Crowd webinar if you missed it.... like I did.

2012-04-26 Thread Adam Seeley
Headphones on... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Toyh0_doko Adam.

Re: ICE: Basic Turbulence question

2012-05-16 Thread Adam Seeley
Hi, Assuming 2012, you could turbulize the mesh using theTurbulize Mesh or Turbulize Around Value compoundsand then plug a Weightmap into Animation Speed. Adam.   From: Byron Nash byronn...@gmail.com To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Sent: Wednesday,

Ice Circle Shape u-step value.

2012-05-23 Thread Adam Seeley
Hi, In the hope that some people get this post of course. How do you control the number of steps in Ice shape? i.e. I want my circle shapes to have six steps but they default to 8. I remember a u-step parameter around somewhere but can't seem to track it down (probably under my nose!). Many

Re: Ice Circle Shape u-step value.

2012-05-24 Thread Adam Seeley
To: Adam Seeley; softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: RE: Ice Circle Shape u-step value. I think you’re looking for the ShapeResolutionU and ShapeResolutionV attributes. They need to be integers. Bear in mind these are unsupported and undocumented, so your compounds and scene may break if things

Split ice cloud into randomised collections.

2012-05-24 Thread Adam Seeley
Hi, Before I spend time sorting this one out on my short time scale, I wondered if someone had been there already. I'd like to be able to split my cloud into, say, 10 randomised sets. Pretty much the same way that instancing 10 objects works, but so I can define specific colours/shapes etc.

Re: Split ice cloud into randomised collections.

2012-05-24 Thread Adam Seeley
to be able to find out which particles relate to which instance so I can manipulate them. Thanks, adam. From: Vladimir Jankijevic vladi...@elefantstudios.ch To: Adam Seeley adam_see...@yahoo.com; softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Sent: Thursday, 24 May 2012, 9

Re: Split ice cloud into randomised collections.

2012-05-25 Thread Adam Seeley
a different instance shape node in each one. there is a ton you can achieve with this approach without using a state_machine. -Original Message- From: Chris Chia Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 1:11 PM To: Adam Seeley ; softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Split ice cloud

Ice polymesh not retaining UV's when frozen.

2012-05-25 Thread Adam Seeley
Hi, question of the day... I've created an Ice Polymesh using the Create Copies From Polygon Mesh, using a particle cloud and some source Geo with a set of UV's. The UV's transfer over nicely to the duplicated version. When I freeze the Ice Polymsh, it loses the UV's. Can retain those UVs

Re: SiC London last night

2012-05-30 Thread Adam Seeley
Hi, Yup, huge appreciation to everyone involved. Great to see many old (and new) school faces from the list. Spoilt for choices with the demos, keeping fingers crossed for a few on Vimeo to re-digest. Thanks again and hope to be there for some of the pub gatherings, Adam.

Re: Ice feathers..

2012-06-14 Thread Adam Seeley
fellow who really should be more visible in the community, especially considering The Mill here in NY are using ICE like crazy and are on the prowl for talent. -Bradley On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 7:39 AM, Adam Seeley adam_see...@yahoo.com wrote: I spy Ice feathers https://vimeo.com

Re: Ice feathers..

2012-06-14 Thread Adam Seeley
WANT VINCE, WE WANT VINCE!! Eric Thivierge http://www.ethivierge.com On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 12:57 AM, Adam Seeley adam_see...@yahoo.com wrote: Wondered why I didn't recognise the name... come on in Vince, the water's warm

Old tekkon particle presets

2012-06-30 Thread Adam Seeley
Hi, I wondered if anyone had a copy of this file floating around from an old Autodesk Customer Story? http://www.softimage.com/community/customer_stories/jp_tekkon/Particle_Preset/Particle_Preset.zip It's seems to be long gone the waybackMachine page doesn't have a connection to the .zip

Re: Old tekkon particle presets

2012-06-30 Thread Adam Seeley
Here's the original article. http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/item?id=13582555siteID=123112 The compounds were built Michael Arias, I'd be keen to see them fi anyone has a copy around. Many thanks, Adam. From: Adam Seeley adam_see...@yahoo.com

