XSI animators

2018-02-22 Thread Jean-Louis
...@digitalgolem.com if you’re interested and available, thanks! Kindest regards, Jean-Louis Jean-Louis Billard - Digital Golem BE: +32 (0) 484 263 563 jean-lo...@digitalgolem.com https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.digitalgolem.com_

Re: Softimage - not going away...

2017-10-25 Thread Jean-Louis
that are linked to it. Our plan is to gradually lay out a parallel Houdini workflow, and as we get more comfortable and productive, we will eventually migrate over to it. JL Jean-Louis Billard - Digital Golem BE: +32 (0) 484 263 563 jean-lo

Re: Softimage - not going away...

2017-10-25 Thread Jean-Louis
Hehehe - I can’t imagine you without it! JL Jean-Louis Billard - Digital Golem BE: +32 (0) 484 263 563 jean-lo...@digitalgolem.com https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.digitalgolem.com_=DwIFaQ=76Q6Tcqc

Re: Softimage - not going away...

2017-10-25 Thread Jean-Louis
Excellent - thanks! Jean-Louis Billard - Digital Golem BE: +32 (0) 484 263 563 jean-lo...@digitalgolem.com https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.digitalgolem.com_=DwIFaQ=76Q6Tcqc-t2x0ciWn7KFdCiqt6IQ7a_IF9uzNzd_2pA

Re: Softimage - not going away...

2017-10-25 Thread Jean-Louis
It’s getting tough finding people, but there’s still a few around. What’s trickier is getting licenses! In fact, if anyone has Softimage licenses they don’t need anymore let us know, we’d be interested in buying them. Thanks, JL Jean-Louis Billard

Re: Softimage - not going away...

2017-10-24 Thread Jean-Louis
anything else out there, I do my head in every day thinking about where Softimage would be today if development had been kept up… JL Jean-Louis Billard - Digital Golem BE: +32 (0) 484 263 563 jean-lo...@digitalgolem.com https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2

Softimage - not going away...

2017-10-24 Thread Jean-Louis
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Re: Ping

2016-10-05 Thread Jean-Louis
Softimage is still our primary tool, and probably for at least the next couple of years (together with Redshift and Arnold, of course). JL Jean-Louis Billard - Digital Golem BE: +32 (0) 484 263 563 UK: +44 (0) 7973 660 119 jean-lo...@digitalgolem.com

Re: New render layers in maya

2016-04-21 Thread Jean-Louis Billard
correctly), thus with potentially numerous overrides. So how does the Maya system deal with potentially conflicting overrides? Thanks, Jean-Louis --- Digital Golem +32 2256 9734 http://www.digitalgolem.com/ 53 Rue Gustave Huberti 1030 Brussels

Re: this is the end......

2016-01-27 Thread Jean-Louis Billard
in, with some potential upcoming feature work too. Here’s my work email: jean-lo...@digitalgolem.com Cheers, Jean-Louis Digital Golem www.digitalgolem.com <http://www.digitalgolem.com/> > On 27 Jan 2016, at 16:13, Matt Morris <matt...@gmail.com> wrote: > > RIP Softimage!

Re: Continued use of Softimage question

2015-08-19 Thread Jean-Louis Billard
of Softimage, bearing in mind that we can assume its development essentially finished 5 years ago! Cheers, Jean-Louis Digital Golem On 19 Aug 2015, at 12:08, Sandy Sutherland sandy.mailli...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, After a stint out of the Softimage fold - mainly in setting up

Re: Experienced lighters with Redshift

2015-08-19 Thread Jean-Louis Billard
Thank you for all your replies, both on and off the list. It’s all good now, but please don’t hesitate to get in touch anyway if you’re a Soft+Redshift or Soft+Arnold person since we are often on the lookout for freelancers and it’s getting tough finding them these days! Cheers, Jean-Louis

Experienced lighters with Redshift

2015-08-18 Thread Jean-Louis Billard
Hi all, We are pitching on a job where we would need some help with surfacing, lighting and rendering with Redshift (using Softimage, of course). It would run through all of September and would be on-site in our office in Brussels. Please holler if you’re interested! Cheers, Jean-Louis

