RE: Humanize Maya project

2014-04-09 Thread Andres Stephens
Link? --- Original Message --- From: "Darren Cullis" <3d.dar...@gmail.com> Sent: April 9, 2014 1:32 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Humanize Maya project A custom gui for Maya , made a few years ago by Keith Fallon. I think autodesk should contact him and buy it :) Sent from HT

Re: Another Lego-iser

2014-04-07 Thread Andres Stephens
“Lego mindstorms with ICE!” REVOLUTIONARY! -Draise From: Christian Lattuada Sent: ‎Friday‎, ‎April‎ ‎4‎, ‎2014 ‎07‎:‎58‎ ‎ To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Lego mindstorms with ICE! .:. Christian Lattuada tel +39 3331277475 ... On Fri, Apr 4

Re: MODO webinar for Softimage Users - tomorrow, April 3 - Re gister here...

2014-04-03 Thread Andres Stephens
Oh right, Thanks! I will look forward to the next one. I will be all ears either way - I have my eye on it. 😉 -Draise From: Jason S Sent: ‎Thursday‎, ‎April‎ ‎3‎, ‎2014 ‎16‎:‎06‎ ‎ To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Whithout going int any details whatsoever, how about saying what areas ha

Re: Please Trim posts!!

2014-04-03 Thread Andres Stephens
I have had troubles trimming, I think every time I do the mail client I use starts a new thread. Sorry about that.. -Draise >snip<

Another alternative to Softimage

2014-04-03 Thread Andres Stephens
I have been looking more and more into Blender. I use it mainly for compositing and video editing - and UV’s and some basic texture painting. It’s a fun software once you get the hang of the interface, and yes, it is flexible but still lacking in the SI side of things... But I have been follo

Re: MODO webinar for Softimage Users - tomorrow, April 3 - Register here...

2014-04-03 Thread Andres Stephens
Yes, please do elaborate! I could not watch it... -Draise From: Ognjen Vukovic Sent: ‎Thursday‎, ‎April‎ ‎3‎, ‎2014 ‎15‎:‎53‎ ‎ To: softimage After watching the webinar, im quite certain that 801 will probably blast people out of their shoes.

Re: Everything's being said.

2014-03-26 Thread Andres Stephens
+1 -Draise From: Paul Griswold Sent: ‎Wednesday‎, ‎March‎ ‎26‎, ‎2014 ‎11‎:‎52‎ ‎ To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com I am still somewhat hopeful that as the months go by, Autodesk will at the very least reverse direction on completely murdering Softimage and will at least continue to bu

Re: An Open Letter to Carl Bass

2014-03-25 Thread Andres Stephens
in a graceful way. Regards, Jean-Louis Jean-Louis Billard Digital Golem BE: +32 (0) 484 263 563 UK: +44 (0) 7973 660 119 jean-lo...@digitalgolem.com http://www.digitalgolem.com/ 53 Rue Gustave Huberti 1030 Brussels On 25 Mar 2014, at 18:51, Andres Stephens

Re: An Open Letter to Carl Bass

2014-03-25 Thread Andres Stephens
I do not think nor agree with: “XSI is a known entity and if people wanted to switch to it they would have already.” No-one other than a few select (and those who do know it love it) here in this country know it (in South America). Only those tired of the traditional DCC apps search for altern

Re: An Open Letter to Carl Bass

2014-03-24 Thread Andres Stephens
I hope this too will happen to SI, don’t snuff it out of existence after April 2016... I would throw money into Maya or Max, or an Autodesk Subscription if only I still could use SI on the side - begrudgingly, but I would if I could (after two years and beyond). -Draise From: Chris Vienne

Re: ICE trigger animation?

2014-03-24 Thread Andres Stephens
I do 2D animations also in Si because it has better animation tools than say... AE or Animestudio or toon boom... And I am no fan of flash. Also you can get some really cool 2D effects or even some cool hybrid effects much easier. You can even have isometric design quite easily, which is another

Re: I'm still really PO'd and it's not getting better

2014-03-22 Thread Andres Stephens
+1 --- Original Message --- From: "Pingo van der Brinkloev" Sent: March 21, 2014 2:40 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: I'm still really PO'd and it's not getting better Kinda like the same feelings I'm going through. I am gonna go into hibernation, until anything as powerful

Re: Demise of SI and what it means for fine arts work

2014-03-22 Thread Andres Stephens
I agree with you Tenshi and Peter. I still use Truespace for my modelling and previz 5 years after Microsoft shut it down. Yes it still only uses viewport tech based on directX 9, yes it has none of the latest bells and whistles these days ... But it's the community, very small as is (you coul

Re: Autodesk webinar

2014-03-18 Thread Andres Stephens
Ressistence? I feel the same way How? Do and share SI vs. Maya vs. Max comparisons and business history/AD conspiracy revelations and truth to their business tactics within 3Dmax and Maya forums and communities to cause unrest till the WHOLE user base Autodesk tries to re-consider and start

Re: [OT] Autodesk announces 2015 3D product updates.

