Re: Off topic but useful tip: 27 Korean WQHD (2560X1440) LEDMonitors are awesome and cheap!

2014-10-22 Thread Martin Yara
I just bought a couple of Dell 2415 (24 16:10 IPS, mid-end) and so far it's pretty good. I always use 24 (1920x1200) x2. This monitor has sRGB 99% coverage and is pre-calibrated (deltaE 3), and for the price I'm more than satisfied. For those who need extremely high color quality, the 6bit+FRC

Re: Export Meshed Particles Sequence

2014-10-22 Thread Morten Bartholdy
My mistake- it is not instances per se but Primitives, Custom Polygon Meshes I meant. It allows the application of geometry on particles but I see no way to cache it. Morten Den 21. oktober 2014 kl. 17:54 skrev Eric Mootz e...@mootzoid.com: emPolygonizer4 allows to apply instanced

Re: Export Meshed Particles Sequence

2014-10-22 Thread Toonafish
you could export as an Obj sequence, just activate separate files per frame. -Ronald On 10/22/2014 10:57, Morten Bartholdy wrote: My mistake- it is not instances per se but Primitives, Custom Polygon Meshes I meant. It allows the application of geometry on particles but I see no way to

Re: Purchasing softimage 2015

2014-10-22 Thread Leendert A. Hartog
Would now be a good moment to request the ultimate update to the softimage_last_release_announcement_faq, as some information included in the previous update (for instance the info on buying additional seats) never quite made it in the very concise (too concise?) most recent update that is

Mental Ray issue

2014-10-22 Thread Angus Davidson
Hi All We have an issue that when we borrow a license to use with Softimage / Maya at home it doesn’t seem to borrow the Mental Ray license as well. I have tried solutions like

Re: Mental Ray issue

2014-10-22 Thread Stephen Blair
You're using an old version of Maya? A Maya license no longer has licenses for subfeatures, it's just the Maya license and five MayaBatch licenses. On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 8:55 AM, Angus Davidson angus.david...@wits.ac.za wrote: Hi All We have an issue that when we borrow a license to use

Re: Mental Ray issue

2014-10-22 Thread Angus Davidson
Hi Stephen Her machine is running windows 8 and has 2015 sp4 ;( Using the same borrowed licences (i.e. Same network server ) it works fine on my Mac version which is also 2015. Driving me insane. Ill get the lecturer to send me the log file. It specially states it can’t get a license when

Re: Mental Ray issue

2014-10-22 Thread Angus Davidson
Okay this is the offending bit of the log Starting C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2015\bin\mayabatch.exe mental ray for Maya 2015 mental ray: version 3.12.1.18, Jul 30 2014, revision 224509 Result: externalContentTable Result: 1 File read in 1.6 seconds. Result:

Re: Mental Ray issue

2014-10-22 Thread Stephen Blair
Hi You tried this too? http://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/maya/troubleshooting/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2015/ENU/MAYAS-Install/files/GUID-F16A8C2A-5A9D-49FC-9DF5-D25F06DCC6C4-htm.html I guess I'm sort of wrong: mr is considered a subfeature still, but it's basically the equivalent of

Re: Mental Ray issue

2014-10-22 Thread Stephen Blair
Yes, you need to borrow the batch license too (which looks like this in the lic file: 85694MAYAMMR1_2015_0F) I haven't tried it myself, and I don't have time right now, maybe later... On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Angus Davidson angus.david...@wits.ac.za wrote: Okay this is the offending

Re: Off topic but useful tip: 27 Korean WQHD (2560X1440) LEDMonitors are awesome and cheap!

2014-10-22 Thread Jason S
At that size, maximised  windows would become super large! So you might want to consider some window management software. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E15_e-f3hMg I remember (of) a good free one but don't remember it's name, but will post if

Re: Off topic but useful tip: 27 Korean WQHD (2560X1440) LEDMonitors are awesome and cheap!

2014-10-22 Thread Martin Yara
Winsplit revolution ? I understand it was the predecesor to MaxTo, now discontinued to this commercial version. I also found windivvy at $14 while I was reading some website about displays. That's the main reason why I prefer dual display instead. Martin On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 1:05 AM, Jason

Stand-Alone to Network license?

2014-10-22 Thread Patrick Neese
So I bought a Standalone license last year, before Softimage was killed, and recently I have been trying to figure out if there is a way I can upgrade to 2014 networked version so I can have a 5 batch MR render nodes. I found FEE06-797413-0101 but an Autodesk chat rep, my reseller and another

Re: Stand-Alone to Network license?

2014-10-22 Thread Sebastien Sterling
I don't like your odds friend :( On 22 October 2014 18:52, Patrick Neese patrickne...@gmail.com wrote: So I bought a Standalone license last year, before Softimage was killed, and recently I have been trying to figure out if there is a way I can upgrade to 2014 networked version so I can have

RE: Stand-Alone to Network license?

2014-10-22 Thread Matt Lind
Export your scene as an .mi2 sequence as that should remove all softimage dependencies (assuming you don't use anything that is unique to softimage with regards to shaders), then render using your maya/max license. Matt -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com

Re: Stand-Alone to Network license?

2014-10-22 Thread Patrick Neese
Matt thanks. I had this thought as well, but...the wording of the license agreement for 2014 leaves a little question whether this is legitimate because the MI2 would not have been made with the software the MR license is through (max and maya) Section 10.1.1 Rendering. I'm no lawyer. But trying

RE: Stand-Alone to Network license?

2014-10-22 Thread Matt Lind
Mental ray is a separate product with its own file format. As long as there are no softimage specific dependencies (eg; shaders) in the .mi2 files you send to be rendered, you're not running afoul of any laws that I know of because at that point it's native mental ray data, not softimage data.

Re: Stand-Alone to Network license?

2014-10-22 Thread Stephen Blair
You can't render a .mi2 file with a Maya license. You'll need a mental ray standalone license. In the past, people could upgrade from a Standalone Softimage license to a Network license by paying the difference. IIRC, that difference was equal to the network license activation fee, and that is

Re: Stand-Alone to Network license?

2014-10-22 Thread Jason S
Can't render Mi2's, Can't 'SendTo' non-synched versions, can't buy latest (or -last-) version of SI, weather or not you're a long time user/customer looking to replace -recent existing- licences. can't not rent, can't, can't... You CAN

Re: Stand-Alone to Network license?

2014-10-22 Thread Ed Manning
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 8:27 PM, Jason S jasonsta...@gmail.com wrote: Can't render Mi2's, Can't 'SendTo' non-synched versions, can't buy latest (or -last-) version of SI, weather or not you're a long time user/customer looking to replace -recent existing- licences. can't not rent, can't,

Re: Stand-Alone to Network license?

2014-10-22 Thread Jason S
Sorry for the outburst, I sometimes find unfairness so unfair. On 10/22/14 21:09, Ed Manning wrote: On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 8:27 PM, Jason S jasonsta...@gmail.com wrote: