Re: [C++] Store a structure of vector in a UserData

!! --- Ahmidou Lyazidi Director | TD | CG artist http://vimeo.com/ahmidou/videos http://www.cappuccino-films.com 2013/6/10 Marc-Andre Belzile marc-andre.belz...@autodesk.com Alternatively, you could store C++ buffers in your struct instead of std::vector objects

[C++] Store a structure of vector in a UserData

not sure, but I think it's lost because of the size parameter in UserDataMap.PutItemValue I tried to set the real size ( sizeof(vector)+ sizeof(double)*vector::size() ) but this gave me some crazy results. Any idea? Thanks --- Ahmidou Lyazidi Director | TD

Re: unloading a plugin, recompiling and reloading it in softimage.

I know it's not helping, but I did a few linux and windows c++ plugins lately, and never had those issues. That's pretty weird. --- Ahmidou Lyazidi Director | TD | CG artist http://vimeo.com/ahmidou/videos http://www.cappuccino-films.com 2013/6/4 ran

Re: custom operators and changing topology

what is your debuger saying? --- Ahmidou Lyazidi Director | TD | CG artist http://vimeo.com/ahmidou/videos 2013/5/22 Matt Lind ml...@carbinestudios.com Scripting and C++ are not 1:1. It might not be necessary to set parameter classification

Re: custom ICENode - questions and request for example source code

://shaderop.com/2011/07/cubic-bezier-curve-node-for-softimage-ice/index.html A --- Ahmidou Lyazidi Director | TD | CG artist http://vimeo.com/ahmidou/videos 2013/5/15 Matt Lind ml...@carbinestudios.com well, let's answer the questions first: 1) Does anybody

Re: custom ICENode - questions and request for example source code

I asked Mohammad,* *and he gave me the autorisation to share his sources: https://bitbucket.org/ahmidou_lyazidi/so_cubicbeziercurve Cheers --- Ahmidou Lyazidi Director | TD | CG artist http://vimeo.com/ahmidou/videos 2013/5/16 Matt Lind ml

Re: Yeti for Softimage

A. --- Ahmidou Lyazidi Director | TD | CG artist http://vimeo.com/ahmidou/videos 2013/5/9 Steven Caron car...@gmail.com @ahmidou if you don't have plans to market/sell it, maybe share the code? On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 9:27 PM, Ahmidou Lyazidi ahmidou@gmail.comwrote: Hi Sebastien

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

distance per layer opacity surface object space strokes (to draw on objects) wacom presure Cheers --- Ahmidou Lyazidi Director | TD | CG artist http://vimeo.com/ahmidou/videos 2013/4/18 Enrique Caballero enriquecaball...@gmail.com Not to drive the point

Re: Unfold

Not exactly the same thing, but I have a compound that match an object to it's UVs. --- Ahmidou Lyazidi Director | TD | CG artist http://vimeo.com/ahmidou/videos 2013/4/17 andialias i...@andialias.de Hi there, is there a plugin or Ice-tree

Re: Softimage promo

It's supposed to work, it is for me, but softimage must have been launch. --- Ahmidou Lyazidi Director | TD | CG artist http://vimeo.com/ahmidou/videos 2013/4/16 Szabolcs Matefy szabol...@crytek.com To me (Win7 latest updates) it’s not available

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

That's a good idea! Kickstarter is for US or UK resident only, what would be the best worldwide alternative? --- Ahmidou Lyazidi Director | TD | CG artist http://vimeo.com/ahmidou/videos 2013/4/16 Raffaele Fragapane raffsxsil...@googlemail.com

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

and Felix for the tips). I'm trying to see how I can speed up things now. This one will be free :) Cheers --- Ahmidou Lyazidi Director | TD | CG artist http://vimeo.com/ahmidou/videos 2013/4/14 Steven Caron car...@gmail.com i think the one ahmidou

[Pool] Any interest for a grease pencil tool?

Hello guys, I'm thinking of making a grease pencil tool, but I would like to know if there is a real interest in it, and what would be a faire price for this kind of tool Thanks --- Ahmidou Lyazidi Director | TD | CG artist http://vimeo.com/ahmidou

Re: Softimage 2014

Sorry I mixed it up with the pin feature... Anyway what would be a fair price for a preserve UV feature ? 2013/4/4 Matt Lind ml...@carbinestudios.com No it isn’t. We just had that discussion.

Re: Softimage 2014

And by the way, as I said earlier, if you make a custom freeze button that will only freeze the stack and not the projection, the factory swim feature will preserve the UVs. --- Ahmidou Lyazidi Director | TD | CG artist http://vimeo.com/ahmidou/videos

Re: Softimage 2014

request, that's a shame... --- Ahmidou Lyazidi Director | TD | CG artist http://vimeo.com/ahmidou/videos 2013/3/30 Sebastien Sterling sebastien.sterl...@gmail.com well then sit back and watch Houdini cream you :P On 29 March 2013 21:21, Jason S

Re: Softimage 2014

://vimeo.com/46540432 Cheers --- Ahmidou Lyazidi Director | TD | CG artist http://vimeo.com/ahmidou/videos 2013/3/29 Matt Lind ml...@carbinestudios.com I think the point is that many of these features are not readily available out of the box. We have

Re: ICE Topo Clone from group of objects onto Particles?

I can see the attachment too! --- Ahmidou Lyazidi Director | TD | CG artist http://vimeo.com/ahmidou/videos 2013/3/29 Dan Yargici danyarg...@gmail.com I can see them (Gmail) DAN On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Stephen Blair stephenrbl

Re: Softimage 2014

ICE tree can be freezed (bug?!), but you ca still make an operator that will lock a point and all it's attached properties. Locked operators are not freezable. Cheers --- Ahmidou Lyazidi Director | TD | CG artist http://vimeo.com/ahmidou/videos

Re: Moving a rigged character and animation from Softimage into Maya.

AKAIK, you can't transfer bones and IK --- Ahmidou Lyazidi Director | TD | CG artist http://vimeo.com/ahmidou/videos 2013/3/28 Eric Thivierge ethivie...@gmail.com Knowing Simon, he wants to rig something in Soft and get it over to Maya

Re: Moving a rigged character and animation from Softimage into Maya.

AFAIK --- Ahmidou Lyazidi Director | TD | CG artist http://vimeo.com/ahmidou/videos 2013/3/28 Ahmidou Lyazidi ahmidou@gmail.com AKAIK, you can't transfer bones and IK --- Ahmidou Lyazidi

Re: Softimage 2014

The custom primitives are missing from the new feature list... --- Ahmidou Lyazidi Director | TD | CG artist http://vimeo.com/ahmidou/videos 2013/3/26 Luc-Eric Rousseau luceri...@gmail.com: http://www.autodesk.com/products/autodesk-softimage/overview

Re: 2014 New feature list... minor corrections list... you decide

--- Ahmidou Lyazidi Director | TD | CG artist http://vimeo.com/ahmidou/videos 2013/3/15 Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.com I think what Francois was probably trying to say (and what I would say) is it takes some time to truly understand the core of an enormous codebase like that of any DCC

Re: Announcing Redshift - Biased GPU Renderer

77 secs for the Living room, that's impressive!! --- Ahmidou Lyazidi Director | TD | CG artist http://vimeo.com/ahmidou/videos 2013/3/14 Nicolas Burtnyk nico...@redshift3d.com: Hey guys, Thanks for the great responses. I think I've responded

Re: Maya realtime viewport

compiling al the shader trees on the fly, the more you have, the longer it will be. Ahmidou Lyazidi Director | TD | CG artist http://vimeo.com/ahmidou/videos 2013/3/13 Luc-Eric Rousseau luceri...@gmail.com: On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Greg Punchatz g...@janimation.com wrote: I would like a directx

Re: Maya realtime viewport

Couldn't you use the graphic sequencer ton intergrate you own DirectX engine? Ahmidou Lyazidi Director | TD | CG artist http://vimeo.com/ahmidou/videos 2013/3/13 Matt Lind ml...@carbinestudios.com: We'd prefer a true DX11. Our project tried to use DirectX from the beginning as our principal

Re: Maya realtime viewport

I just found an old post of you explaining the problems, that's a shame the CDH and sequencers are not rock solid, as well as we don't have a modern viewport. Particulary when the supposed dominant SI market is videogames in Japan... --- Ahmidou Lyazidi

Re: Industry Solidarity...

http://youtu.be/lFeLDc2CzOs Ahmidou Lyazidi Director | TD | CG artist http://vimeo.com/ahmidou/videos 2013/2/26 Steven Caron car...@gmail.com: haha, exactly :) On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Meng-Yang Lu ntmon...@gmail.com wrote: I think we should align our chroma greens a bit better

Re: Difference between a force and a velocity ?

Schrödinger parrots ? Ahmidou Lyazidi Director | TD | CG artist http://vimeo.com/ahmidou/videos 2013/2/15 Eric Thivierge ethivie...@gmail.com: Is the parrot sitting on a leopard? Eric Thivierge http://www.ethivierge.com On Thu, Feb 14, 2013

Re: ICE Kinematics

And it's generaly easier to manipulate arrays in SCOPs than in ICE Ahmidou Lyazidi Director | TD | CG artist http://vimeo.com/ahmidou/videos 2013/2/8 Raffaele Fragapane raffsxsil...@googlemail.com SCOPs have their time and place, and for certain things python isn't necessarily noticeably

Re: ICE: Rotate away from vector

the vector between the point and the object and then use that to rotate around. -- Ahmidou Lyazidi Director | TD | CG artist http://vimeo.com/ahmidou/videos

Re: Realtime shader experience? Artist Requests? Other 3rd party realtime shaders?

, let me know. Saves a lot of time :-) thanks, Holger Schönberger Binary Alchemy - digital materialization -- Ahmidou Lyazidi Director | TD | CG artist http://vimeo.com/ahmidou/videos

Re: Get parameters driven by a custom parameter (python)

is downstream of them. What you talk about is a push inspection, which outside of caches or inspecting the whole scene and looking for the connection is impossible. What Eric suggested is more or less your only option. -- Ahmidou Lyazidi Director | TD | CG artist http://vimeo.com/ahmidou/videos

Re: Get parameters driven by a custom parameter (python)

see whats connected, script wise Eric's method works. On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Ahmidou Lyazidi ahmidou@gmail.comwrote: Ho you want the opposite, sorry I read it too fast 2012/12/6 Raffaele Fragapane raffsxsil...@googlemail.com The basic idea of a pull only, lazily evaluated graph

Re: reorder custom parameters

Thivierge http://www.ethivierge.com On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Matt Lind ml...@carbinestudios.com wrote: ** ** -- Ahmidou Lyazidi Director | TD | CG artist http://vimeo.com/ahmidou/videos

Re: Caching Angular Velocity

, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Xavier Lapointe xl.mailingl...@gmail.com wrote: Looks like your vector has flipped? Could you just calculate the shortest path and compare the values? I had some trouble as well at some point with this. -- Ahmidou Lyazidi Director | TD | CG artist http://vimeo.com

Re: UV stamp plugin

updated with round corners instead of the miter ones. Cheers 2012/11/4 Ahmidou Lyazidi ahmidou@gmail.com Thanks guys! I don't like beer, but you can send wine :) About the offset, there was a margin, I corrected it and added an option to export per projection files. I also renamed

Re: UV stamp plugin

On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 5:38 AM, Ahmidou Lyazidi ahmidou@gmail.comwrote: I have seen some people complaining about the UV stamp feature in Softimage, and I also found it annoying that you can't specifiy the image size, and that it's asking if we want replace the current texture with the UV

UV stamp plugin

is located in the tool menu of the texture editor. You can also run it as a command: Application.stampUV( name, path, collection of UVprojections ) Ho and the per UV projection is not working yet. Cheers -- Ahmidou Lyazidi Director | TD | CG artist http://vimeo.com/ahmidou/videos

Re: UV stamp plugin

Just forgot to say, it's obiviou but as it's a vector file, you can choose whatever size you want while importing in photoshop. Have a nice week end! 2012/11/3 Ahmidou Lyazidi ahmidou@gmail.com I have seen some people complaining about the UV stamp feature in Softimage, and I also found

Re: [custom tool sdk] Disabling snapping when ctrl is pressed

there is only 4 knots) if: -the knot is the 2nd one (indice =1) -more than one knot is picked Weird... 2012/10/19 Ahmidou Lyazidi ahmidou@gmail.com Hi I'm working on a tool that need to mimic rectangle selection on closed bezier curve's knots ,so when ctrl is down it toggle

Re: [custom tool sdk] Disabling snapping when ctrl is pressed

-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Ahmidou Lyazidi Sent: 19 October 2012 08:56 To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: [custom tool sdk] Disabling snapping when ctrl is pressed Hi Minrui, Thanks for your reply, It is disabeld in the context which is fine, but if the options

[custom tool sdk] Disabling snapping when ctrl is pressed

? Is there a way to completely disable the snapping tool while using a custom one? Brent, anyone? Cheers!! -- Ahmidou Lyazidi Director | TD | CG artist http://vimeo.com/ahmidou/videos

Re: [custom tool sdk] Disabling snapping when ctrl is pressed

More details on this, rectangle pick a knot while ctrl is down return extra imagniary indice (like 3442 when there is only 4 knots) if: -the knot is the 2nd one (indice =1) -more than one knot is picked Weird... 2012/10/19 Ahmidou Lyazidi ahmidou@gmail.com Hi I'm working on a tool

Re: Raafal

: Why not?..they make me feel warm and fuzzy ;) -- *Greg Punchatz* *Sr. Creative Director* Janimation 214.823.7760 www.janimation.com -- Ahmidou Lyazidi Director | TD | CG artist http://vimeo.com/ahmidou/videos

Re: Broken spine with new scene

it into another model, everything works.. Haven t used the XSI Tail since ages but that was the workflow On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 12:50 AM, Ahmidou Lyazidi ahmidou@gmail.comwrote: The tail have a very particular problem, on each tail objects there is a hidden evolve op (the same

[C++] UserDataMap data type

Hi there I'm still diving in the C++ world and I was wondering if there is a list of data types that can be stored in a c++ user data map? Is is only the numeric types ? It seems arrays(any kind) and CStrings embed in a struct can't be read back. Thanks -- Ahmidou Lyazidi Director | TD | CG

Re: Broken spine with new scene

a work around this but has anyone else experienced a similar problem? The Rig was built in 2012 SAP but the problem is also present in 2013. m@ -- Ahmidou Lyazidi Director | TD | CG artist http://vimeo.com/ahmidou/videos

[C++] UserDataMap.GetItemValue not working at all?

* , unsigned int )' Any experience with this? I'm on linux and 2012 SAP -- Ahmidou Lyazidi Director | TD | CG artist http://vimeo.com/ahmidou/videos

Re: [C++] UserDataMap.GetItemValue not working at all?

Thank to Xavier Lapointe, the example was wrong: const unsigned char* pInternalData = NULL ; instead of unsigned char* pInternalData = NULL ; Cheers 2012/9/28 Ahmidou Lyazidi ahmidou@gmail.com Hi List I'm playing with userdatamaps, and can't even have the example working: unsigned

Re: Small Annoying Things

...@autodesk.commailto:chris.c...@autodesk.commailto: chris.c...@autodesk.com wrote: I guess the render region saves in buffer, and logically it should only be accessible within a session... Isn't it? Chris ** ** -- Ahmidou Lyazidi Director | TD | CG artist http://vimeo.com/ahmidou

Re: Hull deformer issues 2012.5

. :( Eric Thivierge http://www.ethivierge.com -- Ahmidou Lyazidi Director | TD | CG artist http://vimeo.com/ahmidou/videos

Re: ICE string to integer/scalar conversion + reading numbers from object names from within ICE

, Ahmidou Lyazidi ahmidou@gmail.com wrote: Hi Alan, Thanks for the posts, but did you know that there is a very usefull string to array node that convert to integers? Cheers A. 2012/8/16 Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.com Actually these were mostly finished already. I had them

Re: Autodesk Masters

... Helge told me they have really nice Autodesk Jacket for the winners :) http://www.the-area.com/masters ;-) Jeremie -- Ahmidou Lyazidi Director | TD | CG artist http://vimeo.com/ahmidou/videos

Compound Parameters

Hello, Is there any way to create our own parameter compound on a custom property? This could be handy! Cheers -- Ahmidou Lyazidi Director | TD | CG artist http://vimeo.com/ahmidou/videos

Re: Compound Parameters

I'd say no, but was hopping for some undocumented method :) 2012/7/21 Ahmidou Lyazidi ahmidou@gmail.com The subsection folder for parameters http://download.autodesk.com/global/docs/softimage2013/en_us/sdkguide/files/CompoundParameter.htm 2012/7/21 Eric Thivierge ethivie...@gmail.com

