Re: Stand up and be counted

2014-03-18 Thread olivier jeannel
Raffaele, There are so many posts, and some maybe I miss read. But, isn't there a plan to build a super rigging tool (with FE) so that you could continue to work with SI? Isn't the plan to wait and see what's coming up before swapping already to Maya ? Sorry, if I sum up a too simple way.

Re: OT: MAYA and strands

2014-03-18 Thread olivier jeannel
I'd be curious, Spider web like that ancient Helge workshop, or rather like the tutorial from Nika Ragua ? No idea if Maya has strands though... Le 18/03/2014 15:11, Gerbrand Nel a écrit : Ok don't laugh, but I just have to ask. Is there something like strands in Maya. I'm re-doing some of

Re: Autodesk webinar

2014-03-18 Thread olivier jeannel
I second that. for me the hardest part is that you simply refuse to sell seats. I don't say support, just let people buy that discontinued software. What would it cost you ? Zero maintenance, a full 3K euros in your pocket... Honestly ? Compared to the damage it cause to your customers ? SI

Re: Autodesk webinar

2014-03-18 Thread olivier jeannel
I think the opposite. AD should make it available to buy seats. Why AD is refusing ? they will earn money for nothing. That I don't understand. Le 18/03/2014 17:21, Mirko Jankovic a écrit : People... do you REALLY think that there is anything at all left to be said? I saw screw AD, screw

Re: Autodesk webinar

2014-03-18 Thread olivier jeannel
to shut down Softimage – however stupid that decision is, but to not allow purchases of new seats, except for existing customers. That’s just mean minded and bullying. Its like they are trying their hardest to make enemies. *From:* olivier jeannel mailto:olivier.jean...@noos.fr *Sent:* Tuesday, March

Re: Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-18 Thread olivier jeannel
/Polynoid On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 8:24 PM, olivier jeannel olivier.jean...@noos.fr mailto:olivier.jean...@noos.fr wrote: Where are Polynoids ? Possibly I missed their voice with all the traffic on the list these days They are with (Tim Borgmann, and Oscar Gonzalez Diez

Re: trying to looking on the bright side......

2014-03-18 Thread olivier jeannel
LOL Le 18/03/2014 18:48, Arvid Björn a écrit : I was really surprised that Bifrost was some external process, and then even more surprised that they tried to tout this as a good thing. Here's the mental image I got during that demo: http://i.imgur.com/OUhV4wj.jpg On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at

Re: trying to looking on the bright side......

2014-03-18 Thread olivier jeannel
That's the hole mailing list you have here :) Le 18/03/2014 18:56, Alan Fregtman a écrit : /Always look on the bright side of life.../ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2Wx230gYJw [**spoiler alert** if you've never seen Monty Python's 35-year-old classic /Life Of Brian/.] On Tue, Mar 18,

Re: [OT] Autodesk announces 2015 3D product updates.

2014-03-18 Thread olivier jeannel
Well, at least Exocortex, Eric Mootz, and all the others have heavy schedule to make xsi keep-up :D Le 18/03/2014 19:59, Alan Fregtman a écrit : The Maya release feels like a list of plugins to me: Bifrost... former 3rd-party sw (Naiiad), acquired... XGen... 3rd-party Disney plugin,

Re: [OT] Autodesk announces 2015 3D product updates.

2014-03-18 Thread olivier jeannel
This I don't want to hear :( If Ben want to step in... Le 18/03/2014 20:08, phil harbath a écrit : I get the felling that Momentum is EOL as well. perhaps a bit prematurely. *From:* olivier jeannel mailto:olivier.jean...@noos.fr *Sent:* Tuesday, March 18, 2014 3:06 PM *To:* softimage

Re: emitt grid on surface

2014-03-18 Thread olivier jeannel
In order to better help (It's so noisy these days) Can you post a screen grab of what you want ? What's the matter with deleting particles ? Le 18/03/2014 20:06, Simon van de Lagemaat a écrit : Hey guys, I'm trying to do something simple, just emitting a flat grid on a uneven surface that

Re: Digital Golem : Brillant and beautiful

2014-03-19 Thread olivier jeannel
2014, at 04:39, Tenshi Sama tenshu...@gmail.com mailto:tenshu...@gmail.com wrote: Nice! All in Softimage? On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 8:18 PM, Francisco Criado malcriad...@gmail.com mailto:malcriad...@gmail.com wrote: Excelent work, so nice! On Tuesday, March 18, 2014, olivier

Re: Digital Golem : Brillant and beautiful

2014-03-19 Thread olivier jeannel
A maya license Le 19/03/2014 20:33, Rob Chapman a écrit : whats the prize ? On 19 Mar 2014, at 19:21, olivier jeannel olivier.jean...@noos.fr wrote: We're all in the same boat now. The last of us who transition to Maya, wins.

