ice distance to expression/driven

2012-09-05 Thread Nick Angus
I have figured out how to get the distance between 2 null in ice, I am just not sure how to get this data out to link with a value on the camera (dof) Any takers, Steve, Eric? Time starts NOW

Re: Asset viewer / manager

2012-09-05 Thread Helge Mathee
Hey Simon, CreationPlatform is all Python and KL, our own language (stands for Kernel Language). Python is used for scene orchestration as well as for ui logic, importing files etc. KL is used for the high performance runtime part and is compiled dynamically using the Fabric Engine Core. If

Re: ice distance to expression/driven

2012-09-05 Thread Simon Anderson
get distance node for the distance between 2 objects. write an expression on the camera's dof to retrieve the ICE parameter, I think that would be the best way On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Nick Angus n...@altvfx.com wrote: I have figured out how to get the distance between 2 null in ice,

RE: Quick scripting question about griddata

2012-09-05 Thread Szabolcs Matefy
Hey Stephen, nice to have you here J Meanwhile I resolved the issue, now it works. However, I have a slider, and it seems that the OnChanged callback is not working on this item...I made this self installing property with the Wizard, and it looks like that the function is not running...even

RE: Friday Flashback

2012-09-05 Thread Szabolcs Matefy
Stay with us man, we need your support :D From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Blair Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2012 3:55 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Friday Flashback Hi I want to

RE: ice distance to expression/driven

2012-09-05 Thread Eric Thivierge
Can you set data on the camera using ice? Or set data to a custom parameter then link that to the camera via expression On Sep 5, 2012 4:32 PM, Nick Angus n...@altvfx.com wrote: I am not sure if expressions recognise ICE data? It may be a little low level? ** ** N ** ** *From:*

RE: ice distance to expression/driven

2012-09-05 Thread Nick Angus
Yes!, I was trying to give you some rest from being my ICE monkey due to your recent arrival ; ) N -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Chris Gardner Sent: Wednesday, 5 September 2012 4:42 PM To:

RE: ice distance to expression/driven

2012-09-05 Thread Nick Angus
I can't even figure out how to set the custom parameter from ICE : ( N From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Eric Thivierge Sent: Wednesday, 5 September 2012 4:44 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: RE: ice

Re: ice distance to expression/driven

2012-09-05 Thread Chris Gardner
I'm putting that on my business card... ICE monkey!! chrisg On 5 September 2012 16:44, Nick Angus n...@altvfx.com wrote: Yes!, I was trying to give you some rest from being my ICE monkey due to your recent arrival ; ) N

RE: ice distance to expression/driven

2012-09-05 Thread Nick Angus
Mine is 'ICE monkey wrangler' N -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Chris Gardner Sent: Wednesday, 5 September 2012 4:47 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: ice distance to

Re: ice distance to expression/driven

2012-09-05 Thread Eric Thivierge
Create a custom parameter that lives on a null. Pull it into an ICE tree using a Set Data node which is driven by your ICE distance calculation. Then link the Camera setting to that custom parameter value via an expression. This is assuming that cameras don't like having their values driven by

Re: Friday Flashback

2012-09-05 Thread Christian
Thanks for great support and an invaluable contribution to my ICE knowledge. Don't forget the sunglasses. Your future will be so bright you will need them. Christian On 2012-09-05 03:54, Stephen Blair wrote: Hi I want to thank you all for your support and kind words. Last week started

RE: ice distance to expression/driven

2012-09-05 Thread Chris Chia
Have tried and expression works in ICE. Chris From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Nick Angus Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2012 2:32 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: RE: ice distance to expression/driven I

nulls2mesh

2012-09-05 Thread Lawrence Pankhurst
Hi guys, I thought I remembered a nulls2mesh script knocking about, can't find it anywhere! I've got a set of nulls and want to turn them into a mesh, ie position of each null becomes a vertex in said mesh! So anyone now where the script is or is there an ICE tool? Had a look on

