RE: OT dual Xeon 1366 workstation motherboard.

2016-12-09 Thread Sam Bowling 
I already have one of those (The Z77) J I’m looking for Dual CPU motherboards.

 

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Subject: Re: OT dual Xeon 1366 workstation motherboard.

 

I rate my military spec (but gaming) sabretooth motherboard, still going strong 
4 years in https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/SABERTOOTH_X58/ 

 

On 9 December 2016 at 03:13, Sam Bowling  wrote:

I’m in the process of replacing my 2010 mac pro with a windows system because 
Sierra is the biggest pile of crap OS I’ve ever used. I’m planning on putting 
together a dual 6 core LGA 1366 system using two Xeon 3.6 cpus. I’m also 
planning on having about 12TB (about 6-8 drives) of storage since I can no 
longer index/reliably search external NAS systems on any of the major operating 
systems (my NAS will only be used for backups in the future). I have a single 
core supermicro motherboard in my FreeNAS system, but it’s extremely slow to 
boot up and I don’t know how well a supermicro or any server motherboard would 
work with or fit a large GeForce video card as a workstation. If anyone has any 
recommendations on a reliable dual lga 1366 motherboard that is not proprietary 
like Dell or HP I would really appreciate it. 


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Re: Preserve UV methods after PolygonMesh.Set()

2016-12-09 Thread Matt Lind 
I don't have time to commit to discussion right now as I'm studying for 
final exams, but I thought I'd mention a few things:

1) As established earlier, custom topology operators are NOT officially 
supported in the Softimage SDK.  You might be able to create a custom 
topology operator to work for a specific use case, but it is not supported 
for the general case.  So don't be surprised if you cannot solve certain 
problems.

2) Try defining all your port connections explicitly as input or output, 
don't mix n' match between explicit ports and the combined IOPort.

3) Make sure to define all your output ports before defining any input 
ports.

4) Try defining fixed port index values for your connections, listing your 
output ports first.

These may sound like splitting hairs, but when you're dealing with an 
incomplete system, you must try all options.  I've often found subtle 
differences in implementations are often the difference between something 
that works vs. something that doesn't.  It can be a hair pulling experience, 
but if you find a solution, then it's worth it.

Matt




Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2016 14:20:19 +0300
From: Andrew Prostrelov 
Subject: Re: Preserve UV methods after PolygonMesh.Set()
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com


X

  Dear Santa,
  I've been good all year.
  Most of the time.
  Once in a while, never mind.
  All year i spent my work and free time to make XSI modelling tools
more interactive and usable.
  Somehow i manage to finish about 3 tools in this year and bunch of
small scripts
  Its only two tools left and toolset would be finished and ready to
release.
  First one of unfinished tools is Multicut. And, since i'am not a TD
or TA, it took me about
  4 month of work to get to the stage where i am at now. And it's been
a month since i stuck and
  have no progress or changes. And i'm afraid that this Multicut tool
will end up unreleased and unusable
  only because there is native packet bug there(or limitations i'm not
sure how to call it).
  So Santa for this Christmas all i want is to find some way, trick,
workaround, hook, anything
  that force "always complete" XSI Clusters to receive new components
from PolygonMesh.Get processing.
  Oh, and the second one tool is about XSI Retopology.

  Andrew.

X


Ok. End of jokes here.
All entry stuff you can get from dialog above that we have with Matt.
So, to be more object oriented here is test stuff (11MB):
https://www.dropbox.com/s/m9sfrn8v3ajgd1d/myTest.zip?dl=0

The test scene "myTestScene.scn":
Its a simple 3x3 grid.

The test VS2013 Project "myTest.sln":
This project already have compilated to "myTest.dll" in nt-x86-64
directory.
This plugin deliver CustomCommand "myTestStart" and CustomOperator
"myTest".


Now all that you should do is:
01. open myTestScene.scn
02. load plugin myTest.dll to XSI
03. select grid in object mode (there is no need to select components all
stuff is hardcoded)
04. apply myTestStart CustomCommand to this object

As result you end up with additional edge added to source grid, two
clusters (Point and Sample) and myTest Operator in modeling stack.
Now if you dig through this Operator connections you find that Operator
have next ports:
OUT  polygon mesh
IN  polygon mesh
INcomponents cluster
INsamples cluster
I connected this Operator ports a lot of ways - there is no difference. I
mean, Clusters are not updating anyway.

Now if you look to the ScriptEditor Log, clusters are "always complete".
But if you look to the Cluster components array through  SDK_Explorer (or
simply by selecting them)
you can see that this both Clusters do not have new edge vertices and
samples.
Thats the problem ! That's what holds me up from finishing this Multicut
tool.

