Re: Semi OT Softimage pic pluggin for mac ?

I would reject your softimage pic files in any compositor on any platform :D Instead of putting the burden on ‘them’ why not reach a common denominator in file types, e.g. TIFF, PNG, etc.? Andy > On Apr 08, 2016, at 21:22, Olivier Jeannel wrote: > > Hi guys, > > Is

Re: Reminiscing

> On Aug 06, 2016, at 11:17, Olivier Jeannel wrote: > > In Houdini they tend to transform every thing in VDB or fill volumes with > nuts number of points just to transfer datas... Strange thing you describe here. I’ve found that most advice comes in the from of using

Re: Ping

Give it a try and find yourself thinking: "mmmhh… I could prototype this quick and dirty in SOPs or I could do it straight away in VOPs/VEX." Choices :D Andy > On Oct 04, 2016, at 10:17, Thomas Volkmann wrote: > > Do you have a link where to sign in on that?

Re: Soft 2 Houdini

Adding to that, though dated, Peter Quint does explain Houdini things quite understandably and in detail: https://vimeo.com/user2030228 Andy > On Oct 09, 2016, at 14:10, Rob Wuijster wrote: > > I wonder if anyone already mentioned entagma.com

Re: Softimage EOL 2017 - The chronicles of a giant (documentary)

> On Dec 08, 2016, at 19:44, Mirko Jankovic wrote: > > Q2: * Why maya crashes around 5 times in 1 hour with an older service pack? > need the new one to only crash once per hour... > > Because you need strong reason to SELL subscription ie.. with subscription > you

Re: Softimage EOL 2017 - The chronicles of a giant (documentary)

> On Dec 08, 2016, at 19:20, Pierre Schiller > wrote: > > SI only needed 1 or 2 SP at most, each year. Solid code only needs upgrades, > not bug-patching service packs. Are you serious? You are kidding right? Softimage is not a solid piece of software all

Re: test

pong > On Jul 27, 2017, at 10:14 AM, wavo wrote: > > test again > > -- > > > Walter Volbers > Senior Animator > > FIFTYEIGHT 3D > Animation & Digital Effects GmbH > > Kontorhaus Osthafen > Lindleystraße 12 > 60314 Frankfurt am Main > Germany > > Telefon +49 (0)

Houdini to headus UVLayout

Over the weekend I've hacked an HDA to bridge Houdini to headus UVLayout. I know some of you have used the Softimage to UVLayout Add-on in the past, so I hope you have use for this. Comments on implementation and improvements are welcome. Get it here: sidefx.com/forum/topic/49644/

Re: Houdini Basics....

Hi Thomas, see that little red brain at the bottom right corner? Give it a try :D Andy > On 18.05.2017, at 13:45, Thomas Volkmann wrote: > > Even at the risk of annoying you guys: > > How do I stop a DOP-network from cooking while scrubbing the timeline? In >

Re: OTish - Soft2Maya transition list

What a story :D I go DAYS shading and lighting within the same session… in Houdini ;-) Andy > On Jun 16, 2017, at 12:29 PM, Anto Matkovic wrote: > > Well this seems to be fixed in Update 4, released few days ago. Yesterday I > had unbelievable experience :) in one year of

Re: Houdini : non VFX jobs?

> On May 14, 2018, at 1:01 AM, Matt Lind wrote: > > Houdini doesn't have good tools for dealing with the macro view of a scene > for the generalist. When you open a scene you're not familiar with, or one > you haven't opened in a very long time, you want to get a general

Re: Houdini : non VFX jobs?

Hi Paul, I believe the Edit SOP can create deltas, it should be in the manual. And store shapes as point attributes as you like. Same goes for the rest P attribute. Cheers, Andy On Mon 14. May 2018 at 11:35, wrote: > In soft, you can make a shape in Secondary shape mode

Re: Houdini : non VFX jobs?

I hope this isn't trolling, as I find it a very informative discussion. But I wonder, if this hair pulling has an opposite to it? Has he not experienced anything that he liked? Andy On Mon 14. May 2018 at 11:32, Alastair Hearsum wrote: > Is this trolling? I'm not

Re: Houdini : non VFX jobs?

> On May 14, 2018, at 1:06 PM, wrote: > > I’ve only had a few weeks of Houdini, but I really want to learn it, I do > however, think it needs some consolidating. I found it very hard to figure > stuff out here on my own. I’m trying to do deformation

Re: Houdini : non VFX jobs?

Funny how that is. When I first got my feet wet with Houdini I had the same feelings. I could rage about the looks of everything UI. Then something else happened… And this is not to say that the UI/UX doesn’t need work, but while learning the ins and outs of Houdini I started to appreciate how

Re: Houdini : non VFX jobs?

The things Matt mentioned are spot on. From the ongoing discussion I stand by my point that the superoir workflows being discussed are modeling and animation based. From my experience scene assembly, alembic handling, fx and caching, lighting, shading, rendering workflows are all surpassed at

Re: Houdini : non VFX jobs?

> On May 13, 2018, at 10:00 PM, Matt Lind wrote: > > An example of the boiler plate burden is exactly what was already discussed – > modeling and tweaking as that's a good bulk of the early work. Bad first > impressions can be a major deterrent. > > Another example is

Re: Material change crashes XSI

This is where Houdini changed my life for the better. Sometimes I forget that Mantra is still rendering while I’m already doing changes to the geometry. :) Happy weekend. Andy > On Jun 8, 2018, at 6:12 PM, Rob Wuijster wrote: > > Yup! Don't do it that way ;-) > > Soft is prone to

Re: Looking for a 3D-scanner

Have you seen these videos?

Re: The Maya Chronicles - or how retarded that software is...

To be totally honest, that’s how I had to deal with Softimage/Arnold. I would sometimes only open a scene and have it crash for no reason. I could never say Softimage had been a robust experience. After moving to Houdini, it took almost two years to get rid of my fear to click the wrong thing

Re: Houdini mailing list

Have you checked here?