Re: new upgrade policy

2014-02-28 Thread Emilio Hernandez
Of everything I've read. Some ones say Go run switch to Maya we already started. It is unavoidable Maya is the choice. Well good for you. Don't try to convince the rest to follow steps. Some of us will stay put. Others will flee. It depends on what is your busisness approach and what are

Re[2]: new upgrade policy

2014-02-28 Thread Eugen Sares
Thanks for a good lough...! ; } But until now, no trigger has actually been pulled, so let's be cool until we know anything. -- Originalnachricht -- Von: Greg Punchatz g...@janimation.com An: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Gesendet: 28.02.2014 00:38:26 Betreff: Re: new upgrade policy

Re: Best online resources to help with a Maya migration.

2014-02-28 Thread Simon Reeves
People talk about modelling but I always feel that's pretty much the last thing you would need to learn in a new app, there isn't an easier thing to I/o than a mesh with subd with or without uvs. On Friday, 28 February 2014, Brent McPherson brent.mcpher...@autodesk.com wrote: In Maya you use

Re: Best online resources to help with a Maya migration.

2014-02-28 Thread Sebastien Sterling
Are you referring to the functionality offered by maya in the context of modelling, or the fact that it is split between 2 modules because AD can't be bothered to offer a homogenised and intuitive experience ? I'll give you an example, when you are using nex any time you SHIFT+RIGHT CLICK to

RE: FindObjectsByMarkingAndCapabilities

2014-02-28 Thread Szabolcs Matefy
Thank you all guys! From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Jeremie Passerin Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2014 7:46 PM To: softimage Subject: Re: FindObjectsByMarkingAndCapabilities this only works with xsiCollection not

Where to download the SI 2014 documentation files?

2014-02-28 Thread Rob Wuijster
Hi, As an addition to the 'new upgrade policy' thread, is there a place on the AD website where I can download the documentation for SI 2014? -- cheers, Rob \/-\/\/

Re: Re[2]: new upgrade policy

2014-02-28 Thread Sebastien Sterling
This is the thing i don't get where is this coming from, this is the smoke but where is the fire ? On 28 February 2014 09:07, Eugen Sares sof...@mail.sprit.org wrote: Thanks for a good lough...! ; } But until now, no trigger has actually been pulled, so let's be cool until we know

Re: Best online resources to help with a Maya migration.

2014-02-28 Thread Mirko Jankovic
As couple guys already said.. people are going to learn maya like right away but tools and pipelines they already have did produce a LOT of award winning content. strange times... rats over the boat, go jump but this boat still gonna roam the seas :) On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Sebastien

Re: Re[2]: new upgrade policy

2014-02-28 Thread Angus Davidson
Normally by this time something would have been said by Autodesk. As far as we know for certain the 4th of march will let us know either way. I expect they will only chime in here or on Si-Community once they feel the anger would hurt people transiting to Maya. Who knows maybe enough action

Re: Where to download the SI 2014 documentation files?

2014-02-28 Thread Jon Swindells
[1]http://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/softimage/downloads/caas/downl oads/content/download-and-install-autodesk-softimage-product-help.html ;) -- Jon Swindells jon_swinde...@fastmail.fm On Fri, Feb 28, 2014, at 10:30 AM, Rob Wuijster wrote: Hi, As an addition to the 'new upgrade

Re: Best online resources to help with a Maya migration.

2014-02-28 Thread Rob Wuijster
Yup! Expect a lot of functionality you think is 'normal' to be lost in Maya. Even the most basic stuff we're so used too isn't there, but has to be found in additional scripts and plugins. Also, the construction mode and all it's blessings will not be there, and THAT will cause a lot of

Re: Best online resources to help with a Maya migration.

2014-02-28 Thread Rob Wuijster
And speaking of communities I know a lot of you don't like webforums, but si-community.com is there, and will be for a long time. Make it better, and join as well ;-) Rob \/-\/\/ On 27-2-2014 22:33, adrian.w...@fluid-pictures.com wrote: Join the Maya list,

Re: Where to download the SI 2014 documentation files?

