Re: Camera Focal Length

2013-04-19 Thread Jens Lindgren
From my experience directors and DOPs always assumes a lens is on a moving picture film camera in the Super 35 format, not a 35mm stills camera. I know it's very confusing that they almost have the same name, but the film back size is very different. On a 35mm stills camera (Nikon D4/D800 and

Re: AMD MAXON Cinema 4D.

2013-04-19 Thread Mirko Jankovic
I don't agree Sam, not a 1% I have ATI 7970 for half year now, replaced gtx580 that I had before that. Speed wise AT is 3 times faster. At least. Talking about pure viewport performance in high poly scenes. Not a single glitch or a problem EVER since I bought it. And finally with some tests done

ICE and audio?

2013-04-19 Thread Szabolcs Matefy
Hey Does anybody know how can I feed audio into ICE? I know there are some nodes, but none of them works with 2014... Cheers Szabolcs ___ This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should

AFX CS6 tracking to soft

2013-04-19 Thread Gerbrand Nel
Hey guys Anyone know if there is a export script for AfterFX CS6 camera tracking to Soft ? I tried it with Max and MAYA and it seems to work just fine. I just don't have access to those on a regular basis, so exporting straight to soft would be awesome. Thanks G

Re: AMD MAXON Cinema 4D.

2013-04-19 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
I'm not an ATI fan, but if you haven't tried one in 20 years maybe you might be a bit unreasonable :) While drivers wise nVIDIA still has an edge, and usually every generation they are the top performer for a while longer (although that's a chasing game), AMD has been on top of bang for buck for

RE: AMD MAXON Cinema 4D.

2013-04-19 Thread Matt Lind
I think the main issue here is ATI has a very spotty track record - too spotty to be relied upon in serious production. While it's true ATI cards can run faster, the problem is just because a driver works with one application doesn't mean it will work with all of them. In the case of

Re: AFX CS6 tracking to soft

2013-04-19 Thread olivier jeannel
I exported some tracking nuls + camera from AE to SI with this : http://www.clintons3d.com/aecollada/index.html it's 20$ It worked well with cs6 Collada format. Le 19/04/2013 09:31, Gerbrand Nel a écrit : Hey guys Anyone know if there is a export script for AfterFX CS6 camera tracking to

Re: [Pool] Any interest for a grease pencil tool?

2013-04-19 Thread Ahmidou Lyazidi
Hi Enrique, good to know :) Do you have any special special expectation on it? currently I'm planning those features: 2D paint and erase screen space onion skin scene persistance ability to move frames on the timeline I'll eventually add those in a second time: multi layers per layer depth

Re: Camera Focal Length

2013-04-19 Thread Martin
I wrote something about fov in my blog that may help to understand the FOV and Aperture relation. It is in japanese but the graphics are enough to understand the basic relation. http://myara.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-167.html I'm not an expert so if there is something wrong, please let me know

Re: AFX CS6 tracking to soft

2013-04-19 Thread Sandy Sutherland
Can it not export an ascii format - easy to parse the file then and extract data? S. On 2013/04/19 9:49 AM, olivier jeannel wrote: I exported some tracking nuls + camera from AE to SI with this : http://www.clintons3d.com/aecollada/index.html it's 20$ It worked well with cs6 Collada format.

Re: AFX CS6 tracking to soft

2013-04-19 Thread Gerbrand Nel
If I was smart like you... maybe :) but now I'm dumb like me, so no. G On 2013/04/19 09:52 AM, Sandy Sutherland wrote: Can it not export an ascii format - easy to parse the file then and extract data? S. On 2013/04/19 9:49 AM, olivier jeannel wrote: I exported some tracking nuls + camera

Re: AFX CS6 tracking to soft

2013-04-19 Thread Sandy Sutherland
Send me an ascii file - I can take a look for you - and claiming stoopidity on your side Gerbrand is like trying to persuade me the sun don't shine in CT. - LOL S. On 2013/04/19 10:39 AM, Gerbrand Nel wrote: If I was smart like you... maybe :) but now I'm dumb like me, so no. G On 2013/04/19

Re: ICE and audio?

