Re: Softimage crash on startup
If you want, send me the Process Monitor log and I'll take a look. You could try using msconfig to do a selective startup, but you'll need to enable the right services to keep your licensing. Did you try to run a script with xsibatch? http://xsisupport.com/2012/12/12/the-case-of-mcafee-antivirus-vbscript-and-the-softimage-startup-crash/ On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 10:20 PM, todd peleg toddape...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all.. I have a machine that softimage has worked on consistently for YEARS. today... it decided to open up with this error: Failed to save scene before system failure then its gone. ive tried a ton of the troubleshooting ive found thru google searches with no success.. can anyone point me to any other options? things ive tried thus far (not in this order): - checked the registry for issues related to jscript and vbscript (nothing found) - uninstalled any newly added software - renamed the user preferences - double checked graphics driver issues by a) editing the layout file to open with the explorer rather than the view manager b) reinstalled an approved graphics driver - installed 2 new clean versions of softimage (2014 and 2014 sp2) - runonce.bat (all all versions) - nothing showed up that i saw - launched xsibatch.. it worked i also tried the process manager... but.. i couldnt find anything outstanding.. though i admit at a certain point.. i got confused..and stopped reading thru it. thanks for anyone that can help. todd
Re: Softimage crash on startup
Any crash backups it's trying to load from \system dir of the current project? If you can even tell what that is Simon Reeves London, UK *si...@simonreeves.com si...@simonreeves.com* *www.simonreeves.com http://www.simonreeves.com* *www.analogstudio.co.uk http://www.analogstudio.co.uk* On 23 July 2014 03:20, todd peleg toddape...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all.. I have a machine that softimage has worked on consistently for YEARS. today... it decided to open up with this error: Failed to save scene before system failure then its gone. ive tried a ton of the troubleshooting ive found thru google searches with no success.. can anyone point me to any other options? things ive tried thus far (not in this order): - checked the registry for issues related to jscript and vbscript (nothing found) - uninstalled any newly added software - renamed the user preferences - double checked graphics driver issues by a) editing the layout file to open with the explorer rather than the view manager b) reinstalled an approved graphics driver - installed 2 new clean versions of softimage (2014 and 2014 sp2) - runonce.bat (all all versions) - nothing showed up that i saw - launched xsibatch.. it worked i also tried the process manager... but.. i couldnt find anything outstanding.. though i admit at a certain point.. i got confused..and stopped reading thru it. thanks for anyone that can help. todd
Re: Softimage crash on startup
Keep in mind that the 'system' folder under your project dir (and/or your user name folder/files inside it) is normally hidden by default. On 07/23/14 5:43, Simon Reeves wrote: Any crash backups it's trying to load from \system dir of the current project? If you can even tell what that is Simon Reeves London, UK si...@simonreeves.com www.simonreeves.com www.analogstudio.co.uk On 23 July 2014 03:20, todd peleg toddape...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all.. I have a machine that softimage has worked on consistently for YEARS. today... it decided to open up with this error: "Failed to save scene before system failure" then its gone. ive tried a ton of the troubleshooting ive found thru google searches with no success.. can anyone point me to any other options? things ive tried thus far (not in this order): - checked the registry for issues related to jscript and _vbscript_ (nothing found) - uninstalled any newly added software - renamed the user preferences - double checked graphics driver issues by a) editing the layout file to open with the explorer rather than the view manager b) reinstalled an approved graphics driver - installed 2 new clean versions of softimage (2014 and 2014 sp2) - runonce.bat (all all versions) - nothing showed up that i saw - launched xsibatch.. it worked i also tried the process manager... but.. i couldnt find anything outstanding.. though i admit at a certain point.. i got confused..and stopped reading thru it. thanks for anyone that can help. todd
Re: Softimage crash on startup
