Re: Let's Rock Soft with more love

I'll throw it there, but its more towards the Fabric Engine guys ( and for you too of course ) Since some of the Softimage users do not use python ( blasphemy, I know ), yesterday I was looking at Fabric engine and it has huge potentials They said clearly that if you're not familiar with python y

Re: SI and Houdini

for those who have not read what is going on in the Houdini forums, I will be putting together some basic guides to transition to Houdini easily and maintain your workflows under the new philosophy, from partitions, to overrides, to… I may need help so guys so don't hesitate to pop and drop a l

Re: Mark's good bye

Great Siggraph that year :-) Rob \/-\/\/On 6-3-2014 4:25, Jason S wrote: Mark from 2006 showing from where XSI came from : ) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzj3VITdN5A On 03/05/14 19:05, Sebastian Kowalski wrote: drunk but... showing off a part of the most game

Re: SI and Houdini

out of curiosity, how well does houdini run under windows these days? it would be interesting to know as I imagine there are a number of studios and freelancers who aren't familiar enough with linux to make the best of it.. On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 10:18 PM, Jordi Bares wrote: > for those who h

Re: SI and Houdini

It works very well under windows, in fact, it makes quite a lot of sense for small studios to use it under windows instead of linux. Running it on Mac is an option although there are a few glitches regarding the viewport that will soon be fixed (SideFX are working on it as we speak) so I would

Re: Let's Rock Soft with more love

Wasn't visual programming to be part of FE 2.0? It's somewhere in the long list of replies on FE ;-) Rob \/-\/\/ On 6-3-2014 9:25, Nicolas Esposito wrote: I'll throw it there, but its more towards the Fabric Engine guys ( and for you too of course ) Since some of

Re: SI and Houdini

found this little gem, which is exactly how i feel right now. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yw7IdPzQMo Am 06.03.2014 um 10:26 schrieb Jordi Bares : > It works very well under windows, in fact, it makes quite a lot of sense for > small studios to use it under windows instead of linux. >

Re: let me fan the flames....

I may be wrong there… time will tell… let's talk in 4 years. Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.com On 6 Mar 2014, at 01:02, Alok Gandhi wrote: > I don't think Max is going anywhere. The last I heard, AD was looking for a > principal max engineer. I interviewed fir the same a couple of months ago. >

Re: Let's Rock Soft with more love

I think you meant Python = coding, so I just wanted to note that Python is not equal to Scripting and FE's KL seems closer to Javascript than it is to Python. I still see FE not very viable for freelancer artists and very small companies, not yet at least. I wish ADSK had retired SI when FE, Modo

Re: Fabric Engine Q&A thread

Thanks a ton for this, Paul.

RE: SI and Houdini

There was an issue with memory allocation with windows on Houdini 13 from memory, it only effected large flip sims. It has most probably been fixed by now though. You can always grab the memalloc.dll from 12.5 if this is a problem anyway. If you haven't tried Houdini for a while (like I hadn'

Re: SI and Houdini

interesting, from what I remember, years ago houdini used to run on windows like softimage runs on linux - badly. it does sound like things have changed a lot in recent years, perhaps it's time to give it another try... On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 10:57 PM, Nick Angus wrote: > There was an issue w

Re: Let's Rock Soft with more love

Right now for me there's not much difference between Python, Javascript or KL, simply because I'm not familiar with none of them :-D I just sent an email to Paul, explaining what I would like to achieve with Fabric, specifically with the Realtime Renderer Hopefully it wont be super-complicated, b

Re: Let's Rock Soft with more love

Same here. Learning to code is out of my range. Le 06/03/2014 11:05, Nicolas Esposito a écrit : Right now for me there's not much difference between Python, Javascript or KL, simply because I'm not familiar with none of them :-D I just sent an email to Paul, explaining what I would like to a

RE: let me fan the flames.

Mudbox has lot of advantages against ZBrush, like true texture support, PTex support, etc. I'm saying that, though I can't stand Mudbox, I'm pretty sure it'll survive even Max. This is AD only tool in that segment. Motionbuilder will be incorporated into Maya. Many US game developers are using n

Re: Let's Rock Soft with more love

I'm with Raffaele, I think it doesn't make much sense to cling to SI when it comes to developing tools. I've built a ton of custom Soft and ICE tools that help us in our workflow, but ever since the news has been dropped I don't intend to spend much more time developing them further. This is a dea

Re: let me fan the flames.