Re: Old tekkon particle presets

2012-06-30 Thread Adam Seeley
it had taken such a long time, since way before the Animatrix even.    From: olivier jeannel Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2012 7:11 PM To: Adam Seeley ; softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Old tekkon particle presets   Super article ! Le 30/06/2012 17:34, Adam Seeley a écrit : Here's

Re: clumping hair guides on non uniformly distributed geo

2012-07-20 Thread Adam Seeley
Hi, Depends on the complexity of the mesh, but maybe using Polygonizer shrink wrapping to closest surface might help get you a step closer. Adam. From: Simon Van de Lagemaat si...@theembassyvfx.com To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com

Replacing clips in the Animation Mixer

2012-07-24 Thread Adam Seeley
Hi, Is there a way to replace a clip in the Animation Mixer with another? I've had a quick look around but the only info I've got so far is a no from a previous post. http://www.si-community.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=9t=855 Here's hoping, Adam.

Re: Replacing clips in the Animation Mixer

2012-07-25 Thread Adam Seeley
'-- From: Simon Anderson simonbenandersonl...@gmail.com To: Adam Seeley adam_see...@yahoo.com; softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Sent: Wednesday, 25 July 2012, 0:50 Subject: Re: Replacing

Re: Bye Bye

2012-09-03 Thread Adam Seeley
Guillaume, Big fat +1 on everythings that's been said already. All the best on your new path and I hope to stay inspired and informed by your future endevours. Adam. From: Guillaume Laforge guillaume.laforge...@gmail.com To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com

Re: Friday Flashback

2012-09-03 Thread Adam Seeley
Nice one Stephen, A true professional. Will miss you're insights and inspiration that help me through my working days. All the best, I'm sure it will be. Nothing quite as refreshing as getting out of a corporation like the one you've been in. Your LinkedIn accept button must be smoking by

Re: Friday Flashback

2012-09-03 Thread Adam Seeley
Although I hope and pray for the return of what was once a competitive market, I can't imagine AD selling a piece of software that might become competitive to it's own products again. It'd tie up it's adopted child in a sack and throw it off a bridge first I imagine. A.

XSIBase safe?

2012-09-04 Thread Adam Seeley
Hi, I'm still getting warnings about going to XSIBase. Is it safe to visit or a no go area? Cheers, Adam.

Re: XSIBase safe?

2012-09-04 Thread Adam Seeley
safe? I've been going every day with Google Chrome, nothing's happened. On Tuesday, September 4, 2012, Adam Seeley wrote: Hi, I'm still getting warnings about going to XSIBase. Is it safe to visit or a no go area? Cheers, Adam.

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

New Softimage PM

2012-09-11 Thread Adam Seeley
Ah, a direct line... http://area.autodesk.com/blogs/cory/re-introducing-myself Adam.

Re: picking up ICE attribute in RenderTree still buggy???

2012-09-14 Thread Adam Seeley
Hi Juan, You still run deadline at PF I assume. When you submit the job, Deadline (or the submission script) has the ability to save a copy of the scene to its own repository and then use that scene to submit to the slaves. You may have the option in the Submission PPG to make it do that. (It

soft 2013 - multiple workgroups

2012-09-25 Thread Adam Seeley
Morning all, Has anybody come across any problems working with multiple workgroups and 2013? e.g. 1 x General workgroup 1 x Arnold Workgroup 1 x Mootzoid type workgroup Seems like a sensible way to be able to chop, change and access different versions of addons if need be if it's stable

Re: soft 2013 - multiple workgroups

2012-09-25 Thread Adam Seeley
Thanks guys, I'll give it a spin. Adam. From: Sandy Sutherland sandy.sutherl...@triggerfish.co.za To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Sent: Tuesday, 25 September 2012, 10:45 Subject: RE: soft 2013 - multiple workgroups

