Re: First Softimage - Maya transition videos posted

2014-05-14 Thread nick name
Seems like they're very well received these videos, just look at the amount of likes/dislikes. It might not be the best indicator, but not to be ignored either. On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 7:15 AM, Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.com wrote: You are a generous man… Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.com

RE: SI and Houdini

2014-05-14 Thread Marc-Andre Carbonneau
Ya all of this guy’s work with water is insane. From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of John Richard Sanchez Sent: 13 mai 2014 18:30 To: XSI List to post Subject: Re: SI and Houdini This looks really cool.

Render tree crash with SI 2013

2014-05-14 Thread olivier jeannel
I'm still having crashes on one particular machine using SI 2013. on one particular scene, a big 500Mo object from cad, as soon as I hit 7, XSI crashes. I have a Quadro 4000 I already updated the drivers last month. Now I wonder if there are some settings I should tweak. This doesn't happen

Re: Render tree crash with SI 2013

2014-05-14 Thread Tim Borgmann
I once had a similar problem while working on location at a company. The only work around solution was to open the rendertree first (in a clean scene) and than load the scene. I thought it maybe was caused by issues with the workgroups as it seems the crash was related to the rendertree

RE: First Softimage - Maya transition videos posted

2014-05-14 Thread Nicholas Breslow
If you plan on scripting in Maya I highly recommend Charcoal Editor – worth the investment. See here: http://zurbrigg.com/charcoal-editor -Nick From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of nick name Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2014

How to fix crappy fcurves and pivots on imported Realflow RBD geometry?

2014-05-14 Thread Morten Bartholdy
I need to find a way to fix fcurves and pivots on a large number of objects (tumbling boulders) RBD simulated in Realflow (don't ask). When they come in they move correctly, but their pivots are way off from the geometry and fcurves suffer from gimbal flipping, so motionblur obviously doesn't

Re: Render tree crash with SI 2013

2014-05-14 Thread Ognjen Vukovic
I recall having a similar problem. What i did is, every time i opened up that scene i would call the explorer, go into the application mode, browse all the way up to the material library. If it loaded them into the scene that way i could then invoke the render tree without a crash... On Wed, May

Re: First Softimage - Maya transition videos posted

2014-05-14 Thread Morten Bartholdy
Thank you for these Jill. I can't help thinking since there are thousands of things different users would like to see covered it might be difficult for your team to identify and cover them all since there are almost as many ways of working as there are users :) How about making a sort of list to

Re: First Softimage - Maya transition videos posted

2014-05-14 Thread Ognjen Vukovic
Wasn't something like that already covered in the top 5 feature list by Alastair?

RE: Render tree crash with SI 2013

2014-05-14 Thread gareth bell
Yeah do what Tim said - that used to fix that for me. Empty scene - hit 7 - open your scene From: ognj...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 16:23:36 +0200 Subject: Re: Render tree crash with SI 2013 To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com I recall having a similar problem. What i did is, every time

MayaSoft - previous versions

2014-05-14 Thread Leendert A. Hartog
After a long struggle with the subscription center my new “Maya with Softimage” license finally arrived today. So “happy, happy, joy, joy” (Ren and Stimpy style). But there seems to be one downside to this, which those of you still planning this “transition” might want to know about. The new

Re: MayaSoft - previous versions

2014-05-14 Thread Jordi Bares
Tell me this is a mistake to this rather horrible saga, please. Jb Sent from my iPhone On 14 May 2014, at 12:17, Leendert A. Hartog hirazib...@live.nl wrote: After a long struggle with the subscription center my new “Maya with Softimage” license finally arrived today. So “happy, happy,

Re: MayaSoft - previous versions

2014-05-14 Thread Leendert A. Hartog
Yes, I am truly hoping to have made a silly mistake myself here... -- Leendert A. Hartog AKA Hirazi Blue Administrator NOT the owner of si-community.com

Re: MayaSoft - previous versions

2014-05-14 Thread Eric Turman
I think it is a mistake Leedert...but not on your end. I think that the license is supposed to go back to 2012. AD representative want to chime in? On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Leendert A. Hartog hirazib...@live.nlwrote: Yes, I am truly hoping to have made a silly mistake myself here...

