This thread reminded me of Mark Schoennagel's SIGGRAPH 2006 SI3D demo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzj3VITdN5A
As someone who worked on Maya, moved to Softimage and is now back on Maya I have one piece of advice: Treasure your nostalgia because, in my experience, reality doesn't always live up to our memories of the past! :-P -- Brent From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Sven Constable Sent: 24 May 2016 22:09 To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: RE: Friday Flashback #265 Yes, the batteries won't make it over the decades. However, I turned on one of the indigos 2 or 3 years ago, it came to life with the typical startup sound and it made me chuckle. Doing a demo video on that thing came to my mind, when we had a discussion on the list about doing a asteroid field the old fashioned way, without ICE. I think the hard part would be to demo something that is actually ten times faster than in a current maya version. SI3D had some freakin fast workflows but it would be challenging, doing it on a workstation from the mid 90s. Maybe it will only two times as fast as in maya or max nowadays ;). Hell, even doing it in the same time would be hilarious. Any ideas whats typically a PITA in maya or max that would be a no brainer in SI3D? Remember we had no passes/partition system in SI3D. I would stay away from NURBS stuff because it's too oldschool. The scene switcher? Not far away from 3ds max' scene states, except of beeing invented 15 years earlier. How about multiped? Or realtime rope dynamics with IK chains? Yummy! The spread sheet. Selecting things in a most sophisticated way one can possibly imagine. Maybe just basic parenting things (hierarchies) and animation stuff for day to day work. That's where Softimage always shines. Oh wait, I forgot the 'kaboom" effect! sven From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com> [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Olivier Jeannel Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2016 12:19 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com> Subject: Re: Friday Flashback #265 That Softimage demo on indigo would be super classy ! I worked on an indigo2 and an O2 with SI 3.7 and 3.8 installed then we switched on that dual 300Mhz Pc monster ! On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 10:13 AM, Matt Lind <speye...@hotmail.com<mailto:speye...@hotmail.com>> wrote: If you want my stuff, you'll have to come to my Siggraph dinner to get it. Remember - it's the last one. Make it count ;-) A few of my college friends had Indigos and in all cases the lithium battery on the motherboard eventually died. Can't run the computer without that. In those cases, the battery was the old style soldered to the motherboard, not the clip-in type you get today or in your wristwatch. Good luck finding a replacement if (when) that happens to you. Matt Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 23:21:27 +0200 From: "Sven Constable" <sixsi_l...@imagefront.de<mailto:sixsi_l...@imagefront.de>> Subject: RE: Friday Flashback #265 Well, I think it's ok if only used by one person. : ) Btw. if you're gonna sell this stuff one day I would be interested. The Soft|3D printed manuals for example. They were great. I still have two SGI Indigo workstations and at least one of them still has Soft|3D installed... maybe I should do a demo video firing up Soft|3D on that ancient beast, doing some stuff in a minute that needs ten times more in an actual maya version. Maybe hard to achive but not impossible. Would be fun and a real kicking friday flashback, haha. sven ------ Softimage Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com> with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm.
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