The collected works of foetz - Page 5

Cauldronborn wrote: I've recently aquired a big ol monstrosity of a Alphaserver. Not sure what model but its big and square (not as big but roughly Crimson shaped) that is supposed to have dual procs in it. It boots to some kind of prom but after that I'm lost. My question is what are my OS options and what are the Pro/Con's of each. I understand it will run Tru64 but possible licencing issues? Also NT but I'd like to forgo that. Anyone know how the linux or Open/Net/Free BSD support is for these? The guy I got it from was a BSD developer with multiple Alpha machines so there is hope there.

no question, if there is one always use the dedicated unix which would be tru64 here.

Rutrem wrote: I heard a lot of good stuff around the Xbow arch.,
and stability of the IRIX OS.

probably the best combo ever made
if you wanna experience the very definition of 'workflow' ... you're right here.

no, the cage is different and so is the midplane.
normally trying to turn an origin into an onyx doesn't pay out.

you might also wanna use the search. there were several topics about this.

do yourself a big favor and stay with maya + the origin

sciencedata wrote: First the cost, AD wants $200K for 30 seats of Maya8U. Second upgrade costs, I have been a user since PA5 and Maya1, and AD wants the full retail to upgrade from MAYA6 to Maya8, plus dropping Irix. Thanks. What professional software is still out there that supports Irix, I may be beating a dead horse, I guess. Thanks.

of course. that's an individual choice.
you have to decide if you 'need' maya above 6.5 or not. anyhow if you decide you do need v8 you can definitely forget blender.

getting it right now. thanks

zizban wrote: Heck port Irix to x86.

i hope not

got it, thanks!!

c99 is part of the mipspro compiler.

did you delete it or does the linux box lack the lo0 entry?

Oskar45 wrote:

fvador59 wrote: http://sgifanclub.1fr1.net
for smoke / flame / 3ds max / maya artists

...except that, AFAIK, these products are no longer actively supported for IRIX by their respective vendors [at least Maya is definitely not].

and?

SAQ wrote:

fvador59 wrote: yes and ?

I think Foetz' "yes, and" was an and of support- since you can't get support from $ORIG_COMPANY it's a good thing that support is available elsewhere in an informal manner. My PI/Indigo/IRIS 3k is unsupported by the vendor, so I'm very glad to have any support elsewhere, even if it is "unofficial" Another point in it's favor- unofficial support is usually a little bit less expensive .

exactly! thanks once again for the long version

as a personal user it doesn't matter what you're using as long as you're happy with it.

however commercial usage depends on several things. one of them is the desired outcome. another is reliability.
pros (no matter which sector) don't upgrade blindly just to have the new version as so many home users do. instead they analyze what they need, what a new version offers, the costs and e.g. the technical risks of an upgrade (plugin compatibility issues for example).
besides that there're many more issues to consider before going for a new or other version. every transition has its pros and cons so there is no 'normal' way. it is totally subjective.

toxygen wrote:

Oskar45 wrote:

fvador59 wrote: Perfect reflection

Would you have argued the same way if I'd have talked about Photoshop instead of Maya?

from Photoshop version 6 there has been literally no major change except ability to edit more layers at once. I can imagine myself working with photoshop version 5 as good as with cs3.
although, new "features" may save some time, but they are not crucially necessary.

the main difference is the speed and the size. cs3 compared to v5 is much bigger and much slower

got it right away, thanks!

while using the open-file window i get console errors anyhow it seems like they don't affect the app


btw could you add that the extension 'sgi' is recognized? since rgb file work i guess it won't be much work

no, i don't see thumbnails at all. i tried it with an ir2e

dj wrote:

foetz wrote: no, i don't see thumbnails at all. i tried it with an ir2e

Hmm... Something's definitely wrong with the offscreen-rendering then; I'll try and add some options to the next version for selecting different GLX visuals. Thanks for the feedback.

you're welcome. i'm gonna try some more specific tasks if you like. just let me know

i think that's gnome and not x11.
try a native x11 app like xterm

maybe this helps?
http://list.opera.com/pipermail/opera-l ... 08948.html

just a font issue?

anyway the output is really not very helpful

nekomusume wrote: doesnt Xorg work on irix?, if it does try just using that >_> if pos

that'd be a big effort.
i'd say the economical solution is just not to use the gnome crap
who needs gedit anyway

just had the opportunity to run hte 0.72 on my ir2e. it just gave me

bjames wrote: Thanks guys,

What is patch 5086 - where is is available?

just from where you got 6.5.22

So it seems that the risks are pretty low and should not affect my 3D apps that use FlexLM liscencing.

no, the lics will be fine

I plan on swapping my root drive for a faster one, so I will perform that first so I have a complete backup of the system disk before I upgrade.

good idea.
anyhow i've never had that few problems with upgrades on any other os by far

the search should show the script i posted some time ago. it was made more comfortable by another member later.
both should be still here

erwan01 wrote: Thanks for the tip

I haven't changed that file yet. I was hoping I could get my command line to work without altering the original file. I tried everything but the "-c $COLOR_FILE" flag is not recognized by the program.
So I guess the only option left is to directly modify the "Desktop.rsrc" file in the /usr/Softimage/Soft3D_4.0/3D/rsrc directory.

i've never been able to run soft without modifying several original things

i used prisms on an indigo2 with an r4400.
it ran better than any version of xsi on any machine

well what else was interesting?
the composer was a separate app and called ice.
the version i had still had the old irix binary format.
the workflow was somewhat between lightwave and houdini.
the renderer was clear and nice. better results than alias imo but not as sharp as lightwave.
...

maybe i remember more tomorrow

sgtprobe wrote: Looking forward to it, this is very interesting.

yeah, well, what can i add?
since my version still was the old binary format (coff) it's been some time ago so my memory might not be totally correct.

the interface was mostly green and gray.
i'm not sure which version i got. but i wasn't the last cause it had coff binaries.
the licensing was kinda weird. completely different compared to most other apps.
it had a renderman interface already.
the renderer was called mantra just like houdini.
it had its own install script. it did not use inst.
it had a morphing module called mojo.

i'll add more in case i happen to recall more

no matter where this ends it's a nice find anyway

bplaa.yai wrote: I picked up my O350 today, and installed the V10 this afternoon.
I was quite lucky to get the main node of an Onyx 350 configuration, so it came with all the extras (PS2 connectors, usb card, M-Audio card, DVD drive).
Here are some more pictures of the install process :

that's great!
congrats

that's it.
what else to say?