Re: Softimage to Modo

2014-08-08 Thread Eric Mootz
True. Let's see how the Modo SDK develops. It is still fairly young. Am 07.08.2014 18:39, schrieb Angus Davidson: Hi Eric Once the documentation is in place will that make things a lot easier for the average person to dig into the sdk. Some SDK¹s even with great documentation are not great to

ultimate SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage 2014, Friday, September 19th 2014

2014-08-08 Thread Oliver Weingarten
Image Hi there! It took a long time this year, but I?m happy to announce the ultimate SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage event this year...! Due to EOL of Soft, it was quite hard to find enough sponsors. Still there are not enough, but I will make it some how. SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage 2014 will take place on

Re: Softimage to Modo

2014-08-08 Thread Simon van de Lagemaat
Would be neat to see Houdini get some loving. How do you find it for development? We've been using it for fx work for years now and have a small but capable team of guys. Looks like we'll be moving lighting over there as well. Losing ICE will suck and Houdini is really the only thing that

Re: ultimate SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage 2014, Friday, September 19th 2014

2014-08-08 Thread Eric Mootz
Nice! Thanks for this, Oliver!!

Re: Softimage to Modo

2014-08-08 Thread Eric Mootz
He, he, if I had to do production work and had to switch to another package then Houdini would be my first choice. Regarding its SDK: haven't looked at it yet, but I'm pretty sure it has everything one needs. I will probably be meeting some Houdini guys at the Softimage Ubertage this year,

RE: Softimage to Modo

2014-08-08 Thread Nick Angus
I am starting to get the feeling that most Softimage guys will eventually be Houdini guys. ; ) Sent from my Windows Phone From: Eric Mootzmailto:e...@mootzoid.com Sent: ‎8/‎08/‎2014 5:43 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.commailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com

Re: ultimate SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage 2014, Friday, September 19th 2014

2014-08-08 Thread Eric Mootz
PS: I'll be there, of course ;)

Re: ultimate SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage 2014, Friday, September 19th 2014

2014-08-08 Thread Stefan Kubicek
Awesome! I hope I can make it again. -- --- Stefan Kubicek --- keyvis digital imagery Alfred Feierfeilstraße 3 A-2380 Perchtoldsdorf bei Wien Phone: +43/699/12614231 www.keyvis.at ste...@keyvis.at -- This email

RE: Scene constantly stuck with geometry operators disabled.

2014-08-08 Thread Tim Bolland
Ha no worries, thanks for the script. Really useful! Tim From: car...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2014 14:53:23 -0700 Subject: Re: Scene constantly stuck with geometry operators disabled. To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com yes, i failed to read you extremely long email outlining exactly that ;)

RE: Glasswork+RedShift -- Cadbury spot

2014-08-08 Thread adrian wyer
great spot, we quoted on this, very interesting that it went from (at initial meetings) dancing singing, animated babies, to NOT singing/dancing cgi babies, to we'll just shoot models then it went away, and ended up at GW being back to dancing singing babies! gotta love clients eh?

Re: Houdini Indie launched ...

2014-08-08 Thread Cristobal Infante
This is also interesting, not sure what the cost of rendering in amazon is but: Houdini Indie also gives artists render farm access using HQueue on Amazon’s EC2 compute cloud. On 8 August 2014 12:26, Rob Wuijster r...@casema.nl wrote: With the previous setup, you could had them converted

Re: Houdini Indie launched ...

2014-08-08 Thread Max Evgrafov
Yeh!. Good news ! :-D 2014-08-08 15:39 GMT+04:00 Cristobal Infante cgc...@gmail.com: This is also interesting, not sure what the cost of rendering in amazon is but: Houdini Indie also gives artists render farm access using HQueue on Amazon’s EC2 compute cloud. On 8 August 2014 12:26,

Re: Houdini Indie launched ...

2014-08-08 Thread Srecko Micic
Yes that Amazon thing exist for some time. Apprentice and HD users have that option too. Not sure about prices now, it is pretty straightforward setup and worked well for me, used it 2-3 times. Latest pricing I heard was from $0.12 to $4.99 USD per hour depends on machine. -- Srecko Micic

Friday Flashback #184

2014-08-08 Thread Stephen Blair
Softimage Booth Interviews from SIGGRAPH 2004 http://wp.me/powV4-35e

Re: Scene constantly stuck with geometry operators disabled.