Simon... i did it on two new installs of softimage in trial mode... so there were no projects or crashes to try to load. t On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 5:43 AM, Simon Reeves si...@simonreeves.com wrote: Any crash backups it's trying to load from \system dir of the current project? If you can even tell what that is Simon Reeves London, UK *si...@simonreeves.com si...@simonreeves.com* *www.simonreeves.com http://www.simonreeves.com* *www.analogstudio.co.uk http://www.analogstudio.co.uk* On 23 July 2014 03:20, todd peleg toddape...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all.. I have a machine that softimage has worked on consistently for YEARS. today... it decided to open up with this error: Failed to save scene before system failure then its gone. ive tried a ton of the troubleshooting ive found thru google searches with no success.. can anyone point me to any other options? things ive tried thus far (not in this order): - checked the registry for issues related to jscript and vbscript (nothing found) - uninstalled any newly added software - renamed the user preferences - double checked graphics driver issues by a) editing the layout file to open with the explorer rather than the view manager b) reinstalled an approved graphics driver - installed 2 new clean versions of softimage (2014 and 2014 sp2) - runonce.bat (all all versions) - nothing showed up that i saw - launched xsibatch.. it worked i also tried the process manager... but.. i couldnt find anything outstanding.. though i admit at a certain point.. i got confused..and stopped reading thru it. thanks for anyone that can help. todd
Re: Softimage crash on startup
Jason.. I usually have all my hidden folders visible in explorer... so.. i don't think i am missing anything.. what specifically am i looking for? t On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 9:03 AM, Jason S jasonsta...@gmail.com wrote: Keep in mind that the 'system' folder under your project dir (and/or your user name folder/files inside it) is normally hidden by default. On 07/23/14 5:43, Simon Reeves wrote: Any crash backups it's trying to load from \system dir of the current project? If you can even tell what that is Simon Reeves London, UK *si...@simonreeves.com si...@simonreeves.com* *www.simonreeves.com http://www.simonreeves.com* *www.analogstudio.co.uk http://www.analogstudio.co.uk* On 23 July 2014 03:20, todd peleg toddape...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all.. I have a machine that softimage has worked on consistently for YEARS. today... it decided to open up with this error: Failed to save scene before system failure then its gone. ive tried a ton of the troubleshooting ive found thru google searches with no success.. can anyone point me to any other options? things ive tried thus far (not in this order): - checked the registry for issues related to jscript and vbscript (nothing found) - uninstalled any newly added software - renamed the user preferences - double checked graphics driver issues by a) editing the layout file to open with the explorer rather than the view manager b) reinstalled an approved graphics driver - installed 2 new clean versions of softimage (2014 and 2014 sp2) - runonce.bat (all all versions) - nothing showed up that i saw - launched xsibatch.. it worked i also tried the process manager... but.. i couldnt find anything outstanding.. though i admit at a certain point.. i got confused..and stopped reading thru it. thanks for anyone that can help. todd
Re: Softimage crash on startup
Stephen.. I followed those videos you did about the process manager.. and a tutorial about running a script with xsibatch..no errors at all.. it did what it was supposed to do (echoed hello) I never had mcafee or norton or any of the like on this machine.. and like i said.. until recently.. it worked fine.. i am fairly confident there is a conflict (obviously) but i cant pinpoint it at all.. which puts it just outside my wheelhouse... ill run the process manager again.. and isolate the data you indicate in your tutorial and send it to you... thank you so much for the offer. todd On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 5:42 AM, Stephen Blair stephenrbl...@gmail.com wrote: If you want, send me the Process Monitor log and I'll take a look. You could try using msconfig to do a selective startup, but you'll need to enable the right services to keep your licensing. Did you try to run a script with xsibatch? http://xsisupport.com/2012/12/12/the-case-of-mcafee-antivirus-vbscript-and-the-softimage-startup-crash/ On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 10:20 PM, todd peleg toddape...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all.. I have a machine that softimage has worked on consistently for YEARS. today... it decided to open up with this error: Failed to save scene before system failure then its gone. ive tried a ton of the troubleshooting ive found thru google searches with no success.. can anyone point me to any other options? things ive tried thus far (not in this order): - checked the registry for issues related to jscript and vbscript (nothing found) - uninstalled any newly added software - renamed the user preferences - double checked graphics driver issues by a) editing the layout file to open with the explorer rather than the view manager b) reinstalled an approved graphics driver - installed 2 new clean versions of softimage (2014 and 2014 sp2) - runonce.bat (all all versions) - nothing showed up that i saw - launched xsibatch.. it worked i also tried the process manager... but.. i couldnt find anything outstanding.. though i admit at a certain point.. i got confused..and stopped reading thru it. thanks for anyone that can help. todd
Re: League of Legends Cinematic: A New Dawn
