Re: SaveDeformKey returns the key???

2013-01-20 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
StoreShapeKey is the base command used by save I think, and that should properly return the key. Bear in mind it will probably not apply it through the mixer, which if you aren't careful with the stack can become confusing. Apply it yourself, or clean after your script in those regards if you use i

Re: Rigging resources

2013-01-20 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
Our experience when training new staff that had no previous experience in Soft is that you should get a paddle as soon as possible, because you're up the proverbial creek. Maybe Dave G. has something more insightful to contribute, but personally I can't say I have, to date, seen a single piece of

Re: Area ate my message ( and spit it out again :)

2013-01-05 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
If I have to be honest, I couldn't puzzle out, or read the entirety of, the post due to the layout/typography being so... messy? I don't even get what is a quote, a self-quote, a statement, or anything else. I might be alone in this, but I really couldn't get through the lot, and not for lack of t

Re: 2012 list retrospective

2013-01-03 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
I think Matt with the small annoying things first collection of issues has set a record that can't be beaten easily. My word count on this mailing list is probably not that high, CGTalk though, that's another story :p And bugger, no top ten for me. Must be the first or second time in ten years. T

Re: Sublime definitions for Softimage

2013-01-02 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
You actually can introspect recursively almost the entirety of the scripting API and generate a dummy set of libraries from there. That will offer autocompletion in most IDEs. We've had that running here in AL for a while thanks to Aloys' efforts a long time ago and it's worked without a hitch for

Re: Last day at Animal Logic

2013-01-01 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
It's hard to tell which is which. On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Edy Susanto Lim wrote: > and the beard > > > On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 9:20 AM, Simon Pickard wrote: > >> I miss your hair. >> :( >> >> >>

Re: Rumors

2012-12-19 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
** > > *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: > softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Raffaele Fragapane > *Sent:* Wednesday, December 19, 2012 8:12 PM > > *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com > *Subject:* Re: Rumors > > ** ** >

Re: Rumors

2012-12-19 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
Sorry for the reduced quote, but how many of those do you actually know or hear about? I can count exactly zero. I have yet to hear about ANYBODY using Soft just for ICE and going back and forth, unless they already had licenses and reason to have it around. Those who would use Soft solely for ICE

Re: Rumors

2012-12-19 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
Am I the only one on this list that ever risked a ban by you back then? ;) But yeah, I can't say I liked the post much, or found it particularly useful, but it's hardly inflamatory and doesn't feel malicious. I'll take the occasional post like that over the police state feeling of an overly modera

Re: Rumors

2012-12-19 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
A Rumor will have been around the whole world before the Truth has its shoes on. If only the Truth stopped being such a precious F'in princess and started running barefoot... ICE was evolutionary, fresh, new, well thought, much needed, and an inspiration to many when it came out. It is, however,

Re: Photo-Sharing?

2012-12-18 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
Now, take a deep breath, go and read the old license, read the new one, and realize it just got MORE stringet for Instagram. In the midst of all the sensationalist hype by less reputable sites like CNet and other cheap shot, hit gathering ones, The Verge actually took the time to write a semi-dece

Re: Match Transform command in 2013 ? Does it work ?

2012-12-17 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
And it won't use a silly temp constraints methodology like the factory one does (was that ever addressed?), which means it will work as expected with constraint compensation on if the object is constrained, and won't suffer from direction constraints taking precedence over pose ones. The match com

Re: ICE: Rotate away from vector

2012-12-17 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
Sorry, should have mentioned you will most likely need to negate one of the two On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Raffaele Fragapane < raffsxsil...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Get the closest point on the wheel, and get its normal. > Get the emission point/closest point on the ground,

Re: ICE: Rotate away from vector

2012-12-17 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
Get the closest point on the wheel, and get its normal. Get the emission point/closest point on the ground, and get its normal. Measure the angle between those two vectors, that's your target angle. Then cross product of those two vectors, that's your rotation axis for axis and angle rotation. If

