Do check the recent “ICE test vector inside cone” thread here – that should
provide the basis for solving camera frustrum, which you can use for anything,
such as filter on emission.
Also: simply model a frustrum box, constrained to camera, and use delete by
volume.
Wether or not deleting
You all know there's a factory 'Test Visibility From Camera' node, right?
:)
DAN
On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 8:13 AM, pete...@skynet.be wrote:
Do check the recent “ICE test vector inside cone” thread here – that
should provide the basis for solving camera frustrum, which you can use for
This is pretty cool:
http://www.jacobobarreiro.com/jweb/moma/
Since there are plenty of Softimage to _ connections for various render
engines, would something like this be possible for Soft?
Having Modo's preview window in Softimage would be pretty slick.
He's also got a version for Nuke
Just wanted to say thanks again for the help on this and a big thanks to
Fabricio for sending that compound.
These texture issues I was having seem to be alleviated by using this compound.
In addition I was also having all sort of problems with the crowd not sticking
to the ground and with
Just a month ago I was able to export viewport captures as QuickTime
files. Now, when I click on the 'Codec' button, if either QuickTime or
AVI is selected as the format, I get the following error:
/'Could not create the file and initialize the render - verify the path'/
I'm not sure what
I've had problems with this when its trying to output to a network drive.
It didn't give me any issues outputting locally.
On 5 March 2013 16:20, Tim Crowson tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com wrote:
Just a month ago I was able to export viewport captures as QuickTime
files. Now, when I click
I get the error no matter where I'm outputting the file. Local or Network.
-Tim
On 3/5/2013 10:25 AM, Matt Morris wrote:
I've had problems with this when its trying to output to a network
drive. It didn't give me any issues outputting locally.
On 5 March 2013 16:20, Tim Crowson
Sounds like a job for Process Monitor. Find out what file that cryptic
error is talking about.
On December 11, 2009 at 4:23 PM Bradley Gabe witha...@gmail.com
mailto:witha...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm not saying this is your issue, but I tend to do this a lot where
I start
a capture session,
Well either a restart or renaming the save file to a new name normally
solves it for me, but it does pop up way to often...
On 5 March 2013 16:39, Tim Crowson tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com wrote:
I get the error no matter where I'm outputting the file. Local or Network.
-Tim
On 3/5/2013
Keep in mind that when prepping a Quicktime, Softimage actually writes a
small header to the intended capture file before you actually do the
capture. Not sure if Windows video codecs do the same, but wouldn't be
surprised.
If for some odd reason the file path you set is invalid (check to see how
I thought of that as well, and tried different paths where nothing had
ever been captured. Same thing. Restarting my box has no effect. Criminy.
By the way, Bradley, nice work with your Shotgun/Tank integration. The
webinar the other day when Tony presented was frickin' sweet.
-Tim
On
A particle's orientation is its offset in rotation relative to the point
cloud's local reference frame. If as is typical, you leave the point cloud
untransformed, then this is the same as its offset in rotation relative to the
scene's global reference frame.
The orientation is expressed as a
In intro physics, the concept of vectors are always taught using position
since the x,y,z coordinate space results in arrows that show you the
relative values in a format that is intuitive. Thus it would follow, for
position, velocity, acceleration, vector math is more readily grasped,
since it's
ah I see where your going with this Andy, so how can I get a particles
rotation into a current direction of rotation vector? say its spinning or
'tumbling' how to get the vector to rotate with it. I was thinking an 'up
vector' but particles dont have them
On 5 March 2013 19:33, Grahame Fuller
once modo has a proper api for it... probably. the amount of work jacobo is
doing to make this work is staggering as is any renderer
integration/plugin. i know, i tried to do it for thea render but realized
how much time i put in was no where near what i was going to get back for
it.
