Hi Luc-eric
I kinda suspected that was the case. It might be worth updating the FAQ just to
state that. However it shows just how far out of touch the people making the
decisions are. Even if your in the very lucky position that you are not forced
by some or other constraint to use a specific
Thanks Olivier!!
But it seems like they'll break again when I xport to zbrush from 2013.
Oh well. This forced me to learn how to edit uvs in zbrush :)
G
On 2013/09/09 03:23 PM, olivier jeannel wrote:
I understand your problem is in the other way, but Orlando Esponda
posted a quick fix for
My problem is how softimage exports obj files.
I've tested exporting a mesh with nice uv's and re-importing it, without
going into zbrush. its broken most of the time.
This seems to be fixed in 2014, but not everyone on the team has updated
so I need to work around this problem.
My best
This should be so simple.
I need to create several packshots with only Material, but different textures -
so I only have to make corrections one place - Clients, pffh. Anyway
I create a custom attribute on my object by making an ICE Tree (under modeling)
with a Set Data node(Self.Texture)
I
I should think the Texture in Self.Texture is a reserved name - so you
should use something else - Self.SS_texture - and use that in the render
tree.
S.
On 2013/09/10 11:17 AM, pingo van der brinkloev wrote:
This should be so simple.
I need to create several packshots with only Material,
Hey, thanks, but it doesn't matter what I call it. Still wont work.
I really did read the docs.. Looks so easy.
...
On 10/09/2013, at 11.19, Sandy Sutherland wrote:
I should think the Texture in Self.Texture is a reserved name - so you should
use something else - Self.SS_texture - and use
and after all of this...
*autodesk had a meeting with all the studios in london who use xsi and said
they arent really going to develop it for the film/advert side of things,
now all development is from a small team in asia and they will develop
mainly for games*
*
*
From a source... well
...
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On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Mirko Jankovic
mirkoj.anima...@gmail.com wrote:
and after all of this...
*autodesk had a meeting with all the studios in london who use xsi and said
they arent really going to develop it for the film/advert side of
Can we please keep this thread about positive things coming out of
softimage.
If you would you like to vent your anger towards Autodesk please do it on
another thread, there are plenty already out there.
On 10 September 2013 10:47, Mario Domingos mdomingos.p...@gmail.com wrote:
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+1
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 7:04 PM, Octavian Ureche okt...@gmail.com wrote:
To be honest, i'd like to know more about what has been said at that
meeting.
Maybe someone could pop another thread up.
I believe this stuff pretty much affects everyone that uses this
application.
On Tue, Sep
Hi Angus,
You are right about people wanting to maintain working pipelines based on older
versions. This is our expectation and this has been taken into account. Still
we have to start somewhere. Rental is the way many people want to go for
flexibility. Today only e-flex gives that kind of
Sorry, Color_Map_Lookup node.
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Ognjen Vukovic ognj...@gmail.com wrote:
Could you not just apply the texture through the propertytexture
maptexture map on a per object basis.
Assign one shader too all the objects and use a texture map lookup node,
and use it
When deforming geometry by curve in ICE I keep loosing the live link to the
curve, so the geometry doesn't change shape when the curve does. The geo is
still deformed like when I applied the deform by curve, only it does not
react to shape changes on the curve, which makes me think it might be an
Hi Maurice
Firstly thanks for stepping up to the plate ;) While I can understand your
logic, surely there should have been some explanation of this up front.
Whether its in the FAQ, or on the rental page. Part of the problem as you lay
out in your last sentence is that you cant talk about
I could make this array in my sleep with Perl. But….this is not Perl….
Is that anywhere close to a sweet dream?
Well as I posted on another thread and will do it again no matter that
there some that will say for crying out loud or similar...
*autodesk had a meeting with all the studios in london who use xsi and said
they arent really going to develop it for the film/advert side of things,
now all
Hi Angus,
Mostly this is not intentional. Rental is being launched only for Suites at
this point which means standalone products like AutoCAD, Revit and Inventor are
not available either. However, we are also in parallel testing the waters with
Maya and 3ds Max but Autodesk is not rolling out
Hi
I am planing my trip to Übertage (and then a week NRW).
To just to check:
Is anyone driving from Düsseldorf/Neuss?
As we probably go to drink some in the evening and the last train takes 3h.
Otherwise, I will get a hotel for two nights and drive myself
Stuttgart-Siegen and Siegen-Neuss
Well because then it would become competition again...
From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com
[mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Mirko Jankovic
Sent: 10 septembre 2013 10:09
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: Re: Softimage Rental?
If they hate SI that
Yeah, but answering directily to why Softimage is out the rental plan
it's not that difficult to answer, I guess.
And I don't think there is coherency in ...just for suitestesting the
waters with Max and Maya... it doesn't make sense. It's obvious Softimage
is ignored.
So.. WHY?...
If that report is true, it's a good thing that Soft is as mature as it
is. I mean frankly, apart from ICE improvements, how is 'not developing
for film/advert' any different than in the last few years?
-Tim C.
