Re: deja view
yep – you’re thinking of SI3D. (it was much more needed then with the multitude of separate data) From: Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES] Sent: Friday, September 18, 2015 8:45 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: RE: deja view I knew I could do that. But that requires every scene be pre-loaded and then deleted. Seems like their used to be a move command in project manager that did not require you to load the scenes. Maybe I’m thinking of SI 3D…. -- Joey Ponthieux LaRC Information Technology Enhanced Services (LITES) MYMIC Technical Services NASA Langley Research Center __ Opinions stated here-in are strictly those of the author and do not represent the opinions of NASA or any other party. From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Davidson Sent: Friday, September 18, 2015 2:41 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: deja view Just save the scene in a new database, using save as, making sure you select the copy external files under project, option. see here: http://softimage.wiki.softimage.com/xsidocs/scenes_SavingScenes.htm On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 2:17 PM Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES] <j.ponthi...@nasa.gov> wrote: Ok, so I’m having this thought that I’ve done this before and that Soft used to have this ability, but can’t remember how. Seems I recall that I used to be able to move scenes from one project to another. In Project manager maybe? But there doesn’t seem to be any function for that. Is it possible, and if so how? I know files can be moved via windows, but moving a scene that way won’t move all necessary references. -- Joey Ponthieux LaRC Information Technology Enhanced Services (LITES) MYMIC Technical Services NASA Langley Research Center __ Opinions stated here-in are strictly those of the author and do not represent the opinions of NASA or any other party.
Re: deja view
Open current project and scene in it Setup new project and ofc make it active Then with scene open got to Save as and there is option to Copy all as well. just up the name of the file That should copy all images and referenced models copied under new project. [image: Inline image 1] That should do the trick On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 8:17 PM, Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES] < j.ponthi...@nasa.gov> wrote: > Ok, so I’m having this thought that I’ve done this before and that Soft > used to have this ability, but can’t remember how. > > > > Seems I recall that I used to be able to move scenes from one project to > another. In Project manager maybe? But there doesn’t seem to be any > function for that. > > > > Is it possible, and if so how? I know files can be moved via windows, but > moving a scene that way won’t move all necessary references. > > > > > > > > -- > > Joey Ponthieux > > LaRC Information Technology Enhanced Services (LITES) > > MYMIC Technical Services > > NASA Langley Research Center > > __ > > Opinions stated here-in are strictly those of the author and do not > > represent the opinions of NASA or any other party. > > >
RE: deja view
If you're thinking about command line tools, then yes, you're likely thinking of 'DbTools' from Softimage|3D which was run from the UNIX C Shell allowing you to manipulate files including moving stuff around between databases while preserving references. That was possible because the scene file format (.dsc) was plain text and contained all scene items which themselves were individual files. Softimage|XSI never had or needed such tools as the scene (.scn) contained everything except referenced models (.emdl) and image sources. You need to write your own script and run it either interactively or through xsibatch.exe if you need that functionality. If you do not want to use a script, you can manually parse the .scntoc to gather the links to external files and move them yourself. The .scntoc is a simple XML file format and easily parsed, and can be written just as easily. However, the tricky part will be in writing the scene into the new location with updated references as some .emdl's and other externally referenced files and caches can contain their own internal paths which you do not have access to. Which means even if you move the files, they'll still be looking for data in their old expected locations upon scene load. Hence, the need to run a script from within the application to load/save the scene. Matt Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 18:45:04 + From: "Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES]" <j.ponthi...@nasa.gov> Subject: RE: deja view To: "softimage@listproc.autodesk.com" I knew I could do that. But that requires every scene be pre-loaded and then deleted. Seems like their used to be a move command in project manager that did not require you to load the scenes. Maybe I?m thinking of SI 3D?. -- Joey Ponthieux LaRC Information Technology Enhanced Services (LITES) MYMIC Technical Services NASA Langley Research Center __ Opinions stated here-in are strictly those of the author and do not represent the opinions of NASA or any other party.
Re: deja view
Just save the scene in a new database, using save as, making sure you select the copy external files under project, option. see here: http://softimage.wiki.softimage.com/xsidocs/scenes_SavingScenes.htm On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 2:17 PM Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES] < j.ponthi...@nasa.gov> wrote: > Ok, so I’m having this thought that I’ve done this before and that Soft > used to have this ability, but can’t remember how. > > > > Seems I recall that I used to be able to move scenes from one project to > another. In Project manager maybe? But there doesn’t seem to be any > function for that. > > > > Is it possible, and if so how? I know files can be moved via windows, but > moving a scene that way won’t move all necessary references. > > > > > > > > -- > > Joey Ponthieux > > LaRC Information Technology Enhanced Services (LITES) > > MYMIC Technical Services > > NASA Langley Research Center > > __ > > Opinions stated here-in are strictly those of the author and do not > > represent the opinions of NASA or any other party. > > >
RE: deja view
I knew I could do that. But that requires every scene be pre-loaded and then deleted. Seems like their used to be a move command in project manager that did not require you to load the scenes. Maybe I’m thinking of SI 3D…. -- Joey Ponthieux LaRC Information Technology Enhanced Services (LITES) MYMIC Technical Services NASA Langley Research Center __ Opinions stated here-in are strictly those of the author and do not represent the opinions of NASA or any other party. From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Davidson Sent: Friday, September 18, 2015 2:41 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: deja view Just save the scene in a new database, using save as, making sure you select the copy external files under project, option. see here: http://softimage.wiki.softimage.com/xsidocs/scenes_SavingScenes.htm On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 2:17 PM Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES] <j.ponthi...@nasa.gov<mailto:j.ponthi...@nasa.gov>> wrote: Ok, so I’m having this thought that I’ve done this before and that Soft used to have this ability, but can’t remember how. Seems I recall that I used to be able to move scenes from one project to another. In Project manager maybe? But there doesn’t seem to be any function for that. Is it possible, and if so how? I know files can be moved via windows, but moving a scene that way won’t move all necessary references. -- Joey Ponthieux LaRC Information Technology Enhanced Services (LITES) MYMIC Technical Services NASA Langley Research Center __ Opinions stated here-in are strictly those of the author and do not represent the opinions of NASA or any other party.
RE: deja view
You can save a scene with the option "External files: Copy all / copy all under current project"..in the "save as" dialog. (in earlier versions it was called "Copy External Files under Project" with a checkbox). sven From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES] Sent: Friday, September 18, 2015 8:18 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: deja view Ok, so I'm having this thought that I've done this before and that Soft used to have this ability, but can't remember how. Seems I recall that I used to be able to move scenes from one project to another. In Project manager maybe? But there doesn't seem to be any function for that. Is it possible, and if so how? I know files can be moved via windows, but moving a scene that way won't move all necessary references. -- Joey Ponthieux LaRC Information Technology Enhanced Services (LITES) MYMIC Technical Services NASA Langley Research Center __ Opinions stated here-in are strictly those of the author and do not represent the opinions of NASA or any other party.
