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Softimage mailing 2016 year in review

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Hi there and welcome to 2017 !
Here’s a few stats and the obligatory word cloud for the past year on the Softimage mailing list.
softimage_mailing_list_2016
  • 3282 posts
  • 406 topics
  • 233 different posters

Top 25 posters

*number of posts in parentheses
  1. Morten Bartholdy (219)
  2. Olivier Jeannel (179)
  3. Pierre Schiller (151)
  4. Mirko Jankovic (119)
  5. Chris Marshall (106)
  6. Sebastien Sterling (85)
  7. Sven Constable (84)
  8. Stephen Blair (74)
  9. Matt Lind (71)
  10. Steven Caron (67)
  11. Jason S (60)
  12. Jordi Bares (60)
  13. Leendert A. Hartog (54)
  14. Rob Wuijster (52)
  15. pedro santos (52)
  16. Cristobal Infante (51)
  17. Angus Davidson (48)
  18. Ognjen Vukovic (48)
  19. Fabricio Chamon (41)
  20. Martin Yara (40)
  21. adrian wyer (37)
  22. Adam Seeley (36)
  23. Andrew Prostrelov (34)
  24. Stephen Davidson (34)
  25. Matt Morris (33)

Top 25 topics

*number of posts in parentheses

  1. Autodesk acquires Solid Angle (139)
  2. Goodbyes (was this is the end…) (97)
  3. this is the end…… (83)
  4. Redshift users? (70)
  5. Wiki EOL soon (70)
  6. So.. Maya rigging is still a thing… (66)
  7. PyQtForSoftimage Examples “”Out of present range”” error (60)
  8. Ping (39)
  9. Softimage EOL 2017 – The chronicles of a giant (documentary) (35)
  10. New render layers in maya (35)
  11. Softimage and CMYK (32)
  12. Reminiscing (31)
  13. “OTOY announces availability of OctaneRender 3 and OctaneRender Cloud, previews Brigade/OctaneRender” (30)
  14. Soft 2 Houdini (30)
  15. City generator? (30)
  16. Momentum / implosiafx plugins (29)
  17. 1 texture per polygon (28)
  18. object parenting in maya (28)
  19. Robinsons drink effect (25)
  20. -Camera. Frames issues (24)
  21. Wrapped (22)
  22. OT Houdini build Array VOP question (and a bit of rant) (21)
  23. Motion Tracking (21)
  24. OT Maya: (Please god tell me i’m not alone with this) (20)
  25. Warcraft Creating The Horde (20)
    Friday Flashback #265 (20)

Top topics by month

Jan
  • Redshift users? (70)
  • So.. Maya rigging is still a thing… (66)
  • this is the end…… (62)
  • OT Maya: (Please god tell me i’m not alone with this) (20)
  • Happy New Year list (16)
  • photoscan on peaople (16)

Feb

  • Goodbyes (was this is the end…) (72)
  • Softimage and CMYK (32)
  • 1 texture per polygon (27)
  • this is the end…… (21)
  • City generator? (21)

Mar

  • OT Houdini build Array VOP question (and a bit of rant) (21)
  • -Camera. Frames issues (17)
  • Beta of new Binary Alchemy shaders available for free (16)
  • “XSI and Window 10, the bright future” (15)
  • ICE – how to align instances to edges? (13)

Apr

  • Autodesk acquires Solid Angle (139)
  • New render layers in maya (35)
  • “OTOY announces availability of OctaneRender 3 and OctaneRender Cloud, previews Brigade/OctaneRender” (30)
  • Wrapped (22)
  • Distribute between knots? Know the percentage position of a knot? (19)

May

  • Momentum / implosiafx plugins (29)
  • Change object visibility with another object? (19)
  • Compositing app choice (18)
  • equirectangular uv (17)
  • Alembic advices (16)

Jun

  • PyQtForSoftimage Examples “”Out of present range”” error (43)
  • Path constrained camera and endless loop (16)
  • external” Python crashes Softimage onstartup (15)
  • exit from a CustomTool (15)
  • ICE and Mental Ray – seen anything like this? (13)
  • Convert PIC files (13)

Jul

  • Motion Tracking (21)
  • PyQtForSoftimage Examples “”Out of present range”” error (14)
  • Soft to Maya Bridge (14)
  • OT: Softs Duplicate Symmetry in Maya? (11)
  • “Camera warpers / deformers / lattice, anyone?” (9)