2014-02-28 Thread Rob Wuijster
So simple Thanks! :-) Rob \/-\/\/ On 28-2-2014 9:46, Jon Swindells wrote: http://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/softimage/downloads/caas/downloads/content/download-and-install-autodesk-softimage-product-help.html ;) -- Jon Swindells jon_swinde...@fastmail.fm On

Python and PPG

2014-02-28 Thread Szabolcs Matefy
Hey guys I have to create a dialog to manage some actions. I want to load the actions from the mixer into a listbox, but I really can't manage it in Python. I would like to learn Python, but it seems that it'll be a hard beginning... So, I've created the property using the waizard, and now I'd

Re: new upgrade policy

2014-02-28 Thread Morten Bartholdy
A BIG +1 on this Emilio. That is the only good place to put money atm. Morten Den 27. februar 2014 kl. 19:21 skrev Emilio Hernandez emi...@e-roja.com: Well for me and for what I do is alive and kicking and as long as third party devs continue to bring us wonderful things, I now don't have

Re: Best online resources to help with a Maya migration.

2014-02-28 Thread Morten Bartholdy
Is there a Maya list?? Morten Den 27. februar 2014 kl. 22:22 skrev Cristobal Infante cgc...@gmail.com: list? Surely they will know better... On Thursday, 27 February 2014, Vincent Fortin vfor...@gmail.com mailto:vfor...@gmail.com wrote: SideFX's Masterclasses CMIVFX Odforce.net

Re: Best online resources to help with a Maya migration.

2014-02-28 Thread Morten Bartholdy
I would rather stick a glowing hot needle slowly into my eye - but alas I might have to unless I change lanes... Morten Den 27. februar 2014 kl. 22:33 skrev phil harbath phil.harb...@jamination.com: I think they believe(d) they were buying future maya users as well. -Original

RE: Best online resources to help with a Maya migration.

2014-02-28 Thread Morten Bartholdy
So like with so much else in Maya you need an extra step to do something really simple... Morten Den 28. februar 2014 kl. 08:32 skrev Brent McPherson brent.mcpher...@autodesk.com: In Maya you use 1 3 hotkeys to toggle between base mesh and subd preview display. In subd display mode the Page

RE: Python and PPG

2014-02-28 Thread Szabolcs Matefy
Meanwhile I resolved this...but another issue. How can I refer to the object to which the PPG is attached? Cheers From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Szabolcs Matefy Sent: Friday, February 28, 2014 10:23 AM To:

Re: Best online resources to help with a Maya migration.

2014-02-28 Thread Emilio Hernandez
Hey Brent thanks for the tip on the Sub D in Maya More hotkeys to learn! So let me see if I get this straight. Instead of using the +/- to easily change my subD levels, I go from 1 to dispaly no subD then hit 3 to display the default 2 SubD level and UpPg and DnPg to change the SubD display.

Re: Best online resources to help with a Maya migration.

2014-02-28 Thread Mats Bertil Tegner
Morten Bartholdy skrev 2014-02-28 10:41: Is there a Maya list?? Morten https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/maya_he3d Mats

Re: new upgrade policy

2014-02-28 Thread rs3d
This is really sad...and a big punch in the workflow.. The irony is that i started doing 3d some 20 years ago with lightwave and an Amiga (another sad case), made the transition and started professionally with Softimage | 3D,now after commiting so much time and energy to this software which is

Re: new upgrade policy

2014-02-28 Thread Mirko Jankovic
and to say again AD hasn't done on SI front for years anyway, real developing was done with 3d party guys that we all know well.. much better than anyone form AD really. So plug is pulled when those guys say so not AD. looks soo like Y2k bug. a lot of doom and gloom but after nothing really

Re: Python and PPG

2014-02-28 Thread Christian Gotzinger
This should do: parentObject = ppgObject.Parent On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 10:51 AM, Szabolcs Matefy szabol...@crytek.comwrote: Meanwhile I resolved this...but another issue. How can I refer to the object to which the PPG is attached? Cheers *From:*

ICE migration thread. no tears here )))

2014-02-28 Thread Nika Ragua
yo raps !!! this thread is for people who love ICE boys, where will you go now ? maybe we should move not separately, but as a team ? fabric engine? houdini ? or they will make some kind of ICE in maya? http://safakoner.webfactional.com/rnd/tool/2/ this looks awesome, but it is not selling