And here is a short video of all this test process:
https://youtu.be/5eAo5bD_bQM
No babbling speeches only music ) 


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Friday Flashback #289

2016-12-09 Thread Stephen Blair 
Softimage 1999 demo reel
* edited with Avid SOFTIMAGE|DS

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Re: Softimage 2015

2016-12-09 Thread Tenshi Sama 
As for a i know, there ins't one.

I think there's some "license" issue between both, but i'm not sure.

On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 10:20 AM, Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES II] <
j.ponthi...@nasa.gov> wrote:

> Hello,
>
>
>
> Is there any difference between Softimage 2015 SP2 and Softimage 2015 R2
> SP2. If so what? And which is the most stable?
>
>
>
>
>
> Joey Ponthieux
>
> LaRC Information Technology Enhanced Services (LITES II)
>
> Science Systems and Applications Inc. (SSAI)
>
> NASA Langley Research Center
>
> __
>
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>
> represent the opinions of NASA or any other party.
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>
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Softimage 2015

2016-12-09 Thread Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES II] 
Hello,

Is there any difference between Softimage 2015 SP2 and Softimage 2015 R2 SP2. 
If so what? And which is the most stable?


Joey Ponthieux
LaRC Information Technology Enhanced Services (LITES II)
Science Systems and Applications Inc. (SSAI)
NASA Langley Research Center
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Re: Preserve UV methods after PolygonMesh.Set()

2016-12-09 Thread Andrew Prostrelov 
X

  Dear Santa,
  I've been good all year.
  Most of the time.
  Once in a while, never mind.
  All year i spent my work and free time to make XSI modelling tools
more interactive and usable.
  Somehow i manage to finish about 3 tools in this year and bunch of
small scripts
  Its only two tools left and toolset would be finished and ready to
release.
  First one of unfinished tools is Multicut. And, since i'am not a TD
or TA, it took me about
  4 month of work to get to the stage where i am at now. And it's been
a month since i stuck and
  have no progress or changes. And i'm afraid that this Multicut tool
will end up unreleased and unusable
  only because there is native packet bug there(or limitations i'm not
sure how to call it).
  So Santa for this Christmas all i want is to find some way, trick,
workaround, hook, anything
  that force "always complete" XSI Clusters to receive new components
from PolygonMesh.Get processing.
  Oh, and the second one tool is about XSI Retopology.

  Andrew.

X


Ok. End of jokes here.
All entry stuff you can get from dialog above that we have with Matt.
So, to be more object oriented here is test stuff (11MB):
https://www.dropbox.com/s/m9sfrn8v3ajgd1d/myTest.zip?dl=0

The test scene "myTestScene.scn":
Its a simple 3x3 grid.

The test VS2013 Project "myTest.sln":
This project already have compilated to "myTest.dll" in nt-x86-64
directory.
This plugin deliver CustomCommand "myTestStart" and CustomOperator
"myTest".


Now all that you should do is:
01. open myTestScene.scn
02. load plugin myTest.dll to XSI
03. select grid in object mode (there is no need to select components all
stuff is hardcoded)
04. apply myTestStart CustomCommand to this object

As result you end up with additional edge added to source grid, two
clusters (Point and Sample) and myTest Operator in modeling stack.
Now if you dig through this Operator connections you find that Operator
have next ports:
OUT  polygon mesh
IN  polygon mesh
INcomponents cluster
INsamples cluster
I connected this Operator ports a lot of ways - there is no difference. I
mean, Clusters are not updating anyway.

Now if you look to the ScriptEditor Log, clusters are "always complete".
But if you look to the Cluster components array through  SDK_Explorer (or
simply by selecting them)
you can see that this both Clusters do not have new edge vertices and
samples.
Thats the problem ! That's what holds me up from finishing this Multicut
tool.

And here is a short video of all this test process:
https://youtu.be/5eAo5bD_bQM
No babbling speeches only music )
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Re: OT dual Xeon 1366 workstation motherboard.

2016-12-09 Thread Rob Chapman 
I rate my military spec (but gaming) sabretooth motherboard, still going
strong 4 years in https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/SABERTOOTH_X58/

On 9 December 2016 at 03:13, Sam Bowling  wrote:

> I’m in the process of replacing my 2010 mac pro with a windows system
> because Sierra is the biggest pile of crap OS I’ve ever used. I’m planning
> on putting together a dual 6 core LGA 1366 system using two Xeon 3.6 cpus.
> I’m also planning on having about 12TB (about 6-8 drives) of storage since
> I can no longer index/reliably search external NAS systems on any of the
> major operating systems (my NAS will only be used for backups in the
> future). I have a single core supermicro motherboard in my FreeNAS system,
> but it’s extremely slow to boot up and I don’t know how well a supermicro
> or any server motherboard would work with or fit a large GeForce video card
> as a workstation. If anyone has any recommendations on a reliable dual lga
> 1366 motherboard that is not proprietary like Dell or HP I would really
> appreciate it.
>
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