Re: price increases?

2012-07-03 Thread peter_b
yes, '6 versions' made me wonder if a pre-autodesk version could become upgradeable again - which didn’t sound like autodesk. then again, if it’s a way to get people back to being a paying customer, it would be beneficial... -Original Message- From: Graham Bell Sent: Tuesday, July

Re: NY ICE workshop videos live

2012-07-03 Thread Rob Chapman
that's like totally like awesome with like tons of good shit! New Yorkers eh, gotta, like, love em :) thanks a lot for sharing - good visuals to see and some real clever stuff! On 2 July 2012 19:34, Ed Manning etmth...@gmail.com wrote: thanks! On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 11:34 AM,

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

Property priority

2012-07-03 Thread Kamen Lilov
Hello, We have the following situation: we are applying a custom property with a given name to an object, and the same property (same name) - but with different values inside it - to a group. Then we make the object a member of the group. The documentation says in these circumstances the

Re: Property priority

2012-07-03 Thread Stefan Kubicek
This is really just a wild guess form the top of my head, but it could be related to the chosen property propagation mode of the Custom property applied to the group. Have you looked into siPropagationType? Hello, We have the following situation: we are applying a custom property with a

Re: Property priority

2012-07-03 Thread Stefan Kubicek
Btw, which property takes precedence if the object belongs to more than one group? Hello, We have the following situation: we are applying a custom property with a given name to an object, and the same property (same name) - but with different values inside it - to a group. Then we make the

Re: lagoa cloth meshing

2012-07-03 Thread Leonard Koch
Hah, because I didn't know of that functionality... Good to know. On Jul 3, 2012 10:59 AM, Vincent Ullmann vincent.ullm...@googlemail.com wrote: I think you might already tried this... but i looks like there arent enough substeps in you sim, to get the right collisons for every particle.

Re: Malaware on XSIbase

2012-07-03 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
I think the forum software was written from scratch in php as a pet project. I do like the site. Btw as a result of this latest infestation, xsibase.com is blocked at autodesk - or at least in the north america offices ;) On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 9:12 PM, Alan Fregtman

Re: New emTools 1.33

2012-07-03 Thread Rob Wuijster
vertex tagger is sweet!!! Thanks Mr. Mootz:-) Rob \/-\/\/ On 3-7-2012 16:04, Eric Thivierge wrote: https://vimeo.com/45125995 Mootz at it again! Eric Thivierge http://www.ethivierge.com No virus found in this

Re: NY ICE workshop videos live

2012-07-03 Thread Adam Sale
Nice work Guys... Looked like a great meeting of the minds :-) On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 3:03 AM, Rob Chapman tekano@gmail.com wrote: that's like totally like awesome with like tons of good shit! New Yorkers eh, gotta, like, love em :) thanks a lot for sharing - good visuals to see and

RE: New emTools 1.33

2012-07-03 Thread Scott Lange
WOW... fanf*ckintastic! That is just great...way to go Eric. Scott Lange From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Eric Thivierge Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2012 10:05 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: New

Re: bbc olympics titles

2012-07-03 Thread Ciaran Moloney
Yeah, Autodesk should have them do a case study or something. Lots of cool work was done. I can say we use Naiad, ICE and FumeFX for the water stuff. Marvelous Designer for the cloth (Jamie Franks will know more if he's here). AFAIK it was rendered with V-Ray with only one or two of the heavy

Re: bbc olympics titles

2012-07-03 Thread Steven Caron
is mario ucci still there? cause i think i see his hand in every character... and all of the characters are awesome! (not just modeling, animation, and shading too!) On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Ciaran Moloney moloney.cia...@gmail.comwrote: Yeah, Autodesk should have them do a case study or

Re: bbc olympics titles

2012-07-03 Thread Amaan Akram
congrats Mario, Rick, Ciaran, Sajjad, Jamie and everybody else who was involved in this. Amazing. On 3 July 2012 22:37, Steven Caron car...@gmail.com wrote: is mario ucci still there? cause i think i see his hand in every character... and all of the characters are awesome! (not just modeling,

Re: bbc olympics titles

2012-07-03 Thread Steven Caron
oh yes, i didn't mean to single out mario. great work all the way around guys! s On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Amaan Akram xsil...@warpedspace.org wrote: congrats Mario, Rick, Ciaran, Sajjad, Jamie and everybody else who was involved in this. Amazing. On 3 July 2012 22:37, Steven Caron

Re: New emTools 1.33

2012-07-03 Thread Serguei Kalentchouk
Great stuff, many thanks! -- Technical Director @ DreamWorks Animation

Re: bbc olympics titles

2012-07-03 Thread Cristobal Infante
How can someone think that the olympic titles from passion look anything like the Lloyds adds? A: Well they were both made with softimage ;) On 3 July 2012 23:15, Steven Caron car...@gmail.com wrote: oh yes, i didn't mean to single out mario. great work all the way around guys! s On

Re: bbc olympics titles

2012-07-03 Thread Ben Houston
Yes, it is amazing work! Congratulations! So both the Studio AKA Olympic Flame advert and this were made with Softimage. :-) -ben On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 5:56 PM, Amaan Akram xsil...@warpedspace.org wrote: congrats Mario, Rick, Ciaran, Sajjad, Jamie and everybody else who was involved in this.

