RE: Advice For Tracking Down Why A Python Plugin Is Not Loading?

2014-01-13 Thread Avinash Sunnasy
Got it working! Thanks everyone! -Original Message- From: Eric Thivierge [mailto:ethivie...@hybride.com] Sent: Monday, January 13, 2014 3:52 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Cc: Avinash Sunnasy Subject: Re: Advice For Tracking Down Why A Python Plugin Is Not Loading? Make sure you

Re: Windows 8

2014-01-13 Thread Martin Yara
Thanks! Now I'm definitely buying our new PCs with Win 8(8.1) specially since Win 7 is not easy to find these days. The Win8 Pro downgrade option is something I wish I knew when we bought a couple of Win7 PCs a few months ago. Now, Is it worth to upgrade our old PCs? So far it doesn't seem so, but

Re: Windows 8

2014-01-13 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
8.1 is a considerable improvement over 8 in terms of usability actually. It's not without some nagging things, but at this point most are a matter of preference, and very few are objectively steps back. Performance wise I don't think it can be argued it's overall better on many fronts, even if som

Re: Advice For Tracking Down Why A Python Plugin Is Not Loading?

2014-01-13 Thread Eric Thivierge
Make sure you install PyWin32 for Python 2.6 as well otherwise Python won't register within Softimage. If you have, try running the runonce.bat as that sometimes fixes it too. Eric T. On Monday, January 13, 2014 6:50:15 PM, Avinash Sunnasy wrote: OK, so I think I’ve found the issue. The user

RE: Advice For Tracking Down Why A Python Plugin Is Not Loading?

2014-01-13 Thread Avinash Sunnasy
OK, so I think I've found the issue. The user is unable to select "python" from the script editor preferences. The user has python2.6 installed and the path has "C:\python26" I tried to follow the guide on the softimage wiki. However I, nor the user, has: C:\Python2x\Lib\site-packages\

Re: Windows 8

2014-01-13 Thread Eric Lampi
I've used both 7 and 8 with no problems. I don't think it makes a huge difference. Nice that it boots so fast now. Once I do a backup, I'll put on 8.1. Eric Freelance 3D and VFX animator http://vimeopro.com/user7979713/3d-work On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Simon Pickard wrote: > Pretty mu

Re: Windows 8

2014-01-13 Thread Simon Pickard
Pretty much, stick with Windows XP. On 14 January 2014 08:38, Byron Nash wrote: > So, to sum it all up from everyone. Windows 8 is faster and better except > that it's terrible. Did I get that right? > > > On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 9:19 AM, Ognjen Vukovic wrote: > >> And then theres this... >>

Re: Windows 8

2014-01-13 Thread Byron Nash
So, to sum it all up from everyone. Windows 8 is faster and better except that it's terrible. Did I get that right? On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 9:19 AM, Ognjen Vukovic wrote: > And then theres this... > > http://winsupersite.com/windows-8/threshold-be-called-windows-9-ship-april-2015 > > > On Mon,

Re: Advice For Tracking Down Why A Python Plugin Is Not Loading?

2014-01-13 Thread Stephen Blair
If the plugin doesn't load, RegisterCommand is never going to be called. Is there anything logged in the script history? Usually there's some kind of error. On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Jon Swindells wrote: > pip freeze ? > > -- > Jon Swindells > jon_swinde...@fastmail.fm > > > > On Mon,

Re: Advice For Tracking Down Why A Python Plugin Is Not Loading?

2014-01-13 Thread Jon Swindells
pip freeze ? -- Jon Swindells jon_swinde...@fastmail.fm On Mon, Jan 13, 2014, at 10:33 PM, Alan Fregtman wrote: Any failed imports? You can start there. On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 2:55 PM, Avinash Sunnasy <[1]sa.69...@konami.com> wrote: Hello all, I’ve developed a python plugin that wil

Re: Advice For Tracking Down Why A Python Plugin Is Not Loading?

2014-01-13 Thread Alan Fregtman
Any failed imports? You can start there. On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 2:55 PM, Avinash Sunnasy wrote: > Hello all, > > > > I’ve developed a python plugin that will successfully load for all members > of the team except one. > > > > How can I track down why the plugin doesn’t load? > > > > Unfortunat

Advice For Tracking Down Why A Python Plugin Is Not Loading?

