Re: linear workflow

2012-10-03 Thread olivier jeannel
Excellent, thank you ! Le 03/10/2012 14:36, Alok Gandhi a écrit : Maybe have a look at this: http://kobayashystips.blogspot.ca/2009/09/linear-workflow-in-softimage.html

Re: Render channels not creating frames

2012-10-03 Thread olivier jeannel
Last time I had weird behavior with renderchannel or passes, it was because the materials were created from the Default Scene material (and renamed later on, of course ^^). Le 03/10/2012 16:34, Eric Lampi a écrit : I am trying to nail down the problem here. Our renders are creating all of the

Re: Light Spread Softness

2012-09-28 Thread olivier jeannel
Hello, for a cone angle of 70° you need a spread of 35° if you want it to start from the center. This should work unless the intensity is greater than 1, or you might have other lights burning the white point of the spot. Le 28/09/2012 05:05, Byron Nash a écrit : This seems basic but it has

Re: ICE question

2012-09-28 Thread olivier jeannel
Maybe this could be inspirationnal with Raycast and testing distance. https://vimeo.com/39888231 Le 28/09/2012 15:50, Jonathan Laborde a écrit : Hello, There are several ways you can do that. Depending on your gemoetry it can be easy to overly complicated :) You can check if a point is inside

Re: Fabric Engine SPH Solver Demo

2012-09-28 Thread olivier jeannel
Hey there :) Just watched the 3 videos, but I'd need a bit of enlightment. If I understand well, FE is a software that allows to buid tools (deformer, procedural generator of whatever, etc.)(a bit like compound, but with an FE format) that can be integrated within SI or Maya. I'm a non python

Re: Fabric Engine SPH Solver Demo

2012-09-28 Thread olivier jeannel
, and hope to show something later in the year on that front - in the meantime, you need some python skills to build with Creation. Thanks, Paul On 28 September 2012 11:27, olivier jeannel olivier.jean...@noos.fr mailto:olivier.jean...@noos.fr wrote: Hey there :) Just watched the 3

Random offset image sequence based on particle ID

2012-09-18 Thread olivier jeannel
Hi gang, I know how to set image-texture based on particle ID (image01 set to particle ID 01, image02 set to particle ID 02,etc.) I'd like to have one image sequence (a video), with time offseted based on Particle ID. Example : Particle 01 gets sequence from 0 to 100, particle 02 gets

Re: Digital Golem is hiring an FX ICE Freelancer

2012-09-13 Thread olivier jeannel
I wouldn't call myself an Ice Fx guy, but I tweak Ice all day :) I don't know, I like it, it's additive. I think I can't stand a keyframe anymore... I'm in Paris, I'm good friend with your neighbors Nozon (@ Bruxelles), But one of this day I'd love to visit you. This

Re: In case you missed it..

2012-09-12 Thread olivier jeannel
Hello Maurice, /I know Autodesk Marketing is often hard to fathom/ Then you (AD) have a serious comunication problem. The way AD advertise on SI just creates a panic climate. I'm not sure this will increase the sells. All your ways of communicating on SI looks like you're going to interrupt

Re: In case you missed it..

2012-09-12 Thread olivier jeannel
I was about to say the same thing. Le 12/09/2012 14:49, Eric Thivierge a écrit : Last thought on this whole thing and then I'm grabbing some pop corn to see how the rest rolls out. Maurice, it seems that the marketing is only worried about new customers and existing Max and Maya customers.

