Another couple of cases for runonce.bat!
Update: See Planet Softimage for more details and vidoes.
Features:
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PS: New options for ICE RBD = Bullet
To get the .fx file for a realtime shader (RTShader), you go through the ShaderDef:
// Given a render tree node (shader), get the .fx file var o = Dictionary.GetObject( "Sources.Materials.DefaultLib.Scene_Material.MrWiggle1" ); LogMessage( o.ShaderDef.DefinitionPath ); // Given a progID, get the .fx file var sd = Application.GetShaderDef( "HLSLParser.MrWiggle.1.0" ); LogMessage( sd.DefinitionPath ); // INFO : C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Softimage 2012 SP1\Application\phenolib\HLSL\MrWiggle.fx // INFO : C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Softimage 2012 SP1\Application\phenolib\HLSL\MrWiggle.fx
Well, I’m back in the game after a relaxing week off. Biked, relaxed, hung out on the back porch with a cold beer …
Riding a bike in Montreal is a lot more fun than driving a car these days.
A collage of photos from one of my rides out in the west end of the Montreal island:
Driving in Montreal (aka coney island)
In this case, CTRL+D on a pass would appear to work, but the pass wouldn’t show up in the explorer.
The problem turned out to be in the Duplicate options (the Hierarchy pref was set to None: hat tip to Chinny for spotting that). To duplicate passes, Hierarchy has to be set to Share Parent.
We confirmed this by looking at what was logged in the script history.
The problem is the 4th argument to Duplicate. That’s the Hierarchy argument, and 0 means siNoParent.
So the Duplicate command was creating a pass with no parent, so the new pass was just sort of “floating” around in the scene, until it was discarded during a save operation.
// Duplicate a pass but don't give it a parent
var x = Duplicate("Passes.Default_Pass", null, 2, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, 0);
// It was created, but not placed in the pass list:
LogMessage( x.Count );
LogMessage( x(0).FullName );
InspectObj( x(0) );
LogMessage(GetJScriptVersionInfo());
function GetJScriptVersionInfo()
{
var s;
s = ""; // Build string with necessary info.
s += ScriptEngine() + " Version: ";
s += ScriptEngineMajorVersion() + ".";
s += ScriptEngineMinorVersion() + ".";
s += ScriptEngineBuildVersion();
return(s);
}
On Linux:
// INFO : JScript Engine Version: 5.1.4411
On Windows:
// INFO : JScript Version: 5.8.16762
The noIcon_pic shorts demo from the SIGGRAPH 2004 User Group:
Some background on how the noIcon shorts came to be:
What about those noIcon boxers at the Siggraph 2004 User group? Any chance we can get some of these? Tell us how you came up with that idea.
How was that for ridiculous? Dropping my pants on stage… I never thought I’d do that… well, while working anyway! Actually Gino Vincelli’s wife made them. Gino works for us in Montreal and is the voice on many of the training materials we make. His wife works as a fashion designer and can print just about anything, so they made these boxers! I hadn’t really decided if I was going to actually drop through on stage, or how, but somewhere during the second demo I thought “heck, just use primitive man and put the “no icon” texture on it.. then … well.. drop your pants.” So that’s what I did. Nice ass I got there huh? I think Chinny thought so, because he forgot to play the next video clip. Maybe they’ll be on the web store by popular demand, or maybe a limited tradeshow edition – we’ll see.
Can you tell us how you got the idea for the no-icon shorts?
Well when you work at Softimage and within the 3D community, you’re generally surrounded by weird people and it rubs off on you! Ha! Ha! In XSI, as you know, if you forget to save your images when creating a new database you will end up with characters or objects “wearing” the no-icon default texture. I just thought it would be cool to produce real no-icon clothes such as the shorts as if whoever was wearing them had forgotten his or her textures at home. I know… way too much time on my hands… I got a real kick out of seeing Mark Schoennagel drop his pants to show off the no-icon shorts at the Siggraph user group. The guy is gutsy!
Here’s a post I recovered from my old and now deleted XSI_Support_Blog page on the Softimage wiki.
XSI ships with over 23002600 commands. Not all of them are logged in the script editor, and not all of them are documented. Here’s a crude way to search for commands with certain strings in their names.
var c = Application.Commands;
LogMessage( c.Count );
oEnum = new Enumerator( c ) ;
// Search for commands whose scripting name
// contains a specific string of characters.
// The search string is specified between the forward slashes.
//
var re = /SetGlobal/ig;
for (;!oEnum.atEnd();oEnum.moveNext() )
{
var oSelItem = oEnum.item() ;
if ( oSelItem.ScriptingName.match( re ) )
{
LogMessage( oSelItem.scriptingname );
//EditCommand( oSelItem.scriptingname );
}
}
Here’s a related post from the Softimage community forumAREA.