RE: Finding objects light associations and partition info

2012-07-03 Thread Sandy Sutherland
Hi Eric - many thanks for your help, your page provided all the info we needed - all working 100% here! Cheers S. _ Sandy Sutherland Technical Supervisor sandy.sutherl...@triggerfish.co.za _ From:

ICE kineamtics performances ?

2012-07-03 Thread Ahmidou Lyazidi
Hi list I was doing some performance testing with ICE kinematics and found out that having many separate ICE operators (ie: one per limb) is way faster than one ICE operator making all the calculations, in my case, 25% faster So I was wondering if it's supposed to be the normal behavior?

Re: ICE kineamtics performances ?

2012-07-03 Thread Steven Caron
i dont think enough time was spent by softimage devs to really performance test it and make a informed decision about how the customer's should use it. a shame i know... in fact i didn't spend near as much time with it as i wanted to (many factors, but one being the ICE kine changed through out

Re: ICE kineamtics performances ?

2012-07-03 Thread Ahmidou Lyazidi
It's even faster than the ICE kine rabbit way where all the calculations are stored in one big array, and have a per driven icetree reading the array... 2012/7/4 Ahmidou Lyazidi ahmidou@gmail.com Hi list I was doing some performance testing with ICE kinematics and found out that having

Re: ICE kineamtics performances ?

2012-07-03 Thread Ahmidou Lyazidi
Yeah that's really too bad, it's a so powerful tool to build rigs. I'd prefer to see this area pushed forward and ICE globally consolidated than getting new features. my 2 cents A. 2012/7/4 Steven Caron car...@gmail.com i dont think enough time was spent by softimage devs to really performance

RE: ICE kineamtics performances ?

2012-07-03 Thread Matt Lind
Yeah, the idea of putting all the ICE trees in a single graph is a little suspect to me. It's convenient for certain types of productions in the form of visual organization, but having all of them pounding the same data structures for different pieces of information in different places

Re: ICE kineamtics performances ?

2012-07-03 Thread Eric Thivierge
Also note that the rabbit rig setup wasn't intended to be the 'be all end all' of setups. It was a proof of concept on one way to use it. Not sure any official word has ever been handed down. Eric Thivierge http://www.ethivierge.com

Re: ICE kineamtics performances ?

2012-07-03 Thread Simon Anderson
Never trust a bunny, while speaking about ICE it would be cool if they made it a bit more uniformed to the rest of Softimage, allowing using to access nodes through the object model. was trying earlier to just set a value on an scalar node, and found that even though i can see the Value in the

Re: ICE kineamtics performances ?

2012-07-03 Thread Ahmidou Lyazidi
Yeah I know that, but it was supposed to be the more efficient way, actually it's not :) 2012/7/4 Eric Thivierge ethivie...@gmail.com Also note that the rabbit rig setup wasn't intended to be the 'be all end all' of setups. It was a proof of concept on one way to use it. Not sure any official

Re: ICE kineamtics performances ?

2012-07-03 Thread Ahmidou Lyazidi
+1000 it's such a pain scripting ICE trees 2012/7/4 Simon Anderson simonbenandersonl...@gmail.com Never trust a bunny, while speaking about ICE it would be cool if they made it a bit more uniformed to the rest of Softimage, allowing using to access nodes through the object model. was trying

Re: ICE kineamtics performances ?

2012-07-03 Thread Steven Caron
what type of improvements are you suggesting? while i dont have Connect methods for ports, adding new Ports to nodes, or any control over where the node shows in the gui, the rest seems ok to me. s On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 8:59 PM, Ahmidou Lyazidi ahmidou@gmail.comwrote: +1000 it's such a

Re: ICE kineamtics performances ?

2012-07-03 Thread Simon Anderson
I was just trying to do something simple earlier, automating a rig setup from a guide and the script calculates a value that is needed in the ICE tree (static value), I had created the entire ICE tree using a scipt so each node is in a variable, but to set the value of the scalar wasn't just a

Re: ICE kineamtics performances ?

2012-07-03 Thread Simon Anderson
nope, when you query for parameters it gives and error, eric just mentioned a way that im going to try now oScalarNode.InputPorts(Value).Value # this works ports... Baaah humbug XD working now :) On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Steven Caron car...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: New emTools 1.33

2012-07-03 Thread Debdas Mohanty
Nice.. lovely tools...very useful...Thanks.. -- Regards, Debdas Mohanty Fx Artist Makuta Vfx