Re: Python and PPG

2014-02-28 Thread Stephen Blair
PPG.Inspected On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 4:51 AM, Szabolcs Matefy szabol...@crytek.comwrote: Meanwhile I resolved this...but another issue. How can I refer to the object to which the PPG is attached? Cheers *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:

Re: Naught Dog The Last of Us - behind the scene

2014-02-28 Thread Stefan Kubicek
Thanks for the link Nicolas! Naughty Dog is completely insane when it comes to details and atmosphere - always outstanding work. Interesting behind the scene of a good videogame,and some technical info (Maya) The shocking thing is that they key facial expressions.by hand,which I found

Re: Best online resources to help with a Maya migration.

2014-02-28 Thread Stefan Kubicek
So like with so much else in Maya you need an extra step to do something really simple... Exactly my thought and experience :-) As for easy I/O: IO takes time, you don't want to leave an application unless you absolutely have to. Also, it depends on wether there are scene dependencies on the

Re: ICE migration thread. no tears here )))

2014-02-28 Thread Rob Chapman
Im sticking with Softimage ICE (better the devil you know) whilst trying to retool what I've learned into Houdini and/or boost eventual ICE / softimage shortcomings with Fabric engine. as far as I am aware there are no plans for a node based interface to program with Fabric - (I noticed mr

Softimage Devs petition

2014-02-28 Thread Emilio Hernandez
Maybe I am a little ahead in time but just in case Don't stop your RD and updateds on your wonderful tools for Softimage just because ADSK announce that Softimage 2015 will be the last release. Although there are a lot of guys as Mirko said jumping off the boat, there are a lot of us that

RE: ICE migration thread. no tears here )))

2014-02-28 Thread Nick Angus
Houdini Vop stuff would seem the closest to Ice, although it really uses all the low level nodes so you really need to know what you are doing! I vote Houdini, SideFx are a great company, and the community is strong. I would love to stay with Ice, and I will while people like Eric Mootz are

Re: new upgrade policy

2014-02-28 Thread peter_b
exactly – and if they are about to pull the plug, no way you’d quickly invest some more money in it. From: Sam Bowling Sent: Friday, February 28, 2014 5:07 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: RE: new upgrade policy To me, the upgrades haven’t been worth the upgrade price lately

Re: ICE migration thread. no tears here )))

2014-02-28 Thread Jens Lindgren
Just because the dev is stopping doesn't mean Softimage stops working. I will continue to use it for several years and under that time a lot can change on the market. Who knows how Maya, Houdini and Modo looks like in 2-3 years. In other words I think it is still too early to make such a decision.

Re: ICE migration thread. no tears here )))

2014-02-28 Thread Eric Mootz
I am continuing development, sure thing. Softimage has been my development platform for years and each and every plugin is FIRST developed for Softimage and then, possibly, ported to other apps. Take care, Eric - Original Message - From: Jens Lindgren To:

Re: Best online resources to help with a Maya migration.

2014-02-28 Thread Sebastien Sterling
The problem isn't moving to another software package ffs, if there was a better package out there people would flock to it. the problem here is that Maya isn't a better solution for artists needs, its an industry standard and so was fucking asbestos for most of the 19th century. On 28 February

Please contribute: 3D WILL NEVER BE THE SAME

2014-02-28 Thread Oliver Weingarten
Hello there! I have decided to open a collaborative website (http://www.3dwillneverbethesame.com) to celebrate and commemorate our dedication to the software currently known as Autodesk Softimage, with your help eventually incorporating all kinds of user stories and statements, galleries and

Re: new upgrade policy

2014-02-28 Thread Ahmidou Lyazidi
If the rumor is true, I guess it means Konami gave up on Softimage, can someone confirm this? Another question that come to mind is what will happen to this list? --- Ahmidou Lyazidi Director | TD | CG artist http://vimeo.com/ahmidou/videos

Re: Softimage Devs petition

2014-02-28 Thread Nika Ragua
i`m in - not that i`m calling myself a developer - but i messed hardly with topology lately and got some results that i want to share as always ))) 2014-02-28 14:51 GMT+04:00 Emilio Hernandez emi...@e-roja.com: Maybe I am a little ahead in time but just in case Don't stop your RD and