If you want to find out a little more about an undocumented command, uncomment the EditCommand call to pop up the Command Details dialog box.
In this case, the customer was able to run the main application (Softimage), but MatchMover reported a fatal license problem:
License was not obtained Tried ADLM 2011 (590D1 21012.0.0.F), error 43 License method: environment variable MAYA_LICENSE_METHOD='network' Product choice: environment variable MAYA_LICENSE='adlm-590d1-2012.0.0f' License method: environment variable MAYA_ALT_EN is not set
In similar 3ds Max-related cases, the error looked like this:
License was not obtained Tried ADLM 2011 (128D1 21012.0.0.F), error 43 License method: environment variable MAYA_LICENSE_METHOD='standalone' Product choice: environment variable MAYA_LICENSE='adlm-128d1-2012.0.0f' License method: environment variable MAYA_ALT_EN is not set
In these kinds of cases, the first thing to try is setting the ADSK_MATCHMOVER_LICENSE environment variable. This environment variable can have the following values:
If that doesn’t work, then you’ll need to do some more troubleshooting.
If you create a c:\flexlm folder, MatchMover will create the log files adlm.log and MatchMoverLicense.log in the c:\flexlm folder.
adlm.log is the more useful of the two, and will contain log entries like this:
17200 2011/06/22 16:50:37 Reason=Fatal error 17200 2011/06/22 16:50:37 ComputerName=MTLEXAMPLE 17200 2011/06/22 16:50:37 OS=6.1.7600. 17200 2011/06/22 16:50:37 File=AdlmIntLicense.cpp,Line=612 17200 2011/06/22 16:50:37 VendorID=6 [ADLMPIT] 17200 2011/06/22 16:50:37 VendorError=12 [The root information in Product Information Table XML file is missing] 17200 2011/06/22 16:50:37 Reason=Fatal error 17200 2011/06/22 16:50:37 ComputerName=MTLEXAMPLE 17200 2011/06/22 16:50:37 OS=6.1.7600. 17200 2011/06/22 16:50:37 File=AdlmIntLicense.cpp,Line=613 17200 2011/06/22 16:50:37 AdlmIntError=25 [The product key was not found]
If you see the errors [The product key was not found] and [The root information in Product Information Table XML file is missing], then see this post for more information on fixing the problem.
MatchMoverLicense.log typically is just pretty much the same text that you saw in the popup message dialog boxes:
====== BEGIN MAYA LICENSE DIAGNOSTICS Wed Jun 22 16:50:37 2011 ====== 623848 ::: 2 623905 623911 623907 623909 623801 ::: m2010.016 win64, built Mar 2 2011 00:27:42 623802 ::: links in AdLM but not Flint 623833 ::: 'adlm' 623858 ::: 'en_US' 623912 623913 623824 ::: MAYA_LICENSE_METHOD 'standalone' 623823 ::: MAYA_LICENSE 'adlm-128d1-2012.0.0.f' 623826 ::: MAYA_ALT_EN 623830 ::: MAYA_LOCATION 'C:/Program Files/Autodesk/MatchMover2012' 623866 ::: 'C:/Program Files/Autodesk/MatchMover2012/adlm/en_US' 623846 ::: AdLM 4.0.35.0 (A035) win64 623807 ::: standalone MA 128D1 2012.0.0.F 623109 --- MA 128D1 2012.0.0.F 25 623837 ::: 0 623834 ::: 0 623838 ::: 623805 ::: ====== END MAYA LICENSE DIAGNOSTICS Wed Jun 22 16:50:37 2011 ======
A note about those MAYA env vars. You cannot override them by setting them before you start MatchMover. MatchMover appears to set them itself. For example, with ADSK_MATCHMOVER_LICENSE=3DSMAX, MAYA_LICENSE_METHOD comes from the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Autodesk\3dsMax\14.0\MAX-1:409\ADLM\Type, where Type=2 is Standalone and Type=1 is Network.
Finally, to get more diagnotics (like what license MatchMover is actually trying to use), open a Command Prompt and run these commands:
cd C:\Program Files\Autodesk\MatchMover2012 set FLEXLM_DIAGNOSTICS=3 MatchMover.exe
You’ll get some pop-up dialog boxes with messages like this:
--------------------------- FLEXible License Manager --------------------------- FLEXnet Licensing checkout error: License server system does not support this feature. Feature: 85700MAXDES_2012_0F License path: @127.0.0.1;mtl-gohabsgo;C:/Program Files/Autodesk/MatchMover2012\*.lic;c:/flexlm\maya.lic; FLEXnet Licensing error:-18,147 For further information, refer to the FLEXnet Licensing documentation, available at "www.flexerasoftware.com". --------------------------- OK ---------------------------
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