On 9/10/2013 8:10 AM, Mirko Jankovic wrote:
Well as I posted on another thread and
couldn’t agree more with your analysis Matt.
I don’t think AD is reading the situation very well – but who knows... a lot of
men-in-suit’s necks must be on the line, so perhaps out of sheer necessity they
might come up with something - and if they hurry it might still make a
difference. Or
If they hate SI that much why they don't just give it to someone else that
will actually develop it...
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Tim Crowson tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com
wrote:
If that report is true, it's a good thing that Soft is as mature as it
is. I mean frankly, apart from ICE
But if they (AD) don't think they themselves can make money with it, is
not wanting to sell it an acknowledgment that it really could be
competition against them? Ironic. I mean, they've stated that Soft
doesn't bring in much money for them, compared to the other DCCs. They
clearly view it as
There was some technology transfer from Soft to Maya, also.
Too less to live, too much to die... a deadlock.
What I still hope for is that what's left of the development resources
is invested as wisely as possible.
Best would be to improve extensibility, so it becomes easier for 3rd
parties to
If you can work out array logics in your dreams then yes, it is indeed a sweet
dream !
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On 2013-09-10, at 9:06 AM, Xavier lapointe.xav...@gmail.com wrote:
I could make this array in my sleep with Perl. But….this is not Perl….
Is that anywhere close to a sweet dream?
That report would make sense if AD would have released Softimage LT, but
they released only MayaLT for the indie/mobile game industry.
And if that report is true, then SI will be oriented to games only with a
viewer that, if I didn't misunderstood Luc Eric explanation, it doesn't
make much sense
What is there to understand?
Imay be lying but a friend told me about documentary or article about guy
that formed AD.. his only and only goal was Money alone. Nothing wrong
there but his philosophy is transferred through out AD as complete so there
is absolutely no room for nothing else than pure
Thanks Maurice.
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Maurice Patel
maurice.pa...@autodesk.comwrote:
Hi Daniel,
No. unfortunately there is no option to convert to a permanent license. It
is not really designed as a lease-to-buy plan. Not saying that might not
happen in the future but it is not
Why is it that after all of these years, caching has to be a big bag of
pain-in-the-ass?
We have 3 different ways to do it and they all suck in one way or another.
The fact is, none of them are great or elegant. Trying to get them to write
out the damned custom attributes is bad enough and then
You're welcome. :)
http://exocortex.com/products/crate
Quick question for Maurice, if you rent over time pass the two year mark,
can you then be provided the option to convert to a permanent license?
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Daniel Brassard dbrassar...@gmail.comwrote:
The hidden value of Softimage is in it's patents. AD did a smart move
Daniel is very correct. Even if Soft is one day EOL it continues to be very
valuable to AD$K
From: Daniel Brassard [dbrassar...@gmail.com]
Sent: 10 September 2013 05:35 PM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: Re: Softimage Rental?
The hidden value of
The best way I've found to work around the custom attribute issue is to lay
down a Log Value node with Log actually turned off. I find the usual
Attribute Display trick unreliable especially in batch mode.
I always use the CacheObjectsIntoFile method (aka Cache Manage). Frankly
for an out of the
2 point springs appear to broken in 2014sp2/linux. Just to double check, i
loaded the sample scene that demonstrates the 2 point spring, and there's
nothing going on. I'll have a butchers at the win7 version later.
cheers,
Andi.
I had a similar problem with the length parameter on the syflexISpring node
not working. I'm guessing it happened with the introduction of weightmaps
for syflex.
I submitted a bug report but you may want to add this one to the list.
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Andi Farhall
Erm, I'm not sure where that 'source' has come from, but I think some wires
might have been crossed about what was said at this meeting
There was a meeting in London with Softimage customers, back in June. It was
somewhat hastily arranged (but don't read anything into that). The meeting was
not
There are really cheap hotels in Siegen.
When I looked into it last year I found some for less than 30€ a night.
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Octavian Ureche okt...@gmail.com wrote:
Heya,
I am currently pondering over train / airplane / motorcycle. Haven't made
up my mind yet.
Will
Hey guys,
So I called the AddICEAttribute() method, and on its returned attribute I
can't seem to set its .DataArray property with a simple list of integers.
It logs this:
*# WARNING : 3392 - Invalid offset specified while extracting data from
this attribute: Attribute: myCustomAttr*
*# Offset:
Well is about us then, showing those AD animals throught softimage.tv that
Softimage is alive and kicking. And that Softimage is by far better than
Maya and 3DMax even that now is in Asia with whatever Devs are there.
I wonder what the studios using Softimage said about this. I can guess
that
http://xsisupport.com/2012/11/13/scripting-writing-the-dataarray-of-an-ice-attribute/
http://xsisupport.com/2013/03/25/aha-setting-dataarray2d-with-jscript/
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.comwrote:
Hey guys,
So I called the AddICEAttribute() method, and on
Thanks Leonard.
This will definitely help.
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 8:53 PM, Leonard Koch leonardkoch...@gmail.comwrote:
Here, all of these hotels have hostel-like prices:
http://www.villa-trallala.de/preise.htm
http://www.hoteljakobgarni.de/html/zimmer.html
Maya got enough other problems... I don't envy them, at all.
