Wacom tablet in Softimage
Hey guys, does someone know where we could find the content of the article Luc-Eric wrote a while ago? - Problems using Wacom tablets with Softimage? See Workaround for Problem with Wacom Tablets and Softimagehttp://www.softimageblog.com/archives/546 . This link is dead unfortunately, and we have some issues at the moment with Wacom on Linux with heavy scenes. Any info of how to resolve freezes or lags would be really appreciated. Thank you! -- Xavier
Re: Wacom tablet in Softimage
Hm ... okay then. Thanks Luc-Eric
Re: Wacom tablet in Softimage
Oh don't get me wrong, it works perfectly most of the time. Just that we have some memory intensive scenes atm and for some reasons it get stuck. They get can unstuck by using the mouse, but still pretty annoying. I think their next test will be disabling the pressure sensitivity and see if that helps. Cheers
Re: Soft 2014 in Linux is always-on-top?
I had that issue once in a while but wasn't consistent between working sessions. Another one I had was the inability to resize the XSI window. Reopening XSI would fix that though. That thing disappeared with the new qfe. Maybe just make sure of the usual thing.. 'always on top' isn't checked, tried resetting your prefs or trash the mainwin folder if you haven't done that already?
Re: Soft 2014 in Linux is always-on-top?
As far as I remember Alan is surrounded by animators. In order to understand and control foreign species you have to behave like one!
Re: Soft 2014 in Linux is always-on-top?
Oh crap ...
Graphic Sequencer GetViewportSize issue
Hey guys, I was wondering if anybody had issues with getting the right ViewPort size when dealing with a custom layout in XSI? We found that it would return the size of one of the 4 viewports even though it would be maximized or resized. 1 or 2 workaround was to either switch the layout and come back to the custom one, or go in Layout Edit mode and exit. It might have triggered a refresh of some sort. The custom layouts are nothing fancy. Anyhow, a suitable workaround turn out to be using OpenGL itself (thanks Christian): Area viewportArea; GLint viewport[4]; glGetIntegerv(GL_VIEWPORT, viewport); viewportArea.offsetX = CValue(viewport[0]); viewportArea.offsetY = CValue(viewport[1]); viewportArea.sizeX = CValue(viewport[2]); viewportArea.sizeY = CValue(viewport[3]); .. but still wondering if it's a known issue or should send a repro case. Cheers -- Xavier
Re: LEGO - the Movie Trailer
:D
Re: unloading a plugin, recompiling and reloading it in softimage.
http://www.christophercrouzet.com/resources_CC_runOnce.php
Re: Slow Reading / Writing Envelope.Weights.Array
Or our lovely RunSnakeRun (cProfile like Bartosz mentioned): http://www.vrplumber.com/programming/runsnakerun/
Re: Looking for Autodesk high-res logos
Have you tried drag n dropping a smaller version of the logos in images.google.com? It'll search for similar images in all format .. maybe you can get lucky (no pun intended) and find a higher res by tweaking the search options. Cheers
Re: PyQtForSoftimage: Input Method Hints working okay for QLineEdits?
Or you could use the QDoubleValidator? http://pyqt.sourceforge.net/Docs/PyQt4/qdoublevalidator.html
Re: PyQtForSoftimage with PySide support
For windows binaries, this website is quite awesome: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#pyside Haven't tried their installer though for Pyside, so no idea if it includes Shiboken or not.
Re: WWD the 3D movie
One of your best client! :D
Re: WWD the 3D movie
Fair enough q:
Re: Saving Delta Objects as EMDL ?
Filter acquired. Applying filter. *Wooosh*
Re: Saving Delta Objects as EMDL ?
http://thedailywtf.com/
Re: [Pool] Any interest for a grease pencil tool?
http://www.indiegogo.com/ ? On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Ahmidou Lyazidi ahmidou@gmail.comwrote: That's a good idea! Kickstarter is for US or UK resident only, what would be the best worldwide alternative? --- Ahmidou Lyazidi Director | TD | CG artist http://vimeo.com/ahmidou/videos 2013/4/16 Raffaele Fragapane raffsxsil...@googlemail.com kickstart it for 10 bucks a pop for late delivery, 20 for early beta, and 200 for a studio seat and you might pre-pay it, and gauge actual interest over lip service :) On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 5:08 AM, Prodeep Ghosh prodeepgh...@gmail.comwrote: Congratulations Ahmidou, pull out that golden egg quick, its pre-sold!:) On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 10:24 PM, Enrique Caballero enriquecaball...@gmail.com wrote: seriously, please make it. im sick of hearing them complain about it. On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 12:52 AM, Enrique Caballero enriquecaball...@gmail.com wrote: every animator at our studio has asked for it, if you make it, we would happily pay 50 bux a seat for it On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Ahmidou Lyazidi ahmidou@gmail.com wrote: Thanks everyone for the links and the ideas! As Steven said, it's going to be a custom tool, the only element in the scene will be a blob and everything will be draw in openGl. It will probably be around 15$. Also I have have a Maya Artisan like paint almost working with undo ( thanks Aloys and Felix for the tips). I'm trying to see how I can speed up things now. This one will be free :) Cheers --- Ahmidou Lyazidi Director | TD | CG artist http://vimeo.com/ahmidou/videos 2013/4/14 Steven Caron car...@gmail.com i think the one ahmidou is proposing would use the custom tool sdk. this means it wouldn't use curves in the scene like thiago's does. On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Toonafish ron...@toonafish.nlwrote: I think Thiago Costa already made one a while ago : http://thiagocosta.net/tc-**sketch-v11-grease-pencil-for-**xsi/http://thiagocosta.net/tc-sketch-v11-grease-pencil-for-xsi/ -- Prodeep Ghosh -- Our users will know fear and cower before our software! Ship it! Ship it and let them flee like the dogs they are! -- Xavier
Re: Custom Documentation
You can set the .Help attribute in your registration method (I think it's .Help .. might be something else; look up the ppg examples) reg.Help = 'Path to your html help'
Re: Custom Documentation
AAAhhh, sorry Alok, just saw your reply. -__- On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Xavier Lapointe xl.mailingl...@gmail.comwrote: You can set the .Help attribute in your registration method (I think it's .Help .. might be something else; look up the ppg examples) reg.Help = 'Path to your html help' -- Xavier
Re: Custom Documentation
I don't have xsi in front of me, but you can have a look if you right click/properties on your custom compound..
Re: Exocortex Species 1.6 Released
Mind the gap
Re: set raycast direction with a Null?
If Raff had been involved in the writing process, it would have been quite interesting q: On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Sam sbowl...@cox.net wrote: Thanks Raff. I understand about the problem with Piracy, but some of the players these guys come up with are truly terrible and make it very difficult to navigate the videos. That’s my only real concern with streaming, well, that and if my internet goes out in middle of me watching the video. ** ** I loved the visuals in Sucker Punch, but I did think the story could have been better. It is still worth watching, just for the amazing visuals. ** ** ** ** *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Raffaele Fragapane *Sent:* Monday, April 08, 2013 11:22 PM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Re: set raycast direction with a Null? ** ** You can get in touch with CGS to get confirmation, but I suspect they are streaming only. They had several workshops truly crippled by piracy, and since they moved to a new framework they actually did see a surge in sales and some workshops haven't appeared on the piratesphere at all, so I doubt they will revert that decision. I asked for mine to be downloadable actually, but as it's the same framework for everything it wasn't possible to make exception. The player is good though, it's a thin wrapper of Vimeo's, so is the hosting. Again, can't speak for them, but I'd be surprised if they were still downloadable (the originals were as I had control over the html pages wrapping them and I intentionally made the links solvable :) ). The dragon is from Zack Snyder's Sucker Punch. I was character supervisor on AL's work for it. The movie was meh, but you don't get to do dragons setting crowds in armor on fire on a collapsing bridge while chasing a refitted WW2 bomber everyday, so I can't complain for having worked on it :p ** ** On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Sam sbowl...@cox.net wrote: Thanks for the pointers. Raff’s course looks very good (what’s the dragon from?). Is the CGsociety an online only course or can the videos be downloaded? CMIVFX really turned me off to online training. I find their video payer to be terrible and just can’t get myself to watch the two video I bought from them (which would be handy because they are both about ICE). *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Andy Moorer *Sent:* Sunday, April 07, 2013 7:30 PM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Re: set raycast direction with a Null? I guess my biggest problem is that I don’t know what I need to know, which makes it hard to find answers. I search the internet when I get stuck, but there seems to be little out there when it comes to my specific problems. Anyway, that Kahn Academy is very cool. I had never heard of it before, but it looks like it will be very useful. A little trig and linear algebra will take you quite a long way. By the way, he's too polite to point it out but Raff's CGsociety online technical direction with Python training has a very nice section on math. ** ** BTW, this is the result of my ICE experiments (if anyone is interested in it). It’s similar to what was done in one of the Modo 7 videos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNXQn9KbIBQ Sorry about the crappy quality, I have to experiment with my YouTube upload settings. Very nice! I urge you to post on Vimeo, and follow Alan's Softimage ice user's group there - it seems to have become the defacto place for Softimage folks to see and share and there is a rather impressive volume of ICE work there.** ** -- Our users will know fear and cower before our software! Ship it! Ship it and let them flee like the dogs they are! -- Xavier
Re: New ww.Lagoa.com
I'll make sure to forward this. Thanks! On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Thiago Costa thiagocost...@gmail.comwrote: Hi guys, good points. As Raff and Alan pointed out, these things are quite standard to operate the kind of service we do. Xavier, you didn't paste the full clause, it reads: As between You and Lagoa, Lagoa does not claim any rights to any Renderings or the intellectual property that You submit to Lagoa for the purpose of creating such Renderings, *For clarity: Lagoa makes no claim over the ownership of the content nor the Renderings; we agree that you are the owner of the content that you create. *In this section, we receive a license to use the data you submit to make, among other things, the Renderings that we are promising to make in the agreement. Without this license, we might not have the right to create the Renderings using the data that you submit and the functions conducted by our servers. If you wanted us to display your Renderings (so that others could view your work), we could not do so without this license. To protect peoples interests, we also added that there are limits to what we can do with the Renderings you create. First, we cannot use the Renderings beyond the privacy settings that you have agreed to. If the content is made private for example we will not display it to anyone other than who you decide to give access to. Second – if you are not a paying customer – we can sublicense more broadly, but only for certain purposes (to promote Lagoa, Lagoa’s models, Lagoa’s services, or you) and only for a limited period of time. So it's quite clear what we do. In other words, we need this clause to operate our service. We give some free storage and some free rendering, and the only way that we plan to use the content (created by our community) is to help the community itself to grow. There are no hidden intentions here and we respect people's privacy. In fact we have some real costumers doing real work in the system – it's been awhile. So it's not like this is a new attempt. It's something proven to work and for some really large companies. I hope that clarifies everything. thanks, -Thiago On 3 April 2013 17:38, Xavier Lapointe xl.mailingl...@gmail.com wrote: I would think it's worth clarifying, because some people seems to be interpreting the wrong way what it actually is. On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 8:09 AM, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.comwrote: Even a simple service like Dropbox needs legal BS like that just so they can legally produce a thumbnail of a picture in your folders in the web view. They got in trouble a while back when someone saw their wording, but they clarified it later. (Lagoa should probably clarify their stance also.) On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 12:34 AM, Xavier Lapointe xl.mailingl...@gmail.com wrote: I'm no expert in this so I was just forwarding the response ... from what you've just said it makes sense. And yes, I've no doubt on Thiago q : Cheers On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Raffaele Fragapane raffsxsil...@googlemail.com wrote: It's pretty standard legal BS for any cloud service, without it they could be sued for holding onto the files they need to render for you with the back-end. I very, very seriously doubt Thiago plans to use without permission any of the material rendered through teamUp for promotion or sales, but the gray area of cloud services requires some rather (overly) robust wording on the fact they have rights on the information you provide. They don't acquire the IP or license for distribution in any form with that, those are the clauses you really have to watch out for. The former is impossible (illegal) but constitutes vice of form, the latter can plant a sizeable penis firmly up your colon, especially if you're contracting. On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Xavier Lapointe xl.mailingl...@gmail.com wrote: More specifically this paragraph: You hereby grant to Lagoa a non-exclusive, royalty free, paid up, worldwide, sublicensable (but only to affiliates of Lagoa) right and license to use the information that you submit as part of the Services to copy, create, make derivative works of, display, or publicly perform the Renderings or any component thereof, provided that Lagoa shall not use the Renderings beyond the Privacy Settings that You and Lagoa have agreed to as part of the Scope of Services, and provided, further, that the license to any Renderings you have created until such time as you have paid Lagoa for use of the Services shall be irrevocable and freely sublicensable as long as such use of the Renderings is limited to the purposes of promoting Lagoa, Lagoa’s models, Lagoa’s services, or You, as the artist thereof, from the creation of such Renderings until the date that is six (6) months after the expiration or termination of your subscription to the Services. You authorize Lagoa, on a royalty-free basis