Re: ICE migration thread. no tears here )))

2014-02-28 Thread Nika Ragua
emmm...somehow the center of gravity of the thread would always be going away - ok, i`ll fix it - noone is going to burn the bridges, thats kinda obvious that ICE would be in use for a long time for those, who likes it - i just asked where who will go in the future, and if there would be enough

Re: new upgrade policy

2014-02-28 Thread Sebastien Sterling
You know I always wondered about the Japanese SI users, are their any on the list ? Softimage is well liked in Japan, or that is what i here most of the time, but you never really see the guys from capcom namco konami sony nintendo, on the list. On 28 February 2014 12:16, Ahmidou Lyazidi

Re: Best online resources to help with a Maya migration.

2014-02-28 Thread Emilio Hernandez
Hahaha. Go and die of asbestosis! 2014-02-28 5:12 GMT-06:00 Sebastien Sterling sebastien.sterl...@gmail.com: The problem isn't moving to another software package ffs, if there was a better package out there people would flock to it. the problem here is that Maya isn't a better solution

Re: new upgrade policy

2014-02-28 Thread Angus Davidson
As far as the list goes. I am sure it will be around in some form. Most likely not under the influence of Autodesk. We have to o helpful and passionate a group to disappear all together. Cant recall any of them posting, but Luceric has mentioned a few times they go and visit them a bit. Maybe

Re: ICE migration thread. no tears here )))

2014-02-28 Thread Paul Doyle
Hey Rob - Fabric 2.0 will be a step in that direction. https://vimeo.com/84300368 gives an overview of the thinking behind that project (subject to change blah blah). We'll also be making Fabric available in Houdini, so there'll be portability of tools between Soft and Maya/Max/Houdini - this

Friday Flashback #161

2014-02-28 Thread Stephen Blair
*Along the banks of le fleuve Saint-Laurent...Taarna, Softimage, Discreet Logic, and Alias/Wavefront* A March 1999 article by the late Emru Townsend, a Montreal-based animation and technology writer who worked at Softimage for awhile. http://wp.me/powV4-2Zx

Fractal Scalar ?

2014-02-28 Thread olivier jeannel
Hi gang, In Redshift I'm missing the Fractal scalar node. I was wondering if there was a way to mimic it with a few classic Fractal chained together ? Will post this to the RS forum as well ;) Olivier

Re: Best online resources to help with a Maya migration.

2014-02-28 Thread pedro santos
Not really Simon. As someone that an year later was solely a LightWave, while you could define modeling just like taking vertices where ever you want them, but each application as its ways to get there. Honestly I don't think SI ways are simple and clear from start, but almost every problem I

Re: Best online resources to help with a Maya migration.

2014-02-28 Thread Simon Reeves
My point wasn't about if one app was better than another for modelling, it was more about the *need* to learn modelling in a new app because you are switching to it in general. Simon Reeves London, UK *si...@simonreeves.com si...@simonreeves.com* *www.simonreeves.com http://www.simonreeves.com*

Re: Friday Flashback #161

2014-02-28 Thread Luca!!!!
All these Friday Flashbacks always let me think... You already knew something about Softimage fate, right Stephen?eheheheh... (always great, anyway).. 2014-02-28 13:08 GMT+01:00 Stephen Blair stephenrbl...@gmail.com: *Along the banks of le fleuve Saint-Laurent...Taarna, Softimage,

Re: Best online resources to help with a Maya migration.

2014-02-28 Thread Max Evgrafov
if autodesk will kill softimage... autodesk will be piece of shit ... 2014-02-28 16:19 GMT+04:00 pedro santos probi...@gmail.com: Not really Simon. As someone that an year later was solely a LightWave, while you could define modeling just like taking vertices where ever you want them, but

Re: new upgrade policy

2014-02-28 Thread Sebastien Sterling
Disney had a hand in funding Maya's development, so i guess that is one link On 28 February 2014 14:01, Ed Manning etmth...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 11:55 PM, Matt Lind ml...@carbinestudios.comwrote: I'm on a project which has been under development for nearly 9 years and

Re: new upgrade policy

2014-02-28 Thread Ed Manning
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 11:55 PM, Matt Lind ml...@carbinestudios.comwrote: I'm on a project which has been under development for nearly 9 years and is expected to be on the market as an iterated product for several years. We cannot switch so easily. Even if we rewrote our tools and had them

Re: Best online resources to help with a Maya migration.

2014-02-28 Thread Mirko Jankovic
lol AD IS piece of shit for long time now :) On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 2:33 PM, Max Evgrafov summ...@gmail.com wrote: if autodesk will kill softimage... autodesk will be piece of shit ... 2014-02-28 16:19 GMT+04:00 pedro santos probi...@gmail.com: Not really Simon. As someone that an year

Re: Best online resources to help with a Maya migration.

2014-02-28 Thread Max Evgrafov
AD was just a piece of shit. But It will be a big piece of shit 2014-02-28 18:03 GMT+04:00 Mirko Jankovic mirkoj.anima...@gmail.com: lol AD IS piece of shit for long time now :) On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 2:33 PM, Max Evgrafov summ...@gmail.com wrote: if autodesk will kill softimage...

Anyone having issues with accessing si-community?

2014-02-28 Thread Eric Thivierge
Anyone having issues with accessing si-community? Eric T.

Re: Anyone having issues with accessing si-community?

2014-02-28 Thread Sebastien Sterling
Accessing the home page is fine, did you mean threads? On 28 February 2014 15:16, Eric Thivierge ethivie...@hybride.com wrote: Anyone having issues with accessing si-community? Eric T.

Re: Best online resources to help with a Maya migration.

2014-02-28 Thread Stefan Kubicek
Given the endlessly long list of bought out and discontinued products I'd say it has simply become too risky to invest in Autodesk products.I remember when Autodesk bought Softimage from Avid I bought my license from a German Studio that "threw Softimage out" that very day because it had just

Re: Anyone having issues with accessing si-community?

2014-02-28 Thread Maurício PC
Working for me Eric, just posted there. On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Eric Thivierge ethivie...@hybride.comwrote: Anyone having issues with accessing si-community? Eric T. -- gonebadfx.com - your source for bad fx

Re: Anyone having issues with accessing si-community?

2014-02-28 Thread Gustavo Eggert Boehs
its fine here... maybe some corporat IT thing blocking you? Gustavo E Boehs Dpto. de Expressão Gráfica | Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina | http://www.gustavoeb.com.br/ 2014-02-28 11:16 GMT-03:00 Eric Thivierge ethivie...@hybride.com: Anyone having issues with accessing si-community?

Re: Best online resources to help with a Maya migration.

2014-02-28 Thread Marco Peixoto
Actually you can use Math Operation on the value Boxes (in the Graph Editor), not so straight forward as in XSi but you can. For example if you need to multiply a value by 10 its like this: *=10. If needed to Add its +=10 But yes for someone coming from XSI Maya will make you grabbing you hair

Re: Anyone having issues with accessing si-community?

2014-02-28 Thread Eric Thivierge
Yeah ok, internal issue. On Friday, February 28, 2014 9:18:31 AM, Gustavo Eggert Boehs wrote: its fine here... maybe some corporat IT thing blocking you? Gustavo E Boehs Dpto. de Expressão Gráfica | Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina | http://www.gustavoeb.com.br/ 2014-02-28 11:16

Re: Anyone having issues with accessing si-community?

2014-02-28 Thread Tim Crowson
Working fine for me too. -Tim On 2/28/2014 8:18 AM, Gustavo Eggert Boehs wrote: its fine here... maybe some corporat IT thing blocking you? Gustavo E Boehs Dpto. de Expressão Gráfica | Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina | http://www.gustavoeb.com.br/ 2014-02-28 11:16 GMT-03:00 Eric

Re: Best online resources to help with a Maya migration.

2014-02-28 Thread Sebastien Sterling
Here is another little one to look forward, in the maya channel box, default values are shown with three decimals after the dot, 0.256 now sometimes riggers like to expose more digits to get really precise values eg: 0.25655, now if someone does this then sends it to another person who's

Re: Best online resources to help with a Maya migration.