Re: Timeline ticks - custom spacing

2012-09-30 Thread Adam Seeley
on the Display Time option in the Camera Visibility - Stats option anyway which makes it a it easier to read. Cheers, Adam. From: Sven Constable sixsi_l...@imagefront.de To: 'Adam Seeley' adam_see...@yahoo.com; softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Sent: Sunday, 30 September

Re: Rray goodness

2012-10-02 Thread Adam Seeley
Hurrah for new goodies added that is... not just a random hurrah for no good reason! Although saying that.. Rray deserves a jolly good hurrah anytime really. anywayI'lljustgetonwithmyworkthen.. *ahem* A. From: Adam Seeley adam_see...@yahoo.com

Re: tying a bow on a christmas present

2012-10-12 Thread Adam Seeley
Hi Andi, Had a bit of a wrangle with this recently. Definitely build the final thing first work backwards. Reference is good http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqF-rv2Yo3s  A bit of roto never hurt anyone. For good control with a flying ribbon (as they can twist unhelpfully when animating

Re: 2 graphic cards for SLI

2012-10-15 Thread Adam Seeley
The Vaio I bought early 2010 uses a 240Gb SSD for boot storage. I've used it as a mobile workstation (3d,sims,comping) and it's been rock solid (and fast of course). Running comps with lot's of layers using SSD is great. No idea what brand it is... I'm tempted to have a couple of local data

animation editor - Gradient extrapolation?

2012-10-28 Thread Adam Seeley
Hi, 2013 sp1 Has anyone seen the Curve-Gradient Extrapolation option for the Animation Editor floating around? Seems to be missing from the obvious spot. Thanks, Adam.

Re: animation editor - Gradient extrapolation?

2012-10-29 Thread Adam Seeley
are now in the Curves Pre/Post Extrapolation menu. Ta, Adam From: Jack Kao jack@grapecity.com To: Adam Seeley adam_see...@yahoo.com; softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Sent: Monday, 29 October 2012, 1:27 Subject: RE: animation editor - Gradient extrapolation

Re: Disney buying LucasFilm and a episode 7 in 2015!! So this is what the Mayans were talking about.

2012-11-01 Thread Adam Seeley
Be strange to see Star Wars rides in Disneyland... maybe there'll be a Pixar/Star Wars mashup. either way http://www.toplessrobot.com/2012/11/george_lucas_is_giving_all_4_billion_of_his_disney.php Fair dues dude. Adam. From: Rob Wuijster

Re: render curves

2012-11-06 Thread Adam Seeley
You could have a look for Render Curves Strandwire Compound o nhere: http://rray.de/xsi/ Adam. From: Ponthieux, Joey j.ponthi...@nasa.gov To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Sent: Tuesday, 6 November 2012, 14:46 Subject: Re:

Re: Camera mapping heavily distorted in viewport

2012-11-07 Thread Adam Seeley
Any good if you freeze the projections? Not ideal but... A. From: Leo Quensel le...@gmx.de To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Sent: Wednesday, 7 November 2012, 9:11 Subject: Re: Camera mapping heavily distorted in viewport I think this was posted in the

Re: 16 bit tif from photoshop not working in softimage?

2012-11-16 Thread Adam Seeley
I use png's as much as possible, never seems to be a problem with texturing or rendering. Good lossless compression keeps re-load times down when compositing. Flame/Smoke can't load them of course! Adam From: Simon van de Lagemaat si...@theembassyvfx.com

Re: 16 bit tif from photoshop not working in softimage?

2012-11-16 Thread Adam Seeley
, Nov 16, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Steven Caron car...@gmail.com wrote: they have no mip mapping support and it was primarily for web development... no thanks On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Adam Seeley adam_see...@yahoo.com wrote: I use png's as much as possible, never seems to be a problem

Re: filename length limit

2012-11-30 Thread Adam Seeley
Interesting, I thought it still was... I still get Windows throwing the error up when copying deep folder structures or Unzipping files sometimes. Have to have a closer read of your link... Adam From: Sajjad Amjad sajjad.am...@gmail.com To:

Cheeta ref...