2013-04-19 Thread Morten Bartholdy
Try this one: 3d-pixel.de/softimage/sound/ 3d-pixel.de/softimage/sound/sound.zip https://vimeo.com/8462573 https://vimeo.com/8462573 http://vimeo.com/8582638 Morten Den 19. april 2013 kl. 09:29 skrev Szabolcs Matefy szabol...@crytek.com: Hey Does anybody know how can I feed

Re: AFX CS6 tracking to soft

2013-04-19 Thread Sandy Sutherland
LOL - there is not a cloud in the sky - and YOU believe in weather forecasts! Will take a look at the files. S. On 2013/04/19 11:11 AM, Gerbrand Nel wrote: Dude, The weather report says its overcast in CT so I'm not sure what to make of your last comment :) I only have the option to export

Re: AFX CS6 tracking to soft

2013-04-19 Thread Gerbrand Nel
Hey Olivier Thanks for the link! Have you used it to export animation back into the original AE tracking project? G On 2013/04/19 09:49 AM, olivier jeannel wrote: I exported some tracking nuls + camera from AE to SI with this : http://www.clintons3d.com/aecollada/index.html it's 20$ It worked

Yeti for Softimage

2013-04-19 Thread Sebastien Sterling
Hello List. I just wanted to perform a quick survey of what solutions people are using for hair/fur/feathers in softimage these days. recently a new tool has become available on the market, its a production ready all in one hair/feather solution. it's called Yeti http://peregrinelabs.com/yeti/

Re: Yeti for Softimage

2013-04-19 Thread olivier jeannel
Hi Sebastien, the site doesn't mention the price (if I'm no wrong). Are you aware of it ? Le 19/04/2013 11:33, Sebastien Sterling a écrit : Hello List. I just wanted to perform a quick survey of what solutions people are using for hair/fur/feathers in softimage these days. recently a new

Re: Yeti for Softimage

2013-04-19 Thread Stephen Blair
Scroll down a bit, the price is there, right under System Requirements 1195 On 19/04/2013 5:42 AM, olivier jeannel wrote: Hi Sebastien, the site doesn't mention the price (if I'm no wrong). Are you aware of it ? Le 19/04/2013 11:33, Sebastien Sterling a écrit : Hello List. I just wanted

RE: Yeti for Softimage

2013-04-19 Thread Szabolcs Matefy
Studio price 1195CAD, that's plenty I think...(at least in my measurement, here in Hungary) -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of olivier jeannel Sent: Friday, April 19, 2013 11:42 AM To:

Re: Yeti for Softimage

2013-04-19 Thread Morten Bartholdy
From the website :) pricing Yeti Studio License ( 1 floating interactive license + unlimited rendering ) CA$1195 I guess those are Canadian $ !? Morten Den 19. april 2013 kl. 11:42 skrev olivier jeannel olivier.jean...@noos.fr: Hi Sebastien, the site doesn't mention the price (if

Re: Yeti for Softimage

2013-04-19 Thread Piotrek Marczak
Last time I checked they couldn't sell it in USA because of some lame slide-to-unlock kinda patent. 2013/4/19 olivier jeannel olivier.jean...@noos.fr Hi Sebastien, the site doesn't mention the price (if I'm no wrong). Are you aware of it ? Le 19/04/2013 11:33, Sebastien Sterling a écrit :

Re: Yeti for Softimage

2013-04-19 Thread Morten Bartholdy
I would love to get a properly working modern har/fur system in Softimage. I would want it to be ICE based for the sake of speed and integration, which I guess might work nicely with their node based approach. I have not tried Kristinka nor Melena, but as you mention, grooming leaves a lot to be

Re: Yeti for Softimage

2013-04-19 Thread Morten Bartholdy
I believe it was Joe Alter holding some patents which Yeti might or might not infringe. MB Den 19. april 2013 kl. 12:02 skrev Piotrek Marczak piotrek.marc...@gmail.com: Last time I checked they couldn't sell it in USA because of some lame slide-to-unlock kinda patent. 2013/4/19