Cheers to the artists over at Blur. Always bringing their A game and kicking some butts, with some cinematic magic. On Jul 22, 2014 12:16 PM, Jason S jasonsta...@gmail.com wrote: Although 'sharp' would definitely qualify what they do, I think blur is better (pun might have been misplaced) :] On 07/22/14 13:16, Jason S wrote: Expressions are very subtle and believable just as the character anim and dynamics are, and even in the shots with lots of action, you can still follow what's happening, unlike others so often becoming a big blur ;) On 07/22/14 12:50, Steven Caron wrote: sounds like a stretch... blur studio has traditionally used fumefx (lately some houdini) On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 9:22 AM, Sebastien Sterling sebastien.sterl...@gmail.com wrote: May we assume that some EM fluids where spilled in this making of :) ? On 22 July 2014 17:16, Eric Mootz e...@mootzoid.com wrote: really amazing work, guys On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 8:55 AM, Jeremie Passerin gerem@gmail.com wrote: Oh nice it's finally online ! Thanks for the nice comments guys. Any question about our pipeline let me know ;-)
Re: Softimage crash on startup
might be obvious, but has not been mentioned... did you remove the softimage in you home, then retart Soft? i.e C:\Users\[user]\Autodesk\Softimage_2014_SP2 Hans On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 9:39 AM, todd peleg toddape...@gmail.com wrote: Stephen.. I followed those videos you did about the process manager.. and a tutorial about running a script with xsibatch..no errors at all.. it did what it was supposed to do (echoed hello) I never had mcafee or norton or any of the like on this machine.. and like i said.. until recently.. it worked fine.. i am fairly confident there is a conflict (obviously) but i cant pinpoint it at all.. which puts it just outside my wheelhouse... ill run the process manager again.. and isolate the data you indicate in your tutorial and send it to you... thank you so much for the offer. todd On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 5:42 AM, Stephen Blair stephenrbl...@gmail.com wrote: If you want, send me the Process Monitor log and I'll take a look. You could try using msconfig to do a selective startup, but you'll need to enable the right services to keep your licensing. Did you try to run a script with xsibatch? http://xsisupport.com/2012/12/12/the-case-of-mcafee-antivirus-vbscript-and-the-softimage-startup-crash/ On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 10:20 PM, todd peleg toddape...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all.. I have a machine that softimage has worked on consistently for YEARS. today... it decided to open up with this error: Failed to save scene before system failure then its gone. ive tried a ton of the troubleshooting ive found thru google searches with no success.. can anyone point me to any other options? things ive tried thus far (not in this order): - checked the registry for issues related to jscript and vbscript (nothing found) - uninstalled any newly added software - renamed the user preferences - double checked graphics driver issues by a) editing the layout file to open with the explorer rather than the view manager b) reinstalled an approved graphics driver - installed 2 new clean versions of softimage (2014 and 2014 sp2) - runonce.bat (all all versions) - nothing showed up that i saw - launched xsibatch.. it worked i also tried the process manager... but.. i couldnt find anything outstanding.. though i admit at a certain point.. i got confused..and stopped reading thru it. thanks for anyone that can help. todd
PyQt: performing a QtSQL query in Soft
Hi List, Its been a while, I hope everyone is well. I was wondering if anyone has encountered this error and found a way around it (there was a thread a while back which had some mention of this problem, but didn't have a solution). We have been performing mySQL queries outside of soft using Qt's QSQL framework, it has been great, and today we started testing it in Softimage, and we hit a wall. When you run the widget in softimage, there are no available drivers. In Qt the SQL drivers get loaded when QApplication get initialized, and initializes the drivers. I have been trying to figure out a way of reinitializing the drivers, by calling QtCore.QCoreApplication, but this doesn't help. Any suggestions would be great. Thanks, Simon
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 consistently for YEARS. today... it decided to open up with this error: Failed to save scene before system failure then its gone. ive tried a ton of the troubleshooting ive found thru google searches with no success.. can anyone point me to any other options? things ive tried thus far (not in this order): - checked the registry for issues related to jscript and vbscript (nothing found) - uninstalled any newly added software - renamed the user preferences - double checked graphics driver issues by a) editing the layout file to open with the explorer rather than the view manager b) reinstalled an approved graphics driver - installed 2 new clean versions of softimage (2014 and 2014 sp2) - runonce.bat (all all versions) - nothing showed up that i saw - launched xsibatch.. it worked i also tried the process manager... but.. i couldnt find anything outstanding.. though i admit at a certain point.. i got confused..and stopped reading thru it. thanks for anyone that can help. todd -- *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 _ ESC*58* Eine Kooperation der escape GmbH und der FIFTYEIGHT3D GmbH _http://www.ESC58.de _