Re: Digital Golem : Brillant and beautiful

2014-03-19 Thread olivier jeannel
... you look aged on your photo. Possibly you'll die before, end then ...I'll win that is a joke ;)) e 19/03/2014 20:26, Bk a écrit : That'll be me then. On 19 Mar 2014, at 19:21, olivier jeannel olivier.jean...@noos.fr mailto:olivier.jean...@noos.fr wrote: We're all in the same

Re: Softimage webinar - Q/A - finally uploaded

2014-03-19 Thread olivier jeannel
I'm not fan of the idea. Frankly there's tons of tutorial in Maya already. If someone want's to transition, there are a lot of material to train with. As already said, no need to try to work the same workflow in another app, it's different. Here, it's more Give us some cool hint so we can

Re: Digital Golem : Brillant and beautiful

2014-03-19 Thread olivier jeannel
Damn... Le 19/03/2014 20:37, Bk a écrit : If I die I definitely win! On 19 Mar 2014, at 19:29, olivier jeannel olivier.jean...@noos.fr mailto:olivier.jean...@noos.fr wrote: ... you look aged on your photo. Possibly you'll die before, end then ...I'll win that is a joke ;)) e 19

Re: What use is ICE really?

2014-03-21 Thread olivier jeannel
What's the point ? Understanding of Ice for Maya ? Le 21/03/2014 12:12, Alastair Hearsum a écrit : Folks We had a chat with a senior chap at Autodesk. There was hint of surprise at one use of ICE that I mentioned in passing. I think we over estimate the understanding of what ICE gets used

Re: What use is ICE really?

2014-03-21 Thread olivier jeannel
Chris, Some of them are 4 years ago, and still so inspirative ! Le 21/03/2014 15:41, Chris Marshall a écrit : Ah I appear to have posted nothing! Sorry about that. Here are the links https://vimeo.com/36448859 https://vimeo.com/37270403 https://vimeo.com/77203638 https://vimeo.com/76951979

Re: I'm still really PO'd and it's not getting better

2014-03-21 Thread olivier jeannel
100% depressed here two. I swap day to day between Figh- Club vs Prozac-Club. Le 20/03/2014 17:55, Paul Griswold a écrit : I had some time away from the office today and while I was driving down the highway I started thinking about the situation and I'm no less pissed off today than I was

Re: Non-destructive non-linearity

2014-03-22 Thread olivier jeannel
That's very hard to explain to people that are not in it. Every one will say, go Max, go Maya that's where the job is. But what about the pleasure of cleverness ? Using a complex progam, making things talking to each others, building rules... Ahhh Xsi :) Le 22/03/2014 13:46, Jordi Bares a

Re: IceTo Houdini Tutorial

2014-03-24 Thread olivier jeannel
Thank you ! 1Le 24/03/2014 08:01, Max Evgrafov a écrit : I am sorry if I repeat https://vimeo.com/89869747 -- max.(Summatr) https://vimeo.com/user3098735/videos

Re: An Open Letter to Carl Bass

2014-03-25 Thread olivier jeannel
Agree 100% Le 25/03/2014 19:01, Jean-Louis Billard a écrit : Hi Andres, Unfortunately Chris already explained that, and it makes sense: AD have to pay for third parties libraries. It’s not worth it for them given the small revenue stream. I think we’re collectively tripping if we think we

Re: Everything's being said.

2014-03-26 Thread olivier jeannel
Are you going somewhere ? Le 26/03/2014 15:40, Emilio Hernandez a écrit : Well, everything's being said. Thank you Maurice and Chris for taking the time to response all of our question, doubts, conspiracy theories, etc. Thanks to the people of Autodesk that came in to bring some light to

Re: Everything's being said.