Re: Yeti for Softimage

2013-04-19 Thread alex holman
Would love to see it for XSI...As you said the tools are so basic at the moment, its in desperate need of an update. Yeti looks like a fantastic solution On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Piotrek Marczak piotrek.marc...@gmail.com wrote: Last time I checked they couldn't sell it in USA because

Re: Yeti for Softimage

2013-04-19 Thread Sebastien Sterling
It May seem expensive Sza, but consider what it does, this isn't just any old hair system. i know about the patent block, however joe alter put that down for Shave and Haircut for Maya, i wonder if such an argument would hold true on an entirely different system. On 19 April 2013 12:02, Piotrek

RE: Yeti for Softimage

2013-04-19 Thread Szabolcs Matefy
I've tried Melena, Kristinka as well. They were really cool, but a bit too technical. If there is something, that is really artist friendly, it is welcome. The best tool so far I have seen is Hair Farm for max, where you model the volume of the hair. It's simply the best...so far. It's

Re: Yeti for Softimage

2013-04-19 Thread Sebastien Sterling
Thankyou Yolandi you rock, and your Bear rocks too, you see Szabolcs, Training artists in a new hair system may coast money, but how do you think that compares to finding seasoned ICE TD's i've seen a colegue go from novice to adept in under 4 months of use, its an easy system to grasp, even

Re: Yeti for Softimage

2013-04-19 Thread Sandy Sutherland
Cough - ehem... personally as an ICE experienced TD type actively looking for a job - I would prefer you guys to want to hire the guys that can do techy stuff, as they can take a system and make it go further and adapt it to suit, so when you run into the walls that most 'box' systems

Re: Yeti for Softimage

2013-04-19 Thread Sebastien Sterling
Sorry Sandy i didn't mean it that way, but surely if this came to softimage it would do so with some level of integration with ice? it seems logic, this just givel you more tools/ ice nodes to play with, hell you could ad hair technician to your resume. On 19 April 2013 12:33, Sandy Sutherland

Re: Yeti for Softimage

2013-04-19 Thread Mirko Jankovic
Point is it would be great to have artist friendly hair system that can easily be used in most of the day's task. Having ICE guy that can push that system further is just huge bonus :) On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Sebastien Sterling sebastien.sterl...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry Sandy i

Ultra sound or MRI scan formats to common 3D formats?

2013-04-19 Thread Darren Blencowe | VA
Hi Folks, Just putting this out there in case anyone has done this thing before - Does anyone know how/tried to turn any ultra sound scan file types or MRI data into something remotely 3D - and in a format that is 3D package friendly? I am still digging but it appears the majority of scan

Re: Yeti for Softimage

2013-04-19 Thread olivier jeannel
Thank's Stephen :) Le 19/04/2013 11:58, Stephen Blair a écrit : Scroll down a bit, the price is there, right under System Requirements 1195 On 19/04/2013 5:42 AM, olivier jeannel wrote: Hi Sebastien, the site doesn't mention the price (if I'm no wrong). Are you aware of it ? Le 19/04/2013

Re: Ultra sound or MRI scan formats to common 3D formats?

2013-04-19 Thread Angus Davidson
I Know when I was looking into is for Bio Med we used a program called Osirix http://www.osirix-viewer.com/ Not sure if they got around to the 3d exporter bits though. On 2013/04/19 12:53 PM, Darren Blencowe | VA dar...@voodoo-animation.com wrote: Hi Folks, Just putting this out there in

Re: Yeti for Softimage

2013-04-19 Thread Sandy Sutherland
LOL - no problems Sebastien - I was also having a bit of a leg pull at the idea of the true artist friendly system. It would be really cool if artists could use such a system until such point that it needs to be stretched and then it gives you the flexibility to really go further. Cheers S.

Re: Ultra sound or MRI scan formats to common 3D formats?

