Wednesday Word Cloud: Advanced Support

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Word cloud for the Customer Guide to Autodesk Advanced Support.

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On this subject, now that the AREA forums have been updated, I suspect Maya/3dsMax/Softimage customers are one step closer to forum support. From the Advanced Customer Guide:

Proactively Escalate Forum Posts to Autodesk
Autodesk Advanced Support provides you with all the benefits of Basic Support, including expedited community forum support: if the community does not respond to your posts within 24 hours, they are automatically escalated to Autodesk.

Friday Flashback #123

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Gesture. Unparalleled Artistry. XSI v.3.5

The new tools and interface in
SOFTIMAGE|XSI are really exciting.
XSI allows for a thoroughfare between
imagination and creation that we’d
never seen or experienced before.

That mad us very ecited and made
us adopt XSI into our pipeline
as quickly as possible.

PSYOP,Inc.

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Saving scenes outside of projects

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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).