2012-12-02 Thread Adam Seeley
Just in case  anyone needs reference for a cheeta running at some point, this is probably as good as it gets. http://io9.com/5963725/watch-this-now-we-bet-youve-never-seen-a-more-stunning-video-of-a-cheetah-in-your-life And just worth a look really... A.

Re: GATOR problem transferring UVs

2012-12-05 Thread Adam Seeley
Rogue clusters? A. From: Adam Sale adamfs...@gmail.com To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Sent: Wednesday, 5 December 2012, 23:49 Subject: GATOR problem transferring UVs We're having issues getting GATOR to correctly transfer UVs from one mesh to

Re: OT: Ergonomic chairs

2013-01-25 Thread Adam Seeley
Hi, My wife's a physio and an ergonomist and doesn't rate the Aeron that highly. The lumbar supports slip out of place pretty easily - true. Front bar below the thighs can isn't great for circulation if your feet aren't placed properly. They're not too bad if you're a large build, but not great

CS2 Suite avaiable unrestricted - free? sort of.

2013-02-11 Thread Adam Seeley
Morning folks, Just a heads up. You can download the CS2 suite with provided serials from Adobe as they've disabled the activation server for them. http://www.adobe.com/downloads/cs2_downloads/index.html You are supposed to have previously bought a legitimate copy so it's up to you. Good to

Re: SI 2014 sneak peek

2013-02-28 Thread Adam Seeley
Hi Chris, When a project such as a commercial has been edited, the shots are often exported as seperate image sequences and often with handles e.g. 15 extra frames at the start finish of each shot. If we provide the rendered cg back to the compositor icluding those extra handles then it

Re: fake or not

2013-03-14 Thread Adam Seeley
Probably not, If you saw the water without the camera it would be vibrating to and fro and sloshing around a bit. The synced camera and 24hz sine wave means that your'e only seeing the water at a certain part of it's vibration. Same idea as this.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRlNOyxWWf8

Re: 2014 New feature list... minor corrections list... you decide

2013-03-15 Thread Adam Seeley
Hi, Just wondering for those people who have a foot each in the AD camp the Houdini camp. are the Houdini crowd a bunch of happy campers or do they have the same amount of gripes? Adam   -- Freelance Softimage Generalist

Re: Rendering to video and formats

2013-03-21 Thread Adam Seeley
Hi, Had some advice from media projection guys when dealing with 16Gb+ video files.  Even if you've created an H264 with decent quailty out of something like AE, it's worth trying to re-exporting out of QT Pro as the temporal compression is much better with the same quality. Didn't compare

Re: Softimage promo

2013-04-12 Thread Adam Seeley
Hi, I didn't have time to see this the other day now the link's dead. Does anyone have a working link? Thanks, Adam. - Yoyo Digital Ltd. http://www.linkedin.com/in/adamseeleyuk https://vimeo.com/adamseeley From: Chris Chia

OT: surround sound placement using 3d

2013-04-22 Thread Adam Seeley
Hi folks, A bit OT but thought I'd tap the collective genius here in case anyone can point me in the right direction. I'm creating some animation that will be projected onto screens to the front and sides of an audience. We'll be creating some 5.1 surround sound type FX to go with the

Creating new camera view in the Layout Editor

2013-04-26 Thread Adam Seeley
Happy Friday Folks, Does anyone know how to add extra Camera Views to a Layout? I'd like to use the Layout Editor to create some extra camera views on my 2nd monitor in a dual layout mode. Camera isn't one of the selectable views though when I create a new Pane. View Manager is a selection,

Re: Creating new camera view in the Layout Editor

2013-04-26 Thread Adam Seeley
solution i came up with: Create a Object View (Alt + 8) and set it to View- All Objects Am 26.04.2013 17:02, schrieb Adam Seeley: Happy Friday Folks, Does anyone know how to add extra Camera Views to a Layout? I'd like to use the Layout Editor to create some extra camera views on my 2nd