2014-03-26 Thread olivier jeannel
Yes :D Le 26/03/2014 16:15, David Saber a écrit : is all hope lost?

Re: Everything's being said.

2014-03-26 Thread olivier jeannel
the Software, let's at least try to save the XSI list. Le 26/03/2014 16:57, David Saber a écrit : I see you've recovered from your depression Olivier. What's your trick? :| On 2014-03-26 16:50, olivier jeannel wrote: Yes :D Le 26/03/2014 16:15, David Saber a écrit : is all hope lost?

Re: Let's Share Contacts

2014-03-29 Thread olivier jeannel
Agree, a good database for adresses and contacts. But let's clean the XSI-list a bit also. It's turned to a complete mess. There are more subject about Maya then SI. Please Mayan, go to your own list. Le 29/03/2014 10:26, Jordi Bares a écrit : Sounds great idea. Sent from my iPhone On 29

Re: A Good Read!

2014-04-01 Thread olivier jeannel
... Red this very quickly, because it upsets me every 4 words. Frankly, the guy who is way too smart or to arty for those complex 3d software, should just buy a pen... Remember me some Texas Lightwave/NT communication from back in the day. Le 01/04/2014 11:40, Morten Bartholdy a écrit :

Re: A Good Read!

2014-04-01 Thread olivier jeannel
is quite right in his assertion, what was hurting you Olivier ? On 1 April 2014 16:29, olivier jeannel olivier.jean...@noos.fr mailto:olivier.jean...@noos.fr wrote: ... Red this very quickly, because it upsets me every 4 words. Frankly, the guy who is way too smart or to arty for those

Re: A Good Read!

2014-04-01 Thread olivier jeannel
...And obviously he never drove a Ferrari. Le 01/04/2014 18:55, olivier jeannel a écrit : Well from my experience, you can't ignore what's under the hood and get into blablabla... That would be a little too easy. We're technical artist, some are more techy, some are more arty. But nobody

Re: A Good Read!

2014-04-01 Thread olivier jeannel
*To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Re: A Good Read! I think he is quite right in his assertion, what was hurting you Olivier ? On 1 April 2014 16:29, olivier jeannel olivier.jean...@noos.fr mailto:olivier.jean...@noos.fr wrote: ... Red this very quickly, because it upsets me every 4

Re: A Good Read!

2014-04-01 Thread olivier jeannel
...@gmail.com] *Sent:* 01 April 2014 06:39 PM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Re: A Good Read! I think he is quite right in his assertion, what was hurting you Olivier ? On 1 April 2014 16:29, olivier jeannel olivier.jean

Re: SI and Houdini

2014-04-02 Thread olivier jeannel
20:22, olivier jeannel escribió: Please, drop a line here when you

Re: SI and Houdini

2014-04-02 Thread olivier jeannel
SideFx should make you some superdiscount price Le 02/04/2014 13:19, Angus Davidson a écrit : The man has been busy :) Also very easy to understand which is great for folks undergoing the migration From: olivier jeannel [olivier.jean...@noos.fr

Re: Redshift - GPU accel on Quadro K4000

2014-04-02 Thread olivier jeannel
I have a Quadro 4000 and this has been discussed other Redshift forum. It's not bad for Open GL working, but defenetly not for rendering Quadro 4000 has around 400 cores while Titan has around 3000 cores. Also comes the Memory 2Gb against 6Gb, and I can't tell for the Mhz but overall it doesnt

Re: Center mode (was RE: humanize Maya, SOFT top 5)

2014-04-03 Thread olivier jeannel
That's amazing how poor seems to be maya when I read you guys. Fortunatly, I should never have to use it. I'm edititing very fast some subd hard surface here, the pivot is dancing in every diretion, snaping where it has to, aligning on the fly with whatever i ask at the speed of light though,

Re: Sort Controller - Open Source Release!

