Re: Open source json camera I/O platform

You want a snapshot, at that precise moment, of a gigantic microphotography in the UV range of a decaying isotope only you and your clients have access to. That way you can be absolutely certain it's accurate and unique. Or you could just use UTSt knowing y2038 is a "might", and that even if it ev

Re: Open source json camera I/O platform

@Alan, indeed, I usually tend to stay simple... >>> datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%Y%m%d%H%M%S") '20130711232548' is imho acceptable as the number of bytes is constant and the format is easy and fast to parse for the datetime implementation. you still might find crazy stuff to pack a timestam

Re: Open source json camera I/O platform

Hehe... I love unixtime and use it for all kinds of stuff. The way I see it, if my code is still around in 2038, I did DAMN good :D I feel ya Jo. I'd love to abstract all this but my Python skills are weak at best. I'm an Obj-C guy and can't stand python to be honest. Please feel free to tweak it

Re: Open source json camera I/O platform

*Oh my...* So what's the ideal short-form datetime storage? A long string? On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 2:00 AM, jo benayoun wrote: > well job Gene, > I would now spent a bit of time on the code itself to make it more > flexible. It would be great to have clear separation between plugins, core >

Re: Open source json camera I/O platform

well job Gene, I would now spent a bit of time on the code itself to make it more flexible. It would be great to have clear separation between plugins, core lib and ui code imho. @Alan, don't do that please... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem 2013/7/11 Alan Fregtman > Minor pet

Re: Open source json camera I/O platform

Minor pet peeve with how you're storing date and time as a string... you're missing seconds! but I think it might be more efficient to store the unix timestamp (seconds since epoch) instead of a fully formatted long string. Let the reader module handle the datetime formatting. On Thu, Jul 11, 20

RE: Wacom tablet in Softimage

And they were also using large scenes when encountering similar problem. From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Chris Chia Sent: Friday, July 12, 2013 1:31 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: RE: Wacom tablet in Soft

RE: Wacom tablet in Softimage

Hi Xaiver, Are you using the following driver version: input-wacom-0.16.0 xf86-input-wacom-0.20.0 Becos upgrading to them seems to have fixed some Wacom unresponsiveness problem for our client. From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Be

Re: Wacom tablet in Softimage

Hey Xavier. This has been debated a ton in the past. Using the dll trick works but leaves you without pen pressure (and i honestly like to have that for weight painting). The only solution that works for dealing with heavy scenes playback using a wacom tablet is to use the keyboard and never, ever

Re: Wacom tablet in Softimage

Oh don't get me wrong, it works perfectly most of the time. Just that we have some memory intensive scenes atm and for some reasons it get stuck. They get can unstuck by using the mouse, but still pretty annoying. I think their next test will be disabling the pressure sensitivity and see if that he

Re: houdini engine

Yeah I've already slowly started to dive into that Matt actually. Wish I did it years ago! Kris On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 11:45 PM, Matt Lind wrote: > If you want to protect yourself, learn programming. It’ll free you from > being a slave to applications and their trendy nature….or at least giv

RE: Wacom tablet in Softimage

I have tested the following driver for Wacom 4 and 5. They work with the drivers below for CentOS and Fedora. input-wacom (Kernel driver) xf86-input-wacom

RE: houdini engine

If you want to protect yourself, learn programming. It'll free you from being a slave to applications and their trendy natureor at least give you a buffer. Matt From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Kris Rivel Sent:

Re: houdini engine

Uh...I guess not. But for me...as I've been getting more into games and Unity...it opens up a whole new range of possibilities. I'm now thinking of building "smart objects" in Houdini maybe to bring into Unity. Something I can't do with Soft. Just trying to pick the right path of what I de

Re: houdini engine

Was your reason to use Soft a superior interoperability with Houdini? On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Kris Rivel wrote: > S..whats this mean for Soft I wonder? Anything? Another reason to > not use it? > > Kris > > > On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 5:20 PM, Stephen Davidson > wrote: > >> s.

Re: houdini engine

S..whats this mean for Soft I wonder? Anything? Another reason to not use it? Kris On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 5:20 PM, Stephen Davidson wrote: > s... should we start a website for artist to share/sell their ICE > assets? > We could call it Andbolt.com (the url is available) > Then develo

Re: Open source json camera I/O platform

Update: https://bitbucket.org/crewshin/json-cam Output file: https://bitbucket.org/crewshin/json-cam/src/bae3c009d10002aa6d033036079064eda9d4d8d0/FromSoftimage.cam?at=master ScreenGrabs: https://bitbucket.org/crewshin/json-cam/src/bae3c009d10002aa6d033036079064eda9d4d8d0/Export.png?at=master http