Re: Render a single frame without frame number in file name

2013-05-07 Thread Adam Seeley
Here's a  post render frame script I use to make Proxies of my renders to speed things up when I've got heavy comping jobs. All the bits are in there for a simple rename if you know a bit of scripting, you just need a little read up on creating an Event. Adam   - Yoyo

Re: Hiding background partitions etc

2013-05-21 Thread Adam Seeley
Well you know my take on it Any other workflow unless it's script driven is asking for trouble. Adam - Yoyo Digital Ltd. http://www.linkedin.com/in/adamseeleyuk https://vimeo.com/adamseeley From: Andi Farhall hack...@outlook.com

Re: Hiding background partitions etc

2013-05-21 Thread Adam Seeley
Funny, I'm almost opposite... I get very uncomfortable (physically uneasy) dealing with no effect partitions floating around containing a mix of hidden and unhidden objects, especially in large scenes, I need everything locked down and explicit. I'll normally have a working/Default pass where

Re: Hiding background partitions etc

2013-05-21 Thread Adam Seeley
There's an exception to any rule... ..apart from always keeping your Background Partition hidden.. no exceptions. A.   - Yoyo Digital Ltd. 07956 976 245 http://www.linkedin.com/in/adamseeleyuk https://vimeo.com/adamseeley From: Peter

Hong Kong Softimage users

2013-05-31 Thread Adam Seeley
Hi Folks, I'll be on a recce in Hong Kong next week and wondered if there were any Softimage houses out there I might be able to drop in and say hi to or any Softies that might like to meet for a beer. Have a nice weekend y'all. Adam - Yoyo Digital Ltd. 07956 976 245

Re: the jungle drums

2013-06-19 Thread Adam Seeley
Interesting, I've been thinking about getting into Houdini, I was wondering what the comparison would be. Adam. - Yoyo Digital Ltd. 07956 976 245 http://www.linkedin.com/in/adamseeleyuk https://vimeo.com/adamseeley From: Jordi Bares

Non-sim particle bezier control.

2013-07-25 Thread Adam Seeley
Hi folks,   Wondered if anyone can see an obvious route to what I'm after.  I love this method Bezier from Bradey Gabe (Hi Bradley!) to get a nice sim looking animation but with non-sim with full control. http://vimeo.com/11079196 I'd like to get a bit more control using Weightmaps though so

Re: Convert curve to linear

2013-08-02 Thread Adam Seeley
You'd think...! If not then hoop jump and either path animate a null plot it's trajectory or curve deform some geo along extract the edges. A. - Yoyo Digital Ltd. 07956 976 245 http://www.linkedin.com/in/adamseeleyuk https://vimeo.com/adamseeley

Re: Convert curve to linear

2013-08-02 Thread Adam Seeley
/in/adamseeleyuk https://vimeo.com/adamseeley From: Adam Seeley adam_see...@yahoo.com To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Sent: Friday, 2 August 2013, 14:22 Subject: Re: Convert curve to linear You'd think...! If not then hoop

3delight - motion vector pass

2013-08-07 Thread Adam Seeley
Hi folks, Any advice before I head down this path would be gratefully recieved. I have a lot of non-simulated particles I want to generate motion blur for. 3Delight will do this no problem, but can I render out motion vector passes easily? I saw some wrangling hoop jumping on a Maya thread,

ocean surface generation - arete stylee

2013-08-22 Thread Adam Seeley
Hi, For those that remember the old Arete Psunami plugin... I always liked ocean surface geometry generator, the one that gave you a grid with fine detail close up and low detail in the distance and that was only generated within the cameras field of view. I think it kept the girid lines it

Re: ocean surface generation - arete stylee

2013-08-22 Thread Adam Seeley
Hi, It's the grid I want to create... everything else should be fine after that. Adam.   - http://www.linkedin.com/in/adamseeleyuk https://vimeo.com/adamseeley From: Eric Turman i.anima...@gmail.com To: Adam Seeley adam_see

Re: ocean surface generation - arete stylee

2013-08-23 Thread Adam Seeley
/in/adamseeleyuk https://vimeo.com/adamseeley From: Amaan Akram xsil...@warpedspace.org To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Cc: Adam Seeley adam_see...@yahoo.com Sent: Friday, 23 August 2013, 10:56 Subject: Re: ocean surface generation - arete stylee Hi Adam, I

Re: Deform ICE pointcloud, not

2013-08-27 Thread Adam Seeley
Seems to work fine...2013sp1 I'm always chucking standard deformers onto particle clouds. Waves etc.  Adam - http://www.linkedin.com/in/adamseeleyuk https://vimeo.com/adamseeley From: Pingo van der Brinkloev xsil...@comxnet.dk To:

Online render farm recommendations.

2013-09-03 Thread Adam Seeley
Hi, This hasn't been up for a while so... Does anybody have recommendations for good value , easy to use render farms. I'll have a few minutes worth of renders at 3500x5000 pixels to crack out soon. Standard Mental Ray is fine although good to know if they are Arnolded up as well. Many

Re: Online render farm recommendations.

2013-09-03 Thread Adam Seeley
Hi Cristobel, Looks good, thanks for pointer. Adam. - http://www.linkedin.com/in/adamseeleyuk https://vimeo.com/adamseeley From: Cristobal Infante cgc...@gmail.com To: Adam Seeley adam_see...@yahoo.com; softimage

Pass Duplication reallllly slow.

2013-09-22 Thread Adam Seeley
Hi folks, SI2013sp1 Sorry to interrupt the current BC intrigue...but. I've got a big scene with quite a few Passes (about 75),  but I've hit a major slow down when handling them. Duplicating a Pass can take aobut 3.5 minutes (I just tried it). It doesn't matter how complex the Pass is (I

Re: Pass Duplication reallllly slow.

2013-09-22 Thread Adam Seeley
...@sekow.com To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Sent: Sunday, 22 September 2013, 21:54 Subject: Re: Pass Duplication realy slow. 75 are are a lot of passes.. maybe its because of that. Am 22.09.2013 um 22:50 schrieb Adam Seeley adam_see...@yahoo.com: Hi, I

Re: Pass Duplication reallllly slow.

2013-09-23 Thread Adam Seeley
  Adam. - http://www.linkedin.com/in/adamseeleyuk https://vimeo.com/adamseeley From: Adam Seeley adam_see...@yahoo.com To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com softimage

Re: Pass Duplication reallllly slow.

2013-09-23 Thread Adam Seeley
. In a freestyle workflow where every shot is a one-off – you might just have to bite the bullet and live with some slowdown.  From: Adam Seeley Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 12:08 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Pass Duplication realy slow.   Hi again, nope... cut it down

Re: Pass Duplication reallllly slow.

2013-09-23 Thread Adam Seeley
/in/adamseeleyuk https://vimeo.com/adamseeley From: Matt Lind ml...@carbinestudios.com To: Adam Seeley adam_see...@yahoo.com; softimage@listproc.autodesk.com softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Sent: Monday, 23 September 2013, 18:47 Subject: RE: Pass

Re: ICE Crowds in Now You See Me (making-of/breakdown video)

2013-09-28 Thread Adam Seeley
It's a good one to show clients who assume you just press the make stadium populate stadium  buttons. Adam. - http://www.linkedin.com/in/adamseeleyuk https://vimeo.com/adamseeley From: Rob Chapman tekano@gmail.com To:

Re: XSI camera animation to After effects or XSII camera animation to Cinema 4D

2013-10-01 Thread Adam Seeley
Hi, This worked last time I tried it for AE. http://armoredsquirrel.com/blog/?page_id=69 Bottom of the page. I've included a rar file which has the AE import script tweaked for CS6. You can export polys as well but it creates a layer per polygon. Fine for ground planes, walls etc. Good

Re: OT : regarding the recent anonymous request for artists

2013-10-06 Thread Adam Seeley
That's nice though: Spirit of Volunteerism We selflessly share our time and effort to produce the best on what we can do. Interesting questions in the application form as well. What services can you provide to The Artist Society as a volunteer? Can you describe us your personality and way of

