Re: Small Annoying Things
I'd rather it didn't do that to be honest. On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Eugen Sares softim...@keyvis.at wrote: Am 17.08.2012 15:42, schrieb Jeff McFall: If the render tree window is open and one assigns a new material to the selected object the window does not automatically refresh to show the new material Not sure if this is intent or not but I often end up changing the wrong material because I expected my new material to be there +1 Even asked VRay support two days ago if this is related to the connection plugin, but no, it's a SI bug.
Re: Small Annoying Things
As always, when people have different needs - checkbox in the RT preferences. Am 18.08.2012 08:17, schrieb Ciaran Moloney: I'd rather it didn't do that to be honest. On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Eugen Sares softim...@keyvis.at mailto:softim...@keyvis.at wrote: Am 17.08.2012 15:42, schrieb Jeff McFall: If the render tree window is open and one assigns a new material to the selected object the window does not automatically refresh to show the new material Not sure if this is intent or not but I often end up changing the wrong material because I expected my new material to be there +1 Even asked VRay support two days ago if this is related to the connection plugin, but no, it's a SI bug.
Re: Small Annoying Things
whats the behavior for two RT views open? lets say i have one open, locked, for reference. does that refresh? *written with my thumbs On Aug 18, 2012, at 12:03 AM, Eugen Sares softim...@keyvis.at wrote: As always, when people have different needs - checkbox in the RT preferences. Am 18.08.2012 08:17, schrieb Ciaran Moloney: I'd rather it didn't do that to be honest. On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Eugen Sares softim...@keyvis.at wrote: Am 17.08.2012 15:42, schrieb Jeff McFall: If the render tree window is open and one assigns a new material to the selected object the window does not automatically refresh to show the new material Not sure if this is intent or not but I often end up changing the wrong material because I expected my new material to be there +1 Even asked VRay support two days ago if this is related to the connection plugin, but no, it's a SI bug.
Re: Small Annoying Things
I think you could easily script this behaviour. Since RT refreshing is based on selection only, you could have the new material automatically selected after creation using an EndCommand event. If the RT is not locked it will then update. Also, a bit harsh to describe it as a bug (we have enough real ones already) On Aug 18, 2012, at 12:03 AM, Eugen Sares softim...@keyvis.at wrote: As always, when people have different needs - checkbox in the RT preferences. Am 18.08.2012 08:17, schrieb Ciaran Moloney: I'd rather it didn't do that to be honest. On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Eugen Sares softim...@keyvis.at softim...@keyvis.at wrote: Am 17.08.2012 15:42, schrieb Jeff McFall: If the render tree window is open and one assigns a new material to the selected object the window does not automatically refresh to show the new material Not sure if this is intent or not but I often end up changing the wrong material because I expected my new material to be there +1 Even asked VRay support two days ago if this is related to the connection plugin, but no, it's a SI bug. -- - Ciaran
Re: Small Annoying Things
Impressive! Generally, for my part, I would love to see SI first and foremost evolve in this directions: - extensibility - customizability - consolidation (general bugfixing, SDK fixes/cleanups, UI fixes/cleanups) Am 18.08.2012 05:05, schrieb Matt Lind: Here's my short list, some dating back to v1.x: 1) Inspecting a mixer source or mixer clip via the RMB context menu displays a collapsed PPG that must be manually resized via dragging the mouse to see it's contents. 2) Transfer / Merge Attributes editor found in the Poly.Mesh merge tool, GATOR, and a host of other tools only shows top two rows in the upper pane of the dialog and is NOT resizeable. 3) Transfer / Merge Attributes editor defaults to pairing up cluster properties (UVs, vertex color, user normals) by chronological order of creation instead of by name. 4) Updating a mixer source does not update mixer clips pointing to it from the mixer timeline. 5) No easily accessible UI for looking at image sources/clips on a mixer timeline. Must navigate to the image clip folder in the scene explorer and know to select the image clip(s) to see anything at all. Images should be an available option from the mixer. 6) No SDK access to Spreadsheet view. 7) No option for scaling objects on axes other than local (such as global, object, or COG) 8) Cannot adjust explorer view filter to only show custom properties or other property type data without showing the rest of the object's structure. 9) Deleting selected object from the scene when in an explorer set to selection scope causes scene explorer to go blank even when it's locked (auto refresh deactivated). Really? Can't it just maintain the current view? 10) Texture Editor relax tool doesn't relax. 11) No place to hide custom userdata that isn't in plain view of the user. Would be very useful for custom tools. 12) No paint UI or ability in SDK to create a useful 3D paint system. 13) Performance very bad with many objects in scene regardless of object complexity. 14) No ability to auto update self installing custom properties in a scene after code changes. 