Re: New ww.Lagoa.com
I would think it's worth clarifying, because some people seems to be interpreting the wrong way what it actually is. On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 8:09 AM, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.comwrote: Even a simple service like Dropbox needs legal BS like that just so they can legally produce a thumbnail of a picture in your folders in the web view. They got in trouble a while back when someone saw their wording, but they clarified it later. (Lagoa should probably clarify their stance also.) On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 12:34 AM, Xavier Lapointe xl.mailingl...@gmail.com wrote: I'm no expert in this so I was just forwarding the response ... from what you've just said it makes sense. And yes, I've no doubt on Thiago q : Cheers On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Raffaele Fragapane raffsxsil...@googlemail.com wrote: It's pretty standard legal BS for any cloud service, without it they could be sued for holding onto the files they need to render for you with the back-end. I very, very seriously doubt Thiago plans to use without permission any of the material rendered through teamUp for promotion or sales, but the gray area of cloud services requires some rather (overly) robust wording on the fact they have rights on the information you provide. They don't acquire the IP or license for distribution in any form with that, those are the clauses you really have to watch out for. The former is impossible (illegal) but constitutes vice of form, the latter can plant a sizeable penis firmly up your colon, especially if you're contracting. On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Xavier Lapointe xl.mailingl...@gmail.com wrote: More specifically this paragraph: You hereby grant to Lagoa a non-exclusive, royalty free, paid up, worldwide, sublicensable (but only to affiliates of Lagoa) right and license to use the information that you submit as part of the Services to copy, create, make derivative works of, display, or publicly perform the Renderings or any component thereof, provided that Lagoa shall not use the Renderings beyond the Privacy Settings that You and Lagoa have agreed to as part of the Scope of Services, and provided, further, that the license to any Renderings you have created until such time as you have paid Lagoa for use of the Services shall be irrevocable and freely sublicensable as long as such use of the Renderings is limited to the purposes of promoting Lagoa, Lagoa’s models, Lagoa’s services, or You, as the artist thereof, from the creation of such Renderings until the date that is six (6) months after the expiration or termination of your subscription to the Services. You authorize Lagoa, on a royalty-free basis, to use and exploit any aggregated data regarding your use of the Services along with aggregated data regarding others users’ use of the Services, so long as such use does not identify You. -- Our users will know fear and cower before our software! Ship it! Ship it and let them flee like the dogs they are! -- Xavier -- Xavier
Re: Softimage (Linux) 2013 startup slowness, wth?
Or the environment is not the same and XSI is scanning the whole network for workgroups (I've seen it happened). You can verify that by running an strace on your pid. Cheers On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 3:08 AM, Angus Davidson angus.david...@wits.ac.zawrote: Hi Alan We had a similar problem a while ago. Linux Mint setup. In our case it was because sometimes our client machine was unable for some unknown reason to find the license server. Eventually hard coding the ip address by way of putting it in the /etc/hosts file fixed it up.. Unfortunately we never really resolved what was causing the network issues as we were just doing some testing and reformatted the machine a month later. Perhaps try a traceroute on the license server to see if its coming up as it should. Kind regards Angus -- *From:* Alan Fregtman [alan.fregt...@gmail.com] *Sent:* 03 April 2013 05:43 PM *To:* XSI Mailing List *Subject:* Softimage (Linux) 2013 startup slowness, wth? Hey guys, Does anyone know if anything changed in 2013 from 2012 that would cause ridiculous startup slowdowns? At work we have CentOS 6.3. In my particular box 2012 starts relatively fast, but 2013 hangs for a very VERY long time (20 minutes to several hours sometimes) before showing me a working UI. Both use the same workgroups. 2013 is mostly idle while this happens. Little to no CPU usage. It's as if it's waiting for something. They reimaged my OS once and it briefly seemed fixed but the issue returned. On other computers I don't get such a drastic slowdown, so I'm inclined to think it's not something to do with my home folder. Also one time for kicks we updated everything (to CentOS 6.4 with all the updates) and then it was roughly the same speed between versions again. I could do this again but then I'm the only one who's updated and we're trying to keep boxes consistent. Also other people have logged on here and they too experience crazy slow startups, so it's not just my user. Anybody have any idea what sort of madness is messing with my 2013 startup? What could be so different?! Any pointers appreciated. Cheers, -- Alan This communication is intended for the addressee only. It is confidential. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately and destroy the original message. You may not copy or disseminate this communication without the permission of the University. Only authorised signatories are competent to enter into agreements on behalf of the University and recipients are thus advised that the content of this message may not be legally binding on the University and may contain the personal views and opinions of the author, which are not necessarily the views and opinions of The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. All agreements between the University and outsiders are subject to South African Law unless the University agrees in writing to the contrary. ** -- Xavier
Re: New ww.Lagoa.com
I'm no expert in this so I was just forwarding the response ... from what you've just said it makes sense. And yes, I've no doubt on Thiago q : Cheers On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Raffaele Fragapane raffsxsil...@googlemail.com wrote: It's pretty standard legal BS for any cloud service, without it they could be sued for holding onto the files they need to render for you with the back-end. I very, very seriously doubt Thiago plans to use without permission any of the material rendered through teamUp for promotion or sales, but the gray area of cloud services requires some rather (overly) robust wording on the fact they have rights on the information you provide. They don't acquire the IP or license for distribution in any form with that, those are the clauses you really have to watch out for. The former is impossible (illegal) but constitutes vice of form, the latter can plant a sizeable penis firmly up your colon, especially if you're contracting. On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Xavier Lapointe xl.mailingl...@gmail.comwrote: More specifically this paragraph: You hereby grant to Lagoa a non-exclusive, royalty free, paid up, worldwide, sublicensable (but only to affiliates of Lagoa) right and license to use the information that you submit as part of the Services to copy, create, make derivative works of, display, or publicly perform the Renderings or any component thereof, provided that Lagoa shall not use the Renderings beyond the Privacy Settings that You and Lagoa have agreed to as part of the Scope of Services, and provided, further, that the license to any Renderings you have created until such time as you have paid Lagoa for use of the Services shall be irrevocable and freely sublicensable as long as such use of the Renderings is limited to the purposes of promoting Lagoa, Lagoa’s models, Lagoa’s services, or You, as the artist thereof, from the creation of such Renderings until the date that is six (6) months after the expiration or termination of your subscription to the Services. You authorize Lagoa, on a royalty-free basis, to use and exploit any aggregated data regarding your use of the Services along with aggregated data regarding others users’ use of the Services, so long as such use does not identify You. -- Our users will know fear and cower before our software! Ship it! Ship it and let them flee like the dogs they are! -- Xavier
Re: GridData crashing in PPG?
Until someone respond (if anyone had that issue) ... what kind of data do you store in the GridData? Can you provide a snippet so we can try to reproduce it? Does it happen on XSI 64bit (if you have it installed)?
Re: GridData crashing in PPG?
Alright, from there, can you log anything in the PPG OnClosed? If you can reach that point, maybe you can manually check the data, or unset the DataGrid data. Doesn't fix the bug, but might avoid a crash? Good luck with that.
Re: Autodesk contest - all USA and Canada but not Quebec...
It would be a pain in the ass to deal with Lotto Quebec, because they would need to get a percentage out of it, or something alike. Apple are going through the same issue, as everybody who'd like to have Quebec citizen participating. Stupid law (PQ/PLQ are the same crap anyway on the long run when it comes to legislation).
Re: Autodesk contest - all USA and Canada but not Quebec...
* Just mentioning Apple because it's another big player who don't really do anything about it. Sucks to be us. On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Xavier Lapointe xl.mailingl...@gmail.comwrote: It would be a pain in the ass to deal with Lotto Quebec, because they would need to get a percentage out of it, or something alike. Apple are going through the same issue, as everybody who'd like to have Quebec citizen participating. Stupid law (PQ/PLQ are the same crap anyway on the long run when it comes to legislation). -- Xavier
Re: PyQT for Softimage: problem with QIcons?
Hey Philipp, you might want to make sure that your path is ok (file exists and so on), and maybe try using *addFilehttp://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qicon.html#addFile *on your QIcon object ... I doubt that might be the case, bus maybe you need to cast your path to a QString *QIcon http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qicon.html#QIcon-4* ( const QString *fileName* )? Cheers On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 8:50 AM, Simon Anderson simonbenandersonl...@gmail.com wrote: Currently at work, I can see if I can get an icon showing when im home, but I do remember us having icons on our buttons. On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 6:07 AM, philipp.oeser philipp.oe...@nhb.dewrote: ** Hi list, first of all: thanx again for bringing PyQT to Softimage! (it's just so much nicer to be able to do UIs for SI, Nuke and Maya in _one_ go :)) But: I was wondering if someone else is having trouble getting QIcons to show in PyQT for Softimage? I have some code that runs fine in Maya and Nuke (it shows the icons with QStandardItems in a QTreeView) but the exact same code/ui-file just doesnt show the Icons in Softimage... === something like this === oTasksModel = QtGui.QStandardItemModel() oRootItem = oTasksModel.invisibleRootItem() self.ui.UI_tv_Tasks.setModel(oTasksModel) sTask = 'taskname' oTaskItem = QtGui.QStandardItem(sTask) sFullPath = 'validpath' oIcon = QtGui.QIcon(sFullPath) oTaskItem.setIcon(oIcon) # it seems to be taken, if you print out oTaskItem.icon(), it will print # PyQt4.QtGui.QIcon object at 0x000 oRootItem.appendRow(oTaskItem) == Has this been done succesfully? Or can someone confirm it is not working? Should I dig deeper? Thanx in advance Philipp P.S. using PyQt-Py2.6-x64-gpl-4.9.5-1 and PyQtForSoftimage_beta5 -- --- Simon Ben Anderson blog: http://vinyldevelopment.wordpress.com/ -- Xavier
Re: Friday Flashback #102
Oh yeah ... remember that one.