2014-02-28 Thread Max Evgrafov
I hope in the future there appear an alternative to Maya to animate. I hope sideFX will entice many users from Autodesk for the production of special effects. avtodesk is evil 2014-02-28 18:19 GMT+04:00 Marco Peixoto mpe...@gmail.com: Actually you can use Math Operation on the value Boxes

Re: Best online resources to help with a Maya migration.

2014-02-28 Thread Marco Peixoto
Studio I was before we were told that the Programmers had are already started to code an only Animation Program, since vast majority of the studio only used Maya for Animation and it was in reality a waste of money to support Maya for everything when 70-80% of us only Animate on it. We were asked

Re: Best online resources to help with a Maya migration.

2014-02-28 Thread Max Evgrafov
autodesk killed only alternative to Maya 2014-02-28 18:51 GMT+04:00 Marco Peixoto mpe...@gmail.com: Studio I was before we were told that the Programmers had are already started to code an only Animation Program, since vast majority of the studio only used Maya for Animation and it was in

Re: Best online resources to help with a Maya migration.

2014-02-28 Thread Maurício PC
You are talking about SideFX here? Like SideFX Houdini, Houdini FX and Houdini Animate? If so, that would be cool. On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Marco Peixoto mpe...@gmail.com wrote: Studio I was before we were told that the Programmers had are already started to code an only Animation

Re: Best online resources to help with a Maya migration.

2014-02-28 Thread Max Evgrafov
http://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=1401Itemid=316 2014-02-28 18:56 GMT+04:00 Maurício PC goneba...@gmail.com: You are talking about SideFX here? Like SideFX Houdini, Houdini FX and Houdini Animate? If so, that would be cool. On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 11:51 AM,

RE: Best online resources to help with a Maya migration.

2014-02-28 Thread Brent McPherson
Since this a Maya migration thread and I work on modeling... If anyone wants to get on the Maya Beta send me an email at brent.mcpher...@autodesk.com and I'll forward your name. You also need an account on https://beta.autodesk.com. -- Brent attachment: winmail.dat

Re: Best online resources to help with a Maya migration.

2014-02-28 Thread Sebastien Sterling
Is this your Vimeo Brent ? http://vimeo.com/theonlykings On 28 February 2014 16:08, Brent McPherson brent.mcpher...@autodesk.comwrote: Since this a Maya migration thread and I work on modeling... If anyone wants to get on the Maya Beta send me an email at brent.mcpher...@autodesk.com and

Re: Best online resources to help with a Maya migration.

2014-02-28 Thread Nicolas Esposito
Any news regarding the beta for Softimage 2015? whats new? 2014-02-28 16:19 GMT+01:00 Sebastien Sterling sebastien.sterl...@gmail.com : Is this your Vimeo Brent ? http://vimeo.com/theonlykings On 28 February 2014 16:08, Brent McPherson brent.mcpher...@autodesk.comwrote: Since this a

Re: Best online resources to help with a Maya migration.

2014-02-28 Thread Max Evgrafov
for modeling in Autodesk Maya there is an alternative - this is Modo :-) sorry no such animation :-( 2014-02-28 19:19 GMT+04:00 Sebastien Sterling sebastien.sterl...@gmail.com : Is this your Vimeo Brent ? http://vimeo.com/theonlykings On 28 February 2014 16:08, Brent McPherson

Re[2]: Best online resources to help with a Maya migration.

2014-02-28 Thread Artur Woźniak
Yes, it's called Maya. Couldn't resist. Sorry. Artur Any news regarding the beta for Softimage 2015? whats new? 2014-02-28 16:19 GMT+01:00 Sebastien Sterling sebastien.sterl...@gmail.com: Is this your Vimeo Brent ? http://vimeo.com/theonlykings On 28 February 2014 16:08, Brent

RE: Best online resources to help with a Maya migration.

2014-02-28 Thread Brent McPherson
Ha! No. I'm a Canadian currently stranded in rainy Bournemouth, UK. ;-) From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Sebastien Sterling Sent: 28 February 2014 15:20 To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Best online

Re: ICE migration thread. no tears here )))

2014-02-28 Thread Gustavo Eggert Boehs
Hey Paul, I see you active on this migration threads, which is quite nice by the way, and I have some questions. I tried Fabric once but learning curve was a bit steeper then I predicted (coming from an ICE user / no ofense intended). V 2.0 looks like it has greater benefits, so even if the price

Constrain in only one axis instead of all 3?