Re: MayaSoft - previous versions

2014-05-14 Thread Adam Sale
Pleas AD.. get this right. Why does it feel like we in the soft community are constantly fighting an uphill battle at every turn? On May 14, 2014 8:24 AM, Leendert A. Hartog hirazib...@live.nl wrote: Yes, I am truly hoping to have made a silly mistake myself here... -- Leendert A. Hartog

Re: MayaSoft - previous versions

2014-05-14 Thread Matt Morris
I'm running 2015 maya/xsi and can open previous versions ok - though I've only tested 2014sp2 so far. On 14 May 2014 16:24, Leendert A. Hartog hirazib...@live.nl wrote: Yes, I am truly hoping to have made a silly mistake myself here... -- Leendert A. Hartog AKA Hirazi Blue Administrator

Re: MayaSoft - previous versions

2014-05-14 Thread Eric Turman
Sorry Leendert, my n key didn't register when I typed your name :P On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Eric Turman i.anima...@gmail.com wrote: I think it is a mistake Leedert...but not on your end. I think that the license is supposed to go back to 2012. AD representative want to chime in?

Re: MayaSoft - previous versions

2014-05-14 Thread Ben Rogall
Yep, I'm good back to SI 2012. One thing I did run into is that if you have Fabric Engine installed there is a conflict with XGen in Maya 2015 which causes a crash on starting Maya. There's a simple fix though. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/CreationPlatform/9kPtpXnH9CY Ben On

Re: MayaSoft - previous versions

2014-05-14 Thread Leendert A. Hartog
One would expect registeronce.autodesk.com to issue the correct license file? -- Leendert A. Hartog AKA Hirazi Blue Administrator NOT the owner of si-community.com

Re: MayaSoft - previous versions

2014-05-14 Thread Kandis Weiner
Hello All, For previous version support, you must be on subscription and have a network license. We recently corrected an issue with our licensing system with regards to previous version support. If you don't have access to previous versions, and you should, please go to

Re: MayaSoft - previous versions

2014-05-14 Thread Leendert A. Hartog
I did already issue a support request (Case ID: 09579362) of which I have so far heard nothing and I am(and have been for years) on subscription... Greetz Leendert -- Leendert A. Hartog AKA Hirazi Blue Administrator NOT the owner of si-community.com

Re: MayaSoft - previous versions

2014-05-14 Thread Eric Turman
Hmm I got mine yesterday too Leendert, and haven't had time to look at it until now...all I have available to me is my Softimage downloads, no Maya...looks like licensing is a bit messed up :-/ On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 10:56 AM, Leendert A. Hartog hirazib...@live.nlwrote: I did already issue a

Re: MayaSoft - previous versions

2014-05-14 Thread Stephan Haitz
It woul be cool to get a definitive clarity about this as my reseller told me same thing: If you take the offer of the MAYA transition you cant open your old SI Versions but 2015. So Autodesk, what is it about? regards Stephan I did already issue a support request (Case ID: 09579362) of

Re: MayaSoft - previous versions

2014-05-14 Thread Leendert A. Hartog
Nope -- Leendert A. Hartog AKA Hirazi Blue Administrator NOT the owner of si-community.com

Re: MayaSoft - previous versions

2014-05-14 Thread Leendert A. Hartog
That sounded very unfriendly. What I meant to say was: Nope Greetz Leendert Greetz Leendert -- Leendert A. Hartog AKA Hirazi Blue Administrator NOT the owner of si-community.com

Re: MayaSoft - previous versions

2014-05-14 Thread Leoung O'Young
I e-mailed Maurice Patel directly a few days ago regarding Softimage Maya license transfer, he suggest we should be able to use Softimage 2015 license and previous version access through the Subs center. Although I haven't gone through this process myself, too busy with other things. Leoung

Re: Render tree crash with SI 2013

2014-05-14 Thread olivier jeannel
Ok, thank you all for your solution. Opening the rendertree first, seems to solve the problem ! Now, what we be a good way to investigate on this ? I had the feeling that something is off on that particular workstation, since on other projects it has also some unstability. Thank's a lot.