Re: Toggling toolbar buttons

2012-12-12 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
I now know exactly what to pester several people about for the rest of the year! Thanks Luc. On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 12:26 AM, Luc-Eric Rousseau wrote: > there is a missing feature in the SDK to make a toolbar button behave like > Autokey and others that work. it's a dumb little thing that I hav

Re: Toggling toolbar buttons

2012-12-09 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
I remember them adding stateful entries to menus, but I don't think toolbars have an equivalent ala snap panel. If there is one, I can't say I've seen it done or used insofar. I'll give it a 50/50 chance that you could add a menu entry to a toolbar with stateful checks. On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 12:4

RE: Python: subprocess caching

2012-12-07 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
have a look into the "while 1" trick. Failing that - I guess I'll > have to find another solution. > > Thanks for your help > > > > > From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com on behalf of Raffaele > Fragapane > Sent

Re: transferring low res syflex to high res geo

2012-12-06 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
r compound for this. > > > On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 6:01 AM, Raffaele Fragapane < > raffsxsil...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> Why are we even talking at all when Leonard pointed out there's a factory >> node doing exactly what is being asked for? :p >> >>

Re: transferring low res syflex to high res geo

2012-12-06 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
Why are we even talking at all when Leonard pointed out there's a factory node doing exactly what is being asked for? :p

Re: transferring low res syflex to high res geo

2012-12-06 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
With the right topology and density, they will. We bound millions of points worth of creatures between dragons and dinos that way across multiple resolutions ;) On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Matt Lind wrote: > They’ll stick, but they won’t necessarily have a desirable or easily > predictable o

Re: Python: subprocess caching

2012-12-06 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
Glad it was of help. I might be missing something, what do you mean "within logic"? Inside a PPG's logic? You have it in a button callback or where? Subprocess can be finnicky if run inside something that does its own black magic garbage collection, like most UI elements do. There are tricks like

Re: Get parameters driven by a custom parameter (python)

2012-12-05 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
The basic idea of a pull only, lazily evaluated graph like XSI's DAG is that you know what's affecting something from the affectee, but nodes don't push and aren't aware of what is downstream of them. What you talk about is a push inspection, which outside of caches or inspecting the whole scene an

Re: Python: subprocess caching

2012-12-05 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
The absolute dumbest way out of it is, in the same script, to copy the siShell bat file, add a line at the end with xsibatch's call and parameters the way you would manually call it in that shell, save it with a predetermined name and location, then call Popen on that bat instead of the base one. D

Re: reorder custom parameters

2012-12-03 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
> one property type to another. > > ** ** > > Whatever problems you’re experiencing, we have never encountered them here > and we lean on custom properties very heavily. > > ** ** > > Matt > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > *From:* soft

Re: reorder custom parameters

2012-12-03 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
The problem with properties having to exist in a plug-in is that the moment you need any decent extent of dynamism in the layout you are SOL, so it's not really an option, and while you could get users to ignore errors, if you have automatic log compiling, summaries, monitoring etc (and we do) then

Re: New DT ZBrush and Softimage training videos

2012-12-02 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
Wow, Digital Tutors actually hiring someone with a clue? How times have changed! Congratulations Szabolcs. On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Eric Thivierge wrote: > Just got word of this and it looks great especially since it's someone > working in the industry creating the content! Also he uses S

Re: Forcing ice trees to evaluate via script

2012-11-28 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
If you want to plot something with Soft's plot that comes from a simulated ICE tree you simply can't expect it to work reliably for a number of reasons. Workarounds like forcing a transform to pull are viable, but unnecessarily intensive on many fronts. Simple way around it: Cache the simulation t

Re: embedding custom userdata in .scntoc files

2012-11-27 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
Pretty Print or Neat Print. Neatified if you truly want to establish yourself as the leader of the nerds the moment you utter it in a meeting :) On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Eric Thivierge wrote: > it doesn't auto indent. "Clean" may be the wrong word. > > ---

Re: Softimage crash when loading a 2gb scene

2012-11-26 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
Last I tried to repro that, but it was a while ago, just duplicating geometry ad nauseam until the scene file inflated enough was hit and miss. Making a deep hierarchy of nulls, duplicating it, and daisy chain constraining it a few times (dozens) and having the geo under that though would always me

Re: ICE particles to Houdini

2012-11-21 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
Disney PartIO for pdb to BGeo and exocortex for a pdb output from Soft?