Re: Retrieve the Viewport information from within a Display/Viewport Callback
You're right, but for now it's for pretty much all mode. Was just wondering since we can call GetCamerahttp://download.autodesk.com/global/docs/softimage2012/en_us/sdkguide/si_cpp/classXSI_1_1CGraphicSequencer.html#a343f93243a75251bd8bb41a94fd3c1ad and GetViewportSizehttp://download.autodesk.com/global/docs/softimage2012/en_us/sdkguide/si_cpp/classXSI_1_1CGraphicSequencer.html#abe1c76a690b9e566bd29d69229d00dc4, is there would be any way of accessing the View. Thanks (:
Re: Retrieve the Viewport information from within a Display/Viewport Callback
... and my bad for all the typos. My attention span has just dropped quite a bit. is there would be any way of accessing the View = *if* there would be any way of accessing the View*
Re: Retrieve the Viewport information from within a Display/Viewport Callback
But now that you mention this, maybe I should set the mode from siAll to siCustom and set the Callback on that one. Although I'm not quite sure how to do that yet. Any pointers would be appreciated!
Re: Retrieve the Viewport information from within a Display/Viewport Callback
That makes a lot of sense, and probably more suitable as well. Will give that a shot. Thanks Steven!
Re: PyQt Softimage Linux?
There's no way to use PyQtForSoftimage in linux since it relies on windows, and on linux you need pyqt/Qt that is compatible with the python version. But to be honest I'm not entirely sure about this, just what I've seen so far points in that direction. Anyway .. On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Steven Caron car...@gmail.com wrote: i dont follow... PyQtForSoftimage plugin isn't linking against python. so the plugin itself cares not about your python version. what is important would be the version of Qt libraries you link against. that version should probably match the version of PyQt your are using. do you mean getting a version of PyQt that works for python 2.5? cause that might be difficult. On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Xavier Lapointe xl.mailingl...@gmail.com wrote: The other issue is also to compile PyQt for Softimage using python 2.5 ( until they update on linux (: ), but meh. Meant to give it a shot, and finally ended up working in the same shop as Aloys so it became useless q: -- Xavier
Re: FBX I/O camera weirdness
It's been a while since I touched fbx ( :D ), but I remember having that kind of issue and it was somehow related to the fbx/crosswalk version. Using an older one would avoid weird behaviour (Something like 2010 .. ). Or at least the same version between Maya and Soft ... is that the case?
Re: Symbol Uses
http://goo.gl/yjZEq On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Fx Person fxper...@rocketmail.com wrote: Didn't know Mr. Mootz also developed characters. ;p And how did you type that? Skimmed through every page of the charmap! Seems to also be an en dash the width of an n as opposed to an m So the following are various uses for the mutton (funny word) quoted from here http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/dashes.asp * An em dash is the width of an m. Use an em dash sparingly in formal writing. In informal writing, em dashes may replace commas, semicolons, colons, and parentheses to indicate added emphasis, an interruption, or an abrupt change of thought.* * * -- *From:* Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.com ** That would be the em dash or mutton (though I've never seen or heard it called the latter.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Em_dash#Em_dash And an em? It's a typographical unit of measurement and the — dash is in fact 1em unit in width for any given font size (which by the way is measured in units called points.) A — dash at font size 14 is 14 points (pt) wide, for example. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Em_%28typography%29 But what are points you ask? Twelfths of a pica which itself is 1/72th of 1 foot, or 1/6th of an inch, or my prefered answer, very small. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_%28typography%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pica_%28typography%29 So now you know how dashes and font sizes relates to some british king's feet size. Who knew, right?! On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Fx Person fxper...@rocketmail.com wrote: By the name of it, I was expecting like a squished little circle lol! Of course I've seen that a bunch of times, but thought it was more to express like etcetera I'll also look-up what's the long dash also briefly referenced in the article (about the three little dots) And guess I was missing a dot :) -- *From:* Stephen Blair stephenrbl...@gmail.com ** Hi In English writing, especially in e-mail messages, an ellipsis is used to indicate a pause or a falter, or a trailing off ... http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/ellipsis.aspx http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellipsis On 07/01/2013 12:10 PM, Fx Person wrote: Hi Brent, As for the punctuation, perhaps. The double dots .. are meant to act like “long pauses” to which I’m not aware of a standard way of expressing that. I have seen the extended(long) dash used as such, though not exactly, I actually didn’t find it in the Character Map. -- Xavier
Re: Symbol Uses
Sorry, that was a bit evasive. Would be nice to not start a new thread in this particular case, unless you absolutely want to start a new one. Cheers
Re: Last day at Animal Logic
There's a smell of bromance all over this thread. Miss you Wookie!
Re: scripting object view cameras
If you look in the doc for the Object View Attributes you should have
everything you need there (Like GetAttributeValue('camera') ).
Re: scripting object view cameras
Welcome (: ... the recent experience I had with this wasn't super fun. You can Get and Set attributes, but the best thing in the end was to create a real camera and set the Object View to use that one. At least you have control over it and it's easily accessible. The other one is internal I think and not easy to deal with ... hope someone can prove me wrong. Cheers
Re: Anyone using Shotgun Python API with Softimage 2013 Linux?
Still less hacky-ish than what I was talking above q:
Great solution, thanks for sharing (:
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 10:35 PM, Aloys Baillet aloys.bail...@gmail.comwrote:
Hi,
We have worked around this by taking the libssl and libcrypto from a
CentOS 5.3 machine and put it in the Application/bin folder...
Quite hacky but does the job.
Cheers,
Aloys
On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Xavier Lapointe xl.mailingl...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Xavier Lapointe
xl.mailingl...@gmail.com wrote:
The issue is that hashlib in python 2.5 that ships with Soft on Linux
is using the compiled library (import *_*md5).
^^ I meant it's *trying* to use the compiled library.
If you look at how hashlib is geared (Application/bin/lib/python2.5),
it's actually trying to use openssl when initiating a secured connexion
with Shotgun and then:
except ImportError:
# We don't have the _hashlib OpenSSL module?
# use the built in legacy interfaces via a wrapper function
new = __py_new
# lookup the C function to use directly for the named constructors
md5 = __get_builtin_constructor('md5')
OpenSSL is not part if the python2.5 build in Softimage, then it's trying
to use the compiled md5 module, fail to retrieve it and raise.
--
Xavier
--
Aloys Baillet
Lead Software Developer
Research Development - Animal Logic
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--
Xavier
Re: Anyone using Shotgun Python API with Softimage 2013 Linux?
Hey Alan, This works for me as well. The issue is that hashlib in python 2.5 that ships with Soft on Linux is using the compiled library (import *_*md5). The place you work at is geared the way I mentioned above. Pretty sure the support will help Paul getting this working anyway q: Cheers, Xavier
Re: Anyone using Shotgun Python API with Softimage 2013 Linux?
Stephen is probably on Windows ...
I'm on CentOS as well and have the same issue. So the local web server
redirecting requests might stay your better option until Soft ships with
another python version.
Good luck anyway.
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Paul Hudson phudson1...@gmail.com wrote:
Stephen,
What Distribution and Version of Linux is that on? We're trying CentOS 6.3
-Paul
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Stephen Blair stephenrbl...@gmail.comwrote:
That's strange, this works for me in Softimage 2013 (using the Python
installed with Softimage)
import hashlib
import _md5
print dir(hashlib)
print dir(hashlib.md5)
print dir(_md5)
On 13/12/2012 8:28 PM, Paul Hudson wrote:
The shogun api uses hashlib and it seems the version of Python
included with Linux Softimage is missing md5
# ERROR : Traceback (most recent call last):
# File Script Block , line 1, in module
# import hashlib
# File
/usr/Softimage/Softimage_**2013/Application/bin/lib/**python2.5/hashlib.py,
line 133, in module
# md5 = __get_builtin_constructor('**md5')
# File
/usr/Softimage/Softimage_**2013/Application/bin/lib/**python2.5/hashlib.py,
line 60, in __get_builtin_constructor
# import _md5
# ImportError: No module named _md5
# - [line 1]
I've contacted support about this, but is there an easy fix for this?
Thanks so much,
Paul
--
Xavier
Re: Softimage crashing on launch
Just be sure not to mix up Firewall and antivirus (: These are 2 different things and you might be able to disable the firewall but not the antivirus. Good luck On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Adam Sale adamfs...@gmail.com wrote: I think this will be what I have to do.. Probably a good thing to clean out all the versions I've been stockpiling for the last while. Disabling the firewall didn't help things.. Its always fun when you look forward to a productive night of work, and you get this instead. :-) Ahh.. maybe its a sign to pack up early, and spend some time with the wife. Thanks guys Adam On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 10:18 PM, Simon Anderson simonbenandersonl...@gmail.com wrote: I have had it once when a machine failed and a reinstall was the only way to fix it. Sometimes these things just happen. XD On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Xavier Lapointe xl.mailingl...@gmail.com wrote: Re-installing Soft sounds a bit over the top, unless the new Antivirus seems to be the cause and deliberately deleted Soft components becoming a virus itself. On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Simon Anderson simonbenandersonl...@gmail.com wrote: Have you tried a reinstall of soft? On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Xavier Lapointe xl.mailingl...@gmail.com wrote: Have you tried disabling the antivirus? Or you might have to give clearance to all Softimage related thing within NOD32. If that fails try backing up your softimage home folder. Don't mess with the registry. -- --- Simon Ben Anderson blog: http://vinyldevelopment.wordpress.com/ -- Xavier -- --- Simon Ben Anderson blog: http://vinyldevelopment.wordpress.com/ -- Xavier
Re: object model method for moving a material to another library?
Hey Steven, I'm not quite sure this is better than a copy paste, but Application.MoveToLibrary(objs, target) does that as well. It would have been nice if it could behave like standard collections. On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 7:15 AM, Steven Caron car...@gmail.com wrote: hey gang i can't seem to find a way to move a material from one material library to another. a material library has no set/add members method and the items property is read only. the material it self doesn't seem to have any methods. copypaste command is the only way it seems? s -- Xavier
Re: Python equivalent of C++'s GetRenderHairAccessor
Maybe by inspecting the hair.GetActivePrimitive2() you could find something, but I doubt it (and I can't test it since I don't have XSI at home). GetRenderHairAccessor return a CRenderHairAccessor object which I would be surprised if it would be COM compliant (for lack of a better word, just saying I don't know how it would be possible to return it to python via a custom command). But while I'm typing these lines, it seems like the object model has something called siRenderHairAccessorID ... might worth investigating. good luck On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 9:17 PM, Simon Anderson simonbenandersonl...@gmail.com wrote: Why you no use ice! XD haha.. jokes aside, what you trying to achieve, havent looked at soft hair in a long time. On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 6:01 PM, Jared jared.gl...@triggerfish.co.zawrote: RenderHairAccessor -- --- Simon Ben Anderson blog: http://vinyldevelopment.wordpress.com/ -- Xavier
Re: Scripting access to Cache Manager
Hey Gareth, If I'm not mistaken the cache manager (exporting icecache) would use supported ICE Attributes like Point Position, Id, Velocity and so on. So if you use something like GetICEAttributeFromName that would probably work? There's probably other ways, but I would give that a shot .. Cheers On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 6:23 AM, Gareth Bell gareth.b...@primefocusworld.com wrote: ** Hey List, Does anyone know how I can find out all available parameters for the cache manager? More specifically the attributes (or attibutes as Softimage calls them!) I've looked around the SDK and online but can't seem to find anything very helpful. For example I can get them using Application.GetValue(WriteAnimation.CacheAttibutes but the values returned are their index rather than their name. e.g. 5: rather than say Point Position. Ideally I'd like to be able to collect all the attributes listed within the cache manager at the time of caching or be able to throw all possible attributes into a PPG for user selection (like in the cache manager) Hope that makes some sort of sense cheers g -- Xavier
Re: Error with plugin and python maybe
I use plenty of the plug-ins without having python installed and only using the Python inside Softimage. Give it a whirl. You do need to put GEAR in your PythonPath environment variable just so those python modules are accessible. You don't have python installed ?! :O
Re: Caching Angular Velocity
Looks like your vector has flipped? Could you just calculate the shortest path and compare the values? I had some trouble as well at some point with this.