2013-04-19 Thread Dan Yargici
Ben's old Volume Loader shader could do that. I'm %99. sure it won't work with newer versions though... http://shaders.moederogall.com/ On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Angus Davidson angus.david...@wits.ac.zawrote: I Know when I was looking into is for Bio Med we used a program called

Re: Yeti for Softimage

2013-04-19 Thread Sebastien Sterling
I suppose it all depends on how it would be integrated, which at this point is neither here nor there. Seriously though we need to get on this, this isn't some autodesk wish list pipe dream, there actually is someone at the other end of the phone, this could, happen. we could make this happen,

Re: [Pool] Any interest for a grease pencil tool?

2013-04-19 Thread Sebastien Sterling
i just gota say this is pretty heart warming to see, i think I'll buy one on principal even if I'm not necessarily an animator these days, i can use it to mark stuff out on models :) On 19 April 2013 09:50, Ahmidou Lyazidi ahmidou@gmail.com wrote: Hi Enrique, good to know :) Do you have

Re: Yeti for Softimage

2013-04-19 Thread Tim Crowson
I'd love to see this in Softimage! The existing toolset is a PITA and ICE-based solutions aren't ideal for us, though they're good for most things. -Tim C. On 4/19/2013 6:31 AM, Sebastien Sterling wrote: I suppose it all depends on how it would be integrated, which at this point is neither

ICE: stick to surface without overlapping particles

2013-04-19 Thread David Saber
Hello I'm throwing a lot of spheres on a surface where they should stick. Everything works, but is there a way to have the spheres not overlap each other? I've tried neighboring particle force and put some negative value in attraction strength, but this does not seem to have any effect...

Re: ICE: stick to surface without overlapping particles

2013-04-19 Thread Rob Chapman
simulate with RBD instead of particles..? On 19 April 2013 16:56, David Saber davidsabe...@sfr.fr wrote: Hello I'm throwing a lot of spheres on a surface where they should stick. Everything works, but is there a way to have the spheres not overlap each other? I've tried neighboring

Loop playback in animation sequencer

2013-04-19 Thread Toonafish
Is the playback loop setting broken in the shiny new Camera Sequence Editor in 2014 ? It does not seem to matter if I toggle it on or off in the Playback Options. Thanks, - Ronald

Re: ICE: stick to surface without overlapping particles

2013-04-19 Thread Stephen Blair
Dart throw? http://julianjohnsonsblog.blogspot.ca/2010/07/dart-throwing-with-weight-maps.html On 19/04/2013 10:56 AM, David Saber wrote: Hello I'm throwing a lot of spheres on a surface where they should stick. Everything works, but is there a way to have the spheres not overlap each other?

Re: libGL.so error, elrepo NVIDIA drivers, Viewport is not displaying geometry.

2013-04-19 Thread Macbeth R.
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF106GL [Quadro 2000] (rev a1) Downloading drivers from nvidia requires compiling them, on every kernel update, is not a big deal, I just think that having them from a trusted repo, and automatically being updated by YUM is a more proper way

Re: Ultra sound or MRI scan formats to common 3D formats?

2013-04-19 Thread Ben Rogall
Yeah, haven't touched that plugin in years. There are a bunch of applications which can do what you want though. We just had a discussion about some of them over at the Modo forum: http://forums.luxology.com/topic.aspx?f=4t=75517 Any more details about what you want to accomplish? Ben On

RE: terrain ascii xyz import

2013-04-19 Thread adrian wyer
many thanks Klemens, between my hacking, and Dan's off-list python genius, we managed to get it working. a _ From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Klemens Kopetzky Sent: 19 April 2013 15:43 To:

Friday Flashback #116

2013-04-19 Thread Stephen Blair
Friday Flashback #116 SOFTIMAGE|DS marketing collateral from the Avid days http://wp.me/powV4-2Gr

Implosia FX ?

2013-04-19 Thread olivier jeannel
What version of Implosia is available today ? On Exocortex site it's 1.6, but there is a 2.0 demonstration video posted on Vimeo 5month ago.

Re: Implosia FX ?

