So, after three weeks of vacation in Venice, Florence, Tuscany, Rome, and Paris, I’m back. Here’s a few pics from my trip, all taken with my iPod Touch, which was a great little travel companion.
Issue
You want to save a scene (a .scn file) to a folder that is not part of project. For example, you may want to save a copy of scene to a temporary working folder where a batch processing job can pick up the scene, and you don’t want to have to create a Softimage project.
Solution
Softimage scenes must be saved to a valid project location.
A valid project location is any folder that contains a system folder, with a dsprojectinfo file in that folder.
To create a minimal project location, you can simply copy the system folder from an existing project. You can then save the scene in that location (you don’t even have to create a Scenes subfolder).
in Venice:
It’s getting to be that time of year when people start asking about the next version…
You can probably get a pretty good idea of when to expect Softimage 2014 by looking backwards. So, here’s the dates that previous versions were announced and released (data gathered via google).
| Release | Announced | Released |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 27 March 2012 | 12 April 2012 |
| 2012 | 01 March 2011 | 07 April 2011 |
| 2011 | 15 March 2010 | 06 April 2010 |
| 2010 | 03 August 2009 | 14 Sept 2009 |
| 7.5 | 23 Feb 2008 | 23 Feb 2008 |
LKLightning 2.0 Tutorial 01 – Swirling7
Display debug per-object attribute on distant point cloud
by Fabricio Chamon
Moving cached geometry
by Alok Gandhi
Reflections
by NNois
Turbulize Null position
by Helli
Splitting edges
by iamVFX, julian johnson
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The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
About 55,000 tourists visit Liechtenstein every year. This blog was viewed about 290,000 times in 2012. If it were Liechtenstein, it would take about 5 years for that many people to see it. Your blog had more visits than a small country in Europe!
In 2012, there were 374 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 1,123 posts. There were 810 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 186 MB. That’s about 2 pictures per day.
The busiest day of the year was August 31st with 1,893 views. The most popular post that day was Friday Flashback #85.
Early this week, I posted a script that did a random shuffle of a collection of objects. That script used tuple assignment to swap elements in a list; here’s a simpler example, with the tuple assignment (line 9) highlighted:
import random v = [o for o in Application.Selection] print [o.Name for o in v] # random shuffle for i in range( len(v) ): j = random.randint( i, len(v)-1 ) v[i], v[j] = v[j], v[i] print [o.Name for o in v] # [u'cube', u'cube1', u'cube2', u'cube3', u'cube4', u'cube5', u'cube6', u'cube7', u'cube8'] # [u'cube5', u'cube4', u'cube7', u'cube2', u'cube1', u'cube3', u'cube', u'cube8', u'cube6']
Looking at that line, you might wonder why you don’t end up assigning the same value to both a[i] and a[j] (eg, how does that line not do a[i] = a[j] and then a[j] = a[i] ?).
In tuple assignment, the right-hand side is considered a tuple of values. So the right-hand side is evaluated first, and then the resulting values are pairwise assigned to the tuple on the left hand side. For example, consider this-rather-more-concrete snippet:
a = 2 b = 8 a,b = b-a,b+a print a print b # 6 # 10
The right-hand side “b-a,b+a” is first evaluated, giving the tuple 6, 10, so you effectively have this:
a,b = 6,10
Sometime last week this blog reached a minor milestone of a half-million page views. Thanks to everybody for keeping coming back 🙂
After my stay at Autodesk ended seven weeks ago, I never got to say anything like “I’ll be back”, because I never really went away. Posting here continued more or less as normal. But now, I’m back at work: today is my first day at Solid Angle SL as one of the Solids, as they’re [apparently] sometimes called 🙂
I’ll be working from my home office, with occasional visits to Madrid. My job? Senior Support Engineer.
The workspace, all set up and ready to go…
Having an expresso and figuring out the Soft Lighting parameters…
Harley, the “Montreal office” mascot
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