15) No falloff icon/manipulator for point lights 16) No ability to send events/callbacks to netview for custom tools to respond (example: on selection change, would like a netview based tool to respond) 17) No ability to preserve work on NURBS Surface when converting to polygon meshother than trivial geometry. 18) Realtime shader system overhauls that shows vertical improvement instead of lateral. 19) Lack of UI customization throughout. Makes custom tool development more difficult than it should be. 20) Ability to substitute operators/operator inputs in the construction history outside of text and curves. 21) Ability to read/write the construction history from the SDK other than a trivial XML dump. What's needed is low level access to operator inputs/outputs so the operators can be recreated exactly using custom importers/exporters. Example: the 'movecomponent' operator does not expose any parameters. Therefore a custom tool which needs to build an object from a file description cannot recreate the movecomponent operator on the generated object's stack. 22) ASCII file format for all presets, scene files, models, and other externally referenced data specific to the application. 23) A finished NURBS modeling toolset. 24) Ability to read / write NURBS data in parameterizations other than Non-Uniform. 25) Ability to get access to a reference model's Delta via the scripting object model. 26) Ability to write to a PointCloud from scripting. Example: apply color values to the points in the point cloud. 27) Ability to duplicate an object contained in a referenced model. That is, the resulting duplicate should be local to the scene and have no affiliation with the referenced model from which it was derived. 28) Ability to define presets / default values for commonly used tools. 29) An Image clip viewer available directly from the viewport menus which allows panning, zooming, resizing, channel component viewing, etc... that was written in the last 15 years. 30) Tools for selecting subcomponents from samples (eg: uv -- polygons). Needed outside the texture editor. 31) Customizable context menus for tools allowing removal and rearranging of tools, and allows arbitrary ordering/placement of custom tools. 32) Tear away controls from any toolbar that doesn't require an entire package of buttons/controls to be torn away with it. Example: I just want to tear the snapshot button off the FCurve editor toolbar. I don't want the swap buffer, HLE, and other tools to come with it. 33) A toolbar/layout/shelf editor that was built in the last 15 years and works on drag n' drop and tear away editing principles. Heck, even the old SI3D dialog editor was more intuitive than the XSI version. 34) Ability to put expressions, constraints, and other data types
Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?
. So... I've installed Windows7 on my workstation at home. And so far I'm really impressed with the speed and the response from the system. Softimage works a lot smoother on Windows7 than on CentOS 6.3. hmm, it's not april did hell just freeze over? actually the day alan jones writes something like that will be the day hell truly freezes over.. on a serious note, for every single windows release that's about to come out since win2k I've heard the same exact thing this will be terrible, I'm staying with win forever yet those same people somehow upgraded throughout the years and found themselves quite happy... On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Stefan Andersson sander...@gmail.comwrote: It's not any better in the Linux Camp. Everyone is moving towards tablet use. But what boggles me is that... how can the developers themselves stand it? On a side note. I've been using Linux for a long time now, but got fed up with crappy wacom drivers and the crippled paint applications. So... I've installed Windows7 on my workstation at home. And so far I'm really impressed with the speed and the response from the system. Softimage works a lot smoother on Windows7 than on CentOS 6.3. Anyhow, going to take a shower now since I feel quite dirty. And I think Windows 8 will be as Vista, a side-note. They are already talking about Windows9. regards stefan On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Sylvain Lebeau s...@shedmtl.com wrote: this makes me think about Apple rumour to let go the dev on the mac pros... Seem's everybody is going nuts on the mobile thing. And all professional market get's ignored!! i wont be able to do Arnold render regions on my f-ing iphone! wtf is going on with these guys!? sly -- *Sylvain Lebeau // SHED** *V-P/Visual effects supervisor 1410, RUE STANLEY, 11E ÉTAGE MONTRÉAL (QUÉBEC) H3A 1P8 T 514 849-1555 F 514 849-5025 WWW.SHEDMTL.COM http://www.shedmtl.com/ http://WWW.SHEDMTL.COM http://www.shedmtl.com/ Paul Griswold pgrisw...@fusiondigitalproductions.com Friday, August 17, 2012 12:18 PM My main Win 7 workstation has been really acting flaky lately. Microsoft has just release Windows 8 RTM, so I was wondering if anyone had tested it out yet? I realize there are plenty of opinions on the whole Metro interface, but I'm just wondering if it's stable and if Softimage will run under it. I need to take a weekend and reformat this machine start over anyway. Thanks, Paul -- stefan andersson - digital janitor - http://sanders3d.wordpress.com -- Andreas Byström Lighting TD - Weta Digital postbox-contact.jpg
Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?
