Re: SI and Houdini

2014-08-11 Thread Angus Davidson
Just checking there were only the 5 questions ? Otherwise survey is done ;) From: Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.commailto:jordiba...@gmail.com Reply-To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.commailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com softimage@listproc.autodesk.commailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com

Re: SI and Houdini

2014-08-11 Thread Jordi Bares
Only 5 questions yep. :-) Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.com On 11 Aug 2014, at 10:29, Angus Davidson angus.david...@wits.ac.za wrote: Just checking there were only the 5 questions ? Otherwise survey is done ;) From: Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.com Reply-To:

Re: SI and Houdini

2014-08-11 Thread Eric Turman
Hi Jordi, When the dust settles with your survey and you have an idea of how many people would be interested and what they would be interested in. You might consider an indiegogo campaign to cover costs up front. Also, as i understand it, this was written from your point of view as a Softimage

Re: SI and Houdini

2014-08-11 Thread Jordi Bares
Totally… I am thinking of two alternatives, make it a generic without so much comparison or include Maya comparisons too so it appeals to both parties… This will involve a fair amount of work for sure but hey, that is the point of course. By the time I am done I will surely have the VOPs

RE: EOL and using older Softimages

2014-08-11 Thread Graham Bell
Point of note – the ability to have previous version usage has been a benefit to active Subscription customers (only), for some time now. And (barring some exceptions) this applies across the entire Autodesk portfolio, so Softimage isn’t being single out here. Also Softimage 2012 is still

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RE: Memory Leak when animating with SI 2015

2014-08-11 Thread Jill Ramsay (Contractor)
Andres, please log this as a bug if you have not already... Thanks. Jill From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Andres Stephens Sent: August-08-14 3:29 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: RE: Memory Leak when

RE: OT Maya: Spring Dynamics in Maya

2014-08-11 Thread Jill Ramsay (Contractor)
Hi Will, The Maya forums on Area are pretty active, might be a better place to post your questions than the maya_he3d group. http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Maya/ct-p/area-c2 Jill From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Will

Re: EOL and using older Softimages

2014-08-11 Thread Mirko Jankovic
How ever you put it it is stil fact that model was made ONLY to push people to subs meaning steady income for AD with less need to actually improve anything in each new version. AND That model is retarded for this kind o industry as there are a lot of people with need to access old projects that

RE: EOL and using older Softimages

2014-08-11 Thread Graham Bell
Yes, I guess that’s one way you could look at it. Another way might be that it might make more sense from the financial point of view, depending on your circumstances of course. Previously, I think you could get away with dropping off subs for maybe a year or two, because the upgrade

Re: EOL and using older Softimages

2014-08-11 Thread Toonafish
It's just silly to expect peeps to pay subscription every year, just to be able to revisit old projects, even if they don't want to switch to Maya or Max. Of course this subscription model is what makes AD the most bucks, but come on !! Someone at AD show us there's actual people making decisions

RE: EOL and using older Softimages

2014-08-11 Thread Jill Ramsay (Contractor)
One other thing to consider is that software business models are evolving throughout the industry. Subscription models are becoming increasingly common. Things have changed a lot along the way – when I started in the industry, you could pay $60K for a paint system (Matador 64). Maya 1.0 with

Re: EOL and using older Softimages

2014-08-11 Thread Martin
I think we all know that nobody uses the latest version for any project, or at least almost nobody (personally I've never used the latest version, only for testing). And some very long projects use 4 years old or more versions and you need to keep upgrading for the other projects that may use 2

RE: OT Maya: Spring Dynamics in Maya

2014-08-11 Thread Mário Domingos
Hey man, yep Dynamic curves are the best solution.  Just make a curve dynamic and use the resulting curve as an IKSpline. — Sent from Mailbox

Re: EOL and using older Softimages

2014-08-11 Thread Mirko Jankovic
It is not stupid.. for finance reasons as Graham already said. It makes perfect sense from financial point for AD. It makes really bad one for people that actually have to use it. Or it is like target only latest one..the rest.. f*k them.. same message SI users already had in their face On

RE: Memory Leak when animating with SI 2015

2014-08-11 Thread Andres Stephens
Thanks Jill, for taking a look at it. Can you please remind me how to submit a log? Is there a website where I can fill in details to submit? I think there is, I just.. didn't save the link and can't google it. SI does not crash and do it's automatic submit report dialogue - so I haven't

RE: Memory Leak when animating with SI 2015

2014-08-11 Thread Andres Stephens
I have been doing more tests, and it seems it may have something to do with the rig. Upon making keysets, and modifying some contraints it seems I created a leak. My other rigs do not have this problem. I am trying to start again and find out what went wrong.

