Re: XSIBase safe?

2012-09-05 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
russians seems to care .. I think that malware site it links to is down btw :P On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Rob Wuijster r...@casema.nl wrote: Maybe one of the mods can tell what's going on. I don't think people don't care, it's the way the site is built that seems to be the problem. It

Re: XSIBase safe?

2012-09-04 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
I've been going every day with Google Chrome, nothing's happened. On Tuesday, September 4, 2012, Adam Seeley wrote: Hi, I'm still getting warnings about going to XSIBase. Is it safe to visit or a no go area? Cheers, Adam.

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-09-03 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
I didn't mention that yes, indeed, you could just make python bindings to the c++ sdk, because the ideal scenario is to have it works through the standard scripting interface. That way the history log would work, the ppg logic, and the script remain compatible. Marc Andre did toy around with the

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-31 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Xavier Lapointe xl.mailingl...@gmail.com wrote: So Luc-Eric, that means that we are stuck pretty much for ever and ever on Python2.5 unless the new team rewrite Soft and get rid of Mainwin (... seems unlikely.)? Nope, it's possible to update python without

Re: Friday Flashback

2012-08-31 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
It's terribly sad to see a few of my colleagues go this week. Stephen had worked for many years at Softimage an SDK documentation writer and had ended up in support following cuts at Avid. Manny continues to handle Softimage support and Chris continues to take an active role in the community.

Re: Offtopic: Project Skyline and Maya

2012-08-29 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
The latest public update about Skyline is this video from GDC 2012, 5 month ago http://gameware.autodesk.com/projects/skyline On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 12:10 PM, David Rivera activemotionpictu...@yahoo.com wrote: I think here´s a review chopped-down to the development and presentation of Skyline:

Re: Some more questions about PyQt in Softimage

2012-08-27 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
If Softimage is changing the look of the controls in your dialog box in an unpleasant way, use the method SuspendWin32ControlsHook before creating the dialog, and call RestoreWin32ControlsHook afterwards http://softimage.wiki.softimage.com/index.php?title=Desktop_Cpp_Class

Re: Some more questions about PyQt in Softimage

2012-08-27 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
() desktop.RestoreWin32ControlsHook() On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Steven Caron car...@gmail.com wrote: these are only exposed to the cpp api right? so i need to expose this to scripting in the QtSoftimage plugin... s On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Luc-Eric Rousseau luceri...@gmail.com wrote: If Softimage

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-24 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
I think this Display as List is a pre-XSI 1.0 experiment we forgot to remove after the developer left. There is an almost impossible to find Tab-Style Property Editors user preference option that's been a little more popular in some crowds On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Eugen Sares

RE: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-24 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
[mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Luc-Eric Rousseau Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 9:24 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Small Annoying Things I think this Display as List is a pre-XSI 1.0 experiment we forgot to remove after the developer left

RE: Softimage 2013 with Mudbox 2012

2012-08-22 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
Send To is just for Live Linking though. You can export with FBX manually. Send To simply automates FBX export/import On Aug 22, 2012 6:20 AM, Szabolcs Matefy szabol...@crytek.com wrote: As we Hungarians say, you just pulled the word from my mouth… ** ** ** ** *From:*

Re: Softimage 2013 with Mudbox 2012

2012-08-22 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
=17012833linkID=11937425 On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Rob Wuijster r...@casema.nl wrote: But do you need matching release versions for Live Linking to work? Rob \/-\/\/ On 22-8-2012 16:10, Luc-Eric Rousseau wrote: Send To is just for Live Linking though. You can

Re: undo event??!!

2012-08-21 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
if selection changes and you don't get notified, it's definitely a bug. report it. the Selection Change command that you can set in the preference-Tools-Selection is called in that case. however, it's not called when new objects are created selected - also a bug IMHO On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at

Re: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-21 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Gene Crucean emailgeneonthel...@gmail.com wrote: They're mac users after all. You know you are talking down to just about everybody these days right? Apple was just reported as the worlds most valuable company.