this makes me think about Apple rumour to let go the dev on the mac pros... Is this latest news? The late 2012 MacPros are, umhh, not impressive but apple mgmnt has promised something really great for next year... I wonder how much this is a result of Jobs gone (r.i.p.) and Intel not feeling any pressure to make Xeons competitive in terms of price against performance? The 2008 MacPro´s beat Dell/HP/Lenovo both in terms of price and style and opened a big chunk of market to the MacPro by making them run really nice with windows. ... Maybe we don´t need content creation artists using dedicated hardware anymore? There´s enough cloud apps to instantly create nice images and rights-managed stuff billed by the click to get rid of pesky artists blocking the retina already? And there´s always india, china and millions of young, idealistic interns to pull from? ... I would also like to have a solid, clutter free workstation without any license/transfer hassle I can use productively for content creation using stable and reliably tools plus betas where it makes sense. But maybe I´m old-fashioned and should just wave off (using a gesture involving my middle finger?) Cheers, tim On 18.08.2012 05:01, Sylvain Lebeau wrote: this makes me think about Apple rumour to let go the dev on the mac pros... Seem's everybody is going nuts on the mobile thing. And all professional market get's ignored!! i wont be able to do Arnold render regions on my f-ing iphone! wtf is going on with these guys!? sly -- *Sylvain Lebeau // SHED** *V-P/Visual effects supervisor 1410, RUE STANLEY, 11E ÉTAGE MONTRÉAL (QUÉBEC) H3A 1P8 T 514 849-1555 F 514 849-5025WWW.SHEDMTL.COM http://www.shedmtl.com/http://WWW.SHEDMTL.COM http://www.shedmtl.com/ Paul Griswold mailto:pgrisw...@fusiondigitalproductions.com Friday, August 17, 2012 12:18 PM My main Win 7 workstation has been really acting flaky lately. Microsoft has just release Windows 8 RTM, so I was wondering if anyone had tested it out yet? I realize there are plenty of opinions on the whole Metro interface, but I'm just wondering if it's stable and if Softimage will run under it. I need to take a weekend and reformat this machine start over anyway. Thanks, Paul
Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?
Sam is right on the money. I heard an interview with Paul Thurrott and he said according to the Windows team, Windows 8 is much like the first version of OS-X. It's not Windows 7 with some bolt-on UI elements, it is a new OS that has a Classic mode to maintain compatibility with non-Metro apps. There are no more windows in Windows except in Desktop mode. Even a file requester is full-screen. I do wonder how pro developers are going to deal with it - because MS says the desktop mode will be phased out eventually, just like Apple got rid of Classic mode. The tablet craze is here to stay. It's all about chasing dollars there are a lot more dollars in the general public then there is in selling only to any one particular market segment. Just look at Apple's current stock price their cash on hand and you can understand what they're all thinking. I did see there's a Windows 8 Enterprise version that's being release too. Is that more pro-friendly? -Paul
Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?
When I think of operating systems today I think of the death scene in Toy Story 3. Perhaps we should just hold hands and face the facts. Maybe there will be a giant claw out there that can save us all... /Stefan On Saturday, August 18, 2012, Paul Griswold wrote: Sam is right on the money. I heard an interview with Paul Thurrott and he said according to the Windows team, Windows 8 is much like the first version of OS-X. It's not Windows 7 with some bolt-on UI elements, it is a new OS that has a Classic mode to maintain compatibility with non-Metro apps. There are no more windows in Windows except in Desktop mode. Even a file requester is full-screen. I do wonder how pro developers are going to deal with it - because MS says the desktop mode will be phased out eventually, just like Apple got rid of Classic mode. The tablet craze is here to stay. It's all about chasing dollars there are a lot more dollars in the general public then there is in selling only to any one particular market segment. Just look at Apple's current stock price their cash on hand and you can understand what they're all thinking. I did see there's a Windows 8 Enterprise version that's being release too. Is that more pro-friendly? -Paul -- stefan andersson - digital janitor - http://sanders3d.wordpress.com
Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?
I don't think there will be any pro-friendly OS's out there in a few years time. Like people already said, everybody is jumping on the mobile train, and the 'pro's' get the leftovers on the desktop. As more and more apps move to the web and cloud (Office 2012 e.g.), we'll slowly start too see a shift. At some point the desktop as we know, use and love will be dead, not just on Windows. And to answer your W8 Enterprise question, it's the same with some additions for security, domain login and such. Rob \/-\/\/ On 18-8-2012 13:40, Paul Griswold wrote: Sam is right on the money. I heard an interview with Paul Thurrott and he said according to the Windows team, Windows 8 is much like the first version of OS-X. It's not Windows 7 with some bolt-on UI elements, it is a new OS that has a Classic mode to maintain compatibility with non-Metro apps. There are no more windows in Windows except in Desktop mode. Even a file requester is full-screen. I do wonder how pro developers are going to deal with it - because MS says the desktop mode will be phased out eventually, just like Apple got rid of Classic mode. The tablet craze is here to stay. It's all about chasing dollars there are a lot more dollars in the general public then there is in selling only to any one particular market segment. Just look at Apple's current stock price their cash on hand and you can understand what they're all thinking. I did see there's a Windows 8 Enterprise version that's being release too. Is that more pro-friendly? -Paul No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com http://www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.2197 / Virus Database: 2437/5207 - Release Date: 08/18/12
Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?
