.ngskintools.com/features/ Iam still not a Maya-user, Walter Am 1/27/2017 um 3:39 PM schrieb Martin Yara: Thanks Matt, I kinda understand the logic, but I can't figure out how to do it yet. I'll have to study it a little more.

Re: correcting shapekeys

the shape contribution of those selected points so you isolate only the part that you actually need. Oscar On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 3:15 PM, wavo <w...@fiftyeight.com <mailto:w...@fiftyeight.com>> wrote: Hello Hardcore-Softies i need some help with correcting exi

correcting shapekeys

Hello Hardcore-Softies i need some help with correcting existing shapes on an enveloped character. What I did so far: some shapes, some of them linked to rotation values (bones) of the rig. These already correct the envelope deformation. Now I want additional shapes which will correct the

Re: Weights Plugin

Many thanks, downloaded! right now i dont see what all is possible but i see in the panel buttons for mirror weights!,(since version 2010(12?) i often have problems with mirroring weights) alone for this button its a awesome tool!, thank you very much Am 11/18/2016 um 12:17 PM schrieb

Re: electric plasma effect

Hi , maybe this kind of Plasma-effect!? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CYtLJSE3CA http://leonardkoch.com/tutorials/ cheers Am 11/2/2016 um 12:22 PM schrieb Chris Marshall: Hi All, I'm looking for an effect, probably with ICE, that creates an electrical plasma type effect. I guess I'm

Re: Friday Flashback #284

...well, what should I say! that advertisment is/was true ! Walter Am 10/28/2016 um 1:12 PM schrieb Stephen Blair: 2008. Introducing ICE. It's visual. It's fast. It's infinite. http://wp.me/powV4-3mG -- Softimage Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send a mail to

Re: OT: Just before 2018 - Where is XSI?

and by the waynow i remember, , on the left is Tim Robbins right, and last but not least in the middle is Tilda Swinton! :-D Am 9/21/2016 um 1:46 PM schrieb Javier Vega: Even one of them is Georges Lucas, the guy on the left, lol El 21/09/2016 a las 13:12, Rui Santos escribió: Hi,

Re: OT: Just before 2018 - Where is XSI?

your right! and next to him is Tim Burton and on the other side must be Gary Oldman;-) Am 9/21/2016 um 1:46 PM schrieb Javier Vega: Even one of them is Georges Lucas, the guy on the left, lol El 21/09/2016 a las 13:12, Rui Santos escribió: Hi, There's a portuguese band .."Xutos e

Re: Wiki EOL soon

...cool ! then we can call it Über_softimage_Wiki ! thanks Oliver and thank You for all the Softimage-Übertage Walter Am 9/13/2016 um 4:06 PM schrieb Leendert A. Hartog: Just got confirmation from Oliver Weingarten (si-community's owner) that he'd be willing to host it! Greetz Leendert

Aw: Re: Friday Flashback #277

Maybe Carl B. ? ! -- Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android Mobiltelefon mit 1&1 Mail gesendet. Am 03.09.2016, 21:34, Bradley Gabe schrieb: Did we ever find out who was behind the hoodie? On Sat, Sep 3, 2016 at 11:10 AM, Stephen Blair wrote:

Re: Bad scenes or geometry crashing

Hi Morten, I guess you checked already what to do, the only way what i can say is to uncheck (if checked!) in the preferences the Detect corrupted polygon meshes... inside the Datamangement/Scene Debugging-tab! but only a fresh/first import from maya , then the merge into scene(but you did

Re: Camera warpers / deformers / lattice, anyone?

@Oz Adi, tudah, i remember this and was searching for him but didnt find him because i was searching for Bernard Lebel! Walter Am 7/13/2016 um 9:34 AM schrieb Oz Adi: There’s this website form 2006: http://www.characteranimator.com/movies/character_td.html he is using Softimage, and did a

Re: XSI and Window 10, the bright future

just for info, after installing win10 you have one month to switch back to 7 or 8.1(at least in germany!), after this time you have to set up older version manually -- *Walter Volbers* Senior Animator *FIFTYEIGHT*3D Animation & Digital Effects GmbH Kontorhaus Osthafen Lindleystraße 12

Re: this is the end......

autodeath -- *Walter Volbers* Senior Animator *FIFTYEIGHT*3D Animation & Digital Effects GmbH Kontorhaus Osthafen Lindleystraße 12 60314 Frankfurt am Main Germany Telefon +49 (0) 69.48 000 55.50 Telefax +49 (0) 69.48 000 55.15 _mailto:w...@fiftyeight.com http://www.fiftyeight.com _

Re: Lets Hope Autodesk Buys the Foundry!