2014-01-13 Thread Avinash Sunnasy
Hello all, I've developed a python plugin that will successfully load for all members of the team except one. How can I track down why the plugin doesn't load? Unfortunately a try/catch around in_reg.RegisterCommand hasn't given me any output. Any ideas? My hunch is that the use

Re: Havok for Softimage

2014-01-13 Thread Nicolas Esposito
I installed a bit ago and yes, is very game oriented and its been around for a while, so far that they still call our beloved software XSI :-) >From what I've understood it helps with game engines that already have buit-in Havok physics, or if a company want to integrate it into their game engine v

Re: Krakatoa for XSI

2014-01-13 Thread Katie
Awesome thanks for the feedback everyone I've got some things to check out now :) Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 12, 2014, at 4:08 PM, Cesar Saez wrote: > > There is an open source project by James Vecore that might be helpful. > https://github.com/jamesvecore/KrakatoaForSoftimage

Re: rigging in xsi vs maya

2014-01-13 Thread Sergio Mucino
Hey Angus. As Juhani pointed out earlier, I actually got Rich's course to get me started. After that, it was just a matter of translating my knowledge to Modo-world (which I must say, was not a straight-forward experience, but that doesn't mean bad at all. Actually, I am

RE: rigging in xsi vs maya

2014-01-13 Thread Angus Davidson
Hi Sergio Thank you very much for this in depth reply.Lot sof very good insights there. I will definitely look at the ACS and Rich's course. as soon as I have the labs set up I will get some time to dig into the rigging side of Modo. Kind regards Angus From: Se

Re: rigging in xsi vs maya

2014-01-13 Thread Sergio Mucino
Hey Angus. As Juhani pointed out earlier, I actually got Rich's course to get me started. After that, it was just a matter of translating my knowledge to Modo-world (which I must say, was not a straight-forward experience, but that doesn't mean bad at all. Actually, I am

Re: Geometry has no Polygon Index - fix?

2014-01-13 Thread Stephen Blair
In 2014 SP2, the Elephant mesh has PolygonIndex values, and I can triangulate a single poly by specifying the PolygonIndex. However, Softimage crashes when I try to triangulate all polygons, or a string array like 1600-1650. If I extracted all the polygons to a new mesh, then I could triangulate e

Geometry has no Polygon Index - fix?

2014-01-13 Thread Jakob Schindegger
Hi Recently I came across the Elephant Character Model (Primitive->Character->Elephant) and wanted to use my standard Triangulate ICE Tree on it. Turns out that it didn't work, because the polygons on this particular geometry have no Polygon Index, or ICE shows that all the indices are ze

Re: Windows 8

2014-01-13 Thread Ognjen Vukovic
And then theres this... http://winsupersite.com/windows-8/threshold-be-called-windows-9-ship-april-2015 On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Nuno Conceicao < nunoalexconcei...@gmail.com> wrote: > Its definitely faster to boot than windows 7 > > > On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 2:08 AM, Emilio Hernandez w

RE: OBJ from XSI

2014-01-13 Thread Williams, Wayne
Yes, this would be one of those things that is high on my list of things that need fixing. Just give the user the option to export out an .obj without bisectors if they so desire. The size of the exported obj is sometimes double or more (for the bisector data I'm guessing. But if no other "infer

Re: Windows 8

2014-01-13 Thread Nuno Conceicao
Its definitely faster to boot than windows 7 On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 2:08 AM, Emilio Hernandez wrote: > I am about to install windows 8. Just wanted to ask if it is worth it or > not. > > Any increase in performance? > > Strange issues with Softimage? > > Thx. > >

RE: OBJ from XSI

2014-01-13 Thread Szabolcs Matefy
Nope, UVs are quite important. However, I think if everything is OK coming from Maya, Max, Zbrush, then Softimage is the bad guy. From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of olivier jeannel Sent: Monday, January 13, 2014 9:22 AM To:

Re: Havok for Softimage

2014-01-13 Thread Rob Wuijster
Hi Juhani, To be honest, i never heard of Havok outside 3dsmax either. But t looks very game oriented. Rob \/-\/\/ On 13-1-2014 7:35, Juhani Karlsson wrote: Yo, I randomly stumbled across Havok and their content creation tools include Softimage + it also has qui

Re: Havok for Softimage

2014-01-13 Thread Stefan Kubicek
Nice find Juhani, I had no idea as well.Yo, I randomly stumbled across Havok and their content creation tools include Softimage + it also has quite neat documentation. http://software.intel.com/sites/havok/en/ http://www.havok.com/solutions/animators-artists Does anyone have experience does Havok

Re: OBJ from XSI

2014-01-13 Thread olivier jeannel
Have you tried exporting Obj without Uvs ? Uvs generate bissectors that are not understood by inferior software :) Le 13/01/2014 08:28, Szabolcs Matefy a écrit : Hi I've got a recurring issue with OBJ. Now I wanted to bring my model into Marmoset Toolbag2, and the obj statistics Marmoset gave