Re: Softimage Picker

2012-11-21 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
Bi-Directionality is actually quite important. A lot of people want to do part of a selection in the viewport quickly, and then add a few missing, or easier to retrieve, bits clicking around in the character pane. Doing it with events isn't a huge drag, it only kicks in at selection time in the vi

Re: 16 bit tif from photoshop not working in softimage?

2012-11-15 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
Any sort of compression per chance? Not too sure about 16bit, but most compression schemes have been a flat no-go for me before when it comes to tifs and PS. On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Steven Caron wrote: > hey gang > > am i right on this? i am trying to see a 16bit tif file inside softima

Re: 16 bit tif from photoshop not working in softimage?

2012-11-15 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
Totally, why on earth would anyone ever want some functionality or versatility?! Down with it! Bring MS' bmp back, I say. On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Gene Crucean wrote: > That's *exactly *why I hate them. Wa too many flavors and options for > people to f**k up. Yes they support a lot of

Re: update on Creation integration to Softimage

2012-11-11 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
Much like scripting APIs in applications formed the modern figure of pipeline engineers, and later ICE introduced many people who didn't think of themselves as technical to maths and digging yourself out of a hole with your own shovel, I reckon you guys should look at this as an opportunity to step

Re: update on Creation integration to Softimage

2012-11-08 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
Hey Helge, This might be of enough general interest to post here rather than in private. How are you guys faring on the linux front these days? On Nov 8, 2012 8:08 PM, "Helge Mathee" wrote: > Thanks guys! > > Now, I've stated that on the Creation Platform mailing list already: > > I am aware tha

Re: Multiple Deltas

2012-11-07 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
Actually we use nested models with layers and have had good results (with a couple minor fixes here and there in QFEs though) in 2012, and decent but with some pipeline patching in 2011. Nested references are a recipe for disaster, but one deep models under the reference model actually, more often

Re: Multiple Deltas

2012-11-07 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
In a sexual way, or in a more platonic fashion? On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Enrique Caballero < enriquecaball...@gmail.com> wrote: > i love this list >

Re: Multiple Deltas

2012-11-07 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
Actually now that you mention it we did have one related to empty animation layers creating empty deltas on check-in when activity was changed from base layer to other layers sequentially and then never restored back to the base layer. It was pretty F'in obscure to track. On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 3:

Re: Multiple Deltas

2012-11-07 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
Yes, we've seen it before, and 99% of the time it was a glitch in the pipe/tools or something unforeseen rather than Soft randomly deciding to add one. The last one created used to supersede all for us, I doubt that's changed. Reloads with some model related events are the easiest thing to slip on

Re: update on Creation integration to Softimage

2012-11-07 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
AD doesn't deal with terrorists, I'm told. On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Bradley Gabe wrote: > Personally, I hope they do take prisoners. It's the best way to get ransom > money, you know. >

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

2012-11-07 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
Sorry, but the idea that MRray is a powerful but misunderstood rendering engine seems to be coming from the fact that these days they are being bashed a lot, and are acquiring almost underdog status again, swaying popular opinion in support again. There are very few meanings of the word powerful th

Re: Python Heads Please spread the love

2012-11-06 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
It looks like you might be missing ActiveState's pywin. Did you install that? Also, I wouldn't recommend the forceful dispatch "fix". There is so very little these days that still has dispatching problems that it's not worth the bother, not to mention the divergence from standards if you ever want

Re: LAGOA limiting velocity

2012-11-06 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
If they're shooting out because the network is getting too dense and they are being overcompressed, adding a compensatory force is likey to transmit and make other shoot out instead. Reducing their size and the viscosity might help though. On Nov 6, 2012 7:15 PM, wrote: > I was thinking along t

Re: paper coming unstuck

2012-10-28 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
It might be a bit of a long shot, but you should be able to get it to work: You could beat Lagoa into submission to get you many (pre-sized) grids with a behavious like the one you're describing for each, randomized enough to create variation, and at that point a modulo of your cloud by the point

Re: Camera Capture: Alternate scale possible?