RE: Wacom tablet in Softimage

This? But I think it was fixed in later versions of softimage. Not sure though: Work-Around to Problems with Tablets and Softimage March 11th, 2011 by Luc-Eric: There is a strange user interface lag that affects Softimage XSI when you use a Wacom tablet. With heavy scenes or simulation, you may

Re: Wacom tablet in Softimage

Hm ... okay then. Thanks Luc-Eric

Re: Wacom tablet in Softimage

the tablet problem, and work around, was only for Windows. On Linux, there is no implementation of pen tablets in softimage. On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 8:55 PM, Xavier Lapointe wrote: > Hey guys, > > does someone know where we could find the content of the article Luc-Eric > wrote a while ago? > > P

Wacom tablet in Softimage

Hey guys, does someone know where we could find the content of the article Luc-Eric wrote a while ago? - Problems using Wacom tablets with Softimage? See Workaround for Problem with Wacom Tablets and Softimage . This link is dead unfortunately

Re: OT: Can someone explain AD's pricing schemes outside the US?

Like I said - I don't agree with it, but that was the line we were encouraged to use. I usually just shrugged and apologised if it came up - it's indefensible. On 11 July 2013 19:58, Sebastien Sterling wrote: > Regional staff, haha, then i guess it probably does take a lot of man > power to dele

Re: OT: Can someone explain AD's pricing schemes outside the US?

Regional staff, haha, then i guess it probably does take a lot of man power to delete all those crash reports :P On 12 July 2013 00:54, Sven Constable wrote: > Sorry, the prices I mentioned had VAT included. So it's not higher in > europe than in japan, assuming you guys meant net from taxes.**

Re: MT Strand Extrude for 2013/2014

https://vimeo.com/64505408 Worth a try Le 11/07/2013 18:09, Malcolm Zaloon a écrit : Hello Guys! I´m seaching for mt strand extrude addon to work with SI 2014, this does exist? where can be downloaded? Thanks in advance. -- __ Malcolm Zaloon - Lighting TD - XSI Generalist Q

RE: OT: Can someone explain AD's pricing schemes outside the US?

Sorry, the prices I mentioned had VAT included. So it's not higher in europe than in japan, assuming you guys meant net from taxes. Personally, I don't think prices on software are too high these days in general. Anything else just became too cheap. What I don't like these days is any sort

Re: OT: Can someone explain AD's pricing schemes outside the US?

Oh yeah, I think we forgot that South of Spain is so outrageously more expensive than San Fran ;) I know what you're saying Paul, actually, but it's a long surpassed set of excuses I hear brought forth when the price is discussed. When you get any at all rather than silence, that is :) On Fri, Ju

Re: OT: Can someone explain AD's pricing schemes outside the US?

I can explain the argument, although I don't agree with it. Essentially - regional staff are more expensive in certain parts of the world. If you're in one of those regions, then your price reflects the cost of those staff. On 11 July 2013 17:42, Sebastien Sterling wrote: > It must be the "shipp

RE: OT: Can someone explain AD's pricing schemes outside the US?

I hope so, but it is digital download, so I believe so many traffic when downloading @_@ From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Sebastien Sterling Sent: Friday, July 12, 2013 9:43 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject:

RE: OT: Can someone explain AD's pricing schemes outside the US?

It's even more in europe. 4.700€ (6200 US$) for a new license... The update is 2.700€ / 3.500UD$. Don't know about subscription. sven From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Daniel Kim Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2013 10:47

Re: OT: Can someone explain AD's pricing schemes outside the US?

It must be the "shipping Costs" :P On 11 July 2013 22:47, Daniel Kim wrote: > In New Zealand, it is almost same price as Japan, which is too expensive.* > *** > > ** ** > > Daniel > > ** ** > > *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: > softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.co

Re: Extrude Polygon Islands with different transforms

Thanks Stephen I'm getting somewhere now. Have been away today so haven't had a proper chance to work on it today but getting near with the few minutes I had to try it out. On Jul 11, 2013 10:46 AM, "Stephen Blair" wrote: > This is for Apply Extrude Polygons but maybe it can help > http://xsisupp

Re: houdini engine

s... should we start a website for artist to share/sell their ICE assets? We could call it Andbolt.com (the url is available) Then develop an ICE Engine app that could port ICE assets into Houdini, Cinema3D, 3DStudioMax, Maya, etc. On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 4:36 PM, Emilio Hernandez wrote: >

Re: Particle shapes not rendering

What renderer? By the way, instances don't render if the instance master is hidden normally. (You can hide it in a special way with an override and that's ok, but if it's hidden the usual way it won't let the instances render.) On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Antonin Messier wrote: > Any reas

Re: Polygonal description -

Ah thanks Grahame. The thought was to transform all the point positions and add the polygon description after. I just found I could transform the topology arrays directly ;) I didn't get as far as transferring UVs so these links are great to pick apart. Cheers, -Dave

Particle shapes not rendering

Any reason why certain particle shapes would not be rendering in a specific ICE tree? Disc, Sphere, Rectangle are rendering, Box, Cylinder, Cone and instances are not. They all display fine in the viewport.