2014-03-18 Thread Andres Stephens
Other than the viewport and some modeling features, I feel SI had a lot of these features or abilities already, maybe not optimized, but it has had them already I feel like they are playing “catch -up”... with some fancy viewport features. =/ -Draise From: Ben Rogall Sent: ‎Tues

RE: trying to looking on the bright side......

2014-03-18 Thread Andres Stephens
+1 --- Original Message --- From: "Andi Farhall" Sent: March 18, 2014 10:31 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: trying to looking on the bright side.. my take on it all is that an undeveloped and unsupported soft will be the better tool than maya for the likes of us for much mo

Re: Autodesk webinar

2014-03-17 Thread Andres Stephens
At least they answered my question in a quasi-live mannor... meh.. I’m still so deflated. Not very smart the whole company and how they are using their assets and future projections. Feels like they are “downsizing” their ambitions and abilities to “pragmatically” grow but I actually doubt it

Re: Autodesk response

2014-03-17 Thread Andres Stephens
Colombia froze also, have and had to re-stream from the beginning. From: Oscar Juarez Sent: ‎Monday‎, ‎March‎ ‎17‎, ‎2014 ‎11‎:‎35‎ ‎ To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com I cant access it either On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 5:33 PM, Halim Negadi wrote: The webinar just stopped and I c

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-13 Thread Andres Stephens
A director, with utmost decision, and a voting system to help him decide? -Draise From: Jason S Sent: ‎Thursday‎, ‎March‎ ‎13‎, ‎2014 ‎17‎:‎18‎ ‎ To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com I think we can be mature enough to recognise each-others good ideas, without one person saying "this is h

Re: just my 2 cents [Re:] Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-11 Thread Andres Stephens
orporation mentality. Thank you for allowing some thought to your current market to "upgrade" cost free, and for extending the license to use Softimage perpetually. But do more for those who are not yet your customers, and for those who are unhappy with your other tools now looki

Re: [OT] Some musings regarding Blender...

2014-03-11 Thread Andres Stephens
Oh woops, not sure if this went to the list. =P I’m more a watcher to the list, not really a contributor, so still learning the ropes. Original message: I play around in a quiet little forum dedicated to the once alive and thriving trueSpace community. Like Softimage, it was a small little a

Re: Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-11 Thread Andres Stephens
+1 From: Alastair Hearsum Sent: ‎Tuesday‎, ‎March‎ ‎11‎, ‎2014 ‎10‎:‎16‎ ‎ To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Daniel My open letter has got a lot of attention. I would encourage you to do something similar with the company name behind you. It seems to get some results however smal

Re: Listening

2014-03-09 Thread Andres Stephens
Repeated from another mail: I started SI not 3 years ago as an intern. I had to work with two other generalists, one on Maya and the other in SI. In under 3 months, I learnt from zero SI to enough knowledge to produce double the quota of my Maya partner (year experience in Maya). The factors co

Re: There's more to this story

2014-03-09 Thread Andres Stephens
I agree with you message. I'd like to chime in.. I started SI not 3 years ago as an intern. I had to work with two other generalists, one on maya and the other in si. In under 3 months, I learnt from zero SI to enough knowledge to produce double the quota of my Maya partner (year experience i

Re: The one question I have not seen asked: Autodesk, what's your price?

2014-03-08 Thread Andres Stephens
Curious proposition, if I could contribute in some way, I will. But I like the proposition. From: Daniel G Sent: ‎Saturday‎, ‎March‎ ‎8‎, ‎2014 ‎22‎:‎47‎ ‎ To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Everyone has a price. Can we all agree that if somebody offered Autodesk $100 mill

Re: Softimage 2015 Last Release Announcement

2014-03-06 Thread Andres Stephens
I will eventually switch to Blender with this! GREAT! Not after my good run and mastering of SI... Still has a lot of juice to squeeze out. -Draise From: Dan Yargici Sent: ‎Thursday‎, ‎March‎ ‎6‎, ‎2014 ‎15‎:‎01‎ ‎ To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Them's some strong words! and I'm sa