Re: Caching Angular Velocity
What I meant is: Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Jun 18 2012, 14:18:47) [GCC 4.4.6 20110731 (Red Hat 4.4.6-3)] on linux2 Type help, copyright, credits or license for more information. 1224.001 % 360.0 144.000998 360 - 144.000998 215.999002
Re: Caching Angular Velocity
I think you could just apply this logic when you output, unless when you use the cache again it starts flipping again, which would be utterly odd. Unless you deal with a specific case of super high revolution, from one frame to the other it shouldn't spin more than 360 ... I guess. As for the flipping, I can't really tell, could be many things. Maybe other guys will have some points to add as well. Cheers!
Re: Python Heads Please spread the love
Make sure you installed the 64 bit version of Python. On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 9:03 AM, Raffaele Fragapane raffsxsil...@googlemail.com wrote: It looks like you might be missing ActiveState's pywin. Did you install that? Also, I wouldn't recommend the forceful dispatch fix. There is so very little these days that still has dispatching problems that it's not worth the bother, not to mention the divergence from standards if you ever want to release anything, and a performance hiccup in some uses. -- Xavier
Re: Python Heads Please spread the love
Should have been a little more explicit on that one. Like Raff and Eric said, don't patch it. Use the dispatch fix coming with pywin32. Also, make sure to use the Python installer (64bits), and reinstall pywin32 64 bit. You can use the 2.7 version I think without having trouble: http://python.org/download/ One you have both 64bit version installed if python 2.7 and pywin32, you should be ok.
Re: Get Framebuffer's ResolvedFileName at a specific frame?
XSIUtils.ResolveTokenString(TokenString, Time, Verbose, [UserTokenNames], [UserTokenValues] )? On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 6:38 AM, Steven Caron car...@gmail.com wrote: there is a function to resolve a tokenized string that accepts an arbitrary time/frame argument. i dont remember that function off the top of my head. On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Tim Crowson tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com wrote: Is there a quick way to query a framebuffer's resolved file name at a given frame? The query always seems to return the value with whatever the current frame is. I know I can just move the playhead, but I was wondering if there was a more direct way of setting the frame for which the file name gets resolved... -- *Tim Crowson **Lead CG Artist* *Magnetic Dreams Animation Studio, Inc. *2525 Lebanon Pike, Building C. Nashville, TN 37214 *Ph* 615.885.6801 | *Fax* 615.889.4768 | www.magneticdreams.com tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com -- Xavier
Re: Get Framebuffer's ResolvedFileName at a specific frame?
Othen than that you can use Framebuffer.GetResolvedPath( [Frame] ) as well. On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 9:10 AM, Xavier Lapointe xl.mailingl...@gmail.comwrote: XSIUtils.ResolveTokenString(TokenString, Time, Verbose, [UserTokenNames], [UserTokenValues] )? On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 6:38 AM, Steven Caron car...@gmail.com wrote: there is a function to resolve a tokenized string that accepts an arbitrary time/frame argument. i dont remember that function off the top of my head. On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Tim Crowson tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com wrote: Is there a quick way to query a framebuffer's resolved file name at a given frame? The query always seems to return the value with whatever the current frame is. I know I can just move the playhead, but I was wondering if there was a more direct way of setting the frame for which the file name gets resolved... -- *Tim Crowson **Lead CG Artist* *Magnetic Dreams Animation Studio, Inc. *2525 Lebanon Pike, Building C. Nashville, TN 37214 *Ph* 615.885.6801 | *Fax* 615.889.4768 | www.magneticdreams.com tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com -- Xavier -- Xavier
Re: etRenamer 3.0, now with PyQt version
You should use Regex because it's awesome! :P On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Eric Thivierge ethivie...@gmail.comwrote: Especially when mine is open source :\ Eric Thivierge http://www.ethivierge.com On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Adam Sale adamfs...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the update Eric... I still wonder why there isn't a built in renamer for Softimage... On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Eric Thivierge ethivie...@gmail.comwrote: Thanks Jo. It's been a lot of tinkering over the years I've been using / building it. For the object types, you can actually edit the NameTemplate.txt file that is in the addon to your liking. This will allow you to name the object types and define a suffix for them as you wish. You can add more / less if needed as well. Maybe I should make this a bit mroe dynamic and have some buttons to allow you to change the object type names without having to edit the file. Thanks for the feedback. Eric Thivierge http://www.ethivierge.com On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 7:27 AM, jo benayoun jobenay...@gmail.comwrote: useful tool eric, looks really mature! Usually, we are used to deal with our personal nc, for example, I use to always use bon for whatever obj that will be use for the skeleton. I have observed three different major usages in rigging for naming stuff: - there is people who name their stuff after the scene object type (crv, null, msh) - others after the usage/function of the object (def, cns, upv) - the originals who are mixing both. =) I would actually love to see a tool that is able be adapted to my personal preferences and that let me the choice to switch to the others (for example in the case number two, fields are defaulted to the softimage type which is mapped then to the right name Ive chose earlier). Also, I'm used to use this bon suffix for my skeleton objects. But my studio use a different name for those stuff. When it comes to rename my object with the right suffix, I would instead of typing the suffix used by my company, the suffix I know and am used to use, bon, the tool would make for me the correct mapping. just some ideas ... -- jo 2012/10/16 Eric Thivierge ethivie...@gmail.com https://github.com/downloads/EricTRocks/ET_Toolshttps://github.com/downloads/EricTRocks/ET_Tools/ET_Naming_3.00.zip -- Xavier
Re: etRenamer 3.0, now with PyQt version
Even made my blog Sublime q: http://lamdacore.blogspot.com.au/ On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 1:03 PM, jo benayoun jobenay...@gmail.com wrote: regular expressions are clearly a must have ... you clearly see their power when switching to linux. because when you have a dude who called you to his desk to say Hey that cmd gives me an error like what the *bip* has no subscriptions to the *bip* but in the *bip* it turns out it has ... well, you don't have the time to go back at your desk, launch your favourite python editor (OR sublime-text) and write a beautiful python tool to parse the output from one custom cmd to use it as input for another one, repeated 10 times and handling special cases, but you clearly have the time to open a shell and use your best buddies: Pipe, Sed, Awk and XArgs, to finally ending with a freaking 10 lines long command. and voilà ... the *bip* has now the right subscriptions to the *bip*...! =) *bip*: f**king NDA ... **: fucking decency... -- jo 2012/10/16 Alok Gandhi alok.gandhi2...@gmail.com We use regex in some pipeline tools for softimage but that is all coming from python 're' module. Personally I have used regex to do some screen scraping off webpages for some personal projects. But for that all Beautiful Soup is a great package for python. ** ** ** ** *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Eric Turman *Sent:* Tuesday, October 16, 2012 6:30 PM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Re: etRenamer 3.0, now with PyQt version ** ** nice..I like that one since it has community examples. Thanks for sharing. On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 8:25 PM, Chris Gardner chrisg.dot@gmail.com wrote: I use this one online: http://gskinner.com/RegExr/ get it right in realtime before you stuff it into code. cheers, chrisg On 17 October 2012 12:21, Eric Turman i.anima...@gmail.com wrote: This is a really handy tools to nail that regex just right. http://download.cnet.com/The-Regex-Coach/3000-2056_4-10795049.html -- -=T=- -- -- Xavier
Re: raafal
True, and totally for it. As far as I know it's friendly at all level (: On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 6:07 PM, olivier jeannel olivier.jean...@noos.frwrote: I do enjoy to have news of Fabric Engine and now Raafal on the list :) I mean, the creators we all know them, some are friends, are coming from XSI. I feel it's quite positive compared to an abandon ship answer to the lasts weeks AD tsunami. plus the last Topolizer makes me feel like that particle system is undestructible. Le 12/10/2012 01:56, Xavier Lapointe a écrit : And all of this on the Softimage mailing list. How fun is that q: On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Paul Doyle technove...@gmail.comwrote: It's true, Helge is quite formidable :) right now, you do need to have a TD to get much out of CP. my point was really to say that our goal is to have something that small studios can benefit from as well. We looked at doing something like ICE from the outset, but it limits the scope to do that from the start. Building a platform is a bit more methodical (over two years!), but we're hoping the results will speak for themselves. I understand where you're coming from - all I can say is that we didn't start Fabric to flip it. There are many reasons why we started the company, but the main desire was to innovate - as you identified, having very few vendors is unhealthy for innovation. Anyway, this is a thread about Raafal so I will shut up :) -- Paul Doyle CEO Fabric Engine On 2012-10-11, at 7:29 PM, Guy Rabiller guy.rabil...@radfac.com wrote: Thanks Paul for clarifying. Well, Helge is, alone, an army of TDs, so permit me to still keep my argument on this matter ;). Regarding the workflow and GUI, I realize I did not made my point really clear on this, but I guess I'll have to show what I mean, when I'll have something to show. So the ball is in my camp. Good luck too with the Fabric Engine, I don't despise it, on the contrary, I just have a trust problem with nowadays commercial products and I hope you'll prove me wrong on this. Cheers, Guy. -- guy rabiller | raa.tel | radfac founder/ceo | raafal.org founder tel: (+33)977 195 006 %28%2B33%29977%20195%20006 | mob: (+33)675 183 146 %28%2B33%29675%20183%20146 | fax: (+33)972 288 293%28%2B33%29972%20288%20293 Le 12/10/2012 01:15, Paul Doyle a écrit : Since we have been mentioned a few times, including on the fundraising page, I want to correct a faulty perception regarding Creation Platform and 'ready to use' GUI. Tools like the muscle simulation tool and the hair/fur tool provide workflow and GUI. It's more that we do not prescribe the workflow - it is there to be edited/changed as required. As people build and share more tools (remember we give two free licenses to studios, and one free license to individuals), there will be more out of the box functionality available. There is no requirement for an army of TDs to build tools - for example, Helge has built a hair system in a few days (https://vimeo.com/51077186). We decided to build the framework first, and are now building out the tools platform on top of it. We are still in beta :) when we release, there will be complete workflows available. I hope that makes things a bit clearer. Guy - Good luck with the project and indiegogo. -- Paul Doyle CEO Fabric Engine On 2012-10-11, at 6:19 PM, Guy Rabiller guy.rabil...@radfac.com wrote: Thanks guys for wanting to help. Here you go: http://www.indiegogo.com/raafal-2013 Sorry for the poor 'selling speech'. Cheers, Guy. -- guy rabiller | raa.tel | radfac founder/ceo | raafal.org founder tel: (+33)977 195 006 %28%2B33%29977%20195%20006 | mob: (+33)675 183 146 %28%2B33%29675%20183%20146 | fax: (+33)972 288 293%28%2B33%29972%20288%20293 Le 11/10/2012 20:32, Alan Fregtman a écrit : http://indiegogo.com/ then, the other Kickstarter. On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Francois Lord flordli...@gmail.com mailto:flordli...@gmail.com wrote: That would be true if kickstarter was available outside the U.S. On 11/10/2012 14:02, Gene Crucean wrote: Definitely kickstarter worthy. On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Miquel Campos miquel.cam...@gmail.com mailto:miquel.cam...@gmail.com wrote: Kickstart? :P Miquel Campos www.akaosaru.com http://www.akaosaru.com -- Xavier -- Xavier
Re: raafal
And all of this on the Softimage mailing list. How fun is that q: On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Paul Doyle technove...@gmail.com wrote: It's true, Helge is quite formidable :) right now, you do need to have a TD to get much out of CP. my point was really to say that our goal is to have something that small studios can benefit from as well. We looked at doing something like ICE from the outset, but it limits the scope to do that from the start. Building a platform is a bit more methodical (over two years!), but we're hoping the results will speak for themselves. I understand where you're coming from - all I can say is that we didn't start Fabric to flip it. There are many reasons why we started the company, but the main desire was to innovate - as you identified, having very few vendors is unhealthy for innovation. Anyway, this is a thread about Raafal so I will shut up :) -- Paul Doyle CEO Fabric Engine On 2012-10-11, at 7:29 PM, Guy Rabiller guy.rabil...@radfac.com wrote: Thanks Paul for clarifying. Well, Helge is, alone, an army of TDs, so permit me to still keep my argument on this matter ;). Regarding the workflow and GUI, I realize I did not made my point really clear on this, but I guess I'll have to show what I mean, when I'll have something to show. So the ball is in my camp. Good luck too with the Fabric Engine, I don't despise it, on the contrary, I just have a trust problem with nowadays commercial products and I hope you'll prove me wrong on this. Cheers, Guy. -- guy rabiller | raa.tel | radfac founder/ceo | raafal.org founder tel: (+33)977 195 006 | mob: (+33)675 183 146 | fax: (+33)972 288 293 Le 12/10/2012 01:15, Paul Doyle a écrit : Since we have been mentioned a few times, including on the fundraising page, I want to correct a faulty perception regarding Creation Platform and 'ready to use' GUI. Tools like the muscle simulation tool and the hair/fur tool provide workflow and GUI. It's more that we do not prescribe the workflow - it is there to be edited/changed as required. As people build and share more tools (remember we give two free licenses to studios, and one free license to individuals), there will be more out of the box functionality available. There is no requirement for an army of TDs to build tools - for example, Helge has built a hair system in a few days (https://vimeo.com/51077186). We decided to build the framework first, and are now building out the tools platform on top of it. We are still in beta :) when we release, there will be complete workflows available. I hope that makes things a bit clearer. Guy - Good luck with the project and indiegogo. -- Paul Doyle CEO Fabric Engine On 2012-10-11, at 6:19 PM, Guy Rabiller guy.rabil...@radfac.com wrote: Thanks guys for wanting to help. Here you go: http://www.indiegogo.com/raafal-2013 Sorry for the poor 'selling speech'. Cheers, Guy. -- guy rabiller | raa.tel | radfac founder/ceo | raafal.org founder tel: (+33)977 195 006 | mob: (+33)675 183 146 | fax: (+33)972 288 293 Le 11/10/2012 20:32, Alan Fregtman a écrit : http://indiegogo.com/ then, the other Kickstarter. On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Francois Lord flordli...@gmail.com mailto:flordli...@gmail.com wrote: That would be true if kickstarter was available outside the U.S. On 11/10/2012 14:02, Gene Crucean wrote: Definitely kickstarter worthy. On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Miquel Campos miquel.cam...@gmail.com mailto:miquel.cam...@gmail.com wrote: Kickstart? :P Miquel Campos www.akaosaru.com http://www.akaosaru.com -- Xavier
Re: Installing AddOns Softimage 2012 SP1
It's possible to have it working in linux, but it's a different approach (that's I'm not too much aware of). I *think* using the CDH is mandatory, or at least need a custom pyqt integration to work. It's still not perfect and has its problems.