Re: nulls2mesh

2012-09-05 Thread Rob Chapman
oh! ICE topo should be able to do this, :) but not sure how you are to build the polygon description from a set of random positions!? not so easy what kind of mesh are you after? if its not just a regular clean topology then you could simply put all nulls into a group and use the

Re: nulls2mesh

2012-09-05 Thread Adam Seeley
Hi, I cobbled together a solution for this a while ago. Depends on the shape the nulls form, this was for more of a terrain scenario. 1. Duplicate a small piece of geometry at each of the nulls positions (e.g. tetrahedron). using script/ice/etc. 2. Scaled them all to zero so all the vertices

Re: nulls2mesh

2012-09-05 Thread Lawrence Pankhurst
Nice clean mesh would be good, it's a one off so I might just do it by hand, just thought it would be a useful tool to have and it would exist already (sure there used to be a script)!! Polygoniser takes the nulls but gives blobs rather then a single mesh! Thanks for looking though! Cheers

Re: nulls2mesh

2012-09-05 Thread Lawrence Pankhurst
Thanks Adam, Will give that a go, sounds like it will do the job I'm after! Cheers Lawrence On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Adam Seeley adam_see...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, I cobbled together a solution for this a while ago. Depends on the shape the nulls form, this was for more of a terrain

Re: Quick scripting question about griddata

2012-09-05 Thread Stephen Blair
By default, the wizard generates LogMessages that in verbose mode...do you have Log Verbose Messages enabled (in the Scripting preferences) ? On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 2:42 AM, Szabolcs Matefy szabol...@crytek.comwrote: Hey Stephen, nice to have you here J ** ** Meanwhile I resolved the

Re: XSIBase safe?

2012-09-05 Thread Cristobal Infante
xsibase it's Not safe bruv, it's the ghetto now innit.. On 5 September 2012 04:09, Raffaele Fragapane raffsxsil...@googlemail.comwrote: If you use windows, you should use this: http://www.sandboxie.com/ In principle. Yes, it costs a few bucks, but I run most stuff on windows in it

Re: nulls2mesh

2012-09-05 Thread Rob Chapman
yeah I dont think there was ever a nulls2mesh - nulls2points easy and vertex2nulls yes :) for a clean topo the point position array is easy as you have that, its just the description of each polygon, or the order of each vertex in every polygon - how is this to be made? if the desired mesh is

Re: XSIBase safe?

2012-09-05 Thread Ana Gomez
What a pity!! On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Cristobal Infante cgc...@gmail.com wrote: xsibase it's Not safe bruv, it's the ghetto now innit.. On 5 September 2012 04:09, Raffaele Fragapane raffsxsil...@googlemail.com wrote: If you use windows, you should use this:

Re: nulls2mesh

2012-09-05 Thread Ciaran Moloney
Sounds like you want a convex hull of the null's points. Pretty sure there was a compound once, if not you might try Mr. LaForge's Convex Hullhttp://frenchdog.wordpress.com/2012/01/05/happy-2012/ICE node. On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Rob Chapman tekano@gmail.com wrote: yeah I dont

Re: [BUG] Softimage crashing on workgroup unload containing a custom renderer and at least on .xsirtcompound file

2012-09-05 Thread Sajjad Amjad
Apologies for bringing this slightly old thread back to life. I have been testing workgroup switching without having to restart Softimage. Specifically, I have two workgroups, where each workgroup has just one add-on installed in it. No .xsirtcompound files exist in any workgroup. The addon in

Re: nulls2mesh

2012-09-05 Thread Rob Chapman
ah yeah - there you go, well remembered Ciaran 'convex hull' was the search term, from the same thread Grahame fuller did that in ICE only - won't take you long to rebuild from the image description Lawrence ;)

Re: nulls2mesh

2012-09-05 Thread Rob Chapman
for sure! but it was Mr Pankhurst who asked first :) On 5 September 2012 12:57, Chris Chia chris.c...@autodesk.com wrote: Hey Rob, do you need a compound for building the description? I might have a plugin for you... Chris

Re: nulls2mesh

2012-09-05 Thread Chris Chia
Oops, after reading on what he wants, it's pretty unpredictable as to how the polygon description should be... Mine only reads from a input mesh info and output a new mesh ;) (for topo caching mostly) Chris On 5 Sep, 2012, at 8:02 PM, Rob Chapman

Re: XSIBase safe?

