Re: End of the ride

2015-05-13 Thread Dan Yargici
Thanks for all the help, and good luck with whatever the future brings, Graham! All the best. DAN On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 9:42 AM, Amaan Akram xsil...@warpedspace.org wrote: Thank you Graham for all the years of support. All the best to you. On 13 May 2015 at 09:20, gareth bell

Re: particle creation error

2015-05-13 Thread Cristobal Infante
you possibly have double simulation environments? On Wednesday, 13 May 2015, phil harbath phil.harb...@jamination.com wrote: I have had this happen several times where I can’t successfully create a particle system or import a particle system in a scene(it imports but does not work), I

Re: End of the ride

2015-05-13 Thread Martin Chatterjee
All the best to you, Graham! Cheers, -M -- Martin Chatterjee [ Freelance Technical Director ] [ http://www.chatterjee.de ] [ https://vimeo.com/chatterjee ] On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 11:50 AM, Martin Yara furik...@gmail.com wrote: I haven't had the pleasure to meet you in real life,

Re: End of the ride

2015-05-13 Thread Amaan Akram
Thank you Graham for all the years of support. All the best to you. On 13 May 2015 at 09:20, gareth bell garethb...@outlook.com wrote: Good luck Dinger. Thanks for the help along the way Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 09:26:26 +0200 From: bauero...@gmx.de To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com

Re: End of the ride

2015-05-13 Thread Martin Yara
I haven't had the pleasure to meet you in real life, but it is really sad. I've always enjoyed your posts and discussions in different forums and emails. Always helpful, cool and calm even when you were being attacked by angry softies. Thanks for all these years, and good luck. Martin On Wed,

Re: Friday Flashback #223

2015-05-13 Thread christian
maggie and christine were always on fire on the list.. On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 6:34 AM, Adam Sale adamfs...@gmail.com wrote: I began with Softimage 3d v3.0 in 1997. We ran it on r1's. Pierre Tousignant, Gino Vincelli, Maggie Kathwaroon to name a few. Good times. On Tue, May 12, 2015 at

Re: End of the ride

2015-05-13 Thread Nicolas Esposito
Sorry to see you go Graham, all the best in the future :-) 2015-05-13 14:46 GMT+02:00 Greg Punchatz g...@janimation.com: Thanks for all the fish and the best of luck to you in the future. On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 6:08 AM, Martin Chatterjee martin.chatterjee.li...@googlemail.com wrote:

Re: End of the ride

2015-05-13 Thread Byron Nash
Thanks for all you have done over the years and your participation in the list. Keep us posted on where you end up. Byron On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 9:03 AM, Nicolas Esposito 3dv...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry to see you go Graham, all the best in the future :-) 2015-05-13 14:46 GMT+02:00 Greg

Re: End of the ride

2015-05-13 Thread Greg Punchatz
Thanks for all the fish and the best of luck to you in the future. On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 6:08 AM, Martin Chatterjee martin.chatterjee.li...@googlemail.com wrote: All the best to you, Graham! Cheers, -M -- Martin Chatterjee [ Freelance Technical Director ] [

RE: End of the ride

2015-05-13 Thread Emilio Hernández
Good luck Graham and thank you for all the good things! You have my respect and my best wishes. Cheers!

Re: Any equivalent to Custom Param sets in Maya?

2015-05-13 Thread Eric Thivierge
Thanks Joey. Unless it's OOTB I'm not touching it. :) I'll survive without it for now. Eric T. On Wednesday, May 13, 2015 2:39:55 PM, Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES] wrote: Check out the WINDOWS section of this page http://area.autodesk.com/blogs/stevenr/bonustools Maybe this is

RE: Any equivalent to Custom Param sets in Maya?

2015-05-13 Thread Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES]
Having a recollection about something I haven’t thought of in a while but curious if either of these have any value to you? http://download.autodesk.com/global/docs/maya2014/en_us/files/GUID-C386F366-A1F9-49E1-938D-45149F79D354.htm

RE: Any equivalent to Custom Param sets in Maya?

2015-05-13 Thread Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES]
Check out the WINDOWS section of this page http://area.autodesk.com/blogs/stevenr/bonustools Maybe this is useful? -- Joey Ponthieux LaRC Information Technology Enhanced Services (LITES) MYMIC Technical Services NASA Langley Research Center __

Re: End of the ride

2015-05-13 Thread Jordi Bares Dominguez
Thanks Graham, you work has been great and Autodesk is loosing a key asset and the culture few of the remaining Softimage guys brought to it, sad strategy they have. Wish you the best and hope we can work together in the near future. jb On 13 May 2015, at 15:53, Alan Fregtman

Is purchasing a new softimage license impossible?