Re: ICE in Maya is an engineer's worst nightmare

2012-09-06 Thread olivier jeannel
/Meanwhile, for the rest of us who don't have our own RnD departments, XSI is great because something like ICE does empower non-programmers to do things we couldn't do otherwise. So at least we have a fighting chance. Compare the workability of a custom tool made by someone who only writes

Re: normals question - faceted look after cleanup imported model

2012-09-05 Thread olivier jeannel
Are the normal upside down or are there double edges ? For the second problem, check on Rray the Delete Double Edges from Guillaume. Worked for me. Le 05/09/2012 15:12, Rob Wuijster a écrit : Hi all, Brain's not really working this afternoon, needs more coffee I guess... I have this

Re: Friday Flashback

2012-09-03 Thread olivier jeannel
of software that might become competitive to it's own products again. It'd tie up it's adopted child in a sack and throw it off a bridge first I imagine. A. *From:* olivier jeannel olivier.jean...@noos.fr *To:* softimage

Re: Friday Flashback

2012-09-03 Thread olivier jeannel
I wish (really) I could support FabricEngine. But all I have see _yet_ is some python tutorial. I do love the Exocortex (Hi Helge, Hi Ben) guys behind all that. But don't ask me to learn python. It's out of my range... I bet all this will evolve, but for now... What I don't understand, on a

Re: Friday Flashback

2012-08-31 Thread olivier jeannel
Agree, AD should sell back Softimage to some serious developper company. After all, SI is just a pluggin on their website. Olivier Le 31/08/2012 15:32, Eugen Sares a écrit : Am 31.08.2012 15:26, schrieb Graham Bell: A very good point Ed, as myself and others have been doing the same thing.

Re: Friday Flashback

2012-08-31 Thread olivier jeannel
Well, we could always organise a ProjectX like party at AD building... That would be ...something. Sorry can't be more constructive... Le 31/08/2012 18:40, Stefan Andersson a écrit : +1 to what you said. On Friday, August 31, 2012, Guy Rabiller wrote: When Autodesk bought

Re: Autodesk aquires Naiad

2012-08-14 Thread olivier jeannel
Guys I love you, but sometimes it's depressing to read you... 1Le 14/08/2012 18:59, Rob Chapman a écrit : why else move all of the Softimage devs to a new Maya FX team? lameness has been happening to SI ever since the acquisition for the sake of the Maya's larger user base. On 14 August

Re: Blending displacement using raylength

2012-08-09 Thread olivier jeannel
Maya turned you into an alchoolic... Le 09/08/2012 14:11, Guillaume Laforge a écrit : Hi Tim, Service Beer Packs are only for bugs fixing. So I won't be able to add any feature. However, if you can send me a pack of this product http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/130875, maybe I will

Re: Blending displacement using raylength

2012-08-09 Thread olivier jeannel
Yes, but before you were hidding... ;) Le 09/08/2012 17:31, Guillaume Laforge a écrit : Fortunately I didn't wait for Maya to be an alcoholic! But having working in production before definitely turned me as one :D. On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 11:01 AM, olivier jeannel olivier.jean...@noos.fr

Re: Maya trying to get credit for Softimage ( Mootzoids) work

2012-08-06 Thread olivier jeannel
Well, often working with agencies here. You have no idea (maybe) how these guys are thirsty of fresh concept. It's behance, iso50, butdoesitfloat, etc. all the day. I agree, this one is at the limit... But I'm so happy it is Sofimage :) Le 06/08/2012 11:33, Octavian Ureche a écrit :

Femto photographie

2012-08-03 Thread olivier jeannel
http://www.ted.com/talks/ramesh_raskar_a_camera_that_takes_one_trillion_frames_per_second.html Real light bouncing !

Re: ICE Topo grow polygon array

2012-07-31 Thread olivier jeannel
Looks super, hope to see some animations on vimeo soon :) Le 31/07/2012 15:32, Chris Marshall a écrit : Thanks a lot for sending that through. Worked a treat. Only thing was I was working with integers, so needed to convert to scalar and back again either side, but that's fine. Attached are

Re: lagoa cloth meshing

2012-07-03 Thread olivier jeannel
Looks really super ! Is there a place to find some helpfull tutorial to achieve something like this ? Le 03/07/2012 00:18, Matt Morris a écrit : Hi guys, I've got a tearing lagoa cloth sim that I'm fairly happy with, and am meshing it with empolygonizer3, but getting some extreme stretched

Re: Old tekkon particle presets

2012-06-30 Thread olivier jeannel
Super article ! Le 30/06/2012 17:34, Adam Seeley a écrit : Here's the original article. http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/item?id=13582555siteID=123112 The compounds were built Michael Arias, I'd be keen to see them fi anyone has a copy around. Many thanks, Adam.

Re: Any tips to fix non-manifold vertices in Soft?

2012-06-26 Thread olivier jeannel
Last week I had that Double Edge problem (check the mail list). Guillaume saved me with that super compound : http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5533643/Softimage/Compounds/Delete%20Double%20Edges.xsicompound Le 26/06/2012 18:22, Stefan Kubicek a écrit : I was wondering the same. A very brief search

Re: Double edges

2012-06-23 Thread olivier jeannel
...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *olivier jeannel *Sent:* Friday, June 22, 2012 8:01 AM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Double edges Hello list, I have a city generated by Cityengine (exported as obj), and some of the houses are exported

Re: Double edges

2012-06-23 Thread olivier jeannel
:) On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:08 PM, olivier jeannel olivier.jean...@noos.fr mailto:olivier.jean...@noos.fr wrote: Sure ! Here's something crapy ;) https://www.dropbox.com/s/9xpipkn9dddhe3l/DoubleEdge.emdl Le 22/06/2012 17:36, Guillaume Laforge a écrit

Re: Calling all Momentum experts!

2012-06-22 Thread olivier jeannel
Isn't the Ice-Syflex faster than the legacy Syflex ? Le 22/06/2012 17:37, Adam Sale a écrit : I put in a request for per point control in the last beta.. I hope the devs prioritize this one, because realistically, without ICE syflex, the internal options aren't all that appealing OTB. We still

Re: Who has switched to Vray and loves it?

2012-06-21 Thread olivier jeannel
Well, I easily found some videos showing click here, enter this value for Vray. While there were buttons in Arnold, I was really not sure of what I was doing. But to tell the truth, I really did not try a lot. Le 21/06/2012 22:15, Mirko Jankovic a écrit : Hmm I found Arnold learning curve to

XSI Import troubles

2012-06-07 Thread olivier jeannel
Hi guys, I might have to work with CityEngine http://www.esri.com/software/cityengine/ in a near future. The Basic version of CityEngine only exports in .obj. In Softimage the opening of a sample Obj of 8 buildings (43 polymesh, 43 materials, total of 1300 faces) takes around 15s. The

Re: XSI Import troubles

2012-06-07 Thread olivier jeannel
? DAN On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 4:11 PM, olivier jeannel olivier.jean...@noos.fr mailto:olivier.jean...@noos.fr wrote: Hi guys, I might have to work with CityEngine http://www.esri.com/software/cityengine/ in a near future. The Basic version of CityEngine only

Re: XSI Import troubles

2012-06-07 Thread olivier jeannel
Le 07/06/2012 16:39, Dan Yargici a crit: Cool, glad it worked! :) DAN On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 5:32 PM, olivier jeannel olivier.jean...@noos.fr wrote: Weird, it works well here. Maybe the file did

Re: XSI Import troubles

2012-06-07 Thread olivier jeannel
it pretty much impossible without scripting (and doing some RegExpr search/replacing...) On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 6:03 PM, olivier jeannel olivier.jean...@noos.fr wrote: Yes thanks ! Still not able to change the textures path

Re: XSI Import troubles

2012-06-07 Thread olivier jeannel
todesk.com] On Behalf Of olivier jeannel Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2012 8:03 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: XSI Import troubles Yes thanks ! Still not able

Re: XSI Import troubles

2012-06-07 Thread olivier jeannel
From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of olivier jeannel Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2012 8:03 AM