Re: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-21 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
) is almost identical. On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Luc-Eric Rousseau luceri...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Gene Crucean emailgeneonthel...@gmail.com wrote: They're mac users after all. You know you are talking down to just about everybody these days

Re: undo event??!!

2012-08-20 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Ana Gomez agomezalca...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, you both are right. I think I got a shock when I've found out that this event doesn't exist. And I've entered in an infinite loop of how this is possible XD I'm not surprised there isn't one, because the whole XSI

Re: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-18 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
It's not possible to turn it back to win7, but it's my understanding that it's only the Start menu you'd miss when you run the desktop? It's on the ARM that the desktop might go away, but on intel i'm pretty sure it's here to stay. On Aug 17, 2012 10:50 PM, Sam Bowling sbowl...@cox.net wrote:

Re: viewport navigation performance

2012-08-10 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 7:29 PM, Ahmidou Lyazidi ahmidou@gmail.com wrote: I suppose those benchs are still valid :http://jonpeddie.com/publications/whitepapers/quantifying-performance-in-3d-modeling-and-animation-software/ you can also have a look at this video: https://vimeo.com/45316255

Re: sharefolder

2012-08-02 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
you guys actually clicked something called infected-post? I'm beginning to understand how malware is so successful. :P On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Richard Bensley richardbens...@gmail.com wrote: Urr thanks for showing us your internal processes. Nothing like some exposed PHP! I would

Re: GetResolvedPath broken?

2012-08-02 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
I'm pretty sure that's the way it's supposed to work, although the documentation makes it sounds as though the Pass token would get the parent pass of the object. In practice, the file object doesn't know where it is in the scene hierarchy; the tokens resolves global variables, which in this

Re: inspect multiple objects as one by script

2012-07-31 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
Just a note, in the ui often time the InspectObj command is being called with the General keyword, and that gives different results On Jul 31, 2012 3:41 PM, Mathieu Leclaire mlecl...@hybride.com wrote: I tried that, but it lists all the various objects parameters as seperate parameters. I don't

Re: Siggraph dinner details - ITTA 10

2012-07-29 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
No one from the old team is going to be there... On Jul 29, 2012 6:01 PM, Eric Thivierge ethivie...@gmail.com wrote: First Siggraph I'm missing in years. :\ Have fun whomever is going. Eric Thivierge http://www.ethivierge.com On Mon, Jul 30,

Digital Dimension, Leviathan + Softimage

2012-07-27 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
Was this posted? Digital Dimension, Softimage and the Autodesk Entertainment Creation Suite http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__AhuYOizWI Leviathan uses Autodesk Softimage in their pipeline for a Skrillex concert http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDAVC3EnHLgfeature=plcp

Re: can we get something similar for our community?

2012-07-12 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
Give it time, the maya one is just a few days old. On Jul 12, 2012 8:09 AM, Vladimir Jankijevic vladi...@elefantstudios.ch wrote: Hello Softimage users and Softimage devs, I would like to start the discussion on something I stumbled upon today. Do you think it would be a benefit to have

Re: Logging to the history window from a custom renderer

2012-07-06 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Nicolas Burtnyk nico...@redshift3d.com wrote: Is the VC++ version associated with each version of Softimage documented somewhere? E.g. what VC++ version should be used for Softimage 2012? It's not documented, apparently. That link that Stephen sent doesn't

Re: Logging to the history window from a custom renderer

2012-07-06 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
: On 7/6/2012 9:58 PM, Luc-Eric Rousseau wrote: The clean way to switch thread is to create a hidden window when your plug-in is initialized. Plug-ins are loaded and initialized in the main UI thread. Then, you use PostMessage() to your window in your worker thread to get it to do something. When

Re: Malaware on XSIbase

2012-07-03 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
I think the forum software was written from scratch in php as a pet project. I do like the site. Btw as a result of this latest infestation, xsibase.com is blocked at autodesk - or at least in the north america offices ;) On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 9:12 PM, Alan Fregtman

