Re: The Softimage mailing list

Hey Everyone! I’ve been silently watching this list for a few years now. Just wanted to say a big thank you for every single person that make it a great community! This list helped me countless times, so I can’t appreciate it enough. Really. I kept on doing 3d (now in Houdini), but Soft has a

Re: London work and how to pitch myself in these

Hey don’t want to hijack Laurence’s thread, but extending his questions, I’m also interested in applying to some UK companies on the next months. What are the chances of having a sponsored work permit these days? I mean, of course it will depend on many factors like open positions,

Re: Any mid-term work going on in London ?

; >>> Hey Fabricio! >>> My fault for not mentioning it earlier :P Back to BR or somewhere else? >>> >>> Houdini is a system of mountains :D Always something new to climb! >>> Ehehe. I would have a lot to say in the "Non-VFX" thread but in due

Re: Any mid-term work going on in London ?

Doh, was there one week ago. Had a couple of beers with some fellow friends. Nice work on the crowds btw Pedro. It is interesting to watch how fast you are climbing the houdini mountain. I had a friend looking for xsi artists this week. Will check if he still has an open position. Em sex, 18 de

Re: Houdini : non VFX jobs?

Houdini conversation with ex-soft people in a pub...sounds like a cool place to be. =) I’m London atm (and for the next week), if anybody is keen for a beer or two...let me know Cheers Em sex, 4 de mai de 2018 às 09:30, Jordi Bares escreveu: > On 3 May 2018, at 18:24,

Re: OT'ish - Installing Crate for Maya?

I believe maya does support multiple uv sets in its current built in abc implementation (at least from 2017 onwards). I have used it many times, the thing is it is super picky about the file format and how it is constructed (when coming from houdini in my case). I had plenty of issues to transfer

Re: The Maya Chronicles - or how retarded that software is...

; Dont bash to hard on crashes, I’ve felt them and they left deep scars. > > Andy > > > > On Mar 30, 2018, at 3:19 PM, Fabricio Chamon <xsiml...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Protip: have 2 maya sessions opened -> Begin working on one of them -> > wait for the crash

Re: The Maya Chronicles - or how retarded that software is...

Protip: have 2 maya sessions opened -> Begin working on one of them -> wait for the crash -> kill on task manager -> fire up another session -> continue work on already opened session while new one loads -> no wait 3 minutes for maya to start -> happyness (?) This is how I work in maya EVERYTIME.

Re: the end.....again

2015_offline_help/softimage_2015_offline_help_enu.zip > > On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 7:09 AM, Fabricio Chamon <xsiml...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Here's my backup copy of the Developer docs in case anybody needs it: >> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.dropbox.com_s_v2h

Re: the end.....again

Here's my backup copy of the Developer docs in case anybody needs it:

Re: Houdini Digital Assets for Softies

softLib looks good! Em qua, 29 de mar de 2017 às 18:51, Andy Nicholas escreveu: > > > > > > > > > > > haha! :) > > > > > > Will leave this question hanging tonight in case anyone else wants > > to chime in. Final decision can happen tomorrow. > > > > > > > On 29/03/2017

Re: Random Thoughts about H.

utodesk.com> > *Subject:* Re: Random Thoughts about H. > > Not exactly the Point Reference frame, but I used this method to get > "solid" rotation on a projetc. Not sure it's simple enough, as you have to > feed the orient attribute with something to start using it localy. &

Re: Random Thoughts about H.

whaaat? that is do comforting. =) nice job sidefx 2017-03-28 11:42 GMT+02:00 Jonathan Moore : > Very impressive indeed. > > > > *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-bounces@ > listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Andy Nicholas > *Sent:* 28

Re: Latest Houdini Wrangle Masterclass

e > @instancepath attribute. > > Hopefully the attached image should show up below. > > A > > > > > > > On 27 Mar 2017, at 18:47, Fabricio Chamon <xsiml...@gmail.com> wrote: > > hijacking the thread, while staying on topic =) : > > I'd like t

Re: Great rigging tutorial for those new to Houdini

super cool! clever and easy to follow...thanks for the link. 2017-03-24 17:11 GMT+01:00 Jonathan Moore : > It’s focus is the non-destructive benefits of using CHOP’s for rigging. > > > > https://vimeo.com/209784546 > > -- > Softimage Mailing List. > To unsubscribe,

Re: Random Thoughts about H.