2012-10-25 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
The combo box is usually just a UI wrapper helping to pick a value by its label. The value underneath with the UI closed should still be changeable if valid. Don't know about this specific one, but other combo boxes in the past got in my way, but could be worked around if nothing was open refreshi

Re: Delaunay subdivision compound?

2012-10-24 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
Have you considered looking into pushing things in and out of a polygonizer instead? Or do you specifically need delaunay? On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 10:09 PM, Dan Yargici wrote: > Just throwing this out there in vain hope, but has anyone come across > an ICE modelling compound that can do a delaun

Re: Qt Wrapper command log issue

2012-10-24 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
This is Spring, actually. You'll know it's summer this year when inline skating will feel like stilt walking because the asphalt is practically fluid. On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Eric Thivierge wrote: > Its nice! Clear blue skies with a high of 80F / 32C. Got to love summer! > > > --

Re: Friday Flashback

2012-10-15 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
Bit late on this, but you marked SI|3D 3.0 as (NT), I thought 3.0 was when it changed name from CE to 3D, but the first NT version was 3.51 (which might or might not have been version lined up with winNT 3.51 intentionally). Memories are a bit fuzzy, I started following Soft after Jurassic Park, s

Re: Raafal

2012-10-10 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
Shut up and model! Younglings today... On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Eric Thivierge wrote: > I think I landed in the industry at a decent time missing the rather > clunky stuff. You elders can keep your "floppy" whatevers to yourselves. :P > > Surely better than it was, but surely can be broug

Re: Raafal

2012-10-10 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
He'll probably go off on some random text editing tool now, good job Greg! On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Greg Punchatz wrote: > LOL!! But truth be told while I LOVE nuke...I do miss my rounded nodes > from Shake, they seem so "modern" in comparison to the clunky square nodes > of Nuke. Sq

Re: Running Softimage from the network (central install)

2012-10-09 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
we rsync from the network copy so it's local >> but updates can be deployed easily should we make a change. (Linux, too.) >> >> >> On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 8:25 PM, Raffaele Fragapane < >> raffsxsil...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> >>> It can be done easi

Re: Running Softimage from the network (central install)

2012-10-08 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
It can be done easily enough, and we do it for test versions before they are rolled out to local deployment, and I did it at home for a hwile, mostly for shits and giggles. These days it's not bad at all, but of course the loading times will go up a chunk depending on network related factors, but

Re: Object cannot receive shadows

2012-09-27 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
Chances are that's more the MR integration and the shared memory space than MR itself being less fault tolerant than the other engine. Mind, not that MRay is usually anything better than a gigantic pain in the arse. On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 9:52 PM, Paul Griswold < pgrisw...@fusiondigitalproductions

Re: Soft -> Maya : 23.98 to 24 FPS Problem

2012-09-26 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
If only it could do subframes as well we'd have it all :) On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Chris Gardner wrote: > i think that, from some murky memory, it's internally calculated as some > multiple of 24fps (have a look at an nCache header). suffice to say, it's > all messed up. and you can only

Re: The Foundry and Luxology join forces

2012-09-25 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
Well, they got katana, modo, nuke Mari. All they need now is an animation solution and they stand a chance to go toe to toe with maya and soft if they offered bundles, at least in any shop sane enough to use Houdini instead of maya for fx. Interesting times ahead. Hopefully this won't mean they w

Re: Adventures in Zambezia feature film

2012-09-20 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
Nice particles, Sandy. So what did you use for rigging and animation? :p

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-09-20 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
That's usually a difference in resolution. The vertical lines most of the time will simply be less visible, and at one point, when far enough, you will only see very faint vertical lines and not horizontal ones. More elegant would be something ala ICE background (as in looking like that, not that t

Re: Our latest work

2012-09-20 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
*From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [ > softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] on behalf of Raffaele Fragapane [ > raffsxsil...@googlemail.com] > *Sent:* 20 September 2012 09:03 > *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com > *Subject:* Re: Our latest work > > Not bad f

Re: Our latest work

2012-09-20 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
Not bad for a particles plugin, man. So what did you use for everything else that wasn't particles? ;)

Re: Email Client (was Re: In case you missed it..)