Mudbox is selling for crap, and it has -one- advantage over ZBrush in its texture support (ZBrush just doesn't cut it with the current point limits coupled with its per-pixol approach and obscure layer system), but that's so vastly outclassed by Mari now that in the higher end it's disappearing eve

Re: Let's Rock Soft with more love

How do ICE trees get ported elsewhere? On 6 March 2014 10:20, Christian Gotzinger wrote: > I'm with Raffaele, I think it doesn't make much sense to cling to SI when > it comes to developing tools. I've built a ton of custom Soft and ICE tools > that help us in our workflow, but ever since the n

Camera pass overrides?

Life goes on and I have a quick question regarding camera overrrides. I have tried forwards and backwards now without succes - am I right in assuming I can't create a pass overrride on a camera? Camera does not want to be in a partition and so an override applied to the camera sticks there through

Re: SI and Houdini

Wow, that is very geerous of you Jordi - much appreciated. Morten Den 6. marts 2014 kl. 10:18 skrev Jordi Bares : > for those who have not read what is going on in the Houdini forums, I will > be putting together some basic guides to transition to Houdini easily and > maintain your workflows u

Re: SI and Houdini

fantastic, looking forward to your guide Jordi, thanks! On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 9:52 PM, Morten Bartholdy wrote: > Wow, that is very geerous of you Jordi - much appreciated. > > > > Morten > > > > > Den 6. marts 2014 kl. 10:18 skrev Jordi Bares : > > for those who have not read what is going o

Re: Salvage the list.

I feel the initial intention here is getting misconstrued. the point isn't if or when they close this list. It's not about jabbing AD in the eye either. The list might always be here, it's the people that will be leaving. Gradually people will probably look for other sources and answers to their

Re: SI and Houdini

Yeah, it works fine on Windows. I had it up and running in a small Windows studio, in no time at all. Getting it to work with Royal Render too was quite easy. Writing your own ROP node (kind of like a render submission script) with Python is too easy. Also, quite nice to set things up per project o

Re: SI and Houdini

Will be looking forward to that Jordi! Simon Reeves London, UK *si...@simonreeves.com * *www.simonreeves.com * *www.analogstudio.co.uk * On 6 March 2014 09:26, Jordi Bares wrote: > It works very well under windows, in fact, it makes

Re: Let's Rock Soft with more love

ICE compounds get ported by converting them to scripts / nodes in the other applications. Those who have built them should have the chops to get it done since at its core, it is just math and logic. I'm 100% behind Raf here. Unless you're working at a studio where you need to continue to dev Softi

Re: Let's Rock Soft with more love

Is there anything out there at all like ICE? I'm not a coder, but understand the concepts as I used to code a long time ago, which is what made ICE a great tool for someone like me. On 6 March 2014 11:29, Eric Thivierge wrote: > ICE compounds get ported by converting them to scripts / nodes in

Re: Let's Rock Soft with more love

Houdini seems to be the closest thing: http://frenchdog.wordpress.com/2009/09/12/ice-vs-vop/ On 6 March 2014 12:12, Chris Marshall wrote: > Is there anything out there at all like ICE? I'm not a coder, but > understand the concepts as I used to code a long time ago, which is what > made ICE a

Re: Let's Rock Soft with more love

My comment regarding Python familiarity was trying to say that if you can write code in a dynamic language like python or javascript, then KL will be accessible to you. With FE2.0 we will have visual programming capabilities, but the library of KL nodes will have to build up in much the same way th

RE: shrinking strands

thanks rob, i'll save this in case they change their monds...fading off is going well at the moment a _ From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Rob Chapman Sent: 05 March 2014 23:13 To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.

Re: Let's Rock Soft with more love

I know that Fabric engine is growing up fast and honestly I'm really happy to know that visual programming is on the way, so at least I will be able to try out the basic and understand whats going on, then, over time maybe the library of the KL "nodes" will expand, so it'll be accessible to a wider

Re: Camera pass overrides?

It seems you are right, Morten. You cannot change even the angle of the camera with an override. However, if you only want to change the lens shader, there is a parameter on the pass to do this (last tab, last parameter down). You can append a camera shader or you can override it entirely. Does

Re: Camera pass overrides?