2014-04-04 Thread olivier jeannel
Community Power ! Thank you, Psyop talents ! Le 04/04/2014 08:49, Sebastien Sterling a écrit : Could only be cooler if it had tits and was on fire :) On 4 April 2014 02:43, Ed Manning etmth...@gmail.com mailto:etmth...@gmail.com wrote: An excellent timesaver that I've missed when at

Re: Another Lego-iser

2014-04-04 Thread olivier jeannel
AD should sell SI to Lego. Le 04/04/2014 14:34, Simon Reeves a écrit : cheers guys! Simon Reeves London, UK /si...@simonreeves.com mailto:si...@simonreeves.com/ /www.simonreeves.com http://www.simonreeves.com/ /www.analogstudio.co.uk http://www.analogstudio.co.uk// / On 4 April 2014

Re: Center mode (was RE: humanize Maya, SOFT top 5)

2014-04-04 Thread olivier jeannel
Love what you did Brent ! Ever thought of sending your resume to SideFX ? Working on a software rather than a puzzle ? Le 03/04/2014 16:33, Brent McPherson a écrit : Yes I did work on this. The plan was always to replace the guts of Center with the pivot stuff I added to kinematics since it

it's quiet today

2014-04-07 Thread olivier jeannel

Re: More fantastic ICE based work

2014-04-09 Thread olivier jeannel
the ice is impressive, the aggregation effect is ace. Le 09/04/2014 10:11, Jordi Bares a écrit : Really gorgeous job… something I like is that it does not hide behind cheap transitions or tricks, well done! jb Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.com mailto:jordiba...@gmail.com On 9 Apr 2014, at

Re: Using Bend for animation

2014-04-15 Thread olivier jeannel
Interesting ! Just in case this https://vimeo.com/groups/ice/videos/28489254 is a full ice bending solution. And it works beautifully also. Le 15/04/2014 11:25, pedro santos a écrit : Bend in Softimage doesn't behave alike in other packages. That's fine for modeling and actually gives more

Re: Shattering, Fractures and destruction question

2014-04-15 Thread olivier jeannel
It's for sale already. You have to ask Ben. Still waiting for Exocortex to make a little promotion about it. The AD news just devastated their plans... There's a tut about Momentum changing state (so that it doesn't shake) before collision. Can't find it though.. Le 15/04/2014 18:15, Greg

Re: Shattering, Fractures and destruction question

2014-04-15 Thread olivier jeannel
Ah this one : https://vimeo.com/15461863 Le 15/04/2014 18:25, olivier jeannel a écrit : It's for sale already. You have to ask Ben. Still waiting for Exocortex to make a little promotion about it. The AD news just devastated their plans... There's a tut about Momentum changing state (so

Re: Momentum 4 + ImplosiaFX 4 official release

2014-04-16 Thread olivier jeannel
Excellent thank's for posting this ! Now a little demo on vimeo and we're good :) Le 15/04/2014 20:20, Paulo César Duarte a écrit : Wow, a lot of features, soonI'll buy a license. 2014-04-15 15:01 GMT-03:00 Sebastien Sterling sebastien.sterl...@gmail.com

Ice equivalent to Blend from Mograph C4D

2014-04-19 Thread olivier jeannel
Hi people, I'm doing a prod with a fellow C4D mographer. He showed me a pretty amazing thing called Blend in Mograph. It looks a bit like the Illustrator Blend. It is something that is able to interpolate between position and quantities. For example if you look at the image attached. It create

Re: Syflex cloth Zipper

2014-04-24 Thread olivier jeannel
Tearing like this ? https://vimeo.com/84852881 Le 24/04/2014 18:57, Szabolcs Matefy a écrit : Hey folks I need to create a tearing cloth, but I have the topology locked. I thought, that I can use syflex zipper, but unfortunately it doesn't seems to work really. Anybody has any idea?