RE: MayaSoft - previous versions

2014-05-14 Thread Maurice Patel
Hi everyone, There appears to be some database glitches in our back end systems that are causing the problems like the case of Leendert. The ops team is trying to resolve this. This is a bit like bug fixing - we need to find and identify the problem fix it so the problem does not reoccur. We

RE: MayaSoft - previous versions

2014-05-14 Thread Adam Sale
Thank you Maurice! On May 14, 2014 9:48 AM, Maurice Patel maurice.pa...@autodesk.com wrote: Hi everyone, There appears to be some database glitches in our back end systems that are causing the problems like the case of Leendert. The ops team is trying to resolve this. This is a bit like bug

RE: MayaSoft - previous versions

2014-05-14 Thread Matt Lind
Hello Maurice, Is there a limit how far back the license server will go in terms of supporting older versions of Softimage? We currently use 2013 SP1, but prior to that we were using Softimage 7.5 and still need to occasionally jump into 7.5 to exhume old data which have dependencies specific

RE: MayaSoft - previous versions

2014-05-14 Thread Maurice Patel
Hi Matt, Any 7.5 license you have should continue to work indefinitely and if you need to migrate it to a new computer we so support that capability (through our customer support group). If you need to guarantee access to 7.5 your best bet is to keep some licenses. Your Subscription contract

Re: MayaSoft - previous versions

2014-05-14 Thread Angus Davidson
Hi Maurice Perhaps you can explain to me. On the new ARC schools website I request a licence for an autodesk product (so I have already logged in). I get the email with the serial number, but when I install and try and register the product it says my username / password doesn’t exist when it

Re: MayaSoft - previous versions

2014-05-14 Thread Leendert A. Hartog
Autodesk issued me a new license tonight. I only quickly tested it with Softimage 2014 2015 and Maya 2015 but luckily it seems to work now. So thanks to all involved. Now I need a vacation... Greetz Leendert -- Leendert A. Hartog AKA Hirazi Blue Administrator NOT the owner of si-community.com

RE: MayaSoft - previous versions

2014-05-14 Thread Maurice Patel
Hi Angus I will forward to Steve. Personally I am not familiar with ARC so I do not know if it supports single sign-on. It would only be the same login if they do. Maurice Maurice Patel Autodesk : Tél: 514 954-7134 From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com

RE: MayaSoft - previous versions

2014-05-14 Thread Jill Ramsay (Contractor)
Hi Angus, We're looking into what's gone wrong in this case... I'll update you as soon as I know. Jill From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Angus Davidson Sent: May-14-14 3:58 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject:

Re: MayaSoft - previous versions

2014-05-14 Thread Angus Davidson
Thanks guys. From: Jill Ramsay (Contractor) jill.ram...@autodesk.commailto:jill.ram...@autodesk.com Reply-To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.commailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com softimage@listproc.autodesk.commailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Date: Wednesday 14 May 2014 at 10:23 PM To:

FW: MayaSoft - previous versions

2014-05-14 Thread Steve Vasko
Hi Angus, I'm trying to figure out what's going on with your installation. Did you create your account on the ARC using the same account as the one you use on the Register Once website? They both support single sign on so if you are using the same account, it should allow you to log in and

Re: MayaSoft - previous versions

2014-05-14 Thread Leoung O'Young
Hi Maurice, Just want to be sure I gt this right, I can have versions of Softimage 2015 all the way back to 7.5 running on the same computer if need be? Thanks, Leoung On 14/05/2014 3:32 PM, Maurice Patel wrote: Hi Matt, Any 7.5 license you have should continue to work indefinitely and if

Re: Render tree crash with SI 2013

2014-05-14 Thread Songqiong Yang
It was known issue logged as SOFT-5858:[CER]: Random crash when opening ICETree or RenderTree on certain scenes. and fixed in Softimage 2014. Thanks, Joany Original message From: olivier jeannel Date:15/05/2014 00:38 (GMT+08:00) To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject:

Re: How to fix crappy fcurves and pivots on imported Realflow RBD geometry?

2014-05-14 Thread Vincent Ullmann
Hi Morten, i dont think its possible to solve this in ICE, becouse you cant change the AnimationCurves (While tipping this i actually have a Idea) anyway I found a little snipped in the Web to get the Objects COG in Global Space (https://gist.github.com/yamahigashi/9309426) Now