2013-04-19 Thread Sebastian Kowalski
v4.0 is in beta, and its great! Am 19.04.2013 um 18:36 schrieb olivier jeannel olivier.jean...@noos.fr: What version of Implosia is available today ? On Exocortex site it's 1.6, but there is a 2.0 demonstration video posted on Vimeo 5month ago.

Re: Implosia FX ?

2013-04-19 Thread olivier jeannel
Thats Momentum 4 right ? Implosia is no more a standalone ? Le 19/04/2013 18:45, Sebastian Kowalski a écrit : v4.0 is in beta, and its great! Am 19.04.2013 um 18:36 schrieb olivier jeannel olivier.jean...@noos.fr: What version of Implosia is available today ? On Exocortex site it's 1.6,

Re: Implosia FX ?

2013-04-19 Thread Leonard Koch
Yeah, as far as I understand they are one plugin now. On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 7:05 PM, olivier jeannel olivier.jean...@noos.frwrote: Thats Momentum 4 right ? Implosia is no more a standalone ? Le 19/04/2013 18:45, Sebastian Kowalski a écrit : v4.0 is in beta, and its great! Am

Re: Ultra sound or MRI scan formats to common 3D formats?

2013-04-19 Thread Sam Cuttriss
Ive been looking at this whilst learnign houdini, i was able to open the dicom in photoshop and save the individual images out. you can then just stack them in 3d and convert to voxels. ( the dicom header should have all the info about dimensions) _sam On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 8:18 AM, Ben

Re: Implosia FX ?

2013-04-19 Thread olivier jeannel
Ok, I gave 1.6 a go today, to help some friend. I had very nice results with voronoi and bomb compound, some convincing fractures I mean. But it crashed so many times, maybe 60 times... I'm completly stressed right now :) Going for the week end now, haha... Le 19/04/2013 19:14, Leonard Koch a

RE: Ultra sound or MRI scan formats to common 3D formats?

2013-04-19 Thread adrian wyer
down and dirty way for us, saved an animation of slicing through the data (most viewer software lets you do this) map that onto a grid animated at the same rate to move up in Y, use the grid to emit static particles that take their colour from the texture optionally mesh with polygonizer

RE: Ultra sound or MRI scan formats to common 3D formats?

2013-04-19 Thread Darren Blencowe | VA
Thanks for all the nuggets :) @Ben Sure - have a client who is basically looking for a way to turn scans into 3D geo - so just looking to establish a method of doing as such thing using Soft ideally - The Modo thread's cool - Some nice Lightwave stuff in there and other useful links. The

Re: Implosia FX ?

2013-04-19 Thread Oleg Bliznuk
Implosia is now shipping with Momentum in one .zip package but actually its a standalone plugin ( in terms of installation ). The 4.0 is just a more convenient numbering due to Momentum versioning, and it is 2.5 in terms of improvements I think. Its has been rewrited almost completely, so again -

Re: Yeti for Softimage

2013-04-19 Thread Steven Caron
aren't ideal... because? On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 7:04 AM, Tim Crowson tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com wrote: I'd love to see this in Softimage! The existing toolset is a PITA and ICE-based solutions aren't ideal for us, though they're good for most things. -Tim C.

Re: Saving Delta Objects as EMDL ?

2013-04-19 Thread Christopher
The reference model is loaded into my scene as a reference object. I have applied UV's to the reference model object, I want to edit the delta model, outside of the original scene and into a clean scene then save it as a delta then load my original scene and the delta is updated.

Vray promotion for freelancers

2013-04-19 Thread Andy Moorer
http://www.chaosgroup.com/en/2/usa_promo.html FYI chaos group is promoting a deal on Vray for freelancers in the US worth looking at. Discussion... I wish Arnold was even available at any kind of reasonable cost for freelancers. The majority of the studios I encounter use one or the other

Re: Vray promotion for freelancers

2013-04-19 Thread Javier Vega
That sounds very nice! Javier Vega javierelas...@gmail.com jav...@zao3d.com http://www.zao3d.com http://blog.zao3d.com El 19/04/2013, a las 22:30, Andy Moorer andymoo...@gmail.com escribió: http://www.chaosgroup.com/en/2/usa_promo.html FYI chaos group is promoting a deal on Vray for

Wots changed w/ cmd and/or bat rendering..

