2 years. 2066 forum & mailing list posts. 829 blog posts.

Yes, I know quantity is not quality, but I tend to stick to posting facts and answers, so I claim that most of my posts are substantive.

Instead of single Softimage network license, you could buy the base model of a state-of-the-art aerodynamic road bike:

***Wheelset upgrade and puppy not included.

December 1994
Canadian Business Enterpreneur of the Year
Daniel Langlois

Incorporates in 1986 to create animation software geared to intuitions of artists and animators. Raises $75,000 by mortgaging house, cashing out pension and maxing out his credit cards.

Backers In 1987, 35 investors pledge $350,000 for one-third of Softimage Inc.

First Sale In 1988, weeks after launch of hte Creative Environment software, Ciné-gorupe Inc. of Montreal buys the $120,000 package.

Breakthrough Actor software module launched in 1991, enhancing animators’ ability to simulate natural movements in 3-D.

Read the full article (PDF)

Wizard of Awe
A genius with a computer, Daniel Langlois
impressed jaded Hollywood with his extraordinary
special effects. So what did he do for an encore?
Merely dazzled the daylights out of Microsoft’s Bill Gates

Sorry for the relatively poor quality of the PDF, but back in 1994, photocopies were pretty low quality.

The image captures are actually more legible, if you don’t mind the small type:

Yay, with yesterday’s post, I’ve now published 1000 posts!

Softimage stopped selling and supporting BatchServe back in late 2006/early 2007, so I never had the pleasure of supporting that product 😉

Here’s some BatchServe screen grabs and a quickstart video from the XSI 3.0 Experience CD (so this stuff is from early 2003):

http://vimeo.com/45655093

Dynamically assigning Materials to particles
by Vincent Ullmann

Cumulative sum of distances between an array element and all preceding array elements
by Fabricio Chamon

Cumulative sum of distances between an array element and all preceding array elements
by Vincent Ullmann

ICE | Arnold Render Errors With Strands
by Mitchell Lotierzo

Lagoa cloth ICE tree
by Matt Morris

Delete polygons by area
by Vincent Ullmann

From early this morning when I went to check out the recent activity on the xsibase:

l_SelMode = Application.GetUserPref("SI3D_RECTSEL_REGION_MODE")

if l_SelMode == 1:
	Application.ActivateRaycastPolySelTool( 2 )
	Application.LogMessage("Raycast")
else if l_SelMode == 2:
	Application.ActivateRaycastPolySelTool( 1 )
	Application.LogMessage( "Rectangle" )