Re: OT: @ fmx

2012-05-11 Thread Stefan Kubicek
Thiagos presentation was not streamed afaik. You can watch live streaming on the website. http://www.fmx.de/media/fmx-live-stream.html On 5/10/2012 8:28 PM, Gustavo Eggert Boehs wrote: So, did nobody atend to this? 2012/5/10 Leonard Koch leonardkoch...@gmail.com

Re: Get Scene File Version

2012-05-11 Thread Sajjad Amjad
Depending on the complexity of control you want, the following may not work. You could make a custom preference file per project. These preferences, amongst other things, could hold what app versions are allowed. A beginsceneload event could then check that the correct app version is the host. On

Re: naiad particles into ICE

2012-05-11 Thread Juhani Karlsson
I haven`t used Naiad, but is it possible to export the simulation into realflow .bin? (You would think its possible trough some way) With .bin you could use the realflow importer to get it into SI? - Juhani 2012/5/11 Rob Chapman tekano@gmail.com Hi folks, trying out the splendid Naiad,

Re: naiad particles into ICE

2012-05-11 Thread Ciaran Moloney
Partio supports .prt, but not .icecache. I'd be interested to know if anyone was able to compile the icecache patch from the good folks at Mad Crew? I couldn't get it to compile... The PRT format is really simple and a Python script to convert particles would be pretty straightforward, especially

Re: naiad particles into ICE

2012-05-11 Thread Rob Chapman
wait... Fury can load .PRT files? thats a new one - very handy! On 11 May 2012 11:28, Ciaran Moloney moloney.cia...@gmail.com wrote: Partio supports .prt, but not .icecache. I'd be interested to know if anyone was able to compile the icecache patch from the good folks at Mad Crew? I couldn't

Re: naiad particles into ICE

2012-05-11 Thread Stefan Kubicek
Speaking of Exocortex, I was wondering if ne1 knows anything about Mealstrom? It was on their page up until one or two months ago but has now disappeared. Is it no longer being developed? Reason I'm asking is that I've been playing with PhoenixFD in Max a few days ago and I was blown away by the

Re: naiad particles into ICE

2012-05-11 Thread Leo Quensel
I was wondering the same. I was especially interested in the exocortex surfacer and wondered if it was able to handle other types of input objects aswell. Original-Nachricht Datum: Fri, 11 May 2012 12:45:23 +0200 Von: Stefan Kubicek s...@tidbit-images.com An:

Re: naiad particles into ICE

2012-05-11 Thread Rob Chapman
that works a treat Cairan! PRT to Icecache - in your face! and a side thanks to Brad as well! and yes of course, deferred loading is the way to go with many millions, this is for research and testing process right now and am very happy to see the Naiad particles in Softimage. many thanks

RE: Material Manager - sort materials by name in library?

2012-05-11 Thread Chris Chia
Hi Rob, You might want to consider using the Explorer to view the Materials. The explorer should do a better job in this. Regards, Chris Chia From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] on behalf of Rob Wuijster

Re: naiad particles into ICE

2012-05-11 Thread Ben Houston
Hey Rob, We still believe that Maelstrom's technology (surfacer + simulator) has potential at a technological level but at the moment we don't see an effective market opportunity in the VFX space. (We are engaged in other fluid simulation projects though outside of the VFX space.) We would also

[Python] global variable issue on linux

2012-05-11 Thread Xavier Lapointe
Hey guys, This one really surprised me. I tend to avoid global variable in Softimage plugins as much as I can, but sometimes it might be convenient. So basically, I wanted to use a global variable ( simple Python Dictionary ) to keep some stuff in reference while interacting with a PPG. I

RE: [Python] global variable issue on linux

2012-05-11 Thread Matt Lind
My experience with global variables in scripting is softimage treats them like static declared variables from C/C++. The variable is initialized once, then cached for all future invocations of the script during the user session. They are not de-referenced when the script

Re: [Python] global variable issue on linux

2012-05-11 Thread Alok Gandhi
I am not sure whether this works under windows as well, the plugin script can get refreshed and all your global variables will be re-initialized. The only good approaches that I have been using is to store the varaibles in UIITems lists. This works well for the 3D com objects as well. Another idea

Re: [Python] global variable issue on linux

2012-05-11 Thread Xavier Lapointe
Hm, yes I could store it in a parameter or another way ... just this feels hacky to get something basic done (granted no refresh happend during the plugin execution). This should work, like Matt mentioned :/ Oh well. 2012/5/11 Alok Gandhi alok.gandhi2...@gmail.com I am not sure whether

Re: [Python] global variable issue on linux

2012-05-11 Thread Alok Gandhi
Yes if PPG is not getting refreshed then this seems weird. The only thing that comes to mind is maybe the custom command execution is making things go wrong. What if you use a function declared inside the plugin instead of calling the custom command ? or maybe the custom command should be

Re: [Python] global variable issue on linux

2012-05-11 Thread Xavier Lapointe
I'll add some context: - everything lives in the same plugin - I tried storing it in a container coming from an imported module - tried accessing and setting the global variable directly in the globals() dictionary - Grumble Gumble. 2012/5/11 Alok Gandhi

Re: [Python] global variable issue on linux

2012-05-11 Thread Xavier Lapointe
Tried your solution but could not get it to work :( Found a way, but I would need to understand the internal mechanism to reproduce it more cleanly. from win32com.client import constants constants.__dicts__.append({'PLUGIN_GLOBAL_SCOPE': None,'project': {},'category': '','entities': []})