Re: Friday Flashback
Oh wow. They were so young! On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 11:24 PM, Stephen Blair stephenrbl...@gmail.comwrote: Friday Flashback #90 xsibase visits Softimage headquarters Aug 2002 http://wp.me/powV4-29b On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Stephen Blair stephenrbl...@gmail.comwrote: Friday Flashback #89 Creative Environment box shots http://wp.me/powV4-28u On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Stephen Blair stephenrbl...@gmail.comwrote: Friday Flashback #88 1999 Tekkon Kinkreet schematic http://wp.me/powV4-279 On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 7:59 AM, Stephen Blair stephenrbl...@gmail.comwrote: Friday Flashback #87 Orleans' Days at the Cherry House for tender lovers of XSI http://wp.me/powV4-26g On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Stephen Blair stephenrbl...@gmail.comwrote: #Softimage Friday Flashback #86 Daniel Langlois - Cdn Entrepeneur of the Yr in 94 the Wizard of AWE http://wp.me/powV4-25i This week's flashback is much better than last week's, I promise! On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 6:54 AM, Stephen Blair stephenrbl...@gmail.com wrote: Friday Flashback #85 The end part II http://wp.me/powV4-24o On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Chris Chia chris.c...@autodesk.comwrote: My memories working with Softimage 3D on a SGI... Sent from my iPhone On 24 Aug, 2012, at 10:47 PM, Stephen Blair stephen.bl...@autodesk.commailto:stephen.bl...@autodesk.com wrote: Friday Flashback #84 Japanese brochure for good ol' #SOFTIMAGE 3D http://wp.me/powV4-23R From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.commailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Blair Sent: August-17-12 10:21 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.commailto: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: RE: Friday Flashback Friday Flashback 83 2000 - Softimage hit the ground running with XSI a beautifully constructed environment to work in http://wp.me/powV4-232 From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.commailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Alan Fregtman Sent: August-10-12 10:52 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.commailto: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Friday Flashback Oh my Darwin, SO much red! My yeess On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 8:08 AM, Stephen Blair stephen.bl...@autodesk.commailto:stephen.bl...@autodesk.com wrote: Friday Flashback #82 XSI's first SIGGRAPH http://wp.me/powV4-22f From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.commailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.commailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Blair Sent: August-03-12 10:44 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.commailto: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: RE: Friday Flashback Friday Flashback 81 From 2004, Softimage XSI the perfect fit: - Everything you need - Everything you want - Everything there is http://wp.me/powV4-21j From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.commailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.commailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.commailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.commailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Raffaele Fragapane Sent: July-30-12 4:00 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.commailto: softimage@listproc.autodesk.commailto: softimage@listproc.autodesk.commailto: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Friday Flashback I think Olivier can still be seen shuddering when Batchserve is mentioned in his vicinity :) On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 4:58 AM, Stephen Blair stephen.bl...@autodesk.commailto:stephen.bl...@autodesk.com mailto:stephen.bl...@autodesk.commailto: stephen.bl...@autodesk.com wrote: Friday Flashback #80 BatchServe 1.5 the Experience http://wp.me/powV4-1YW -- Xavier
Re: custom toolbar under linux
I had problem as well sometimes. On some computer that would work, not on others. Go figure. On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Francisco fra...@yahoo.com wrote: Just drag and drop from a custom toolbar we already had and wanted to reuse ... Francisco. -- *From:* Eric Thivierge ethivie...@gmail.com *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Cc:* Francisco fra...@yahoo.com *Sent:* Thursday, October 4, 2012 6:54 PM *Subject:* Re: custom toolbar under linux Yeah if you're copying / pasting from one app to another on linux it generally doesn't work. Got to love that! Eric Thivierge http://www.ethivierge.com On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Simon Anderson simonbenandersonl...@gmail.com wrote: may be answering a question with a question, but hasn't that got more do do with the OS and the version your are running? I find sometimes Linux can be a bit tempremental with drag and dropping On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Francisco fra...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi all! guys does any of you know why Softimage under linux does not allow drag and drop tools in a custom toolbar? what am i doing wrong? Thanks in advance! Francisco Criado. -- --- Simon Ben Anderson blog: http://vinyldevelopment.wordpress.com/ -- Xavier
Re: Python and xsi commands
Are you sure a_nodes and a_VC are of the same size? On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Szabolcs Matefy szabol...@crytek.comwrote: Hi, ** ** I still have issues with this PaintVertexColors command ** ** When I run my script, it gives an error: ** ** # ERROR : 2006-PROP-PaintVertexColors - Unexpected failure. # ERROR : Traceback (most recent call last): # File Script Block , line 46, in module # Application.PaintVertexColors(OBJ.fullname, a_nodes, a_VC, 1) # File COMObject Application, line 2, in PaintVertexColors # COM Error: Out of present range. (0x-7ffdfff6) - [line 46] ** ** ** ** Anyone with any idea? ** ** *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Szabolcs Matefy *Sent:* Wednesday, September 26, 2012 1:43 PM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* RE: Python and xsi commands ** ** Thanks Eric, I’ll try it! ** ** *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Eric Thivierge *Sent:* Wednesday, September 26, 2012 12:17 PM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Re: Python and xsi commands ** ** This code works for me. Make sure you have a CAV map on the object. I used a default polymesh sphere. It's a generic code to set the colors for Polynodes 0-99 to red (-16777216). ** ** # Python xsi = Application log = xsi.LogMessage collSel = xsi.Selection ** ** xsi.PaintVertexColors(collSel(0), [x for x in range(100)], [-16777216 for x in range(100)], 1) ** ** In general Python lists are interpreted as arrays where needed. Eric Thivierge http://www.ethivierge.com On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 6:44 PM, Szabolcs Matefy szabol...@crytek.com wrote: Hey guys, Can I add python list as array? I mean that PaintVertexColors command waits for arrays, but can I feed list? Anyway, it throws me an error: # ERROR : Traceback (most recent call last): # File Script Block , line 41, in module # Application.PaintVertexColors(OBJ.fullname, a_nodes, a_VC) # File COMObject Application, line 2, in PaintVertexColors # COM Error: Out of present range. (0x-7ffdfff6) - [line 41] I made a script that reads ZBrush polypainted obj, and I wnt to make a python version to test which version is faster Cheers Szabolcs ___ This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message, which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard-copy version. Crytek GmbH - http://www.crytek.com - Grüneburgweg 16-18, 60322 Frankfurt - HRB77322 Amtsgericht Frankfurt a. Main- UST IdentNr.: DE20432461 - Geschaeftsfuehrer: Avni Yerli, Cevat Yerli, Faruk Yerli ** ** -- Xavier
Re: Python and xsi commands
Here I got : Application.Logmessage(0xFF00) # INFO : -16777216 But it's in Softimage Linux. Does something like this might help? def toHex(val, nbits): return hex((val + (1 nbits)) % (1 nbits)) print toHex(4278190080, 32) On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 11:51 PM, Szabolcs Matefy szabol...@crytek.comwrote: What I figured so far, that the issue is with the values in the array ** ** I have 8 digit hex in text file, and I want to convert it to long, or literal hex value… ** ** Funny that the documentation says: Each RGBA hexadecimal value takes a byte and is packaged into a long. For example, red is *hFF00*, which is packaged into the long value * -16777216* ** ** While this Application.Logmessage(0xFF00) logs as 4278190080 ** ** It seems that the problem is that Python has 32 and 64bit version of Long integer, while Softimage uses the 32bit Long integer (my assumption is based upon the value range…) ** ** So the question is how can I convert my hexa values to signed 32 bit long? ** ** ** ** Cheers ** ** ** ** Szabolcs ** ** ** ** *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Xavier Lapointe *Sent:* Thursday, September 27, 2012 3:04 PM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Re: Python and xsi commands ** ** Ehh, that's weird. :( I would make sure the data in both array is fine and match (the hexadecimal or long values representing the rgb colors that you feed are ok by running a small subset of your data, like one or 2 indices) , and maybe you could try converting list to tuple. ** ** Other than that, it's quite strange. ** ** ** ** -- Xavier
Re: Soft - Maya : 23.98 to 24 FPS Problem