Not sure if it will work, but I barely remember a trick with an implicit object: Add an implicit object, which can actually live in a partition, add a custom parameter set and add as many parameters as you need. Connect those to the lens shader and finally override those instead of the camera direc

RE: Camera pass overrides?

this was how i used to overide scene ambience in the days of mr - can't really call it a script cos it's just all clipped from the script editor! CreatePrim "Cube", "MeshSurface"SetValue "cube.cube.length", 0.01Translate , 0, 0, -0.005, siAbsolute, siParent, siObj, siZApplyTopoOp "DeleteComponen

mootzoid.com down?

Was just looking for upgrade prices from emfuid 4 to 5, but the web address is down. I blame autodesk ;) -- www.matinai.com

Re: mootzoid.com down?

We'll burn AD HQ if they have anything to do with this. :D On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 11:34 AM, Matt Morris wrote: > Was just looking for upgrade prices from emfuid 4 to 5, but the web > address is down. > > I blame autodesk ;) > > > -- > www.matinai.com > -- gonebadfx.com - your source for bad

Re: Softimage 2015 Last Release Announcement

Any chances that we can see this Voodoo from Rhythm & Hues, release commercially? http://rhythm.com/labs/ 2014-03-05 13:45 GMT-03:00 Octavian Ureche : > No matter what assurances autodesk ever gives, i don't think anyone will > ever believe them anymore. > But then again, histories have a way o

RE: mootzoid.com down?

It'd be nice to send them a big pile of steaming, stinky bull shit, literally speaking From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Maurício PC Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2014 3:36 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: m

Re: Softimage 2015 Last Release Announcement

Not like this... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avr7enrZuJQ

Re: Let's Rock Soft with more love

I think all parties points are valid and *really* non-contradictory (nobody "right" or "wrong" mostly depending on each's situation) For me (personally), if photoshop "officially" got retired (analogy not used lightly) it would absolutely remain my tool of choice, knowing there wouldn't be anyt

Re: mootzoid.com down?

ok really stop joking, what happened to mootzoid.com? it is not time to scare people like that :) On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Szabolcs Matefy wrote: > It'd be nice to send them a big pile of steaming, stinky bull shit, > literally speaking > > > > *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.

RE: mootzoid.com down?

I would suspect a massive jump in hits has probably taken it offline, or his current hosting cant cope. From: Mirko Jankovic [mirkoj.anima...@gmail.com] Sent: 06 March 2014 05:03 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: mootzoid.com down? ok really stop

Re: mootzoid.com down?

cease and desist order from Autodicks Lawyers ? :) On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 10:03 AM, Mirko Jankovic wrote: > ok really stop joking, what happened to mootzoid.com? it is not time to > scare people like that :) > > > On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Szabolcs Matefy wrote: > >> It'd be nice to send t

Re: mootzoid.com down?

it's probably just the server playing up, chill out. On 6 March 2014 15:07, John Richard Sanchez wrote: > cease and desist order from Autodicks Lawyers ? :) > > > On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 10:03 AM, Mirko Jankovic > wrote: > >> ok really stop joking, what happened to mootzoid.com? it is not time t

Re: Softimage 2015 Last Release Announcement

Let's hope someone leakes the softimage source code... 2014-03-05 17:45 GMT+01:00 Octavian Ureche : > No matter what assurances autodesk ever gives, i don't think anyone will > ever believe them anymore. > But then again, histories have a way of repeating themselves... > > Let's just hope this w

Re: Softimage 2015 Last Release Announcement

On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 9:43 AM, Paulo César Duarte wrote: > Any chances that we can see this Voodoo from Rhythm & Hues, release > commercially? > > http://rhythm.com/labs/ > > I have a GREAT idea -- Autodesk could buy it, oh wait...

Re: Softimage 2015 Last Release Announcement

:D, I think uummm the futures exciting for voodoo, um. On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 4:29 PM, Ed Manning wrote: > On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 9:43 AM, Paulo César Duarte > wrote: > >> Any chances that we can see this Voodoo from Rhythm & Hues, release >> commercially? >> >> http://rhythm.com/labs/ >> >> I

Re: Mark's good bye

Pasting into the list for posterity (because I'm sure the blog's gonna go offline any time now.) --- Thanks for all your brilliance!! Posted by Mark Schoennagel, 19 hours ago Hello fellow Softies, Well I'm sure you all read the news yesterday tha

wake

so following the piss poor turn out on tuesday (you're excused, it was short notice and a shit day to boot) how about we have a proper drink next week? I'll start the bidding at "Thursday in Soho" any takers, or will you all be busy learning houdini? a Adrian Wyer Fluid Pictures