AD's predicament is, throttling down Softimage development too far is
going to stagnate sells, and they don't exactly look like a company that
wants to keep a non-profitable product.
But they don't want to sell it either, because
It would be great. But they have an agreement with Maxon now, so it's like
they have C4D
2013/9/10 Emilio Hernandez emi...@e-roja.com
Let's write Adobe to buy Softimage. They are only missing now a 3D
software. :P
2013/9/10 Eugen Sares sof...@mail.sprit.org
Maya got enough other
Core replacement would likely be all or nothing as it would take a long time to
replicate all the duties in a new core and get all the bugs out.
At this stage of the game, it's deal with it or write a new application.
What I'd like to know is why all these studios around the world are being
Did you saw this example from the dosc?
http://download.autodesk.com/global/docs/softimage2014/en_us/sdkguide/si_om/ICEAttribute.DataArray.html
(2. Example)
Here is a little Snipped i wrote some time ago.
Note: It works only with a Cube. Not with a NonFrezzedPointCloud
[snip]
from
Thanks for clarifying this one Graham. Good that someone from AD kills
this rumors.
2013/9/10 Graham Bell graham.b...@autodesk.com
Erm, I'm not sure where that 'source' has come from, but I think some
wires might have been crossed about what was said at this meeting
There was a meeting in
Here, all of these hotels have hostel-like prices:
http://www.villa-trallala.de/preise.htm
http://www.hoteljakobgarni.de/html/zimmer.html
http://www.garni-tell.de/zimmer.html
http://www.akuna-matata.de/2.html
http://www.rosenhof-siegen.de/zimmerpreise.html
Hope this helps.
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013
Not sure why it's losing the link, but I can tell you ICE optimization is
not it.
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 7:50 AM, Morten Bartholdy x...@colorshopvfx.dkwrote:
**
When deforming geometry by curve in ICE I keep loosing the live link to
the curve, so the geometry doesn't change shape when
Funny, we're a games studio and have been working on a project for 8.5 years
which is expected to live for another 8.5 years. We have not seen significant
work in the games features in quite a long time. We've seen several revamps of
existing technology such as realtime shaders, often with
Hi Daniel,
No. unfortunately there is no option to convert to a permanent license. It is
not really designed as a lease-to-buy plan. Not saying that might not happen in
the future but it is not what the plan is today.
Maurice
Maurice Patel
Autodesk : Tél: 514 954-7134
From:
What about non-singleton attributes like say a per-point integer? I can't
get those to be set. I can work around it in my case, but I'm curious why
it won't work like the docs appear to imply.
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.comwrote:
I missed those posts.
And if Softimage is a competition, AD would have to improve Maya and 3dsmax
that people are still buying it...
Naa, to much work... just sit on the subscription...
Holger Schönberger
technical director
The day has 24 hours, if that does not suffice, I will take the night
_
I missed those posts. Thanks Stephen! :)
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Stephen Blair stephenrbl...@gmail.comwrote:
http://xsisupport.com/2012/11/13/scripting-writing-the-dataarray-of-an-ice-attribute/
http://xsisupport.com/2013/03/25/aha-setting-dataarray2d-with-jscript/
On Tue, Sep
Ok, taking a hotel from 12.-14.
So if anyone needs to get from Stuttgart to Siegen on Thursday evening, let me
know.
Holger Schönberger
technical director
The day has 24 hours, if that does not suffice, I will take the night
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Let's write Adobe to buy Softimage. They are only missing now a 3D
software. :P
2013/9/10 Eugen Sares sof...@mail.sprit.org
Maya got enough other problems... I don't envy them, at all.
AD's predicament is, throttling down Softimage development too far is
going to stagnate sells, and they
I would definately vote for a reworked centralized cacheing tool which left
no doubt what is being done. I agree with Eric that the current
implementation is a mess.
+1 for better mixer integration Vincent :)
Morten
Den 10. september 2013 kl. 18:06 skrev Vincent Fortin vfor...@gmail.com:
Heya,
I am currently pondering over train / airplane / motorcycle. Haven't made
up my mind yet.
Will probably leave motorcycle out cuz it's a 4000 km round trip from
bucharest to siegen.
And i have knobbies on :)
What i find odd though, is that i can't find any hostels in siegen...only
hotels.
The hidden value of Softimage is in it's patents. AD did a smart move
buying Softimage from Avid. It allowed them freedom to implement features
in other apps with less risk of infringement. Less so for a competitor. I
don't think AD will let that go.
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 11:26 AM,
Perhaps not something that will put any Softimage rumours to rest, but
interesting nonetheless.
The FX guide articles are always very in-depth and well thought out and this
one is no different.
Interesting seeing the awful Maya node graph being tunneled into with a very
ICE-like interface.
Anyone doing any regular particle work in Softimage should spend some time
(or money) on a command-line caching system. It gets rid of all custom
attribute related issues and gives you unlimited processing licenses. Even
if you don't have a farm it's just simpler and faster to run sims in a dos
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