Re: Merging Scene Fixes qtSoftimage plugin error why?

2012-05-18 Thread Steven Caron
as i said, the plugin does not depend on any data persisted in a scene. if the example plugins run without issue then its not the plugin's fault but the gui/app they are trying to run. s On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Sandy Sutherland sandy.sutherl...@triggerfish.co.za wrote: Maybe there

Re: Merging Scene Fixes qtSoftimage plugin error why?

2012-05-18 Thread Steven Caron
ok, weird stuff for sure. but how can you be sure all of that is because of the qt plugin? i mean batch rendering, really? i am afraid if you think its the qt plugin to blame, i think you might want to stop using it for a bit and see if normality returns. s On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 11:25 PM,

Re: Merging Scene Fixes qtSoftimage plugin error why?

2012-05-18 Thread Jared Glass
Yeah, sorry Eric I did mean Pyqt not quicktime. And Steven, when the plugin gives errors I mean that the command Application.getQtSoftimageAnchor() gives an error so your example plugins don't work either. Im not at all saying its the plugins fault but I am wondering what could cause this to

RE: XSI on linux

2012-05-18 Thread Chris Chia
My mistake: For Softimage version 2012 and 2013, fedora 14 would be a better option. Cheers. From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Chris Chia Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 6:44 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re:

Divide one big texture into smaller pieces

2012-05-18 Thread Christian Gotzinger
Hi list, We are dealing with a gigantic piece of environment. The ground has a texture of about 18,000x18,000 pixels applied to it. We are now in the process of dividing the entire area up into 200 quadratic segments. Thankfully, Softimage has allowed me to select all 10,000 objects at once and

Re: Divide one big texture into smaller pieces

2012-05-18 Thread Tim Leydecker
Hey Christian, if you have access to ZBrush, you could load one segment and the Photoshop-cropped texture and try the Fix seams command. It´ll extend the color around the UVshell borders by 4-16px. This may be enough to hide the seams. Another thing that comes to mind is the backround color

Re: OT: @ fmx

2012-05-18 Thread Thiago Costa
Hey guys, Think of it as if MultiPhysics meet with MultiOptics :) And if you could work on these things collaboratively with anyone. We should be releasing some videos soon. We are still rounding up some corners to start the beta. Should be here in a month... I'll have a registration link open

Re: OT: @ fmx

2012-05-18 Thread Rob Chapman
awesome - very intriguing , can't wait to see what you folks come up with! best Rob

RE: Switching geometry emitter

2012-05-18 Thread Stephen Blair
Put a per-point attribute on each emitter object (eg self._groupID) In the emit ice tree, use emit location to get the groupID and delete the points if they are not from the object you want to be emitting at that point in time From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com

Re: Switching geometry emitter

2012-05-18 Thread Vladimir Jankijevic
put a per-object boolean (eg self.emit) attribute on each emitter object, make a group of all of them, connect that group to a generate sample set node, set the filter attribute in that node to your chosen boolean attribute, now you can switch on which object to emit by setting the attribute to

Re: Switching geometry emitter

2012-05-18 Thread Chris Marshall
Thanks, All interesting solutions. I'm using a variation on Peters Array idea. Cheers On 18 May 2012 15:53, Vladimir Jankijevic vladi...@elefantstudios.chwrote: put a per-object boolean (eg self.emit) attribute on each emitter object, make a group of all of them, connect that group to a

Pause render updates (preview Lock button)

2012-05-18 Thread Kamen Lilov
Hello, I'm looking for an undocumented feature :) - in the SI preview window, there is a Lock button that will cause SI to stop sending any further Render requests (for that preview) until the button is toggled again. Is there a way to programatically access, and change, the value of this

Re: OT: @ fmx

2012-05-18 Thread Mário Domingos
Video video video :) Mário Domingos www.mariodomingos.com Sent from my super iPhone On 18/05/2012, at 14:51, Miquel Campos miquel.cam...@gmail.com wrote: Awesome! looking forward for that video :) + Miquel Campos www.akaosaru.com he...@akaosaru.com +

Re: Pause render updates (preview Lock button)

2012-05-18 Thread Nicolas Burtnyk
Hey Kamen, I tried this really quick in python and it worked to toggle the button: win32api.PostMessage(0x0001085E, win32con.WM_LBUTTONDOWN, win32con.MK_LBUTTON, 0x000A000A) win32api.PostMessage(0x0001085E, win32con.WM_LBUTTONUP, win32con.MK_LBUTTON, 0x000A000A) I used Spy++ to grab the window

Re: Pause render updates (preview Lock button)

2012-05-18 Thread Kamen Lilov
Thank you Nicolas. The thought of feeding mouse events to SI directly did cross my mind, but the approach is very hacky (mildly put :) And finding the window is extra tricky, because that window class - AfxWnd90u - changes with the version of MFC / C RTL occasionally on a new Softimage

scripting render region

2012-05-18 Thread Daniel Jahnel
Hi all, quick scripting newbie question, I'm trying to do SetValue(Views.ViewA.RenderRegion.UsePassOptions, true, null) in the object model but I'm not getting anywhere...How would I go about accessing the UsePassOptions parameter? Any hints would be great...Cheers Dan

Re: scripting render region

2012-05-18 Thread Daniel Jahnel
Great, Thanks Stephen... On 18/05/2012 19:26, Stephen Blair wrote: #python Application.Dictionary.GetObject('Views.ViewA.RenderRegion').Parameters('UsePassOptions').Value = True -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com

Re: Strands deform by vector flow?

2012-05-18 Thread Steven Caron
for each particle you need to look up closest locations on the surface... you should be able to use an array of positions (StrandPosition) s On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Dominik d...@shedmtl.com wrote: Hey list, I hope some Ice master could help me with that. I'm trying to deform

__sipath__, why are you so useless :/

2012-05-18 Thread Alan Fregtman
Why is it that __sipath__ isn't set most of the time? Docs say: import siutils # Add this plug-in path to python path siutils.add_to_syspath(__sipath__) but it errors! :( # File Script Block , line 29, in module # siutils.add_to_syspath(__sipath__) # NameError: name '__sipath__' is not

Is the list not working?

2012-05-18 Thread Nicolas Burtnyk
Not getting any emails from the mailing list since this morning. Also I replied to someone and the reply didn't make it to google groups.

RE: OT: @ fmx

2012-05-18 Thread Byungchul Kang
Hello Thiago Great! I am looking forward!! Sent from my Windows Phone -- From: Miquel Campos Sent: 2012-05-18 오후 10:51 To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: OT: @ fmx Awesome! looking forward for that video :) + Miquel Campos