Re: Ideas for star fields?

I'm rendering with Redshift. What I've been experimenting with is to take the star field map I'm using for the background, whether Hubble or now Joey Ponthieux's wonderful suggestion of the NASA star field image. It seems to wrap nicely to a sphere, not much shows up in the render, but it's a go

Re: Multiple Objects, Snapping w/ unexpected results - 2014 & 2014 sp2

Hello Patrick Tried to reproduce and no joy seeing what you describe. Jing is a little application that allows with ease reccord, upload and share small screencasts. Maybe consider doing a small one just showing this happening. And if you do also show what's on you Transform tab options (button ov

Multiple Objects, Snapping w/ unexpected results - 2014 & 2014 sp2

Okay so...I've read the manual, searched the list and reset my preferences and tried the earlier version of 2014. I have several objects that are aligned to each other. When I select them and translate them using the manipulator for all three axis, w /snapping, in Global mode and COG on or a pivo

Re: Ideas for star fields?

 "Mystery artistic soft light that shows lasers" Lol!  :) On 06/25/14 21:58, Sylvain Lebeau wrote: Interesting...  On a renderer point of view, I wonder how importance sampling will cope with all

Re: Ideas for star fields?

Interesting... On a renderer point of view, I wonder how importance sampling will cope with all those bright little spots... In the end, it's just a tiny little fill light. I would defenitly use a manual created direct light source with very low intensity to recreate the "Mystery artistic sof

Re: Shotgun join Autodesk

Insektors yay ! ... anyone else remember Insektors ? On 26 June 2014 00:42, Jason S wrote: > Link :) http://vimeo.com/63665906 > > > On 06/25/14 19:41, Jason S wrote: > > > On 06/25/14 11:36, Emilio Hernandez wrote: > No Ftrack does not support Softimage at the moment. They said before > EO

Re: Shotgun join Autodesk

Link :)  http://vimeo.com/63665906 On 06/25/14 19:41, Jason S wrote: On 06/25/14 11:36, Emilio Hernandez wrote: No Ftrack does not support Softimage at the moment.  They said before EOL that they were going

Re: Shotgun join Autodesk

On 06/25/14 11:36, Emilio Hernandez wrote: No Ftrack does not support Softimage at the moment.  They said before EOL that they were going to implement it.  But I believe that if now there are more users requesting it, they wil

Re: Shotgun join Autodesk

From the Mudbox press release, "we plan to accelerate the pace of Mudbox innovation." On 06/25/14 11:25, Emilio Hernandez wrote: I just recieved this from Shotgun support:

Re: Shotgun join Autodesk

Bless him… Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.com On 25 Jun 2014, at 16:25, Emilio Hernandez wrote: > I just recieved this from Shotgun support: > > First, Shotgun is not going away. We will continue to operate under the > Shotgun brand with the same team and same style. Our website, forums, suppor

RE: Visual Effects Giants Prime Focus World, Double Negative to Merge

I guess it makes them a pretty big outfit. Prime Focus are a massive company, but there was rumours it was in difficulties. They recently closed some of the London offices I believe, but someone here will know more - they used/still use Softimage in their commercials department. -Original M

Re: 1/2 OT: Gorilla and a banana for Maya

Cheers Sebastien! Here's a small follow up for the few that it might interest: Why I'm Not Using the MEL and the Python Commands Layers of Maya On 25 June 2014 11:33, Sebastien

Re: Visual Effects Giants Prime Focus World, Double Negative to Merge

Is this good ? I know next to nothing about Prim Focus. On 25 June 2014 20:38, Sofronis Efstathiou wrote: > Seems like it’s a day for acquisitions/mergers - > http://variety.com/2014/biz/news/prime-focus-double-negative-merge-1201246452/ > > > > Sofronis Efstathiou > > Postgraduate Framework L

Re: OT: 3d sculpting app choice?

3dcoat. Because the guy was "bought" for Zbrush, previously developing Scluptris. Additionally the retopo system was way ahead of it´s game back in the day. Stuck to it.   David Rivera 3D Compositor/Animator LinkedIN Behance VFX Reel On Wednesday, June 25, 2014 10:43 AM, Sebastien Sterling w

Visual Effects Giants Prime Focus World, Double Negative to Merge

Seems like it's a day for acquisitions/mergers - http://variety.com/2014/biz/news/prime-focus-double-negative-merge-1201246452/ Sofronis Efstathiou Postgraduate Framework Leader and BFX Competition & Festival Director Computer Animation Academic Group National Centre for Computer Animation Emai

Re: Shotgun join Autodesk

Thanks Mario, that would be a huge help! On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Mario Reitbauer wrote: > We did a Softimage integration here at the company. Lets see maybe I can > get them to share it so the ftrack team can use it. > > > 2014-06-25 18:52 GMT+02:00 Eric Turman : > > Since we are tal

Re: Shotgun join Autodesk

We did a Softimage integration here at the company. Lets see maybe I can get them to share it so the ftrack team can use it. 2014-06-25 18:52 GMT+02:00 Eric Turman : > Since we are talking fantasy here... > Maybe the Wizard will give AD the courage to do the right thing and > rescind the EOL of

RE: OT: MRViewer by Gonzalo Garramuño

Yes, it pretty much beat every other tool I used and tried over the years. And its *very* fast. I wonder how he made it so fast to browse directories on server locations for example. I recently tried to use in inside of royal render as a flipbook alternative. Does anyone know the commandline p

Re: OT: MRViewer by Gonzalo Garramuño

Use it every day for work :) Best flipbook-er ever, imho better than Tweak (for my purposes) On 6/25/2014 9:48 AM, Francisco Criado wrote: Hi guys, maybe some of you remember Gonzalo from ILM´s Softimage users years ago. He is currently developing this tool by himself... https://www.youtube.co

Re: Shotgun join Autodesk

Since we are talking fantasy here... Maybe the Wizard will give AD the courage to do the right thing and rescind the EOL of Soft. (no I'm not still in denial, this was intended as a satirical statement) On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Greg Punchatz wrote: > Maybe the Wizard will give them a h

OT: MRViewer by Gonzalo Garramuño

Hi guys, maybe some of you remember Gonzalo from ILM´s Softimage users years ago. He is currently developing this tool by himself... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn_UTVdqans F.

Re: Shotgun join Autodesk

Maybe the Wizard will give them a heart and a brain. Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 25, 2014, at 10:42 AM, Eric Thivierge wrote: > > I can't wait to see what they acquire at Siggraph... should we take bets? > >> On Wednesday, June 25, 2014 11:41:45 AM, Jordi Bares wrote: >> It's that acquisition

Re: OT: 3d sculpting app choice?

true but Zbrush is used for very specific things On 25 June 2014 16:34, Greg Punchatz wrote: > Look at the general quality of work that comes out of all those > programs nothing come close to ZBrush. > > > > On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Sebastien Sterling < > sebastien.sterl...@gmail.c

Re: Shotgun join Autodesk

I can't wait to see what they acquire at Siggraph... should we take bets? On Wednesday, June 25, 2014 11:41:45 AM, Jordi Bares wrote: It's that acquisition time of the year... Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.com

Re: Shotgun join Autodesk

It's that acquisition time of the year... Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.com On 25 Jun 2014, at 15:27, Leo Quensel wrote: > Being a pipeline TD in a Shotgun based studio this has pretty much ruined my > day. > > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 25. Juni 2014 um 15:38 Uhr > Von: "Hans Payer" > An: softimag

Re: OT: 3d sculpting app choice?

Look at the general quality of work that comes out of all those programs nothing come close to ZBrush. On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Sebastien Sterling < sebastien.sterl...@gmail.com> wrote: > As they currently stand and in as much as modeling, sculpting, and > re-topology are concerned

Re: Shotgun join Autodesk

Hi Greg, There is no build-in support for Softimage inside FTrack. The user interface of FTrack is way better in my point of view, but there is still some missing elements... But it is not hard to build one on your own... Cheers, Greg On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Greg Punchatz wrote: >

Re: Shotgun join Autodesk

No Ftrack does not support Softimage at the moment. They said before EOL that they were going to implement it. But I believe that if now there are more users requesting it, they will do it, but who knows... --- Emilio Hernández VFX & 3D ani

Re: 1/2 OT: Gorilla and a banana for Maya

A brave initiative Christopher, and thank you for laying it out plain for the less techsavvy, "why are you using the maya python API 1.0 instead of 2.0 ?" Why is Python API 2.0 not finished yet Luc Eric ? On 24 June 2014 17:31, Christopher Crouzet wrote: > When I initially patched the Maya Py

Re: OT: 3d sculpting app choice?

I would recommend Zbrush for sculpting. Its workflow indeed is a liitle bit odd if you just started to use it recently. Once you get the hang of it, it flows very nice, and it feels very "organic" for putting in some way. --- Emilio Hernánde

Re: Shotgun join Autodesk

Does anyone know if there is support for Softimage in FTrack? We have just spent the last six months using shotgun, its been pretty awesome for the most part... but we now have to at least look very hard at FTrack. On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Emilio Hernandez wrote: > I just recieved thi

Re: OT: 3d sculpting app choice?

As they currently stand and in as much as modeling, sculpting, and re-topology are concerned: Zbrush is great for concept sculpting, hammering out a high rez visualization, it's so good in fact that a lot of places use it in pre-production then send the hi-rez concept sculpt to the modeling

Re: Shotgun join Autodesk

I just recieved this from Shotgun support: *First, Shotgun is not going away. We will continue to operate under the Shotgun brand with the same team and same style. Our website, forums, support site and team all stay in place. Second, we’re not going to slow down. We are scaling immediately to 2

Re: Shotgun join Autodesk

I have really enjoyed my time with the demos, and have been really sad our budget didn’t stretch far enough to make use of it ;) Its a great piece of Kit From: Marc-Andre Carbonneau mailto:marc-andre.carbonn...@ubisoft.com>> Reply-To: "softimage@listproc.autodesk.com

Re: Shotgun join Autodesk

Jzzz.I will stay with Frack then.Now I see why I didn't get any mail from techsupport latley regarding my shogtgun trial... --- Emilio Hernández VFX & 3D animation. 2014-06-25 9:58 GMT-05:00 Angus Davidson : > Interested to see if

Re: Shotgun join Autodesk

On the Foundary side getting really impatient for Flix ;) From: Marc-Andre Carbonneau mailto:marc-andre.carbonn...@ubisoft.com>> Reply-To: "softimage@listproc.autodesk.com" mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com>> Date: Wednesday 25 June 2014 at 4:50 PM

RE: Shotgun join Autodesk

The acquisition is quite different from all the other ones we've seen though so I'm really curious to see where it's going to go from here. First thing I want is Jira to be tied in. I need it yesterday. ;) Certainly the Game industry will benefit from the "tripling the dev team" acquisition. An

Re: OT: 3d sculpting app choice?

3D Coat is a nice sculpt / paint / retopo software that does a lot for a relative small price (half of Zbrush's). I use it mainly for tex painting and I'm still testing it's sculpting tools. I find ZBrush a little more friendly than years ago. Still a little tricky to get used to its weird interfa

Re: Shotgun join Autodesk

Interested to see if they release it on the ARC licences. Most of Autodesk's EDU stuff is free so that’s in theory a good change for us. From: Marc-Andre Carbonneau mailto:marc-andre.carbonn...@ubisoft.com>> Reply-To: "softimage@listproc.autodesk.com"

RE: Shotgun join Autodesk

Wish it would have been The Foundry. Sadly I had a discussion about that not long ago but I guess the dark force got to it faster. We can only hope that what Don mentions in his announcement blog is true. http://blog.shotgunsoftware.com/2014/06/blastoff.html From: softimage-boun...@listproc.aut

Re: OT: 3d sculpting app choice?

I'd seriously take 3D Coat into consideration, for all it can do (texturing/retopo etc), not just for voxel sculpting! and for its lightning-fast development... Greetz Leendert -- Leendert A. Hartog AKA Hirazi Blue Administrator NOT the owner of si-community.com

Aw: Shotgun join Autodesk

Being a pipeline TD in a Shotgun based studio this has pretty much ruined my day.   Gesendet: Mittwoch, 25. Juni 2014 um 15:38 Uhr Von: "Hans Payer" An: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Betreff: Shotgun join Autodesk Here we go again...   http://inthefold.autodesk.com/in_the_fold/2014/06/going

RE: 2015 Viewport playback issues

Hey guys, a bit of a late reply. The vSync wasn't causing issues, and I didn't have the scene info showing. I have a feeling it might have had something to do with the material animation that was being used, in particular the transparency on objects. Although this hasn't been tested against olde

Re: OT: 3d sculpting app choice?

If it's sculpting you are looking for zbrush hands down... You can also do a bit of texturing but it's only polypaint so limited to your polygon count. On 25 June 2014 14:32, David Saber wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to know what your opinion on 3d sculpting apps? What do you use > and why

RE: Xray selection toggle in 2015 not working...

Thanks Leendert. We will get that link corrected. Hsiao Ming -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Leendert A. Hartog Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2014 9:41 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subjec

Re: Xray selection toggle in 2015 not working...

Yes, those two links work. Thanks. The one linked to here still doesn't, though http://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/softimage/downloads/caas/downloads/content/autodesk-softimage-release-notes.html Greetz Leendert -- Leendert A. Hartog AKA Hirazi Blue Administrator NOT the owner of si-communit

Shotgun join Autodesk

Here we go again... http://inthefold.autodesk.com/in_the_fold/2014/06/going-faster-shotgun-joins-autodesk.html Hans

OT: 3d sculpting app choice?

Hi all, I'd like to know what your opinion on 3d sculpting apps? What do you use and why did you choose this app over another? In the past I used Zbrush but I always found its workflow a bit weird. After a web search, I made a list of apps that do sculpting: - Zbrush. - Sculptris (seems like a

RE: Xray selection toggle in 2015 not working...

Hi Leendert, Here is the link to the Softimage documentation page: http://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/softimage/downloads/caas/downloads/content/autodesk-softimage-documentation.html and a direct one to the Readme: http://knowledge.autodesk.com/sites/default/files/softimage_2015_readme_enu.htm

Re: Xray selection toggle in 2015 not working...

Just to let you know: the presumably updated SI2015 Release Notes (I am assuming you mean those when you speak of the Readme file) are still not accessible through the web... Greetz Leendert -- Leendert A. Hartog AKA Hirazi Blue Administrator NOT the owner of si-community.comJu

Softimage 2015 Alembic export options

Hi All I am busy looking at workflows to try and get students to export alembic files for lighting and rendering. However Maya 2015 alembic export include options like use world co-ords etc. In the Softimage one all that I can see are basically options for ICE attributes. Does anyone know what