RE: wake

plus i was at home with food poisoning from the adam and eve pub. i think wake might be a bit dark how about metamorphosis? and you clearly can't rush learning houdini so i'll be up for a couple. ... http://www.h

Re: Luxology Modo 50% off for this mailing list - A new word from Brad Peebler

More contact from Brad off-list He says the following... /I've been thinking about how this all went down and I'm feeling a bit sad about it. I have a new idea. People should not feel like they have to rush to make a move. They don't! Soft is still awesome and will be for years to come. Ra

how about some structure? (re: salvage the list)

Hi all, I have a suggestion for one of the alternatives to consider when deciding where to move future discussions: Atlassian's "Confluence" software/service. It's basically a very streamlined / polished collaboration system, which I think would be a good replacement for either an email list or a

Re: Luxology Modo 50% off for this mailing list - A new word from Brad Peebler

I'm in for the Webinar. and what is the contact information again to e-mail him directly? On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 11:50 AM, Tim Crowson wrote: > More contact from Brad off-list He says the following... > > *I've been thinking about how this all went down and I'm feeling a bit > sad about i

Re: Luxology Modo 50% off for this mailing list - A new word from Brad Peebler

Yes of course, I'm also up for the webinar! On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 6:04 PM, Chris Johnson wrote: > I'm in for the Webinar. and what is the contact information again to > e-mail him directly? > > > On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 11:50 AM, Tim Crowson < > tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com> wrote: > >> More

Re: Luxology Modo 50% off for this mailing list - A new word from Brad Peebler

I'd love to sit in on a webinar. Modo scares me a little bit in that they still seem to have the LW mentality there. -Paul ᐧ On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 12:04 PM, Chris Johnson wrote: > I'm in for the Webinar. and what is the contact information again to > e-mail him directly? > > > On Thu, Mar 6

Re: Luxology Modo 50% off for this mailing list - A new word from Brad Peebler

+1! Yes of course, I'm also up for the webinar! On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 6:04 PM, Chris Johnson wrote: I'm in for the Webinar. and what is the contact information again to e-mail him directly? On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 11:50 AM, Tim Crowson < tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com> wrote: More con

Re: wake

SURE THING Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.com On 6 Mar 2014, at 16:30, "adrian wyer" wrote: > so following the piss poor turn out on tuesday (you're excused, it was short > notice and a shit day to boot) > > how about we have a proper drink next week? > > I'll start the bidding at "Thursday

Re: Luxology Modo 50% off for this mailing list - A new word from Brad Peebler

A webinar would be interesting, though trying to sync across time-zones would be a challenge. I've been looking at modo a little bit over the past few days and am starting to build a little list of positives and negatives: it'd certainly be interesting to know whether areas that concern me are area

Re: Luxology Modo 50% off for this mailing list - A new word from Brad Peebler

Lightwave mentality Paul ? On 6 March 2014 17:07, Paul Griswold wrote: > I'd love to sit in on a webinar. Modo scares me a little bit in that they > still seem to have the LW mentality there. > > -Paul > > ᐧ > > > On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 12:04 PM, Chris Johnson wrote: > >> I'm in for the Webin

Re: Luxology Modo 50% off for this mailing list - A new word from Brad Peebler

b...@luxology.com On 3/6/2014 11:04 AM, Chris Johnson wrote: I'm in for the Webinar. and what is the contact information again to e-mail him directly? On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 11:50 AM, Tim Crowson > wrote: More contact from Brad off-list He say

Re: Luxology Modo 50% off for this mailing list - A new word from Brad Peebler

Well Modo is essentially Lightwave Part 2, since it came from the original programmers of Lightwave and at one point was supposed to replace Lightwave. I feel like they tend to want to build specific tools to fill specific needs instead of opening things up the way ICE does. ᐧ On Thu, Mar 6, 201

Re: Softimage 2015 Last Release Announcement

I need to repost this legendary gif somewhere, so I'm going to do it here http://xsisupport.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/jurrasic_park__ilm_cgi_before_n_after.gif Simon Reeves London, UK *si...@simonreeves.com * *www.simonreeves.com * *www.analogstudio.co.uk