After some weeks learning houdini I have to agree 100% with Dan. It is super useful in all contexts other than VOPs. Em sáb, 25 de mar de 2017 às 21:39, Dan Yargici escreveu: > I just wish you could disable drop on line per context. I would hate to > work in the network

Re: Latest Houdini Wrangle Masterclass

thanks for the link Jonathan. It is so informative! And it clearly points a beginner to the right direction performance-wise, as there are many ways to do the same thing in vex. 2017-03-21 0:42 GMT+01:00 Eugene Flormata : > so this hasn't changed much since in the 16 update?

Re: houdini question (and where to ask)

t goes up it will get a lot > slower running in Details Mode. > > > > *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-bounces@ > listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Olivier Jeannel > *Sent:* 14 March 2017 19:45 > *To:* Official Softimage Users Mailing Li

Re: Redshift - shapeInstanceTime

ok thanks Tim. 2017-03-13 22:39 GMT+01:00 Tim Crowson <tcrow...@gmail.com>: > It is still unsupported as far as I know. > On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 2:33 PM Fabricio Chamon <xsiml...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Can anyone confirm Redshift still does not support shapeIns

Redshift - shapeInstanceTime

Can anyone confirm Redshift still does not support shapeInstanceTime on pointclouds? I couldn't find any info on the docs or forums. thanks. -- Softimage Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to

Re: Houdini tutorial | Building the orientation matrix for local rotation

thanks for the tutorial Olivier, helps a lot! 2017-03-10 23:29 GMT+01:00 Olivier Jeannel : > No problem Jonathan ! > I'm rather happy :) > Still on 15.5, I'm waiting a bit before switching to 16. I barely use the > point SOP, but for the tut I was trying to do it the

Re: houdini question (and where to ask)

n load. >>>> Hopefully you might find something within the examples to inspires a >>>> solution. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: >>>> softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On

Re: houdini question (and where to ask)

ers is sort of fcurve. >> It's a bit weak in terms of curve manipulation, but does the job. >> It has 2 modes rgb (ramp) and spline. >> If you use several ramps in the same vop, name them with different name >> or they might not export. >> >> Le 6 mars 2017

Re: houdini question (and where to ask)

7-03-06 14:23 GMT+01:00 Fabricio Chamon <xsiml...@gmail.com>: > Hi, I'm slowly getting into houdini and this is my first attempt to port a > really simple ridged fractal deformer made in ICE to houdini (using > pointvop). > > Question #1: are there any equivalents to ICE &quo

houdini question (and where to ask)

Hi, I'm slowly getting into houdini and this is my first attempt to port a really simple ridged fractal deformer made in ICE to houdini (using pointvop). Question #1: are there any equivalents to ICE "get ... in set"? or or do I have to iterate and store values for later comparision? In other

Re: OT - In Berlin

haha allright. Thanks Walt! cheers 2017-02-13 9:30 GMT+01:00 wavo <w...@fiftyeight.com>: > Hallo, > wrong city ;-) > > have a nice time > > Walt > > > > > > Am 2/11/2017 um 12:53 AM schrieb Fabricio Chamon: > > Hey German folks, > > Sorry

Re: OT - In Berlin

..and of course I mispelled Germany! haha..shame =) 2017-02-11 0:53 GMT+01:00 Fabricio Chamon <xsiml...@gmail.com>: > Hey German folks, > > Sorry for the OT, I'm in Berlin for the next 2 months, maybe someone is up > for a beer or two, chat about 3d, life or anything else.

OT - In Berlin

tell me the place. =) Better reply to this e-mail: fabricio.cha...@gmail.com Have a nice weekend guys. Cheers, Fabricio Chamon -- Softimage Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm.