Re: C y'all

2014-04-25 Thread olivier jeannel
Stay ! I'm in the C4D Houdini boat too. I'd hate the list becoming a how do you do that in Maya list only. Le 25/04/2014 11:02, Eugen Sares a écrit : I would say don't go. The Softimage community in all its forms has been an excellent place for a long time, and even though AD may have

Re: Syflex cloth Zipper

2014-04-25 Thread olivier jeannel
change *From:*softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *olivier jeannel *Sent:* Thursday, April 24, 2014 10:05 PM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Re: Syflex cloth Zipper Tearing like this ? https://vimeo.com/84852881

Re: Syflex cloth Zipper

2014-04-25 Thread olivier jeannel
and iteration. Tell me if you're doing something nice with it :) Le 25/04 /2014 13:20, Szabolcs Matefy a écrit : Olivier, I'd really appreciate it! Cheers Szabolcs *From:*softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *olivier jeannel

Re: Syflex cloth Zipper

2014-04-25 Thread olivier jeannel
-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *olivier jeannel *Sent:* Friday, April 25, 2014 2:09 PM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Re: Syflex cloth Zipper Here : https://www.dropbox.com/s

Re: Torn

2014-05-01 Thread olivier jeannel
You should go toward C4D since it's the one I'm planning to get into :) (and some houdini too) Read that message and obey. Le 01/05/2014 14:49, Chris Marshall a écrit : Complete generalist, working in tv, corporate, architecture, medical, FX, simulations etc etc. It's probably easier to say

Re: VERY OT: Nice ICE - Ron Jeremy video

2014-05-01 Thread olivier jeannel
MWHAHAHAHAHA ! Le 01/05/2014 18:46, Matt Morris a écrit : Never thought I'd see this, a 'safe for work' Ron Jeremy video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9utvHzU883I

Communication between C4D and XSI

2014-05-02 Thread olivier jeannel
Hi guys, I'm working with a friend who is on C4D and myself on XSI, We're both working on a common project, each one working his own shot. Now comes the time, we'd like to share things. For example, I'd like to load one of his C4d scene (Mograph thing) in Softimage and render some ice

Re: Communication between C4D and XSI

2014-05-02 Thread olivier jeannel
/ /www.analogstudio.co.uk http://www.analogstudio.co.uk// / On 2 May 2014 16:17, olivier jeannel olivier.jean...@noos.fr mailto:olivier.jean...@noos.fr wrote: Hi guys, I'm working with a friend who is on C4D and myself on XSI, We're both working on a common project, each one working his own

Re: softimage to modo

2014-05-07 Thread olivier jeannel
Hey Paul, can you point me to the video ? Just curious. Le 07/05/2014 16:22, Paul Griswold a écrit : What do you guys think of Modo's nodal deformer layout? I just looked at that growing vine tutorial page and the splash page for the video shows exactly what I personally dislike. Their node

Re: softimage to modo

2014-05-07 Thread olivier jeannel
Mmm Look nice, just wondering how it will react with 3 strands. Le 07/05/2014 17:06, Angus Davidson a écrit : Was in my earlier post http://community.thefoundry.co.uk/tv/training/view.aspx?id=774 ;) From: olivier jeannel olivier.jean...@noos.fr mailto:olivier.jean...@noos.fr Reply

Re: Master of RBD help needed

2014-05-09 Thread olivier jeannel
Out of curiousity, have you worked with the dynamic fracturing ? Le 09/05/2014 08:35, Szabolcs Matefy a écrit : Hey guys I've got to collapse a chimney. First pass the chimney base breaks, thus the chimney start to fall, then when it hits the ground it breaks again into several bigger

Render tree crash with SI 2013

2014-05-14 Thread olivier jeannel
I'm still having crashes on one particular machine using SI 2013. on one particular scene, a big 500Mo object from cad, as soon as I hit 7, XSI crashes. I have a Quadro 4000 I already updated the drivers last month. Now I wonder if there are some settings I should tweak. This doesn't happen

Re: Render tree crash with SI 2013

2014-05-14 Thread olivier jeannel
Ok, thank you all for your solution. Opening the rendertree first, seems to solve the problem ! Now, what we be a good way to investigate on this ? I had the feeling that something is off on that particular workstation, since on other projects it has also some unstability. Thank's a lot.

Spawn on trigger once?

2014-05-19 Thread olivier jeannel
I'm sure it is going to be obvious... With Spawn on Trigger (or ClonePoint) I'd like the particles that are inside a volume to be cloned (and Not deleted) once. I can have the particles (inside volume) to be cloned once and then deleted, I can have the particles (inside a volume) duplicated

Re: Spawn on trigger once?