It seems like the market might be ripe for some enterprising new company to come along and develop some specialized pro-level hardware software. Of course it would be Silicon based hardware, specialize in Graphics and would need to be Incorporated... ah, but that's a crazy idea! On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 7:51 AM, Rob Wuijster r...@casema.nl wrote: I don't think there will be any pro-friendly OS's out there in a few years time. Like people already said, everybody is jumping on the mobile train, and the 'pro's' get the leftovers on the desktop. As more and more apps move to the web and cloud (Office 2012 e.g.), we'll slowly start too see a shift. At some point the desktop as we know, use and love will be dead, not just on Windows. And to answer your W8 Enterprise question, it's the same with some additions for security, domain login and such. Rob \/-\/\/ On 18-8-2012 13:40, Paul Griswold wrote: Sam is right on the money. I heard an interview with Paul Thurrott and he said according to the Windows team, Windows 8 is much like the first version of OS-X. It's not Windows 7 with some bolt-on UI elements, it is a new OS that has a Classic mode to maintain compatibility with non-Metro apps. There are no more windows in Windows except in Desktop mode. Even a file requester is full-screen. I do wonder how pro developers are going to deal with it - because MS says the desktop mode will be phased out eventually, just like Apple got rid of Classic mode. The tablet craze is here to stay. It's all about chasing dollars there are a lot more dollars in the general public then there is in selling only to any one particular market segment. Just look at Apple's current stock price their cash on hand and you can understand what they're all thinking. I did see there's a Windows 8 Enterprise version that's being release too. Is that more pro-friendly? -Paul No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.2197 / Virus Database: 2437/5207 - Release Date: 08/18/12
Re: Windows 8 - anyone?
It's not possible to turn it back to win7, but it's my understanding that it's only the Start menu you'd miss when you run the desktop? It's on the ARM that the desktop might go away, but on intel i'm pretty sure it's here to stay. On Aug 17, 2012 10:50 PM, Sam Bowling sbowl...@cox.net wrote: Interesting because no one seems to have been able to find it yet. I haven’t tried the actual RTM version. *From:* Matt Lind ml...@carbinestudios.com *Sent:* Friday, August 17, 2012 7:39 PM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* RE: OT: Windows 8 - anyone? Microsoft stated Windows 7 mode would be retained, but you would have to activate it from the control panel. Matt *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Sam Bowling *Sent:* Friday, August 17, 2012 7:33 PM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone? I tried out the release preview on my laptop and windows 8 is crap. The only reason this exists is so Microsoft can leverage their desktop OS to get people you use their extremely unpopular Phone OS. They have literally removed everything that made windows 7 so popular (start menu, quick searches, etc.). Now you are forced to move your mouse all over the screen to the “hot corners” or “hot edges” to get to all the features you used to easily get to with the start menu. You load to the Phone OS screen and the desktop is now an “app” that you run your “legacy apps” in (IOW, where the real programs run). All the new phone apps load full screen and can not be windowed. That means that all the little helper programs to run in small windows will now load FULL SCREEN. They have basically put a GUI on DOS and added in task swapping. None of the new apps can run in the background as far as I have been able to tell, so they all basically go into hibernation (to save battery life... as if my PC runs on batteries.) when you switch apps, so multitasking is dead unless you are running “Legacy apps” on the Legacy desktop (which they say they will be removing). They want you to buy all these touch enabled tablet things for your PC, so your PC can be as useful as your laptop when you don’t have a mouse. Unlike all the other Windows releases, you can not go back to the older interface style. It has all been physically remove from the OS leaving you with only one choice (even though it was all there in the initial developers preview). * *** Windows 8 is pure rubbish with a clunky, sickening, eye wrenching phone interface plugged on top of it and it has made me do something none of the other OS makers have ever been able to do. I have now seriously considered moving to another OS/Platform. This thing is even more dumbed down than OSX and that is something that I didn’t think was possible. I really tried to get used to windows 8, but I just feel handicapped on that OS. If they don’t do some serious backpedaling in the future I will be moving to something else. I predict that Linux and mac “sales” will increase dramatically over the next few years. *From:* Paul Griswold pgrisw...@fusiondigitalproductions.com *Sent:* Friday, August 17, 2012 9:18 AM *To:* Softimage Mailing list softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* OT: Windows 8 - anyone? My main Win 7 workstation has been really acting flaky lately. Microsoft has just release Windows 8 RTM, so I was wondering if anyone had tested it out yet? I realize there are plenty of opinions on the whole Metro interface, but I'm just wondering if it's stable and if Softimage will run under it. I need to take a weekend and reformat this machine start over anyway.*** * Thanks, Paul
