I've just started to look into Redshift and I can only say wow! It's
really quite amazing.
DAN
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 8:22 AM, Angus Davidson
angus.david...@wits.ac.zawrote:
I believe the expression is *Vrooom*
That is incredibly fast
--
*From:*
In Arnold there is the utility shader that does out of the box. Another option
is to have several multimattes (R,G,B,A) this way it will be easier to
matte..
On Monday, 17 February 2014, Siew Yi Liang soni...@gmail.com wrote:
It's not really object id here...but it's a similar thing using the
Hi again.
I've updated the compound to have more options per null, like I said.
https://vimeo.com/86603483
Cheers
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Tiago Craft craft@gmail.com wrote:
Cool.
One interesting solution too would be to use meshes instead of nulls. we
used that in production
Hi all, sorry for another silly question, but I've just spent the better
part of 3 hours trying to find a solution: is there actually a way in
XSI to paint across multiple envelopes at the same time, assuming they
have the same deformer influences? I've been searching around for a way
to do so
Not sure how others deal with it but when having character that will have
cltoth weighted and simulated I like to have an mesh with full body, and
then 2nd mesh with only visible parts, hands, neck, head etc...
Then painting weights on full body mesh only, GATOR-ing everything else
and then for
OHHH. So just duplicate my mesh objects, merge them all together, use
that to paint weights, and then GATOR over to individual pieces is what
you're saying? Going to try that now! Hopefully I can workaround the
symmetry problem that way as well...
(Speaking of which, does XSI have a way to
Yep, I do as Mirko does for this stuff, the envelope tools are fairly
limited for a lot of this fiddly kind of things.
If you're merging existing geo together make sure everything is welded -
Polygon Islands are a pain to deal with as well. Ideally you want some kind
of single mesh body-glove
Oi Tiago
Há uns tempos fui ao teu site para ver o que andavas a fazer mas estava em
baixo.
Sempre foste para a Austrália?
Eu tou pela Illusive mas cheio de vontade de bazar para algum lado mais
interessante.
No processo também pensei no que sugeriste de usar geomatria, NURBS, para
calcular os
On the subject of Windows I have an interesting perspective because prior to
1998 I worked at Alias.
At that time Alias believed that Windows would be the dominant platform going
forward and there was a lot of talk about using Mainwin (or one of the other
Windows emulation frameworks available
Very high resolution with high AA and many in-memory Framebuffers could
take quite a lot of ram. If that's the case, try to write the framebuffers
directly to disk.
HDRIs take a lot of memory in V-Ray, make them as small as you can.
Look at the log files to see where your memory usage is at.
Check
You dont even have to merge them, gator will manage just fine for example:
paint weigh on full body mesh
duplicate body mesh and delete all non seen polys, you dont need them, but
you can jstu skip this and just keep full body mesh if you dont mind having
not seen polygons, maybe even better if
What I do is duplicate the object, and delete the polygons I don't need.
This way the envelope is copied and I don't need to use Gator.
I automatized this task with a couple of scripts:
https://vimeo.com/44115056
You could use gator to keep the transfer attributes alive and keep tweaking
the
This is my preferred method too. ILM had a really cool concept I'd like to
see in Soft. Instead of painting with the radius of a circle, make the
brush three dimensional like a ball. Wings can be tricky, I generally chop
the top or bottom part of a wing off and Gator everything. However a 3D
ball
Sorry for this fairly unhelpful reply but I shall go ahead anyway - Has it
always been so memory heavy? The other night I was rendering a car scene
(cad data that I exported from rhino myself) with a similar poly count that
you mention, one minute it was rendering fine, very fast 'scene export'
Try disabling as much as you can (e.g. turn off Light cache and Irradiance map and use brute force instead). If that reduces memory consumption your problem might lie there.Make sure you are writing a new Irradiance map file and that you are not constantly reading from, and adding to an existing
Hi Brent
Very well explained thank you. I do agree that because of the overall
crappiness of Windows COM has got a bad rep. Unfortunately its very hard for
most people to know where one begins and the other ends and in the end the
overall perception is the one that sticks.
On a slightly
Thanks guys - much appreciated! This will give us something to try out.
Makes me all warm and fuzzy using Arnold ;) BSP settings - shudder!
