if all there really is, is a custom property, then the problem lies rather with softimage’s behaviour when coming across it...
it could just ignore this property, unless one deliberately goes to the facerobot layout and selects a scene/model to be “faceroboted”. sure, doing the cleanup on a scene is not so much work (when it works) but the point is – the property spreads on scenes/models and disrupts work – when all that really happened is a distracted artist hitting the shortcut for the facerobot layout by mistake. Doesn’t happen like that with simulation, doesn’t happen with hair. Doesn’t happen with using any plugins or renderers. Custom properties can get created all over the place, but they don’t generally cause trouble, except for the occasional error message. From: Stephen Blair Sent: Monday, October 28, 2013 1:16 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: FaceRobot Disable and save scene. That's it. Is the property really is an infection? On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 7:41 AM, Angus Davidson <[email protected]> wrote: Have to agree. For all the good that face robot can do. Especially with students who hit the incorrect buttons on occasions its a lifetime of grief trying to get rid of the damn thing. Face Robot should not have a default key binding. Plain and simple. Also when you deactivate face robot you should be given a prompt to remove the rest of its infection from the file. From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Reply-To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: Monday 28 October 2013 at 12:13 PM To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: FaceRobot given the insidious behaviour of FaceRobot, this should really be given some thought for the future. In every studio I went since FaceRobot exists, it has been perceived as something akin to a virus, spontaneously messing around and infiltrating production scenes. Every single production, some time is spent to keep it out reliably and do some housekeeping after it reared its ugly head. I think many people don’t want anything to do with it because of this. It’s the obnoxious child that everyone dislikes. Surely it could be taught more appropriate out of the box behaviour? I mean, if ICE was acting like that, people would be on the barricades, raiding what’s left of Softimage headquarters. From: gareth bell Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2013 7:40 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: FaceRobot oh - and that can be scripted.... Application.DisableFaceRobot() ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: RE: FaceRobot Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 18:20:06 +0000 Yeah we've had this before. Normally just disabling facerobot (whilst switched to softimage layout) and then saving (probably a new version is safer) tends to get rid of it. Also try unloading it in your workgroups and deleting the custom property too. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 17:48:08 -0400 Subject: Re: FaceRobot From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Don't you have to disable Face Robot in the scene? http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=15241146&linkID=12544120 On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Michael Heberlein <[email protected]> wrote: If deleting the property is enough, you could do this in an "siOnBeginSceneSave[As]" event. Am 26.10.2013 21:06 schrieb "Ognjen Vukovic" <[email protected]>: Hi Philipp, Not having much luck, the number of scenes is already in the triple digits so maybe some automation would solve everything but i have to take into account that the deadline is in three days so i think it would be to risky now to try anything, i contemplated seriously deleting it from disk while the project was running but im going to wait a couple more days and nuke it from orbit the day we hand over the final. Ogi. On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 8:47 PM, philipp seis <[email protected]> wrote: hello Ognjen...yup thats nasty. Could you fix it already ? If not: We batched all infected scenes: opening it, disabling facerobot by deleting the facerobot custom property, saving and closing it. voila. I recall, that my first approach was also fiddeling with the workgroup, but with not much success. Good luck ! 2013/10/26 Ognjen Vukovic <[email protected]> I was considering it but we are in the middle of a project, what are the chances it will botch something up? On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 6:16 PM, Luc-Eric Rousseau <[email protected]> wrote: Try deleting the face robot workgroup from.disk Le 2013-10-26 07:40, "Ognjen Vukovic" <[email protected]> a écrit : Is there a way to remove face Robot from a work-group and generally from existence? We are having a awesome time as someone in the early phases of the project had it open somewhere in their scene and now it has reared its ugly tentacles into the whole project, literally every model, scene and project have been infected, in all this chaos i am sure i even saw it initialize once when someone opened up after effects... Is there a way to exorcise face robot from this project without offering a sacrifice to Cthulhu? Thanks in advance, Ogi. This communication is intended for the addressee only. It is confidential. 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