Re: Softimage and Houdini work flow

2020-04-21 Thread Ben Paschke 
Just so you kow, Houdini can be a _very_ nice platform for lighting and 
shading. RSP has been using Houdini and a non-Mantra renderer for years and 
years now.

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> Sent: Tuesday, 21 April, 2020 4:49:26 PM
> Subject: Re: Softimage and Houdini work flow

> Yeah, well probably Softimage is laking a few things nowaday, but just try
> importing a pointcloud from Houdini to Maya.
> Here, we gave up, we ended up relying on Vray proxies ^^
> 
> Le mar. 21 avr. 2020 à 07:05, Mirko Jankovic < [
> mailto:mirko.yanko...@protonmail.com | mirko.yanko...@protonmail.com ] > a
> écrit :
> 
> 
> And why not looking option for other way around, modeling and aall up to
> lighting.shading rendering can be done in SI, then transfer them to Houdini.
> Modeling, character animation, all that where Softiamge is still rather 
> strong.
> Then move to Houdini for lookdev, shading lightning and rendering.
> Fianally as Houdini start to push in aniamtion area later on, you can see to
> switch slowly, if you wont, segment by segment.
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Re: anyone know how ICE "get closest location" actually works under the hood?

2020-03-30 Thread Ben Paschke 
Oh man! I would if I could!!

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> Sent: Tuesday, 31 March, 2020 11:44:40 AM
> Subject: Re: anyone know how ICE "get closest location" actually works under  
> the hood?

> oh, if we are going that route I would look up the FabricEngine implementation
> as a guide/hint since it was written by the same person who maintained much of
> the Softimage implementation.
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 5:48 PM Ben Paschke < [ mailto:ben.pasc...@rsp.com.au 
> |
> ben.pasc...@rsp.com.au ] > wrote:
> 
> 
> Just for ideas, maybe you could check out blender source code for the
> implementation of their closest_point_on_mesh function?
> Possibly in here somewhere: [
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Re: anyone know how ICE "get closest location" actually works under the hood?

2020-03-30 Thread Ben Paschke 
Just for ideas, maybe you could check out blender source code for the 
implementation of their closest_point_on_mesh function?
Possibly in here somewhere: 
https://u9432639.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=A5uD99yDGgJFqsHo0L78rjo3fW-2BI05z8hPddj-2BYSrjut8V8Kr3SyUl8pLj-2FCGT-2FDeNKab7qfuyVCb3REukB7uOLzA5famBZ-2B-2F8zifufqpDPuQ7wQLjRylwsiJRsu59ZGmY-2B1E-2F0Fmg51M2sa35sxukGSO3EjQaY-2BBx42JE-2Fp-2F8AvZjIxx-2BiLvNnYzTcpSFKM1lo0SlbQq6EZsnDNfmf9Pz2GB2xb-2FJyU367clFaW7LGa0vi9RVBFToNbK71QlFYG2Af6DuYKQ5CxDsfL-2FI3MY5l7kJ8dT0K8f1HwIjBCT-2Fls0aWQT0a6cOZrjligXWxqbPTcy-2FpKPd4ABsuOWI5BGMi2mTMT1kTDc-2BDXE0ybHYRSip8006Vh2VbhYL2TxAqU-2BNNDld6iqJJqAfb7rZQ-2BQmtKltTV4kWSPvrL1N4zC9gXUIYWXehOrmzeoiwE9-2BhzYl-2Fjuw74Wus5jmgEimpNoQ-3D-3DH2VV_x9fWPgxQbfi69QJnHJqUKZsAJHrwlN1lgOIh62WX2fRjhCTUBdu-2F0zyafUDoOOGPVOqpBDJpKKHFfy1c-2FFsexjxhOrVa19bbVt3mqQpfKvnjbSnsL0JjiDkQgB1kYeShQG4Zp6krwG518O6z0u8tO-2FbugBLZhMiRvOfovqVQoajfXhLSJ3ayUZ6sjnGLewttpuUEcTi9b0tXwKBDz6Ru-2FJJjMMKLDLzE73h7-2F-2Becc4Q-3D
 

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> need to reverse-engineer it in c++
> 
> thanks!
> 
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Re: Friday Flashback #395

2019-12-29 Thread Ben Paschke 
Phoenix Tools! ^__^

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Re: OTish - Soft2Maya transition list

2017-06-06 Thread Ben Paschke 
A wild Raff appears!