Re: Centos6.6 install 2015SP1

2015-05-18 Thread Jean-Louis Billard
Hi Thomas, Well ultimately I won’t need to run it - it’s handled by Royal Render, but when testing in a terminal I am indeed switched to a tcsh session. Thanks, Jean-Louis Digital Golem On 12 May 2015, at 15:16, Thomas Volkmann li...@thomasvolkmann.com wrote: How do you run Softimage

Re: Centos6.6 install 2015SP1

2015-05-12 Thread Jean-Louis Billard
, previous versions are ok (I don’t have a 2013 installer so I didn’t check) The /etc/hosts file issue, I remember that now that you mention it. Wasn’t it something to do with it needing to be formatted for csh rather than bash, or something of the sort? I’ll dig down there a bit… Thanks, Jean-Louis

Re: Centos6.6 install 2015SP1

2015-05-11 Thread Jean-Louis Billard
REGSVR32.EXE may provide more information libSAS.so is present in /Plugins, so I’m not sure what’s going on…? Maybe I should roll back to Centos 6.2, which seems to be the officially supported version for Soft2015_SP1? Thanks for any help. Jean-Louis Digital Golem On 7 May 2015, at 22:11

Re: Centos6.6 install 2015SP1

2015-05-11 Thread Jean-Louis Billard
I would love to ignore it, but alas I still get a core dump when running xsibatch! Looking around I’m finding some people talking about updating OGL drivers, some discussing the Xorg.conf file, and yet more mentioning kernel tweaks. It’s tricky to guess the best route… Jean-Louis Digital

Re: Centos6.6 install 2015SP1

2015-05-07 Thread Jean-Louis Billard
Thanks for the tip - I’ll try tomorrow when I’m back in the office. Cheers, Jean-Louis Digital Golem On 7 May 2015, at 22:11, Stephen Blair stephenrbl...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 1:40 PM, Jean-Louis Billard jean-lo...@photon3.com mailto:jean-lo...@photon3.com wrote

[OT] : Digital Golem needs you!

2014-05-07 Thread Jean-Louis Billard
, starting asap so don’t hesitate to get in touch! Many thanks, 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

Re: humanize maya, SOFT top 5

2014-03-25 Thread Jean-Louis Billard
any object type) JL 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 15:02, Jean-Louis Billard jean-lo...@photon3.com wrote: Here’s a few

Re: humanize maya, SOFT top 5

2014-03-25 Thread Jean-Louis Billard
/maximise views. Cheers, 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 11:16, Alastair Hearsum hear...@glassworks.co.uk wrote: Hello

Re: An Open Letter to Carl Bass

2014-03-25 Thread Jean-Louis Billard
to information about number of users or seats sold, but I can’t help wondering if the figures haven’t been skewed by the introduction of bundles that effectively show up as Maya or 3DSMax licenses, despite the fact that Softimage was the software being used. Care to comment? Thanks, Jean-Louis

Re: An Open Letter to Carl Bass

2014-03-25 Thread Jean-Louis Billard
Hi Maurice, Thanks for the insight, it’s interesting to see the figures. But given what you say in your last paragraph, don’t you think it would have been worth trying to keep things going at least another year to see where this momentum was going? Regards, Jean-Louis Jean-Louis Billard

Re: humanize maya, SOFT top 5

2014-03-25 Thread Jean-Louis Billard
Hi Shuting, That’s not the same thing at all I’m afraid. In Softimage *every* menu has it’s own memory of the last command accessed. So you can middle click any menu and repeat its last command (as long as there has been one used within the session) Regards, Jean-Louis Jean-Louis Billard

Re: An Open Letter to Carl Bass

2014-03-25 Thread Jean-Louis Billard
comes along and gives us the opportunity to move on 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

Re: ICE - When will we have todays functionality in Maya?