2012-09-13 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
Figure out what client AD uses internally, and never use that again, at least not with those settings. No web mail client I can think of seems able to collapse any quote after it goes through their servers from hell. On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Bradley Gabe wrote: > I'm unfortunately not an

Re: In case you missed it..

2012-09-13 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
I've got to say I'm puzzled by the threats to drop AD products to move to Houdini if they were to discontinue Soft. Houdini is a great software for a number of reasons, and has a broad range of applications, not to mention probably the most open and solid approach to assets out there. I do keep ey

Re: In case you missed it..

2012-09-12 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
DS had little to do with XSI. And Matt is right on most accounts, really. Alias was older than Soft as a company ('83 vs '86), and Maya is older than XSI as a product ('98 vs 99-2k). You can find the timelines of all the companies on wikipedia and in many other places, and they are actually accura

Re: Python on Linux

2012-09-11 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
If you do a conforming pass to python2.5 your code should run fine, or with very minimal tweaks. Dispatching issues these days are few and far apart, and not all that misaligned between win and Linux (if at all). And yes, that course is coming out, thanks for asking :) We more or less finalized ev

Re: In case you missed it..

2012-09-11 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
s highly variable and it is > certainly not going to happen overnight. Dealing with the reality of what > we have today in relation to this and in relation to what customers need to > do to run their businesses now brings me back to the start of my response :) > > > > On 2012-

Re: Python on Linux

2012-09-11 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
The property decorator will work fine in 2.5, one of our APIs used it extensively inside XSI before a refactor. What was introduced in 2.6, that you will be missing out on, are setter/getter/deleter decorators relater to @property, which I actually did really miss when I was writing some of those o

Re: Python on Linux

2012-09-11 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
You'll be version locked to what comes with Soft, and relatively independent by other installs. For good or for bad. Mostly anything that is version compatible with that will be fine and more or less the same between windows and linux. On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Gustavo Eggert Boehs wrote:

Re: In case you missed it..

2012-09-11 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
While appreciated, that's not terribly encouraging, Maurice. And I don't know where the idea that marketing should sample the userbase and then promote whatever perception is found came from, but wherever it came from, a link to Phil Knight, Young and Rubican, Armando Testa, and other founders of

Re: Clip time property expression is not refreshing.

2012-09-10 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
You can still try having an fcurve, then using "this" in the expression to pull it but ignore the value itself. On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 7:41 PM, Szabolcs Matefy wrote: > Unfortunately it’s not an option, it must be “interactive” > > ** ** > > *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [m

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

2012-09-06 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
It's great to hear all this talk of rendering and FX, and scalability, two things that have seen paradigm shifts and multiple evolutions several times in the last few years, so that large firms can be catered to, when we already have our own solutions, or Houdini, we use for those that are very unl

Re: subscribing and unsubscribing from the Softimage mailing list

2012-09-05 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
Oh, and Autodesk probably doesn't care about kittens or bunnies anyway, so it's not an effective threat anymore. I'd send you some for the sake of old times though. On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Raffaele Fragapane < raffsxsil...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Then start li

Re: subscribing and unsubscribing from the Softimage mailing list

2012-09-05 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
Then start listing your address again and stop moving houses! On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Bradley Gabe wrote: > I liked the old days more when you just sent me dead kittens in the mail. > > On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 12:10 AM, Raffaele Fragapane < > raffsxsil...@googlemail.com>

Re: subscribing and unsubscribing from the Softimage mailing list

2012-09-05 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
I've just sent your e-mail address to many unrelated newsgroups to facilitate the process. You might get a new wife and some cheap medications in the process too. On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 1:19 AM, Bradley Gabe wrote: > Everyone who is currently unsubscribed from this list, please respond. > > > On

Re: XSIBase safe?