Re: Small Annoying Things
my main issue, other than the great list of suggestion here, is to have a more stable throughput into Maya. For every time I use the Send to maya feature, I have to use FBX instead, as the send to does not pass the data correctly. I can't even count the number of times I have used Send to, only to have an empty scene show up in Maya. On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 12:51 AM, Eugen Sares softim...@keyvis.at wrote: Impressive! Generally, for my part, I would love to see SI first and foremost evolve in this directions: - extensibility - customizability - consolidation (general bugfixing, SDK fixes/cleanups, UI fixes/cleanups) Am 18.08.2012 05:05, schrieb Matt Lind: Here’s my short list, some dating back to v1.x: ** ** ** ** ** ** 1) Inspecting a mixer source or mixer clip via the RMB context menu displays a collapsed PPG that must be manually resized via dragging the mouse to see it’s contents. ** ** 2) Transfer / Merge Attributes editor found in the Poly.Mesh merge tool, GATOR, and a host of other tools only shows top two rows in the upper pane of the dialog and is NOT resizeable. ** ** 3) Transfer / Merge Attributes editor defaults to pairing up cluster properties (UVs, vertex color, user normals) by chronological order of creation instead of by name. ** ** 4) Updating a mixer source does not update mixer clips pointing to it from the mixer timeline. ** ** 5) No easily accessible UI for looking at image sources/clips on a mixer timeline. Must navigate to the image clip folder in the scene explorer and know to select the image clip(s) to see anything at all. Images should be an available option from the mixer. ** ** 6) No SDK access to Spreadsheet view. ** ** 7) No option for scaling objects on axes other than local (such as global, object, or COG) ** ** 8) Cannot adjust explorer view filter to only show custom properties or other property type data without showing the rest of the object’s structure. ** ** 9) Deleting selected object from the scene when in an explorer set to “selection” scope causes scene explorer to go blank even when it’s locked (auto refresh deactivated). Really? Can’t it just maintain the current view? ** ** 10) Texture Editor relax tool doesn’t relax. ** ** 11) No place to hide custom userdata that isn’t in plain view of the user. Would be very useful for custom tools. ** ** 12) No paint UI or ability in SDK to create a useful 3D paint system. ** ** 13) Performance very bad with many objects in scene regardless of object complexity. ** ** 14) No ability to auto update self installing custom properties in a scene after code changes. ** ** 15) No falloff icon/manipulator for point lights ** ** 16) No ability to send events/callbacks to netview for custom tools to respond (example: on selection change, would like a netview based tool to respond) ** ** 17) No ability to preserve work on NURBS Surface when converting to polygon mesh….other than trivial geometry. ** ** 18) Realtime shader system overhauls that shows vertical improvement instead of lateral. ** ** 19) Lack of UI customization throughout. Makes custom tool development more difficult than it should be. ** ** 20) Ability to substitute operators/operator inputs in the construction history outside of text and curves. ** ** 21) Ability to read/write the construction history from the SDK other than a trivial XML dump. What’s needed is low level access to operator inputs/outputs so the operators can be recreated exactly using custom importers/exporters. Example: the ‘movecomponent’ operator does not expose any parameters. Therefore a custom tool which needs to build an object from a file description cannot recreate the movecomponent operator on the generated object’s stack. ** ** 22) ASCII file format for all presets, scene files, models, and other externally referenced data specific to the application. ** ** 23) A finished NURBS modeling toolset. ** ** 24) Ability to read / write NURBS data in parameterizations other than Non-Uniform. ** ** 25) Ability to get access to a reference model’s Delta via the scripting object model. ** ** 26) Ability to write to a PointCloud from scripting. Example: apply color values to the points in the point cloud. ** ** 27) Ability to duplicate an object contained in a referenced model. That is, the resulting duplicate should be local to the scene and have no affiliation with the referenced model from which it was derived. ** ** 28) Ability to define presets / default values for commonly used tools.*** * ** ** 29) An Image clip viewer available directly from the viewport menus which allows panning, zooming, resizing, channel component viewing, etc… that was written in the last 15 years. ** ** 30)
Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?
Depends on what you mean by getting things done. With my iPhone iPad + Growl and Boxcar I can have Deadline send me a message when renders finish. I do a lot of general-purpose office work while sitting on the sofa with my kids in the evening on my iPad. I'm not doing modeling, etc., but it's nice to be able to know I can go hiking with my kids and still be able to follow up with a client via email. I know there was a video recently posted from SIGGRAPH where Thiago was talking about his new project being able to render from an iPad in Chrome. So you never know where things are headed. -Paul On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 2:44 PM, David Gallagher davegsoftimagel...@gmail.com wrote: Mobile is so overrated. Does anyone actually get anything done on a mobile device?
Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?