RE: OT: Can someone explain AD's pricing schemes outside the US?

In New Zealand, it is almost same price as Japan, which is too expensive. Daniel From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Martin Sent: Friday, July 12, 2013 3:02 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: OT: Can someone

Re: houdini engine

The ICE solution to Maya... finally... 2013/7/11 John Richard Sanchez > Dont think there will be a rush to get this into XSI. Maya will be the app > to get it, > > > On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Vladimir Jankijevic < > vladi...@elefantstudios.ch> wrote: > >> very much so :) >> >> >> On Thu

RE: Polygonal description -

PolygonalDescription is an array, so if you got it on a group you'd have an array of arrays, which isn't supported in ICE. Even if you could get it, I'm not sure it would be helpful for achieving what you want. However these compounds might help: http://www.si-community.com/community/viewtopic.

Re: houdini engine

Dont think there will be a rush to get this into XSI. Maya will be the app to get it, On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Vladimir Jankijevic < vladi...@elefantstudios.ch> wrote: > very much so :) > > > On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 1:05 PM, adrian wyer < > adrian.w...@fluid-pictures.com> wrote: > >> **

Re: OT: Can someone explain AD's pricing schemes outside the US?

Highway Robbery On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Rob Wuijster wrote: > ouch! > > Rob > > \/-\/\/ > > On 11-7-2013 17:01, Martin wrote: > > If it makes you feel better, we pay US$5700+ for Softimage in Japan, and > US$2000+ for subscription. > > Martin > > > On Th

Re: MT Strand Extrude for 2013/2014

buy it? hehe, sorry could not resist 2013/7/11 Malcolm Zaloon > oh, this is commercial, and i found no mesher in free LK1.5 > > suggestions? > > > On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Malcolm Zaloon wrote: > >> Create Extrusion Along Strands 2;0 have serious issues with flipping in >> my setups..

Re: MT Strand Extrude for 2013/2014

oh, this is commercial, and i found no mesher in free LK1.5 suggestions? On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Malcolm Zaloon wrote: > Create Extrusion Along Strands 2;0 have serious issues with flipping in my > setups... i will look this LK mesher, thanks Leonard! > > > > On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 3

Re: MT Strand Extrude for 2013/2014

Create Extrusion Along Strands 2;0 have serious issues with flipping in my setups... i will look this LK mesher, thanks Leonard! On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Leonard Koch wrote: > I don't think something like that is out there unfortunately. > But there is a compound in softimage called "Cr

Re: houdini engine

very much so :) On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 1:05 PM, adrian wyer wrote: > ** ** ** ** ** > > interesting! > > ** ** > > https://vimeo.com/70073569 > > ** ** > > a > > ** ** > > Adrian Wyer > Fluid Pictures > 75-77 Margaret St. > London > W

Re: MT Strand Extrude for 2013/2014

I don't think something like that is out there unfortunately. But there is a compound in softimage called "Create Extrusion Along Strands" and the mesher in LK Lightning 2.0 which both fulfil the same purpose. On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 6:09 PM, Malcolm Zaloon wrote: > Hello Guys! > > I´m seaching

houdini engine

interesting! https://vimeo.com/70073569 a Adrian Wyer Fluid Pictures 75-77 Margaret St. London W1W 8SY ++44(0) 207 580 0829 adrian.w...@fluid-pictures.com mailto:adrian.w...@fluid-pictures.com> www.fluid-pictures.com http://www.fluid-pictures.com/> Fluid Pictures Limited is

RE: optional In Name and Reference?

Nevermind. Problem solved. I attached Get Data value out to First Valid In1, then created an alternative setting I could work with as a default and attached it to First Valid In2. Appears to work fine. Object name input now acts as an optional argument. -- Joey Ponthieux LaRC Information Techno

Re: softimage and 3Dcoat Applink

I also like that it's available on Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/100980/ Sure, it's locked to your specific Steam account forever, but you can sign in on any computer with Steam and use it wherever you want without jumping license server hoops. Steam has a handful of other 3D apps as

Re: OT: Can someone explain AD's pricing schemes outside the US?

ouch! Rob \/-\/\/ On 11-7-2013 17:01, Martin wrote: If it makes you feel better, we pay US$5700+ for Softimage in Japan, and US$2000+ for subscription. Martin On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 10:16 PM, Raffaele Fragapane mailto:raffsxsil...@googlemail.com>> wrote:

Re: OT: Can someone explain AD's pricing schemes outside the US?