2012-09-04 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
If you use windows, you should use this: http://www.sandboxie.com/ In principle. Yes, it costs a few bucks, but I run most stuff on windows in it regardless (I use an abundance of OSS rebuilds and freewares), and with a mix of incognito browsing, rerouting, and sandboxing the browser, I triple dar

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-09-03 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
rocess but so far I've been seeing a significant improvement with some > tests showing execution time drop by more than half, that makes me hopeful > that this effort won't go to waste! > > I'd be happy to share my experiences in case anyone is serious about doi

Re: pointclouds as forces

2012-09-03 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
Grab the velocity of the first and use it as a force in the second? Either by id matching/cloning, or closest point. On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Nick Angus wrote: > Hi folks, I remember doing this a while back and have completely > forgotten the workflow. I want to emit points from an exis

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-09-03 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
Which is ironic. MEL and their first python implementation were so FUBAR that they could just do (buy, really) what needed doing by introducing a completely separate way of working. They had no object orientation or coherence worth speaking of outside of the cpp API before then, so even with all t

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-09-03 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
ible. > > Marc Andre did toy around with the idea of making bindings to the c++ > (with boost I think) and that could run a lot faster too but it would > mean two incompatible ways to write scripts so we hesitated. > > On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 9:58 PM, Raffaele Fragapane > wrote:

Re: Friday Flashback

2012-09-03 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
If only Softimage had gone to Dassault, instead of the travesty of an auction that actually happened, at this point everybody would be turning their heads towards it, and Chinny would be pouring Champagne for the old team with everybody wearing the photos of two notable M&E employees strapped to th

Re: Bye Bye

2012-09-03 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
Starting to look like Fabric needs to buy the Softimage brand from AD. It's not like they're using it anyway :p Best of luck Guillaume, hopefully you won't disappear completely from the list. -- Our users will know fear and cower before our software! Ship it! Ship it and let them flee like the do

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-09-02 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
"All" it would take is some proper python bindings of the cpp API. It could easily be done outside of mainwin as the cpp API was done a while ago diverging from the silly COM business which mainwin helps taking care of. It'd probably turn out better than stff like pyMEL (which has a similar approac

Re: Autodesk Layoffs

2012-08-26 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
Not if you lay off redundant middle management, product management, support and so on, and then hire engineer and platform managers, which I imagine is what they are talking about. Company like AD, with all the stuff they buy and how they buy it point blank, must have had some extremely confusing s

Re: Checking if simulation is done for current frame | beginner scripting question

2012-08-23 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
> Sandy Sutherland > Technical Supervisor > sandy.sutherl...@triggerfish.co.za > _ > > > > > -- > *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [ > softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] on behalf

Re: Checking if simulation is done for current frame | beginner scripting question

2012-08-23 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
todesk.com [ > softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] on behalf of Raffaele Fragapane [ > raffsxsil...@googlemail.com] > *Sent:* 23 August 2012 08:11 > > *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com > *Subject:* Re: Checking if simulation is done for current frame | > beginner script

Re: Checking if simulation is done for current frame | beginner scripting question

2012-08-22 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
Why not just batch the command to simulate stuff and then save in place on all scenes? Hopefully this isn't being done in a GUI client :)

Re: A few Softimage Questions

2012-08-15 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
Sorry, but when would you learn it then? I don't remember the last time I made significative progress on a new software, language, API, or anything of any description that wasn't related to having to fit it into a production timeline. Practically everything I know I've had to learn on a production

Re: Siggraph - Softimage?