Re: Unrolling a banner

2012-06-04 Thread olivier jeannel
For spiralic deformation (roll), look at this , it's awesome. https://vimeo.com/groups/ice/videos/28489254 I played a bit with it and quickly get a folding system :) Le 04/06/2012 19:23, Grahame Fuller a écrit : Like this: http://vimeo.com/25096113 ? gray From:

Re: SiC London last night

2012-06-01 Thread olivier jeannel
Really super stuff ! Thank's fo sharing these :) Le 01/06/2012 10:09, Matt Morris a écrit : Awesome, thanks a mill Rob! On 1 June 2012 08:53, Rob Wuijster r...@casema.nl mailto:r...@casema.nl wrote: Hi Rob, Thanks for sharing!! Rob Wuijster er...@casema.nl

Re: OT: Image Based Modeling

2012-05-25 Thread olivier jeannel
Paul Smith is using Agisoft Photoscan in this tut https://vimeo.com/42633249 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq4BUrEBvhA Le 25/05/2012 23:29, Stephen Davidson a crit: Be aware that this app does not handle shiny or transparent object well.

Re: OT: hulk smash

2012-05-24 Thread olivier jeannel
That is ...something ! Was this used in the movie ? Le 24/05/2012 18:56, adrian wyer a écrit : 5k renders http://media.screened.com/uploads/0/1144/622571-hulk.jpg http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120507025617/marvelmovies/images/d/d0/TheAvengers_Hulk2.jpg you're welcome a Adrian

Re: This list is not working on my gmail account...

2012-05-22 Thread olivier jeannel
We don't accept Maya people ;) Le 22/05/2012 16:40, Guillaume Laforge a écrit : ... so I'm testing...

Re: is the list dead?

2012-05-20 Thread olivier jeannel
I can see dead people... Le 20/05/2012 15:04, Sebastian Kowalski a écrit : seems the list is dead.. even my submitted mails dont show up.. hello? anybody out there? the silence is killing me.

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

2012-05-16 Thread olivier jeannel
Ahem, I'd be curious too ^^ Le 16/05/2012 14:29, Morten Bartholdy a écrit : I would be very interested in that one Sandy :) Morten Den 16. maj 2012 kl. 14:25 skrev Sandy Sutherland sandy.sutherl...@triggerfish.co.za: I can send you a scene I developed based on a technique I came

Re: Architectural shader anisotropic trouble

2012-05-16 Thread olivier jeannel
Bumping the subject, Because I found an old but cool tut by Luc Frolicher. http://lulu1315.wordpress.com/2007/10/23/anisotropicfun-part1/ It's in 2 parts, worth the read if you're into anisotropy. Le 15/02/2011 13:59, Morten Bartholdy a écrit : I have tried getting Anisotropic reflections

Random Values

2012-05-09 Thread Olivier Jeannel
Hello list, Im sure it is easy : I'm trying to get random (scalar) values distributed on some points. But I want only values 0 1 or -1 to be returned. How do I do something like that ? Thank you !

Re: Random Values

2012-05-09 Thread Olivier Jeannel
Even simpler (sorry for the noise) will output randomly 0 or 90 or -90 or 180 Le 09/05/2012 20:51, Olivier Jeannel a crit: Thank you all for the good read :) This helped me clarify what I really had in mind. So, basicly I

Re: linear workflow

2012-05-01 Thread Olivier Jeannel
Re bumping this out : A nice tut, but for Vray here. It's french, but with screen grab and a video about hdr :) http://remimorisset.com/?p=557 http://remimorisset.com/?p=630 Le 03/01/2012 16:41, adrian wyer a écrit : yes yes, that inevitable can of linear worms has been opened. i've

Re: UeberTage 2012...going international..?

2012-04-24 Thread olivier . jeannel
I could watch these videos even if they were in chinese or swedish... Super learning material indeed :) Le 24/04/2012 20:09, Helge Mathee a écrit: I think this is a great idea. -H On 4/24/2012 7:37 PM, Oliver Weingarten wrote:

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