Re: Clip maps in Soft

2013-10-09 Thread Adam Seeley
Booltrace perhaps, if it's still working. It's geo geo intersection, but at rendertime. http://www.si-community.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=9t=948start=10 Adam.   - http://www.linkedin.com/in/adamseeleyuk https://vimeo.com/adamseeley

Re: AE Help request

2013-11-13 Thread Adam Seeley
Once you get salad involved there's bound to be trouble. You could try rendering the comp out using a high MoJpeg setting and then re-encode straight out of QT for an H264. I find QT will give a better compression than AE. Adam - http://www.linkedin.com/in/adamseeleyuk

Re: Non-spherical eye while keeping iris circular

2013-11-18 Thread Adam Seeley
Hi, Sounds like a job for Booltrace, a mental ray boolean shader. It's a bit of a head scratch to figure out how to get the geometries to do what you want, but it should work fine. You can get it here, from the treasure trove that is http://rray.de/xsi/ I used it to create Gems embedded into

Re: OT: shooting panoramas

2013-12-01 Thread Adam Seeley
Hi, I haven't read the rest of the thread, but thought I'd chip blindly in anyway. For quick easy just-in-case panoramas I use ICE (from Microsoft Research that is). http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/ivm/ICE/ Free, quick and looks like it supports RAW images as well. (You

Re: Render tree question

2014-01-10 Thread Adam Seeley
Don't think so without the Cus. Params. I've wanted to do the same for a long time. I've used an update materials script before by making sure all materials share the same structures names and having a Master Material to read from. Some sort of Global FxTree type layout where all materials

Re: Photogrammetry - what do you use?

2014-01-29 Thread Adam Seeley
Hi, Does anyone know if any packages accept RAW or HDR images and can create an HDR for the final texture. This should help as much as norml HDR environments do when lighting. Adam. http://www.linkedin.com/in/adamseeleyuk

Re: MAYA to Soft, imageplanes

2014-02-15 Thread Adam Seeley
Hi, I still like to use ye olde La Maison's Projection Plane generator which will create simple depth controlled image planes which can be animated or expression controlled. (I haven't really looked at the alternatives so they may do the same)  BG planes are good, but I often like  to create

Re: Maya feature request from Softimage users

2014-03-07 Thread Adam Seeley
I try it in most software... just in case. A.   _ http://www.linkedin.com/in/adamseeleyuk https://vimeo.com/adamseeley From: Halim Negadi hneg...@gmail.com To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Sent: Friday, 7 March 2014, 18:50 Subject:

Re: Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-11 Thread Adam Seeley
Hi Alastair, Agreed. You did a fantastic job with your letter, and the more company owners, industry heads of departments and managers speaking out the better. As you say, they would generally feel like they have been given the cold shoulder by a supplier who then want's to sell you another

Re: Autodesk webinar

2014-03-17 Thread Adam Seeley
Perhaps they didn't realise so many people are actually interested in Softimage.  Adam. _ http://www.linkedin.com/in/adamseeleyuk https://vimeo.com/adamseeley From: Stephen Davidson magic...@bellsouth.net To:

Re: Autodesk response

2014-03-17 Thread Adam Seeley
ok, that feels better... the old dear next door looks worried though. A. _ http://www.linkedin.com/in/adamseeleyuk https://vimeo.com/adamseeley From: adrian wyer adrian.w...@fluid-pictures.com To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Sent:

Re: Autodesk webinar

2014-03-18 Thread Adam Seeley
But We'll build these artist friendly workflows into Maya as we go. So, yay. It felt a bit like your parents telling why they're getting a divorce (and no-one wants the dog so it's going to get put down). Bifrost could potentially be exciting if you'd never see ICE before. I wonder what

Re: Autodesk webinar

2014-03-18 Thread Adam Seeley
Hi Maurice, Yes, sure, things can change very fast indeed. It's just not a very reassuring corporate stance for customers who need to make a long term investment in people, time and cash.  That kind of statement leaves little reassurance that anyone can invest confidently in any of your

Re: Softimage webinar - Q/A - finally uploaded

2014-03-19 Thread Adam Seeley
Softimage's Final Stand. Roll them t-shirts out. A. _ http://www.linkedin.com/in/adamseeleyuk https://vimeo.com/adamseeley From: Bk p...@bustykelp.com To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Sent: Wednesday,

Re: What use is ICE really?

