Softimage 2014

[Superpositivo]

Stephen, are you still at Autodesk? I thought you moved to SolidAngle.

That's right, I am at Solid Angle now (I was part of the 7% workforce reduction at Autodesk last August).
Some old habits (like answering Softimage licensing questions) die hard.

It's great you're kind of still with us!

I was thinking exactly the same.

I don't know why, but seeing Stephen here , time by time, gives a kind of safeness...

[Hirazi Blue]

Yes, Autodesk should start paying Stephen for all the great work he still does... ;)

[angus_davidson]

Not to rain on Stephens potential revenue streams but ADSK's loss has been a massive gain for Arnold and its community ;)

[lard]

Is it possible for me to upgrade to Softimage 2012 SAP specifically? It seems all studios and freelancers are sticking to this release. Can I buy a specific version without support? I'm currently running Softimage 2011sp2.

[xsisupport]

Is it possible for me to upgrade to Softimage 2012 SAP specifically? It seems all studios and freelancers are sticking to this release. Can I buy a specific version without support? I'm currently running Softimage 2011sp2.

Nope. To get 2012 SAP you would need to buy 2014 and Subscription.
Previous versions cannot be purchased. You may want to confirm that with a reseller, just to be sure.
But even if you could buy 2012, you wouldn't get 2012 SAP without being on Subs.

[Lord Futzi Voldemort]

Are the suites available for download now for anyone? Mine still isn't.

No
I´m also waiting for the Creation Suite to appear in the sub center

Any luck yet? I'm still waiting. They seem to work as a team now to generate my serial, according to support....

[Bullit]

Any new interesting sample scene in v2014 ?
Edit: i am mostly interested in ICE scenes.

[adrencg]

Steve, while you're dispensing all of your licensing knowledge --- do you know any common causes for a license server to need to be restarted frequently? At least once or twice a day. Especially after the computer has been asleep.

[xsisupport]

Steve, while you're dispensing all of your licensing knowledge --- do you know any common causes for a license server to need to be restarted frequently? At least once or twice a day. Especially after the computer has been asleep.

Hi

Confirm (in LMTOOLS > Config Services) that Start Server at Power Up is enabled.
Check the settings for the service in the Services console (click Start > type services.msc). Everything look ok?

The license server is a Windows service, and sleep should not stop it. I've never had that problem myself, or had a support case for that problem (so I don't have any previous experiences to draw upon).

You're not using a USB network adapter or anything like that, are you? In a case like that, then maybe the device is not waking up (and the license is tied to the Ethernet address of that device).

Maybe check the Windows event log and see if anything jumps out at you?

[Lord Futzi Voldemort]

Any new interesting sample scene in v2014 ?
Edit: i am mostly interested in ICE scenes.

There seem to be 5 new Syflex scenes showing mapped constraints and one blending two sims with a weightmap.

[adrencg]

Steve, while you're dispensing all of your licensing knowledge --- do you know any common causes for a license server to need to be restarted frequently? At least once or twice a day. Especially after the computer has been asleep.

Hi

Confirm (in LMTOOLS > Config Services) that Start Server at Power Up is enabled.
Check the settings for the service in the Services console (click Start > type services.msc). Everything look ok?

The license server is a Windows service, and sleep should not stop it. I've never had that problem myself, or had a support case for that problem (so I don't have any previous experiences to draw upon).

You're not using a USB network adapter or anything like that, are you? In a case like that, then maybe the device is not waking up (and the license is tied to the Ethernet address of that device).

Maybe check the Windows event log and see if anything jumps out at you?

Nothing seems to be out of the ordinary with all that stuff. I've now noticed that I'm getting random crashes, and when I try to restart Softimage the license server is not active. So I'm thinking the crash is being caused by the random disconnection of the license server.

I'm going to put a support ticket into Autodesk, and pray that it gets resolved, because I can see this issue killing my workflow. I've already lost hours of work over this.

[xsisupport]

Steve, while you're dispensing all of your licensing knowledge --- do you know any common causes for a license server to need to be restarted frequently? At least once or twice a day. Especially after the computer has been asleep.

Hi

Confirm (in LMTOOLS > Config Services) that Start Server at Power Up is enabled.
Check the settings for the service in the Services console (click Start > type services.msc). Everything look ok?

The license server is a Windows service, and sleep should not stop it. I've never had that problem myself, or had a support case for that problem (so I don't have any previous experiences to draw upon).

You're not using a USB network adapter or anything like that, are you? In a case like that, then maybe the device is not waking up (and the license is tied to the Ethernet address of that device).

Maybe check the Windows event log and see if anything jumps out at you?

Nothing seems to be out of the ordinary with all that stuff. I've now noticed that I'm getting random crashes, and when I try to restart Softimage the license server is not active. So I'm thinking the crash is being caused by the random disconnection of the license server.

I'm going to put a support ticket into Autodesk, and pray that it gets resolved, because I can see this issue killing my workflow. I've already lost hours of work over this.

Anything in the LMTOOLS debug log?
I'd probably try running Process Monitor, put the computer to sleep, wake it back up, and then see what the flexlm lic service was doing.

EDIT: Random crashes? Then maybe it's a system problem.
EDIT: For the license service, a quick workaround is to update xsi.bat to start the service if it's not running. Now that I think of it, I had to do that once for somebody. Always meant to blog that.

[Bullit]

There seem to be 5 new Syflex scenes showing mapped constraints and one blending two sims with a weightmap.

Thanks my dear Lord.

[Lord Futzi Voldemort]

There seem to be 5 new Syflex scenes showing mapped constraints and one blending two sims with a weightmap.

Thanks my dear Lord.

You may call me "Futzi" ;)

[adrencg]

Steve, what would I add to the .bat to make that happen?

[Firebird]

Are the suites available for download now for anyone? Mine still isn't.

No
I´m also waiting for the Creation Suite to appear in the sub center

Any luck yet? I'm still waiting. They seem to work as a team now to generate my serial, according to support....

Hi
At the moment still waiting. Im in contact with the sub center support since last week and they are looking into it. Well lets see how long it takes.