yeh! ...Nuke with bifröst... happy xmas and an exiting New Year. Walt -- *Walter Volbers* Senior Animator *FIFTYEIGHT*3D Animation Digital Effects GmbH Kontorhaus Osthafen Lindleystraße 12 60314 Frankfurt am Main Germany Telefon +49 (0) 69.48 000 55.50 Telefax +49 (0) 69.48 000

Re: Service Pack 1 available

Am 12/3/2014 3:20 PM, schrieb Oliver Weingarten: Hey Jill, Thanks for that info. You might understand that we did not expect much from this SP1 as AD already killed our software. But this huge list of around 10 bugs fixed it even a lot less anybody expected to be a Service Pack people might

softimage2015 custom parameter

hello softimage-veteran hello support! little question about customparameter in 2015, dropping a shape value inside a customparameter and then edit this parameter-definition the default valus are all set to -500 is this deliberately?! or is this a mistake/bug tia walter -- *Walter

Re: Softimage online documentation down?

no destination-error! but redirecting to : Welcome to the Autodesk Feedback Community! Am 10/24/2014 1:05 PM, schrieb Leendert A. Hartog: Does anyone else get an invalid external destination error, when trying to access the online documentation for Softimage 2015? Greetz Leendert --

Re: Softimage online documentation down?

and 2014 ist still working by the way! : ) Am 10/24/2014 1:05 PM, schrieb Leendert A. Hartog: Does anyone else get an invalid external destination error, when trying to access the online documentation for Softimage 2015? Greetz Leendert -- *Walter Volbers* Senior Animator

Re: reorder vertex numbers

Am 7/24/2014 12:02 AM, schrieb Kris Rivel: Is there a way to reorder the vertex numbers based on a gradient, vertex map or weight map? I thought there was a compound or something for this awhile back? Kris https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/xsi_list/tGMaCoPbLsg there is an reorder

Re: Softimage crash on startup

... after all these suggestions, normaly it should run! did you also try/starting soft as an administrator?! Walter On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 10:20 PM, todd peleg toddape...@gmail.com mailto:toddape...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all.. I have a machine that softimage has worked on

Re: My second step in Houdini

looks not so bad, thumbs up, what do you missing(compared with softimage)? you controll the mouth via an nurbsface or is it shapebased?, thanks for showing, Walter Am 7/14/2014 4:51 PM, schrieb Max Evgrafov: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lS-JGTxLBc

Re: SI and Houdini

are even more from the softimage-list in la Coruna?! Would be nice to meet and drink some beers with other classical Softimage-user!(non-softimage-user allowed) http://www.mundosdigitales.org/es/festival.html Walter -- *Walter Volbers* Senior Animator *FIFTYEIGHT*3D Animation Digital

Re: OT: What was your biggest challenge/nightmare with Softimage and how did you overcome it?

*How about – what new features do you want to see in Softimage 2016? -Houdini -Modo *hihi, Walter* Walter Volbers* Senior Animator *FIFTYEIGHT*3D Animation Digital Effects GmbH Kontorhaus Osthafen Lindleystraße 12 60314 Frankfurt am Main Germany Telefon +49 (0) 69.48 000 55.50

Re: Lagoa emitter problem

hello, what, when raise the maxCells value!(insideLagoaEmitVolume), maybe not enough *Walter Volbers* Senior Animator *FIFTYEIGHT*3D Animation Digital Effects GmbH Kontorhaus Osthafen Lindleystraße 12 60314 Frankfurt am Main Germany Telefon +49 (0) 69.48 000 55.50 Telefax +49 (0) 69.48 000

Re: SI and Houdini

RIGGING...RIGGING...RIGGING Am 4/8/2014 11:07 AM, schrieb Jordi Bares: And another one!!! Please let me know if you prefer me to jump to Data management for the next one or Rigging... http://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_forumItemid=172page=viewtopict=31012start=200 Cheers Jordi

Re: YOUR TOP 5

Ice Ice Ice Ice modelling tools operator-stack community third-party developers shape-manager intuitiv easy to learn non-linear-workflow passes, partition overrides user-interface easy changeable Gator missing fur-tools -- *Walter Volbers* Senior Animator *FIFTYEIGHT*3D Animation Digital

Re: Blast from the past

should be 1896 :-) Am 1/28/2014 12:49 PM, schrieb Arvid Bjrn: Would've loved to have this video when I started learning, which year is this? On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 5:46 PM, Sergio Mucino

