Re: Blending displacement using raylength

2012-08-08 Thread Chris Marshall
My brain's fried! How do I get the positions of objects into the render tree? It's all gone foggy and I have a client in shortly! On 07/08/2012, David Thibodeau david.thibod...@visionglobale.com wrote: Worse case scenario would be to set up two nulls with the right distance in your scene, set

Re: Blending displacement using raylength

2012-08-08 Thread Chris Marshall
He's just walked in! Diverting him to coffee machine, sofa and Olympics on tv! Of course the expression is added through the animation divot! I'm an idiot! Was looking in the wrong place all along. Cheers On 08/08/2012, Rob Chapman tekano@gmail.com wrote: is the client there yet? :) heres

Re: Blending displacement using raylength

2012-08-08 Thread Chris Marshall
If you could, that would be superb and beer will be exchanged!! On 08/08/2012, Guillaume Laforge guillaume.laforge...@gmail.com wrote: Yes it is doable i one render pass for sure! I made such RenderTree in the past. I'm rather confident that the thing I explained to you (using point

Re: Blending displacement using raylength

2012-08-08 Thread Chris Marshall
That's really great Guillaume!! Thanks a lot for sending that through. I genuinely can't see where the difference is with what I've done, but yours works and mine doesn't. Did you want all thirty of those beers? On 08/08/2012, Guillaume Laforge guillaume.laforge...@gmail.com wrote: Here is a

Re: Blending displacement using raylength

2012-08-08 Thread Rob Chapman
he did say 'one' of those and also, havn't loaded the scene (2012 still here) but doesn't seem any different from the 2nd example pic I sent. slight problem between the chair and keyboard I say ! :) On 8 August 2012 16:02, Chris Marshall chrismarshal...@gmail.com wrote: That's really great

Re: Blending displacement using raylength

2012-08-08 Thread Chris Marshall
ahem! On 08/08/2012, Rob Chapman tekano@gmail.com wrote: he did say 'one' of those and also, havn't loaded the scene (2012 still here) but doesn't seem any different from the 2nd example pic I sent. slight problem between the chair and keyboard I say ! :) On 8 August 2012 16:02, Chris

Re: Blending displacement using raylength

2012-08-08 Thread Guillaume Laforge
Hey Rob, but doesn't seem any different from the 2nd example pic I didn't received your email with the pic in my gmail. But checking in my AD mail, I see it now... weird xsilist problem again? So yes, you are using the exact same thing :). The only thing to add is a node to clamp the value

Re: Blending displacement using raylength

2012-08-08 Thread Chris Marshall
OK I have a couple of reasons here why mine wasn't working. Firstly the object I'm applying the material to is simply giving different results to what you get with the same material applied on a grid. So that's basically what's thrown me. I'll need to figure out what the issue is there. But also,

Re: Blending displacement using raylength

2012-08-08 Thread Guillaume Laforge
Please be aware that Service Beer Pack 1 is now available to all drinkers: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5533643/BlendingDisplacementUsingRayLength_Advantage_Beer_Pack_SP1.scn Fixed Bug: Beer Issue 001: If you rotate your object, the displacement height goes with the object. Guillaume On Wed, Aug 8,

Re: Crowd FX Help

2012-08-08 Thread Debdas Mohanty
Thanks Guillaume, Please share the scene file that you did, so that I can go through it and get some ideas to solve it. -- Regards, Debdas Mohanty

Re: Who uses Fast Playback?

2012-08-08 Thread Christian Keller
It's from the good old Softimage|3D Days -- christian keller visual effects|direction m +49 179 69 36 248 f +49 40 386 835 33 chris3...@me.com gesendet von meinem iDing Am 08.08.2012 um 23:32 schrieb Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.com: Just curious... Do you guys use or even know

Re: Particle collision behaves differently after particle count 4000

2012-08-08 Thread Chris Chia
Hi Stefan, Would you mind if you could share the 'group with model having referenced iceteee' crash scene? And did you work on 2013SP1? Chris On 8 Aug, 2012, at 5:14 AM, Stefan Kubicek s...@tidbit-images.com wrote: Guys, I just had a different hickup with the exact same setup where