Re: Recent Work - Chick-Fil-A: Celebrating 50 Years

2014-02-19 Thread Andres Stephens
Good work Tim! Always admirable of you and your team, and of that of Redshift! Love to follow your progress, and I’m happy to see it go places! -Draise From: Tim Crowson Sent: ‎Wednesday‎, ‎February‎ ‎19‎, ‎2014 ‎17‎:‎15‎ ‎ To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Nah, just gaming cards. Some 7

Re: New solidangle.com

2014-01-16 Thread Andres Stephens
Wow this is great At good timing. From: Stephen Blair Sent: ‎Thursday‎, ‎January‎ ‎16‎, ‎2014 ‎14‎:‎13‎ ‎ To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Check it http://www.solidangle.com, and maybe even try Arnold in Softimage.

Re: Windows 8

2014-01-14 Thread Andres Stephens
Hehe =) I like it, just a very new way of handling apps and an attempt creating a bridge between mobile OS with desktop, which is not the norm, so disliked by the norm... But I like it. --- Original Message --- From: "Byron Nash" Sent: January 13, 2014 4:39 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.

Re: Windows 8

2014-01-11 Thread Andres Stephens
I love W8 (and 8.1 more), the general workflow of things is a lot smoother than 7’s, and the ribbon in the explorer is quite handy and always missed when I go to 7 again. If you never used the start menu, the new tiles in 8.1 will certainly suffice. I find it’s app search fast and useful -

RE: Kudos AD - Soft gets some promotion

2013-09-30 Thread Andres Stephens
Yeah I see it, well at a glance: Procedural ICE modeling - in the "features" tab! And.. it's third in the in list with the AD packages included as part of "elitist" software! Much easier to know what SI is, now if you're being a newbie to it. Kudos. From: pgrisw...@fusiondigitalproductions.c

Re: 3delight v4 is out for Softimage

2013-09-26 Thread Andres Stephens
I’m playing with it right now, and even with the 4 core demo, it is bloody fast tho.. I’ve hung/crashed SI like 3 times already. Ehm.. might be human error. -Draise From: Steven Caron Sent: ‎Thursday‎, ‎September‎ ‎26‎, ‎2013 ‎13‎:‎44‎ ‎ To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com the softimage p

Re: 3delight v4 is out for Softimage

2013-09-26 Thread Andres Stephens
I think I’ll give this one a try out today. Thanks for the link! Looks promising! -Draise From: Greg Punchatz Sent: ‎Thursday‎, ‎September‎ ‎26‎, ‎2013 ‎12‎:‎49‎ ‎ To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=59&t=1125810 I would love to hear people's e

Re: Looking for artists

2013-09-25 Thread Andres Stephens
September 2013 19:10, Andres Stephens wrote: Oh that’s good to hear! I am sad to hear I missed my chance to present myself, but I’m glad you found your team! Good luck on the project, and don’t mind the naysayers. Keep up the work and cant’ wait to hear more on what you guys are doing/break

Re: Looking for artists

2013-09-25 Thread Andres Stephens
Oh that’s good to hear! I am sad to hear I missed my chance to present myself, but I’m glad you found your team! Good luck on the project, and don’t mind the naysayers. Keep up the work and cant’ wait to hear more on what you guys are doing/break downs! -Draise From: softimage.l...@bcvip

Re: Dx11?

2013-08-28 Thread Andres Stephens
...Back in the day my boss said the ported some SI code and tools into Maya and 3Dmax back when SI was purchased by Autodesk. I wonder if (and hope and pray) they would port back the Maya viewport into SI. I think that would be something great and well due. =P -Draise From: Rares Halmagea

Re: OT: my 10 year old wants to "make games"

2013-08-26 Thread Andres Stephens
I wouldn't be into 3d if my dad didn't help me get off games and onto doing something "productive" when I was younger! I owe him one. My friend on another forum I use compiled a list of free game engines and classified them roughly on their ease of use. Very extensive, but a good way to start.

