First videos "SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage 2012"

[Oliver Weingarten]

Hi there!

In case you did not noticed yet, two videos of this years" 
SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage" are online..!


Helge Mathee
https://vimeo.com/50471148

Eric Mootz
https://vimeo.com/51082254

I guess, the rest will follow coming week!

cheers,
oliver

OT: looking for ICE talents around New York City

[Oliver Weingarten]

Hello there!

For an upcoming job in NCY I?m looking for someone supporting me on 
certain ICE stuff (particles, flocking and so on..).
If you are interested, please drop me a message via i...@pixelpanic.de 
..! Thanks!


cheers,
oli

Re: London Softimage user group is reborn!

[Oliver Weingarten]

Great work, guys! Good to know the London group is back in business and 
helps keeping the community alive!

Hope many people will join the event!!

cheers,
oli



Am 23.04.2012 16:42, schrieb Javier Vega:

Congratulations! Nice project!


El 23/04/2012, a las 11:30, a...@andynicholas.com 
<mailto:a...@andynicholas.com> escribió:



Hi everyone,


I'm very excited to officially announce to the list the relaunch of 
the London Softimage user group, now known as the Softimage 
Creatives, or "SiC" for short. Our website has gone live today at 
www.softimagecreatives.com <http://www.softimagecreatives.com>, and 
you can now register for the first event.



We're working hard to put together a meeting in about 6 weeks time, 
on Tuesday 5th June. It will be held at The Jerusalem Bar in Soho, 
London, right underneath Passion Pictures. There's 7 of us in total 
helping to put this together: Rob Chapman, Ciaran Moloney, Matt 
Morris, Ellen Payne, Dave Throssell, Adrian Wyer, and myself, some of 
whom you may recognise from this list.




Being a user group, it's not about us, it's about you. So we're 
looking for people to get involved on the evening, and there are 
three things you can do:



1. This one’s compulsory! If you want to come along on 5th June, 
make sure you register for the event using the “Register” button 
here: http://www.softimagecreatives.com/siclondon/?page_id=235



2. Let us know if you want to present something at the meeting. 
It’ll be quite informal, and you’ll just be talking to people 
crowding around you, rather than an entire room. It’s more like a 
show and tell, it wouldn’t have to last more than 15 minutes, and 
others will be happening simultaneously as you do yours. It’ll be 
fun, nothing to be scared about!



3. We want to show off some of the work you’ve been doing by 
putting together a Softimage reel to show at the event. Get in touch 
if we can use some of your gorgeous graphics in the video.



If you want to help us out on the evening or would like more 
information, you can get in touch directly with any of us, or through 
the contact form on the website, here: 
http://www.softimagecreatives.com/siclondon/?page_id=787



Full details of the event can be found here:

http://www.softimagecreatives.com/siclondon/?page_id=235

Twitter: @SIC_London
Facebook: 
http://www.facebook.com/pages/SoftimageCreatives/356159824418094



One last thing. Tell, Tweet, and Facebook this to everyone. Let's get 
some positive news about Softimage out there for a change! ;)


Cheers,
Andy







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UeberTage 2012...going international..?

[Oliver Weingarten]

Hello list!

I?m planing the SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage 2012 event this year again. I?m 
trying to get a nice lineup together with making ofs and new 
developments around our good old SOFTIMAGE. Currently I?m getting the 
sponsors together to finance our event this year. I?m on a good way, so 
far ;-)


Here is my question to the list.
I was thinking to convert our "German" event into an "international" 
event. All the presentations would then be held in English, of course.
I don?t know, if the feedback coming from the list and the international 
communities will be big enough to take this step.


Like in the past years, the event is going to take place in 
Siegen/Germany around late September, early October. Siegen is a about 
1,5 hours by car/train from the international airports Cologne or 
Frankfurt. The costs for accommodation are moderate.


So let me know what you think.

Cheers,
oliver

PS: I?ve also started a thread on si-community. So if you like, post 
your thoughts..THANKS!

http://www.si-community.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=2322

Re: mail...

[Oliver Weingarten]

Pong...Chris ;)

Am 28.05.2012 14:47, schrieb Christian Keller:

Ping
Am 27.05.2012 12:47, schrieb Christian Keller:

Ping

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gesendet von meinem iDing

Am 27.05.2012 um 08:22 schrieb Matt Morris <mailto:matt...@gmail.com>>:



Yeah!! All good. Receiving loud and clear again!

On Sunday, 27 May 2012, Alan Fregtman <mailto:alan.fregt...@gmail.com>> wrote:

> Finally some mail. Tumbleweeds be gone! :D
>
> On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 9:39 PM, J. Jones <mailto:jgjones...@gmail.com>> wrote:

>>
>> Ditto. Whatever was haywire appears to be fixed.
>>
>> On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Eric Thivierge 
mailto:ethivie...@gmail.com>> wrote:

>>>
>>> Whoo hooo!! I got it!
>>> 
>>> Eric Thivierge
>>> http://www.ethivierge.com
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 11:32 AM, jim bough 
mailto:jimbo...@hotmail.com>> wrote:

>>>>
>>>> I second that. First two emails in last 10 days.
>>>>
>>>> 
>>>> Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 21:29:01 -0400
>>>> Subject: Re: mail...
>>>> From: guillaume.laforge...@gmail.com 
<mailto:guillaume.laforge...@gmail.com>
>>>> To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com 
<mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com>

>>>>
>>>> Hey Matt,
>>>> You are the first email a received from this list (from my 
gmail) since 10 days !

>>>> Is the problem fixed for others too?
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 8:44 PM, Matt Morris <mailto:matt...@gmail.com>> wrote:

>>>>
>>>> Hi Gray,
>>>> I unsubscribed and resubscribed to the list by sending mails to 
softimage@listproc.autodesk.com <mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com>

>>>>
>>>> Got the verification mails etc so it feels like it should have 
worked but still not receiving mail from the xsi list - am getting 
everything from other lists I'm on such as sitoa.

>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> www.matinai.com <http://www.matinai.com>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>
>

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Re: Who has switched to Vray and loves it?

[Oliver Weingarten]

Hey Marc-Andre!

Well, I´m using Vray since two years (also the beta) for certain 
projects, not for all. It performed quite well. I like the integration 
and the concept of having identical parameters over all the different 
packages. That way you can easily adapt tuts from other application. I 
like the look Vray generates and I like the straight forward setup of a 
scene. You will get nice results really quick.
The five rendernodes are cool, and I think, you get 5 more standalone 
rendernodes (for Vray archives), if I got it correct...
Currently setting it up for my own little "render backyard". I think you 
get a good renderer for your money. Support is excellent and very 
responsive on bugreports and other stuff...very nice guys ;)


cheers,
oli

Am 21.06.2012 21:11, schrieb Marc-Andre Carbonneau:


Hi,

I'm wondering who has switched to VRay for Softimage completely and 
loves it.


I don't seem to see much commercials or movies stating they have used 
Vray for Softimage. Has it picked up?


Now, after a few months now, how does it compare to Arnold? Why have 
you picked VRay instead of Arnold?


How's Vray's "buy one get 5 free for your farm" working for you?

Thanks.

Marc-Andre

International "SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage 2012" meeting on Friday, September 28th 2012

[Oliver Weingarten]

Hello there!

*SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage 2012 will take place on Friday, September 28th 2012 
in Siegen/Germany once again!


*There are some new things though:
*The biggest change will be, that from now on the "official" language of 
our meeting will be English. So international guest are widely welcome 
and won?t have any trouble following our presentations and talks!


I?m also proud to announce, that UeberTage is now considered as one 
German section of the "Softimage Creatives" network founded in London in 
2012.*


Currently I?m planing the lineup which again will be a mix of technical 
and creative aspects around our good old SOFTIMAGE.
"Making ofs" and taking a look behind the scenes will be part of the 
presentations, as well as new developments of plugins and renderes 
around SOFTIMAGE. Stay tuned for further news, that is coming up soon..!!



Take a look at our website(s):
http://www.softimage-uebertage.de
http://www.softimagecreatives.com/

or visit sicommunity for certain updates:
http://www.si-community.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2505

If you plan to visit us from other countries, feel free to contact me 
directly. I?ll help where I can!


I?ll keep you postet!

Cheers,
oli

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Line-up for 6. International "SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage 2012" meeting on Friday, September 28th 2012

[Oliver Weingarten]

SOFTIMAGE|ÜberTage 2012  Friday, September 28th 2012 in Siegen/Germany


The line-up for SOFTIMAGE|ÜberTage 2012:

*Polynoid GmbH*, Berlin/Germany : "Making of.."

*Eric Mootz*, Developer at Mootzoid, Saarbrücken/ Germany : "emFluid5"

*Sehsucht GmbH*, Hamburg/Germany : "Making of.."

*Kamen Livlov*, Developer V-Ray for Softimage at Chaosgroup, 
Sofia/Bulgaria: "V-Ray for Softimage"


*Andy Nicholas*, Senior TD at The Mill, London/UK: "Understanding maths 
and physics in production"


*Helge Mathee*, Developer at FabricEngine, Hamgurg/Germany: 
"FabricEngine and Softimage"


(presenters and/or topics might change)

EVENT SPECIAL FOR ALL VISITORS -  EVENT SPECIAL FOR ALL VISITORS - EVENT 
SPECIAL FOR ALL VISITORS


Visitors of the Softimag|ÜberTage 2012 will get a
* 25% discount from the end user price of "V-Ray for Softimage Full 
Commercial license"!!*
This offer can not be mixed with other discounts or promotions 
concerning this product (e.g. 10Y promos).
  You will receive your discount voucher directly at our meeting in 
Siegen. It will be valid one month starting from the 28th of September.


REGISTER NOW!

http://www.softimage-uebertage.de//pages/register.php

Hope to see you in Siegen!!

http://www.softimage-uebertage.de

https://www.facebook.com/SoftimageUberTage

cheers,
oli


Am 04.07.2012 18:35, schrieb Oliver Weingarten:

Hello there!

*SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage 2012 will take place on Friday, September 28th 
2012 in Siegen/Germany once again!


*There are some new things though:
*The biggest change will be, that from now on the "official" language 
of our meeting will be English. So international guest are widely 
welcome and won?t have any trouble following our presentations and talks!


I?m also proud to announce, that UeberTage is now considered as one 
German section of the "Softimage Creatives" network founded in London 
in 2012.*


Currently I?m planing the lineup which again will be a mix of 
technical and creative aspects around our good old SOFTIMAGE.
"Making ofs" and taking a look behind the scenes will be part of the 
presentations, as well as new developments of plugins and renderes 
around SOFTIMAGE. Stay tuned for further news, that is coming up soon..!!



Take a look at our website(s):
http://www.softimage-uebertage.de
http://www.softimagecreatives.com/

or visit sicommunity for certain updates:
http://www.si-community.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2505

If you plan to visit us from other countries, feel free to contact me 
directly. I?ll help where I can!


I?ll keep you postet!

Cheers,
oli
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berleburger strasse 44
57072 siegen germany
fon +49 271 2383587
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cell +49 173 9928465
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Please contribute: 3D WILL NEVER BE THE SAME

[Oliver Weingarten]

Hello there!

I have decided to open a collaborative website 
(http://www.3dwillneverbethesame.com) to celebrate and commemorate our 
dedication to the software currently known as Autodesk Softimage, with 
your help eventually incorporating all kinds of user stories and 
statements, galleries and the like. This is not about the company (or 
its predecessors) that produces the software and/or its policies 
concerning the product, this is primarily about the software itself and 
the great talent working with it.


If you like to contribute, here are some suggestions:

If you like to share "Your Story" with us in text form or in a short 
video message, these bullet points might give some ideas:


- tell us who you are, where you live and when you started working in 3D 
business

- when did you came in contact with SOFTIMAGE?
- how where these first experiences?
- did you get specialized in a certain area?
- what do you like most about SOFTIMAGE?
- give us some links to projects you were working on

Please give us a photograph of yourself, it´s always nice to see the 
human behind it all. ;)


For a short statement, just say what you like most about SOFTIMAGE and 
why. Please provide your name, your position and a photograph of you. 
You might also send this as a short video message.


For sending in video messages, please provide us the link to video 
either on vimeo or youtube. If you don´t have an account, just provide 
the download link to the video file (h264, mp4, mov, wmv) and we will 
host it.


Keep in mind this is a website dedicated to the software SOFTIMAGE, not 
the company that produces the software. This is not intended as a place 
to vent frustrations about the latter. Please keep it positive!


Looking forward to you contributions!

Please send an email with you content to following address:
contrib...@3dwillneverbethesame.com

Thanks and take care!
Oliver


PS: To all "non believers" out there concerning the latest "rumors": no 
AD official stood up so far, as usual, and denied anything about those 
"rumors". Draw you own conclusion about that...

Re: Save Softimage on Facebook and Reddit

[Oliver Weingarten]

Hey...

parts of this will hopefully be covered by 
www.3dwillneverbethesame.com...we can of course change the name later on 
in something more positive ;)..why not
People are starting to send stuff in right and I invite everyone to 
participate...
It might alsoget a place for a user database and a place for discussion 
about the future...and maybe joining forces of users and studiosetc. 
What do you think?


Thanks ;)

cheers,
oli

Am 05.03.2014 16:44, schrieb Emilio Hernandez:


That is exactly why I believe it is a good idea.

But again, we need text on it.  So people will know by seeing it what 
is all about.  People that are in the industry will immediatly know.  
People that don't by curiosity will google Softimage and then, they 
will know.



Now  that we are talking seriously here and after all yesterday's 
passion.  The social strategy campaign must containt the following in 
order to drive the media attention.  That is what we need.


1. Web site/blog  (open to ideas on the domain name.  I will put the 
money for it.)
2. Video recording of ourselves to show our position after ADSK 
announcement next week. (Sorry but we need to be on Youtube this days, 
or if someone else has a better idea).
3. Signed petition to sell Softimage to other company that really 
cares about us, after ADKS announcement next week. Or something like 
that.  (Done by the petition already there and the FB page)
4. Show what is the work that it has been made with Softimage.  (Not 
only big films and features but our work as well)
5. Do video comparisons of the Softimage vs Maya workflow unbiased as 
the one you already watched.
6. Put the XSI icon in our profiles, Google, FB, Twitter, etc.  (We 
are on it.)



This is the deal guys if we want to drive true attention.  Other 
isolated attempts will be vane.  For this to happen and to make 
something happen we really need commitment.  I am willing to dedicate 
to it, my time and money.  I am ready to fight against all odds.


Maybe nothing will happen, maybe it will.  Things this days are 
different from the old days.  And if we raise awarness at the right 
spot. You'll never know.


But we will never know if we don't try.

I am willing to go for it and not to just stand back..

And most important we need some other place to organize us rather than 
this list..   Maybe another dedicated list would be better.

---
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Re: mootzoid.com down?

[Oliver Weingarten]

Hey guys!

Eric had to make certain changes to server and stuff like that. So 
downtime was due to that!
He will show up again, when he sorted out some trouble with the email 
account.


cheers,
oli


Am 07.03.2014 03:29, schrieb Maurício PC:

And it's back on: http://www.mootzoid.com/

Eric is alive ... *ALIVE!!*


On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 10:35 PM, Raffaele Fragapane 
mailto:raffsxsil...@googlemail.com>> wrote:


Return their marketing material to them?



On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 1:44 AM, Szabolcs Matefy
mailto:szabol...@crytek.com>> wrote:

It'd be nice to send them a big pile of steaming, stinky bull
shit, literally speaking





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Re: Listening

[Oliver Weingarten]

Nothing to add to this...it says it all, great post, Emilio!!

Am 08.03.2014 09:27, schrieb Emilio Hernandez:
Autodesk tried to kill Softimage right from the beggining.  Since the 
very first time Softimage never showed up in the front page of their 
website. All they showed up was Maya and MAX.  Never gave the deserved 
attention and right branding/marketing.


You never put enough attention and effort on really growing up the 
sales.  The main dev team was ripped off and plugged into Maya, and 
delivered only lame upgrades year after year.


Even with this, Softimage delivered amazing work created by amazing 
artists. Not only in the big studios, but from the independent 
freelancers to mid size studios.


You want to listen, ok. listen well.

You are blind with your Maya paradigm.  Maya artists that trully went 
to start using Softimage, and not overwhelmed by such a pristine UI, 
that at first view from a Maya user, seems that it lacks of a lot of 
stuff, without stupid icons everywhere. Never went back to Maya.  I 
personally know several of them.  Here in my country, there were two 
studios that went into the endeavour of starting a full 3D animated 
feature film. Right from the beggining they chose Softimage.


At my former small studio, the artists that I hired were Maya guys, 
after I trainned them in Softimage, they said in a meeting that 
Softimage opened them a new door.


Recently one of them freelanced for the Eugenio Derbez latest movie 
doing some character animation for this film, and he used Softimage 
not Maya.  At first he was asigned only one shot as he entered late.  
He deliver faster than other freelance guys using Maya, and he got two 
more shots.


Softimage "The suite plugin", each time it is used in production is 
sorrounded by success.  But each time such stories hit the media, you 
take care of diminishing the use of Softimage.


Before Eric Mootz ported his addons to Maya, he was never in your 
spotlight, the same with Arnold and others.  Now you present proudly 
Eric Mootz, and his tools in a Maya environment.  If it is Softimage, 
you bury the name, but if it is Maya you don't hesitate to put into 
all the frontpages you can, and fill your mouth with it.


Your statement of "we tried" it is nothing else but a big lie.  You 
never tried.


The PETA commercial.

When did you featured that in the Area and in your front page and 
filled your mouth that it was made with Softimage? NEVER.  Three 
awards given by the VES society and did you care to write even a few 
lines about being proud that Softimage was used for that amazing work?


And you are saying that you tried?

You kept us all these years with rumors, rumors, and finally you ended 
these rumors. Meanwhile you were saying that Softimage was to stay 
with Autodesk, and in good hands...


If Softimage has a name it is because of the Softimage community, not 
because of you.


Do you really believe that Maya is the future? I call it going back to 
the past.  If Maya was really a better choice for us, you wouldn't be 
now in this position.


I suggest you take a look to a video I made to compare the workflow to 
achieve the same effect in Maya vs Softimage.  This is just a small 
example of the general workflow.


https://vimeo.com/87722342

Being unbiased you tell me which one, is the one that should be 
killed, and which one deserves your attention.


You say you can't afford to put more money into Softimage?

Well don't do it.  Just keep fixing  the bugs and deliver SP, but open 
the SDK to allow further development from 3rd party developers.


You will still earn money from the subscriptions, and tech support, 
while you allow others to invest their money to develop new tools for 
Softimage.


Since the time you acquired Softimage the real improvemnts are from 
3rd pary devs.  Not from you.


You don't put to sale Softimage because you know that if another 
company acquires it,  in a year or two Softimage will start kicking 
Maya's ass with the right branding and marketing.


You also know that if you start to give Softimage the place it 
deserves, artists that never used Softimage before, will start using 
it.  Maya sales will start to drop while more Softimage seats start to 
appear, and you don't want to look bad in front of your stock holders 
of the big amounts of money you have put in the wrong place.


So what is the best you can do?  Kill Softimage to cover your 
incompetence and your waste of money in Maya.  As you know in deep 
that Softimage is better than Maya, and you don't want to look bad at 
your stock holders with the waste of resources that you made all of 
this years.


You are loosing money not because of Softimage, it is because  others 
like Houdini and The Foundry are taking over you.  And they eventually 
will.  You want to know why, because you chose to go with Maya and 
cover your mistakes.


If you only had a light of vision and innovation, just by simple 
developing further Softimage and

Re: Update to the Softtimage Transition Plan

[Oliver Weingarten]

Hey Maurice,

just to make it clear. AD does not offer a complete replecement for ICE 
for now and in the near future. Doyou think it was a smart move to kill 
off a software that had a unique selling point like ICE if you are not 
able to offer a similar technology...? Not to mention all the workflow 
issues, UIlogic, reliability and stuff like that..oh..I forgot, you are 
working on it right now..and yes, you will focus on that "in the 
future"...sure...You don´t need to answer...its a rhetorical question one...


cheers,
oli


Am 09.03.2014 09:38, schrieb Maurice Patel:

Hi Andi,
As many people pointed out I don't think anything else can be a complete 
replacement for ICE. Bifrost is not a port of ICE to Maya and that was not the 
goal nor did I mean to imply that it was. It is just an area of innovation for 
us in the sense that we are creating something from scratch. A lot of its 
design of course was influenced heavily by Naiad and by ICE.
Maurice

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From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com 
[mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Andi Farhall
Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2014 4:30 AM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: RE: Update to the Softtimage Transition Plan


Hi Maurice,

so Bifrost is a success you say, so can we expect it to be at least everything 
ICE is and more? Will people who transition to Maya end up not missing ICE 
because that's the number one issue for many of us.

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From: maurice.pa...@autodesk.com
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: RE: Update to the Softtimage Transition Plan
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2014 04:51:45 +
Hi Sebastian,

I'll try to answer your question as best I can. I have been reading the threads 
and trying to figure out how best to answer questions like the one you posed, 
or even if it was worth it. Especially,  given the fact that there is no real 
reason for anyone here to trust anything I say. I would feel the same if I were 
standing in your shoes - and I have in the past. Before I answer your question 
officially for Autodesk I would like to share my own personal experience of 
situations like these. Once, rather Ironically, when I was working for 
Softimage in 2000, their leadership team asked me to communicate the decision 
to stop development on Media Illusion (another acquisition) to our customers, 
many of whom I had personally trained. These things do not get any easier with 
time.

The decision to make Softimage 2015 the last release was not made because of cost-issues - that is to say 
it was not done to reduce the operating expenses of the M&E division - which is why there was no 
reduction in work force. The decision was made so that we could focus our efforts on fewer projects 
enabling us to better execute on them and free resources to research new areas of innovation. Luc-Eric 
explained this in a bit more detail earlier. The decision was made at the end of last year after many 
months of deliberation and it was not something that was undertaken lightly (Autodesk's annual strategic 
planning cycle, when decisions like these are typically made, kicks off in earnest in September). There 
were many factors that led to that decision and although hindsight is great these factors are not always 
predictable. Several of the plans we had previously made did not work out as expected and so evolved 
significantly over time. Anyone who has ever had to manage a business or project will probably be familiar 
with the fact that plans can change quite rapidly (and in unexpected directions) as new events occur and 
you react to them. To quote someone a whole lot smarter than I: "the best laid plans of mice and men 
often go astray." We were optimistic that some of the R&D methodologies and innovations we were 
experimenting with would prove more fruitful than they did (e.g. projects like skyline). Does that mean we 
should not have attempted them? Personally, I think we need to try and do new things even if we know that 
99% of attempts at innovation will end in failure - after all they sometimes end in success (e.g. Bifrost). 
Ultimately when we say "

SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage 2013 takes place September 13th 2013 in Siegen, Germany

[Oliver Weingarten]

Hi there!

It will happen again, this year..!
SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage 2013 will take place on

Friday, September 13th 2013 from 10.00h-18.00h in Siegen, Germany

Teaser for 2013 with impression of SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage 2012:
https://vimeo.com/57087794

Our homepage:
http://www.softimage-uebertage.de

Register now:
http://uebertage.eventbrite.com/

The program is in the making and will be released as soon as possible!

Visit us at facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/SoftimageUberTage

Cheers,
oli

Re: Why did I pay support?? Why did I buy a suite ? I want my money back!

[Oliver Weingarten]

This IS ridicules...what a mess!!

And yes...this hand full of fixes over the past two years were not worth 
1800 Euro. There would be so many things that need an upgrade...

But for now there is no alternative to Soft right now.


Am 31.07.2013 04:20, schrieb Luc-Eric Rousseau:

On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 9:57 PM, Raffaele Fragapane
 wrote:

Chris might be a bit too high up.
Soft got two "new" product manager/designer who have been kinda absent.

Daniel Tutino replaced Cory, who was sort of temping in after Chinny... more
or less, I guess.

the Softimage product manager is Cory.  Daniel no longer works for Cory

Line-Up SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage2013

[Oliver Weingarten]

Hello there!

I?m happy to announce this year?s line-up for SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage 2013!

Teaser:
http://vimeo.com/71882674

Here you go:

Rüdiger Kaltenhäuser, 3D Lead at Glassworks, Amsterdam/Netherlands : 
"Making of.." www.glassworksamsterdam.nl/


Eric Mootz, Developer at Mootzoid, Saarbrücken/ Germany : "Current 
Developments" www.mootzoid.com


Polynoid GmbH , Berlin/Germany : "Making of.." www.polynoid.tv

Stephan Wörmann, Developer, Dortmund/Germany: "Octane Render for 
Softimage" www.otoy.com


Helge Mathee, Developer at Fabric Engine Inc. : "Fabric Engine: Splice 
in Softimage" www.fabricengine.com


Oliver Weingarten, VFX Artist and 3D Generalist, Siegen/Germany: "Sneak 
Peak: Redshift for Softimage" www.redshift3d.com


Register here and participate for free!
http://uebertage.eventbrite.com/

See you!

cheers,
oli

Re: Line-Up SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage2013

[Oliver Weingarten]

Hey Cristobal!

Thanks! Well, I try my best! This great piece of software and the great 
talent of people working with it deserves it ;)


Yes. cologne is the right place to fly! Just pm (i...@pixelpanic.de) me 
if you need any further assistance!


Hope to see you there!!

best,
oli
Am 07.08.2013 15:56, schrieb Cristobal Infante:
This looks sweet Oliver, you are doing a great jobs by keeping this 
event going. Will try to make it, best way to get there from London is 
to fly to Cologne right?