Morten
Den 17. februar 2014 kl. 12:48 skrev Stefan Kubicek s...@tidbit-images.com:
Try disabling as much as you can (e.g. turn off Light cache and
Hello everyone,
I need help creating a toolbar button witch will turn ghosting of selected
object on/off and switch it onto trail mode.
i would be really thankful to anyone who help :)
thanks,
Mladen
that's based on WINE for OSX. you can go ahead and try it yourself.
On Monday, February 17, 2014, Angus Davidson angus.david...@wits.ac.za
wrote:
Hi Brent
Very well explained thank you. I do agree that because of the overall
crappiness of Windows COM has got a bad rep. Unfortunately its
Quick and dirty
From: mladen.ke...@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 13:38:34 +0100
Subject: Scripted Ghosting on off button
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Hello everyone,
I need help creating a toolbar button witch will turn ghosting of selected
object on/off and switch it onto trail
So, what is the problem?
To switch ghost you have to change the camera animghostenable property in
camera display and the object property ghosting and ghosttype
I wrote something like that a long time ago, it was something like this:
//JS
SetValue(*.*.*.camdisp.animghostenable, true, null);
for
nice and clean :)
thank you very much
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 2:32 PM, gareth bell garethb...@outlook.com wrote:
Quick and dirty
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From: mladen.ke...@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 13:38:34 +0100
Subject: Scripted Ghosting on off button
To:
In general most games draw all their own custom UI on top of the graphics
library so the platform-specific code footprint would be much less than in an
application like Softimage which is built on top of the native UI toolkit. e.g.
games are typically implemented in a single OpenGL/DirectX
Lofted strands aren't quite there yet, but are around the corner. All
in all, Redshift really is rocking our little corner of the business.
For us, it's been a game-changer.
-Tim
On 2/16/2014 6:33 PM, Emilio Hernandez wrote:
This is just XSI hair, but now it supports also strands.
I've been very happy with Shapeways. Be very careful designing for minimal
volume! You can save or waste a LOT that way.
On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 5:21 AM, Tim Leydecker bauero...@gmx.de wrote:
At least for a good reference, I can recommend shapeways.
If you take the time to create an
The problem is...my mesh is already split up into pieces when i was
starting to weight them. The full body mesh doesn't exist anymore, the
hidden faces are already gone. :X
Also I tried duplicating all the geometry and merging it together while
trying to preserve the existing weighting so I
You know you can gator from multiple sources right? So if you already have
your merged mesh, with the geo frozen (worth deleting any rogue clusters as
well) you can then select gator and pick all the enveloped meshes that make
up your character. Transfer the envelope weighting, then 'freeze
I solved the problem for our pipeline by writing a tool which is similar to
GATOR but runs as a command instead of an operator. The advantage is the tool
can operate on selected subcomponents instead of the entire mesh. A further
embellishment I exposed was different methods for searching the
HI Adam,
thanks a lot that helped - I am still amazed by the fact that there is
nobody who wrote an proper import.
Cheers for your time!
Andi
2014-02-16 10:54 GMT+13:00 Adam Seeley adam_see...@yahoo.com:
Hi,
I still like to use ye olde La Maison's Projection Plane generator which
will
In regards to the Symmetry Map not working, if you are using the
implicit bones as you've said previously it won't work because they
haven't fixed this script to compensate for using this object type
which was only introduced with ICE Kinematics. It's been requested
quite a few times but I
out of curiosity, has anyone tried a heavy production scene in redshift?
somewhere around 100-500m triangles with a bunch of 2k/4k textures?
I'm seeing lots of single objects and simple scenes done with it, rendering
really fast, but what happens when you throw something heavier at it?
-Andreas
I would gladly test to push it as much as possible on 4 titan system but
don't really have any complex scene to test on :)
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 8:48 PM, Andreas Bystrom
andreas.byst...@gmail.comwrote:
out of curiosity, has anyone tried a heavy production scene in redshift?
somewhere around
Unfortunatley I don't have such a scene to test. I will gladly push it as
far with such a kind of scene.