Re: Luxology Modo 50% off for this mailing list - A new word from Brad Peebler

The latest nodal stuff they've added in is certainly a step in the right direction - as I say I haven't been able to tinker as much as I'd like but at the least the nodes I can see give access to lower-level maths functionality, which is a good sign (albeit non-polymorphic though :( ). On 6 March

Re: Luxology Modo 50% off for this mailing list - A new word from Brad Peebler

I am definitely in for a webinar and would be cool to get a honest chat about a rough roadmap by some one who truly seems a genuine guy. I am interested I what Modo and the foundry seem to stand for. lets set this up! good work Raff and Tim! Daniel Sweeney 3D Creative Director *Mobile:* +44 (0

Re: Luxology Modo 50% off for this mailing list - A new word from Brad Peebler

Mmm Paul I think you're getting close to the genetic fallacy with that. Also I'm not sure Modo was ever intended to replace Lightwave. Maybe, just not sure...? I think your point about opening things up the way ICE does is an important distinc

Re: Mark's good bye

Wherever Mark lands, they will be very fortunate. I had the pleasure of working with Mark, prior to his being the "XSI demo guy". It was a blast. Great guy. I wish him well. On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 11:20 AM, Alan Fregtman wrote: > Pasting into the list for posterity (because I'm sure the blog's

Re: Mark's good bye

Watching this last video he did ... damn what a powerful app! Shame what AD did. On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Alan Fregtman wrote: > Pasting into the list for posterity (because I'm sure the blog's gonna go > offline any time now.) > > --- > > T

Re: Luxology Modo 50% off for this mailing list - A new word from Brad Peebler

Love the direction Foundry has been going the last couple years. Nuke and Mari are top notch. Getting Modo was a great idea and the integration with those previous packages is the way to go.Brad stopped by ILM the other day and did a demo, seems like a cool guy. Looking forward to seeing mor

Re: Luxology Modo 50% off for this mailing list - A new word from Brad Peebler

Oh don't get me started on the history of Modo - it'll totally derail things. I'm an old-time Lightwave beta tester from the early-mid 1990's. Brad Peebler was my contact at NewTek back in those days. There's a whole drama around how Modo came about. ᐧ On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Tim Crow

Re: Luxology Modo 50% off for this mailing list - A new word from Brad Peebler

Yes there is. Not much of a secret anymore :-) -Tim On 3/6/2014 11:55 AM, Paul Griswold wrote: Oh don't get me started on the history of Modo - it'll totally derail things. I'm an old-time Lightwave beta tester from the early-mid 1990's. Brad Peebler was my contact at NewTek back in t

Re[2]: Luxology Modo 50% off for this mailing list - A new word from Brad Peebler

In for that webinar, too... -- Originalnachricht -- Von: "Tim Crowson" An: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Gesendet: 06.03.2014 19:01:30 Betreff: Re: Luxology Modo 50% off for this mailing list - A new word from Brad Peebler Yes there is. Not much of a secret anymore :-) -Tim

Re: Softimage 2015 Last Release Announcement

Amazing and historical gif. 2014-03-06 14:29 GMT-03:00 Simon Reeves : > I need to repost this legendary gif somewhere, so I'm going to do it here > > > http://xsisupport.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/jurrasic_park__ilm_cgi_before_n_after.gif > > > > Simon Reeves > London, UK > *si...@simonreeves.c

Re: Luxology Modo 50% off for this mailing list - A new word from Brad Peebler

Lets do it! Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.com On 6 Mar 2014, at 18:09, "Eugen Sares" wrote: > In for that webinar, too... > > > -- Originalnachricht -- > Von: "Tim Crowson" > An: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com > Gesendet: 06.03.2014 19:01:30 > Betreff: Re: Luxology Modo 50% off for

Re: Luxology Modo 50% off for this mailing list - A new word from Brad Peebler

Count me in for the webinar. Very interested to see what could become of the package if it has some customer-focused dedication behind it. I suspect my strategy at this point shared by a number of other users. I'll continue to use SI and take the Maya path for the moment. The real decision

Re: Camera pass overrides?