On 7 August 2013 13:07, Sven Constable <mailto:sixsi_l...@imagefront.de>> wrote:


Are guests allowed to wear hockey masks? :)

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[mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com
<mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com>] *On Behalf Of
    *Oliver Weingarten
*Sent:* Wednesday, August 07, 2013 12:52 PM
*To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
<mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com>
*Subject:* Line-Up SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage2013

Hello there!

I´m happy to announce this year´s line-up for SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage
2013!

Teaser:
http://vimeo.com/71882674

Here you go:

Rüdiger Kaltenhäuser, 3D Lead at Glassworks, Amsterdam/Netherlands
: "Making of.." www.glassworksamsterdam.nl/
<http://www.glassworksamsterdam.nl/>

Eric Mootz, Developer at Mootzoid, Saarbrücken/ Germany : "Current
Developments" www.mootzoid.com <http://www.mootzoid.com>

Polynoid GmbH , Berlin/Germany : "Making of.." www.polynoid.tv
<http://www.polynoid.tv>

Stephan Wörmann, Developer, Dortmund/Germany: "Octane Render for
Softimage" www.otoy.com <http://www.otoy.com>

Helge Mathee, Developer at Fabric Engine Inc. : "Fabric Engine:
Splice in Softimage" www.fabricengine.com
<http://www.fabricengine.com>

Oliver Weingarten, VFX Artist and 3D Generalist, Siegen/Germany:
"Sneak Peak: Redshift for Softimage" www.redshift3d.com
<http://www.redshift3d.com>

Register here and participate for free!
http://uebertage.eventbrite.com/

See you!

cheers,
oli

Re: Line-Up SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage2013

[Oliver Weingarten]

Hey guys!!

Yes.! Lunch is prepared, coffee is brewing...Bars are reserved!
 ;)

Am 07.08.2013 17:16, schrieb Helge Mathee:

curse you are. Too much hugging will damage my brain.

At least sober. I guess we are planning properly, Oliver? Several bars 
reserved?


On 07.08.2013 17:09, Nicolas Esposito wrote:
Since I'll be using the company car (tt, don't tell anyone ) I'll 
better stick to the speed limits ( at least where there are any 
)but yeah, autobahn are marvelous with a nice view all around!


Can't wait to see Helge hugging everyone as soon as the event begin :-P


2013/8/7 Rob Chapman mailto:tekano@gmail.com>>

course you are! :)

On 7 August 2013 16:56, Helge Mathee mailto:helge.mat...@gmx.net>> wrote:
> just to be clear, I am not the hugging kind
>
>
> On 07.08.2013 16:42, Nicolas Esposito wrote:
>
> Cool, so there will be Softimage cosplay girls standing there
giving free
> hugs?...or am I misinterpreting what you're saying? it'll be
you? :-P
>
> I'll probably get in Siegen the day before, I don't want to
fall asleep
> after waking up at 5am and after 3.5 hours driving...unless
there will be
> comfortable armchairs :-)
>
>
> 2013/8/7 Rob Wuijster mailto:r...@casema.nl>>
>>
>> You'll get a free hug if you show up ;-)
>>
>> And a 3,5 hour drive? Oh please ;-P
>>
>> Rob
>>
>> \/-\/\/
>>
>> On 7-8-2013 16:28, Nicolas Esposito wrote:
>>
>> Booked, not 100% sure if I'll be in Germany that period, but I
will try, I
>> would love to attend this event :)
>>
>> Since I'll be near Nurnberg it'll take 3.5 hours, quite a long
road but I
>> don't care
>>
>> What about freebies? :D
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Nicolas
>>
>>
>> 2013/8/7 Oliver Weingarten mailto:li...@pixelpanic.de>>
>>>
>>> Hey Cristobal!
>>>
>>> Thanks! Well, I try my best! This great piece of software and
the great
>>> talent of people working with it deserves it ;)
>>>
>>> Yes. cologne is the right place to fly! Just pm
(i...@pixelpanic.de <mailto:i...@pixelpanic.de>) me
>>> if you need any further assistance!
>>>
>>> Hope to see you there!!
>>>
>>> best,
>>> oli
>>> Am 07.08.2013 15:56, schrieb Cristobal Infante:
>>>
>>> This looks sweet Oliver, you are doing a great jobs by
keeping this event
>>> going. Will try to make it, best way to get there from London
is to fly to
>>> Cologne right?
>>>
>>>
>>> On 7 August 2013 13:07, Sven Constable
mailto:sixsi_l...@imagefront.de>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Are guests allowed to wear hockey masks? :)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com
<mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com>
>>>> [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com
<mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com>] On Behalf Of Oliver
>>>> Weingarten
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2013 12:52 PM
>>>> To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
<mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com>
>>>> Subject: Line-Up SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage2013
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hello there!
>>>>
>>>> I´m happy to announce this year´s line-up for
SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage 2013!
>>>>
>>>> Teaser:
>>>> http://vimeo.com/71882674
>>>>
>>>> Here you go:
>>>>
    >>>> Rüdiger Kaltenhäuser, 3D Lead at Glassworks,
Amsterdam/Netherlands :
>>>> "Making of.." www.glassworksamsterdam.nl/
<http://www.glassworksamsterdam.nl/>
>>>>
>>>> Eric Mootz, Developer at Mootzoid, Saarbrücken/ Germany :
"Current
>>>> Developments" www.mootzoid.com <http://www.mootzoid.com>
>>>>
>>>> Polynoid GmbH , Berlin/Germany : "Making of.."
www.polynoid.tv <http://www.polynoid.tv>
>>>>
>>>> Stephan Wörmann, Developer, Dortmund/Germany: "Octane Render for
>>>> Softimage" www.otoy.com <http://www.otoy.com>
>>>>
>>>> Helge Mathee, Developer at Fabric Engine Inc. : "Fabric
Engine: Splice
>>>> in Softimage" www.fabricengine.com <http://www.fabricengine.com>
>>>>
>>>> Oliver Weingarten, VFX Artist and 3D Generalist,
Siegen/Germany: "Sneak
>>>> Peak: Redshift for Softimage" www.redshift3d.com
<http://www.redshift3d.com>
>>>>
>>>> Register here and participate for free!
>>>> http://uebertage.eventbrite.com/
>>>>
>>>> See you!
>>>>
>>>> cheers,
>>>> oli
>>>
>>>
>>
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Date: 08/06/13
>>
>>
>
>

Autodesk acquires Solid Angle

[Oliver Weingarten]

Hey there...some news..so it seems. Take a look

"SAN FRANCISCO---Autodesk, Inc 
. 
(NASDAQ:ADSK) has acquired Solid Angle, developer of Arnold, an 
advanced, ray-tracing image renderer for high-quality 3D animation and 
visual effects creation used in film, television and advertising 
worldwide. Acquisition terms were not disclosed."


http://news.autodesk.com/press-release/autodesk-boosts-advanced-rendering-capabilities-through-acquisition-solid-angle

Cheers,
oli

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Re: large point cloud

[Oliver Weingarten]

Hey Chris!

if you have access to emTopolizer2...Eric has an importer for several 
formats like these (from his documentation) 
http://www.mootzoid.com/learning/emTopolizer/documentation/v_emTopolizer2):


The supported particle cache file formats (when*reading*):

 * *".bgeo"*(Houdini, prior to version 12).
 * *".bhclassic"*(Houdini, prior to version 12).
 * *".geo"*(Houdini, prior to version 12).
 * *".hclassic"*(Houdini, prior to version 12).
 * *".pdb32"*(Maya).
 * *".pdb64"*(Maya).
 * *".mc"*(3ds max / Maya).
 * *".ptc"*(RenderMan).
 * *".bin"*(RealFlow particle format).
 * *".pts"*(3D Points File).
 * *".ptf"*(Maya).
 * *".itbl"*(Houdini).
 * *".atbl"*(Houdini).

I used the PTS import and cached the points a normal ICE cache for this 
video:

https://vimeo.com/161652364

cheers
oli


Am 25.05.2016 um 13:04 schrieb Chris Marshall:

Hi All,
I have a very large point cloud file in .xyz format. I've imported 
these in the past no problem using the import_xyz_Points python 
script. But the file I'm trying to import was, well the original was 
200million points, which I've managed to filter down to 20 Million 
using Cloud Compare. I guess I could leave it over night to see what 
happens, but after an hour it hadn't got to 1% imported. So I was 
wondering if there's a better workflow than simply importing the whole 
file in one go?


Thanks
Chris





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UeberTage|2016 in Siegen/Germany September 16th 2016 !Program online!

[Oliver Weingarten]

Hey there!
Visit us at UeberTage|2016 this year!

http://www.uebertage.com/

Register here:
http://www.eventbrite.com/e/ubertage2016-tickets-26359266275?aff=es2

Program can be found here:
http://www.uebertage.com/program-2016-2/


“Making of Session” 45 minutes:*
*“Making of: Nike Air Max 1″
*Matthias Zabiegly, Aixsponza Munich/Germany
*www.aixxponza.de *
*

   Developing a full retail package from layout to final for Nikes Air
   Max 1 Ultra Flyknit launch. We’ll look at mood frames and dive deep
   into knitting technology both in 3d and real life.




/
/“Cinema 4D Session” 45 minutes:
“Procedural Workflows in Cinema 4D”“
*Orestis Konstantinidis, Maxon/Friedrichsdorf, Germany
www.maxon.net 
*

   Demonstrating the combination of MoGraph and Fracturing in C4D 4D
   R18 for an artist-oriented, non-destructive workflow. Followed up by
   a small making of, where we take apart a setup built with native C4D
   tools.

   Orestis started as a freelancer and later worked in a Japanese
   studio for a few years. He is a technically-minded with special
   interest on rigging and animation.
   Now Orestis working at Maxon Computer GmbH as part of the UX Design
   team.




“Houdini Session” 45 minutes:
“Houdini”
*N.N., Sidefx/Toronto, Canada
www.sidefx.com 
*

   Subject and presenter is coming soon😉





“Making of Session” 45 minutes:
“Making of: Mercedes Benz – Backstage”
*Henning Westerwelle, Infected Post, Hamburg/Germany
www.infected-post.de 
*

   Case Study: Mercedes Benz – Backstage – how we created a fully
   digital music fest concert. Henning Westerwelle presents from a
   producer and VFX Supervising perspective the case study of Mercedes
   Benz Sprinter “Backstage” production. A film that involved the work
   of all disciplines from Infected for quite a few months.




“Keyshot Session” 45 minutes:

“Rendering made fast, easy and accurate with KeyShot”

*Dries Vervoort, Luxion, Aarhus/Denmark*
www.keyshot.com/ 

   Learn how KeyShot can cover all your visualization needs. Find out
   how KeyShot enables you to create amazing renderings and animations,
   fast and easy. KeyShot is a CAD independent and standalone CPU based
   renderer and supports the widest number of 3D file formats on both
   Mac and PC.

   Dries Vervoort holds a Master’s degree in Product Development from
   the University of Antwerp, Belgium. He built several years of
   experience as an industrial designer before his long-standing
   passion for 3D visualization led him to move from Belgium to Aarhus,
   Denmark to support the development of KeyShot. He joined the ranks
   of Luxion as a Digital Media Artist and development supporter in
   August 2015. Dries divides most of his time between idea generation,
   concept development, creative development, software testing and
   training.




“ToonBoom and Making of” 45 minutes:
“From mice and monsters – a sketch hits the big screen”
*Christian Asmussen, TrickStudio Lutterbeck GmbH, Cologne, Germany
www.trickstudio.de
*

   Since 1988 TrickStudio Lutterbeck produces 2D animation. On 09/08/16
   TrickStudio’s first feature film “Molly Monster – The Movie” will be
   released.
   Christian Asmussen shows the production of 2D hand-drawn animation
   with a lot of excerpts from current productions.




“Making of Session” 45 minutes:
“Making of:
*Tim Borgmann, Wuppertal/Germany
www.bt-3d.de 
*

   Tim Borgmann will talk about recent projects, beginning from
   “MindOverEye” to “Kinderriegel”. Tim is working as a freelance
   artist in vfx and graphics national as well as international since
   the mid of the nineties. During the years he has worked on a wide
   range of projects for different clients. His main focus is mostly
   vfx, look development and design. Besides my commercial work Tim
   spends his time on free art projects, always seeking for aesthetic
   and interesting image worlds.

ÜberTage says goodbye: ÜberTage|2016 this Friday, September 16th in Siegen/Germany

[Oliver Weingarten]

Hey folks!

Due to the low interest in our meeting this year, I made the decision to 
end it after this event taking place coming Friday.
I organized this event for 8 years and it was always fun and pleasure to 
meet so many nice people here. I´m thankful for so many good things. We 
had great talks and a pretty nice time together. Though, it´s hard to 
see Softimage and its community die out slowly and there is no way to 
stop, or even slow it down a little. My effort to transform the SI 
meeting to an open 3D usermeeting did not succeed in the end. There 
seems not enough motivation out there to make the effort, to take that 
day(or two) to come over and take part. I totally understand that.
Thanks for all the support from sponsors and all the people who were 
speaking and sharing stuff with us. Thanks to those, who visited us and 
took part. Thanks a lot an take care! Maybe we will met in some other 
kind of meeting ;)

Anyway, looking forward to this Friday and meeting some of you guys 
again in the old spirit!!