I think you can edit this section: optionMenuGrp -label (uiRes(m_createPrefWndUI.kTime)) -cc (prefWndUnitsChanged \time\) timeOpts; string $fps = (uiRes(m_createPrefWndUI.kFps)); string $unitFPS = (uiRes(m_createPrefWndUI.kUnitFps)); menuItem -label `format -s 15 $fps`; menuItem -label `format -s Film -s 24 $unitFPS`; menuItem -label `format -s PAL -s 25 $unitFPS`; menuItem -label `format -s NTSC -s 30 $unitFPS`; menuItem -label `format -s Show -s 48 $unitFPS`; menuItem -label `format -s PAL Field -s 50 $unitFPS`; menuItem -label `format -s NTSC Field -s 60 $unitFPS`; menuItem -label (uiRes(m_createPrefWndUI.kMilliSeconds)); menuItem -label (uiRes(m_createPrefWndUI.kSecondsItem)); menuItem -label (uiRes(m_createPrefWndUI.kMinutes)); menuItem -label (uiRes(m_createPrefWndUI.kHours)); menuItem -label `format -s 2 $fps`;; menuItem -label `format -s 3 $fps`;; menuItem -label `format -s 4 $fps`;; menuItem -label `format -s 5 $fps`;; menuItem -label `format -s 6 $fps`;; menuItem -label `format -s 8 $fps`;; menuItem -label `format -s 10 $fps`;; menuItem -label `format -s 12 $fps`;; menuItem -label `format -s 16 $fps`;; menuItem -label `format -s 20 $fps`;; menuItem -label `format -s 40 $fps`;; menuItem -label `format -s 75 $fps`;; menuItem -label `format -s 80 $fps`;; menuItem -label `format -s 100 $fps`;; menuItem -label `format -s 120 $fps`;; menuItem -label `format -s 125 $fps`;; menuItem -label `format -s 150 $fps`;; menuItem -label `format -s 200 $fps`;; menuItem -label `format -s 240 $fps`;; menuItem -label `format -s 250 $fps`;; menuItem -label `format -s 300 $fps`;; menuItem -label `format -s 375 $fps`;; menuItem -label `format -s 400 $fps`;; menuItem -label `format -s 500 $fps`;; menuItem -label `format -s 600 $fps`;; menuItem -label `format -s 750 $fps`;; menuItem -label `format -s 1200 $fps`;; menuItem -label `format -s 1500 $fps`;; menuItem -label `format -s 2000 $fps`;; menuItem -label `format -s 3000 $fps`;; menuItem -label `format -s 6000 $fps`;; in /usr/autodesk/maya2012-x64/scripts/startup/createPrefWndUI.mel (or something similar). Sound a little convoluted though. Might want to ask Sylvain or Eric, he's been a long time on Maya as far as I can remember. Cheers On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 7:22 AM, Alok alok.gan...@modusfx.com wrote: Thanks Ben but that only changes the playback speed so the captures can be done at custom speeds, but it does not change the fcurves so the transform of the object in Maya is exactly the same as the transform of object in Softimage at the same frame. On 26/09/2012 5:06 PM, Ben Houston wrote: Pick other as the Playback speed and then you can set the frame rate explicitly in the number box to the right of that in Maya. Or at least that is how I thought it worked. -ben On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Alok alok.gan...@modusfx.com wrote: We have tracked and animated objects in Softimage at 23.98 fps. We bring the animation in Maya, but in Maya there is no custom FPS setting available. The closest is 24 FPS, so obviously the animation does not match. The only solution I can think is to quickly script to scale the FCurves. Does that seems to be the approach or is there anything else I can do differently. Any help much appreciated. Thanks. -- -- Best regards, Ben Houston Voice: 613-762-4113 Skype: ben.exocortex Twitter: @exocortexcom http://Exocortex.com - Passionate CG Software Professionals. No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.2221 / Virus Database: 2441/5292 - Release Date: 09/25/12
Re: Soft - Maya : 23.98 to 24 FPS Problem
Shawweet. On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Alok alok.gan...@modusfx.com wrote: Finally solved it. Instead of changing in Maya, I just changed the FPS in Softimage from 23.98 to 24.0, keeping the option of scaling the curves and then send animation to Maya. Everything works ! And to imagine a particle plugin like *Softimage* could save the day in one second while the *uber big full fledged DCC App like Maya cannot. Ahem ! I think you get my point guys ;) On 26/09/2012 5:03 PM, Alok wrote: We have tracked and animated objects in Softimage at 23.98 fps. We bring the animation in Maya, but in Maya there is no custom FPS setting available. The closest is 24 FPS, so obviously the animation does not match. The only solution I can think is to quickly script to scale the FCurves. Does that seems to be the approach or is there anything else I can do differently. Any help much appreciated. Thanks. -- -- Xavier image/gifAlok_Signature_email_.gif
Re: soft 2013 - multiple workgroups
Works well on Linux 2013 as far as I know. Like Eric said works well with tons of them, but we don't use Arnold/sitoa or the other one stated.
Re: We'll be opening the Softimage beta soon
Just signed up. hopefully we'll be able to provide feedback and see what they do. Thanks! On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Daniel H vfxc...@gmail.com wrote: From Cory Mogk: Sep-19-2012 I understand what people are saying and am considering it with other things like product planning. I've been in touch with some people through email and some in person. Anyone can send me a direct message through the Area or email (my name is Cory Mogk and our email structure is: firstname.lastn...@autodesk.com) We'll be opening the Softimage beta soon and I invite people who haven't participated before to sign up at https://beta.autodesk.com You can see what we're doing, try it out and we can discuss things that you would like to see in the future with the team. Daniel VFXM -- Xavier
Re: Python on Linux
Hmm, but this can have nasty side effects (recently experienced it). Someone pointed out to me that you can actually pass the *env *keyword argument in the subprocess call and pass a *copy *of the current environment instead (with necessary modifications). On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 12:33 AM, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.comwrote: Hey X, About the 3rd item, you just need to make sure the system libraries are loaded before XSI's own by putting them first in the *LD_LIBRARY_PATH*environment variable. Here's a workaround sample code to start subprocesses in Linux that worked for me last time: import osimport subprocess inLinux = Application.Platform.startswith(Linux)if inLinux: exe = XSIUtils.BuildPath( pDir, executable) ldEnv = LD_LIBRARY_PATH sysLibDir = r/usr/lib64 ld_oldVal = os.environ[ldEnv] os.environ[ldEnv] = sysLibDir+:+os.environ[ldEnv] command = r'/path/to/awesome/tool blablabla arguments here' proc = subprocess.Popen( command.split(), stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE ) out, err = proc.communicate()print stdout: %s % outprint return code: %s % err if inLinux: # Reset to old values like the good samaritan coder we are. :p os.environ[ldEnv] = ld_oldVal As a matter of fact, it was thanks to you that I figured this one out at the time. :p Cheers, -- Alan On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 8:19 PM, Xavier Lapointe xl.mailingl...@gmail.com wrote: - You might have to import __*future*__ in order to have access to some statement like *with* - The @property decorator does not work - Keep in mind that if you use a newer version of linux that the one supported, you might have trouble starting subprocesses, since the libc version coming with soft will override the one on the system (but it's still possible). - For plugins it should be too bad, but for libs, I would consider running some unittest if I were you Cheers -- Xavier
Re: Python on Linux
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Xavier Lapointe xl.mailingl...@gmail.comwrote: - You might have to import __*future*__ in order to have access to some statement like *with* - The @property decorator does not work - Keep in mind that if you use a newer version of linux that the one supported, you might have trouble starting subprocesses, since the libc version coming with soft will override the one on the system (but it's still possible). - For plugins it should be too bad, but for libs, I would consider running some unittest if I were you Cheers *For plugins it should*n't* be too bad, -- Xavier
Re: XSIBase safe?
You can still open it up in google chrome Incognito mode and fire up the debugger/console and have a look at what gets loaded. You should be able to see any cross referencing to external website. I wouldn't go if I were you (: On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 12:25 AM, Eric Thivierge ethivie...@gmail.comwrote: As far as you know... :) Eric Thivierge http://www.ethivierge.com On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 12:21 AM, Luc-Eric Rousseau luceri...@gmail.comwrote: I've been going every day with Google Chrome, nothing's happened. -- Xavier
Re: Small Annoying Things
So Luc-Eric, that means that we are stuck pretty much for ever and ever on Python2.5 unless the new team rewrite Soft and get rid of Mainwin (... seems unlikely.)?
Re: Small Annoying Things
Dispatch Issue in Python :) This is __super__ annoying.
Re: Softimage Bundles..... please remove
Was about to do a bad joke about the recent layoff. Just wanted to let you know. This is Sheldon Cooper. On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Thomas Helzle thomashel...@gmail.comwrote: Try smoke signs! They are such a visual company ;-) Cheers, Tom On 24 August 2012 15:38, Stefan Andersson sander...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Everyone, Even though it's not a everyday thing, but it would be nice to be able to download Softimage WITHOUT having to get MatchMover and Composite. Why don't they just have downloads for each package? I still haven't heard about a single person who actually uses Composite, or even MatchMover these days. Seems like a big waste of bandwidth if you ask me. I know I'm talking to deaf ears... just wanted to say it. regards stefan -- stefan andersson - digital janitor - http://sanders3d.wordpress.com -- Xavier
Re: Device Driver
... gotta start somewhere.
Re: Device Driver
Bcccaaauuueee, I don't want to use the mouse driver, but write something else and use it as a base (: On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 11:35 PM, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.comwrote: Hey Mr. X, Why are you compiling it? It comes already compiled. The sourcecode is given in the XSI_SAMPLES just for educational purposes. I've tried the Mouse driver as it comes in my Soft in Linux and it works just fine. :) Cheers, -- Alan On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 1:12 AM, Xavier Lapointe xl.mailingl...@gmail.com wrote: Hey guys, Have anyone give a shot to the Mouse Device driver example in Softimage 2012 on Linux? It compiles fine, loads fine in Soft, the device parser tells everything is ok, but can't see any logging on the Activate/DeActivate callback, nothing seems to happen either when using it. I thought the example would have the same behavior as the existing Mouse driver. Also, in the make file there's this line: include $(MWHOME)/make.rules.simple And this file seems to be missing. Had to remove the line and use our custom make config (I doubt this has anything to do with it anyway -- would have complain at compile time, right?). Can someone confirm this? Thanks! -- Xavier -- Xavier
Re: Small Annoying Things
Meh .. - Expose a Color object in scripting so we don't have to create a light, and query the OGLLight ... this is really annoying. - Fix the Copy/Paste in Linux(!?!) - Euler filter (that works) in the Animation Editor I'm sure there are many little things here and there but .. this is what I came across recently.
