Re: aaOcean - SI 2014 - How to set it up on a scene?

how possible is it > build foam from the back of the ship like in the video with aaOcean ICE? > > Thanks for your reply, man. And thanks for taking your time with us. :D > > https://vimeo.com/176209179 > > On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 4:02 AM, Amaan Akram <xsil...@warpedspace.or

Re: aaOcean - SI 2014 - How to set it up on a scene?

tion. >>> LOL. >>> But realized I have to make a default workgroup directory folders in >>> order for it to be recognized. >>> Now it works! >>> I also had a conflicting *.dll somewhere. >>> Thanks >>> >>> On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 4:5

Re: aaOcean - SI 2014 - How to set it up on a scene?

gt; Thanks @Aamaan > > > On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 2:55 PM, Pierre Schiller < > activemotionpictu...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Ok, I´m going for AAOcean Rev255 Stable Win.zip >> Let´s see how it goes. Thanks for the heads up. >> >> On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 10:12 AM,

Re: aaOcean - SI 2014 - How to set it up on a scene?

plug the yellow port to an ice execute port on ice? > > (I don't have demo scenes anymore) > Thanks for the reply. > > On Aug 7, 2016 4:20 AM, "Amaan Akram" <xsil...@warpedspace.org> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> have you tried the sample s

Re: aaOcean - SI 2014 - How to set it up on a scene?

Hi, have you tried the sample scenes? amaan On 7 August 2016 at 04:45, Pierre Schiller wrote: > > ​ > Hello guys, when I installed my AAOcean Workgroup, I only see this > compound. And it´s output it´s on yellow. Previous AAOCean had a grey > output so it could

Re: Installing AAOcean in Softimage 2014

s\StephenBlair\Documents\softimage\workgroups\sitoa-3.2.0-2014 > > > > For mental ray, it would be similar, but you won't be installing into the > Addons folder of a workgroup. > > > > > > On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 4:30 AM, Amaan Akram <xsil...@warpedspace.org> &

Re: Installing AAOcean in Softimage 2014

40219 >> from MS installed. >> Any thing I may check up on a folder, perhaps? >> I get the .dll not being installed nor the shader, error. >> >> Thanks. >> >> On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 4:36 PM, Amaan Akram <xsil...@warpedspace.org> >> wrote: >&

Re: Installing AAOcean in Softimage 2014

Hi Pierre, my guess is that you are missing one of the visual studio redistributable packs. try installing them from https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=14632 https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=13523 amaan On 4 July 2016 at 22:21, Pierre Schiller

Re: Convert PIC files

If you have openimageio's oiiotool, give that a try On 20 Jun 2016 08:16, "Thomas Volkmann" wrote: > XnConvert might be an option: http://www.xnview.com/en/xnconvert/ > > > > Martin Yara hat am 20. Juni 2016 um 09:07 > geschrieben: > > I have to

Re: Technicolor acquires The Mill

It's good. We were VC owned before. Now we are owned by someone in the business. On 15 Sep 2015 20:02, "Mats Bertil Tegner" wrote: > On 2015-09-15 20:17, Sebastien Sterling wrote: > > Is this good ? > > Probably not, they already own MPC in the U.K. > >

Re: End of the ride

Thank you Graham for all the years of support. All the best to you. On 13 May 2015 at 09:20, gareth bell garethb...@outlook.com wrote: Good luck Dinger. Thanks for the help along the way Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 09:26:26 +0200 From: bauero...@gmx.de To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com

Re: AAOcean not working on softimage 2014

...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, has anyone installed AAOcean in softimage 2014? I´ve been here: http://www.amaanakram.com/plugins/aa_tessendorf/aa_ocean_doc_installation.html aa_Ocean -- Tessendorf's paper as Softimage ICE nodes -- Amaan Akram http://www.amaanakram.com/plugins/aa_tessendorf

Re: aaocean arnold

Hi Adrian try running kick.exe -nodes, or kick.exe -info aaOcean as mentioned in the email off-list. you may have an incompatible arnold version. I am guessing you are using aaocean compiled against a newer api version. try the 4.2.0.1 version if kick says you are using an incompatible version.

Re: aaocean arnold

might want to update the demo scenes sorry, my bad. I'll update the demo scenes. On 7 November 2014 13:25, adrian wyer adrian.w...@fluid-pictures.com wrote: aaand we're back in the room! weird, did this already this morning with no luck, deleted everything and did it again,

Re: Houdini Indie launched ...

Will it support 3rd party renderers? On 7 Aug 2014 20:57, Cristobal Infante cgc...@gmail.com wrote: yep that's right, a few limitations but an amazing piece of kit to have on your side if you are freelancer/small company. This replace the HD version that used to be $99 us but was

Re: aaOcean

, and It loaded fine! -Ryan On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 4:30 PM, Amaan Akram xsil...@warpedspace.orgwrote: Hi Francisco Peter's suggestion is on point -- give that a go to find out if you are missing any dll's Also, check the Plugin Manager and see if aaOceanDataShader is showing up

Re: aaOcean

Hi Francisco Peter's suggestion is on point -- give that a go to find out if you are missing any dll's Also, check the Plugin Manager and see if aaOceanDataShader is showing up there or not. That will help with finding if it is a shaderDef issue, or an actual shader issue amaan On 24 April

Re: More XSI Monkey business by The Mill

Vince, our head of CG in NY very publicly stated his dissatisfaction with the discontinuation of softimage on this list. Sam Driscoll led this Orangutan commercial -- he's on the list. On 14 March 2014 16:43, Christian Lattuada christian.lattu...@gmail.comwrote: If TheMill, Passion,

Re: Open letter to Autodesk

Alastair, brilliant letter. Here's hoping other studio executives will chime in. On 10 March 2014 11:44, Martin Chatterjee martin.chatterjee.li...@googlemail.com wrote: Alastair, excellent letter and spot on. Thanks for taking the effort. I hope this letter does not just stay inside this

Re: MR Physical Sun/Sky Incidence

Hi Tony, From what I recall, a lens shader is added to your pass setup once you add physical sky/sun. The lens shader scales down the super-bright sky values to 'display-able' values. The incidence shader is not going to black, just getting scaled down massively. Try disconnecting the lens shader

Re: does anyone use aaOcean?

--- Daniel Kim Animation Director Professional 3D Generalist http://www.danielkim3d.com --- On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 8:42 PM, Amaan Akram xsil...@warpedspace.orgwrote

Re: does anyone use aaOcean?

Hi Daniel, All download links point to this location https://bitbucket.org/amaanakram/aaocean/downloads if you are using arnold, then the spdl form the download may be missing. you can download it from the repository

Re: Strand Collision Framework

Very very nice! On 24 Oct 2013 09:39, Vincent Langer m...@vincentlanger.com wrote: FANTASTIC!!! 2013/10/24 Edy Susanto Lim edysusant...@gmail.com Awesome!!! On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Ed Manning etmth...@gmail.com wrote: Ooh, I have just the thing to stress-test that on.

Re: Getting ICENode object on init callback

Hi Guillaume, Not sure if this helps, but I did it like this some years ago SICALLBACK aaOcean_Init( CRef in_ctxt ) { Context ctxt(in_ctxt); ICENode myNode = ctxt.GetSource(); } This worked just fine -- but it seems that the argument of my init function, which was generated by the xsi sdk

Re: SIC London next week

See you all there Amaan On 18 Sep 2013 17:36, Michal Doniec doni...@gmail.com wrote: I'll try to make it. Was good last time. On 17 September 2013 17:38, Rob Chapman tekano@gmail.com wrote: this only applies to Softimage studios in Soho.. despite all odds, there are still quite a few

Re: ocean surface generation - arete stylee

Hi Adam, I am not aware of any plugin that generates polygon density based on camera distance. It is something that I have often wanted to do with my ocean setups, but never spent the time to come up with a procedural method. Doing this in ICE *should* be possible ( i have never tried it), and

Re: ocean surface generation - arete stylee

the camera as the line of projection. Adam. - http://www.linkedin.com/in/adamseeleyukhttp://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=21162305 https://vimeo.com/adamseeley https://vimeo.com/album/2280465 -- *From:* Amaan Akram xsil

Re: Honda 'Hands' Commercial

Brilliantly done, Simon. On 6 July 2013 22:37, Andy Moorer andymoo...@gmail.com wrote: By the way those little models with the tiny tracking markers are awesome :P -- 3D Artist/TD @ The Mill, London http://www.amaanakram.com

Re: Baking Implicit Projections

you can't rendermap an implicit projection, but you can bake the result of an implicit projection into an explicit projection. On 4 May 2013 22:54, Sven Constable sixsi_l...@imagefront.de wrote: Manual says: Implicit textures do not have explicit UV coordinates that you can edit in the

Re: FFT ICE node

- MODUS FX 120 Rue Turgeon, Sainte-Therese (Quebec) CANADA J7E 3J1 Follow us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/ModusFX Twitter https://twitter.com/Modusfx * On 25/04/2013 5:02 PM, Amaan Akram

Re: Wanted: FFT ICE node

I have one... somewhere... how soon do you need it? On 17 Apr 2013 10:52, Jens Lindgren jens.lindgren@gmail.com wrote: I wonder if someone out there has a raw FFT ICE node? I know there was one supplied with the very early versions of aaOcean but I don't have any of those old versions

Re: Wanted: FFT ICE node

. Is that possible? When I'm done with the effect I'm doing I will share the compound here. /Jens On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Amaan Akram xsil...@warpedspace.orgwrote: I have one... somewhere... how soon do you need it? On 17 Apr 2013 10:52, Jens Lindgren jens.lindgren@gmail.com

Re: arcCos nan

Clamp input to be in -1 to 1 range? On 21 Mar 2013 20:50, jimmy gass ji...@nervegass.net wrote: I'm having issues with arccos returning nan for some values. Is there a way to filter out the nan and just return 0? It can break renders and simulations. What would cause arccos to return nan,

Re: Mia architectural highlights, bug?

do you have any point or distant lights? On 15 February 2013 07:30, Stefan Andersson sander...@gmail.com wrote: So it's been years since I had to use mental ray in production... Now two weeks into the production we are seeing a lot of highlight artifacts in the renders, which doesn't appear

RE: Place Highlight Tool

Julian, really cool tool! On 9 Jan 2013 20:28, Brent McPherson brent.mcpher...@autodesk.com wrote: Congratulations. Looks very cool Julian. Just get ready for the inevitable flood of feature requests! ;-) -- Brent -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com

Re: Rumors II

Happy New Year and Happy Holidays everyone! On 24 December 2012 11:58, Sebastien Sterling sebastien.sterl...@gmail.comwrote: Joyeux Noel ! On 24 December 2012 11:47, Tim Marinov tim.mari...@gmail.com wrote: Merry Christmas and happy new year to everyone! -- 3D Artist/TD @ The Mill,

Re: update on Creation integration to Softimage

amazing stuff... On 8 November 2012 22:01, Xavier Lapointe xl.mailingl...@gmail.com wrote: Had the same question on my mind actually. On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 8:58 AM, Eric Thivierge ethivie...@gmail.comwrote: So the integration with Softimage is working on Linux?

Re: Chunky EXR highlights

The problem is the light type. Switch to an area light, and the hot speculars will go away. Lights without area mess with physically-based shaders, and such shaders have to deploy hacks to get around lights without any area because they are not physically correct. If switching to an area light

Re: CLSID error and XSI base

I wonder what would happen if you were to create a dummy SPDL in a workgroup and give it the GUID of the missing one that is making XSI fail to load a scene. Never tried, but often wondered... did anyone ever try this? On 15 September 2012 02:39, Matt Lind ml...@carbinestudios.com wrote: Pure

Re: aaOcean open-sourced

sorry, it is currently offline. I need to rearrange a few things before it goes public again. Please contact me off-list if you require the source code. amaan On 22 August 2012 14:48, Manu Allasia 3d.alla...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all ! Same for me, I get this message: Error You do not have

Re: bbc olympics titles

congrats Mario, Rick, Ciaran, Sajjad, Jamie and everybody else who was involved in this. Amazing. On 3 July 2012 22:37, Steven Caron car...@gmail.com wrote: is mario ucci still there? cause i think i see his hand in every character... and all of the characters are awesome! (not just modeling,

Re: Ice feathers..

Vince, show yourself! :) Brad got it spot on. Super nice guy, super skilled too. On 14 June 2012 16:01, Eric Thivierge ethivie...@gmail.com wrote: WE WANT VINCE, WE WANT VINCE!! Eric Thivierge http://www.ethivierge.com On Fri, Jun 15, 2012

Re: mail...

, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Amaan Akram xsil...@warpedspace.orgwrote: Hi guys, can you please confirm if I am alive? it will make my day. cheers, amaan On 28 May 2012 14:55, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.com wrote: Confirmation links never worked. Just reply to the email. On Mon, May 28, 2012

Re: London Softimage user group is reborn!

excellent initiative. congrats to all involved! On 23 April 2012 10:39, Eric Thivierge ethivie...@gmail.com wrote: Congrats on starting this up! Very good to see more people getting involved. Think initiatives like this will help keep the SI community thriving!

Re: Intro to the new team (was RE: Softimage development)

Welcome guys. It's great to see you on this list indeed! On 19 April 2012 12:55, Matt Morris matt...@gmail.com wrote: A hearty welcome to all the new faces, looking forward to seeing what happens with softimage and some fresh ideas! On 19 April 2012 12:11, Juhani Karlsson