2014-02-17 13:53 GMT-06:00 Mirko Jankovic mirkoj.anima...@gmail.com:
I would gladly test to push it as much as possible on 4 titan system but
don't really have any complex scene to
Hey Andreas,
https://www.dropbox.com/s/1rhnxa9cvge0ddc/redshift_forest_dof_unifiedsampling.jpg
I only have this as an example, was done during the alpha, and has a couple
million polys in it (can't remember the exact number as i don't have the
scene in front of me), sss for the leaves, brute
We did some tests, on a scene with about 20,000 instanced objects on
particles with refraction and reflection to match a Vray shader we were
using. The rendertimes were something like 4 minutes compared to 30+
minutes with Vray.
Freelance 3D and VFX animator
Here's a simple question for something we have not found how to do
in Softimage.
I have two curve objects... a closed square, and a closed circle. I
want to join them into a single object without stitching them
together or changing their shapes. I just want to have an
Don't have such heavy scenes, but did some architectural interiors,
1-2 mio polys, 240 light sources with soft shadows... according to Panos
Zobolas, whom I sent the scene for testing, there was an extremely high
shadow ray count, which brought it to a crawl (6h for 1920x1920px,
GeForce 760).
Eugen Sares wrote some nice curve tools that does that and more:
http://www.keyvis.at/cg-tools/tools-for-softimage/curve-tools/
Haven't used them in a while but I assume they still work.
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Sergio Mucino sergio.muc...@modusfx.comwrote:
Here's a simple question
@Matt Morris: I didn't know that actually, that is fantastic! Going to
try it ASAP~
@Matt Lind: I know, I should pick up more scripting knowledge... I only
just started recently working with the XSI API (and python in general),
so gimme a chance to catch up to you guys :D
@Eric: That
it's a nice example Octavian, but would be fun to try on something really
heavy, if it's only a couple of million polys it's still a pretty light
scene.
if I have time I might prepare something, it wouldn't have to be nice
looking, just dump a bunch of high-poly object in the scene and render,
They do. Nothing has changed in the SDK since then... sadly.
It's called 'Attach Curves', a topology operator under Modify Curve.
All selected curves get attached to the first in the selection
collection.
Guillaume Laforge did such a thing, too, in C++ (got my inspiration from
it) -
When gatoring between identical point placements, don't forget to change
your mode to Closest Vertex to get the most accurate transfer.
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Siew Yi Liang soni...@gmail.com wrote:
@Matt Morris: I didn't know that actually, that is fantastic! Going to
try it ASAP~
If you're using the implicit bones with success and don't need any of
the benefits of the Softimage bone chains just use Nulls. It's
typically what Im using.
Eric T.
On Monday, February 17, 2014 3:16:29 PM, Siew Yi Liang wrote:
@Matt Morris: I didn't know that actually, that is fantastic!
Those curve tools are essential for task where you have to manipulate and
construct with them.
*raises glass to Stefan Kubicek*
Cheers
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 8:23 PM, Eugen Sares sof...@mail.sprit.org wrote:
They do. Nothing has changed in the SDK since then... sadly.
It's called 'Attach
Andreas,
I'm working on a project now (can't post any renders though...) that
involves a pretty large outdoor environment (not as big as the WT's
Athens demo... maybe 1/4th of that). I'm instancing grass clumps
/everywhere/, and I have 11-12 Tree prototypes being scattered as
proxies, each
To be clear, when Redshift goes out-of-core, it goes into your system
ram. So in the end, you still need plenty of system ram for large
scenes. But I've only got 20GB in my workstation and I'm getting very
complex renders out of it without coming even close to that. More in
the 6-8GB range so
just so you know... athens was a fraction of what we rendered for elysium.
so... i think you guys should be aiming high... i mean REALLY high. if i
don't see a billion somewhere (instancing is fine) then i am still not
convinced the gpu renderer has overcome the memory limitations.
but it sounds
yep, looks nice.
I'm also wondering if redshift can use the combined vram when using several
cards in sli mode, if you have 3 titans, can you use 3x6gb or just 6gb for
your scene?
a tree scene like that, at that rez would probably take a few hours in
arnold or vray, so even at 30m in redshift
Well there are some guys that are using Redshift with Royal Render without
any issues.
Just started playing with Melena and Redshift.
60,000 strands with 150 subdivisions in 99 seconds from sending the scene
to redshift to final.
After sending the scene the frame went down to 57 seconds.
The
Well Steven, for $100 bucks for the Beta maybe you can try it. Will be
awsome to have some feedback on such scene as Elysium.