Re: Windows 7 or 8

2013-08-21 Thread Andres Stephens
I use both W7 and W8 on a render my farm, my farm is like a motely crew of pirates, all random computers. =P -Draise From: Angus Davidson Sent: ‎Wednesday‎, ‎August‎ ‎21‎, ‎2013 ‎08‎:‎34‎ ‎ To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Hi All I am looking at imaging our render farm (mac mini's

RE: Softimage 2015 User Survey

2013-08-16 Thread Andres Stephens
I'm curious about Linux. As.. the multiprocessor support would be perfect for some machines we are thinking to buy as servers for a renderfarm. I use Windows 7 and 8 a lot, and I use thirdparty apps for multidesktop features, with the functions like the ones mentioned below. I am starting to u

RE: Arnold Scene Viewer integrated in Softimage using Creation Platform

2013-07-19 Thread Andres Stephens
Great stuff! =) Subject: Re: Arnold Scene Viewer integrated in Softimage using Creation Platform From: alok.gandhi2...@gmail.com Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 00:06:48 -0400 To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Really nice work Guillaume! I am waiting to see your Siggraph presentration. I hope there wi

Re: Missing DirectXimport/export.dll files

2013-07-18 Thread Andres Stephens
: SOFTIMAGE_COMMONFILES=C:\Program Files\Common Files\Softimage On 18/07/2013 2:25 PM, Andres Stephens wrote: Ah yes, I’ve found the DLL’s, but the libraries are not loading into the plugin manager in SI. I’ve deleted them, reloaded them, copied them to the original location, etc. No luck. If the problem is in

Re: Missing DirectXimport/export.dll files

2013-07-18 Thread Andres Stephens
that fixes it. -Draise From: Stephen Blair Sent: ‎Thursday‎, ‎July‎ ‎18‎, ‎2013 ‎1‎:‎21‎ ‎PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Those DLLs are in XSI_HOME\Application\plugins Probably a problem with SOFTIMAGE_COMMONFILES env var On 18/07/2013 1:35 PM, Andres Stephens wrote: I’m

Missing DirectXimport/export.dll files

2013-07-18 Thread Andres Stephens
I’m currently working with a software the only exports objects with *.x files, and I would like to work with them in Softimage. But I have the directXimport and export dll’s missing. Where are they? Where can I get them? I would appreciate not having to reinstall Softimage... where could I find

Re: clara.io

2013-07-10 Thread Andres Stephens
Nice! Just saw this today. Pardon my jut in! Reminds me a bit of the virtual spaces trueSpace 7.61 beta 8 had back in 2009, with 3D collaborative servers for collaborative modeling - shading - scripting - animation - etc. Kinda worked on intranets or the internet, was a fun concept at the time

Re: OT: Bruce Lee + Jhonnie Walker + The Mill = "Change The Game"

2013-07-10 Thread Andres Stephens
Ditto... and very cool facial rig setup! =) -Draise From: John Richard Sanchez Sent: ‎Wednesday‎, ‎July‎ ‎10‎, ‎2013 ‎1‎:‎08‎ ‎PM To: XSI List to post Thats pretty cool. Where can I see the actual commercial?! On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Emilio Hernandez wrote: Cool! I'll h

Trigger an image sequence - how?

2013-06-18 Thread Andres Stephens
I am trying to play with animated sprites in SI. My goals are to create a way to trigger an image sequence when I want it to within the timeline, according to either a trigger in ICE or an animation trigger, like a parameter or expression or a check box. The image sequence sprite needs to be

RE: Compositing Break down within Studios ?

2013-06-16 Thread Andres Stephens
I am currently changing render engines, so studio workflow on the project will be different in the future. But the following was what I had in MentalRay: Animation Passes (animated characters and props) Diffuse (colour, no shadows) Shadow+AO (shadow catchers and casters + Ambient Occlusion)

Re: Poll: Blend Shape workflow ICE or Mixer

2013-06-07 Thread Andres Stephens
I like to use the shape manager with multiple shapes hooked to controllers, or parameter sliders (blend two shapes with a parameter slider left to right, eg.) to later be saved with stored animations in clips in the mixer. I then play with clip animation later only, with layered expression/param

Re: Quick question about arnold linear workflow

2013-06-05 Thread Andres Stephens
.. pardon the intrusion, is there an Arnold toSI (StoA) email list? I missed that one, I only found the MtoA email list, but that isn’t too helpful... -Draise From: Andreas Bystrom Sent: ‎Wednesday‎, ‎June‎ ‎5‎, ‎2013 ‎7‎:‎09‎ ‎PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com you should be asking th

Re: the secret of animation

2013-06-05 Thread Andres Stephens
HAH! My boss sent me this and we totally had a good laugh in the studio about this. Very funny. =P -Draise From: Stefan Kubicek Sent: ‎Wednesday‎, ‎June‎ ‎5‎, ‎2013 ‎2‎:‎19‎ ‎PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com LOL, "I think I broke my rig!" - those those last 10 seconds gave me goose

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