Well, that day has come. I am not watching this list as often as I used to. My Softimage days are behind me now. I used to open it up to present some example scenes I had for my Arnold class at NAD that I did not have the time to convert to Maya. But now all my scenes work in Maya so I don't need to open it anymore.
I still miss Softimage. Maya simply doesn't have the elegant workflow to match. Houdini is better but not as simple and intuitive as Soft. I have to admit though that I've had a lot of fun learning Solaris in the past few months. It reminds me of when I first played with ICE. It reminds me of the sheer power that is accessible at your fingertips but you don't know how to harness it yet. You guys keep talking about the end of a community. As Luc-Eric said, we just need to move over to the google group, which currently server as archive. It's been archiving the posts since many years now. It has 1328 registered members. I am the owner of that group and I can switch it from an archive to a normal group at any time. We just need to decide on a date. It could be on January 1st. Francois On 2019-11-18 2:44 a.m., Enter Reality wrote: > Hi all, > I would like to thank all of you that contribute to extending my > knowledge of XSI and showcasing some of the cool stuff I've seen > around, so thank you beautiful people :D > > As for me, I've joined the dark side and switched to Maya, and beside > hating all the constant crashes and all its fault, I also learned a > bit of MEL scripting and developed some advanced stuff for character > rigging, so this is a huge plus in my book....but still hating every > second :D > > It'll be nice to still get in contact, say using Linkedin, so that > people can still see what they're doing and stay in contact. > > Has been a really fun ride, my heart is still with XSI, so long fellas! > > Nicolas > > Il giorno lun 18 nov 2019 alle ore 02:21 Alan Fregtman > <alan.fregt...@gmail.com <mailto:alan.fregt...@gmail.com>> ha scritto: > > Hi all! 👋 > > I've barely said a word since the EOL, but I made many friends > back in the day. I helped many and many helped me back when I was > in need. You are a bunch of wonderful people and while I don't > make a living with XSI anymore, I don't regret choosing to start > my career with it. <3 > > I also have to tip my virtual hat to Raffaele, whom I met here, > for his "Python for XSI TDs" intro course that was the beginning > of my falling in love with the Python language. After my > professional XSI days ran out, I decided to pivot to a fulltime > /Pipeline Developer/ role and it's been really fun so far. (You > might even say.. /out of this world > > <https://u9432639.ct.sendgrid.net/wf/click?upn=lIXdN6W56FnEjHCwrBXqOmMAKB8JGacZcowsK4IlqY8aQGPpnujEXNbmyey-2FEv7HGtoL-2BI-2FyFXaqM003GW6wYgVbvyfqUv5Ew-2FWrUPctyBxjqg5RbKGjTYCwhD5QntG2vLT-2BvSNeIfu7ETWshp-2BdSXB0xeLoiQtZdxwbZe4ZGaD3P2781LPHOuPwPgxJMXVF-2FruzB0O-2FT2Kli9lxhCEtmktd5-2FQz04HD-2B0rFp7Qis9zpXc6LTfESkSyRtrVZUuW2rptJMllOdS4gbnyB3JD4YCkhP4AcTpgHnvXiHam8rt0Pd69DkJhIgf8dX791jRl0Zr5ABs160dQzZw7bPEBwnZOZ4Dda26E4-2BW8lQcWz5Icb-2BSiUIU5j08AccS6GCeRK8-2BGvyYSkoSRtl4QE0eDQhWM3nIagnQKbz-2FgEkMeL6K6VNtJXSErBd09-2BUG1TBAEHrBKWd8c-2BFyi3C05o3OcBJaR-2F7eeWJ91x-2Fo6etVE55uEgrZsArKQ3FtUy0nnCuyQUTxQG-2FfqKYnGBHHUM-2FXLwf-2F5-2BVHp-2BC6KwYWyS8HTprgRhbwO6y53p0pPMFqqrEi7G9k-2BdBp9WB6-2FF67-2FYO2KidD0BmetJLRyT-2FK1YGEenHt9ORL90ggJzCLAFQwhgJXvLdUT8C5R41uk1q4mErsfsl9MnAGIKmsRzxB8-2B-2BNN0cpnFir3EkpPnEkj8IHVGaCCtQ7x2Z4cKmHRqLsTWs5DeunXAfnA8AwfwGv-2BSfk2-2BApiu1iLMQMdA5m0BnDsQ4VD9KosTBw64nqYdTyp3AhffkQrbV5OmsBKuWRFWf-2ByoyO3uWKiSFOLwG8hPqNYLAFDnlx2xOiLcK1uZPg-2BJv5r9b9Xd2Ig5BoeTs505QgNZfu26Pm841AN1Vjvxa5BPJsxBUHJaiP88tPiTfqDB5-2FXqzqEdeSbXiehXFQzFZEz9HaMc1R6UrS-2BAa4eLPk4uIsQ87sR3mYLi38ia8MzP2Lsra4d8ZJnXlu5ummR0KN5ljEE9wKoMV9OedkXwLvSlRQHmuBZscYfTVwU6T5l2RcvJMW-2F30iOLsVtxPhBaMrIYLaMYpmPZY-2BTbMhCA1Te-2FQ9aldqI0B4OgFnOfqIMATuhZ4CP2l0YGwwv9qoUa0xV6vJ8JtaxHtlTSozB0ylNZGFWyhhXTKfMQYLvkaWuhC-2BexwecYzI4GpLSgfn5My6THkAwy2tiqL58rRbPKFjB586bUXN74AZ90sHIDYcqdxNPTM0O8gFJymTdAcW-2FXbidH2jGgxVdUaeNtpxLq60pb2VM77Ohr9bwXcQGiSnC0XRhXjJyLu5AhuJ8sy2c1UNK91qgnzLBQ5tWdKx5VarnnJq08yEQ8z4urtmaSv2Kr4mf6hAcPkx6n0M8IpA-2FGoTVmqnexPgtXyFQdeRF2fHbQaOQ6ELjIkJ9tAk5gyztWNeLmiuKI4iKTqyJcHYKvfkWkTTyk3Dj9BFjzg-2Fx-2FDBC6o1IHJp0qYPvb1moH1JoAXZY6HG-2FDkOGHhVXWfiF30Oq-2B6lADL4h7c7eoqN6H5KC32S8-2B9bMZPBpCWoVL2LZPSpcB5vcfKXE-2FdrKkDVdhfd1IM-2BPgpmQhxPOCsZNC63FsapBPJcBgXeucfc1Gy-2BLBeWPdTE3ImQqeRXZPQ7Q4732HAm3IHrdXi-2FDiAtzreb0de604VjSACfk2lPpcuLX7WRmJgdA90pk6TD0i-2FhC0MVTLbsi0oTQ4W0mL14X8abXbr8tMsWfEPBrA0EU33SHn0IPKR-2BHgH2aYx4iMvgml4lXYQLJBcYuZqsdBwjuYvHDJVlUqlHYfH-2B13avaF6EtE1bLbq-2BqLD-2FCbl3sYjhcEsAOXQtKwOGNafaCDRz2YX-2BCXtIawHXq98WNYeg9ehJEVLEGBuu-2B4qdgmHDTaGRNqMrZw97je2Brsqkj-2BxMDINpUyBLK0fajQ3i0YM7jwCFepHxbfLmwvYqOKdb7P4jTWX50CInDjC5Y5fQtGU2yNq3sC2O70VDO334JlvIyUMqiOUGQ2uOAIvjDKave7JTFLnGFilPfx3AV8iFwXB0GyGhlndemJHTKMRm5pG0haipaXTVKwAL6KDmsopeyVmf4MIuRbv0-2BqijZpBIRhG2lI1k-2Bl6u3-2FfxGykmAvgnmjQmH6-2FXFX5KVt54lOskO9JrlJI0zbZpdegK8DOsaX6Wkt-2F8Yh2yLfBo-2FHDjcKTuvYH9xyZeOdcXwqCMryDzuo6W4jtW87P6eb1rc-2FHZxsDOl20DvAi0nvT0pNDVivwb9-2FxKArLPcS1kc1Qn3wvEbHlmkBfvj1tF7hahSR3YCzG-2F-2FWAlbynP7XKwdGqP7L351J2FOYAKpK9nFdYqAVpFp265F-2B-2Fqr-2FawE-3D_a6oQc7tnfcb0GKvoO27fPkrQ0ATQyF1SDBXJOg7-2FbuR1ey58nGFMxGKOWbzesDgktPKci27TBO6pEh8Km6AEbWT-2BEKdFChtAQ4wpj8TOS3rWvrS-2B75jenAKd4SAxS4Q-2F8myLDV2LvbIHl91qNviSgpHg9YWUMguUoTpCgPKlqmq-2FVk5BpJvEys9ihNpSE0HGVNoEApE-2BsZFRTNL7iByQU2isW2ixRY37mqQyqBbMRLc-3D>/.) > > > On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 7:17 AM Mirko Jankovic > <mirko.yanko...@protonmail.com > <mailto:mirko.yanko...@protonmail.com>> wrote: > > For you still alive SI guys, I'm stil happy to help out when > needed with a small render farm of mine and redshift. It is > idle between my projects so happy to help out with some gpu > muscles, guess it is hard to find some SI support around lately. > Keep SI alive, f AD! ;) > > ------ > 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. > > ------ > 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. > > > ------ > Softimage Mailing List. > To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with > "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm.
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