i couldn't
“Direction of rotation” isn’t a well defined concept. Imagine a spinning jack
(a.k.a. knucklebone). At the moment that one of the arms is pointing north,
that arm is tangentially moving east-west. At the same time, the next arm is
pointing east and moving tangentially north-south, another arm
I don't have a lot to show for it, but I do have some experience with
Arnold. My opininion is that modo is not far behind the likes of v-Ray
and Arnold. In fact depending on the scene, I have had modo outperform
Arnold. It is definitely trickier to get photo-real believability out of
modo than
In a nutshell... Modo has a great renderer and Allen Hastings is the heart
and soul of Luxology. That said it's not a great heavy lifter , it doesn't
handle large and complex scenes well and lacks a lot of the
refining/optimization tools that it should have at this point.
I tried to use it in
factory compounds, now where is the fun in that?
From: Dan Yargici
Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2013 9:53 AM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: Re: Emit particles from camera FOV
You all know there's a factory 'Test Visibility From Camera' node, right? :)
DAN
On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at
Based on what you just wrote here, it's clearer what you want to do with
this knowledge, and believe it or not, there's a simple answer.
Remember that an orientation vector gives you an offset from origin so you
can create an x-axis (1,0,0) y-axis (0,1,0) and z-axis vector (0,0,1), and
then set
the rotation was supposed to be a generic term/type or an abstraction from
needing to know about quaternions, matrices, etc. and i believe they didn't
use euler because of the potential confusion with rotation order.
you will find zero nodes in the 'rotation' category labeled with
On the distinction between orientation and rotation, it's not hard and fast but
I tend to use orientation when talking about a static pose, and rotation
when talking about applying a transform (i.e.actively turning something). The
final orientation is the product of the successive rotations
A bit of a digression, but since it came up...
I did quite a bit of this kind of thing at StereoD, where understandably
relationships between positions and cameras is paramount.
The VFX team there has a pretty good toolset forming of custom ICE nodes to
deal with just this kind of thing, which
I hope he is. :)
Thanks guys, I found that very illuminating!
On Mar 5, 2013, at 7:17 PM, Steven Caron car...@gmail.com wrote:
makes good sense to me... you still writing docs at autodesk grahame?
On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Grahame Fuller grahame.ful...@autodesk.com
wrote:
On the
Hello list,
Does anyone know a way to tell whether a cluster contains tangents as
opposed to vertex colors?
Thanks!
-Nicolas
Check the cluster property type.
Matt
From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com
[mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Nicolas Burtnyk
Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2013 5:53 PM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: Any way to distinguish between tangents and
Right, but both tangent and color clusters
return siClusterPropertyVertexColorType :(
On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 5:54 PM, Matt Lind ml...@carbinestudios.com wrote:
Check the cluster property type.
** **
Matt
** **
*From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:
i believe they are both still 'vertexcolor', hence nicolas' question...
i would say, by name or 'DataType' parameter on the property?
from siutils import si
si = si() # win32com.client.Dispatch('XSI.Application')
from siutils import log # LogMessage
from siutils import disp #
this assumes no one goes out of there way to change the default datatype
for tangents and vertex colors. ;(
On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 6:01 PM, Steven Caron car...@gmail.com wrote:
i believe they are both still 'vertexcolor', hence nicolas' question...
i would say, by name or 'DataType'
Thanks Steven -
Yeah, I'd like something a little more robust than relying on the default
DataType since this is easily changeable.
I thought of looking for the Tangent property or the TangentOp2 operator,
but these can be deleted/frozen away while still leaving behind valid
tangents.
On Tue,
I wouldn't worry about that. We've been using tangents and vertex colors for
years and never had that kind of problem.
The only (semi) reliable way we've been able to manage is from naming
convention as Softimage insists on controlling everything else even if you try
to change things. For
I should also add that my tools insist on putting our vertex colors in a named
sample cluster. While Softimage will dump user normal, vertex colors, and
texture projections into that sample cluster if it's the most recent used, for
whatever reason Softimage will not put tangent vertex color
32 matches
Mail list logo