2014-05-19 Thread olivier jeannel
The state worked great ! Couldn't get the HasClone to work though. Thank's a lot ! Le 19/05/2014 11:38, Chris Marshall a écrit : You could use State. So if in volume and state 0, then clone. On clone change their state to 1. Something like that On 19 May 2014 10:23, olivier jeannel

Re: Spawn on trigger once?

2014-05-19 Thread olivier jeannel
Yup ! Le 19/05/2014 12:41, Chris Marshall a écrit : OK So you're sorted? On 19 May 2014 11:39, olivier jeannel olivier.jean...@noos.fr mailto:olivier.jean...@noos.fr wrote: The state worked great ! Couldn't get the HasClone to work though. Thank's a lot ! Le 19/05/2014

Re: Whats an efficient workflow for importing .IGS?

2014-05-20 Thread olivier jeannel
Following advices from our list, I had plain success with Moi3D. It was with Step format, but it handles IGES also. Worth a try. Le 19/05/2014 20:47, Byron Nash a écrit : We eventually had to get Polytrans to keep receiving engineering files from our clients. It seems to handle conversions

Re: OT: Now that the grief over softimage, how did you get over your it on your daily basis?

2014-05-22 Thread olivier jeannel
Grief will never be over. Relationship is over. These days I'm realizing naively how little love XSI received. Now that they killed SI, I've never seen so many posts on the list from autodesk employee. Now they listen, let me laugh... The other day I opened Match mover. A part from the fact it

Re: Export Pointclouds for other apps

2014-05-22 Thread olivier jeannel
Alembic ? Le 22/05/2014 21:06, Tim Crowson a écrit : Is it possible to export ICE pointclouds to a format that other apps can use? I'm scattering some geometry and I'd like to export the pointcloud so I can rescatter in another app and have the same point positions -- Signature *Tim

Re: SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage 2014...any interest??

2014-06-05 Thread olivier jeannel
I agree with Eric, although I won't be there. It's going to be one of the last XSI meeting, let's make it XSI. Le 03/06/2014 18:33, Cristobal Infante a écrit : I have to agree here with Angus, the event would be more interesting for attendees of it showed an open mind of what the future

Re: SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage 2014...any interest??

2014-06-05 Thread olivier jeannel
One artist ?? Unbelievable ! Making off, or it didn't happen ! Le 05/06/2014 11:07, Eric Mootz a écrit : Apropos XSI, check out this new spot from Time Based Arts in London: https://vimeo.com/96797246 100% XSI, using emTools, emTopolizer2 (mesher and UVW engineer), Lagoa and some custom

Re: Eric MOOTZOID Mootz is nominated for a 3D World CG Award!

2014-06-12 Thread olivier jeannel
Voted ! Le 12/06/2014 11:58, Alok Gandhi a écrit : Congrats Eric! All the best to you You are worth every bit of code that you wrote! On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Morten Bartholdy x...@colorshopvfx.dk mailto:x...@colorshopvfx.dk wrote: Eric is the man! He is the main reason why I

Re: old vid from Jurassic park

2014-06-23 Thread olivier jeannel
Golden age ! EOL unfortunatly... Le 22/06/2014 06:26, Sebastien Sterling a écrit : https://vimeo.com/64815871 Was put up a few weeks ago on vimeo, thought it might stand reposting :)

Re: old vid from Jurassic park

2014-06-23 Thread olivier jeannel
I remember trying to model a face with nurbs... That was 3D... Le 23/06/2014 22:39, Matt Lind a écrit : Not really, it’s made of NURBS patches. The edges are the knot curves. Matt *From:*softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf

Running in circle, The CrossProduct question

2014-07-02 Thread olivier jeannel
Hi gang, with my partner we were discussing crossproduct theory and I'm not sure what to believe or think. I was persuaded that the result of a Cross Product of a PointPosition (x,y,z) and a vector 0,1,0 plugged in a the PointVelocity, would give a particle orbiting around 0,0,0 describing

Re: Running in circle, The CrossProduct question

2014-07-04 Thread olivier jeannel
, affecting angular velocity instead of linear won't compromise the system and will give you the result you want. On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 4:21 AM, olivier jeannel olivier.jean...@noos.fr mailto:olivier.jean...@noos.fr wrote: Ah, thank's for clarifying this. Makes perfect sense. Le 03/07

Re: Running in circle, The CrossProduct question

2014-07-04 Thread olivier jeannel
Sorry, I re-red in one of my own old post that Angular velocity is RBD only.. Le 04/07/2014 11:33, olivier jeannel a écrit : Hi Raffael, Out of curiosity, do you have an example of how you work with angular velocity ? Never tried that before. For example right now, I've built a tornado

Re: Is it realy ?