If you have the Entertainment Creation Suite (??) then I believe you get Sketchbook Designer as part of the package. -Paul On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Martin wrote: > If it makes you feel better, we pay US$5700+ for Softimage in Japan, and > US$2000+ for subscription. > > Martin > > > O

MT Strand Extrude for 2013/2014

Hello Guys! I´m seaching for mt strand extrude addon to work with SI 2014, this does exist? where can be downloaded? Thanks in advance. -- __ Malcolm Zaloon - Lighting TD - XSI Generalist Quote: "Everything can be interconnected and will update according by interface"

Re: Open source json camera I/O platform

RE animatable parameters: This spec currently allows for any param to be animatable by just adding it to the "anim" dictionary. All the importers/exporters would have to do is simply check if any param besides transforms exist and add keyframes. This would be left up to the individual app scripts t

Re: Car-setup

In the case of using a pre-blurred texture-map, you might want to have a look at the FXtree and apply radial blurs and other FX to your image clip there. The reason being that, if you want to key more or less of an effect, you can easily to that, if you want to get fancy, link the blur values to so

Re: Car-setup

This is great guys. Awesome tutorial and a free plugin. How cool is that? And yes good idea about the pre blurred wheel. Cheers! Pingo On 09/07/2013, at 18.31, Andy Jones wrote: > One tip is to make sure you've got a plan in mind for how to deal with > the wheels. There are a few different w

Re: OT: Can someone explain AD's pricing schemes outside the US?

If it makes you feel better, we pay US$5700+ for Softimage in Japan, and US$2000+ for subscription. Martin On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 10:16 PM, Raffaele Fragapane < raffsxsil...@googlemail.com> wrote: > It's easy enough to explain, actually. Think of cows and milk, and then > try to moo. > > > On

optional In Name and Reference?

I've got an ICE compound where I have assigned an In Name and Reference to take another object as input. It works fine when something such as a null or other object name is provided. However, if no reference name is assigned or picked, the ICE compound is disabled(red). Is there a way to make th

Re: OT: Can someone explain AD's pricing schemes outside the US?

It's easy enough to explain, actually. Think of cows and milk, and then try to moo. On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 11:11 PM, Rob Wuijster wrote: > /rant on > > Looking for a sketch app, I had a look at Sketchbook Pro. > On the US website it was on sale for $59, but clicking through I ended up > at th

OT: Can someone explain AD's pricing schemes outside the US?

/rant on Looking for a sketch app, I had a look at Sketchbook Pro. On the US website it was on sale for $59, but clicking through I ended up at the EU side of things. To my surprise the price went up to EUR 74,75 / $100,= That's a 70% increase!! Even with taxes added it doesn't compute on my

Re: softimage and 3Dcoat Applink

I've been using it since it was 3D-Brush & it's always been great with Soft. There is an addon that'll let you send objects directly from Softimage to 3DC and back. The only negatives I can think of are - 3D Coat creates clusters for your surfaces, even if there's only 1 surface for the whole obj

RE: unsubscribe

Don't leave us Margot. We barely learn to know each other! ;) -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of mar...@thisisdetta.se Sent: 10 juillet 2013 13:27 To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: unsu

Re: Extrude Polygon Islands with different transforms

This is for Apply Extrude Polygons but maybe it can help http://xsisupport.com/2012/07/10/extruding-random-polygons-with-random-lengths-and-random-insets/ On 10/07/2013 6:54 PM, Matthew Graves wrote: Hi all, I am trying to extrude selected polygons using Extrude Polygon Islands (ok so far) and

Re: OT: Bruce Lee + Jhonnie Walker + The Mill = "Change The Game"

The rig and animation was done in Maya with the rendering done in Soft/Arnold. To be honest decisions like that are usually down to what people are available - if you have a Maya rigger and Soft lighting and renderers that's generally how the project gets done. On 11 July 2013 09:31, Michal Do

Re: Softimage 2014 SP2 released

This is a life long annoyance that, even after countless complaints, still has not been fixed. Even a friggin link to the public page in your subscription login is too much to ask for it seems. /rant off Rob \/-\/\/ On 10-7-2013 20:25, John Richard Sanchez wr

Re: Open source json camera I/O platform

A bit off-topic already :) but I just found pyalembic in Gohlkes invaluable Windows binaries list: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#pyalembic But I also agree that something as simple and readable as JSON would be cool to have for (plotted?) world-space camera exchange. And _all_ paramet

Re: OT: Bruce Lee + Jhonnie Walker + The Mill = "Change The Game"

"looks like it was lit and rendered in softimage and arnold i would guess." I didn't work on it directly, but it was rendered in Arnold/Softimage. I still use a couple of scenes as my tests for new sitoa releases, they are very demanding. Lots of work went into it and the final effect is in my op