RE: EOL and using older Softimages

2014-08-11 Thread Jill Ramsay (Contractor)
Just to be clear, rental is actually Desktop Subscription, which does include the right to use the previous version. Jill -Original Message- Yet the only version you can buy or rent is the latest one, which nobody uses and can't save in previous versions, so it is completely useless

RE: Memory Leak when animating with SI 2015

2014-08-11 Thread Jill Ramsay (Contractor)
Hi Andres, You can report the bug here: http://download.autodesk.com/us/support/report_a_bug.html?SelProduct=Softimage Thanks, Jill From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Andres Stephens Sent: August-11-14 1:58 PM To:

Re: EOL and using older Softimages

2014-08-11 Thread Graham Bell
I was referring to making financial sense for a customer. Essentially, Subscription helps give the best of both worlds – keeping up to date and retaining previous versions, for the lowest potential cost. G From: Mirko Jankovic mirkoj.anima...@gmail.commailto:mirkoj.anima...@gmail.com

Re: EOL and using older Softimages

2014-08-11 Thread Eric Turman
Rationalize and justify it however you would like, but we are effectively being strong-armed into paying for maintenance on software that will have no new releases and maybe a service pack...maybe. --- Essentially, Subscription helps give the best of both worlds – keeping up to date and

RE: EOL and using older Softimages

2014-08-11 Thread Jill Ramsay (Contractor)
As Graham has already mentioned in this thread, there is a mechanism for customers on Subscription to request earlier versions. Apart from sounding like the business equivalent of a platitude, it does not work because of the limiting factor of the past three previous versions is imposed.

Re: EOL and using older Softimages

2014-08-11 Thread Eric Turman
RIght, I understand that, but why the arbitrary hoops in the first place? On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 4:53 PM, Jill Ramsay (Contractor) jill.ram...@autodesk.com wrote: As Graham has already mentioned in this thread, there is a mechanism for customers on Subscription to request earlier versions.

Fabric news: new customers, rigging framework and the Fabric50

2014-08-11 Thread Paul Doyle
Hi everyone – we’re flat out at Siggraph but I wanted to share some announcements with you, as we think this is big news. First – new customers. We’re announcing new site license deals with Double Negative, Psyop and Blur – as you can see from the press release, they have some pretty nice

Re: EOL and using older Softimages

2014-08-11 Thread Martin
If rental is like subscription then you can use previous versions you have bought in the past, so for a newcomer it is as useless as buying it. So what if, hypothetically, I receive an offer to work in Maya 2012 which I don't own and the payment is good enough to invest on it. With the current

Re: Fabric news: new customers, rigging framework and the Fabric50

2014-08-11 Thread Ed Manning
...and the server appears to be down. Guess there's too many of us not at SIGGRAPH On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 7:44 PM, Paul Doyle technove...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone – we’re flat out at Siggraph but I wanted to share some announcements with you, as we think this is big news. First

Re: Fabric news: new customers, rigging framework and the Fabric50

2014-08-11 Thread Paul Doyle
it's back up now :) On 11 August 2014 17:08, Ed Manning etmth...@gmail.com wrote: ...and the server appears to be down. Guess there's too many of us not at SIGGRAPH On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 7:44 PM, Paul Doyle technove...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone – we’re flat out at Siggraph but

Re: Fabric news: new customers, rigging framework and the Fabric50

2014-08-11 Thread Eric Turman
Whoa! WowI'm rendered speechless. This is amazing! On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 8:08 PM, Paul Doyle technove...@gmail.com wrote: it's back up now :) On 11 August 2014 17:08, Ed Manning etmth...@gmail.com wrote: ...and the server appears to be down. Guess there's too many of us not at

RE: Fabric news: new customers, rigging framework and the Fabric50

2014-08-11 Thread Andres Stephens
Wow. This is a very generous and great offer, the Fabric50. I really need to get into Python more, I love the potential of your engine. Thanks for considering your very cool strategy to get it everywhere.

Re: EOL and using older Softimages

2014-08-11 Thread Eric Turman
That was not the case earlier this year when we wanted to rent a 2013 Maya...we were told that only 2014 was available to us. On Aug 11, 2014 9:37 PM, Sergio Mucino sergio.muc...@gmail.com wrote: I guess you could also rent the Maya license for the duration of the project. Renting is a very