Cheers,
Oliver

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Re: ÜberTage says goodbye: ÜberTage|2016 this Friday, September 16th in Siegen/Germany

[Oliver Weingarten]

Hey guys,

thanks a lot for all the kind words!!

I guess, we had a very nice ÜT event the last Friday with pretty high 
class presentations! We went pretty late and had a nice evening together 
with a couple of drinks ;)
Rob did a pretty detailed summary, thanks a lot Rob!!
You may find it here:
http://www.si-community.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=6414&start=20

Anyway, thanks to all the great speakers, all the visitors and sponsors!
Maybe we meet again at some other event..hopefully!! ;)

cheers,
oli


Am 14.09.2016 um 11:03 schrieb Morten Bartholdy:
> Oh and I forgot to mention I have always enjoyed watching the great videos 
> from Übertage - thanks again.
>
> Morten
>
>
>
>
>> Den 14. september 2016 klokken 11:00 skrev Morten Bartholdy 
>> :
>>
>>
>> I am sorry to hear this great initiative has come to an end - it would have 
>> been great for the community if it had found new feet and lived on after the 
>> sad demise of Softimage.
>>
>> I am one of those who always wanted to come but never managed due to 
>> production schedules. Had I been independant I would for sure have come down 
>> to meet all you great guys and be a more active part of the community.
>>
>> Thanks for all the good and, I'm sure, hard work you have done Oliver - you 
>> are one of the great contributors to the Softimage community.
>>
>> Best regards
>> Morten Bartholdy
>>
>>
>>
>>> Den 13. september 2016 klokken 10:22 skrev Oliver Weingarten 
>>> :
>>>
>>>
>>> Hey folks!
>>>
>>> Due to the low interest in our meeting this year, I made the decision to
>>> end it after this event taking place coming Friday.
>>> I organized this event for 8 years and it was always fun and pleasure to
>>> meet so many nice people here. I´m thankful for so many good things. We
>>> had great talks and a pretty nice time together. Though, it´s hard to
>>> see Softimage and its community die out slowly and there is no way to
>>> stop, or even slow it down a little. My effort to transform the SI
>>> meeting to an open 3D usermeeting did not succeed in the end. There
>>> seems not enough motivation out there to make the effort, to take that
>>> day(or two) to come over and take part. I totally understand that.
>>> Thanks for all the support from sponsors and all the people who were
>>> speaking and sharing stuff with us. Thanks to those, who visited us and
>>> took part. Thanks a lot an take care! Maybe we will met in some other
>>> kind of meeting ;)
>>>
>>> Anyway, looking forward to this Friday and meeting some of you guys
>>> again in the old spirit!!
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Oliver
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Re: Ping

[Oliver Weingarten]

Still Softimage|XSI for most of the work I do, learning Houdini in 
parallel..both in combo with Redshift.


As AD keeps on "making better software faster"(Marc Stevens in March 
2014) without giving a proper replacement for XSI, Houdini seems one of 
a very few applications to make progress and evolve with.


Am 05.10.2016 um 11:22 schrieb Jean-Louis:
Softimage is still our primary tool, and probably for at least the 
next couple of years (together with Redshift and Arnold, of course).


JL



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On 4 Oct 2016, at 12:00, Simon Reeves > wrote:


I'd unsubscribe but I'm afraid of being one of those who sends an 
email to everyone that just says 'unsubscribe'.


Otherwise... Full steam ahead Houdini! It's great. Any uncertainty 
after the demise of xsi is behind me.


Add to that, Maya's only function as an 'easier' app that everyone 
uses, has hopefully improved greatly (as in, satisfactorily) with 
the  XSI style render layers in 2017.



On Tue, 4 Oct 2016, 10:39 patrick nethercoat, 
mailto:patr...@brandtanim.co.uk>> wrote:


still hanging on.

On 4 October 2016 at 10:28, Morten Bartholdy mailto:x...@colorshopvfx.dk>> wrote:

Pong from Copenhagen, Denmark :)


> Den 4. oktober 2016 klokken 09:42 skrev Thomas Volkmann
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>
>
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Re: Soft 2 Houdini

[Oliver Weingarten]

Hey there!

Maybe we can share thoughts and questions also in some "Learnig Houdini" 
discussion in our little subforum here:

http://www.si-community.com/community/viewforum.php?f=53

cheers,
oli




Am 10.10.2016 um 10:59 schrieb Chris Marshall:
I might have some basic questions later today. I've started working 
through Jordi's guides but I'm getting stuck occasionally with some 
fundamentals.




On 10 October 2016 at 07:03, Mirko Jankovic > wrote:


"I would 100% switch if it was character animation/keyframe
friendly in any way. They are making progress in that department."

And there is stopping point for me :(
Hope that they can close that gap soon and get it close to SI level
ᐧ

On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 12:47 AM, Will Sharkey
mailto:willjshar...@gmail.com>> wrote:

As posted, Peter Quint has a lot of really great videos. The
only drawback is that houdini has changed a good bit since H12
so there are many different/better approaches to some methods,
still good to watch though.

I can recommend a few other sources:
Rohan Dalvi - https://vimeo.com/rohandalvi/videos

Simon Fiedler - https://vimeo.com/simonfiedler


Matt Estela's wiki is a goldmine -
http://www.tokeru.com/cgwiki/index.php?title=Houdini



Houdini is hands down the best software I've used since I
stopped using Soft 2.5 years ago. I would 100% switch if it
was character animation/keyframe friendly in any way. They are
making progress in that department.



On Sun, Oct 9, 2016 at 4:21 PM, Andy Chlupka
mailto:lists.andy.goeh...@gmail.com>> wrote:

Adding to that, though dated, Peter Quint does explain
Houdini things quite understandably and in detail:

https://vimeo.com/user2030228

Andy





On Oct 09, 2016, at 14:10, Rob Wuijster mailto:r...@casema.nl>> wrote:

I wonder if anyone already mentioned entagma.com

There's very cool stuff there to watch!

p.s. some Houdini basics are required ;-)

Rob

\/-\/\/
On 8-10-2016 10:53, Simon Reeves wrote:


I found the sidefx vimeo videos really useful to begin
with also. Also sitting next to Cristobal ;)

On Fri, 7 Oct 2016, 23:36 Chris Marshall,
mailto:chrismarshal...@gmail.com>> wrote:

Thanks guys!
On 7 October 2016 at 16:19, Cristobal Infante
mailto:cgc...@gmail.com>> wrote:

soft 2 Houdini all the way.. let us know if you
need any help.
On Friday, 7 October 2016, Jordi Bares
mailto:jordiba...@gmail.com>> wrote:

BTW, I will start working on a fully
revamped version soon so stay tuned via my
Twitter account
@jordibares
or SideFX forums
Jb

On 7 Oct 2016, at 15:03, Olivier Jeannel
 wrote:
Shameless self promotion, but
https://vimeo.com/158037926

On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 3:36 PM, Chris
Marshall  wrote:

Perfect
Thanks
On 7 October 2016 at 14:29, Leendert A.
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https://archive.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2711&Itemid=166



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Re: Meetup for those going to the Houdini 16 launch event

[Oliver Weingarten]

Hey there!

I´ll be there and hitting London around 11 a.m.
Hope to see some old Softies over there!

And Jonathan, thanks for the suggestion..I´m fine with that! ;) What time?

cheers,
oli


Am 01.02.2017 um 13:18 schrieb Jonathan Moore:

Hi All,

Just wondering who of our London contingent are going to the Houdini 
16 launch event at Rich Mix next Monday.


I used to work just around the corner at Mother and tend to use a pub 
on Redchurch Street as a meeting place for Rich Mix -*The Own & The 
Pussycat **https://goo.gl/fIQdSj* -.


Anybody up for pre event swift half? Open to suggestions for an 
alternative meeting place too.


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Re: houdini 16

[Oliver Weingarten]

true...this is a great release and shows how much effort and passion 
SideFX puts into Houdini!
I ges you won´t get more development from any developer. Compare this to 
AD. LOL
You won´t get this much in 10 years..and if so, it will be implemented 
half ass and instable ;)


At least, the furure is bright for Houdini!

Am 04.02.2017 um 12:33 schrieb Jonathan Moore:


is this all of it, or are there more suprises? looks good though


Is this enough for you?  :)

H15 new features.
-


On 4 February 2017 at 11:24, patrick nethercoat 
mailto:patr...@brandtanim.co.uk>> wrote:


This is very exciting. I've just started learning Houdini this
week and I must say the future looks bright.

On 4 February 2017 at 09:59, Mirko Jankovic
mailto:mirkoj.anima...@gmail.com>> wrote:

"is this all of it, or are there more surprises? "

After maya this is like whole new app built .
maya 2017 new feature - freesing vp2 along other whole new
crash fest, come  in and check it!

Houdini..  doest it look like...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwzDxp2TC7I

ᐧ

On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 10:51 AM, Jordi Bares
mailto:jordiba...@gmail.com>> wrote:


:)

On 4 Feb 2017, at 06:18, Eugene Flormata
mailto:eug...@flormata.com>> wrote:

https://vimeo.com/202435893

new houdini stuff
is this all of it, or are there more suprises? looks good
though


I can’t talk much but what you saw in that video is
actually enormous amount of features… have another look.


I always thought houdini already had booleans


Indeed, it has the cookie tool that was booleans… and very
good as well… now they are… let’s say… incredible.


I'm still wondering if a baked animation pipeline works
in it, if anyone has an idea.
It's based on just baking various constraints and
re-constraining. and building the rig for the bones on
the fly
does houdini have mel type scripts you can build and run?


You will be able to see this and more very very shortly…
:-). Sorry… NDA.
jb


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Re: Opinion gathering

[Oliver Weingarten]

Am 17.02.2017 um 12:57 schrieb Jordi Bares:
> I know the feeling… discovery… what an wonderful feeling right?
>
>> On 17 Feb 2017, at 11:53, Artur W  wrote:
>>
>> Houdini is positively overwhelming. I move around quite comfortably and yet 
>> I feel it is still first base stage.
>
Yes..and it feels like evolving with Houdini instead of taking steps 
backward with AD!
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Re: Maya

[Oliver Weingarten]

OMG...you must feel like in the 90s. That´s really bad..

But look, AD has put such an effort in "developing better software 
faster" and was so busy with transferring most parts of the development 
to China, that it just was not enough time to test 
stuff...sufficiently...but the stock market is doing great!


Sorry, could not resist.
oli

Am 17.02.2017 um 11:48 schrieb Artur W:

.. crashed again.

What's with that 20 000 windows telling me it's crashed. I know, I was 
there. Fuck off.


2017-02-17 11:45 GMT+01:00 Artur W >:


... and how is this ok, Autodesk?

Old render layers were screwed and this was supposed to be a new
start? Da fuck?
I mean, I'd like to think I am pretty well informed but I didn't
hear any roars, outrage bursts or any minor discontent (except for
here, of course).
We're talking basic functionality, like click and scrub.
Isn't there any backlash at all? No consequences?

Is this industry really a flock of lambs, who doesn't give a fuck?

Artur

2017-02-17 11:17 GMT+01:00 Rob Wuijster mailto:r...@casema.nl>>:

Never ever use RendeLayers and/or overrides in Reference Files.
At some point it will screw up your final scenes for
rendering. Also shading can mess up things at some point.
Create a final 'render scene' and set things up in there.

And be sure to never ever rename stuff that is referenced,
especially with scenes that have RenderLayers in them.
We found that out the hard way.

So for a recent project we decided to split everything up in
separate steps, and used Alembic extensively for the final
scene assembly, shading and rendering.
At least that worked as expected, and everybody could just
work on their parts.
Work done? Export to Alembic, and import back into another
scene. Things changed?. Export the Alembic again, reload ref.
file..

Oh... save eveything in maya binary (.ma) Rob

\/-\/\/
On 16-2-2017 22:25, Eugene Flormata wrote:

you can tell maya to not remember any windows in the settings
but sometimes it stops redshift from rendering

also reference files break the render later setup once you
start adding overrides
and overriding the in-out frames also are sometimes ignored
and referencing files with MASH in them also breaks things
once you have like 4 mash networks
and don't use turtle bake renderer, because sometimes it's
not predictable.


maya' okay to make boxes and texture boxes though.
so it's got that going for it..



On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 8:49 AM, Tenshi Sama
mailto:tenshi...@gmail.com>> wrote:

Why people think saying the truth is bad? In what world
of dictators are we?

Saying the truth about Maya, is the best that people can
do. Maya and the s$iT that has inside is something people
in the industry already know, is just that people are
afraid to express themselves or they haven't tried other
functional programs. They tend to live like zombies
believing Maya is a god that has imperfections that needs
to be tolerated for the sake of having a job.

Wrong people. Wrong. If all the people out there that
think the same at least put a complain to their
supervisors everything, their supervisors will speak to
the above team, and the word will keep spreading until it
reach at the very top.
"Our designers, our people don't want to work with that
piece of garbage! Please do something".