Re: PyQt: performing a QtSQL query in Soft
Hi Simon, I had a similar issue a while back and my solution included a custom batch file to set environment variable QT_PLUGIN_PATH then start Softimage. call C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Softimage 2013\Application\bin\setenv.bat set QT_PLUGIN_PATH=%XSI_HOME%\Application\python\Lib\site-packages\PyQt4\plugins start C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Softimage 2013\Application\bin\XSI.exe %* François 2014-07-23 10:17 GMT-04:00 Simon Anderson simonbenandersonl...@gmail.com: Hi List, Its been a while, I hope everyone is well. I was wondering if anyone has encountered this error and found a way around it (there was a thread a while back which had some mention of this problem, but didn't have a solution). We have been performing mySQL queries outside of soft using Qt's QSQL framework, it has been great, and today we started testing it in Softimage, and we hit a wall. When you run the widget in softimage, there are no available drivers. In Qt the SQL drivers get loaded when QApplication get initialized, and initializes the drivers. I have been trying to figure out a way of reinitializing the drivers, by calling QtCore.QCoreApplication, but this doesn't help. Any suggestions would be great. Thanks, Simon
Re: PyQt: performing a QtSQL query in Soft
have you tried adding the driver path manually (in the .conf or through qapp.AddLibraryPath( \PyQt4\plugins\sqldrivers) ) ? -- Jon Swindells jon_swinde...@fastmail.fm On Wed, Jul 23, 2014, at 05:17 PM, Simon Anderson wrote: Hi List, Its been a while, I hope everyone is well. I was wondering if anyone has encountered this error and found a way around it (there was a thread a while back which had some mention of this problem, but didn't have a solution). We have been performing mySQL queries outside of soft using Qt's QSQL framework, it has been great, and today we started testing it in Softimage, and we hit a wall. When you run the widget in softimage, there are no available drivers. In Qt the SQL drivers get loaded when QApplication get initialized, and initializes the drivers. I have been trying to figure out a way of reinitializing the drivers, by calling QtCore.QCoreApplication, but this doesn't help. Any suggestions would be great. Thanks, Simon
Re: Softimage crash on startup
yeah.. thats what i meant by removed the user preferences... i got rid of the whole directory and let it rebuild it.. but again.. a new install doesnt have any preferences.. and two new installs (fdifferent versions) wont run either t On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 10:10 AM, Hans Payer hanspa...@gmail.com wrote: might be obvious, but has not been mentioned... did you remove the softimage in you home, then retart Soft? i.e C:\Users\[user]\Autodesk\Softimage_2014_SP2 Hans On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 9:39 AM, todd peleg toddape...@gmail.com wrote: Stephen.. I followed those videos you did about the process manager.. and a tutorial about running a script with xsibatch..no errors at all.. it did what it was supposed to do (echoed hello) I never had mcafee or norton or any of the like on this machine.. and like i said.. until recently.. it worked fine.. i am fairly confident there is a conflict (obviously) but i cant pinpoint it at all.. which puts it just outside my wheelhouse... ill run the process manager again.. and isolate the data you indicate in your tutorial and send it to you... thank you so much for the offer. todd On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 5:42 AM, Stephen Blair stephenrbl...@gmail.com wrote: If you want, send me the Process Monitor log and I'll take a look. You could try using msconfig to do a selective startup, but you'll need to enable the right services to keep your licensing. Did you try to run a script with xsibatch? http://xsisupport.com/2012/12/12/the-case-of-mcafee-antivirus-vbscript-and-the-softimage-startup-crash/ On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 10:20 PM, todd peleg toddape...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all.. I have a machine that softimage has worked on consistently for YEARS. today... it decided to open up with this error: Failed to save scene before system failure then its gone. ive tried a ton of the troubleshooting ive found thru google searches with no success.. can anyone point me to any other options? things ive tried thus far (not in this order): - checked the registry for issues related to jscript and vbscript (nothing found) - uninstalled any newly added software - renamed the user preferences - double checked graphics driver issues by a) editing the layout file to open with the explorer rather than the view manager b) reinstalled an approved graphics driver - installed 2 new clean versions of softimage (2014 and 2014 sp2) - runonce.bat (all all versions) - nothing showed up that i saw - launched xsibatch.. it worked i also tried the process manager... but.. i couldnt find anything outstanding.. though i admit at a certain point.. i got confused..and stopped reading thru it. thanks for anyone that can help. todd
Re: Softimage crash on startup