2012-09-05 Thread Rob Wuijster
Maybe one of the mods can tell what's going on. I don't think people don't care, it's the way the site is built that seems to be the problem. It would be nice to have it up and running again. Rob \/-\/\/ On 5-9-2012 14:35, javier gonzalez wrote: So is slowly

Re: XSIBase safe?

2012-09-05 Thread Eric Thivierge
Less that people don't care, more that there isn't much they can do. The site is crippled by a virus / malware and only a few people have access to fix it. Additionally to prevent further infestation, the software needs to be updated. This is problematic as the site is highly customized on a

Re: XSIBase safe?

2012-09-05 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
russians seems to care .. I think that malware site it links to is down btw :P On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Rob Wuijster r...@casema.nl wrote: Maybe one of the mods can tell what's going on. I don't think people don't care, it's the way the site is built that seems to be the problem. It

normals question - faceted look after cleanup imported model

2012-09-05 Thread Rob Wuijster
Hi all, Brain's not really working this afternoon, needs more coffee I guess... I have this imported model with lots of disconnected faces. Tons of blue lines all over. So I select all edges, and merge the boundary edges on a tiny value. But the normals are screwed up now, the model looks,

Re: nulls2mesh

2012-09-05 Thread Lawrence Pankhurst
Hi Guys, Thanks for all the replies, I went with Adam's solution in the end, quick and dirty but did the job, I'll have a look at the convex hull stuff when I get a bit more time!! Cheers Lawrence On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Chris Chia chris.c...@autodesk.com wrote: Oops, after reading

RE: normals question - faceted look after cleanup imported model

2012-09-05 Thread Gareth Bell
Where have imported the data from? Maya? From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Rob Wuijster Sent: 05 September 2012 14:13 To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: normals question -

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: subscribing and unsubscribing from the Softimage mailing list

2012-09-05 Thread Chris Chia
Ha, people are addicted to this list, who would bother to know how to unsubscribe... J On 5 Sep, 2012, at 10:54 PM, Luc-Eric Rousseau luceri...@gmail.com wrote: You are so much to me list.. I wish I knew how to quit you! To subscribe: Send an email to

Re: subscribing and unsubscribing from the Softimage mailing list

2012-09-05 Thread Bradley Gabe
Everyone who is currently unsubscribed from this list, please respond. On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Chris Chia chris.c...@autodesk.com wrote: Ha, people are addicted to this list, who would bother to know how to unsubscribe... J On 5 Sep, 2012, at 10:54 PM, Luc-Eric Rousseau

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-09-05 Thread Alan Fregtman
One more thing, irrelevant to the PyQt discussion but relevant to the thread: - dragging a long list of objects to another (to reparent) in the Explorer results in individual CopyPaste() commands for each object which is crazy slow compared to a single ParentObj() command if I were to use the

RE: Small Annoying Things

2012-09-05 Thread Sandy Sutherland
LOL I used to get caught by that one too - now I pretty much use the parent button all the time! S. _ Sandy Sutherland Technical Supervisor sandy.sutherl...@triggerfish.co.za _ From:

Re: subscribing and unsubscribing from the Softimage mailing list

2012-09-05 Thread Bradley Gabe
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Re: subscribing and unsubscribing from the Softimage mailing list

2012-09-05 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
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Re: subscribing and unsubscribing from the Softimage mailing list

2012-09-05 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
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