Re: new Altima ad from Framestore NY

] ** ** -- Ahmidou Lyazidi Director | TD | CG artist http://vimeo.com/ahmidou/videos image001.gif

Re: ICE kineamtics performances ?

suggesting? while i dont have Connect methods for ports, adding new Ports to nodes, or any control over where the node shows in the gui, the rest seems ok to me. s On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 8:59 PM, Ahmidou Lyazidi ahmidou@gmail.com ahmidou@gmail.com wrote: +1000 it's such a pain scripting

ICE kineamtics performances ?

? Thanks -- Ahmidou Lyazidi Director | TD | CG artist http://vimeo.com/ahmidou/videos

Re: ICE kineamtics performances ?

It's even faster than the ICE kine rabbit way where all the calculations are stored in one big array, and have a per driven icetree reading the array... 2012/7/4 Ahmidou Lyazidi ahmidou@gmail.com Hi list I was doing some performance testing with ICE kinematics and found out that having

Re: ICE kineamtics performances ?

test it and make a informed decision about how the customer's should use it. a shame i know... in fact i didn't spend near as much time with it as i wanted to (many factors, but one being the ICE kine changed through out the beta). s On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Ahmidou Lyazidi ahmidou

Re: ICE kineamtics performances ?

word has ever been handed down. Eric Thivierge http://www.ethivierge.com -- Ahmidou Lyazidi Director | TD | CG artist http://vimeo.com/ahmidou/videos

Re: ICE kineamtics performances ?

://www.ethivierge.com -- --- Simon Ben Anderson blog: http://vinyldevelopment.wordpress.com/ -- Ahmidou Lyazidi Director | TD | CG artist http://vimeo.com/ahmidou/videos

[SDK] swapping constraint' s relations

out null.kine.global.IndpCns_E in null.kine.Constraints.poscns.blends.PosePoseCns_D Shouldn't the input be the cube's global kinematics? Ho and selecting the null.kine.Constraints.poscns.blends.PosePoseCns_D and open the SDK explorer kills Softimage Cheers -- Ahmidou Lyazidi Director | TD

knitted clothing tech paper

Nice one :) http://www.cemyuksel.com/research/stitchmeshes/ -- Ahmidou Lyazidi Director | TD | CG artist http://vimeo.com/ahmidou/videos

Re: Convert Position Fcurves key's tangents in 3d space

...@simonpickard.com Very cool! So amazing to see this in Softimage! :) Regards, Simon On 3 May 2012 09:55, Ahmidou Lyazidi ahmidou@gmail.com wrote: Hi Jo, and thanks for the snipet! I already have a structure not that far, but my problem is elsewhere. The fcurves's tangents

[C++] store Fcurve in a CRefArray?

Hi Is it possible ? I can't get it working... Thanks -- Ahmidou Lyazidi Director | TD | CG artist http://vimeo.com/ahmidou/videos

Re: Convert Position Fcurves key's tangents in 3d space

: {0}.format(mp.source) print mp-color: {0}.format(mp.color) for bezf in mp.bezfragments: print \ncp for xyz in bezf: log_bezfragment(xyz) return None log_obj_motionpath() 2012/4/30 Ahmidou Lyazidi ahmidou

Re: Get real translation information from weighted mesh

real position in space (might be N units away). Is there a way I can get it? I thought of couple of ways, but nothing trivial. Any hints would be appreciated. Thanks! -- Xavier -- Ahmidou Lyazidi Director | TD | CG artist http://vimeo.com/ahmidou/videos

Re: Get real translation information from weighted mesh

wrote: Yeah the point position average is another way, but I'm a little concerned about performance issue I could face. But maybe this is the most accurate way I could with .. -- Ahmidou Lyazidi Director | TD | CG artist http://vimeo.com/ahmidou/videos

Re: Convert Position Fcurves key's tangents in 3d space

I think I got it :) 2012/4/30 Halim Negadi hneg...@gmail.com Looks awesome Ahmidou, can't wait to play with it. Cheers, H. On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Ahmidou Lyazidi ahmidou@gmail.comwrote: Well, as soon as I have resolved the tangent handle stuff :) I'm sure it's simple

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