RE: Normal Maps in Softimage

2012-12-13 Thread Szabolcs Matefy
In SI using ultimapper you set an overall scan distance. In other solution there is a cage (the clone of the original low res model) and you tweak this cage to set the distance on a per vertex level. It’s almost critical in game dev where you might need different distances on your model

Re: New baEssential Shader version

2012-12-13 Thread Christian
Thank you very much Holger, It is much appreciated! Best, Christian On 2012-12-12 22:18, Schoenberger wrote: Hi I have released a new version of my essential package. Changes: Texture coordinate: world drag Texture coordinate: arnold Point Reference Cell: New type Smooth You can view

Re: New baEssential Shader version

2012-12-13 Thread javier gonzalez
Thanks, keep the good work!!! 2012/12/13 Christian softimagel...@gmail.com Thank you very much Holger, It is much appreciated! Best, Christian On 2012-12-12 22:18, Schoenberger wrote: Hi I have released a new version of my essential package. Changes: Texture coordinate: world

TED on Jimmy Kimmel

2012-12-13 Thread Mr Alexei Godek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuzzA3046C8 -- ale...@xtfx.co.uk http://www.xtfx.co.uk/

Re: TED on Jimmy Kimmel

2012-12-13 Thread Darrin Hofmeyr
Not TED but Ted. I was hoping for something intellectual but then again I should of realised it's Jimmy Kimmel. On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Mr Alexei Godek ale...@xtfx.co.uk wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuzzA3046C8 -- ale...@xtfx.co.uk http://www.xtfx.co.uk/ -- Darrin

RE: New baEssential Shader version

2012-12-13 Thread Schoenberger
Hi | What version of XSI is it compatible with? Softimage 2010-2013 There are a shaders that could be working with older MRay versions. Holger Schönberger technical director The day has 24 hours, if that does not suffice, I will take the night | -Original Message- | From:

Re: Project Structure

2012-12-13 Thread Stephen Blair
Hi The default project folders are specified in the registry http://xsisupport.com/2009/07/29/changing-the-default-project-folders/ You could change stuff in the registry, but maybe you would prefer to have a plugin/event/addon that does that for you. On 13/12/2012 10:30 AM, Gustavo Eggert

RE: Normal Maps in Softimage

2012-12-13 Thread Manny Papamanos
Here’s a good cage example. http://www.poopinmymouth.com/tutorial/normal_workflow_2.htm Look at barrels at bottom. Feature request was already logged and I updated it: SOFT-5435 Ultimapper needs cage support to control ray length and direction Manny Papamanos Autodesk 3D Graphics Specialist

RE: Normal Maps in Softimage

2012-12-13 Thread Eric Cosky
Thanks for the explanation links, it all makes sense now. Getting cage support would be helpful; I had been planning on using Ultimapper for something pretty soon but I think I'll give Xnormal a shot instead. -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com

Re: Normal Maps in Softimage

2012-12-13 Thread Stephen Blair
It's hard to take that url seriously. I think next time you should run it through a link shortner :) On 13/12/2012 11:16 AM, Manny Papamanos wrote: Here’s a good cage example. http://www.poopinmymouth.com/tutorial/normal_workflow_2.htm Look at barrels at bottom. Feature request was already

XSI and Hard disk LAN/Network massive slowdown

2012-12-13 Thread olivier jeannel
Hi guys, I'm having troubles with XSI and a network disk (Lacie BigDisk). It's a Lan (rj45) connexion, and whenever I try to access it it's getting very slow. In Softimage, if I try to access down to 5 level of sub-directories(Z://directory/directory/directory/directory/ ) it takes 5

Re: XSI and Hard disk LAN/Network massive slowdown

2012-12-13 Thread Vladimir Jankijevic
from the docs: SI_BROWSER_DONT_CHECK_CHILDREN_FOLDERS Controls whether Softimage checks folders for subfolders when displaying the file browser. Setting this variable to 1 may speed up file operations on NFS systems, particularly on Linux. When set, folders are always drawn with an expandable

Re: Maya 2013 dotXSI Plugin

2012-12-13 Thread Stephen Blair
Is the Softimage Common Files location in your PATH? C:\Program Files\Common Files\Softimage If it isn't, that will cause the error you are getting. On 13/12/2012 2:59 PM, Marc Brinkley wrote: Hey everyone I have installed the 2013 Crosswalk plugin for all my ADSK apps that I have. When

Re: ET_Tools downloads section gone

2012-12-13 Thread Steven Caron
well, i guess on my personal site... amazon isn't free and its overkill for a single .xsiaddon/.zip file or i will move to bitbucket or back to google code if needed. lol. and i put a nasty message in the github read me voicing my disapproval ;) On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Jeremie Passerin

Calling functions inside SI, from a Python instance outside SI

2012-12-13 Thread Gustavo Eggert Boehs
Sorry for the noob question, but... is calling functions inside SI, from a Python instance outside SI possible? Ive got Python correctly installed in SI, but have no idea if this is doable, and information on the web looks a bit scarce and confusing. There is this:

Re: Calling functions inside SI, from a Python instance outside SI

2012-12-13 Thread Eric Thivierge
There isn't a built in way to send commands to XSI through Python. You need to build your own Socket connections and system of receiving / sending data. There is a sample for CPP in the SDK examples. Also thought there was a python one too. Eric

Re: Anyone using Shotgun Python API with Softimage 2013 Linux?

2012-12-13 Thread Paul Hudson
Stephen, What Distribution and Version of Linux is that on? We're trying CentOS 6.3 -Paul On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Stephen Blair stephenrbl...@gmail.comwrote: That's strange, this works for me in Softimage 2013 (using the Python installed with Softimage) import hashlib import _md5

Re: Anyone using Shotgun Python API with Softimage 2013 Linux?

2012-12-13 Thread Xavier Lapointe
Stephen is probably on Windows ... I'm on CentOS as well and have the same issue. So the local web server redirecting requests might stay your better option until Soft ships with another python version. Good luck anyway. On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Paul Hudson phudson1...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: ET_Tools downloads section gone

2012-12-13 Thread Eric Thivierge
Steven you can send them a message here: https://github.com/contact Eric Thivierge http://www.ethivierge.com