Re: Heads up to plugin developers regarding CRef

2012-06-18 Thread Kamen Lilov
On 6/18/2012 11:06 PM, Nicolas Burtnyk wrote: Don't get me started with the dirty list :) I shouldn't be too hard on it though - it's actually come in handy for 1 specific case - it's the only good way that I've found to detect that a shader parameter has changed while scrubbing a slider *befo

Re: Heads up to plugin developers regarding CRef

2012-06-18 Thread Nicolas Burtnyk
t; > I am convinced that limited third party offering is one of the main > reasons why Softimage is the underdog software – together with unfavorable > pricing/policies/marketing. Too bad, because it deserves better. > > > *From:* Nicolas Burtnyk > *Sent:* Monday, June

Re: Heads up to plugin developers regarding CRef

2012-06-18 Thread peter_b
why Softimage is the underdog software – together with unfavorable pricing/policies/marketing. Too bad, because it deserves better. From: Nicolas Burtnyk Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 10:03 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Heads up to plugin developers regarding CRef Thanks

Re: Heads up to plugin developers regarding CRef

2012-06-18 Thread Nicolas Burtnyk
Don't get me started with the dirty list :) I shouldn't be too hard on it though - it's actually come in handy for 1 specific case - it's the only good way that I've found to detect that a shader parameter has changed while scrubbing a slider *before* the renderer process callback is fired. The O

Re: Heads up to plugin developers regarding CRef

2012-06-18 Thread Nicolas Burtnyk
Thanks Kamen - To compound my frustration, Autodesk is being very closed about discussing this issue with me. I wanted a simple conversation with the Soft dev guys to explain why this is a problem and suggest some solutions. Unfortunately I'm not a "Enterprise Priority" customer (lol) so I have t

Re: Heads up to plugin developers regarding CRef

2012-06-18 Thread Steven Caron
i believe he has been down this road already. its lacking... On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Stephan Woermann < swoerman...@googlemail.com> wrote: > There is a DirtyList attribute in the renderes context, maybe that helps a > little... > > Stephan >

Re: Heads up to plugin developers regarding CRef

2012-06-18 Thread Stephan Woermann
There is a DirtyList attribute in the renderes context, maybe that helps a little... Stephan

Re: Heads up to plugin developers regarding CRef

2012-06-18 Thread Kamen Lilov
On 6/18/2012 8:29 PM, Nicolas Burtnyk wrote: Hi everyone, I just wanted to share a piece of information I discovered while developing our custom renderer for Softimage. Thanks Nicolas! We've hit the problem with "persistent" CRef / X3DObject references before and invested a lot of effort i

Re: Heads up to plugin developers regarding CRef

2012-06-18 Thread alok.gandhi
that I found around this was to call Application.Refresh() in python before delete which resulted in a consistent behavior. -Original Message- From: "Nicolas Burtnyk" Sent 6/18/2012 1:29:17 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Heads up to plugin developers rega

Heads up to plugin developers regarding CRef

2012-06-18 Thread Nicolas Burtnyk
Hi everyone, I just wanted to share a piece of information I discovered while developing our custom renderer for Softimage. We were having an issue where Soft would hang when we were extracting the scene for rendering after deleting a light in the scene. It turns out that the problem was cause by