Re: [TOT] Hamburg

2013-10-03 Thread Piotrek Marczak
w.animationsfabrik.de > http://s-farm.de > http://www.sehsucht.de > http://www.weareflink.com > > There´s some more but those are a start. > > Cheers, > > tim > > On 03.10.2013 13:39, Piotrek Marczak wrote: > > Hi guys, > > I might be moving to Hamburg soo

[TOT] Hamburg

2013-10-03 Thread Piotrek Marczak
Hi guys, I might be moving to Hamburg soon, I was wondering about 3d market there, Anbody can recommend studios using max/softimage I could send demo to? cheers -- To unsubscribe: mail softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with subject "unsubscribe" and reply to the confi

Re: Yeti for Softimage

2013-04-19 Thread Piotrek Marczak
Last time I checked they couldn't sell it in USA because of some lame slide-to-unlock kinda patent. 2013/4/19 olivier jeannel > Hi Sebastien, the site doesn't mention the price (if I'm no wrong). Are > you aware of it ? > > > Le 19/04/2013 11:33, Sebastien Sterling a écrit : > > Hello List. >

Re: Softimage 2014

2013-04-09 Thread Piotrek Marczak
Just give us proper SDK and let community do the rest. " Softimage currently does not fully support custom topology operators. The problem is that any cluster or cluster property will not properly update when a topology operator adds or removes points that belong to the cluster. In the worst case

Re: Softimage 2014

2013-03-26 Thread Piotrek Marczak
Thanks, that's cool :) 2013/3/26 Ahmidou.xsi > It's a c++ plugin in which you draw openGL like the custom tools, but it's > hosted by an object. You also have a callback to define what to do when > concerting to real geometry. > > Le 26 mars 2013 à 19:36, Piotrek M

Re: Softimage 2014

2013-03-26 Thread Piotrek Marczak
I dont see it in SDK, how do actually customize the way primitive is drawn in viewport (like implicit rings etc).. 2013/3/26 Mirko Jankovic > It would be good to see that list as well, maybe that would help out easy > bashing all around. people are pretty much disappointed and if new features >

RE: SI 2014 sneak peek

2013-03-02 Thread piotrek marczak
Are there any significiant SDK improvements? *Od:* Luc-Eric Rousseau *Wysłano:* ‎1‎ ‎marca‎ ‎2013 ‎21‎:‎16 *Do:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Temat:* Re: SI 2014 sneak peek On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:39 PM, Sylvain Lebeau wrote: > yeah good explaination Steven... thanks for your insights.

RE: Mental Ray Features, Integration & Autodesk's failure

2012-11-07 Thread piotrek . marczak
meanwhile one guy manages to write renderer that is on par with vray (corona renderer). Aint mentaldelay abandoware anyways? Od: Ed Manning Wysłano: ‎7‎ ‎listopada‎ ‎2012 ‎19‎:‎26 Do: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com DW: cory.m...@autodesk.com; mschoenna...@gmail.com Temat: Mental Ray Features, I

RE: LAGOA limiting velocity

2012-11-06 Thread piotrek . marczak
havent used lagoa for long time but I remember sometimes I had to up fps to >1000 to get anything stable Od: Jules Stevenson Wysłano: ‎6‎ ‎listopada‎ ‎2012 ‎12‎:‎50 Do: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Temat: Re: LAGOA limiting velocity Hi Raf, Yeah this is exactly what is occurring. Point s

Re: Chunky EXR highlights

2012-10-26 Thread piotrek marczak
pic is 8 bit, exr are floats your highlights are overexposed thats why you won’t have good aa on them its often happening when you have superbright (sub)pixel(s) next to darker ones you can either -put on glare on those in post (like in real cameras..) -pre-clamp pixel values (in vray there is a

Re: 2013 SP1 Compile Error in VS2010 SP1

2012-10-08 Thread piotrek marczak
Softimage_2013_SP1/XSISDK/include/ ) On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 12:39 PM, piotrek marczak wrote: Ive had this error (and many others), try uninstalling sp1... TBH just use cmake or keep fighting with various visual studio errors -download S.Carons tapemeasure plugin, copy cmake folder an

Re: 2013 SP1 Compile Error in VS2010 SP1

2012-10-08 Thread piotrek marczak
Ive had this error (and many others), try uninstalling sp1... TBH just use cmake or keep fighting with various visual studio errors -download S.Carons tapemeasure plugin, copy cmake folder and cmakelists.txt to your src dir -edit CMakelists.txt so the SOURCES and HEADERS section contains all the

Re: Installing AddOns Softimage 2012 SP1

2012-10-05 Thread piotrek marczak
012 SP1 64 on Win 7 64 bit here. I came across a couple of really handy xsiaddons but cannot seem to get them going. The first was Tim Crowson’s multi-importer tool here: http://dynamiclens.com/wordpress/?page_id=750 The next was meshpaint by Piotrek Marczak here: http://vimeo.

Re: In case you missed it..

2012-09-13 Thread piotrek marczak
well said! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuStsFW4EmQ From: Jules Stevenson Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 10:12 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: In case you missed it.. I completely agree with this Marc. There is so much negative sentiment in this thread that I'd be su

Re: Python, Returning the vertex index from a sample cluster

2012-09-12 Thread piotrek marczak
ind mentioned in a previous thread that it is possible to go from sample > vert (are you around Matt ;)), but I'm really struggling to ifnd the 'magic' to make this happen. Cheers, Jules On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 9:28 PM, piotrek marczak wrote: i think you

Re: Python, Returning the vertex index from a sample cluster

2012-09-12 Thread piotrek marczak
i think you need to go bruteforce... pretty slow code but i dont know python from win32com.client import constants as c app = Application oGeo = app.Selection(0).SubComponent.Parent3DObject.ActivePrimitive.GetGeometry3(0,c.siConstructionModeSecondaryShape) # arguments needed otherwise crash inda

Re: nulls2mesh

2012-09-07 Thread piotrek marczak
September 2012 17:12, piotrek marczak wrote: This image reminds me that ice needs dot node From: Rob Chapman Sent: Friday, September 07, 2012 5:56 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: nulls2mesh Hi Alan Apologies for that- I thought if I could see it ok an

Re: nulls2mesh

2012-09-07 Thread piotrek marczak
This image reminds me that ice needs dot node From: Rob Chapman Sent: Friday, September 07, 2012 5:56 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: nulls2mesh Hi Alan Apologies for that- I thought if I could see it ok anyways here it is reattached. impressive spaghetti but no infor

Re: Some more questions about PyQt in Softimage

2012-09-07 Thread piotrek marczak
SignatureThanks Tim, good learning resource btw srcDir = '' for plugin in Application.Plugins: # Isn't there an easier way to get this path? if plugin.Name == 'MultiImporter_Qt': srcDir = os.path.dirname(plugin.Filename) like this: srcDir = '' srcDir = os.path.dirname( Applicati

Re: ICE in Maya is an engineer's worst nightmare

2012-09-06 Thread piotrek marczak
last nail to softimage coffin? anyway I agree, maya is the worst nightmare :p From: Eric Thivierge Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2012 5:04 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: ICE in Maya is an engineer's worst nightmare This was posted on the 3dPro list from Chris Vienneau of AD: "H

Re: Some more questions about PyQt in Softimage (addon v1.14:fixesbutton size and adds command to Soft menu)

2012-08-30 Thread piotrek marczak
Magnetic Dreams Animation Studio, Inc. 2525 Lebanon Pike, Building C. Nashville, TN 37214 Ph 615.885.6801 | Fax 615.889.4768 | www.magneticdreams.com tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com On 8/29/2012 3:17 PM, piotrek marczak wrote: Sorry for stupid question, but

Re: Some more questions about PyQt in Softimage (addon v1.14: fixesbutton size and adds command to Soft menu)

2012-08-29 Thread piotrek marczak
SignatureSorry for stupid question, but what’s advantage of using qt over PPG? From: Tim Crowson Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 4:12 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Some more questions about PyQt in Softimage (addon v1.14: fixesbutton size and adds command to Soft menu) A

Re: Graphic card for a workstation again

2012-08-17 Thread piotrek marczak
and ati7870... lux gpu only Room: 767 Sala: 1333 Luxball HDR: 10917 Luxball: 1505 Luxball Sky: 4829 From: Mirko Jankovic Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 10:27 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Graphic card for a workstation again Also if you are interested here are some OpenCL

Re: Graphic card for a workstation again

2012-08-17 Thread piotrek marczak
Ati 7870 with lastest beta driver+ 30”hp + 27”dell, no problems so far I replaced gtx285 with this radeon the ‘cube test’ runs at 150+ fps, wireframe on heavy models seems to run much faster than nvidia My Zbrush head test (8 million tris) runs at 290+fps vs 25 fps on 285. but with scenes with

Re: SDK : using vertex arrays in a custom tool?