Aug

  • Wiki EOL soon (56)
  • Reminiscing (31)
  • aaOcean – SI 2014 – How to set it up on a scene? (15)
  • OT: GearVR + Mocap Suit = Full Body in VR (15)
  • redshift materials show gray in viewport (15)

Sep

  • object parenting in maya (28)
  • ÜberTage says goodbye: ÜberTage|2016 this Friday, September 16th in Siegen/Germany (17)
  • testing list (14)
  • OT Model shelf in Houdini missing (14)
  • Wiki EOL soon (11)

Oct

  • Ping (39)
  • Soft 2 Houdini (30)
  • Soft 2 Houdini acronyms (11)
  • Cage deformer question (10)
  • Houdini 2 Soft Q – how to write/read Houdini attributes in XSI? (9)

Nov

  • Robinsons drink effect (24)
  • Warcraft Creating The Horde (20)
  • electric plasma effect (18)
  • Exploding fractured mesh (17)
  • Weights Plugin (12)

Dec

  • Softimage EOL 2017 – The chronicles of a giant (documentary) (35)
  • Houdini voronoi to Soft – disconnected faces? (15)
  • thickness – avoiding self intersections (14)
  • render 360 (9)
  • OT: Wireless VR 2.0 (8)
  • Wacom Cintiq 13 (8)
  • Last xsi reel (8)

2015 year in review for the Softimage mailing list

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2015_softimage_list_word_cloud

539 topics, 4055 posts, 271 different posters

Top 25 Threads
*number of posts in bold

  1. Maya thinks they’re clever….and that’s the problem 92
  2. Introducing Canvas – visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0 59
  3. Get rid of your flip phone and get current on maya! 58
  4. H14 is out ! 56
  5. Is purchasing a new softimage license impossible? 53
  6. Continued use of Softimage question 50
  7. OT: Hypershade changes in Maya 2016 46
  8. Friday Flashback #223 46
  9. test 41
  10. can I still get softimage? 40
  11. Heavy scenes with the GTX 970 40
  12. GATOR – A feature in Softimage since 2008 38
  13. Soft licenses still available for purchase? 36
  14. Very OT: for the love of your career.. try houdini 36
  15. akeytsu animation software demo 36
  16. “”The shadow over The Foundry”” 36
  17. Maya freelance list 35
  18. OT: Epic going completely crazy 33
  19. Downloading Entertainment Creation Suite 33
  20. OT: Modo 901 Sneak Peek 32
  21. [PLUG] mGear Teaser 31
  22. Have a question an alternative tool 31
  23. End of the ride 31
  24. Maya graph dependencies 28
  25. OT’ish: Redshift renderfarm with Softimage setup? 27

Top 25 Posters
* number of posts in bold

  1. Jason S 132
  2. Pierre Schiller 125
  3. Morten Bartholdy 117
  4. Eric Thivierge 98
  5. Raffaele Fragapane 94
  6. Matt Lind 94
  7. Mirko Jankovic 91
  8. Sebastien Sterling 85
  9. Leendert A. Hartog 84
  10. Stephen Blair 82
  11. Olivier Jeannel 80
  12. Gerbrand Nel 79
  13. Mario Reitbauer 78
  14. Luc-Eric Rousseau 72
  15. Sven Constable 70
  16. Ponthieux, Joseph G. 68
  17. Angus Davidson 63
  18. Tim Leydecker 61
  19. Eric Turman 60
  20. Chris Marshall 54
  21. Nicolas Esposito 53
  22. peter_b 52
  23. Jordi Bares Dominguez 49
  24. Steven Caron 48
  25. Francisco Criado 48

Friday Flashback #154

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What was happening on the XSI list 13 years ago?

In the past few weeks, I’ve compiled annual summaries for five different lists, so here’s one more, this time for Jan 2001 on the XSI mailing list.

I pulled a listing of the Jan 2001 posts out of the wayback machine, and stuffed them into a word cloud. There were a lot of names I recognized; many of them still posting on the list. Do you see yours? 🙂
xsi-list-jan-2013

There were almost a thousand posts. Here’s the top topics of discussion:

  • Hmmm – Back at work NO LICENSES!!!!! 44
  • import export? 19
  • lic problems 16
  • Is it just me…? 16
  • Walk cycle in the animation mixer 14
  • Scripting book 14
  • refresh problem …. 13
  • Home Studio 12
  • XSI 1.5 available for download 11
  • FW: making walls? 10
  • bump map problem 9
  • Camera preset .. 9
  • symmetry – modelling 9
  • No Subject 8
  • colored shadows? how? 8
  • Doing character stuff… 8
  • Disappearing Particles. 7
  • Chortle 7
  • import export? 7
  • WISHLIST for 2.0 7
  • key 7
  • Pentium4 6
  • colored shadows!!! Works great! 6
  • Bump Map 6
  • BONNE ANNEES 6
  • XSI SDK again!! 6
  • shapes and adding deformers AFTER en 6
  • SOFTIMAGE should buy Rhino: NURBs Bo 6
  • desperately seeking FUR 6
  • shrinking at joint 6
  • TRIMS and others 6
  • LAST ONE::: Hmmm – Back at work NO LICENSES!!!! 6

XSI 1.5 inspired a lot of discussion, there were many small threads about that update:

  • XSI 1.5 available for download
  • Measuring length of a curve in 1.5?
  • installing 1.5
  • [1.5 does it really exist?] Dahhhhh
  • 1.5 Anyone? YES ITS COMMING :-))
  • 1.5
  • 1.5 CRASHES
  • 1.5 Anyone?
  • XSI 1.5 available for download
  • XSI 1.5 is here at last!!
  • 1.5 CRASHES
  • 1.5 Anyone?
  • Fix in 1.5?
  • installing 1.5
  • Status : 1.5 ???
  • [Fix in 1.5?]
  • #28 on page 146 of 1.5 Tutorial Book! –
  • 1.5 Anyone? YES ITS COMMING :-))
  • #28 on page 146 of 1.5 Tutorial Book!
  • Status : 1.5 ???
  • Fix in 1.5?
  • 1.5 does it really exist?

Top posters

  • Kim Aldis (124)
  • André Adam (42)
  • Stefan Andersson (37)
  • Meg Ward (30)
  • Arvid Björn (28)
  • Pierre Duranleau (21)
  • Chet Kenisell (19)
  • Thomas Groppi (17)
  • Thierry Baret (15)
  • Chris Marshall (15)

Softimage mailing list – Year in Review

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2013_xsilist_wordcloud

12060 posts
1388 discussions
460 different posters

Top Ten discussion threads
Number of posts in bold.

  1. Softimage 2014 190
  2. Octane render 177
  3. Announcing Redshift – Biased GPU Renderer 154
  4. Why did I pay support?? Why did I buy a suite ? I want my money back! 118
  5. softimage.tv – Hello World! 78
  6. Future of Naiad 72
  7. Unofficial Softimage user voice 69
  8. Softimage 2015 User Survey 67
  9. Difference between a force and a velocity ? 63
  10. SI 2014 sneak peek 62

Top Ten posters
Number of posts in bold.

The top 10 posters accounted for 23% of all posts; the top 25 for 40%.

  1. Alan Fregtman 396
  2. Matt Lind 382
  3. Raffaele Fragapane 380
  4. Eric Thivierge 341
  5. olivier jeannel 308
  6. Steven Caron 297
  7. Stephen Blair 277
  8. Sebastien Sterling 223
  9. Luc-Eric Rousseau 189
  10. Ponthieux, Joseph G. 185

Century club

  1. Alan Fregtman 396
  2. Matt Lind 382
  3. Raffaele Fragapane 380
  4. Eric Thivierge 341
  5. olivier jeannel 308
  6. Steven Caron 297
  7. Stephen Blair 277
  8. Sebastien Sterling 223
  9. Luc-Eric Rousseau 189
  10. Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES] 185
  11. Chris Chia 161
  12. Paul Griswold 158
  13. Mirko Jankovic 157
  14. Sergio Mucino 156
  15. Szabolcs Matefy 153
  16. Christopher 152
  17. Stefan Kubicek 147
  18. Rob Chapman 136
  19. adrian wyer 133
  20. Alok Gandhi 126
  21. Sandy Sutherland 125
  22. Leonard Koch 124
  23. Grahame Fuller 123
  24. Dan Yargici 122
  25. Emilio Hernandez 120
  26. Eugen Sares 116
  27. Andy Moorer 115
  28. Morten Bartholdy 107
  29. Angus Davidson 105
  30. Peter B 103

Top 5 most active days

  • 26 March, 149 posts, “Softimage 2014”
  • 28 February, 121, “SI 2014 sneak peek”
  • 20 December, 103, “positivity” and “rumor, Soft dead within the next year”
  • 13 February, 102, “Difference between a force and a velocity ?”
  • 17 July, 101, “I can’t believe there is no tutorial for Softimage on Autodesk webiste”