Re: Find cluster from polygon - script

rt, if you only need to find the owning cluster once or >> twice, >> then just traverse the clusters and query if the polygon is in the >> cluster. >> If you have to do this en masse, then it might pay off to create reverse >> lookups maps using a simple associative array

Re: Setting ICE attribute DataArray in javascript

, > oParentCluster, oClusterProperty ).toArray(); > > Just enclose the quantity to be converted in parentheses, then append > .Array() to the right parenthesis. the only caveat is to make sure the > quantity to be converted is not null or else it’ll throw an error. > >

Re: thickness - avoiding self intersections

or the erode, and minimun distance on the ray > node. This would give you the same topo, on the inner side so no need to > worry about UVs. > > So many options ;) > > > On Tue, 13 Dec 2016 at 22:08, Fabricio Chamon <xsiml...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> doh..sorry I misspelled y

Re: Setting ICE attribute DataArray in javascript

found the culprit... I was running this on a live alembic file...for some reason it does not work. As soon as I freeze the mesh then it works great. 2016-12-13 20:38 GMT-02:00 Fabricio Chamon <xsiml...@gmail.com>: > ...and here is the blog post where Stephen shows his code

Re: Setting ICE attribute DataArray in javascript

...and here is the blog post where Stephen shows his code: https://xsisupport.com/2013/03/25/aha-setting-dataarray2d-with-jscript/ btw I'm on soft 2015 SP2 2016-12-13 20:34 GMT-02:00 Fabricio Chamon <xsiml...@gmail.com>: > Hey, > > lots of questions these days, sorry. > >

Setting ICE attribute DataArray in javascript

Hey, lots of questions these days, sorry. So I'm searching all day through the list and internet to find a solution for this... I'm trying to set per polygon ice attribute values on a mesh via sdk (javascript). The subject was already discussed, Stephen Blair have some studies on it, one

Re: thickness - avoiding self intersections

doh..sorry I misspelled your name. Jonathan =) 2016-12-13 20:07 GMT-02:00 Fabricio Chamon <xsiml...@gmail.com>: > yeah Johnatan me to, not super addicted to the voronoi stuff...that > straight edges are terrible... I like to use the iterative shatter in > IFX...to be honest IFX

Re: thickness - avoiding self intersections

ink of something similar > myself - but I'm relatively new to Houdini so I'm not beating myself up too > much! :) > > https://vimeo.com/176497413 > > > > > On 13 December 2016 at 19:48, Fabricio Chamon <xsiml...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> hey thanks everyone

Find cluster from polygon - script

Hey guys, is there a quick way to find which cluster(s) a polygon belongs to without looping over all cluster elements? thanks. -- Softimage Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm.

Re: thickness - avoiding self intersections

toonafish <ron...@toonafish.nl> wrote: > >> you could try Meshmixer, it’s free and used for 3D printing but has a >> “hollowing” feature that might work. >> >> -Ronald >> >> >> >> On 12 Dec 2016, at 16:25, Fabricio Chamon <xsiml...@

Re: Houdini voronoi to Soft - disconnected faces?

@Cristobal and Andreas: yeah, that was it! thanks a lot! @Morten: I'm a big fan of IFX, and currently using in the same project. I love how powerful the ice operators can be to create nested shatters, although it crashes sometimes. But I suddenly got this big messy mesh with all sorts of bad

Re: Houdini voronoi to Soft - disconnected faces?

eers > > On 6 December 2016 at 16:32, Fabricio Chamon <xsiml...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> thanks Christopher! I tried using divide + the scale/rescale stuff...even >> so I'm still not getting 100% reliable results as you noted. >> >> On top of that there are

Re: Houdini voronoi to Soft - disconnected faces?

gt; > Well, even with these 2 tips it still might not work depending on the > input geometry. > > > On 6 December 2016 at 21:29, Fabricio Chamon <xsiml...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> ok solved exporting through a ROP node instead of file node. Now alembic >> imports f

Re: Houdini voronoi to Soft - disconnected faces?

ok solved exporting through a ROP node instead of file node. Now alembic imports fine and all faces are good. =) 2016-12-06 12:15 GMT-02:00 Fabricio Chamon <xsiml...@gmail.com>: > Well, unfortunatelly soft crashes everytime I try to import this alembic > mesh from houdini... so I w

Re: Houdini voronoi to Soft - disconnected faces?

mbic, i just merged vertices in maya > > 2016-12-06 17:00 GMT+03:00 Fabricio Chamon <xsiml...@gmail.com>: > >> Hey gang, >> >> I'm doing a voronoi shatter in houdini and want to bring the result back >> into softimage (exporting .obj to Soft 2015 SP2). The outsi

Houdini voronoi to Soft - disconnected faces?

