SDK: creating a dynamic non-modal PPG in C++

2017-06-07 Thread Matt Lind
Hopefully someone is still around to answer this question: I have written tons of scripts over the years. One technique I use for creating non-modal dialogs is to create a view and populate it with a dynamically generated custom property so nothing needs to hang around at the scene root.

Re: New iMac Pro? Yay or Nay?

2017-06-07 Thread David Gallagher Softimage
How do you see prices on those? On 6/7/2017 6:15 AM, Andreas Böinghoff wrote: For new machines we're going for supermicro. https://www.supermicro.nl/products/system/4U/7048/SYS-7048GR-TR.cfm We always had HP Z800-840 - Since we were doing more and more jobs on redshift his workstations are

Re: New iMac Pro? Yay or Nay?

2017-06-07 Thread Mirko Jankovic
I;m having issues even getting into installed linux, starting up installation get's stuck as well. starts booting into installation and hangs.. on 3 different machines so I gave up completely. But anyway OT... move on :) ᐧ On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 5:59 PM, Angus Davidson

RE: New iMac Pro? Yay or Nay?

2017-06-07 Thread Angus Davidson
Do you Have Nvidia Opti,us graphics. As they are no end of pain of Linux? -- ICT Project Manager Digital Arts Wits School of the Arts angus.david...@wits.ac.za 011 717 4683 From: Stanley Mpofu Sent: 31 May 2017 03:14 PM To: Collen Rasalanavho; Angus

Re: New iMac Pro? Yay or Nay?

2017-06-07 Thread Mirko Jankovic
centos, mint, manjaro, fedora, ubuntu.. couple versions of each of them ᐧ On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 2:31 PM, Angus Davidson wrote: > Which Linux distros have you tried. Some are significantly easier than > others. > > > > *From: *Mirko Jankovic

Re: New iMac Pro? Yay or Nay?

2017-06-07 Thread Jonathan Moore
Thanks for the link ref Supermicro Andreas. They look monstrously good for GPU workflows. :) > On 7 Jun 2017, at 13:15, Andreas Böinghoff > wrote: > > For new machines we're going for supermicro. > >

Re: New iMac Pro? Yay or Nay?

2017-06-07 Thread Angus Davidson
Which Linux distros have you tried. Some are significantly easier than others. From: Mirko Jankovic Reply-To: "softimage@listproc.autodesk.com" Date: Wednesday, 07 June 2017 at 2:27 PM To: "softimage@listproc.autodesk.com"

Re: New iMac Pro? Yay or Nay?

2017-06-07 Thread Mirko Jankovic
Until they create linux that you can just insatll, get all drivers updated and all up and running and working in same day it will be nightmare. Windows just recently crushed 3 of my machines with it's retarded upgrades policy and for some stupid reason I didn't blok all that crap.. But tried Linux

Re: New iMac Pro? Yay or Nay?

2017-06-07 Thread Angus Davidson
I will be honest. I loved my g5 mac pro, and I have loved OSX. There are so many things is does in a far more elegant manner than Windows. Even to the point of hackintoshing and putting the OS on decent hardware (where it really shines). However even with that. These days I go directly to

Re: New iMac Pro? Yay or Nay?

2017-06-07 Thread Andreas Böinghoff
For new machines we're going for supermicro. https://www.supermicro.nl/products/system/4U/7048/SYS-7048GR-TR.cfm We always had HP Z800-840 - Since we were doing more and more jobs on redshift his workstations are the best machines we ever had. A On 07/06/2017 14:02, Rob Wuijster wrote: I

Re: New iMac Pro? Yay or Nay?

2017-06-07 Thread Rob Wuijster
I agree, although some of my friends who are into 2D design and a tad of AfterEffects will probably running to the store as soon as they can get their hands on it ;-) Rob \/-\/\/ On 7-6-2017 13:45, Jonathan Moore wrote: Now more than ever I think of OS X and Apple

Re: New iMac Pro? Yay or Nay?

2017-06-07 Thread Jonathan Moore
Now more than ever I think of OS X and Apple hardware as the luxury end of the consumer PC market. There’s so much about OS X that I prefer to Windows but I’m also aware that I’m paying an extreme premium for the experience. However, It’s been a long time since I’ve considered Apple hardware

Re: New iMac Pro? Yay or Nay?

2017-06-07 Thread Christopher Crouzet
Something to consider beyond the hardware is the software. During the years that I've been using MacOS, Apple often shined at only supporting outdated OpenGL versions in their OS, or poorly implementing it. To make things worse, they decided to go their own way with their Metal API without

Re: New iMac Pro? Yay or Nay?

2017-06-07 Thread Rob Wuijster
One of the first reviews, and it's not really a glowing one: https://www.slashgear.com/imac-pro-still-doesnt-give-the-one-thing-pros-want-06487652/ Rob \/-\/\/ On 6-6-2017 21:50, Angus Davidson wrote: Unfortunately Apple has defined pro market to mean , FCP X and a

Re: OTish - Soft2Maya transition list

2017-06-07 Thread Anto Matkovic
I think, one huge problem with Mayans or at least Maya artists, is that they simply can not understand the words like "consistency" or ''system'', perhaps because they never experienced one, or, this always been provided by someone else like TDs, or it's just a side effect of specialization.