Re: [OT] Autodesk - another angry customer

2017-03-09 Thread Demian Kurejwowski
that's why companies like luxology and side effects succeed,  no secrets or lies behind, you pay for what they have done,   no convoluted ways,   if they cant handle 2 electronic ways of payment, how is like companies like home depot are able to maintain billions of products from several

Re: houdini stability

2017-02-18 Thread Demian Kurejwowski
houdini generates backupfiles every n minutes, in case it crash it also has a version saved in temp,  witch if houdini get unresponsive you can kill it and you will still get the backup generated =)  on top  of that houdini has a daily build so if you find a bug,  they will fix it and probably

Re: OT:houdini stamp UV

2015-06-11 Thread Demian Kurejwowski
if saving right click the node, and save the uv out doesn't work, you can move the point to uv space,  use a wire node to thick the wires, and render a picture with an orto camera from above.  make an otl with a render button =)    easy setup to get thicker lines in the UVimage. El

Re: OT: Geometry approximation in houdini

2015-05-26 Thread Demian Kurejwowski
rendering time depend on the settings.    as default calculates 8 refractions and 8 reflections, are you using GI? photons? etc...  or at least can you post an example file? El Viernes, 22 de mayo, 2015 5:06:14, Christopher Crouzet christopher.crou...@gmail.com escribió: Dunno for

Re: Very OT: for the love of your career.. try houdini

2015-03-23 Thread Demian Kurejwowski
you can use old tutorials,  the nodes are the same,   the interface might look a Little bit different,   but the nodes have the same functionality.   we still look at some old tutorials from version 8 =).  Sesi  just keep adding new nodes. but you will find that every one use mostly the

Re: Very OT: for the love of your career.. try houdini

2015-03-19 Thread Demian Kurejwowski
before saying slow or fast regarding volumes or vdb we have to talk about the resolution of the volumen, and the amount of fields involve.  same with DOPs , after mentioning ALL the plugings, dops can interact with all the solver at once,  that means will take in consideration, RBD, with liquids

Re: Very OT: for the love of your career.. try houdini

2015-03-17 Thread Demian Kurejwowski
houdini never change hands like other software that several companies own them, / change developers etc.. etc..   El Martes, 17 de marzo, 2015 18:51:44, Adam Sale adamfs...@gmail.com escribió: Thanks for that Gerbrand. I had started dabbling with Houdini over the spring and summer

Re: H14 is out !

2015-01-25 Thread Demian Kurejwowski
Houdini comes with way more extensive ways.you can work with one mantra node for each pass. where in the mantra node you can put what are the objects you want to see, witch ones to matte.  or phantoms (matte but reflect and refract).     with the mantra node you can Split the channels as color,

Re: Lets Hope Autodesk Buys the Foundry!

2014-12-17 Thread Demian Kurejwowski
I hope they don't !!!  again,  if they belong to the same owner  there wont be any need to innovate as is been in the case of maya and max after they belong to autodesk, there was no need to compete against each other so  it happen what is happening right now.  killing apps. as long there is

Re: OT Houdini 14 Sneak Peak

2014-12-09 Thread Demian Kurejwowski
mantra is fast,  depends a lot on the settings and what are you rendering,  mostly memory efficient,  when you are rendering N mill items in a scene. cant talk to much about it but we switch from another render to mantra to make a full feature movie. that's where the light bank panel comes

Re: Anyone in the SI list transitioning to MODO? -Please add your mail here

2014-03-16 Thread Demian Kurejwowski
the shader tree is fun and easy to work, you can override many materials and have groups of materials sharing certains part, that make it easy to modify and lighter for rendering since doesn't have to compile deiferent chonks of shaders all the time.   shader tree oppose to other 3d packages,

Re: how to constrain a model to another model

2012-09-29 Thread Demian Kurejwowski
on the referenced model. last parameter on the linked page... http://download.autodesk.com/global/docs/softimage2012/en_us/userguide/index.html?url=files/property3001.htm,topicNumber=d28e445491 On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 8:31 PM, Demian Kurejwowski demianpe...@yahoo.com wrote: i have 2 models

Re: Animation layers info

2012-06-06 Thread Demian Kurejwowski
yep before  if you did a motion mixer track,  and put a animation layer on top,   you save the scene and when you open it, all the key on the animation layer were gone, but i haven't seen that in the new version of soft,  i think last one was in 11? might be?

Re: OT: hulk smash

2012-05-24 Thread Demian Kurejwowski
wow so much detail,  thanks for the pics.     De: olivier jeannel olivier.jean...@noos.fr Para: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Enviado: Jueves, 24 de mayo, 2012 13:51:49 Asunto: Re: OT: hulk smash That is ...something ! Was this used in the movie ? Le

Re: London Softimage user group is reborn!

2012-04-23 Thread Demian Kurejwowski
Thats a great news to hear,   no i have to find a way to get to longon =). De: a...@andynicholas.com a...@andynicholas.com Para: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Enviado: Lunes, 23 de abril, 2012 10:10:38 Asunto: Re: London Softimage user group is reborn!