Re: wire colors

2012-06-29 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
because it's a toolbar that was made to copy exactly the wireframe palette at the bottom left of Softimage |3D interface. On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Paul Griswold pgrisw...@fusiondigitalproductions.com wrote: I guess I should have phrased that better. Why, when you click on the Palette

Re: Reload PSD

2012-06-29 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
I do not understand specifically the problem you are having, but you can refresh the image clips by toggling this value on them SetValue Clips.noIcon_pic.ImageDefinitionType, 0 SetValue Clips.noIcon_pic.ImageDefinitionType, 1 Which reminds me.. when you used .pics, it was sending the path to

Re: price increases?

2012-06-19 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
they're not raising the price of Softimage specifically, it applies to most Autodesk products On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Eric Lampi ericla...@gmail.com wrote: Prices rise from time to time, there has to be some profit in it. Since the port to Windows NT back around '95/'96, SoftImage's

RE: Convert Position Fcurves key's tangents in 3d space

2012-06-10 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
I'm not aware of any bugs with GL_Select on ATI, except that it wasn't hardware accelerated and therefore slow .. although it seems they addressed that On May 10, 2012 8:40 AM, Brent McPherson brent.mcpher...@autodesk.com wrote: We use a combination of OpenGL and custom (raycast) picking

Re: XSI Import troubles

2012-06-07 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
You can use the FBX library to import the .obj directly, without going through the converter, in Softimage 2013. Go in File-Crosswalk-ImportFBX, and change the filter to .obj The FBX .obj importer will be used instead of Softimage's native one. FBX also offers .3ds, .dxf and collada

Re: Uh oh, GoogleGroups archive admin, you need to confirm

2012-05-29 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
I think it's Patrick Boucher. It's not useful to bother him about the google group doing weird things (formatting, missing mails, etc). It's a google issue (they're changing stuff all the time), and it's not like there is a fix it button. That group is just a mailing list subscriber like anyone

Re: Nodes galore II (not ICE)

2012-04-29 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Ed Manning etmth...@gmail.com wrote: Now I'm no lawyer (do we have any on the list? would that be a good thing or not?) but I'm pretty sure that once he'd reached a settlement with Disney, he *obligated* himself, under the hurtful and dated system (how right

Re: Nodes galore II (not ICE)

2012-04-28 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
Industry gossip: Joe Alter has been on a patent warpath lately, and Yeti announced they can't be sold in the US http://peregrinelabs.com/2012/04/to-our-us-customers/ On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 7:17 AM, Raffaele Fragapane raffsxsil...@googlemail.com wrote: It's not really, but it isn't a standard

Re: Friday Flashback

2012-04-20 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
-Eric Rousseau Sent: February-05-12 10:43 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.commailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Friday Flashback From: Maurice Patel Sorry if there was confusion, I was referring to my memory being selective (as a caveat to my accuracy) not yours. I actually

Re: Intro to the new team (was RE: Softimage development)

2012-04-19 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 9:39 PM, Kiril Aronofski flyone...@gmail.com wrote: Am I wrong in thinking that those who moved over to maya FX project are people largely responsible for ICE work in Softimage? Seeing how most of the new guys come with a strong game software engineering background,

Re: Softimage development

2012-04-18 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
Last paragraph offsetted by two years.. we were sold to Avid in 1998, and shipped XSI in year 2000. On Apr 18, 2012 5:40 PM, Raffaele Fragapane raffsxsil...@googlemail.com wrote: Actually I can think of a couple names that drifted in and out that I recognized across different lists and stuff.

Re: 2013 save scene = no load in 2012?

2012-04-17 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
What we said was that allowing the software to load a scene from a future version is very difficult. Adding feature that allows the software to save a file compatible with one version back is a much simpler problem. Much less to test, and no time machine required. On Apr 17, 2012 5:01 PM, Eric

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