Hey gang, I'm doing a voronoi shatter in houdini and want to bring the result back into softimage (exporting .obj to Soft 2015 SP2). The outside pieces are disconected from the inside pieces, like this: [image: Imagem inline 1] I'm pretty sure it's me doing something wrong in houdini... My

Re: Particle volume rendering problem

I remember having some problems like this in the past.. what is your scene scale? Try resizing everything to the default grid scale just to check how it goes. Em qui, 17 de nov de 2016 às 22:57, Sven Constable escreveu: > Hey list, > > > > I did some tests for an

Re: Exploding fractured mesh

If you are keen to staying in softimage Momentum + implosiaFX should pretty much serve all your needs. As Simon stated it will be not as stable as houdini, but I've done some pretty decent setups with it.. some intermediate ice skills and an understanting of the whole workflow of momentum is

Re: OT: GearVR + Mocap Suit = Full Body in VR

ons in a large space > I need to move my tower pc ( and everything else ) outside, which is a bit > annoying but doable. > > Nicolas > > 2016-08-04 15:48 GMT+02:00 Fabricio Chamon <xsiml...@gmail.com>: > >> Hey Nicolas, very nice! I'm particularly interested in the

Re: OT: GearVR + Mocap Suit = Full Body in VR

Hey Nicolas, very nice! I'm particularly interested in the mocap suit. Does it work well? How is the setup/calibration time? Any pros/cons? I can see in the perception neuron website that you have to be extremely carefull with your calibration or the system really will not work good enough. How is

Re: shameless plug - Fabricio Chamon

<probi...@gmail.com>: > Hey Fabricio! > Neat looking website. Godspeed with the demo reel. > > Good luck in this new venture! > > Abraço! > > On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 12:54 PM, Fabricio Chamon <xsiml...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hello fellow sof

shameless plug - Fabricio Chamon

Hello fellow softimagers! (Short text, I promiss...) Sorry for the self promotion, but there's no other place I know that will like my softimage skills. =) After ~10 years of fixed contracts, I finally got into the field for freelance working. Generalist, with inclination for

Re: Momentum / implosiafx plugins

if I can recall, plotting was a feature pre-alembic. It got discontinued once alembic took place. Now there we have a killer combo: implosia + momentum + crate (easy retime tools), all for free. I bet this is far better than MANY paid comercial plugins out there... =) 2016-05-26 22:03 GMT-03:00

Re: Momentum / implosiafx plugins

Hey thanks a lot Oleg! Awesome tools, I love the IFX ice shatter nodes, they open room for some mindblowing stuff Btw where are you puting your efforts right now? Maya? Houdini? Fabric? Cheers! Em quinta-feira, 26 de maio de 2016, Sven Constable < sixsi_l...@imagefront.de> escreveu: >

Re: Changed ICE Orientation attribute access from sdk?

with different interpreters, the > less you hit the SDK the better (generally speaking). > > > On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 11:12 PM, Fabricio Chamon <xsiml...@gmail.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','xsiml...@gmail.com');>> wrote: > >> found it. >> >> pInd

Re: Changed ICE Orientation attribute access from sdk?

dex].RotY rotation z = pointcloud.ActivePrimitive.GetICEAttributeFromName(" Orientation").DataArray.toArray()[pIndex].RotZ 2016-05-03 9:53 GMT-03:00 Fabricio Chamon <xsiml...@gmail.com>: > sorry or the confusion..StructureType being 1 is correct as the context > is per point(particle). But suddenly pointcloud.

Re: Changed ICE Orientation attribute access from sdk?

sorry or the confusion..StructureType being 1 is correct as the context is per point(particle). But suddenly pointcloud.ActivePrimitive. GetICEAttributeFromName("Orientation").DataArray.toArray() is giving me a type mismatch error when it previously worked. 2016-05-02 18:43 GMT-03:0

Changed ICE Orientation attribute access from sdk?

hey gang, in Soft 2014 I had this line of .js code: pointcloud.ActivePrimitive.GetICEAttributeFromName("Orientation").StructureType that returned -> 2 (*siICENodeStructureArray*) now in Soft 2015 it returns-> 1 (*siICENodeStructureSingle*) any hints? How may I access the particles orientation

Re: Wrapped

Awesome!! Excellent job! Em quarta-feira, 6 de abril de 2016, Ed Manning escreveu: > Totally AWESOME. > > And I dare say, it could only have been done by such a small > artist-centric team in Softimage. Just thinking about how I'd have to go > about it in a Maya-only