Wasn't I supposed to be all gloomy about newfangled stuff ;-) Well, I currently work on audio related things and just read an interesting article about Windows 8 and some benchmarks: http://blog.cakewalk.com/windows-8-a-benchmark-for-music-production-applications/ I can't see any reason for doom and gloom to be honest. Looks more like a continuation of Vista-Win7 to me. I worked from early on with Vista 64 and found it much better than its reputation - and much better as XP in fact. Win 7 improved it a lot in interaction speed, memory needed, multicore use etc. Much smoother experience. Now from what I read Win 8 goes on with that. I agree with the sentiment that there is space for a real pro OS, but this space exists for a long time now. I wasn't surprised with OSX going the way of the app, was quite a lot more surprised when Windows did it and just couldn't believe some of the Linux things I saw... Should somebody finally resurrect BeOS? ;-) But then again: What most people do with computers can probably be done on a tablet or laptop. I can actually see us head back to Silicon Graphics days, with real high end pro machines becoming something special again. In a way this is natural if you think about it: why should everybody and his mom working on basically the same machines as you? I personally plan to do a full fresh install as soon as Win8 is available - finally on a SSD. Should be snappy. And keep the Win7 Partition as a fallback. Cheers, Tom http://www.screendream.de
Re: aaOcean open-sourced
Hi all, I can't clone the repository ( https://bitbucket.org/amaanakram/aaocean ). Is it locked from the public? Thanks. cheers,
Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?
Minor correction: It doesn't render on the iPad, it receives a streaming progressive render in realtime and the client is just a GUI to it. ;) On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Paul Griswold pgrisw...@fusiondigitalproductions.com wrote: Depends on what you mean by getting things done. With my iPhone iPad + Growl and Boxcar I can have Deadline send me a message when renders finish. I do a lot of general-purpose office work while sitting on the sofa with my kids in the evening on my iPad. I'm not doing modeling, etc., but it's nice to be able to know I can go hiking with my kids and still be able to follow up with a client via email. I know there was a video recently posted from SIGGRAPH where Thiago was talking about his new project being able to render from an iPad in Chrome. So you never know where things are headed. -Paul On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 2:44 PM, David Gallagher davegsoftimagel...@gmail.com wrote: Mobile is so overrated. Does anyone actually get anything done on a mobile device?
Re: Keyboard Mapping - Animation Editor
The easiest way to find hotkeys is to click the View in Browser button at the top of the Keyboard Mapping window, then doing Ctrl+F to find the word of the command you're after. Once you know where it is, you know where to go to set it. ;) On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 6:46 AM, Andreas Böinghoff boeingh...@s-farm.dewrote: ha, proper searching helps. great. thanks chris! On 8/17/2012 12:42 PM, Christian Keller wrote: It´s called Fcurve Editor in the Keyboard Mapping menue ;) There´s a entry for isolate curve ! -- christian keller visual effects|direction +49 179 69 36 248chris3...@me.com Am 17. August 2012 um 09:27 schrieb Andreas Böinghoff boeingh...@s-farm.de boeingh...@s-farm.de: Hey All, this is my first post here. So hello! :) How can I set keyboard Shortcuts for menu entries in the Animation Editor? There is no Animation Editor Group in The Keyboard Mapping PPG and there are no commands logged if I click on for example on the Isolate Curve entry under view. So is there a possibility to easily access the AnimationEditor menu commands? Andreas -- ANDREAS BOEINGHOFF 3D Artist schönheitsfarm production GmbH Co. KG schönheitsfarm hamburg lippmannstrasse 79 22769 hamburg t +4940 432 91 200 f +4940 432 91 222 schönheitsfarm düsseldorf steinstraße 11 40212 düsseldorf t +49211 913 701 0 f +49211 913 701 99 w www.s-farm.de Geschäftsführung Manfred Brunwey DE 214892548 | Amtsgericht Hamburg HRA 95793
Re: Windows 8 - anyone?
You realize that there are still a ton of people that are still running windows XP, right? You also seem to be forgetting Vista (which I actually liked, but most other people didn’t). From: Andreas Bystrom Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2012 1:05 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone? . So... I've installed Windows7 on my workstation at home. And so far I'm really impressed with the speed and the response from the system. Softimage works a lot smoother on Windows7 than on CentOS 6.3. hmm, it's not april did hell just freeze over? actually the day alan jones writes something like that will be the day hell truly freezes over.. on a serious note, for every single windows release that's about to come out since win2k I've heard the same exact thing this will be terrible, I'm staying with win forever yet those same people somehow upgraded throughout the years and found themselves quite happy... On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Stefan Andersson sander...@gmail.com wrote: It's not any better in the Linux Camp. Everyone is moving towards tablet use. But what boggles me is that... how can the developers themselves stand it? On a side note. I've been using Linux for a long time now, but got fed up with crappy wacom drivers and the crippled paint applications. So... I've installed Windows7 on my workstation at home. And so far I'm really impressed with the speed and the response from the system. Softimage works a lot smoother on Windows7 than on CentOS 6.3. Anyhow, going to take a shower now since I feel quite dirty. And I think Windows 8 will be as Vista, a side-note. They are already talking about Windows9. regards stefan On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Sylvain Lebeau s...@shedmtl.com wrote: this makes me think about Apple rumour to let go the dev on the mac pros... Seem's everybody is going nuts on the mobile thing. And all professional market get's ignored!! i wont be able to do Arnold render regions on my f-ing iphone! wtf is going on with these guys!? sly -- Sylvain Lebeau // SHED V-P/Visual effects supervisor 1410, RUE STANLEY, 11E ÉTAGE MONTRÉAL (QUÉBEC) H3A 1P8 T 514 849-1555 F 514 849-5025 WWW.SHEDMTL.COM http://WWW.SHEDMTL.COM Paul Griswold Friday, August 17, 2012 12:18 PM My main Win 7 workstation has been really acting flaky lately. Microsoft has just release Windows 8 RTM, so I was wondering if anyone had tested it out yet? I realize there are plenty of opinions on the whole Metro interface, but I'm just wondering if it's stable and if Softimage will run under it. I need to take a weekend and reformat this machine start over anyway. Thanks, Paul -- stefan andersson - digital janitor - http://sanders3d.wordpress.com -- Andreas Byström Lighting TD - Weta Digital postbox-contact.jpg
Re: Windows 8 - anyone?