2014-02-17 16:28 GMT-06:00 Emilio Hernandez emi...@e-roja.com:
Well there are some guys that are using Redshift with Royal Render without
any issues.
Just started
just so you know... athens was a fraction of what we rendered for
elysium. so... i think you guys should be aiming high... i mean REALLY
high. if i don't see a billion somewhere (instancing is fine) then i am
still not convinced the gpu renderer has overcome the memory
limitations.
but it
@ Eugen... I think I lit that with a dome light... honestly I can't
remember though
@ Steve... yep I hear I ya. Rest assured, we're not doing anything close
to elysium, and as I said not even as big as Athens. And it's cartoony,
so although it has a lot of detail, the shading is
solid angle isn't some massive company either...
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 2:38 PM, Eugen Sares sof...@mail.sprit.org wrote:
If they really managed to render a scene like this... that would be
something I'd say...
A 3 guys company, in such a short time, and they blow everybody out of the
doesn't work like that... i have to convince someone to buy it for the
studio, then the graphics cards you guys talk about... 3 titans!? we don't
have those types of investments. we have an existing farm with cpus and
lots of ram. if i want to render a sequence with redshift... i have to
render it
It works well, but as I said earlier, going out-of-core means you go
into system ram. So you still need system ram, but you needed that
anyway
You don't /need /Titans. The reason we mention those is because we've
decided to invest in a few heftier cards. We also have some 770s and
Yeah it would involve quite an adjustment for a trad farm - rackmounts
would be a little useless. I also don't think RS is quite gunning for the
arnold market, its aiming for the smaller shops who don't have massive
render farms.
I rendered 10 million hairs on a character today, ended up using
i don't think they care what market, as long as people buy it ;)
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Matt Morris matt...@gmail.com wrote:
Yeah it would involve quite an adjustment for a trad farm - rackmounts
would be a little useless. I also don't think RS is quite gunning for the
arnold
Hey Matt cool scene!
2014-02-17 17:16 GMT-06:00 Steven Caron car...@gmail.com:
i don't think they care what market, as long as people buy it ;)
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Matt Morris matt...@gmail.com wrote:
Yeah it would involve quite an adjustment for a trad farm - rackmounts
To echo Matt, it definitely involes some adjustments to the farm! That
may even be a stumbling block for some, or at least a weird surprise.
There's a temptation to think that all you have to do is put a GPU in
your render node and you're golden. Well... that may or may not be
true... depends
True dat.
On 17 February 2014 23:16, Steven Caron car...@gmail.com wrote:
i don't think they care what market, as long as people buy it ;)
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Matt Morris matt...@gmail.com wrote:
Yeah it would involve quite an adjustment for a trad farm - rackmounts
would be
Does Redshift have something like .map or .tx for textures? and what about
standins/procedurals? I think those are essentials for big productions,
not even thinking on massive productions, just bigger than simple
scenes... If it has (or plan to implement) something like that, I would
say it's a
I believer Redshift converts textures at render time to a mip-mapped
format, and quite rapidly. I don't know off the top of my head what it
does with .map or .tx files. Proxies were a main feature from the start,
and although their options are a bit limited at the moment, the core
I need to write a simple command to dump the script editor history log (or 'n'
lines at the tail end of the log) to a text file so artists may attach the file
to an issue in our bug tracking system. From what I've seen in the SDK docs,
View.GetAttributeValue() only returns the last line, or
Um, maybe I'm misunderstanding, but doesn't the script editor have the
option in prefs to write to a text file?
Scripting Log to File
You could run a simple python script to trim 'n' lines in the document
and write it to a seperate file...
Yours sincerely,
Siew Yi Liang
On 2/17/2014 8:11
Softimage does have a preference for logging to a text file, but that text file
is not accessible while Softimage is running. The only way to get access to
the log contents is to exit softimage and wait for the log to be released.
One problem is the text file is reused between sessions of
Just toggle the option to dump the log to a specified file.
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 1:54 AM, Matt Lind ml...@carbinestudios.com wrote:
Softimage does have a preference for logging to a text file, but that text
file is not accessible while Softimage is running. The only way to get
access to
Just recently started a small team here, only 8 of us here, 8 workstations.
Nothing fancy for now just i7 machines with 770 cards, and one big 4 titan
system for now.
For setup like this Redshift is great option. Adding 2nd card on all those
workstations will practically double the power of our
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