- Original Message -
> From: "Raffaele Fragapane" 
> To: "Official Softimage Users Mailing List. 
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/xsi_list;
> 
> Sent: Monday, 5 June, 2017 11:06:40 AM
> Subject: Re: OTish - Soft2Maya transition list
> 
> 
> 
> There actually is a cult you can turn to for this kind of stuff
> http://www.cultofrig.com
> 
> 
> And now I will fade into the silent background for another year or
> two, after having incidentally proven right both the comment about
> turning to faith, and the one about old timers lurking.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Raff
> 
> 
> On 31 May 2017 11:28 PM, "Olivier Jeannel" < facialdel...@gmail.com >
> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> You may want to join a suicidal-group hotline, or maybe turn yourself
> to a religion ?
> 
> Sorry, couldn't resist :
> 
> 
> Good luck ;)
> 
> 
> 2017-05-31 15:19 GMT+02:00 Enter Reality < 3dv...@gmail.com > :
> 
> 
> 
> After 3 years here is my situation:
> 
> 
> - Modeling: Trying with Maya, fuck it, use Softimage
> - Animation: some good tools, but overall the flexibility of Sofimage
> still is a strong advantage point
> - Rigging: Surprisingly I feel more comfortable with constraints in
> Maya then Soft, and overall ( using the ART toolkit in order to
> build characters for the Unreal Engine 4 ) the entire process is
> quite good...when it comes to skinning, the rule "Fuck it, export to
> Soft then import the finished product in Maya" still wins
> - Texturing/shading: Jesus...it's a mess
> - Rendering: almost gave up
> 
> 
> Overall I still rely on Soft A LOT almost every day
> 
> 
> I feel your pain Morten, but I honestly don't even want to join
> another mailing list where all the answers are "You need to code
> that"
> 
> 
> On youtube you an still find the videos made by Autodesk about the
> transition Soft to Maya
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 2017-05-31 14:45 GMT+02:00 Morten Bartholdy < x...@colorshopvfx.dk > :
> 
> 
> I seem to have seen someone mentioning it here in the past, but can't
> remember. Is there a Maya userlist somewhere, hopefully as helpful
> as this one, or perhaps a forum for suffering Soft2Maya
> transitioners like myself?
> 
> And what a godawful piece of shit software that is!
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Morten
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Re: houdini 16 nav

2017-03-14 Thread Ben Paschke 
Almost! Press space-z with your mouse over an object.
That rayscast point will become center of the view and the center of the orbit.

- Original Message -
> From: "Eugene Flormata" 
> To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
> Sent: Wednesday, 15 March, 2017 9:51:03 AM
> Subject: houdini 16 nav
> 
> 
> 
> forgot the email for the houdini list, and not sure of the keywords I
> was looking for
> 
> to rotate a camera around where the mouse cursor is on the closest
> raycasted object
> (like zbrush or maya with the right rotation setting)
> 
> is this a thing in houdini?
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Re: houdini 16

2017-02-26 Thread Ben Paschke 
Sad.

- Original Message -
> From: "Rob Wuijster" 
> To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
> Sent: Saturday, 25 February, 2017 6:57:36 PM
> Subject: Re: houdini 16
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Fake normals!! ;-)
> Rob
> 
> \/-\/\/
> On 24-2-2017 18:50, Laurence Dodd wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> It's all alternative faces
> 
> 
> On 24 February 2017 at 15:04, Jonathan Moore <
> jonathan.moo...@gmail.com > wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> In an act of politician like flipping, I take it back again ref the
> new Boolean tools in H16. I hadn't realised that the magic sauce
> came about by using the new weighting method of 'Face Area' on the
> Normal node.
> 
> 
> That'll learn me for not paying proper attention to the introductory
> tool videos. ;)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 23 February 2017 at 19:47, Jonathan Moore <
> jonathan.moo...@gmail.com > wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> I take it all back. Emperor's new clothes syndrome with the new
> boolean tools. They're as nasty to your geometry as ever they were.
> ;)
> 
> 
> On the other hand, they're ace as cutting planes for destruction
> shots where good surfacing doesn't matter so much.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 23 February 2017 at 16:00, Jonathan Moore <
> jonathan.moo...@gmail.com > wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> For non deforming geometry the new boolean tools are ace. Just be
> sure you don't have them set as "Render Polygons as Subdivision' in
> Mantra or similar in Redshift. You'll end up with a garbled mess if
> you do!
> 
> 
> It seems an obvious thing to say but years of doing things the SubD
> way can makes you forget that NGon's and triangles are fine, you
> just have to work with them differently.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 23 February 2017 at 07:49, Mirko Jankovic <
> mirkoj.anima...@gmail.com > wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Here what support explained to me.
> With 3 indie licences and 3 houdini engine inidie licences you can
> render on 6 machines.
> Because there is limit of 3 per studio so you buy 3 indie licences
> and 3 engines are free.
> And with ofc using your own redshift licences you can render on all 6
> machines.
> Makes sense?
> ᐧ
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 2:09 AM, phil harbath <
> phil.harb...@jamination.com > wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> if you had 2 or 3 copies of indie could you use royal render to
> render over a network or do you need core or FX to do that?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Also, I assume you only need 1 copy of Core or FX to render (say X
> copies of Redshift) on X computers on a network.
> 
> 
> 
> thanks
> 
> Phil
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> 
> 
> Mirko Jankovic
> http://www.cgfolio.com/mirko-jankovic
> 
> 
> 
> Need to find freelancers fast?
> www.cgfolio.com
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> Need some help with rendering an Redshift project?
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