2012-08-09 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
This is stuff that goes in cycles. If you don't need crowds, a viewport API, various additions to ICE, the fCurve editing additions and so on of course the last couple upgrades won't be very convenient for you. Personally, I have very little use for the VP2 stuff (beside the fact it stuffed royall

Re: OT: CG places to visit in London + Softimage meetings

2012-08-05 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
Film studios can and some time will allow interesting candidates in for a tour, but only if there's at least an informal chat in there somewhere. Door knocking unannounced is not an option. The smaller studios, if you know somebody, will most of the time close an eye on someone walking in to visit

Re: Friday Flashback

2012-07-30 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
I think Olivier can still be seen shuddering when Batchserve is mentioned in his vicinity :) On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 4:58 AM, Stephen Blair wrote: > Friday Flashback #80 > BatchServe 1.5 the Experience > http://wp.me/powV4-1YW > > >

Re: Car wheel motion blur

2012-07-18 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
It's not an uncommon problem in rendering in general. When we do things like wheels and propellers we normally render wedges of various settings at different incident angles, speeds and so on to make sure the blur looks correct. In these cases the physical accuracy of the motion is absolutely irre

Re: What’s a CER?

2012-07-17 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
They do get them via escalation though ;) On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Eric Thivierge wrote: > I think you're missing a big chunk of higher end Softimage production > issues without a Linux version of this. > > > Eric Thivierge > http://www.ethivi

Re: New Post on my blog : Barycentric Coordinates and the Magic of Locations

2012-05-29 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
Barycentric coordinates are simply a way to descrive a location in a particular space. Distribution is a different problem that can be solved in many different ways depending on scale, efficiency, tolerances, rules and so on. You choose a space to solve it, and you choose a space to describe the ou

Re: Scripting Development with an external IDE

2012-05-29 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
Please don't get Eric started on Sublime VS Eclipse + pyDev. We had people leaving the project and the company in tears for asking about text editors in his vicinity. On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 2:04 AM, Guillaume Laforge < guillaume.laforge...@gmail.com> wrote: > I like Sublime, but it is just a tex

Re: Custom PPG's do not work with Multi Selection?

2012-05-10 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
Might be Matt is on the right track. Very recently I've had some CPSets that have quite a few parameters, a layout as dynamic as it can be with PPGs, and they were applied and tweaked to quite a few different rigs and worked fine in multi at all levels, so I can't say I've seen the problem. They ar

Re: "Create Copies from Polygon Mesh" not copying UVs or materials like it's supposed to

2012-05-06 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
That is the correct definition of a point index. Locations, however, are not point indices. That said, I can't quite find in this thread where the unavailability of indices is discussed, so I'm not sure exactly what this is about. I'm really just bored waiting for a cache. On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 1

RE: oops wrong subject - Expression Problem!

2012-05-04 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
BTW Stephen, I had posted the same in another thread, but the scary bit is that Definition is an available and mentioned property, in theory, and according to the head notes of the exp source object doco and one example buries somewhere, but not documented or indexed anywhere. This comes us a coup

Re: Why is Material::operator& private?

2012-05-04 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
I don't know who you are Nicolas, but I'm suddenly glad we have you around on the list and using Soft :) On May 5, 2012 2:21 AM, "Nicolas Burtnyk" wrote: > Unfortunately, that doesn't work. CRef::operator< performs a > lexicographical comparison using CRef::GetAsText(). > In my scene when I have

Re: Selecting UV island again

2012-05-03 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
I think there's a semi-hidden property called "Definition" that is mis-documented available for expression sources (hinted at in a couple examples but not included between the properties). Can't be arsed verifying, but maybe you'll feel like giving it a shot :) On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 12:19 AM, Ch

Re: Beginners Guide to Python

2012-05-02 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
Edy does! And thanks for the props in that first mail :) On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Eric Thivierge wrote: > Awe... you miss me already! Haha > > On May 2, 2012 8:15 PM, "Raffaele Fragapane" > wrote: > > Aren't you supposed to be on holidays or something? &

Re: Beginners Guide to Python

2012-05-02 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
Aren't you supposed to be on holidays or something? On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 11:54 PM, Eric Thivierge wrote: > Watch out for that Raf guy, not sure you can trust what he "teaches". :P > > All joking aside that workshop was one of the best investments I've made. > I was glad to hear they were pushin

Re: Beginners Guide to Python

2012-05-01 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
If you can hang in there for a month or so, some time in June a review and repackage of my CGS workshop on technical direction with python/xsi will most likely be released as training material ;) Regardless, good call moving away from VB. Youtube is full of solid Python training material these day

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