Re: OT: sequence file browser

thanks guys! I'll take a look at Adobe Bridge. 2016-02-24 22:41 GMT-03:00 Andres Stephens : > I think in the details view you can use the category bar to select a > "stack by name" with your name groups. Not just the X to X lumps. > > >

Re: 1 texture per polygon

> Yes, that's what I'm thinking too. > Can't we build a "select case" thinguy within the render tree ? > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 4:18 PM, Fabricio Chamon <xsiml...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> looks like the "Time Source" parameter on the image file nodes do

Re: OT: sequence file browser

one of my personal favorites. Free and open source too. > > > > > Original message ---- > From: Fabricio Chamon <xsiml...@gmail.com> > Date: 24/02/2016 10:10 (GMT-05:00) > To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com > Subject: OT: sequence file browser > > H

Re: 1 texture per polygon

looks like the "Time Source" parameter on the image file nodes does not accept ice attributes on a mesh. 2016-02-24 12:14 GMT-03:00 Olivier Jeannel : > I just solved the uv part, meaning each polygon is now covering the hole > 0-1 UV Space. > But I'm not sure it helps,

OT: sequence file browser

Hey guys, I'm constantly looking for a decent file browser that can handle file sequences (read softimage-like collapsed/expanded views), and that works for any file format. Its for general file checking only, I don't really need to open the sequences...anyone ? It takes some patience to check

Re: this is the end......

Trying hard Olivier, difficult to sell Houdini to a max house... They like suffering =) Em sábado, 30 de janeiro de 2016, Olivier Jeannel <facialdel...@gmail.com> escreveu: > Fabricio, do yourself a favor and move to Houdini. > > On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 12:29 AM, Fabrici

Re: this is the end......

Although I don't post a lot, just like to thank you all on this list for saving my ass countless times during the hard days I'm currently struggling with 3ds max and its "lovely" state sets...all the mcg hype (did a basic point scatter in 5 hours!!! Wow, talk about speed), and maya with its

Re: Plotting animated boolean geometry?

Yes alembic supports dynamic topo, and should be a better choice by nowbut Ive done something similar in the past with ice too, just cache point positions + poly descriptions and you should be able to reconstruct the mesh again. Em sexta-feira, 15 de janeiro de 2016, Morten Bartholdy

Re: Going to Brasil, any users/studios up for a visit?

Hi Pedro, good to have softmage folks around! We can chat sometime, and maybe you can get to visit clan vfx ( clanvfx.com.br) I'm on a tight schedule next days, but let me know when you are arriving on the town so we can meet up... Fabricio Em terça-feira, 24 de novembro de 2015, Gustavo

Re: Group of curves to strands?

Late response, but you can merge all curves and use a neat melena compound that generates strands from a multi-subcurve object Em quinta-feira, 10 de setembro de 2015, Thomas Volkmann < li...@thomasvolkmann.com> escreveu: > Thanks Juan, no need to dig out the script, I have finished it by now.

Re: SoftimageExplosiaFX released

Wow!! This looks awesome Oleg! Nice to know you are considering FE, seems like an obvious path to every developer nowadays... Nice job! =) Em quarta-feira, 2 de setembro de 2015, Olivier Jeannel < facialdel...@gmail.com> escreveu: > Softimage good news are so rare nowadays, very warming ! > > On

Re: OT: DAT showreel 2015

Great reel Ivan!! Keep up the good work Em segunda-feira, 4 de maio de 2015, Ivan Vasiljevic klebed...@gmail.com escreveu: Hi guys, Sorry for this off topic. This is our first show reel ever! :) So I wanted to post it here, plenty of SI works...

Re: Feather System

, which is ok depending on the distance to camera) 2015-01-29 11:37 GMT-02:00 Cristiano Policarpo cristiano.polica...@baloom.co: Very cool Fabricio, thank you! On Friday, January 23, 2015, Fabricio Chamon xsiml...@gmail.com wrote: Hi soft people! after the tragic softimage EOL announcement

Re: Feather System

the workflow so intuitive Fabricio! On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 2:29 PM, Saeed Kalhor ndman...@gmail.com wrote: This is amazing! Thanks Fabricio. On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 3:04 PM, Toonafish ron...@toonafish.nl wrote: Wow, great ! Thanks a lot Fabricio ! -Ronald On 1/23/2015 20:39, Fabricio

Feather System

Hi soft people! after the tragic softimage EOL announcement, I'm slowly learning houdini/maya. For those sticking with SI (me included), here's a tool I've been using for months to groom birds and other characters. It's all ICE of course, some script automations... in my opinion it offers a nice

Re: Dot Product on Rendertree?

[ mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Fabricio Chamon *Sent:* Thursday, August 28, 2014 8:20 AM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Dot Product on Rendertree? Hello fellow survivors! I'm trying to gradient shade a simple

Re: Application focus ?

[mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Fabricio Chamon *Sent:* Tuesday, July 22, 2014 5:53 AM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Application focus ? Hey experts, is it possible to know wether xsi app has focus ? I have a timer script that fires up

Application focus ?

Hey experts, is it possible to know wether xsi app has focus ? I have a timer script that fires up some alerts, but want to run only if softimage is not minimized. I took a look at Application object and didn't find anything related.. thanks

isolate selection mode - sdk

Hi, is there a way to know when a viewport is in isolate selection mode state via scripting? thanks

Re: strand tree and xsi2014

Hi Andi, not that I know... some ice updates really messed up the whole thing. unfortunatelly I will not have the time to dig into the nodes and fix it, sorry. have you ever checked the (much more elegant solution) Forester plugin from 3dQuakers ? (

Re: Mental ray volumetric shader errors

and rendering the objects in in different passes... Cheers Ola *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Fabricio Chamon *Sent:* Wednesday, March 19, 2014 11:05 PM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject

Mental ray volumetric shader errors

Hi, I'm trying to do some volumetrics in mray, but the shader is giving me all kinds of wierdness on heavy meshes. Have anyone experienced this before ? For the sake of simplicity, I have this test scene with only one default sphere. If I crank up the sphere U/V subd to 200, it starts to show

Re: Mental ray volumetric shader errors

...forgot to say that I'm using Particle_Volume_Cloud, which used to work fine on meshes since always. 2014-03-19 18:56 GMT-03:00 Fabricio Chamon xsiml...@gmail.com: Hi, I'm trying to do some volumetrics in mray, but the shader is giving me all kinds of wierdness on heavy meshes. Have

Re: 'The Little Ghost' - Visual Effects Breakdown

, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Fabricio Chamon xsiml...@gmail.comwrote: Nice work Vladimir and everyone at Elefant Studios!! thanks for sharing... Could you elaborate a bit on the feathers creation/placement ? I've done some feathers in the past and it would be good to hear what difficulties you had

Re: 'The Little Ghost' - Visual Effects Breakdown

Nice work Vladimir and everyone at Elefant Studios!! thanks for sharing... Could you elaborate a bit on the feathers creation/placement ? I've done some feathers in the past and it would be good to hear what difficulties you had to overcome. 2013/12/2 Vladimir Jankijevic

Re: Strand length on the rendertree

sorry for the confusion. by strands and not using ice I mean using soft built-in Hair system. On the rendertree, Scalar State set to Barycentric B outputs a normalized length, which I don't want. I've implemented something similar to Leonard's tree in ice, but it really doesn't help, unless

Strand length on the rendertree

Hi guys, is it possible to access the absolute strand length value (in SI units or whatever) on the rendertree ? I'm trying to gradient shade a hair, and I need strands to pick a value from the gradient based on their actual length (strand with length=1 goes from black to white, strand with

Re: MT Strand Extrude for 2013/2014

Don't ask me why, but if I add a TurbulizeStrand (with very tiny strengh (0,001)) after the Strand creation, it all goes well and the polymesh gets generated. Probably because the first strand position is aligned exaclty on top of the particle position, then it cannot calculate the tangent

Re: Pointlocators out of sync

+1000 to what Vladimir said. Cached locations always loose contexts and does not resolve correctly, giving you red nodes all over the icetree. On the other hand, from my experience reinterpreting locations also crashes frequently. So, keep incremental backups! =) 2013/6/26 Gustavo Eggert Boehs

Re: Looking for exporting tips with ICE topology - SI2014

Probably hitting the ice optimization problem? Make sure your UVs are correctly set by putting a log values just before your set data node. 2013/5/9 Eric Cosky e...@cosky.com Hi, I've recently started using ICE modeling to help with some low poly models with tiny textures. The general