Re: rumor, Soft dead within the next year

Am 1/9/2014 2:45 PM, schrieb Francisco Criado: Yes please! all mornings i wake up, and the first thing i do is check mails (bad habit) and find myself with the rumor that soft... and its not very possitive checking it every single day for the last 20 days. F. yep, but the good thing

Re: rumor, Soft dead within the next year

Am 1/6/2014 10:08 AM, schrieb James De Colling: On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 8:04 PM, Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.com mailto:jordiba...@gmail.com wrote: Same here, every time I use maya I hate the experience and wonder myself his is it possible that it is still being used? like this:

Re: rumor, Soft dead within the next year

Merry Xmas and a happy new Year: done with one of the last version of softimage: http://www.bang-awards.com/en/movie/362-mite -- *Walter Volbers* Senior Animator *FIFTYEIGHT*3D Animation Digital Effects GmbH Kontorhaus Osthafen Lindleystraße 12 60314 Frankfurt am Main Germany Telefon

Re: does anyone use aaOcean?

hello, in 2014Sp2 its running as desired, create grid Animate/Property aaOcean_menu create ice-tree connect the aaOceanCompound create simulated icetree and connect the aaoceanCompound again but this is the 2014 Walt -- *Walter Volbers* Senior Animator *FIFTYEIGHT*3D Animation

Re: OT: nice work Tim

Am 12/6/2013 12:51 PM, schrieb adrian wyer: https://vimeo.com/81081389 if autodesk had any interest in promoting Soft as the genuinely unique software that it is, they'd license this and put it on the front page of their website! 1+ -- *Walter Volbers* Senior Animator *FIFTYEIGHT*3D

Re: Friday Flashback #149

ih. Am 12/6/2013 1:16 PM, schrieb Stephen Blair: Friday Flashback #149 1996: What SOFTIMAGE|3D might have looked like in an alternate universe http://wp.me/powV4-2Vz -- *Walter Volbers* Senior Animator *FIFTYEIGHT*3D Animation Digital Effects GmbH Kontorhaus Osthafen

Re: Friday Flashback #143

HaHa, 1996 screencaptures! this was also a normal preview-rendersize at the time;-) . Am 10/25/2013 5:11 PM, schrieb Stephen Blair: Friday Flashback #143 Some SOFTIMAGE|3D screen captures, and some other stuff, from a NAB 1996 video about SOFTIMAGE | DS. I think the parrot character was

Re: interaction lag

was missing. Thanks for the input guys G On 2013/09/13 10:34 AM, Matt Morris wrote: Are you referencing the mesh in ice at all? I've found that can cause delays sometimes. On 13 September 2013 09:15, wavo w...@fiftyeight.com mailto:w...@fiftyeight.com wrote: Noo! (...only if it has

weightpaint bug

Hi list, I've discovered a strange behavior when weightpaintig on an envelope,when painting in absolut-mode sometimes affected points are not distributed at 100 percent, the weighteditor also shows a red error confirmation. I didn't found a known bug in the releasenotes. same in 2012sap

Re: weightpaint bug

a few years ago... I had a good time fighting that yellow character! :) On 30 August 2013 16:20, wavo w...@fiftyeight.com mailto:w...@fiftyeight.com wrote: Hi list, I've discovered a strange behavior when weightpaintig on an envelope,when painting in absolut-mode sometimes

Re: FCurve Editor SDK?

Hello Michael :-) Its not exactly what you need and I guess your version will be smarter but did you also try the HLC(HighLevelEditing) Select the Curves then change in Fcurve-editor to "Absolute Scaling" and now you got a New Fcurve ,controlling

Re: 2014 bug? Please confirm, guys

Same, shame. Cant wait for 2015:-$ sorry, could not resist -- *Walter Volbers* Senior Animator *FIFTYEIGHT*3D Animation Digital Effects GmbH Kontorhaus Osthafen Lindleystraße 12 60314 Frankfurt am Main Germany Telefon +49 (0) 69.48 000 55.50 Telefax +49 (0) 69.48 000 55.15

Re: [Pool] Any interest for a grease pencil tool?

Same, very helpful and will/must buy If not for Free. :-). Walt -- Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android Mobiltelefon mit 11 Mail gesendet. Ahmidou Lyazidi ahmidou@gmail.com schrieb: Hello guys, I'm thinking of making a grease pencil tool, but I would like to know if there is a real

Re: Rumors

by the way ... Happy Christmas and a rumor-free-Year. Walt -- *Walter Volbers* Senior Animator *FIFTYEIGHT*3D Animation Digital Effects GmbH Kontorhaus Osthafen Lindleystraße 12 60314 Frankfurt am Main Germany Telefon +49 (0) 69.48 000 55.50 Telefax +49 (0) 69.48 000 55.15