Re: Scripting Development with an external IDE
Erratum: The link I sent is not about codeintel directly but the new syntax checker, just had this name in mind, hehe. Anyway syntax checker and https://github.com/Kronuz/SublimeCodeIntel/https://github.com/Kronuz/SublimeCodeIntel/tree/master/libs are pretty convenient. 2012/5/29 Xavier Lapointe xl.mailingl...@gmail.com As far as I know code completion is not available for various reason out of the box, but you could probably generate codeintel files for Komodo (and maybe this is also compatible with Sublime) http://www.activestate.com/blog/2012/02/diving-deep-komodos-syntax-checker (Not sure you want to go down that path tho) The raw setup would be to enable auto-reload in the Softimage Script Editor and set your IDE to the same settings as Soft's (4 spaces tab, replace tab with spaces, etc -- avoiding weird behavior if for any reason you want to do a quick edit in Soft directly). You could also point to your external IDE with the proper path in the preferences. .. and as I'm writting these lines, I just saw Alan's answer, so yes, same as him too (: Cheers 2012/5/29 Leo Quensel le...@gmx.de Hey guys, I am trying to find out how to properly develop python scripts using an external IDE. In Maya this works pretty well by using the mayapy.exe as the interpreter and enables code completion for Maya commands in Eclipse. Is there any way to do this for Soft? How is everyone doing (Python) script development? Cheers, Leo -- NEU: FreePhone 3-fach-Flat mit kostenlosem Smartphone! Jetzt informieren: http://mobile.1und1.de/?ac=OM.PW.PW003K20328T7073a -- Xavier -- Xavier
Re: Uh oh, GoogleGroups archive admin, you need to confirm
Why is it always doing this? Oops! Google Chrome could not find listproc.autodesk.com 2012/5/29 Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.com https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/xsi_list/TowIZVpByOQ -- Xavier
Re: Uh oh, GoogleGroups archive admin, you need to confirm
Ah. 2012/5/29 Stephen Blair stephen.bl...@autodesk.com That account is currently enabled, so it is ok. From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Alan Fregtman Sent: May-29-12 9:42 AM To: XSI Mailing List Subject: Uh oh, GoogleGroups archive admin, you need to confirm https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/xsi_list/TowIZVpByOQ -- Xavier
Re: Scripting Development with an external IDE
Sweet (: Make sure to install Package Control (the link Alan sent), they are all in there. 2012/5/29 Guillaume Laforge guillaume.laforge...@gmail.com Thanks for the link Xavier :), I will give it a try ! On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Xavier Lapointe xl.mailingl...@gmail.com wrote: https://github.com/Kronuz/SublimeCodeIntel does this for you, but maybe it's not as good as PyDev ... not sure. But yes, the Python Debugger is a missing point. There's one I've seen in the Package Control called SublimeXDebug https://github.com/Kindari/SublimeXdebug, but it's probably not as good as PyDev or Komodo (i remember we could visually inspect the Python stack). This guy has a good amount of package that you can install to enhance the Sublime: https://github.com/Kronuz Cheers 2012/5/29 Guillaume Laforge guillaume.laforge...@gmail.com Did you find any good python debugger package for Sublime ? For me it is the missing point, but maybe I didn't search correctly ? Also the auto-completion is cool but doesn't search for imported modules and doesn't filter methods on instantiated objects:-/ All those stuffs are standard in Eclipse/PyDev. On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Alok Gandhi alok.gandhi2...@gmail.com wrote: Sublime has tons of autocompletion feature, for example in one stroke you generate code for a class with all the necessary function like __init__. You can do multiline edit with just one change. If you have a variable 'foo' in used in multilines of your code, you can change it at one place and all the other occurrences gets updated. There is a whole gamut of color coding with infinite color combinations. You can define your own color coding. There are just few of the features. I can not do much justice to it as I personally do not use it a lot, but I always hear great things about it. May be others can fill you on in this. But remember that sublime is only a text editor, not an IDE. -- Xavier -- Xavier
Re: Softimage and Fedora14 - help please!
Not sure it's going to help here, but make sure that your /etc/host has not
being regenerated by the Network Manager. It does happen on CentOS 6, not
sure about Fedora 14. You can prevent this from happening by running this
command as root:
chattr +i /etc/hosts
Also, make sure you did all the fixes mentioned on the xsi support blog.
One of them:
http://xsisupport.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/the-case-of-the-slow-2011-startup-on-fedora-14/
But I would think that it should be pretty straight forward on FC14 ...
2012/5/23 Christoph Muetze c...@glarestudios.de
Hey Sean,
thanks for jumping in and helping out! this actually helped a lot to
narrow the problem down..
if i try what you suggested then soft starts up (very slowly) and gets
past the splashscreen, opens the netview and then segfaults the moment the
ogl-viewports are drawn.
disabling the ogl-viewports (via this description -
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/**servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=**
123112id=14691242linkID=**12544120http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112id=14691242linkID=12544120)
lets me fully start softimage, it takes ages and i can't do a thing without
ogl-views, but there are no segfaults and no freezing.. so that's a partial
success, i guess :)
interestingly enough, if if just disable the the ogl-viewports without
removing the x11-patch then soft freezes up right after the splashscreen
again..
here is the end of the segfault-strace, i can provide the full log (which
is over 17megs) if necessary...
[...]
stat(/home/gizmo/Autodesk/**Softimage_2013/_DSRTL.MTT,
{st_mode=S_IFREG|0664, st_size=38808, ...}) = 0
chmod(/home/gizmo/Autodesk/**Softimage_2013/DSRTL.MTT, 0100664) = 0
lstat(/home/gizmo/Autodesk/**Softimage_2013/wireframe5d7bee**
a2a52d11e135f74f68.bt http://wireframe5d7beea2a52d11e135f74f68.bt,
{st_mode=S_IFREG|0664, st_size=2539, ...}) = 0
close(43) = 0
write(27, Failed to save scene before syst..., 43) = 43
write(27, \n, 1) = 1
lseek(45, 1024, SEEK_SET) = 1024
write(45, R\0o\0o\0t\0 \0E\0n\0t\0r\0y\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\**0\0\0\0\0\0...,
512) = 512
close(45) = 0
stat(/var/tmp/XSI_Temp_11756/**ViewSetup.DSViewSettings,
{st_mode=S_IFREG|0664, st_size=1536, ...}) = 0
access(/var/tmp/XSI_Temp_**11756/ViewSetup.**DSViewSettings, W_OK) = 0
unlink(/var/tmp/XSI_Temp_**11756/ViewSetup.**DSViewSettings) = 0
munmap(0x7fa15004c000, 16384) = 0
unlink(/var/tmp/Mw_gizmo/**B95CB68D7A32B46ED2E7DB90B5DDF2**95.1052890.tmp.53)
= 0
munmap(0x7fa11e4f7000, 2097152) = 0
unlink(/var/tmp/Mw_gizmo/**B95CB68D7A32B46ED2E7DB90B5DDF2**95.1052890.tmp.52)
= 0
lseek(55, 1024, SEEK_SET) = 1024
write(55, R\0o\0o\0t\0 \0E\0n\0t\0r\0y\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\**0\0\0\0\0\0...,
512) = 512
close(55) = 0
stat(/var/tmp/XSI_Temp_11756/**ViewSetupSequence.**DSViewSettings,
{st_mode=S_IFREG|0664, st_size=1536, ...}) = 0
access(/var/tmp/XSI_Temp_**11756/ViewSetupSequence.**DSViewSettings,
W_OK) = 0
unlink(/var/tmp/XSI_Temp_**11756/ViewSetupSequence.**DSViewSettings) = 0
munmap(0x7fa1495f6000, 16384) = 0
unlink(/var/tmp/Mw_gizmo/**B95CB68D7A32B46ED2E7DB90B5DDF2**95.1052890.tmp.56)
= 0
munmap(0x7fa1197cf000, 2097152) = 0
unlink(/var/tmp/Mw_gizmo/**B95CB68D7A32B46ED2E7DB90B5DDF2**95.1052890.tmp.55)
= 0
sched_yield() = 0
--- {si_signo=SIGSEGV, si_code=SEGV_MAPERR, si_addr=0} (Segmentation
fault) ---
+++ killed by SIGSEGV (core dumped) +++
has anyone any idea on how to proceed from here?
(thanks for hanging on in there with me!)
cheers!
chris
On 05/23/2012 10:35 PM, Sean Donnelly wrote:
Are you still stuck at the problem where once you start XSI it shows the
splashscreen and then hangs? If so then you can try removing the X11 patch
by editing the ${MWHOME}/scripts/.mwenv file and looking for the
x11patch line. There you should see where it checks for various fedora
versions and sets the x11patch for fc14. You could temporarily comment
that line (should be line 17) and then source the .xsi??? file again. This
will remove that X11 patch folder from your LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Now see if
XSI starts up correctly.
Note: without this patch you may notice viewport performance problems.
So this should not be used as a permanent solution to your problem.
Sean
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From:
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softimage-bounces@**listproc.autodesk.comsoftimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com]
On Behalf Of Christoph Muetze
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 11:50 AM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.**com softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: Re: Softimage and Fedora14 - help please!
yes, i have...
On 05/23/2012 05:36 PM, Sean Donnelly wrote:
Have you disabled selinux?
-Original
Re: Soft Crashes on DeleteObj() command calls
Not really helping, but i remember we had this issue 1 or 2 years ago. Mostly happens on big selections right? If you can reproduce the crash consistently over a set of objects, maybe you could try the following approaches: - Loop over the selection and delete them one by one - Slice the selection in group of N objects - - xsi.Desktop.RedrawUI() or xsi.SceneRefresh() - These 2 are wild guesses, but I remember solving a consistent scene crashes while doing batch operations and those solved it. Good luck (And hopefully they can solve this.) 2012/5/14 Alok Gandhi alok.gandhi2...@gmail.com It has been a long time since I am dealing with this bug. Sometimes, when I call the Application.DeleteObj() command in python (though not sure for Java or VB), it crashes. This is not a consistent behaviour and is hence it is not easy to repro. Has anyone else dealt with this issue before ? -- -- Xavier
[Python] global variable issue on linux
Hey guys,
This one really surprised me. I tend to avoid global variable in Softimage
plugins as much as I can, but sometimes it might be convenient.
So basically, I wanted to use a global variable ( simple Python Dictionary
) to keep some stuff in reference while interacting with a PPG. I remember
clearly that it was working well under Windows, so
I assume this is a python 2.5 Linux issue (if this is an issue - please
tell me if this is normal under Soft with python 2.5).
Here's basically what I was trying to do:
[imports ]
# Global Scope
LAST_SELECTION = {
'project': {},
'category': '',
'entities': [],
}
def CustomCommand_Execute():
global LAST_SELECTION
[Do some modifications to LAST_SELECTION]
Following this pattern:
- Prompt the PPG
- Interact with the UI
- The custom command is fired - do some modifications to LAST_SELECTION
- hit another PPG UI
- Hell the LAST_SELECTION global is back to the inital value!
I've been tracing the LAST_SELECTION variable with id(), and it's changing
every time I interact with the UI; showing clearly that there is something
nasty going on under the hood (?)
Any idea to get this working?
Alan mentioned the Application.SetGlobal/Application.GetGlobal functions
... but still, this should be working natively, isn't?
Thanks!
--
Xavier
Re: [Python] global variable issue on linux
Hm, yes I could store it in a parameter or another way ... just this feels
hacky to get something basic done (granted no refresh happend during the
plugin execution).
This should work, like Matt mentioned :/
Oh well.
2012/5/11 Alok Gandhi alok.gandhi2...@gmail.com
I am not sure whether this works under windows as well, the plugin script
can get refreshed and all your global variables will be re-initialized. The
only good approaches that I have been using is to store the varaibles in
UIITems lists. This works well for the 3D com objects as well. Another idea
would be to pass on objects returning through a safe array from the
commands itself.
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 9:13 PM, Xavier Lapointe xl.mailingl...@gmail.com
wrote:
hit another PPG UI Item ***
... All happening under the same Property page.
2012/5/11 Xavier Lapointe xl.mailingl...@gmail.com
Hey guys,
This one really surprised me. I tend to avoid global variable in
Softimage plugins as much as I can, but sometimes it might be convenient.
So basically, I wanted to use a global variable ( simple Python
Dictionary ) to keep some stuff in reference while interacting with a PPG.
I remember clearly that it was working well under Windows, so
I assume this is a python 2.5 Linux issue (if this is an issue - please
tell me if this is normal under Soft with python 2.5).
Here's basically what I was trying to do:
[imports ]
# Global Scope
LAST_SELECTION = {
'project': {},
'category': '',
'entities': [],
}
def CustomCommand_Execute():
global LAST_SELECTION
[Do some modifications to LAST_SELECTION]
Following this pattern:
- Prompt the PPG
- Interact with the UI
- The custom command is fired - do some modifications to
LAST_SELECTION
- hit another PPG UI
- Hell the LAST_SELECTION global is back to the inital value!