Hi, Get an implicit cube. Link your camera's ink shader parameter to the visibility of the cube! Hide the cube in a partition when you don't want ink, have it visible when you do! Cheers Lawrence On 6 Mar 2014, at 13:58, Francois Lord wrote: > It seems you are right, Morten. You cannot ch

Re: Luxology Modo 50% off for this mailing list - A new word from Brad Peebler

I'm also in for the webinar. Brads webinar are always fun and he can convey and express himself really well. Looking forward to it. On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Michael Clarke wrote: > Count me in for the webinar. > > > Very interested to see what could become of the package if it has some >

Re: Luxology Modo 50% off for this mailing list - A new word from Brad Peebler

Webinar sounds cool would love to hear where things are going On 6 March 2014 18:54, Maurício PC wrote: > I'm also in for the webinar. Brads webinar are always fun and he can > convey and express himself really well. Looking forward to it. > > > On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Michael Clarke wr

Re: Luxology Modo 50% off for this mailing list - A new word from Brad Peebler

Count me in as well On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Sebastien Sterling < sebastien.sterl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Webinar sounds cool would love to hear where things are going > > > On 6 March 2014 18:54, Maurício PC wrote: > >> I'm also in for the webinar. Brads webinar are always fun and he ca

Article in La Presse, Montreal Newspaper about Softimage's retirement

You can read what Marc Petit and Pierre Raymond(Hybride founder) think of Autodesk's move. Google Translate : http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Ftechno.lapresse.ca%2Fnouvelles%2Flogiciels%2F201403%2F06%2F01-4745102-derniere-version-de-soft

Re: V-Ray rendering is live in http://Clara.io - includes interactive live cloud streaming.

This is the worst week to release new features. But here is a 2 minute demo that shows how fast V-Ray rendering is within Clara.io using CarPaint + Glass + Area Light + Mesh Light + Aluminum Alloy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvJjOPAfy70 I love how good this looks mostly because I did the sha

Re: Article in La Presse, Montreal Newspaper about Softimage's retirement

Mr Raymond seems to think we can't blame AD, "they had 3 apps to support" the poor souls... On 6 March 2014 19:08, Marc-Andre Carbonneau < marc-andre.carbonn...@ubisoft.com> wrote: > You can read what Marc Petit and Pierre Raymond(Hybride founder) think of > Autodesk's move. > > > > Google Trans

Re: SI and Houdini

Please, drop a line here when you have something ready. Le 06/03/2014 11:52, Morten Bartholdy a écrit : Wow, that is very geerous of you Jordi - much appreciated. Morten Den 6. marts 2014 kl. 10:18 skrev Jordi Bares : for those who have not read what is going on in the Houdini forum

Re: Article in La Presse, Montreal Newspaper about Softimage's retirement

"Softimage would have turned 30 in 2016, he said. It's the end of an era for many people. Softimage community is very united and very passionate and it makes a lot of noise in it. " Also includes the decision. "The damage has been done by AVID. Autodesk has continued for six years, but has n

Re: Article in La Presse, Montreal Newspaper about Softimage's retirement

the fine bouquet of BULLSHIT ah well what goes around, comes around. On 6 March 2014 19:28, David Gallagher wrote: > > "Softimage would have turned 30 in 2016, he said. It's the end of an era > for many people. Softimage community is very united and very passionate > and it makes a lot of

Re: Article in La Presse, Montreal Newspaper about Softimage's retirement

"The damage has been done by AVID. Autodesk has continued for six years, but has never been able to reverse the sales curve. " Actually should've say: "The damage has been done by AVID. Autodesk has continued for six years, but *NEVER WANTED TO* to reverse the sales curve. " On Thu, Mar 6, 2014

Re: Article in La Presse, Montreal Newspaper about Softimage's retirement

Right, after the acquisition of Softimage by Autodesk, I never more see a banner or a advertising page of Softimage. 2014-03-06 16:35 GMT-03:00 Mirko Jankovic : > "The damage has been done by AVID. Autodesk has continued for six years, > but has never been able to reverse the sales curve. " > >

Re: Article in La Presse, Montreal Newspaper about Softimage's retirement

"The announcement will not result in layoffs" anyone wonder why? *cough* because immediately upon acquisition half left and half were moved to Maya / Games / or wherever but most definitely Away from Softimage. poor, poor Adsk tried so hard. Marc petit has invested in Fabric Engine right..?