2014-02-28 Thread Siew Yi Liang
Hello! Had a quick question among all this current hullabuloo, hopefully it's not too silly...I was actually looking for a way to limit constrain to one/two axes in XSI on pos/rot/scale constraints, is there a way to do this in the constraint parameters itself? I can't find any such option...

Re: Constrain in only one axis instead of all 3?

2014-02-28 Thread Sebastien Sterling
isn't it an option in the pose constrain PPG ? On 28 February 2014 16:43, Siew Yi Liang soni...@gmail.com wrote: Hello! Had a quick question among all this current hullabuloo, hopefully it's not too silly...I was actually looking for a way to limit constrain to one/two axes in XSI on

Re: Constrain in only one axis instead of all 3?

2014-02-28 Thread Siew Yi Liang
http://i.imgur.com/1rTjJXd.png I can only do offsets so far using the standard UI...I've been looking through the docs as well for something that can help me out but I haven't seen anything yet that relates to this :X Yours sincerely, Siew Yi Liang On 2/28/2014 7:51 AM, Sebastien Sterling

Re: ICE migration thread. no tears here )))

2014-02-28 Thread Paul Doyle
Hey Gustavo - comments below I tried Fabric once but learning curve was a bit steeper then I predicted (coming from an ICE user / no ofense intended). V 2.0 looks like it has greater benefits, so even if the price is steeper then a visual, higher level thing like Houdini it might pay off... Yes,

Re: ICE migration thread. no tears here )))

2014-02-28 Thread Mário Domingos
What about Bifost in Maya 2015? Any news about that? — Sent from Mailbox for iPhone On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 4:21 PM, Paul Doyle technove...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Gustavo - comments below I tried Fabric once but learning curve was a bit steeper then I predicted (coming from an ICE user / no

Re: Constrain in only one axis instead of all 3?

2014-02-28 Thread Siew Yi Liang
Hi patrick: Yes, I could make an expression that way, but I want a kind of automatic way to keep the constrained object at its original position (sort of having constraint compensation on) while making the expression...other than manually typing the offset values myself I was wondering if

Re: ICE migration thread. no tears here )))

2014-02-28 Thread Eric Thivierge
Ahem, In terms of the stuff I've been doing, Fabric is in a really usable state within Splice right now. Mainly building rigs for me. The performance is pretty nuts and I've just built a rig that replaces our old Softimage only setup and I can't give you solid numbers but the frame rate went

Re: Softimage Devs petition

2014-02-28 Thread Daniel Sweeney
Im defo gonna keep using soft as a tool til it cant work any more, but it will definately be a duel pipeline, mixing in another app. have to work out what that app is yet. looking at modo. but as a tool soft will still be very valuable!! if it does happen it will be a very sad ending. Daniel

Re: Constrain in only one axis instead of all 3?

2014-02-28 Thread patrick nethercoat
ah yes, i see. how about setting the neutral pose on the constraining object (use current pose) before drag/dropping? May be a workaround for your situation if you can cope with the offset in your fcurves. On 28 February 2014 16:29, Siew Yi Liang soni...@gmail.com wrote: Hi patrick: Yes, I

Re: testing testing 1-2-3

2014-02-28 Thread pedro santos
Yes! Sucks you don't get it to show up on the MailingList folder as sucessfull, just when someone replies. Cheers On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 1:04 AM, Emilio Hernandez emi...@e-roja.com wrote: Yes it is. 2014-02-27 19:01 GMT-06:00 Ed Manning etmth...@gmail.com: is this thing on? --

Re: Constrain in only one axis instead of all 3?

2014-02-28 Thread Siew Yi Liang
Hmm maybe let me describe my problem a bit more... I have a character that I'm planning to make run/jump forward etc. I would like to make an animation camera that follows his movement as he moves forward in space but without manually keying it (for now). So what I usually do elsewhere is

successor animation software

2014-02-28 Thread Ed Manning
rather than thinking about Maya (which is no more the future than Softimage, maybe less), why don't we think about what might be needed in a worthy successor to both? This might be a good place to start: http://rhythm.com/labs/ Maybe someone could get RH's new owners to commercialize this. Or

RE: successor animation software

2014-02-28 Thread adrian wyer
after seeing that the other day, i couldn't help wondering why RH didn't flog Voodoo to fund the studio, beats the hell out of anything 'off the shelf' a _ From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Ed Manning Sent:

RE: Constrain in only one axis instead of all 3?