2014-03-21 Thread Jean-Louis Billard
Perhaps Bifrost is the foundation of the next-gen package from Autodesk……? Just a thought. Jean-Louis On 21 Mar 2014, at 14:52, Chris Marshall chrismarshal...@gmail.com wrote: But by approaching it in this way, it'll only ever be a bolt on, that surely can never achieve that level

Re: What use is ICE really?

2014-03-21 Thread Jean-Louis Billard
inking https://vimeo.com/14934033 — ICE strands https://vimeo.com/89426397 — Post-its generated and controlled in ICE (you’ll likely have seen it in another thread) Obviously ICE is also used in “invisible” ways in many other jobs, making things work behind the scenes. Jean-Louis On 21 Mar

Re: Digital Golem : Brillant and beautiful

2014-03-20 Thread Jean-Louis Billard
. I’ll gladly put their yearly maintenance into something more worthwhile. Fabric Engine would be the safest bet, since it seems to offer future portability. Needs to be discussed but I’d be curious to hear other voices. Cheers, Jean-Louis On 20 Mar 2014, at 18:57, Vincent Fortin vfor

Re: Digital Golem : Brillant and beautiful

2014-03-19 Thread Jean-Louis Billard
shove their “innovation” right back up their collective arse and choke on it -- as far as I’m concerned they’ve just killed a member of my family. Cheers, Jean-Louis On 19 Mar 2014, at 04:39, Tenshi Sama tenshu...@gmail.com wrote: Nice! All in Softimage? On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 8:18 PM

Re: Digital Golem : Brillant and beautiful

2014-03-19 Thread Jean-Louis Billard
for which individuals or companies were prepared, like me, to pay their subscription money to keep developing Softimage addons/tools/plugins, you would have (assuming $750/year/seat) $75/year, which is 7 or 8 full time developers + administrative costs. Makes you think… Jean-Louis On 20 Mar

Re: A more graceful retirement - my counter offer

2014-03-11 Thread Jean-Louis Billard
this to say that I strongly support Greg’s suggestion to give Softimage another 4 years of life, and to add my voice to the many that are hoping to sway Autodesk into finding a better solution. Cheers, Jean-Louis Jean-Louis Billard Digital Golem BE: +32 (0) 484 263 563 UK: +44 (0) 7973 660

Re: Python cross platform problem

2013-11-19 Thread Jean-Louis Billard
OK! Thanks Alan and Oscar for the insight. Cheers, Jean-Louis On 18 Nov 2013, at 18:52, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.com wrote: The animation caching pipeline I wrote at work looks at the construction history stack and if it's operator-free it plots that item's global kinematics

Re: Python cross platform problem

2013-11-18 Thread Jean-Louis Billard
it was strictly necessary. Incidentally, what would be the best practice to cache rigid elements (i.e. transforms only, no geometry) to avoid having large amounts of data written out? Jean-Louis On 16 Nov 2013, at 02:57, Cesar Saez cesa...@gmail.com wrote: Or you can just cache the rigs

Python cross platform problem

2013-11-15 Thread Jean-Louis Billard
win32com.client from win32com.client import constants as c It looks like this is what is failing, since the module doesn’t exist in linux, but since I am not a python-head, and google hasn’t been any help, I’m hoping that some kind soul here will be able point me in the right direction. Thanks, Jean-Louis

Re: Python cross platform problem

2013-11-15 Thread Jean-Louis Billard
H… ok, but where does the module reside for it to be accessible by Linux? Are they installed by XSI? Jean-Louis On 15 Nov 2013, at 15:18, Luc-Eric Rousseau luceri...@gmail.com wrote: these are Windows API modules, but I think they should run in xsibatch on linux. But no way they'll

Re: Python cross platform problem

2013-11-15 Thread Jean-Louis Billard
Oooh now that sounds like it could be right…! I’ll go check it out and see. Thanks! Jean-Louis On 15 Nov 2013, at 16:30, Jon Swindells squi...@gmail.com wrote: on deb: /usr/Softimage/Softimage_#year#_SP#/Application/python could it be that your soft python isn't registered on your