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Re: Rigging Master Class from 2005

tekano....@gmail.com (Rob Chapman) — Sun, 19 May 2013 22:28:56 UT

wait.. its going to be Dr Gabe?

Re: Rigging Master Class from 2005

i.anima...@gmail.com (Eric Turman) — Sun, 19 May 2013 18:53:25 UT

Bradley Gabe posted something about doing an updated "Jedi" training class
before he immerses himself in med school. I'm sure that, as valuable as
those 2005 videos are, he has assuredly developed more refined techniques
in the last eight years. Besides, posting these at this juncture may
undermine Bradleys efforts to put these "Jedi Training" lessons together.

Rigging Master Class from 2005

pgrisw...@fusiondigitalproductions.com (Paul Griswold) — Sun, 19 May 2013 18:35:34 UT

Hey - has anyone ever posted Bradley Gabe's 2005 CG Soup master class
anywhere?

I was cleaning my shelves this morning & came across the CD.

I don't think I've seen it online anywhere. I'd be happy to pull the
videos off of it if it's not against any laws/rules.

-Paul

Re: Running Softimage without installing it.

danyarg...@gmail.com (Dan Yargici) — Sun, 19 May 2013 12:58:26 UT

Just to clarify, what I find attractive is the fact that with the right
setup you can literally just plug a machine into a switch on your network
and it will boot up as a rendernode with zero intervention needed. You can
get a machine to a usable state with a few minutes of taking it out of the

Re: PyQtForSoftimage with PySide support

xl.mailingl...@gmail.com (Xavier Lapointe) — Sun, 19 May 2013 00:21:43 UT

For windows binaries, this website is quite awesome:
[link]

Haven't tried their installer though for Pyside, so no idea if it includes
Shiboken or not.

Re: Memory Mapping Textures Image format Limit ?

christop...@thecreativesheep.ca (Christopher) — Sat, 18 May 2013 03:16:52 UT

I wasn't sure about this, why I asked. Others may know, others may not,
atleast I don't have to manually convert :)

Thanks Luc & Alan, as always when a solution is solved, I am much
appreciated.

Re: Memory Mapping Textures Image format Limit ?

luceri...@gmail.com (Luc-Eric Rousseau) — Sat, 18 May 2013 02:13:27 UT

well it won't work on formats they don't support, like .psd
Le 2013-05-17 18:21, "Christopher" <christop...@thecreativesheep. ca> a
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RE: share invalid

j.ponthi...@nasa.gov (Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES]) — Sat, 18 May 2013 01:40:37 UT

Yeah, I can think of numerous reasons why there might be a network delay. That isn't the question. The question is...why is Soft putting a 5 minute freeze on the process of reacquiring the asset? At least that's the way it looks.

Joey

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Re: share invalid

magic...@bellsouth.net (Stephen Davidson) — Fri, 17 May 2013 22:57:12 UT

Just guess.... some drives (WD drives for one) go to
"sleep" (spin down) when not in use. Some drives
have the ability to switch that "feature" off....some don't

On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES] <

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* Stephen P. Davidson**
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Softimage 2012 Raysat Service

activemotionpictu...@yahoo.com (David Rivera) — Fri, 17 May 2013 22:44:10 UT

Hello. I´ve been looking at this page for the setup of satellite rendering:
[link]
And I did set up "services" file on:
C:\Windows\System32\drivers\et c\
Adding the line:
mi-raysatsi2012_3_9_1_38 2564/tcp #mental ray satellite Autodesk Softimage

Re: Memory Mapping Textures Image format Limit ?

christop...@thecreativesheep.ca (Christopher) — Fri, 17 May 2013 22:20:49 UT

Luc-Eric, it does the same thing that the manual imf-copy does,
manually, it's a confirm that it works on all image formats including EXR ?

Re: Memory Mapping Textures Image format Limit ?

luceri...@gmail.com (Luc-Eric Rousseau) — Fri, 17 May 2013 19:34:45 UT

that works for rendering, but for map auto conversion, what it does is
launch the command line imf-copy
Le 2013-05-17 14:16, "Alan Fregtman" <alan.fregt...@gmail.com> a écrit :

share invalid

j.ponthi...@nasa.gov (Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES]) — Fri, 17 May 2013 19:28:29 UT

I'm losing access to my textures in Softimage. The external files manager reports all files on this server as "redlined". From the script editor I frequently get the following error :

// INFO : 4000 - Share '\\servername\drivename' marked as invalid for the next 300 seconds

If I wait long enough and refresh from the EFM, the redlines will go away and the textures will render again.

Re: Memory Mapping Textures Image format Limit ?

alan.fregt...@gmail.com (Alan Fregtman) — Fri, 17 May 2013 18:15:39 UT

Wasn't there a thing that when mentalray doesn't understand a format but
Soft does, Soft makes a bitmap that mentalray can understand under the
hood? Or am I mixing this up with another renderer?

Re: Memory Mapping Textures Image format Limit ?

luceri...@gmail.com (Luc-Eric Rousseau) — Fri, 17 May 2013 18:06:42 UT

it's limited to the image formats mental ray can read, because we launch
imf-copy to create the map
Le 2013-05-17 11:38, "Alan Fregtman" <alan.fregt...@gmail.com> a écrit :