Re: XSI6 woes

[André Adam <a_adam(at)49games.de>]

The Render Map crash is interesting, I get that one as well, using 
Ultimapper (which basically is Render Map), but on Windows. I hoped that 
was something mixed up with our install. Too bad, I will have to rely on 
that tool intensively in the forthcoming weeks...

   -André

Luc Froelicher wrote:
> I've been on it all day , on linux , doing mainly rendertree and 
> renderregion kind of stuffs
> and it only hangs once at the end of a rendermap.for no reason ...
> the rendermap was ok on disc but I had to kill XSI bruteforce.
>
> otherwise it was a good experience.
> mr3.5 looks really great , setting rendering options is now a very 
> complex science !!!
>
> still some graphics glitches , just at the limit of being annoying  
> ... :(
>
> Adrian Lopez wrote:
> > Strange,  we just used 6 on a fairly complex character spot, and it 
> > was flawless - we also made extensive use of delta referencing, a few 
> > third party plugins - and it never crashed once.   Don't get me 
> > wrong, we were nervous about using 6 so soon out of the pipe, but we 
> > had no problems - and character sets made things so much easier.
> >
> > Adrian
> >
> >
> > On 1/3/07, *Frank Lenhard* <frank.lenhard(at)gmail.com 
> > <mailto:frank.lenhard(at)gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hello List,
> >
> >     *in case this posting arrives twice, my apologies*
> >
> >     i just sum up my short experience with xsi6 from one day. this wont
> >     sond nice, mainly because i didn not reach the point where i could
> >     make
> >     use of the new features and improvements. i am also way to much 
> > under
> >     pressure to investigate into each problem i encountered right now,
> >     because deadlines are looming. so i am continuing production with 
> > 5.11
> >     xsi 5.11 runs rock solid on the same machine i installed V6.
> >
> >     1. crashes,
> >     i got suprised by about 10 crashes in one day. most of them, out of
> >     the blue. most annoying where that it crashed while saving scenes 
> > (no
> >     usable files where left, but at least the old file did not got
> >     destroyed) or exporting models.  both kind of crashes are ugly,
> >     because they hit you exactly when you did your work and leave you 
> > with
> >     nothing. i didnt do any specialized stuff. no rendering, no shaders.
> >     just organzizing a master scene into different shots.
> >     render region crashed on me twice.
> >     it crashed on me while defining a new screen layout.
> >
> >     2.characters.
> >     i got a character that was built and rigged in 5.11.
> >     that one loads fine in xsi6 but, after saving and reloading in v6 it
> >     generates all kind of weird effects. mostly it gives me some 
> > problems
> >     while loading the v6 saved file and performs a "cleanup".
> >     the result is a destroyed rig.
> >     usually it looses the connection of the control curves to
> >     shapeweights. or gives funny results when using them, like exploding
> >     the head when it just should move the eyebrow up. again, everything
> >     worked when the character was in v6 first time.
> >     so i loaded the character in v6 first, set up CKsets and such and
> >     exportet as an v6 model. still the same behaviour.
> >
> >     3. animation editor.
> >     seems i have to learn it new. but one thing that seemed really
> >     strange
> >     was that when i wanna move the right handles of a key(s) and want to
> >     move them to screen right, i have to move the mouse to screen left.
> >
> >     3. explorer
> >     simple thing, i wanted to rename couple objects. suddenly it behaved
> >     weird, didnt let me select new objects. then it did. but didnt 
> > renamed
> >     them any more. f2 didnt worked any more. there was one object, wheni
> >     clicked it i got instantly a cursor in the name field, as if i had
> >     pressed f2, but i didnt. enter stopped working and the viewports
> >     where
> >     inactive. reloading the scene didnt fix it, restarting xsi did 
> > fix it.
> >
> >
> >     i will take some time after i finished the project in v5 to
> >     investigate and maybe file some bugreports. btw, as some others 
> > noted,
> >     the webform doesnt show v6 yet.
> >
> >     ciao
> >     franky
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Adrian Lopez
> > CEO | Director | Producer
> > Liquid Light Digital
> > Kingston, Jamaica
> > C:  876.381.2471
> > W: 876.978.6418
> >
> > www.liquidlightdigital.com <http://www.liquidlightdigital.com>
> >
> > HD/SD Production | VFX & Animation | Production Management

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