Re: Softimage 2015 Last Release Announcement

Maybe soon we will have something similar to ICE in Blender? http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?327950-Flakes-%96-nodular-everything Screenshots: http://i.imgur.com/7PILS8e.png http://i.imgur.com/m17PI9p.png 2014-03-06 15:18 GMT-03:00 Paulo César Duarte : > Amazing and historical g

Re: Softimage 2015 Last Release Announcement

Them's some strong words! and I'm saying that as a Blender evangelist... Quoted from thread: Originally Posted by *renderdemon* "I have an eagle model that needs a decent set of feathers,maybe with your nodal system I can reac

Re: Softimage 2015 Last Release Announcement

I will eventually switch to Blender with this! GREAT! Not after my good run and mastering of SI... Still has a lot of juice to squeeze out. -Draise From: Dan Yargici Sent: ‎Thursday‎, ‎March‎ ‎6‎, ‎2014 ‎15‎:‎01‎ ‎ To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Them's some strong words! and I'm sa

Re: Article in La Presse, Montreal Newspaper about Softimage's retirement

So what will happen to the dev team in Asia? I assume they will be busy for another year doing bug fixes and maintenance, but after that? Also, I hate to think of the pain of the big shops having to transition like Hybride, Animal Logic, Blur... ouch. On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Rob Chapman

Re: Article in La Presse, Montreal Newspaper about Softimage's retirement

*_ Logical decision Autodesk decision is easily explained. Through acquisitions, the company was now the owner of three competing software: Maya, 3ds Max and Softimage.* [by involontary consequence?] *The latter has become the least popular of the three.* [by involontary conseque

Re: Softimage 2015 Last Release Announcement

he anyone can make Blender2SI skin, so it looks at feels as SI.. then maybe maybe it could be used for some stufff. :) I tried blender couple times but I really can;t figure out why the hell they try to invent UI and viewport controls and then have some unintuitive system? It is like you are tryin

Re: Article in La Presse, Montreal Newspaper about Softimage's retirement

Google translation of Marc Petit is "Mr. Small" lol On 03/06/14 14:39, Paulo César Duarte wrote: Right, after the acquisition of Softimage by Autodesk, I never more see a banner or a advertising page of Softimage. 2014-03-06 16:35 GMT-03:00 Mirko Jankovic >:

Re: Article in La Presse, Montreal Newspaper about Softimage's retirement

btw anyone have idea if there will be any SP for 2015 is that planned? I mean every new version comes with couple new introduces bugs as well. So is there plan for SP1 or more or just.. 2015 and that is it... On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 10:17 PM, Jason S wrote: > Google translation of Marc Petit i

Re: Article in La Presse, Montreal Newspaper about Softimage's retirement

They've said all over the place that bugfixes and service packs will come until its funeral in April 2016. That's roughly 2 years of bugfixing. On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 4:24 PM, Mirko Jankovic wrote: > btw anyone have idea if there will be any SP for 2015 is that planned? > I mean every new versi

Re: Article in La Presse, Montreal Newspaper about Softimage's retirement

so log those bugs! On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Alan Fregtman wrote: > They've said all over the place that bugfixes and service packs will come > until its funeral in April 2016. That's roughly 2 years of bugfixing. > > > > On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 4:24 PM, Mirko Jankovic > wrote: > >> btw an

Re: Article in La Presse, Montreal Newspaper about Softimage's retirement

I'm going to log the bug that Boolean modeling sometimes crashes. It's only been a bug as far as I can remember. yes...yes... I know you can work around it with ICE... ;) On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Steven Caron wrote: > so log those bugs! > > > On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Alan Fregtm

Re: Luxology Modo 50% off for this mailing list - A new word from Brad Peebler

Yes, please I´m into the webinar. I recently saw this: https://vimeo.com/76876920 and I´m picturing myself adding more "modo mentality" asap :) Thanks. David R. On Thursday, March 6, 2014 2:01 PM, Nic Sievers wrote: Count me in as well On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Sebastien Sterli

Re: Article in La Presse, Montreal Newspaper about Softimage's retirement

From my personal non-company related opinion here, we'll be fine. We're a bunch of artists using tools. The tools can change, we'll adapt, and continue to work. It's going to be a lot of work but it's something that has to be done. Eric T. On 3/6/2014 3:52 PM, Byron Nash wrote: Also, I hate t

Re: Luxology Modo 50% off for this mailing list - A new word from Brad Peebler

+1 On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 11:26 PM, Paul Griswold < pgrisw...@fusiondigitalproductions.com> wrote: > Wow! I guess I haven't kept up with Modo at all. > > It does look pretty appealing. > > > — > Sent from Mailbox for iPad > > > On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 4:47 PM, D

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