I am admin on my machine.. so.. thats not an issue. t On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 11:21 AM, wavo w...@fiftyeight.com wrote: ... 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 wrote: Hi all.. I have a machine that softimage has worked on consistently for YEARS. today... it decided to open up with this error: Failed to save scene before system failure then its gone. ive tried a ton of the troubleshooting ive found thru google searches with no success.. can anyone point me to any other options? things ive tried thus far (not in this order): - checked the registry for issues related to jscript and vbscript (nothing found) - uninstalled any newly added software - renamed the user preferences - double checked graphics driver issues by a) editing the layout file to open with the explorer rather than the view manager b) reinstalled an approved graphics driver - installed 2 new clean versions of softimage (2014 and 2014 sp2) - runonce.bat (all all versions) - nothing showed up that i saw - launched xsibatch.. it worked i also tried the process manager... but.. i couldnt find anything outstanding.. though i admit at a certain point.. i got confused..and stopped reading thru it. thanks for anyone that can help. todd -- *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 w...@fiftyeight.com http://www.fiftyeight.com http://www.fiftyeight.com * ESC*58* Eine Kooperation der escape GmbH und der FIFTYEIGHT3D GmbH *http://www.ESC58.de http://www.ESC58.de *
Re: Softimage crash on startup
update: something i installed recently (not sure what) added a third party install of a program called sentori useless but stephen blair found the callreference to it.. and suggested i uninstall it. boom. fixed. he's still got it!! thanks Stephen!! and thank you everyone that replied... especially eric t... you were so close with your suggestion. todd On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 1:28 PM, todd peleg toddape...@gmail.com wrote: I am admin on my machine.. so.. thats not an issue. t On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 11:21 AM, wavo w...@fiftyeight.com wrote: ... 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 wrote: Hi all.. I have a machine that softimage has worked on consistently for YEARS. today... it decided to open up with this error: Failed to save scene before system failure then its gone. ive tried a ton of the troubleshooting ive found thru google searches with no success.. can anyone point me to any other options? things ive tried thus far (not in this order): - checked the registry for issues related to jscript and vbscript (nothing found) - uninstalled any newly added software - renamed the user preferences - double checked graphics driver issues by a) editing the layout file to open with the explorer rather than the view manager b) reinstalled an approved graphics driver - installed 2 new clean versions of softimage (2014 and 2014 sp2) - runonce.bat (all all versions) - nothing showed up that i saw - launched xsibatch.. it worked i also tried the process manager... but.. i couldnt find anything outstanding.. though i admit at a certain point.. i got confused..and stopped reading thru it. thanks for anyone that can help. todd -- *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 w...@fiftyeight.com http://www.fiftyeight.com http://www.fiftyeight.com * ESC*58* Eine Kooperation der escape GmbH und der FIFTYEIGHT3D GmbH *http://www.ESC58.de http://www.ESC58.de *
reorder vertex numbers
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
Re: Application focus ?
thanks a lot guys! I'll probably use Jon's code. 2014-07-22 18:11 GMT-03:00 Jon Swindells jon_swinde...@fastmail.fm: if si's built in events arent' cutting the proverbial mustard i'd go with simple win32 funcs. simplest possible ones i could think of: import win32gui # callback def enum_handler(hwnd, lParam): wt = win32gui.GetWindowText(hwnd) # if soft is minimized to task bar if win32gui.IsIconic(hwnd) and 'Autodesk Softimage' in wt: #if your timing is tight, probably better to use this callback # to store the pid, hwnd for future access #- _, pid = win32process.GetWindowThreadProcessId(hwnd) # although you'd still need to enum the pid-hwnd. dunno without testing print 'soft is minimized, abandon all hope!' win32gui.EnumWindows(enum_handler, None) # OR - def softimage_has_focus(): ## script editor will count as focused. probably no need to call # GetParent if running in a plug # - par_hwnd = win32gui.GetForegroundWindow() par_hwnd = win32gui.GetParent(win32gui.GetForegroundWindow()) if 'Autodesk Softimage' in win32gui.GetWindowText(par_hwnd): return True return False if softimage_has_focus(): print 'hullo Soft' -- -- Jon Swindells jon_swinde...@fastmail.fm On Tue, Jul 22, 2014, at 11:58 PM, Matt Lind wrote: The View object has an siViewState that can be checked if you can find a way to tuck your event into a PPG of some sort. Otherwise, you’re probably looking at something in the WSH (Windows Script Host) API which should be accessible from inside any scripted code. Matt *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Fabricio Chamon *Sent:* Tuesday, July 22, 2014 5:53 AM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Application focus ? Hey experts, is it possible to know wether xsi app has focus ? I have a timer script that fires up some alerts, but want to run only if softimage is not minimized. I took a look at Application object and didn't find anything related.. thanks