2014-03-21 Thread Adam Seeley
Maybe a look through the rray site would help to see the number of ways it's been used as well. There used to be a way of filtering to just show ICE related entries but I can't see it there anymore. http://www.rray.de/xsi/ The open beauty of ICE of course is that you can dig down into the

Re: Re[2]: ICE - When will we have todays functionality in Maya?

2014-03-24 Thread Adam Seeley
In my naive business head I imagine that AD's efforts could be well spent in creating some truly next generation software instead of polishing.. ahem... improving, what seems to be a bit long in the tooth already. I've had this broom for 10 years, it's had 5 new brushes and 4 new handles. AD

Re: Re[2]: ICE - When will we have todays functionality in Maya?

2014-03-24 Thread Adam Seeley
Sterling sebastien.sterl...@gmail.com To: Adam Seeley adam_see...@yahoo.com; softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Sent: Monday, 24 March 2014, 16:54 Subject: Re: Re[2]: ICE - When will we have todays functionality in Maya? To be fair,Maurice has already answered this question in a previous thread

Re: March 28, 2014

2014-03-31 Thread Adam Seeley
But for the smaller production line, say 1 person,  without any lesser mortals to abuse, doesn't Zremesher help you avoid the initial tedium. http://pixologic.com/zbrush/features/ZBrush4R6/ It yet but looks hugely useful..  Adam. _ http://www.linkedin.com/in/adamseeleyuk

Re: March 28, 2014

2014-03-31 Thread Adam Seeley
It... yet... but..?? I mean...  It looks hugely useful. A. _ http://www.linkedin.com/in/adamseeleyuk https://vimeo.com/adamseeley From: Adam Seeley adam_see...@yahoo.com To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com softimage@listproc.autodesk.com

Re: invert AO

2014-04-16 Thread Adam Seeley
Hi,   For an MR Rendtree node Seach for   InvertSurface   on  www.rray.de/xsi  Adam _ Yoyo Digital Ltd. UK +44 (0) 7956 976 245 http://www.linkedin.com/in/adamseeleyuk https://vimeo.com/adamseeley From: Chris Marshall

meshpaint daft question

2014-06-18 Thread Adam Seeley
Hi, This is great for multi-placement on surfaces. http://vimeo.com/41703655 Does anyone know how to change the brush size though? I've tried  a whole bunch of ctrl/shift/alt options. Cheers, Adam. _ Yoyo Digital Ltd. UK +44 (0) 7956 976 245

test

2014-06-18 Thread Adam Seeley
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Re: test

2014-06-18 Thread Adam Seeley
Ah, might explain why I'm not seeing my own posts this end. Thanks for the heads up guys. Adam.   _ Yoyo Digital Ltd. UK +44 (0) 7956 976 245 http://www.linkedin.com/in/adamseeleyuk https://vimeo.com/adamseeley From: Oscar Juarez

Re: test

2014-06-18 Thread Adam Seeley
poop. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5REfeature=kp A.   _ Yoyo Digital Ltd. UK +44 (0) 7956 976 245 http://www.linkedin.com/in/adamseeleyuk https://vimeo.com/adamseeley From: Cristobal Infante cgc...@gmail.com To:

Re: test

2014-06-18 Thread Adam Seeley
Maybe it's Yahoo Mail... apparently causes problems sometimes. Adam.   _ Yoyo Digital Ltd. UK +44 (0) 7956 976 245 http://www.linkedin.com/in/adamseeleyuk https://vimeo.com/adamseeley From: pedro santos probi...@gmail.com To: Softimage

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