Stop living in fear people. Say Maya is the WORST THING
that happen to the industry. AD is the worst thing that
happen to the industry. Maybe just maybe if we speak at
high decibels AD will listen and for the love of god they
will FIX all those SIMPLE little things. WE DON"T WANT
WORKAROUNDS, we want the tool WORKS., that's all.

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Re: houdini 16

[Oliver Weingarten]

By pressing "C" on the keyboard ;)

Take a look at all the small tuts Fianna put together on Vimeo!
https://vimeo.com/goprocedural/videos

cheers,
oli



Am 22.02.2017 um 20:20 schrieb Felix Geremus:

How do you activate the new radial menus?

2017-02-22 15:24 GMT+01:00 Jonathan Moore >:


To major things I hadn't noted are:

- Compiled SOP Blocks: These allow for a chain of compatible SOP
nodes to be compiles as a block on the fly for parallel execution.
The documentation makes clear that this is just the start of a
larger program of optimising SOPs for threading but this looks
like it could be a really efficient workflow for SOP 'for loops',
essential for destruction and such like.
http://sidefx.com/docs/houdini/model/compile


- Attribute Expression SOP: This is the new replacement for the
goto per point manipulation SOP of days gone by, the 'Point SOP'.
The Point SOP allowed you to action essential point attribute
manipulations but was single threaded. The Attribute Expression
SOP is fully multithreaded and is an extension of the Wrangle
family of nodes.
http://sidefx.com/docs/houdini/nodes/sop/attribexpression


On 22 February 2017 at 08:38, Rob Wuijster mailto:r...@casema.nl>> wrote:

Terrain generation is going to be a lot of fun :-)
And I like all the tweaks for the network view, very useful
stuff there.

Now I'm off to ruin my Wednesday ;-)

Rob

\/-\/\/

On 21-2-2017 18:04, Ed Schiffer wrote:

IT HAS ARRIVED
go grab yours!!
https://www.sidefx.com/download/

On Fri, 10 Feb 2017 at 16:29 Pierre Schiller
mailto:activemotionpictu...@gmail.com>> wrote:

I'm jumping into HU. But from the looks of it, indie and
self teaching isn't first option. It would seem I'd need
to get into HU by partnering with someone more
experienced, as the tabs, sims and other tools need to be
further digged on the interface and -of course- they are
all needed. Having said that, HU has impressed me at new
ocean sims and crowd sims with colliders, along with fur
tools. Simply breath taking. Yes, it feels as a new
software instead of an upgrade (and that is staying
healthy) on the industry.
We all know in the end, we miss working with nodes on
ICE, and HU offers anoher cool set of nodes to keep
playing with.
Cheers.
On Feb 10, 2017 7:38 AM, "Sebastien Sterling"
mailto:sebastien.sterl...@gmail.com>> wrote:

looks awesome !!! more modeling stuff creeping in to
the update
On 10 February 2017 at 08:59, Jordi Bares
mailto:jordiba...@gmail.com>>
wrote:

Yes, all of that is pretty straightforward
without any maths although the ice looking growth
structures may require some more involvement.
Certainly directing it and making it look like
that will take a lot of work and flair but the
underlying toolset can do that without any calculus.
Jb Sent from my iPhone
On 10 Feb 2017, at 03:41, Ognjen Vukovic
mailto:ognj...@gmail.com>>
wrote:

I mean to keep things flowing.
On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 4:41 AM, Ognjen Vukovic
mailto:ognj...@gmail.com>>
wrote:

Why not just make rray.de/houdini
 ?
On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 11:43 PM, Jonathan
Moore mailto:jonathan.moo...@gmail.com>> wrote:

When I think of emTopolizer I always
think of Tim Borgmann's work for
Framestore. Any of the Nissan projects
of 2013 are a strong showcase for
emTopolizer. But this Altima spot is my
pick of the three.
https://vimeo.com/46490225
On 9 February 2017 at 22:28, Jordi Bares
mailto:jordiba...@gmail.com>> wrote:

Could I see some projects to be able
to be more accurate? I would hate to
give you the wrong impression of
either easiness or difficulty.
  

Re: Creating a polymesh out of ICE pointcloud instances of polymeshes

[Oliver Weingarten]

Hey!

As Christian already mentioned, emTopolizer2 is capable of stuff like 
that..you can get a peak on it here:

https://vimeo.com/74762895
It´s a video of the presentation Eric did last Friday at UeberTage 2013

cheers,
oli


Am 18.09.2013 12:01, schrieb Christian Freisleder:

hey,

if i understand you correctly Topolizer 2 from Mootzoid does exactly 
what you need.
get in contact with eric how reliable it is, as it is in beta at the 
moment.


christian
On 18.09.2013 09:07, Szabolcs Matefy wrote:


Huh

So the question is how can I create a polymesh out of an ICE point 
cloud containing instances of polymeshes. I need the exact copy, but 
in polymesh form... The thing is we need a reliable instance on curve 
solution, and what we found so far was an ICE addon generating a 
pointcloud only 
(http://www.si-community.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=2943&start=0&sid=d1a6b3bafcedc489600b068fbb2d454e). 
Then I tried to use Guillome Laforge 
compound(http://www.si-community.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=1579&start=0) 
but at certain point the generated mesh was not in sync with the 
pointcloud instances.


Does anybody have any solution for this

Cheers

Szabolcs

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Re: A correct peeling effect

[Oliver Weingarten]

Hi !

Here is a test I did mixing different things together...I can explain a 
little more if you like..

https://vimeo.com/84118026/settings

cheers,
oli

Am 14.01.2014 09:53, schrieb olivier jeannel:

Hi gang,

I'm looking for doing a convincing peeling effect in Softimage
Scenario is :peeling of a thin aluminium sheet from a chocolate plate, 
the tiny pieces of sheet then fly away, like are gently blown away by 
the wind
I'm running after this : https://vimeo.com/77579764 or 
https://vimeo.com/69646311 quality. (those are Max Mcloth)
The shot should be very close up. I'm not sure, for example, that the 
Topolizer trick https://vimeo.com/80829002 would be enough.


What do guys think ? Another Method ? Syflex à la Mario-Domingo ? 
https://vimeo.com/73933574


Any thoughts to share ? Would be great :)

Re: A correct peeling effect

[Oliver Weingarten]

Hey!

Here is a small walk through the setup..hope it´s not too bad ;)

https://vimeo.com/84136431

cheers,
oli

Am 14.01.2014 13:57, schrieb Nick Angus:


Awesome Oli!, please explain it to us mortals  ; )

N

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*Subject:* Re: A correct peeling effect

Hi !

Here is a test I did mixing different things together...I can explain 
a little more if you like..

https://vimeo.com/84118026/settings

cheers,
oli

Am 14.01.2014 09:53, schrieb olivier jeannel:

Hi gang,

I'm looking for doing a convincing peeling effect in Softimage
Scenario is :peeling of a thin aluminium sheet from a chocolate
plate, the tiny pieces of sheet then fly away, like are gently
blown away by the wind
I'm running after this : https://vimeo.com/77579764 or
https://vimeo.com/69646311 quality. (those are Max Mcloth)
The shot should be very close up. I'm not sure, for example, that
the Topolizer trick https://vimeo.com/80829002 would be enough.

What do guys think ? Another Method ? Syflex à la Mario-Domingo ?
https://vimeo.com/73933574 <https://vimeo.com/73933574>

Any thoughts to share ? Would be great :)

Re: New solidangle.com

[Oliver Weingarten]

Congrats..!! Looks awsome!! So Arnold is finally ready for the 
public...Great news..!


cheers,
oli



Am 16.01.2014 20:12, schrieb Stephen Blair:
Check it http://www.solidangle.com, and maybe even try Arnold in 
Softimage.

Re: Service Pack 1 available

[Oliver Weingarten]

Hey Jill,

Thanks for that info.

You might understand that we did not expect much from this SP1 as AD 
already killed our software. But this "huge" list of around 10 bugs 
fixed it even a lot less anybody expected to be a "Service Pack" people 
might even pay for via subscription. By the way, is it our job to make 
sure that critical bugs are locked..??
Despite that, breaking the ability to install service packs beside older 
installations totally misses daily production workflows. Before you 
"trust" a new version, you will test it for quite some time before you 
make the switch. Having to install/deinstall software to do so, is 
something politely expressed "unfortunate".


AD really knows how to "deliver better software faster". Congrats!

Cheers,
oli


Am 03.12.2014 15:00, schrieb Jill Ramsay (Contractor):

Hi there,
So, yes, I’m afraid you will have to uninstall 2015 to install 2015.1. We 
wanted to provide a patch release mechanism but unfortunately time and 
technical issues did not allow us to do so.  The bug list posted was nearly 
complete – the one that Sven found was accidentally missed. If you have 
outstanding critical bugs, and especially regressions, please make sure they 
are logged.

Sorry it’s not better news.

Jill

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Sent: December-02-14 4:56 PM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: RE: Service Pack 1 available

Sorry guys,
I was trying to get confirmation on a couple of details before this went live. 
I’m waiting for a response from Singapore. Hopefully will have more info by 
tomorrow.

Jill

Re: set point on curve to array

[Oliver Weingarten]

..something like this should work ;)

Hope this helps..

Am 08.01.2015 um 09:53 schrieb Gerbrand Nel:

This should be easy...but its not.. well not for me.
I have an array of points, and its the same as the number of points on 
my curve, but I cant seem to figure out how to set each points 
position to the corresponding point in my array. I suspect I need to 
use the select in array, but what do I use as a selector?

Hope this makes sense
G

Re: Feather System

[Oliver Weingarten]

Hey Fabricio!
Great work and thanks for sharing!!

cheers,
oli

Am 23.01.2015 um 20:39 schrieb Fabricio Chamon:

Hi soft people!

after the tragic softimage EOL announcement, I'm slowly learning 
houdini/maya. For those sticking with SI (me included), here's a tool 
I've been using for months to groom birds and other characters. It's 
all ICE of course, some script automations... in my opinion it offers 
a nice and fast workflow, let me know if you find it useful. (thanks 
to Jonah Friedman and Dan Yargici for some insights)


addon: 
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/17263464/ICE/FC_Feather/FC_Feathers.xsiaddon
documentation: 
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/17263464/ICE/FC_Feather/FC%20Feathers%20for%20Softimage%20-%20Documentation.pdf
sample project: 
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/17263464/ICE/FC_Feather/FC_Feathers_Sample_Project.rar

basic setup video: https://vimeo.com/117607338
sample work made with it: https://vimeo.com/68167579

thanks everyone for all knowledge shared in this list!

Re: Sad days...

[Oliver Weingarten]

Yes...sad thing. Another piece of this great community will be gone. A 
pity...


BUT re-branding is a great idea. I made the decision to re-brand the 
"SOFIMTAGE|UeberTage" into " UeberTage"..so, Softimage might be still a 
part of it, but other apps and their users will also be "allowed" and 
welcome. Let´s see how this ends up...just let´s try to keep all these 
great people together, at least a little ;)


Thanks for the efforts!!

cheers,
oli



Am 03.02.2015 19:57, schrieb a...@andynicholas.com:

  Yep. We should probably re-brand though ;)


A


On 03 February 2015 at 18:52 Ben Beckett  wrote:



It does not need to stop here, we all going to be trying out new software,
Were a knowledgeable bunch. It could evolve.
  Ben




  On 3 February 2015 at 19:25, Jordi Bares Dominguez mailto:jordiba...@gmail.com> > wrote:
> > Such an amazing job you did with Softimage Creatives… sad thing to
> > loose it but you are right.

sniff.

jb


> On 3 Feb 2015, at 18:23, a...@andynicholas.com
>  wrote:
>
> The timing is to do with the expiry of the web hosting. It's not really
> about
> the money, but more to do with the fact that we stopped having the
> meetings over
> a year ago after The Announcement, and we currently don't have any
> plans to
> restart.
>
> Cheers,
> A
>
>
> On 03 February 2015 at 18:00 olivier jeannel   > wrote:
>
>
>> Does it really have to close ? Is this about money for the website ?
>>
>> Le 02/02/2015 10:39, Jon Hunt a écrit :
>>
 This is sad times,
>>> A big thanks to the Softimage Creatives Team. I always left these
>>> event
>>> either inspired, informed, half cut or well networked. Truth be told
>>> it
>>> usually would be all of these!
>>> Its a shame I got to only meet a few of you Softies and if the
>>> community should arise in a different from and some spare
>>> hands/help/supoort
>>> is needed then give us a hola.
>>>
>>> Thanks again,
>>>
>>> Jon
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 8:27 AM, Laurence Dodd
>>> mailto:laure...@porkpie.tv>
>>>  > > wrote:
>> Denial is getting much harder these days. Thanks guys.


  On 2 February 2015 at 01:27, Jason S >>> 
  > >
 wrote:
 I would rather identify Softimage related declines as
 "Bullshit days".
>
>
>   On 02/01/15 18:49, Matt Morris wrote:
>
>
>
>> Man I loved the atmosphere of that first meeting!
>> Ok we had some sound troubles, but the enthusiasm
>> and just the sheer amount of people there made it
>> feel like SI still had a future. Thanks for the
>> good times Andy and everyone there!
>>
>>
>>   On Sunday, 1 February 2015, Jacob Gonzalez
>> mailto:jacobgo...@gmail.com>
>>  > >
>> wrote:
 sad indeed!!
>>>it was certainly great stuff what you guys put
>>> together
>>> with SIC!!
>>>
>>>J
>>>
>>>On Sunday, 1 February 2015, a...@andynicholas.com
>>> 
>>> mailto:a...@andynicholas.com> > wrote:
>> One last tribute as our web hosting is
>> about to run out...

 http://www.softimagecreatives.com
 
  >


 A huge thanks to all of you who supported us.

 Andy
>>>
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News from mootzoid: updates and stuff (Softimage)

[Oliver Weingarten]

_/Hello there!

/_Eric entitled me to post this here ;)_/

/_Some updates...and emFluid5 open beta!_/

Updates (Softimage):/_

New versions of emFlock2 , 
emNewton2  and emRPC4 
 are available.
The multithreading has been revised and things simulate/render a bit 
faster than before.


A new version of emTools  is 
available with the following main new features:


 * new compounds "Image Reader/Writer" and "Create Particles from
   Image" /(*)/.
 * new compound "Liquid Particle Killer" (including a demo scene).
 * new compound "Calculate Normals from Positions".
 * new compound "Per Point to Per Node Color".
 * new compound "Get XSI Home Path".
 * a few bug fixes.

/(*)/ the development of the ICE/image tools was sponsored by Oliver 
"/mister si-community" /Weingarten a.k.a. "owei" .

Many thanks for the support, owei!

Note: if you are working with Softimage 2015 or Softimage 2015 SP1 then 
you should definitely update the addons to benefit from a bug fix in the 
Softimage ICE SDK!



_/emFluid5 beta (Softimage)/__/:/_

As of today, anybody can download and try the beta of emFluid5 for 
Softimage.

Real volumes for Softimage, yay!

The addon, a few demo scenes and links to tutorials can all be found on 
the emFluid5 web page  (scroll 
down to see the links to the tutorials).
The emFluid5 documentation 
 is, 
ahem, a bit lean, but if you want to dive deeper into emFluid5 and need 
some support then let me know and I will sign you up to the Mootzoid 
beta list (i.e. a private Google group) where you can get help from 
experienced emFluid5 users who have been using the beta for several years.
Finally, if you are interested in purchasing or upgrading to the new 
emFluid version, please get back to me via email.



_/RLM (Reprise License Manager):/_

Last but not least there is a new version of the license manager available.
It is recommended to update your license manager to the new version, 
because all the above updates will only work properly with the newest RLM.
RLM for Windows 64 bit 

RLM 
for Mac OS X 64 bit 

RLM for Linux 64 bit 



Hope you like it!

cheers,
oli

Re: News from mootzoid: updates and stuff (Softimage)

[Oliver Weingarten]

...that´s right...but it´s absolut production proven. Try it out! AD´s  
EOL announcement did not help...so you might see emf5 in other 
packages..in proper ones...and most likely nothings AD related...who 
knows ;)


Am 27.02.2015 20:39, schrieb Sven Constable:


emfluid5 is in beta since years? Holy cow :) I hope it will be 
officially released soon. Nice work btw, Morten.


sven

*From:*softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com 
[mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Morten 
Bartholdy

*Sent:* Thursday, February 26, 2015 4:09 PM
*To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
*Subject:* RE: News from mootzoid: updates and stuff (Softimage)

Sven, I have been using emFluid5 for several years now and while I am 
no ICE specialist I find it fairly easy to use and much more powerful 
than emFluid4. Also, whenever I run into a snag, Eric or someone else 
on the google list are quick to help out so I can get on with my 
shots. Here is an example of a production shot I have used it for:


https://vimeo.com/94191468

I can really recommend emFluid5 for its speed and versatility.

Cheers

Morten


Den 24. februar 2015 kl. 21:37 skrev Sven Constable 
mailto:sixsi_l...@imagefront.de>>:


--> -->

Great stuff! I will definetly update my emfluid4 license to v5
when its out of beta. I kickass renderer you developed there, Eric.

sven

*From: *softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com
<mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com>
[mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of*
    Oliver Weingarten
*Sent:* Tuesday, February 24, 2015 8:09 PM
*To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
<mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com>
*Subject:* News from mootzoid: updates and stuff (Softimage)

/_Hello there! _//_

_/Eric entitled me to post this here ;) /_

_/Some updates...and emFluid5 open beta! /_

/Updates (Softimage): /_/

New versions of emFlock2 <http://www.mootzoid.com/plugin/emflock2>
, emNewton2 <http://www.mootzoid.com/plugin/emnewton2> and emRPC4
<http://www.mootzoid.com/plugin/emrpc4> are available.
The multithreading has been revised and things simulate/render a
bit faster than before.

A new version of emTools <http://www.mootzoid.com/plugin/emtools>
is available with the following main new features:

  * new compounds "Image Reader/Writer" and "Create Particles from
Image" /(*)/ .
  * new compound "Liquid Particle Killer" (including a demo scene).
  * new compound "Calculate Normals from Positions".
  * new compound "Per Point to Per Node Color".
  * new compound "Get XSI Home Path".
  * a few bug fixes.

/(*)/ the development of the ICE/image tools was sponsored by
Oliver " /mister si-community"/ Weingarten a.k.a. "owei" .
Many thanks for the support, owei!

Note: if you are working with Softimage 2015 or Softimage 2015 SP1
then you should definitely update the addons to benefit from a bug
fix in the Softimage ICE SDK!


/_emFluid5 beta (Softimage):_ /

As of today, anybody can download and try the beta of emFluid5 for
Softimage.
Real volumes for Softimage, yay!

The addon, a few demo scenes and links to tutorials can all be
found on the emFluid5 web page
<http://www.mootzoid.com/plugin/emfluid5> (scroll down to see the
links to the tutorials).
The emFluid5 documentation
<http://www.mootzoid.com/learning/emFluid/documentation/v_emFluid5> is,
ahem, a bit lean, but if you want to dive deeper into emFluid5 and
need some support then let me know and I will sign you up to the
Mootzoid beta list (i.e. a private Google group) where you can get
help from experienced emFluid5 users who have been using the beta
for several years.
Finally, if you are interested in purchasing or upgrading to the
new emFluid version, please get back to me via email.


/_RLM_ //_(Reprise License Manager) :_ /

Last but not least there is a new version of the license manager
available.
It is recommended to update your license manager to the new
version, because all the above updates will only work properly
with the newest RLM.
RLM for Windows 64 bit

<http://www.mootzoid.com/sites/default/files/dist/Mootzoid.RLM.v.11.2___Windows.64.bit.zip>

RLM for Mac OS X 64 bit

<http://www.mootzoid.com/sites/default/files/dist/Mootzoid.RLM.v.11.2___OS_X.64.bit.zip>

RLM for Linux 64 bit

<http://www.mootzoid.com/sites/default/files/dist/Mootzoid.RLM.v.11.2___Linux.64.bit.zip>


Hope you like it!

cheers,
oli

Re: Maxon sets up shop in Montreal

[Oliver Weingarten]

...maybe 15k potential users seems to be an inetresting amount for other 
companies than AD ;)


...fingers crossed somebody comes up with something coming even close to 
good old  XSI..!


Am 18.03.2015 um 16:27 schrieb Stephan Haitz:
Could it be there are set free quite other energies with the EOL of 
Softimage than intented?


Am 18.03.2015 um 14:24 schrieb Ed Harriss:


Maxon… as in Maxon Cinema4D?

If so, exciting!

I’ve been using C4D and it’s got some really, really great stuff but 
there are a few areas that could use some Softimage style love. ;)


Regardless, we are working on integrating it into our pipeline.

Ed

*From:*softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com 
[mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Greg 
Punchatz

*Sent:* Wednesday, March 18, 2015 9:14 AM
*To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
*Subject:* Maxon sets up shop in Montreal

Ex softie Alain Laferrière leading a new dev team :)

Re: The Untimely Death of Softimage -the comic

[Oliver Weingarten]

LOL...you "nailed it" ;) I love it ! great job!!

cheers,
oli


Am 10.07.2015 um 14:15 schrieb Max Crow:
I had some time off this week so I thought I would make a comic about 
"The Event" because that's what normal people do, right?  The point 
wasn't to start an anti AD flame war, more one of closure, and looking 
to the future.


http://www.maxcrow.com/the-untimely-death-of-softimage/

Please feel happy to criticise or suggest improvements but they will 
only be acknowledged if presented in the medium of contemporary dance 
(or another comic).


Enjoy!
--
Max Crow
Creative Supervisor
NSC Creative

National Space Centre, Exploration Drive, Leicester, LE4 5NS, UK

http://www.NSCcreative.com 

UeberTage|2015: Friday, September 18th 2015

[Oliver Weingarten]

Hello there!

Our small usermeeting is there to stay, although we lost the good old 
SOFTIMAGE|XSI. (..thanks again to Autodesk for killing it great job...), 
we will try to make the best out of it. So, I hope the spirit and the 
community of the exSOFTIMAGE people will be present, even if our 
software won?t play that big part anymore. The program, or at least, the 
biggest part of it put together. If you can make, feel free to register 
and drop by in Siegen/Germany. I hope to see many known faces and new 
ones! Lunch and coffee is free! Ranting about a certain company is 
priceless ;) And Maxon will sponsor a "aftershow beer" for everyone!


http://www.uebertage.com/program/

*"MODO in Pipelines -- get throught the work from construction to art"*
André Löscher/Kirchlengern, Germany
and
*"MODO in Production -- Rigging a Car"*
Matthias Zellerhoff/Paderborn, Germany

*" Why should Softimage users look into Ventuz"*
Erik Beaumont, COO Ventuz Technology/Munich, Germnay

*"Fabric Engine 2.0"*
Helge Mathee, Eric Mootz, Fabric Software Inc/Montreal, Canada

*"Cinema 4D Release 17 -- What?s new!"*
Glenn Frey, Maxon/Friedrichsdorf, Germany

*"Seed" -- doing a short movie without any briefing and client 
restrictions"*

Fuat Yüksel, Aixsponza/München, Germany

*"From a Car-Interieur-3D-Scan to 3D model and making of an ?Airbus A319? "*
Jörg Behr, Behr-Bros/Ebersbach, Germany

*Registration is online!!*

http://www.eventbrite.com/e/ubertage2015-tickets-17763998598

Hope to see you!!

cheers,
Oliver Weingarten

Re: UeberTage|2015: Friday, September 18th 2015

[Oliver Weingarten]

I know and I´m working on it.. ;)

Am 10.08.2015 18:41, schrieb Mirko Jankovic:

Mn this year I must make it

btw shame there is no Houdini covered as well taht would give nice 
roundup of after-SI choices


On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 6:10 PM, Oliver Weingarten 
mailto:li...@pixelpanic.de>> wrote:


Hello there!

Our small usermeeting is there to stay, although we lost the good
old SOFTIMAGE|XSI. (..thanks again to Autodesk for killing it
great job...), we will try to make the best out of it. So, I hope
the spirit and the community of the exSOFTIMAGE people will be
present, even if our software won´t play that big part anymore.
The program, or at least, the biggest part of it put together. If
you can make, feel free to register and drop by in Siegen/Germany.
I hope to see many known faces and new ones! Lunch and coffee is
free! Ranting about a certain company is priceless ;) And Maxon
will sponsor a "aftershow beer" for everyone!

http://www.uebertage.com/program/

*“MODO in Pipelines – get throught the work from construction to art“*
André Löscher/Kirchlengern, Germany
and
*“MODO in Production – Rigging a Car“*
Matthias Zellerhoff/Paderborn, Germany

*” Why should Softimage users look into Ventuz”*
Erik Beaumont, COO Ventuz Technology/Munich, Germnay

*“Fabric Engine 2.0“*
Helge Mathee, Eric Mootz, Fabric Software Inc/Montreal, Canada

*“Cinema 4D Release 17 – What´s new!“*
Glenn Frey, Maxon/Friedrichsdorf, Germany

*“Seed” – doing a short movie without any briefing and client
restrictions“*
Fuat Yüksel, Aixsponza/München, Germany

*“From a Car-Interieur-3D-Scan to 3D model and making of an
´Airbus A319´ ”*
Jörg Behr, Behr-Bros/Ebersbach, Germany

*Registration is online!!*

http://www.eventbrite.com/e/ubertage2015-tickets-17763998598

Hope to see you!!

cheers,
Oliver Weingarten

Re: UeberTage|2015: Friday, September 18th 2015

[Oliver Weingarten]

Hi there!

