Re: Rigging or Character TD type courses question

2012-06-21 Thread Eric Thivierge
Well, generic rigs also allow you get your bases covered to spend more time with the more intricate / advanced character setups that can run on top of them. Granted if you're building tools for auto-rigging you'll want to design them to be as versatile as possible.

ICE Color Attribute Q

2012-06-21 Thread Morten Bartholdy
I need to pass gradient color from ICE to the Rendertree, and following the docs, I have set up the ICE Tree with Get Data and Set Data for the pointcloud.Color. Now when I look up the attribute in the Rendertree for a Polygonizer object I only get Use Default Value in the dropdown menu of the

Re: ICE Color Attribute Q

2012-06-21 Thread Alan Fregtman
Hi Morten, Is the node plugged in? It won't list things properly if it's floating, disconnected. It also won't be proper if the material is not yet applied on those meshes. (It uses the current objects with the material to populate those Attribute lists.) If it's still flaky, then you may need

Re: ICE Color Attribute Q

2012-06-21 Thread Guillaume Laforge
I don't think it is because of some optimization. Attributes data will be pulled only if used in Softimage. So if the Render Tree need it, it should be available. Morten, is you color applied on the polygonizer mesh ? It sounds like you are setting it on the point could but want to use it on the

Re: ICE Color Attribute Q

2012-06-21 Thread Morten Bartholdy
Guillaume, do you mean if I have set the color data on the mesh? No it has no ICE tree - I just try and look up the attribute from the Rendertree. Morten Den 21. juni 2012 kl. 15:17 skrev Guillaume Laforge guillaume.laforge...@gmail.com: optimization. Attributes data will be pulled only if

Re: ICE Color Attribute Q

2012-06-21 Thread Morten Bartholdy
OK so I quickly tried applying an ICE tree to the polygonizer and getting the pointcloud.color - so far so good. Problem now is it seems I can't plug that color in to a set data node using self.color - the set data node stays red. A context issue? Morten Den 21. juni 2012 kl. 15:17 skrev

Re: Who has switched to Vray and loves it?

2012-06-21 Thread Oliver Weingarten
Hey Marc-Andre! Well, I´m using Vray since two years (also the beta) for certain projects, not for all. It performed quite well. I like the integration and the concept of having identical parameters over all the different packages. That way you can easily adapt tuts from other application. I

Re: Who has switched to Vray and loves it?

2012-06-21 Thread Alan Fregtman
I agree with you. It's way easier than mentalray. On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Mirko Jankovic mirko.janko...@aeonproduction.com wrote: Hmm I found Arnold learning curve to be really really short and in less than a week you can be production ready.

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

Re: Who has switched to Vray and loves it?

2012-06-21 Thread Steffen Dünner
There are _a lot_ more buttons in Vray than in Arnold! ;) The combination of GI algorithms ( primary / secondary) alone is intimidating. The funny thing in Arnold is that the result most of the time converges to the same image, only the rendertime varies if you e.g. shoot rays that you don't

Re: Who has switched to Vray and loves it?

2012-06-21 Thread Eric Thivierge
I'm not a render / surfacing guy myself but I really appreciate your involvement in the XSI community AND for reaching out to the community for crits. Thumbs up! Eric Thivierge http://www.ethivierge.com On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 8:03 AM, Kamen Lilov

Re: Rigging or Character TD type courses question

2012-06-21 Thread Eric Thivierge
That post is worth its bit count in gold! Very awesome post Brad thanks so much! Eric Thivierge http://www.ethivierge.com

Re: Rigging or Character TD type courses question

2012-06-21 Thread Simon Anderson
Awesome read, Brads write is is really epic. Sandy any luck finding a course? are you thinking more programming or rigging? On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Eric Thivierge ethivie...@gmail.comwrote: That post is worth its bit count in gold! Very awesome post Brad thanks so much!

Re: xsi stereo camera to Nuke?

2012-06-21 Thread Simon Anderson
you get back plate shifting on the camera which is kind of like optical shift if i remember correctly( its been a while since I wrote the stereo camera we used in production) On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:27 AM, Ben Houston b...@exocortex.com wrote: It should be possible via Exocortex Crate /

RE: Rigging or Character TD type courses question

2012-06-21 Thread Sandy Sutherland
Hi Si, Yes we decided on something - it is for Pearl to do. And yes there were some awesome courses raised here - thanks again to all who replied. S. _ Sandy Sutherland Technical Supervisor sandy.sutherl...@triggerfish.co.za _