Re: Please explain Maya pivot points to a Softimage thinker

That explains a lot ;) -- Christian Keller Visual effects|direction m +49 179 69 36 248 chris3...@me.com Vimeo.com/channels/96149 > Am 04.11.2015 um 17:43 schrieb Gerbrand Nel <nagv...@gmail.com>: > > Agreed... > Rather watch this. > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K

Re: Cluster of points driving another cluster of points

Good you managed a way to do it. We used a similar approach for example on that one: https://vimeo.com/channels/96149/118590224 Not feasible for everything, but much nicer and more predictable than to use bullet in SI. -- Christian Keller Visual effects|direction m +49 179 69 36 248 chris3

Re: Downloading Entertainment Creation Suite

be ;) Btw can I get my two days back ? -- Christian Keller Visual effects|direction m +49 179 69 36 248 chris3...@me.com Vimeo.com/channels/96149 > Am 30.09.2015 um 19:04 schrieb Bradley Gabe <witha...@gmail.com>: > > Simple solution. I gave up attempting to install on that com

Re: SP2???

I think The Version i'm on, it already is fixed ! -- Christian Keller Visual effects|direction m +49 179 69 36 248 chris3...@me.com Vimeo.com/channels/96149 > Am 25.09.2015 um 16:32 schrieb Martin Chatterjee > <martin.chatterjee.li...@googlemail.com>: > > Hi Hsiao Ming,

Re: command port to XSI

In the workgroup examples you've on xsi server example which might come handy for you. Can recall the exact name. I think I had to install c# to compile it for 64 bit -- Christian Keller Visual effects|direction m +49 179 69 36 248 chris3...@me.com Vimeo.com/channels/96149 > Am 03.09.2015

Re: Momentum setup ?

never get the same result. The sim engine itself is pretty cool if you use it in another package, but the soft implementation is half baked and feels dirty. No offense to the developers, if it's a softimage problem or what else ... -- Christian Keller Visual effects|direction m +49 179 69 36

Re: Friday Flashback #228

That's a nice one, still remember that. I lived in that small town in Bavaria where the first reseller was. -- Christian Keller Visual effects|direction m +49 179 69 36 248 chris3...@me.com Vimeo.com/channels/96149 Am 12.06.2015 um 18:17 schrieb Stephen Blair stephenrbl...@gmail.com

Re: [Softimage] accessing single points of an object in ICE

to set the position array into a separate variable first, otherwise it would not work with the filter node. Sure you figure that out ! -- Christian Keller Visual effects|direction m +49 179 69 36 248 chris3...@me.com Vimeo.com/channels/96149 Am 17.06.2015 um 17:52 schrieb Byron Nash byronn

Re: motion blur and ambient occlusion

I'm not in front if the computer now, but have you tried if unified sampling makes a big difference, in theory it should. There's also an caching option for AO in the render settings, you've to fiddle with the values. Not using mr very often these days. -- Christian Keller Visual effects

Re: Lets Hope Autodesk Buys the Foundry!

So there is one final question to ask: what is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow ? -- Christian Keller Visual effects|direction m +49 179 69 36 248 chris3...@me.com Vimeo.com/channels/96149 Am 16.12.2014 um 05:58 schrieb John Richard Sanchez youngupstar...@gmail.com: Lets

Re: realistic hair shading SI-MR

It's a long time ago that I did hair with mr, Arnold makes that a breeze now. But I did that always with the rasterizer. If the hair is not to long you could bake the final gathering into a texture and use that to mix it into the shading, which gives you a nice look without too much rendering

Re: smoothing tagged keys on fcurves

Do it in ice ? Or use the plot functionality to produce a spline. Smooth the spline partially, get it back as a fcurve. There are so many ways to skin that cat ... -- christian keller visual effects|direction m +49 179 69 36 248 f +49 40 386 835 33 chris3...@me.com gesendet von meinem iDing

Re: smoothing tagged keys on fcurves

Blend between a fully smoothed and the original. Might be faster than writing your last mail ;-P -- christian keller visual effects|direction m +49 179 69 36 248 f +49 40 386 835 33 chris3...@me.com gesendet von meinem iDing Am 07.05.2014 um 19:00 schrieb adrian wyer adrian.w...@fluid

Re: Re[2]: lag when editing components

it -- christian keller visual effects|direction m +49 179 69 36 248 f +49 40 386 835 33 chris3...@me.com gesendet von meinem iDing Am 22.04.2014 um 18:14 schrieb Martin Yara furik...@gmail.com: I haven't used Quadros for quite a while, but they used to be faster than GeForces when dealing with very

Re: ICE// Instance Geometry to unique geometry?

http://www.mootzoid.com/plugin/emtopolizer2or search the list-- christian keller visual effects|direction +49 179 69 36 248 chris3...@me.com http://vimeo.com/channels/96149Am 09. Dezember 2013 um 11:23 schrieb Tim Leydecker bauero...@gmx.de:Hi, I have simple crates I´m filling with ICE

Re: Merge meshes is slooooooooooooooooooooooooooow

.-- christian keller visual effects|direction +49 179 69 36 248 chris3...@me.com http://vimeo.com/channels/96149Am 06. November 2013 um 10:33 schrieb Vladimir Jankijevic vladi...@elefantstudios.ch:yes. just merge two simple objects, set the tolerance parameter to 0, and save out a preset of that operator

Re: emission by point velocity of emitter

.. Thanks, Eric Freelance 3D and VFX animator http://vimeopro.com/user7979713/3d-work -- christian keller visual effects|direction m +49 179 69 36 248 f +49 40 386 835 33 chris3...@me.com

Re: Setting data on a particle based off data from another particle in the same cloud

the corresponding value from that set. I'm not in front of a computer right now, but I'll have a quick look at it if you don't get it working. Chris -- christian keller visual effects|direction m +49 179 69 36 248 f +49 40 386 835 33 chris3...@me.com gesendet von meinem iDing Am 17.07.2013 um 12:02 schrieb

Re: disconnected edges?

If you want the edges instead of the vertices, you could use a separate pointcloud , get all border edges and resample the space between each of the two points of every edge. Use the positions for an add point node. Then use this pointcloud for the distance lookup. -- christian keller visual

Re: Octane render

looks like a filtering issue. lanzcos ?you might get away with less bounces, without noticabel quality loss.with some tricks you could get a better and faster resultcheers,chris-- christian keller visual effects|direction +49 179 69 36 248 chris3...@me.com http://vimeo.com/channels/96149Am 14

Re: SDK: ShaderDefs and related

Speaking of ShaderDefs:Does someone know how to change the default value of a color parameter in a ShaderDef in python?Cheers,Chris-- christian keller visual effects|direction +49 179 69 36 248 chris3...@me.com http://vimeo.com/channels/96149Am 11. Februar 2013 um 04:47 schrieb Stephan Woermann

Re: HEY THE AREA

Hey, what's the problem, it seems to work. They remember you, maybe not like you expected it :) -- christian keller visual effects|direction m +49 179 69 36 248 f +49 40 386 835 33 chris3...@me.com gesendet von meinem iDing Am 14.01.2013 um 17:55 schrieb Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.com

Re: Particle clumping technique

. -- christian keller visual effects|direction m +49 179 69 36 248 f +49 40 386 835 33 chris3...@me.com gesendet von meinem iDing Am 08.01.2013 um 15:47 schrieb Tim tim_boll...@hotmail.co.uk: Just a quick update, incase anyone else is trying to do something similar. The culprit for the simulation forces

Re: Forcing ice trees to evaluate via script

Have you tried to put a log node inbetween (ice)? In the script use maybe a Refresh and or a Redraw if it doesn't work. -- christian keller visual effects|direction m +49 179 69 36 248 f +49 40 386 835 33 chris3...@me.com gesendet von meinem iDing Am 27.11.2012 um 14:39 schrieb Jules

Re: Another Nissan ?

Yep -- christian keller visual effects|direction m +49 179 69 36 248 f +49 40 386 835 33 chris3...@me.com gesendet von meinem iDing Am 11.11.2012 um 18:09 schrieb olivier jeannel olivier.jean...@noos.fr: https://vimeo.com/51942333 I suppose it's from the same creators as the one before ?

Re: update on Creation integration to Softimage

Hey Helge, a Hamburg Workshop Sounds really cool! Cheers, Chris -- christian keller visual effects|direction m +49 179 69 36 248 f +49 40 386 835 33 chris3...@me.com gesendet von meinem iDing Am 10.11.2012 um 13:17 schrieb Helge Mathee helge.mat...@gmx.net: Andy, Dan, Sebastian

Re: update on Creation integration to Softimage

http://fabricengine.com/2012/08/installing-fabric-engine-core-creation-platform-on-windows-x64/ -- christian keller visual effects|direction m +49 179 69 36 248 f +49 40 386 835 33 chris3...@me.com gesendet von meinem iDing Am 09.11.2012 um 00:18 schrieb Tim Crowson tim.crow

Re: render curves

Strands is the way to go. If you have lots of then and you want fast rendersolition try that and emRenderpointcloud from Eric Mootz -- christian keller visual effects|direction m +49 179 69 36 248 f +49 40 386 835 33 chris3...@me.com gesendet von meinem iDing Am 05.11.2012 um 17:09 schrieb

Re: Urgent : Point reordering problem on PC2 caches

You can also try emtopolizer which can read an write multiple fileformats -- christian keller visual effects|direction m +49 179 69 36 248 f +49 40 386 835 33 chris3...@me.com gesendet von meinem iDing Am 01.11.2012 um 19:17 schrieb Marc-Andre Carbonneau marc-andre.carbonn...@ubisoft.com

Re: ICE cacheing

I'd always use a separate new cloud for reading , this way everything stays clean. I often have even one scene for simulating/caching, and another one for reading/rendering both open at the same time .. -- christian keller visual effects|direction m +49 179 69 36 248 f +49 40 386 835 33

Re: Lamborghini - Supernova

Ah, that's the one. Quite nice ! -- christian keller visual effects|direction m +49 179 69 36 248 f +49 40 386 835 33 chris3...@me.com gesendet von meinem iDing Am 08.10.2012 um 16:21 schrieb Marco Levantaci ma...@digitalgolem.com: That wa fairly ok. The fx part was harder! ;-) M

Re: rendermap on a farm with xsibatch

There's also the possibility to use lightmaps within your rendertree. In the rendering options should be an option to render lightmaps only ... -- christian keller visual effects|direction m +49 179 69 36 248 f +49 40 386 835 33 chris3...@me.com gesendet von meinem iDing Am 05.10.2012 um 18

Re: ICE questions again

... Cheers, Chris -- christian keller visual effects|direction m +49 179 69 36 248 f +49 40 386 835 33 chris3...@me.com gesendet von meinem iDing Am 02.10.2012 um 17:53 schrieb Chris Chia chris.c...@autodesk.com: Hi Szabolcs, I am seeing two IF nodes in your screenshot. I am assuming

Re: ICE questions again

you should be able to set the color in the self.color attribute and render that directly-- christian keller visual effects|direction +49 179 69 36 248 chris3...@me.comAm 01. Oktober 2012 um 10:36 schrieb Szabolcs Matefy szabol...@crytek.com:Hey folks,I’m creating an ICE tree. We have three

Re: Light Spread Softness

You can use either a projector spot or use some render tree state node Tricks. -- christian keller visual effects|direction m +49 179 69 36 248 f +49 40 386 835 33 chris3...@me.com gesendet von meinem iDing Am 28.09.2012 um 05:26 schrieb Byron Nash byronn...@gmail.com: I understand how

Re: rendermap nurbs objects not working

Nurbs, what's that ?-) -- christian keller visual effects|direction m +49 179 69 36 248 f +49 40 386 835 33 chris3...@me.com gesendet von meinem iDing Am 27.09.2012 um 05:27 schrieb Kris Rivel krisri...@gmail.com: Any reason why I can't rendermap a nurbs sphere with a UV applied? I'm just

Re: Soft - Maya : 23.98 to 24 FPS Problem

... -- christian keller visual effects|direction m +49 179 69 36 248 f +49 40 386 835 33 chris3...@me.com gesendet von meinem iDing Am 27.09.2012 um 14:39 schrieb Marc-Andre Carbonneau marc-andre.carbonn...@ubisoft.com: Ahaha same for 3DSMAX. Oh and sot rue about the multi-ppg…grr

Re: An old one - Sample sets from subdiv's

You can clone your mesh and subdivide it via ICE and emit from the result -- christian keller visual effects|direction m +49 179 69 36 248 f +49 40 386 835 33 chris3...@me.com gesendet von meinem iDing Am 20.09.2012 um 15:48 schrieb Andi Farhall andi.farh...@primefocusworld.com: I've read

Re: In case you missed it..

Show your Passion ! ;-) -- christian keller visual effects|direction m +49 179 69 36 248 f +49 40 386 835 33 chris3...@me.com gesendet von meinem iDing Am 13.09.2012 um 03:33 schrieb Sylvain Lebeau s...@shedmtl.com: +100 Dont get me started gang.. you know i can go far!! like

Re: Who uses Fast Playback?

It's from the good old Softimage|3D Days -- christian keller visual effects|direction m +49 179 69 36 248 f +49 40 386 835 33 chris3...@me.com gesendet von meinem iDing Am 08.08.2012 um 23:32 schrieb Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.com: Just curious... Do you guys use or even know

Re: Anyone tried threesixty's Metaballs?

What kind of artifacts ? -- christian keller visual effects|direction m +49 179 69 36 248 f +49 40 386 835 33 chris3...@me.com Am 08.06.2012 um 20:54 schrieb Steven Caron car...@gmail.com: yes, just wondering how Michele's is better? i recently did work and the polygonizer had some

Re: memory not flushed after caching

imagery in the near future.. ;) -- christian keller visual effects|direction m +49 179 69 36 248 f +49 40 386 835 33 chris3...@me.com

Re: mail...

Ping Am 27.05.2012 12:47, schrieb Christian Keller: Ping -- christian keller visual effects|direction m +49 179 69 36 248 f +49 40 386 835 33 chris3...@me.com mailto:chris3...@me.com gesendet von meinem iDing Am 27.05.2012 um 08:22 schrieb Matt Morris matt...@gmail.com mailto:matt

Re: Switching geometry emitter

-- christian keller visual effects|direction m +49 179 69 36 248 f +49 40 386 835 33 chris3...@me.com

Re: ICE strand orientation trouble - again :/ now with images

from Geometry and Create Strands on that, I can control the y-rotation, but then the instances are upside down, and my non simulated turbulence does not work. How can I get to control instance y-rotation when using Emit Strands? MOrten -- christian

Re: chess

No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.1913 / Virus Database: 2411/4970 - Release Date: 04/30/12 -- christian keller visual effects|direction m +49 179 69 36 248 f +49 40 386 835 33 chris3...@me.com