I wonder.. I know Dropbox files are constantly synchronized,
but if one person (an administrator) sets all files in read-only..
would that prevent any deleting/editing by anyone else?
And for versioning, as you suggested (if I got you right?),
until some form of package control system could
And I second that :)
On 24/01/2013 9:43 AM, Jason S wrote:
Another thought is that it would be wise to separate tools that are
instantaneous (like gui scripts, etc) and tools that create
dependencies, and which need to be deployed elsewhere once the tool is
used. The former always has fewer
Am 18.01.2013 09:16, schrieb Thomas Volkmann:
I agree, a workgroup/Dropbox solution is really not an
option...somehow I was
believing that mankind is good and no one would ever place malicious
stuff or
break things, not even by accident. But reality is cruel of course.
@Gene: please go for it.
I like the idea, before I read your reply I was thinking something akin to
a ninite.com for Softimage plugins/scripts? Checkbox select your desired
plugins from a list, hit go, and download a workgroup ready to connected,
with all the requested plugins/scripts in the right folders ready to be
It would be handy if we could also be able to zoom-out,
Since it's IE based I would have thought that it could but it can't.. pity.
On 18/01/2013 3:48 AM, Eugen Sares wrote:
rray.de/xsi inside Netview already works. Open local backup, dd an
xsiaddon into a viewport. Nice!
Some problems,
In Linux, it's the Internet Explorer 5 engine. Making anything modern work
on that is borderline masochistic.
Any kind soul wanna build a Chromium netview? :p
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Jason S jasonsta...@gmail.com wrote:
It would be handy if we could also be able to zoom-out,
i am thinking more like a pyqt app which is a portal to rray.de/xsi (or any
other database of content) rather than a generic web browser. just dreaming
;)
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 7:10 AM, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.comwrote:
Any kind soul wanna build a Chromium netview? :p
And in the case of FTP, one cannot undelete. At least in Dropbox you have
30 days to restore deleted files. It's bad either way.
Also I think it's unwise to divulge ftp details on a public mailing list.
All it takes is 1 jerk to ruin it for everybody. (I don't think anyone on
the list would, but
Maybe if we could have something like apt-get or Sublime's Package
Control style tool to list, install and update addons?
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.comwrote:
And in the case of FTP, one cannot undelete. At least in Dropbox you have
30 days to restore
I like the initiative, but what would be the advantage over rray.de?
One could also upload malicious files up to Dropbox and they would spread
to all those who share the folder, right?
Does not sound very safe.
2013/1/17 Eugen Sares softim...@keyvis.at
If we use dropbox we have to make
I'm with Alan on a package control type setup. But there would need to be a
central databaseto maintain the package list. Too bad Autodesk can't find
the time and money for something like this.
A survival kit à Rray.de sounds better imho. That's where we all go, no ?
Le 17/01/2013 16:45, Stefan Kubicek a écrit :
I like the initiative, but what would be the advantage over rray.de?
One could also upload malicious files up to Dropbox and they would
spread
to all those who share
I think the dump would be mostly for collection convenience purposes,
or for browsing while knowing it's a raw dump
with some things unfinished yet potentially still useful.
But we could then go through all that
and pick-out / organize and make available in a neat way on RRay.de
the specially
The nice thing about a workgroup is you can connect to it whenever/wherever,
without picking thru items and installing stuff. You just connect, see what's
there, give it a try.
But such a thing would have to be moderated and maintained, plus secure. This
kind of sharing is one of the untapped
Wow major gmail fail. Lots of new replies and non of them showed up before
I replied. Sorry about that folks.
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 8:40 AM, Gene Crucean
emailgeneonthel...@gmail.comwrote:
Yeah count me *out* of any dropbox solution. 3 main reasons...
1: I would go freaking MAD if anyone
I'm not sure that concept scales... I don't wanna load a crapton of addons
I don't know the purpose of. What if some of them conflict with each other?
What if someone poorly coded a few events? Hell naw!
Besides, with something like Package Control, you gotta be savvy enough to
put up a repo and
+1
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 6:04 PM, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.comwrote:
I'm not sure that concept scales... I don't wanna load a crapton of addons
I don't know the purpose of. What if some of them conflict with each other?
What if someone poorly coded a few events? Hell naw!
I have always thought there great assets/plugins/ code snippets. a
marketplace/databank could be a simple solution to easily find things on
the web for softimage.
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Simon Anderson
simonbenandersonl...@gmail.com wrote:
I was thinking a while back, why not make
There should have been more partition tools in Soft from day one IMO - most
obviously a tool to match partitions.
As with all these things, they're simple to script, but that's not the
point. The glaringly obvious ones should be integrated eventually.
Another thing that's missing that I've had
That's an awesome idea. Maybe start by asking users to send in their most
useful customizations or personal compounds etc to a public collection on
si-community or rray?
Most of us tend to keep those kind of things privately, but we shouldn't...
Anything which makes the Softimage community as
- dual monitor scripts: ctrl+ [shortcut] opens a window maximized on the
second monitor. ex: ctrl+alt+9 opens icetree, ctrl+alt+9 opens rendertree
Slaps forehead how totally useful, can't believe I never thought of that.
I wonder if it would be possible to share some Workgroups via Dropbox
or maybe just a set of installers grouped in various ways. Might
allow for one person to damage the whole thing though. :-/
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Let's share the good stuff, definitely!
Which reminds me: shouldn't ol' Netview be the easy-to-access repository
we all would like to have?
What happened to it, and why?
Am 16.01.2013 18:07, schrieb Ben Houston:
I wonder if it would be possible to share some Workgroups via Dropbox
or maybe
Nice stuff guys! I have plenty of little scripts here and there too,
probably similar to ones already mentioned, or ones i used at various
studios and had to rewrite for myself. Anyway I'm not sure the best way to
organise it all online, but fortunately with soft workgroups make life so
easy at
Yeah workgroups really help. I'm a hack when it comes to python scripting,
so most of the stuff I end up writing for myself I shoehorn into a few
custom menus that live in a workgroup, which also contains assets like
models and rigs. I've never even explored packaging stuff as addons (I
should). I
...another one: Rename Chain
select any chain element (bone/root/effector) run. Type chain preffix.
myChain will create: myChain_root, myChain_Bone1, myChain_Bone2,
myChain_eff
2013/1/16 Andy Moorer andymoo...@gmail.com
Yeah workgroups really help. I'm a hack when it comes to python
Ben Houston wrote:
I wonder if it would be possible to share some Workgroups via Dropbox
or maybe just a set of installers grouped in various ways. Might
allow for one person to damage the whole thing though. :-/
Ya! but maybe like a common XSI_SAMPLES_DUMP Database,
to which we
What is Ciaran's distance field emitter ?
Sounds good...
Le 15/01/2013 04:38, Andy Moorer a écrit :
Hi all. I'm interested in what people consider as the essentials for a small
studio Softimage pipeline, in terms of essential tools, scripts and
customization. I have my own ideas and opinions
http://blog.blackredking.org/?p=47
Here you go!
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 1:26 PM, olivier jeannel olivier.jean...@noos.frwrote:
What is Ciaran's distance field emitter ?
Sounds good...
Le 15/01/2013 04:38, Andy Moorer a écrit :
Hi all. I'm interested in what people consider as the
Funnily enough the ones I'm most attached to aren't the big asset
management tools; it's my 'Select All Children/Immediate Children/Parents',
'Create Control Root Target', 'Reset Control Root' and 'Parent like
Maya' plugins which take the most use. I think the most complicated one
there is about
I know, same here... The best scripts I use are tiny, like one that parents
offset nulls on every object selected. And a 1-line script that cycles viewport
background colors is great for making particles easier to see. Same goes for
ice compounds, the simple ones are often the most useful, I
-Zip constrain tool, select 10 objects (A) then select 10 objects (B) and
every object gets constrained to there significant other, A1 const B1, A2
const B2. just speeds things up so much.
- create cluster with null on each point from a selection of points.
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Andy
jep, the small tools are essential for day to day work. like:
-creating a point cloud with an ice tree (!!!)
-selection sensitive parenting primitive creation.
-all kinds of transform tools. switch transforms, add object(s) under srt at
transform or component selection …
-uncountable compounds.
That happens too!
A centralized launcher and some coding standards helps a lot, otherwise
everything will be a chaos sooner than later.
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 1:25 AM, Sebastian Kowalski l...@sekow.com wrote:
I've wrote so many small tools, that i need a pipeline just for organizing
them ;)
For the quick everyday tools I make strictly for personal use by myself
they often end up in my personal toolbar and it's been growing, and
growing, and growing...
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 7:56 PM, César Sáez cesa...@gmail.com wrote:
That happens too!
A centralized launcher and some coding
I guess It will depend on what you are doing.
I usually carry always my own modeling tools to do simple things like
merge and separate, separate clusters and preserve weights in one click
symetrize polygon and weights
clean Scene and objects according to the project
Mirror and flip FCurves
Copy
Hi all. I'm interested in what people consider as the essentials for a small
studio Softimage pipeline, in terms of essential tools, scripts and
customization. I have my own ideas and opinions but want to get a sanity check
in case I'm missing some cool workflow or toolset, and just out of
number one would be a decent Folder strucure, and naming conventions, and
some tools to help make this a little bit more automated, have seen and
heard of many small studios just passing folders and files around and then
you start losing track of which is the latest, or where was that file that
Jo
Thanks for the fast reply Simon, very interesting post. I totally agree about
the importance of file structure and conventions, asset management is another
big one.
What brings this up... Partly I've been thinking about this stuff for years,
but recently I began sorting thru scenes to put
IF I were a freelancer, I'd sort out my I/O first and foremost. Basically
have the ability to take in commonly exported formats like
.bgeo/partio/alembic/.skp plus the occasional 2D formats for camera and
pCloud stuff and have it so that these span a few versions back. I feel
like once this is
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