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

2012-05-16 Thread Christian Keller
try the loft ... checkbox in your create strands compound. and if you use the sitoa strand compound, there´s also one for the rotations. not sitting in front of xsi now, but sure you´ll figure it out within one minute ;) Am 16.05.2012 11:36, schrieb Stefano Jannuzzo: You posted an Arnold render.

UPDATE: Softimage User Group Meeting

2012-05-16 Thread a...@andynicholas.com
Hi everyone, Just bringing you news that we've got a final list of 9 presenters for the evening. Full details are on our website here: http://www.softimagecreatives.com/siclondon/?page_id=235 We're all really stoked to get such a fantastic line up. *** Again, for anyone who missed the update

Re: UPDATE: Softimage User Group Meeting

2012-05-16 Thread Rob Wuijster
very cool lineup! If possible, please record the presentations for the ones who can't visit. Please? ;-) cheers, Rob Wuijster E r...@casema.nl \/-\/\/ On 16-5-2012 12:38, a...@andynicholas.com wrote: Hi everyone, Just bringing you news that we've got a final

Re: UPDATE: Softimage User Group Meeting

2012-05-16 Thread Juhani Karlsson
Cool stuff! : ) Is the presentations going to be recoded for later viewing? I would appreciate. - Juhani 2012/5/16 Rob Wuijster r...@casema.nl very cool lineup! If possible, please record the presentations for the ones who can't visit. Please? ;-) cheers, Rob Wuijster E r...@casema.nl

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

2012-05-16 Thread Arda Sernaz
Yes i tried a feather instance on strands but i couldn't set the orientation... On 5/16/2012 1:37 PM, Christian Keller wrote: try the loft ... checkbox in your create strands compound. and if you use the sitoa strand compound, there´s also one for the rotations. not sitting in front of xsi

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

2012-05-16 Thread Sandy Sutherland
I can send you a scene I developed based on a technique I came across somewhere to do awesome simulated strands, by creating particle systems to loft the strands between and doing the sim on the particles - this allow you to set orientation on the particles and then the strands - I was using it

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

2012-05-16 Thread Morten Bartholdy
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 across somewhere to do awesome simulated strands, by creating particle systems to loft

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

2012-05-16 Thread Arda Sernaz
Yeah! me too :) On 5/16/2012 3:29 PM, Morten Bartholdy wrote: 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 across

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

2012-05-16 Thread Rob Chapman
'a technique I came across somewhere' oh! , sounds a bit like this http://sites.google.com/site/tekanoice/tutorials/ice-flowers-part-i ;) heres the scene file from that tutorial

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

2012-05-16 Thread Sandy Sutherland
Yep - remember it now Rob - sorry I did not remember until I had dug my scenes out and saw how they worked - was done a while ago in RD on some stuff that might have made it into the movie - will most likely not because of time constraints. It is really good stuff - a nice way to do it! S.

Re: NURBS import

2012-05-16 Thread Tim Leydecker
Ah, good to know. 3DS Max, I wouldn´t have thought of that... Cheers, tim On 16.05.2012 03:27, Byron Nash wrote: I tried most of the things suggested and appreciate all the tips and help. A colleague was in today with his machine and copy of 3DS Max. It was able to read the files and

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

2012-05-16 Thread Arda Sernaz
Rob, i set both particle and strand orientation but nothing changed after , i used align to surface node. in opengl view instances oriented correctly but when i render it is different. On 5/16/2012 4:42 PM, Rob Chapman wrote: Sandy, just so you know because it isnt that obvious, it was me

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

2012-05-16 Thread Morten Bartholdy
Rob, it was Arnold specific. Fixed in a newer version, so upgrading fixed it for me. Happy now :) BTW I pored over your flower strands stuff to learn, thanks for putting it up there! MB Den 16. maj 2012 kl. 15:42 skrev Rob Chapman tekano@gmail.com: isnt that obvious, it was me that wrote

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

2012-05-16 Thread Sandy Sutherland
I would head in Rob's first suggestion - get the data from the emit location in terms of normal etc... and use that to set orientation of the strands. S. _ Sandy Sutherland Technical Supervisor sandy.sutherl...@triggerfish.co.za _

Re: ICE: Basic Turbulence question

2012-05-16 Thread Adam Seeley
Hi, Assuming 2012, you could turbulize the mesh using theTurbulize Mesh or Turbulize Around Value compoundsand then plug a Weightmap into Animation Speed. Adam.   From: Byron Nash byronn...@gmail.com To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Sent: Wednesday,

Re: ICE: Basic Turbulence question

2012-05-16 Thread Byron Nash
It's on a point cloud. I have made some progress plugging a turbulize around value into scalar multiply of the velocity. On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Adam Seeley adam_see...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, Assuming 2012, you could turbulize the mesh using the Turbulize Mesh or Turbulize Around

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

RE: Anyone uses Ultimapper in production

2012-05-16 Thread Marc Brinkley
I have some guys here using it...what are you looking for and I can go ask around. ___ Marc Brinkley GO GO GO Microsoft Studios I got my Mojo working marc.brinkley [at] microsoft.com From:

Re: Another ICE workshop event in NYC

2012-05-16 Thread David Barosin
Vlad that is pretty amazing. Really nice making of. Come back to nyc soon ;) On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 7:37 AM, Vladimir Jankijevic vladi...@elefantstudios.ch wrote: Hi Gang, here is a small sneak peak of one of the things that I presented at this event. Todd is preparing the recordings of