2012-08-02 Thread piotrek marczak
In the cube VA example change GLubyte to GLuint and GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE to GL_UNSIGNED_INT, no more crashes (don’t ask me why) VBOs and vertexarrays are working, tested on stanford models within custom tool... check attachment From: Steven Caron Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 6:59 PM To: softimag

Re: caching the tool context pick buffer

2012-08-01 Thread piotrek marczak
: Re: caching the tool context pick buffer hey piotrek i was avoiding setting up point locators thinking they would be slower but i will be attempting to implement a few different methods and compare performance. s On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 11:41 PM, piotrek marczak wrote: There are raycast

Re: caching the tool context pick buffer

2012-07-31 Thread piotrek marczak
There are raycast methods in xsisdk http://www.si-community.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=2595&p=20942#p20942 From: Steven Caron Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 10:38 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: SDK : caching the tool context pick buffer thanks, i am going to use the

Re: can we get something similar for our community?

2012-07-12 Thread piotrek marczak
I remember that max feat. request pool spawned after outrage at cgtalk forums, seems more and more people realised that max is more or less dead project From: Vladimir Jankijevic Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2012 2:08 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: can we get something similar for

Re: Ping???

2012-05-23 Thread piotrek marczak
Its okay here gmail/web http://www.mail-archive.com/softimage@listproc.autodesk.com/maillist.html From: Dana Smith Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 8:16 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Ping??? Ping?? I haven’t seen any traffic in 2 days. Is the list down? Dana L. Smith Tech

Re: Lagoa demoscenes

2012-05-05 Thread piotrek marczak
if anyone interested, i shared some time ago scenes from this video https://vimeo.com/19565537 http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8079325/lagoa.rar From: Fabricio Chamon Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2012 6:20 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Lagoa demoscenes oh, nice prank setting the sim

Re: CRefArray doesn't respect C++ copy semantics

2012-05-02 Thread piotrek marczak
eter is itself, a new object is still created. I hope Marc Andre will correct me if I'm wrong to suppose CRefArray implementation is following similar guidelines. :) jo 2012/5/1 piotrek marczak void UpdateCollisionObjects(ToolContext &in_ctxt

Re: CRefArray doesn't respect C++ copy semantics

2012-05-01 Thread piotrek marczak
erence. Which is an overhead instead of using the copy ctor. "const" is a keyword that we use to assure to the compiler, we will not try to modify the underlying memory block nor call any procedures that could do this. Of course, the compiler takes this as serious and do o

Re: CRefArray doesn't respect C++ copy semantics

2012-04-30 Thread piotrek marczak
Maybe a2.Set(a1) or a2+=a1 would work? newbie question isn’t “const” keyword a hint that we won’t change input array? From: Alok Gandhi Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2012 1:31 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: CRefArray doesn't respect C++ copy semantics The docs say that: CRe

Re: This is a growing problem in the VFX industry.

2012-04-30 Thread piotrek marczak
I love scandinavia...people in Sweden always friendly and helpfull, abit of drinking problem but i’m okay with that As for Denmark, I’ve been there only for 2 months, and its the nicest country to live in... From: Morten Bartholdy Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 2:42 PM To: softimage@listproc.aut

Re: can't load cusrom preference

2012-04-21 Thread piotrek marczak
image-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of piotrek marczak Sent: April-21-12 1:08 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: can't load cusrom preference Please devs do something with dealing with custom preferences. I spent 16 hours figuri

Re: can't load cusrom preference

2012-04-21 Thread piotrek marczak
Please devs do something with dealing with custom preferences. I spent 16 hours figuring out why double value is resetted to 0 everytime I exit softimage?? and there is ‘red’ error (“this plugin is not installed”) if .preset file is not located in first workgroup? From: Eric Thivierge Sent: Sat