2013-04-19 Thread rob...@texturelighting.com
I used to be perfectly content to make a quick little .bat file, save to desktop, and render XSI in the background with one click. My syntax, ever since XSI v5 or 6 was: xsi -render path_to_scene_with_backslashes\ myscene.scn -pass passName Now, there is no joy, and I am not sure why.

Re: Ultra sound or MRI scan formats to common 3D formats?

2013-04-19 Thread Andy Moorer
I had considered suggesting to Eric Mootz that he look at making a DICOM loader/reader for polygonizer and/or emFluid but concluded there wasn't enough community interest for me to bother him with the request. Now I think that might not be the case. Are there enough of us out there to justify

Re: Wots changed w/ cmd and/or bat rendering..

2013-04-19 Thread Dan Yargici
Do you get an error message? Could it be that your path contains spaces and you've forgotten to put it in quotes? DAN On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 2:56 AM, rob...@texturelighting.com rob...@texturelighting.com wrote: I used to be perfectly content to make a quick little .bat file, save to

Re: Saving Delta Objects as EMDL ?

2013-04-19 Thread peter_b
I can’t grasp what you are saying – there’s no such thing as a “delta model”, “delta object”, “reference object” nor “reference model object”. you are confusing different terms and concepts - it’s hard to reply anything other than duh. add uv’s to objects in a model. export the model as an

Re: Ultra sound or MRI scan formats to common 3D formats?

2013-04-19 Thread Leoung O'Young
I would be interested Leoung On 4/19/2013 4:46 PM, Andy Moorer wrote: I had considered suggesting to Eric Mootz that he look at making a DICOM loader/reader for polygonizer and/or emFluid but concluded there wasn't enough community interest for me to bother him with the request. Now I think

Re: Wots changed w/ cmd and/or bat rendering..

2013-04-19 Thread Stephen Blair
Hi Why don't you use xsibatch instead of xsi? On 19/04/2013 7:56 PM, rob...@texturelighting.com wrote: I used to be perfectly content to make a quick little .bat file, save to desktop, and render XSI in the background with one click. My syntax, ever since XSI v5 or 6 was: xsi -render

Re: Saving Delta Objects as EMDL ?

2013-04-19 Thread Christopher
That I understand about reference models. What is different about Deltas ? ::Christopher pete...@skynet.be Friday, April 19, 2013 5:35 PM I cant grasp what you are saying theres no such thing as a delta model, delta object, reference object nor reference model

Re: Vray promotion for freelancers

2013-04-19 Thread Tim Leydecker
The Vray offer means 1 interactive/GUI license plus 10 rendernodes for the 3dsMax and Maya versions or 1 interactive/GUI license and 5 rendernodes for the Softimage version, right? That´s a great offer. I have hopes Chaosgroup will unify their licensing by bringing all three VRay versions on

Re: Saving Delta Objects as EMDL ?

2013-04-19 Thread Xavier Lapointe
Filter acquired. Applying filter. *Wooosh*

RE: Saving Delta Objects as EMDL - Updated

2013-04-19 Thread Matt Lind
Try reading the manuals. Your answer is there. Matt From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Christopher Sent: Friday, April 19, 2013 5:15 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Saving Delta Objects as EMDL -

Re: Saving Delta Objects as EMDL - Updated

2013-04-19 Thread Alan Fregtman
Firstly, please don't rename the subject line of the same email thread. It ruins the threading in Gmail and upsets people. Secondly, backup your emdl file, then under Model module, Modify, try Model-Advanced-Commit to Reference. It will overwrite the original emdl with the changes of the Delta.

Re: Saving Delta Objects as EMDL - Updated

2013-04-19 Thread Christopher
I found it in the docs, right under the nose, otherwise  Thank You for pointing out Alan, I appreciate it very much.  ::Christopher Alan Fregtman Friday, April 19, 2013 9:31 PM Firstly, please don't rename the subject line of the same email thread. It ruins the