I've been tracing the LAST_SELECTION variable with id(), and it's
changing every time I interact with the UI; showing clearly that there is
something nasty going on under the hood (?)
Any idea to get this working?
Alan mentioned the Application.SetGlobal/Application.GetGlobal functions
... but still, this should be working natively, isn't?
Thanks!
--
Xavier
--
Xavier
--
--
Xavier
Re: [Python] global variable issue on linux
I'll add some context:
- everything lives in the same plugin
- I tried storing it in a container coming from an imported module
- tried accessing and setting the global variable directly in the
globals() dictionary
- Grumble Gumble.
2012/5/11 Alok Gandhi alok.gandhi2...@gmail.com
Yes if PPG is not getting refreshed then this seems weird. The only thing
that comes to mind is maybe the custom command execution is making things
go wrong. What if you use a function declared inside the plugin instead of
calling the custom command ? or maybe the custom command should be
implemented in the same plugin as the PPG, this does not make sense but is
worth a try.
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 9:24 PM, Xavier Lapointe xl.mailingl...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hm, yes I could store it in a parameter or another way ... just this
feels hacky to get something basic done (granted no refresh happend during
the plugin execution).
This should work, like Matt mentioned :/
Oh well.
2012/5/11 Alok Gandhi alok.gandhi2...@gmail.com
I am not sure whether this works under windows as well, the plugin
script can get refreshed and all your global variables will be
re-initialized. The only good approaches that I have been using is to store
the varaibles in UIITems lists. This works well for the 3D com objects as
well. Another idea would be to pass on objects returning through a safe
array from the commands itself.
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 9:13 PM, Xavier Lapointe
xl.mailingl...@gmail.com wrote:
hit another PPG UI Item ***
... All happening under the same Property page.
2012/5/11 Xavier Lapointe xl.mailingl...@gmail.com
Hey guys,
This one really surprised me. I tend to avoid global variable in
Softimage plugins as much as I can, but sometimes it might be convenient.
So basically, I wanted to use a global variable ( simple Python
Dictionary ) to keep some stuff in reference while interacting with a PPG.
I remember clearly that it was working well under Windows, so
I assume this is a python 2.5 Linux issue (if this is an issue -
please tell me if this is normal under Soft with python 2.5).
Here's basically what I was trying to do:
[imports ]
# Global Scope
LAST_SELECTION = {
'project': {},
'category': '',
'entities': [],
}
def CustomCommand_Execute():
global LAST_SELECTION
[Do some modifications to LAST_SELECTION]
Following this pattern:
- Prompt the PPG
- Interact with the UI
- The custom command is fired - do some modifications to
LAST_SELECTION
- hit another PPG UI
- Hell the LAST_SELECTION global is back to the inital value!
I've been tracing the LAST_SELECTION variable with id(), and it's
changing every time I interact with the UI; showing clearly that there is
something nasty going on under the hood (?)
Any idea to get this working?
Alan mentioned the
Application.SetGlobal/Application.GetGlobal functions ... but still, this
should be working natively, isn't?
Thanks!
--
Xavier
--
Xavier
--
--
Xavier
--
--
Xavier
Re: [Python] global variable issue on linux
Tried your solution but could not get it to work :(
Found a way, but I would need to understand the internal mechanism to
reproduce it more cleanly.
from win32com.client import constants
constants.__dicts__.append({'PLUGIN_GLOBAL_SCOPE': None,'project':
{},'category': '','entities': []})
container = [d for d in constants.__dicts__ if 'PLUGIN_GLOBAL_SCOPE' in
d][0]
Far from being ideal ...
2012/5/11 Alok Gandhi alok.gandhi2...@gmail.com
One last thing, I checked one plugin where this works, of course in
windows, but in my code I do not use 'global ' keyword when accesing the
global dict. Something like this:
globalDict = {}
def _setGlobalDict(inObj=None, meshData=None):
if inObj:
globalDict['obj'] = inObj # no use of 'global' here.
if meshData:
globalDict['data'] = meshData
return True
and then I call _setGlobalDict() wherever I need to.
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 9:37 PM, Xavier Lapointe xl.mailingl...@gmail.com
wrote:
I'll add some context:
- everything lives in the same plugin
- I tried storing it in a container coming from an imported module
- tried accessing and setting the global variable directly in the
globals() dictionary
- Grumble Gumble.
2012/5/11 Alok Gandhi alok.gandhi2...@gmail.com
Yes if PPG is not getting refreshed then this seems weird. The only
thing that comes to mind is maybe the custom command execution is making
things go wrong. What if you use a function declared inside the plugin
instead of calling the custom command ? or maybe the custom command should
be implemented in the same plugin as the PPG, this does not make sense but
is worth a try.
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 9:24 PM, Xavier Lapointe
xl.mailingl...@gmail.com wrote:
Hm, yes I could store it in a parameter or another way ... just this
feels hacky to get something basic done (granted no refresh happend during
the plugin execution).
This should work, like Matt mentioned :/
Oh well.
2012/5/11 Alok Gandhi alok.gandhi2...@gmail.com
I am not sure whether this works under windows as well, the plugin
script can get refreshed and all your global variables will be
re-initialized. The only good approaches that I have been using is to
store
the varaibles in UIITems lists. This works well for the 3D com objects as
well. Another idea would be to pass on objects returning through a safe
array from the commands itself.
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 9:13 PM, Xavier Lapointe
xl.mailingl...@gmail.com wrote:
hit another PPG UI Item ***
... All happening under the same Property page.
2012/5/11 Xavier Lapointe xl.mailingl...@gmail.com
Hey guys,
This one really surprised me. I tend to avoid global variable in
Softimage plugins as much as I can, but sometimes it might be
convenient.
So basically, I wanted to use a global variable ( simple Python
Dictionary ) to keep some stuff in reference while interacting with a
PPG.
I remember clearly that it was working well under Windows, so
I assume this is a python 2.5 Linux issue (if this is an issue -
please tell me if this is normal under Soft with python 2.5).
Here's basically what I was trying to do:
[imports ]
# Global Scope
LAST_SELECTION = {
'project': {},
'category': '',
'entities': [],
}
def CustomCommand_Execute():
global LAST_SELECTION
[Do some modifications to LAST_SELECTION]
Following this pattern:
- Prompt the PPG
- Interact with the UI
- The custom command is fired - do some modifications to
LAST_SELECTION
- hit another PPG UI
- Hell the LAST_SELECTION global is back to the inital value!
I've been tracing the LAST_SELECTION variable with id(), and it's
changing every time I interact with the UI; showing clearly that there
is
something nasty going on under the hood (?)
Any idea to get this working?
Alan mentioned the
Application.SetGlobal/Application.GetGlobal functions ... but still,
this
should be working natively, isn't?
Thanks!
--
Xavier
--
Xavier
--
--
Xavier
--
--
Xavier
--
--
Xavier
Get real translation information from weighted mesh
Hey guys, pretty sure some of you are familiar with that kind of problem. I've a car rig where some part are only deformed (translated) by hierarchy/constraints, and some are skinned on a deformer. Let say we use the wheel as example. When I retrieve the wheel 4x4 matrix, it will give me its neutral translation (near origin), but not its real position in space (might be N units away). Is there a way I can get it? I thought of couple of ways, but nothing trivial. Any hints would be appreciated. Thanks! -- Xavier
Re: Get real translation information from weighted mesh
Hey Ahmidou, Yup the hierarchy/constraint based this isn't a problem. For the skinned ones, getting the deformer's global transform was something I was considering, so since you bring that up: is it a safe way? Let say you have a mesh deformed by 50 deformers (like a character body), I would need to calculate the center of all my deformers right? Thanks!
Re: install directories
On Linux it's /usr/Softimage/[Soft Version] But for other reasons we go outside of the system directories in our place. 2012/4/27 Alok Gandhi alok.gan...@modusfx.com In the defualt folders on windows C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Softimage 2012.SAP and I am guessing on linux would be \usr\local\ On 4/27/2012 2:10 PM, Steven Caron wrote: alan jones' find_softimage module already works on linux and windows, his module is simple and is easy to maintain. i have no intentions to rewrite this module. i also have no experience programming for the OS on linux and very little with windows, i dont have access to a linux machine to test it. lastly, its boring work that i have not interest in doing or supporting. thanks for the suggestions. now... where do you install softimage? :) s On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Alok Gandhi alok.gandhi2...@gmail.comwrote: well its cmake, i wouldn't want to put too many windows specific functions for finding software through the registry. You can always use sys.platorm/sys.platform.startswith in pyscript to make it work with darwin, win and linux. It makes more sense to have something that's all procedural and still works on all platforms. No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.1831 / Virus Database: 2090/4557 - Release Date: 10/17/11 Internal Virus Database is out of date. -- Xavier Alok_Signature_email_.gif
Re: Intro to the new team (was RE: Softimage development)
Hey Steven, you were missing Manny Papamanos on the support team (;
Re: Softimage development
I thought it was more incriminating for me than you, hehe. Kinda double-edged sword. I value experiences a lot, and having that insight from you is really appreciated. Cheers 2012/4/18 Brent McPherson brent.mcpher...@autodesk.com Thanks for making me feel old. :-( I loved the time I spend designing and working on Maya. It was a great experience and I was every bit as passionate about that product as I am with Softimage. Leaving was nothing personal and I simply wanted to move to the UK for family reasons and that was something SGI couldn't help me with at the time. In software development (like production) it never hurts to learn different systems and understand their respective strengths and weaknesses. In fact, I still have my Maya 1.0 release CD proudly on display above my desk. It looms over my Softimage stamp. ;-) http://xsisupport.wordpress.com/2011/04/15/ [cid:image001.png@01CD1D85.39526750] -- Brent From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Xavier Lapointe Sent: 18 April 2012 16:44 To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Softimage development hmm, 14 years ago I was still in elementary school. Aouch. Thanks for the historical lesson (; -- Xavier
Re: Softimage development
Don't forget it's normal for people to move on new projects. If it wasn't of the acquisition years ago / Autodesk aura, would it be that big of a deal?
Re: 2012 SAP stability (or... not so much...)
Might be handy: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx 2012/4/17 Xavier Lapointe xl.mailingl...@gmail.com I don't know what you've tried so far except runonce and the user's Autodesk folder reset, but I would also suggest to remove all external addons/plugins/workgroup (not provided with Soft), and see if you experience the same crash. If you don't, then you know your problem lies somewhere in there. Having a virgin Autodesk directory would be a good thing too, I've seen crashes with custom UI Layout sometimes, even if they were not in use. You could also try any equivalent of strace (linux) on windows ... I think there's one. Might tell you at which point it's crashing. -- Xavier
Re: 2012 SAP stability (or... not so much...)
An article from xsisupport that might be related: http://xsisupport.wordpress.com/2011/08/27/the-case-of-the-missing-registry-values/ 2012/4/17 Xavier Lapointe xl.mailingl...@gmail.com Might be handy: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx 2012/4/17 Xavier Lapointe xl.mailingl...@gmail.com I don't know what you've tried so far except runonce and the user's Autodesk folder reset, but I would also suggest to remove all external addons/plugins/workgroup (not provided with Soft), and see if you experience the same crash. If you don't, then you know your problem lies somewhere in there. Having a virgin Autodesk directory would be a good thing too, I've seen crashes with custom UI Layout sometimes, even if they were not in use. You could also try any equivalent of strace (linux) on windows ... I think there's one. Might tell you at which point it's crashing. -- Xavier -- Xavier