2014-08-08 Thread Stephen Blair
Just note that if the object is clone, that script won't enable the ops The CopyOp at the bottom is never disabled On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 4:24 AM, Tim Bolland tim_boll...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: Ha no worries, thanks for the script. Really useful! Tim -- From:

ICE: Color Attributes on polygon islands in Motion Tools

2014-08-08 Thread Byron Nash
We are working on an effect using Gustavo's Motion Tools kit. Getting stuck trying to pull the color from the point cloud and put it onto the islands. Anyone done this and have any tips? We are trying to get the color piped into a CAV map. Thanks

Re: ICE: Color Attributes on polygon islands in Motion Tools

2014-08-08 Thread Byron Nash
I think we got it working using self.color instead of using the CAV. I'll post again if a different approach worked in case anyone runs into this later. On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Byron Nash byronn...@gmail.com wrote: We are working on an effect using Gustavo's Motion Tools kit. Getting

Re: ICE: Color Attributes on polygon islands in Motion Tools

2014-08-08 Thread Adam Seeley
Would this help?   http://blog.blackredking.org/?p=5 Someone might need to bump it if I'm still landing in the Spam bin. Adam. _ Yoyo Digital Ltd. UK +44 (0) 7956 976 245 http://www.linkedin.com/in/adamseeleyuk https://vimeo.com/adamseeley

EOL and using older Softimages

2014-08-08 Thread phil harbath
What was the final verdict on using older versions of Softimage, I saw on the EOL page you could use up to 3 versions back. Does that require the user to be on active subscription. My case is I am on 2015 but my subscription just lapsed. Phil Harbath jamination

Re: Memory Leak when animating with SI 2015

2014-08-08 Thread Andres Stephens
Here is an example of the memory leak. I found out that this happens when I play animations on loop over an over again, eventually eating up all the ram and nearly forcing my OS to freeze. Fixes? How can one dump the memory cash for animation playback? -Draise PH: +57 313 811 6821

Re: Memory Leak when animating with SI 2015

2014-08-08 Thread Eric Turman
Out of curiosity, are you using Fast Playback 2D|3D Wireframe ? On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Andres Stephens drais...@outlook.com wrote: Here is an example of the memory leak. I found out that this happens when I play animations on loop over an over again, eventually eating up all the

Re: Memory Leak when animating with SI 2015

2014-08-08 Thread Eric Turman
I was just wondering if it was on and causing it, I'm shooting in the dark here too. How fast is it leaking...how many frames does it take to be noticeable? On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Andres Stephens drais...@outlook.com wrote: I was not at the time. Should I have it activated at the

Re: Memory Leak when animating with SI 2015

2014-08-08 Thread Andres Stephens
Good “shot” I suppose. I animate between 40 to 120 frames, and it will start to eat up the ram after about 5-7 consecutive loops. Normal playback from beginning to end does not do this. I have avoided the looping over and over again and apparently I have no more leaks, back to my normal 1-2

Re: Memory Leak when animating with SI 2015

2014-08-08 Thread Rob Chapman
Without any reproducible examples it is going to be hard to nail this one down. Is there a memory increase if scene is playing back on loop? On 8 Aug 2014 19:23, Andres Stephens drais...@outlook.com wrote: Here is an example of the memory leak. I found out that this happens when I play

RE: Memory Leak when animating with SI 2015

2014-08-08 Thread Andres Stephens
Here is the scene file. It has an animated frog in it - not the best I must say, but something! **I would appreciate if you guys don't really use it for anything, as it's not really my design or property to share, but just for troubleshooting cases. So, now that is cleared, memory leak

Re: Memory Leak when animating with SI 2015

2014-08-08 Thread Mirko Jankovic
tested and i can confirm, just open scene put play and loop and ram goes up and up and up On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 9:29 PM, Andres Stephens drais...@outlook.com wrote: Here is the scene file. It has an animated frog in it - not the best I must say, but something! ***I would appreciate if

Re: Houdini Indie launched ...

2014-08-08 Thread Cristobal Infante
So you can buy a maximum of 3 indies + 3 engines, so a total of 6 render nodes for $900 a year. Really awesome for anyone starting up! On 8 August 2014 13:06, Srecko Micic srecko.mi...@gmail.com wrote: Yes that Amazon thing exist for some time. Apprentice and HD users have that option too.

Re: SI and Houdini

2014-08-08 Thread Jordi Bares
Final chapter now online… hope you guys have enjoyed… will be back soon with the ICE extra chapter but for now, this is it. Enjoy it. http://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_forumItemid=172page=viewtopicp=155229#155229 Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.com On 30 Jul 2014, at 17:22, Cristobal

A camera projected making-of

2014-08-08 Thread Jason S
Hi, got around to making a making of, https://vimeo.com/102120571 Cheers!

RE: A camera projected making-of

2014-08-08 Thread Maurício P . Cuencas
Beautiful work man. Congrats. Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2014 18:22:35 -0400 From: jasonsta...@gmail.com To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: A camera projected making-of Hi, got around to making a making of, https://vimeo.com/102120571 Cheers!

Re: A camera projected making-of

2014-08-08 Thread Jason S
Psst! c'est parce-que c'est Softimage (it's because it's Softimage) :) On 08/08/14 18:41, Maurcio P. Cuencas wrote: Beautiful work man. Congrats. Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2014 18:22:35 -0400 From: