Here’s some ICE modeling videos recorded by Guillaume Laforge, the principle developer working on ICE modeling.
Using wxPython with Autodesk Softimage
“Here’s the issue as far as I understand it: On Windows operating systems, every process that has a window (i.e. any none-console application) also has a message loop, and each process can only have one message loop. The problem with PyQT and wxPython is that they will try to create their own message loops inside the Softimage process, which somehow leads to the whole process shutting down. I don’t know Linux that well, but the same issue should arise there.
It turns out that the solution to this is to run wxPython or PyQT on their own separate threads, so that both message loops will run in isolation from each other.
Apparently Houdini 9.5 had the same thing happening with PyQT, and its documentation contains a code sample that addresses this issue. All I had to do was repackage it inside a Softimage plug-in, although I used wxPython instead of PyQT because I’m more familiar with it. But it should be trivial to change the code to use PyQT instead.”
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If you’re wondering about the changes to the Animation Editor, or about Send To, …
Autodesk’s 2012 strategy: it’s all about the suites | CG Channel.
Here’s some hopefully helpful links:
2012 Service Packs
2011 Service Packs:
 Click for full-size image Many thanks to Rui Santos, who took the time to send me some scans of a “Words from the Wizard” newsletter from back in October 1995. Here’s the cover from that issue. The big headline:
SOFTIMAGE Web ’95! I remember being in a meeting where they presented the first designs for that new web page. It’s easy to forget that there was a time when companies didn’t have web pages 😉 I used the waybackmachine to dig up some old softimage.com web pages (see below): |
Web page from 1995
1997
25 Sept 2002
15 March 2006
I’m uploading to Vimeo now, but in the meantime, here’s the screencast version.
If you have an array like [4,9,7,2], how do you get an array like [4,13,20,22], where each element is the cumulative sum of elements in the first array?
One possible approach would be to use a Repeat with Counter with Select SubArray in Array.
The Softimage 2012 product key is 590D1.
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