A little update. This one has been added to the program:

“Houdini 15“ Paul Fratesi, Scott Keating, Sidefx/Toronto, Canada

Cheers,
oli


**

Am 10.08.2015 um 18:41 schrieb Mirko Jankovic:

Mn this year I must make it

btw shame there is no Houdini covered as well taht would give nice 
roundup of after-SI choices


On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 6:10 PM, Oliver Weingarten 
mailto:li...@pixelpanic.de>> wrote:


Hello there!

Our small usermeeting is there to stay, although we lost the good
old SOFTIMAGE|XSI. (..thanks again to Autodesk for killing it
great job...), we will try to make the best out of it. So, I hope
the spirit and the community of the exSOFTIMAGE people will be
present, even if our software won´t play that big part anymore.
The program, or at least, the biggest part of it put together. If
you can make, feel free to register and drop by in Siegen/Germany.
I hope to see many known faces and new ones! Lunch and coffee is
free! Ranting about a certain company is priceless ;) And Maxon
will sponsor a "aftershow beer" for everyone!

http://www.uebertage.com/program/

*“MODO in Pipelines – get throught the work from construction to art“*
André Löscher/Kirchlengern, Germany
and
*“MODO in Production – Rigging a Car“*
Matthias Zellerhoff/Paderborn, Germany

*” Why should Softimage users look into Ventuz”*
Erik Beaumont, COO Ventuz Technology/Munich, Germnay

*“Fabric Engine 2.0“*
Helge Mathee, Eric Mootz, Fabric Software Inc/Montreal, Canada

*“Cinema 4D Release 17 – What´s new!“*
Glenn Frey, Maxon/Friedrichsdorf, Germany

*“Seed” – doing a short movie without any briefing and client
restrictions“*
Fuat Yüksel, Aixsponza/München, Germany

*“From a Car-Interieur-3D-Scan to 3D model and making of an
´Airbus A319´ ”*
Jörg Behr, Behr-Bros/Ebersbach, Germany

*Registration is online!!*

http://www.eventbrite.com/e/ubertage2015-tickets-17763998598

Hope to see you!!

cheers,
Oliver Weingarten

Re: can I still get softimage?

[Oliver Weingarten]

Look here:

http://www.autodesk.com/products/softimage/overview

PDF: Softimage Last Release Announcement FAQ - Update 



Quote:
"Customers who wish to purchase new or additional seats of Softimage 
2015 can do so by purchasing either the Maya with Softimage or 3ds Max 
with Softimage transition offerings. These offerings are available via 
their local reseller and cannot be purchased through the Autodesk 
e-store. Each transition offering, Maya with Softimage or 3ds Max with 
Softimage, can be purchased as a new standalone license for the same 
price as a standalone license of Maya or 3ds Max. Please note that after 
the two-year transition period customers will no longer be able to 
purchase or rent new Softimage licenses or rental plans of the Softimage 
transition offerings from Autodesk. "


Cheers,
oli



Am 13.11.2015 um 14:17 schrieb Chris Johnson:
Sorry guysI disappeared from the list for a while...I'm sure this 
subject has come up a number of times!?


What is the cheapest/best way to get a license of soft? Or can I still 
even do that? Last time I touched base with a reseller I had to buy 
the Suite which was around $10,000 Canadian!




--

Chris Johnson | www.someonescousin.com 
 | 416.473.1624


 
 
 

Re: Please explain Maya pivot points to a Softimage thinker

[Oliver Weingarten]

OMG,  really? I just watched that video and saw that "workaround" is 
officially shown without any shame?? Around 10 steps to change the 
"center", really??  It leaves me speechless and angry again, that this 
"industry standard" survived and Soft got doomed. A shame



Am 14.01.2016 um 11:31 schrieb Ognjen Vukovic:

No, but i am sure somebody is working on a script as we speak.

On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 11:26 PM, Ed Schiffer > wrote:


isn't there a plugin to facilitate all these transforms already?!?

On 6 November 2015 at 18:22, Pierre Schiller
mailto:activemotionpictu...@gmail.com>> wrote:

HHAHAHHAHAHA. "twice after every crash", it "crashed me"
hahhahhahahha.

On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 9:46 AM, Gerbrand Nel
mailto:nagv...@gmail.com>> wrote:

When I'm forced to work in maya, I make a point to watch
that video at least once every morning, and twice after
every crash.. it keeps me insane ;) which is perfect for
working in maya
G

On 06/11/2015 09:50, Christian Keller wrote:

That explains a lot ;)

-- 
Christian Keller

Visual effects|direction
m +49 179 69 36 248 

chris3...@me.com 
Vimeo.com/channels/96149 

Am 04.11.2015 um 17:43 schrieb Gerbrand Nel
mailto:nagv...@gmail.com>>:


Agreed...
Rather watch this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmtzQCSh6xk
It makes more sense.
G
On 04/11/2015 18:13, Sebastien Sterling wrote:

This is actually quite sickening to watch, but cheers
Francois, at least we know what we are dealing with.

On 4 November 2015 at 15:46, Francois Lord
mailto:flordli...@gmail.com>> wrote:

Does this help?

https://youtu.be/Z8zVjLoHWjk?list=PLP5KnnScX57byOldVy9rQlBRARrX6gy4b



On 2015-11-04 09:34, Byron Nash wrote:

I'm trying to get some objects zero-ed out in
Maya but keep running into what I assume is a
paradigm difference between how Maya and Soft
handle center points and transforms. In Soft, I
can move the center/pivot and it will change
the transform values. So, I can reset the
center to be in the middle of the geometry and
then zero the position to get the object to
snap back to the world center or parent center.
In Maya, moving the pivot does not seem to
change the transform of the object when you
move the pivot. So I can't then zero the values
and get the objects to return to zero.
Sometimes, the object and it's center are
clearly NOT at zero but that's what the values
say. There are some Local Space/World space
values in the attribute editor, but I can't
figure out how to get things reset properly.

Any help from a Softimage perspective is
appreciated.










-- 
Portfolio 2013 

Cinema & TV production
Video Reel 




-- 
www.edschiffer.com 

Re: AD licensing letter - no longer applicable for 'benefits'???

[Oliver Weingarten]

Hey there!

You guys at Autodesk really rock! I also heard about this almost rude AD 
letter form a couple of friends. First killing off our beloved Softimage 
without ANY appropriate replacement. Secondly having the brass to ask 
for, or better, demand further money from your customers, without any 
further support for the product they bought (Softimage in this cas..), 
but the only "benefit" to open up old projects? You guys at AD really 
know what caring about customers really means. But, right, you are so 
busy with "delivering better software, faster".. I know ;)


Sorry, don´t take it personal ;)

cheers,
oliver

Am 19.01.2016 um 22:36 schrieb Maurice Patel:

Hi Rob,
Sorry about that letter. It actually has been escalated internally here (after 
feedback from other customers) and Autodesk is in the process of revising how 
local marketing communications get approved – although it is too late in the 
game for this initiative.
Maurice

Maurice Patel
Tél:  514 954-7134
Cell: 514 242-6549

From: Rob Wuijster [mailto:r...@casema.nl]
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2016 4:26 PM
To: Maurice Patel
Cc:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: Re: AD licensing letter - no longer applicable for 'benefits'???

Hi Maurice,

Yes, probably a auto-generated letter, but the tone and information in that 
letter was not very user friendly imho.

Thanks for the quick reply and existing/perpetual license info.






Rob



\/-\/\/
On 19-1-2016 21:43, Maurice Patel wrote:
Also, I suspect these letters are being auto-generated by the EMEA office as 
part of a general campaign sent to all Autodesk customers (irrespective of 
product owned) that have expired Subscription contracts and so is generic and 
not specific to Softimage. This is because come Feb 1st you will no longer be 
able to renew maintenance subscription if you let it expire and either need to 
stay on the same version as you have when the contract expired perpetually or 
purchase a new desktop subscription contract with no perpetual rights – so it 
is kind of your last chance to do so. Also if you were on 2015 when subs 
expired you technically do not have the right to access versions prior to that.
maurice

Maurice Patel
Tél:  514 954-7134
Cell: 514 242-6549

From: Maurice Patel
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2016 3:32 PM
To: 
'r...@casema.nl';softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: RE: AD licensing letter - no longer applicable for 'benefits'???

One of the benefits of Subscription is access to previous versions not just the 
version you have licensed, which is always is always latest available version 
of the software. This access goes away once you stop subscription though you 
can continue to use the last version you licensed perpetually.

Maurice

Maurice Patel
Tél:  514 954-7134
Cell: 514 242-6549

From:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com
  [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Rob Wuijster
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2016 3:06 PM
To:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: AD licensing letter - no longer applicable for 'benefits'???

Hi guys,

Out of the blue, like a long forgotten relative, I get a letter from AD's 
Munich Licence Management about my (not renewed) Subscription.
As I stopped maintenance on SI quite a while ago, I'm a bit surprised by this 
letter.

The letter goes into the fact that the Subscription Contract was not renewed 
(correct), and that the 'additional licensing benefits' are no longer active 
for the products covered. One of this benefits is the right to use 'previous 
versions'.
Blah blah blah. possible illegal use of previous versions of the software.. 
maybe without knowledge inside company yada yada..

Am I not allowed any SI version anymore from when that contract was active?
If so, how in the hell can I open up old projects, even for migration, if that 
is not allowed anymore? This letter makes absolutely no sense to me.

So can someone on this list that is AD, explain what the heck this letter is 
about?

--



thanks!



Rob

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SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage 2014...any interest??

[Oliver Weingarten]

HI there!

Due to certain decisions coming from AD this year, I have serious 
trouble to get sponsors for this year (ultimate?) UeberTage event. 
Resellers just have a very minor interest in Softimage right now...


So I would like to check you interest before I start even harder to get 
some money and a nice line-up together for this year.

You might vote here:

http://www.si-community.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=5271

If not, just reply here, please...I?ll

Thanks!

cheers,
oli

Re: SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage 2014...any interest??

[Oliver Weingarten]

Hey Ed..!

Well... I already have those guys on my list.. ;)

And maybe from next year on, it will be just "UeberTage" without 
SOFTIMAGE...


But none the less, this year, if it can take place, will be the ultimate 
"SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage"


Maybe and it with a big EOL party...many options are possible...depends 
on you and your interest in it..


Cheers,
oli



Am 03.06.2014 13:25, schrieb Ed Manning:

"TransitionSoftware|UeberTage?"

Joint sponsorship from Maxon, Foundry, and Side Effects?


On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 5:43 AM, Stephan Haitz > wrote:


Hi Oliver,

of course the Ubertage should happen Need helping hands?

Perhaps the ubertage can be continued further with a wider topic
than Softimage? As alternative / independent CG Event? No "we
listen to our users but don´t care" companies involved...

greetings

Stephan



HI there!

Due to certain decisions coming from AD this year, I have serious
trouble to get sponsors for this year (ultimate?) UeberTage
event. Resellers just have a very minor interest in Softimage
right now...

So I would like to check you interest before I start even harder
to get some money and a nice line-up together for this year.
You might vote here:

http://www.si-community.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=5271

If not, just reply here, please...I´ll

Thanks!

cheers,
oli

Re: SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage 2014...any interest??

[Oliver Weingarten]

Hey Stephan!

I?ll let you know asap ;)

And yes...that might be the way to go for the next years...if interest 
is high enough ;)


cheers,
oli



Am 03.06.2014 11:43, schrieb Stephan Haitz:

Hi Oliver,

of course the Ubertage should happen Need helping hands?

Perhaps the ubertage can be continued further with a wider topic than 
Softimage? As alternative / independent CG Event? No "we listen to our 
users but don?t care" companies involved...


greetings

Stephan



HI there!

Due to certain decisions coming from AD this year, I have serious 
trouble to get sponsors for this year (ultimate?) UeberTage event. 
Resellers just have a very minor interest in Softimage right now...


So I would like to check you interest before I start even harder to 
get some money and a nice line-up together for this year.

You might vote here:

http://www.si-community.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=5271

If not, just reply here, please...I?ll

Thanks!

cheers,
oli

Re: SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage 2014...any interest??

[Oliver Weingarten]

..I get your point...but that´s said much easier than to realized... 
general interest in Softimage is falling rapidly..


Like I said, I have a big lag on sponsors right now, so it I need to 
talk to other people than before.


I guess 1-2 presentations concerning "other" software would be OK, don´t 
you think...?


Making of´s should stay Softimage "only" for this year..I hope ;)

By the way:

If anyone is interested in holding a presentation, feel free to get in 
contact with me!!


cheers,
oli



Am 05.06.2014 10:31, schrieb olivier jeannel:

I agree with Eric, although I won't be there.

It's going to be one of the last XSI meeting, let's make it XSI.



Le 03/06/2014 18:33, Cristobal Infante a écrit :
I have to agree here with Angus, the event would be more interesting 
for attendees of it showed an open mind of what the future could look 
like.


Approaching Fabric, Maxon and SideFX could be an interesting way of 
putting some energy on the event.


I had a great time last year by the way, Oliver does a magnificent 
job at putting this event together ;)



On 3 June 2014 17:25, Angus Davidson > wrote:


While I can understand Eric’s point of view the harsh fact is
this. Just like in the EDU sphere when it comes to funders
Softimage is EOL and by that virtue not worth putting money into.
 There is a much better chance of getting funding by having a
more general event.