2015-05-13 Thread Scott Parrish
Asking a question for a friend, I still have a seat of Softimage from my 2015 bundle stuff.. I know some people who like modeling in Softimage and at least in a game pipeline it's still pretty easy to model in whatever package and then push through to the mainline pipeline in Maya or Max or

Re: Friday Flashback #223

2015-05-13 Thread Alan Fregtman
Myself I started with XSI 4.2. I still remember the big heavy box of manuals with the liquidy orangey flower art. :) Good times. On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 12:13 PM Adam Sale adamfs...@gmail.com wrote: Ah yes, we can't forget Ms Charette. On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 6:31 AM, christian

Re: End of the ride

2015-05-13 Thread Alan Fregtman
Thank you for all the help throughout the years, Graham! :) On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 11:39 AM Morten Bartholdy x...@colorshopvfx.dk wrote: Well then thanks for the assistance you have provided over the years and good luck where ever you will be going! Cheers Graham! Best Regards

Re: Friday Flashback #223

2015-05-13 Thread Martin Contel
I started with XSI 3.0. I was a Maya artist back then and I absolutely fell in love with XSI when our reseller made us a presentation. XSI 4.2 was the first release I bought as freelancer, best purchase ever. As Alan said, good times!!! -- Martin Contel CG Supervisor Square Enix (Visual Works

Re: End of the ride

2015-05-13 Thread Morten Bartholdy
Well then thanks for the assistance you have provided over the years and good luck where ever you will be going! Cheers Graham! Best Regards Morten Bartholdy - Softimage user since 1992 Den 13. maj 2015 kl. 00:59 skrev Graham Bell bell...@gmail.com: I hadn't wanted to make any kind of

Any equivalent to Custom Param sets in Maya?

2015-05-13 Thread Eric Thivierge
Hello all, Wondering if there is a container like object where you can add attributes to that lives under an object in Maya. Also having multiple instances of this object type as well with the attributes within it exposed in the channel box. Thanks, Eric T.

Re: Any equivalent to Custom Param sets in Maya?

2015-05-13 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
There is nothing like what you need, the closest thing however is to use dummy shapes to host attributes, and instancing those shapes if you want to proxy that set of attributes elsewhere. The channel box will aggregate and interval attributes on all shapes for the selected transform just fine as

Re: Any equivalent to Custom Param sets in Maya?

2015-05-13 Thread Eric Thivierge
Yeah I could do that but animator's would kill me. I'd prefer to stay alive. :) Eric T. On 5/13/2015 1:02 PM, Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES] wrote: You could try something similar to Object Null (MyControl) - posx - posy - posz - Null2

RE: Any equivalent to Custom Param sets in Maya?

2015-05-13 Thread Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES]
As you probably already know custom attributes are added via AttributesAdd Attributes in an object's Attribute Editor. You're asking, I think, can you have custom Attributes in a special panel like is done in Soft. You can add attributes anywhere, to nulls, to objects etc. If you want an

Re: Any equivalent to Custom Param sets in Maya?

2015-05-13 Thread Graham Bell
I believe that's what 'Asset's in Maya were supposed to do, but they never really progressed that far. Some good ideas in there though. On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 6:17 PM Eric Thivierge ethivie...@hybride.com wrote: Yeah I could do that but animator's would kill me. I'd prefer to stay alive. :)

RE: Any equivalent to Custom Param sets in Maya?

2015-05-13 Thread Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES]
This is Maya. Rig it whatever way is easiest for you. Regardless how you do it, the result will keep em so busy they'll not have any time for conspiracy... -- Joey Ponthieux LaRC Information Technology Enhanced Services (LITES) MYMIC Technical Services NASA Langley Research Center

Re: End of the ride

2015-05-13 Thread Tim Leydecker
Graham, Thank you for your contribution to this list. I felt priviledged when I got a reply from any of you guys helping me with whatever I got stuck with while slowly advancing from novice to senior novice during the last ten years of my subscription to this mailing list (x...@softimage.com).

RE: End of the ride

2015-05-13 Thread gareth bell
Good luck Dinger. Thanks for the help along the way Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 09:26:26 +0200 From: bauero...@gmx.de To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: End of the ride Graham, Thank you for your contribution to this list. I felt priviledged when I got a reply from any of