We use macs where I work and upgraded last year, right after Lion came out. Quicktime is just garbage compared to what it used to be and even with the latest updates, the OS is still full of bugs (especially if you use 2 monitors). Maybe with Jobs out of the way things will improve, but I sort of doubt it. Apple tends to think different from normal people. -Original Message- From: Tim Leydecker Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2012 2:14 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone? this makes me think about Apple rumour to let go the dev on the mac pros... Is this latest news? The late 2012 MacPros are, umhh, not impressive but apple mgmnt has promised something really great for next year... I wonder how much this is a result of Jobs gone (r.i.p.) and Intel not feeling any pressure to make Xeons competitive in terms of price against performance? The 2008 MacPro´s beat Dell/HP/Lenovo both in terms of price and style and opened a big chunk of market to the MacPro by making them run really nice with windows. ... Maybe we don´t need content creation artists using dedicated hardware anymore? There´s enough cloud apps to instantly create nice images and rights-managed stuff billed by the click to get rid of pesky artists blocking the retina already? And there´s always india, china and millions of young, idealistic interns to pull from? ... I would also like to have a solid, clutter free workstation without any license/transfer hassle I can use productively for content creation using stable and reliably tools plus betas where it makes sense. But maybe I´m old-fashioned and should just wave off (using a gesture involving my middle finger?) Cheers, tim On 18.08.2012 05:01, Sylvain Lebeau wrote: this makes me think about Apple rumour to let go the dev on the mac pros... Seem's everybody is going nuts on the mobile thing. And all professional market get's ignored!! i wont be able to do Arnold render regions on my f-ing iphone! wtf is going on with these guys!? sly -- *Sylvain Lebeau // SHED** *V-P/Visual effects supervisor 1410, RUE STANLEY, 11E ÉTAGE MONTRÉAL (QUÉBEC) H3A 1P8 T 514 849-1555 F 514 849-5025WWW.SHEDMTL.COM http://www.shedmtl.com/http://WWW.SHEDMTL.COM http://www.shedmtl.com/ Paul Griswold mailto:pgrisw...@fusiondigitalproductions.com Friday, August 17, 2012 12:18 PM My main Win 7 workstation has been really acting flaky lately. Microsoft has just release Windows 8 RTM, so I was wondering if anyone had tested it out yet? I realize there are plenty of opinions on the whole Metro interface, but I'm just wondering if it's stable and if Softimage will run under it. I need to take a weekend and reformat this machine start over anyway. Thanks, Paul
Re: Windows 8 - anyone?
Have you seen what they did to the File Explorer? The ribbon was a bad ide and now it’s spread to the file browser like some kind of bad virus. Have been a windows user for over 20 years I was surprised that I had to look up on the web how to restart the computer. Just follow these simple steps... SarcasmSo much easier than Startshutdown/restart /Sarcasm http://www.karthikk.net/2011/09/shutdown-restart-in-windows-8-how-to/ I love the way you have to constantly jump from the left side of the screen to the right side of the screen for everything in this OS. So much easier than having everything in one place. From: Luc-Eric Rousseau Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2012 8:53 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Windows 8 - anyone? It's not possible to turn it back to win7, but it's my understanding that it's only the Start menu you'd miss when you run the desktop? It's on the ARM that the desktop might go away, but on intel i'm pretty sure it's here to stay. On Aug 17, 2012 10:50 PM, Sam Bowling sbowl...@cox.net wrote: Interesting because no one seems to have been able to find it yet. I haven’t tried the actual RTM version. From: Matt Lind Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 7:39 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: RE: OT: Windows 8 - anyone? Microsoft stated Windows 7 mode would be retained, but you would have to activate it from the control panel. Matt From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Sam Bowling Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 7:33 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone? I tried out the release preview on my laptop and windows 8 is crap. The only reason this exists is so Microsoft can leverage their desktop OS to get people you use their extremely unpopular Phone OS. They have literally removed everything that made windows 7 so popular (start menu, quick searches, etc.). Now you are forced to move your mouse all over the screen to the “hot corners” or “hot edges” to get to all the features you used to easily get to with the start menu. You load to the Phone OS screen and the desktop is now an “app” that you run your “legacy apps” in (IOW, where the real programs run). All the new phone apps load full screen and can not be windowed. That means that all the little helper programs to run in small windows will now load FULL SCREEN. They have basically put a GUI on DOS and added in task swapping. None of the new apps can run in the background as far as I have been able to tell, so they all basically go into hibernation (to save battery life... as if my PC runs on batteries.) when you switch apps, so multitasking is dead unless you are running “Legacy apps” on the Legacy desktop (which they say they will be removing). They want you to buy all these touch enabled tablet things for your PC, so your PC can be as useful as your laptop when you don’t have a mouse. Unlike all the other Windows releases, you can not go back to the older interface style. It has all been physically remove from the OS leaving you with only one choice (even though it was all there in the initial developers preview). Windows 8 is pure rubbish with a clunky, sickening, eye wrenching phone interface plugged on top of it and it has made me do something none of the other OS makers have ever been able to do. I have now seriously considered moving to another OS/Platform. This thing is even more dumbed down than OSX and that is something that I didn’t think was possible. I really tried to get used to windows 8, but I just feel handicapped on that OS. If they don’t do some serious backpedaling in the future I will be moving to something else. I predict that Linux and mac “sales” will increase dramatically over the next few years. From: Paul Griswold Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 9:18 AM To: Softimage Mailing list Subject: OT: Windows 8 - anyone? My main Win 7 workstation has been really acting flaky lately. Microsoft has just release Windows 8 RTM, so I was wondering if anyone had tested it out yet? I realize there are plenty of opinions on the whole Metro interface, but I'm just wondering if it's stable and if Softimage will run under it. I need to take a weekend and reformat this machine start over anyway. Thanks, Paul
Re: Windows 8 - anyone?
You realize that there are still a ton of people that are still running windows XP, right? You also seem to be forgetting Vista (which I actually liked, but most other people didn’t). ofcourse, there are still people using win2k/nt even. also i did not forget vista, i ran it myself for years and was quite happy with it, win7 is better but overall vista wasn't that terrible either. also having used Linux for almost 2 years at work I've realized you can get used to and be quite happy with anything, its just a matter of using it long enough really, even though I still would never bother using linux at home.. On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Sam Bowling sbowl...@cox.net wrote: You realize that there are still a ton of people that are still running windows XP, right? You also seem to be forgetting Vista (which I actually liked, but most other people didn’t). *From:* Andreas Bystrom andreas.byst...@gmail.com *Sent:* Saturday, August 18, 2012 1:05 AM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone? . So... I've installed Windows7 on my workstation at home. And so far I'm really impressed with the speed and the response from the system. Softimage works a lot smoother on Windows7 than on CentOS 6.3. hmm, it's not april did hell just freeze over? actually the day alan jones writes something like that will be the day hell truly freezes over.. on a serious note, for every single windows release that's about to come out since win2k I've heard the same exact thing this will be terrible, I'm staying with win forever yet those same people somehow upgraded throughout the years and found themselves quite happy... On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Stefan Andersson sander...@gmail.comwrote: It's not any better in the Linux Camp. Everyone is moving towards tablet use. But what boggles me is that... how can the developers themselves stand it? On a side note. I've been using Linux for a long time now, but got fed up with crappy wacom drivers and the crippled paint applications. So... I've installed Windows7 on my workstation at home. And so far I'm really impressed with the speed and the response from the system. Softimage works a lot smoother on Windows7 than on CentOS 6.3. Anyhow, going to take a shower now since I feel quite dirty. And I think Windows 8 will be as Vista, a side-note. They are already talking about Windows9. regards stefan On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Sylvain Lebeau s...@shedmtl.com wrote: this makes me think about Apple rumour to let go the dev on the mac pros... Seem's everybody is going nuts on the mobile thing. And all professional market get's ignored!! i wont be able to do Arnold render regions on my f-ing iphone! wtf is going on with these guys!? sly -- *Sylvain Lebeau // SHED** *V-P/Visual effects supervisor 1410, RUE STANLEY, 11E ÉTAGE MONTRÉAL (QUÉBEC) H3A 1P8 T 514 849-1555 514%20849-1555 F 514 849-5025 WWW.SHEDMTL.COMhttp://www.shedmtl.com/ http://WWW.SHEDMTL.COM http://www.shedmtl.com/ Paul Griswold pgrisw...@fusiondigitalproductions.com Friday, August 17, 2012 12:18 PM My main Win 7 workstation has been really acting flaky lately. Microsoft has just release Windows 8 RTM, so I was wondering if anyone had tested it out yet? I realize there are plenty of opinions on the whole Metro interface, but I'm just wondering if it's stable and if Softimage will run under it. I need to take a weekend and reformat this machine start over anyway. Thanks, Paul -- stefan andersson - digital janitor - http://sanders3d.wordpress.com -- Andreas Byström Lighting TD - Weta Digital -- Andreas Byström Lighting TD - Weta Digital postbox-contact.jpg