Re: Technical Direction workshop available stand-alone (CGS TODs)

still being present and undiscovered. On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 4:57 AM, Fabricio Chamon xsiml...@gmail.comwrote: Great news Raff ! I was hoping to get my hands on this course for a long time. Question: does anybody bought it already ? I've purchased some hours ago but I just can't log

Re: Technical Direction workshop available stand-alone (CGS TODs)

Great news Raff ! I was hoping to get my hands on this course for a long time. Question: does anybody bought it already ? I've purchased some hours ago but I just can't log in. Don't know if its a site issue or my account being blocked by some reason. (already checked login credentials and

Re: ice crowds and rendering

I do what Adam said...but before I make sure the ice projection is calculated correclty (not bypassed by those evil ice optimizations) by using the attached compound at the very end of in the first icetree on each actor_copies mesh. It's really simple, it ensures the attribute is set by using it

Re: CrowdFX - can't set self.materials on actor copies mesh

thanks guys! I rebuilt the scene and started incremental saving too...Really hard scenario to work on, I hope this will get fixed soon. Another question: it seems really easy, but I can't get the ActorCopies ICE materials array via script. I feel it should be a singleton(which it is), 1D Array.

Re: CrowdFX - can't set self.materials on actor copies mesh

/softimage2013/en_us/sdkguide/si_om/siICENodeDataType.html On 15/02/2013 3:08 PM, Fabricio Chamon wrote: thanks guys! I rebuilt the scene and started incremental saving too...Really hard scenario to work on, I hope this will get fixed soon. Another question: it seems really easy, but I can't get

Re: CrowdFX - can't set self.materials on actor copies mesh

', u'Sources.Materials.PedestrianLib.Shirt') # Sources.Materials.PedestrianLib.Shoes # Sources.Materials.PedestrianLib.Hair # Sources.Materials.PedestrianLib.Legs # Sources.Materials.PedestrianLib.Skin # Sources.Materials.PedestrianLib.Shirt On 15/02/2013 3:48 PM, Fabricio Chamon wrote: ...but how to access the string

Re: Pipes and tools u can't live without

much ripped right out of my menu ;) On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 1:27 PM, Fabricio Chamon xsiml...@gmail.comwrote: For what's worth, here's my CVO (Custom view opener) dual monitor script for the icetree. Rename to CVO.js (can't attach js files!) Copy to application\plugins Map it to any key

Re: Toggling toolbar buttons

Hey Gustavo, does it have to be a button ? If not, here's a very nice trick from Jeremie Passerin: var cp = ActiveSceneRoot.AddCustomProperty(MyCustomPSet, false ); var layout = cp.PPGLayout; cp.AddParameter3(myBooleanParam, siBool); item = layout.AddItem(myBooleanParam, , dscontrol)

Re: Toggling toolbar buttons

oh, and I'm afraid it is windows only...don't know how it looks like on other OS. 2012/12/8 Fabricio Chamon xsiml...@gmail.com Hey Gustavo, does it have to be a button ? If not, here's a very nice trick from Jeremie Passerin: var cp = ActiveSceneRoot.AddCustomProperty(MyCustomPSet, false

Re: Ice Topology | build mesh from pointcloud trinagulizer thing

There's no need for ice topo, you would over complicate things..can't you use the built-in polygonizer ? It can handle nulls too. but probably a faster/better workflow would be to put all the nulls into a group, then emit particles on the global position array and polygonize that...

Re: Lagoa_Density not cacheable

...happens everytime to me. What I always do is to init the custom variable on the right context *before* loading the cache (cahe on file node). It prevents the rest of the icetree from screwing up with your attribute. 2012/11/23 Sebastian Kowalski l...@sekow.com jep, had that idea after

Re: Lagoa_Density not cacheable

I mean, sometimes you cache it in the right context but ice refuses to read it...that's my case above. 2012/11/23 Fabricio Chamon xsiml...@gmail.com ...happens everytime to me. What I always do is to init the custom variable on the right context *before* loading the cache (cahe on file node

Re: page turning effects with ICE

you can concatenate your strings: prefix + integer + suffix. Now for integer - string conversion there is Eric's emTools freely available: http://www.mootzoid.com/wb/pages/documentation/emtools.php#IntegerToString 2012/11/18 Adam Sale adamfs...@gmail.com Hey guys. Thought I would put this out

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