The question is wether this is acceptable of course ;)

From: Stephan Haitz mailto:sha...@3d-agenten.de>>
Reply-To: "softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
"
mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com>>
Date: Tuesday 03 June 2014 at 4:16 PM
To: "softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
"
mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com>>
Subject: Re: SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage 2014...any interest??

Ok you are right. Thought more of a "look here, what do you think
about that thing" sort of discussion. But religious "but my is
the best things" are surely not what we want (apart from SI, of
course :-) ) . Thought about keeping the uebertage alive in a
future with less and less SI-Userbase...

And Eric you know: I will use Softimage furthermore, cause at the
moment, I can´t see anything better or even equivalent. When I do
have to learn a new software it has to be really an improvement
to Softimage (from the small studio / allrounders view).


Ahem, I really would prefer to have a pure Softimage user
meeting and not some melting pot of X different 3D apps/users
and all the /my-software-is-the-best-because-blabla/ discussions.

Why is everybody talking about transitioning? Is anybody
seriously afraid that Softimage will be out-of-date by the end
of the month or what?

Honestly, if there are going to be Cinema 4D, Houdini, Max/Maya,
Blender, etc. presentations ... wtf? Don't get me wrong, I have
nothing against the apps nor their users, it's just that it's
seems wrong to me to have them at possibly one of the last XSI
events.

Cheers,
Eric



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Eric "MOOTZOID" Mootz is nominated for a 3D World CG Award!

[Oliver Weingarten]

Hi there..!

Our community member and first class SOFTIMAGE plugin developer Eric 
"MOOTZOID" Mootz is nominated for a 3D World CG Award!
He is listed in the category ""3D Hall of Fame" for his "amazing and 
intuitive third-party plug-ins."


Find more details about the nomination here:
https://thecgawards.com/vote/3d-world-hall-of-fame/eric-mootz/

Congrats for the nomination and good luck, Eric!!

And now, dear Softies, vote, vote, vote ;)

cheers,
oli











PS: @Autodesk: Thanks again for killing this amazing piece software Eric 
is mainly developing for! Great job!

ultimate SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage 2014, Friday, September 19th 2014

[Oliver Weingarten]

Image

Hi there!

It took a long time this year, but I?m happy to announce the ultimate 
SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage event this year...!
Due to EOL of Soft, it was quite hard to find enough sponsors. Still 
there are not enough, but I will make it some how.


SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage 2014 will take place on Friday, September 19th in 
Siegen, Germany, as usual.
Somewhere around 10.00h - 18.00h. Registration will be possible within 
the next days.


I don?t know by now, but there might be a fee of around 10 Euro this 
year to cover the cost. I hope you understand ;)


If you have interest in holding a presentation, please feel free to send 
me an PM. If you like to sponsor our event, feel free to get in contact 
with me..!


http://www.softimage-uebertage.de


Stay tuned!!

cheers,
oliver

Register now: SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage 2014, Friday, September 19th 2014

[Oliver Weingarten]

Hi there!

Registration is online now!!

https://uebertage.eventbrite.com

Cheers,
oliver

www.softimage-uebertage.de

current Program for SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage 2014

[Oliver Weingarten]

Hello there!

Here is the program for this year?s event. hope you like it ;)

SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage 2014
Friday, September 19th, 2014 in Siegen, Germany
Register here: http://uebertage.eventbrite.com/
Participation is FREE of charge...again ;)

Fuat Yüksel, Aixsponza, Munich/Germany:
"VFX-Production with Cinema4D: Dreadnought- and F1-Teasers"
www.aixsponza.com

Eric Mootz, Developer at Mootzoid, Saarbrücken/ Germany :
"Current Developments for Softimage and others"
www.mootzoid.com

FAKE GRAPHICS, Helsinki/Finland :
"Making of.."
www.fakegraphics.com

Andreas Dahl , Karben/Germany:
 "Modo in Production"

Phillip Seis, Oliver Weingarten, Brandstätter GmbH/Germany:
"Making the Playmobil Movies: Pipeline and VFX"
www.playmobil.com

Paul Fratesi, John Courte, Sidefx Software, Toronoto /Canada:
"Houdini 13"
www.sidefx.com

Cheers,
oli

<http://%20www.thefoundry.co.uk/>

SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage 2014: Get 10% off Redshift3D! Win a license of emFluid5, emPolygonizer5 and Redshift3D!

[Oliver Weingarten]

Hello there!

Our event is coming closer and I hope you will all make it to Siegen on 
Friday, 19th of September!

If you don´t have registered yet, please do so!
I´ve put a lot of effort in this year´s event and as our registrations 
could be more in number, please consider to drop by!
We always had a lot of fun! It´s the last time this year. So, don´t miss 
it! Please register here:


uebertage.eventbrite.com

Big thanks to all our sponsors!

We will have a nice tombola this year with cool prices. You can win 2 
licenses of Mootzoid´s plugins (emFluid and emPolygnizer5) and a node 
locked license of Redshift 3D, the GPU based renderer!!


Beside of that, every visitor will get 10% off on one Redshift 3D 
license! So, don´t miss it!


Hope to see you!

Latest news will be found her:
www.softimage-uebertage.de

Cheers,
oli

Re: SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage 2014: Get 10% off Redshift3D! Win a license of emFluid5, emPolygonizer5 and Redshift3D!

[Oliver Weingarten]

Hi there!

The event will be taped, like the past events... ;)

cheers,
oli


Am 16.09.2014 10:44, schrieb Arvid Björn:
Truly wish I could be there! Any chance of you recording any of the 
events?


On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 12:30 PM, Oliver Weingarten 
mailto:li...@pixelpanic.de>> wrote:


Hello there!

Our event is coming closer and I hope you will all make it to
Siegen on Friday, 19th of September!
If you don´t have registered yet, please do so!
I´ve put a lot of effort in this year´s event and as our
registrations could be more in number, please consider to drop by!
We always had a lot of fun! It´s the last time this year. So,
don´t miss it! Please register here:

uebertage.eventbrite.com <http://uebertage.eventbrite.com>

Big thanks to all our sponsors!

We will have a nice tombola this year with cool prices. You can
win 2 licenses of Mootzoid´s plugins (emFluid and emPolygnizer5)
and a node locked license of Redshift 3D, the GPU based renderer!!

Beside of that, every visitor will get 10% off on one Redshift 3D
license! So, don´t miss it!

Hope to see you!

Latest news will be found her:
www.softimage-uebertage.de <http://www.softimage-uebertage.de>

Cheers,
oli

Re: Buy Softimage - > is this a real shop?

[Oliver Weingarten]

Thanks Jill!

Wow...that´s great news..!
Good to know, that Autodesk somehow has finally clarified this, one 
"could" say, "mess". They really know what they are doing...and well, 
comunication skills of AD, as a billion $ company, are just awesome ;)


cheers

Am 13.11.2014 16:58, schrieb Jill Ramsay (Contractor):

Hello,
I’d just like to correct this. Anyone can buy extra seats of the Maya + 
Softimage bundle until Feb 1, 2016, at the same price as Maya – you do not need 
to be on maintenance.  And yes I know that the FAQ fails to mention this, and 
yes I’m sorry, and yes I’m trying to get it fixed.

Jill

From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com 
[mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Eric Turman
Sent: November-12-14 6:01 PM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: Re: Buy Softimage - > is this a real shop?

Seeing as you Autodesk has made it clear that only existing customers that are 
on maintenance can buy additional seats of Softimage and only for a little 
while longer, it should be pretty clear that this is a scam.

All MOOTZOID plugins are for free now! Thanks, Eric!

[Oliver Weingarten]

Hey there,

as Eric moves on to something else, he decided to make all his plugins 
available for free!

Read his post here:

https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.si-2Dcommunity.com_community_viewtopic.php-3Ff-3D5-26t-3D6833&d=DwICaQ&c=76Q6Tcqc-t2x0ciWn7KFdCiqt6IQ7a_IF9uzNzd_2pA&r=GmX_32eCLYPFLJ529RohsPjjNVwo9P0jVMsrMw7PFsA&m=PzGDbnk4RWr8Hr4gPpzafrPHEQFmRk-443AwSTYchp0&s=yvIIEAtXE5Ix4bJ2DogtHiAb7fJGcxebGeZib2z4vU4&e=

Cheers,
oli



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Re: Any Dinosaurs Still Lurking?

[Oliver Weingarten]

Hey there,

yes, still lurking here ;)

Celebrating 20 years of 3D...and all SOFTIMAGE this summer. Started with 
Softimage 3.7 on IRIX on a noisy machine from hell called "Crimson" ;)
Then NT with 3.8...3.9...XSI 2.0 up to XSI 2015 sp2 and still using it 
because no competitor stepped up to made a serious replacement for it.


I miss the times doing stuff together with Eric on daily calls and 
bouncing ideas around..had great fun to organize and host the Uebertage 
until 2016.
But those days are counted and gone. Still running the si-community, but 
numbers of post get lower and lower..so, this list is one of the last 
glances of a great community we once had. Still pissed about AD and the 
huge damage they caused. I sometimes wonder how many carrers were 
destroyed and how much money people were forced to burn into thin 
airfor at least nothing.


Usinig Houdini nower days for VFX stuff and it´s big fun. took a while 
to get it, though ;) But when it comes to clean up and animate CAD 
models, Houdini sinmply does not work in any concern..bu that´s 
different topic.


Looking forward to keep on reading from you guys out there and hope, AD 
won´t switch off the list to soon ;)


Cheers,
oli


Am 16.05.2018 um 17:47 schrieb Chris Marshall:

check out Instagram kim_aldis


On 16 May 2018 at 14:43, Morten Bartholdy > wrote:


Very well put Paul :)

Quote:

This year I’m making my latest attempt to learn Maya and Houdini, just 
so I can get a bit more work, but can’t see either of them knocking XSI off the 
top spot any time soon, until they up their game to a comparable standard of 
creative fluidity.

End quote

I guess I am a bit dinoish, as I started using Softimage 3D in
1992 and DP 4:2:2 before that, so doing 3D since 1989. I had a go
at Maya 1.0 thinking I could start learning it by modeling in it
and move stuff to Softimage for animation and rendering, but
abandoned it because it didn't have any of the NURBS Powermodeling
from Alias PA yet. I eventually switched to XSI around v1.5

Nowadays I am forced to use Maya at work because of client
compatibility and the need to keep the small workforce here on the
same DCC. I get to use Softimage every now and then for stuff that
Maya sucks at or simply can't do (which is quite often), but it
has been a while since I did a full production with Soft – sadly.
We sort of switch between doing fx and other advanced stuff in XSI
and Houdini (between two guys) and put that into Maya.

Arnold and lately Redshift are the only reasons Maya has not yet
driven me stark raving mad.

I still use XSI/Redshift for fun stuff at home and can't really
see anything taking over anytime soon.

Great to hear from all you guys – I have always loved this list
and still do :) I miss Kims rant's though and Porls tutorials.

Morten Bartholdy

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Re: The Softimage mailing list

[Oliver Weingarten]

Hey there ;)

Just to be clear, there are no plans at the moment to close si-community!!
To save money, it was transfered to another server..that´s it for 
now..so, costs went down and currently there is no reason to close the 
doors..


cheers,
Oliver

Am 30.01.2020 um 19:20 schrieb Nicole Beeckmans-Jacqmain:

Let’s keep it running please till the last 3 softimage users.
The other si-community is already talking about cost of running 
website risks being too much: they want to close it down.

I don’t think this list is disturbing autodesk, is it?

Matthyas

Le jeu. 30 janv. 2020 à 19:12, Alan Fregtman > a écrit :


> hello, the Google Group is juts for archiving? Can we talk on this?

You will be able to when the official list officially dies. It's
still running so the Google Group is read-only to avoid
confusion/fragmentation.

(François Lord is an admin, I think??)


On Tue, Jan 28, 2020, 4:30 AM David Saber mailto:davidsa...@sfr.fr>> wrote:

hello, the Google Group is juts for archiving? Can we talk on
this?


On 2019-11-11 23:28, Luc-Eric Rousseau wrote:

Hi.

The 11th anniversary of the Softimage acquisition, and
therefore this version of the list, has come and gone last
month.  I started working at Softimage in 1997, and it's been
part of my life ever since.  My black t-shirts are faded, and
my children recently found some XSI "tattoos" and magnets in
the basement which they used for Halloween.  Odd bits of
Softimage memorabilia are spread around the house that only
Dad can identify.

Every once in a while, I can sense IT sniffing around looking
for old servers to retire. The Softimage mailing list server
is some kind of Linux VM that I think continues to work as
long as it doesn't bother anyone.

I think it's time to think about switching the list over to
the google group that archives it before the plug gets pulled
on us. One would join that group to post and get future
emails rather than the list. There may be other resources
people want to share to stay in touch, such as LinkedIn
groups, and si-community.com