2014-02-28 Thread Manny Papamanos
Just equals expression a null to follow all 3 pos axis of the hip. Now replace the posy expression and just put 5 (let say) in the expression editor for the nulls posy. Constrain the cam/effector to that null. Now you can use CnsComp. -manny AD Si and Mobu support From:

Re: Constrain in only one axis instead of all 3?

2014-02-28 Thread Oscar Juarez
Use the expression route on Null A, create a Null B in global 0, parent to Null A, parent your camera to that or constrain with cnscomp on, you should mantain your current offset, I think you are overthinking this you could have as many null spacers in between the null with the expression and

Re: Constrain in only one axis instead of all 3?

2014-02-28 Thread Peter Agg
It should be fine if you're applying the expression to the camera's root though, no? You'd still be able to move the camera itself around just fine, after all. On 28 February 2014 17:21, Siew Yi Liang soni...@gmail.com wrote: Hmm maybe let me describe my problem a bit more... I have a

Re: successor animation software

2014-02-28 Thread Vladimir Jankijevic
I don't think they would want to support that beast for untrained people. Or if they would, it would cost a tremendous pile of money. Who's up for that? On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 6:29 PM, Ed Manning etmth...@gmail.com wrote: rather than thinking about Maya (which is no more the future than

RE: successor animation software

2014-02-28 Thread Angus Davidson
While its very impressive you would need a small fleet of TD's to keep it shipshape;) From: Vladimir Jankijevic [v.jankije...@gmail.com] Sent: 28 February 2014 07:37 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: successor animation software I don't think

RE: successor animation software

2014-02-28 Thread adrian wyer
much like a couple of other apps i could mention, if you wanted to do work of that calibre a _ From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Angus Davidson Sent: 28 February 2014 17:45 To:

rray.de/xsi for MAYA?????

2014-02-28 Thread Pablo Tufaro
Hey guys! what a mess all these days with this news! rray.de/xsi I started to think how awsome is this resourse page for softimage, and if somebody knows anything similar out there? Cheers! P.

Re: successor animation software

2014-02-28 Thread Eric Thivierge
Have you used it before? On 2/28/2014 12:44 PM, Angus Davidson wrote: While its very impressive you would need a small fleet of TD's to keep it shipshape;)

RE: successor animation software

2014-02-28 Thread Angus Davidson
Its very much a question of what scale your working in. RH type scale will have the required tech people. Then again its built around Maya which requires a lot of tech people anyway ;) Eric sadly educators rarely get to play with things on that scale ;( Looks stunning though

Re: Softimage Devs petition

2014-02-28 Thread Ciaran Moloney
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 10:51 AM, Emilio Hernandez emi...@e-roja.comwrote: Don't stop your RD and updateds on your wonderful tools for Softimage just because ADSK announce that Softimage 2015 will be the last release. I haven't been following very closely, but where is this announcement?

Re: successor animation software

2014-02-28 Thread Meng-Yang Lu
I think a small fleet if TDs is inevitable either way. If you break it all down, 3D at it core is data and the relationships between those data points. What this list is upset about is losing the ability to manipulate that data in a fluid and efficient way. I feel ya brothers and sisters. I

Re: Constrain in only one axis instead of all 3?

2014-02-28 Thread Siew Yi Liang
Ah I see! Should have thought of that instead... :X Works great! I'll get around to scripting this into a button... Thank you all for replying to this simple question! Yours sincerely, Siew Yi Liang On 2/28/2014 9:36 AM, Manny Papamanos wrote: Just equals expression a null to follow all 3

RE: successor animation software

2014-02-28 Thread michael malinowski
Blender has some really nice approaches and tools, and the fact that its open source makes it extremely interesting when loaded with some strong technical skills. Its a shame the interaction model is so un-intuitive, but a platform as open as that could benefit massively from a large amount of

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