2014-07-15 Thread olivier jeannel
Come on guys, this just another so called journalist surfing. Absolutely no infos, just speculating on not even rumours. Nothing to read here, except if you're in the toilet... Le 15/07/2014 12:12, Nuno Conceicao a écrit : 2 or 3 years ago I was reading similar denial posts about the rumour

Re: Maya 2015 Node Editor

2014-07-15 Thread olivier jeannel
I'd prefer switching to Povray rather having to go any AD product. And that's better if they don't integrate any SI intelligence in Maya. There are nicer companies out there that are willing to do proper work. Le 15/07/2014 19:53, Mirko Jankovic a écrit : As they said so many times so far they

Re: reorder vertex numbers

2014-07-24 Thread olivier jeannel
Unless I'm wrong : I don't think it is possible to change the ID number in Softimage. You can't Set Self.ID You can, reorder the Self.ID But you'll have to Set it to another name (Sel.SortID for example). Sort Array and Sort Array with Key are doing this. Le 24/07/2014 17:21, Kris Rivel a

How many ?

2014-07-27 Thread olivier jeannel
Ok, it's sunday and I'm borred finishing that animatic Since Softimage is going to EOL someday day, I was wondering how many productions that marvellous software has helped to accomplish. I mean, not the complete or big or honorable production, I mean _any_ productions. Any 3d thing in

Re: How many ?

2014-07-27 Thread olivier jeannel
bit of Hall 9000... :/ Le 27/07/2014 15:14, pete...@skynet.be a écrit : say a thousand places were using it for about ten years doing 10 productions per year. that’s 100.000 *From:* olivier jeannel mailto:olivier.jean...@noos.fr *Sent:* Sunday, July 27, 2014 12:09 PM *To:* softimage

Re: Cinema 4D an option?

2014-08-05 Thread olivier jeannel
Yeah, well it doesn't have a modeling stack either. Looks more like a compilation of presets and auto-tools to me. No improvement of Mograph since ages, and the TP are an horror compared to ice. Le 05/08/2014 14:53, Rob Wuijster a écrit : Some nice things, but the one more. wasn't

Re: great set of procedural debris tools

2014-08-06 Thread olivier jeannel
Usefull thing indeed. Le 06/08/2014 12:40, adrian wyer a écrit : for Max, unfortunately https://vimeo.com/102691168 a Adrian Wyer Fluid Pictures 75-77 Margaret St. London W1W 8SY ++44(0) 207 580 0829 adrian.w...@fluid-pictures.com

Re: EOL and using older Softimages

2014-08-10 Thread olivier jeannel
Quote : /Definitely not doing that anymore - at this point my ONLY criterium for a replacement is that it isn’t AD./ +1 I wonder how many of us will think that way though. Le 10/08/2014 13:01, pete...@skynet.be a écrit : preventing the use of previous versions unless you basically commit

Re: A camera projected making-of

2014-08-10 Thread olivier jeannel
Could be the Germ finally... Le 10/08/2014 03:16, Jason S a écrit : Maybe was it an uncounscious way of representing what was happening (sigh) On 08/09/14 9:00, Emilio Hernandez wrote: Giving it a second thought and feeling nostalgic... Funny. That short film made with Softimage is exactly

Re: Fabric news: new customers, rigging framework and the Fabric50

2014-08-12 Thread olivier jeannel
Go Fabric, eat them all ! And Dark Vador is coming to the bright side. Love that tree interface. Le 12/08/2014 01:44, Paul Doyle a écrit : Hi everyone – we’re flat out at Siggraph but I wanted to share some announcements with you, as we think this is big news. First – new customers. We’re

Re: Autodesk considering ditching perpetual licenses

2014-09-01 Thread olivier jeannel
Sarcasm transfered pretty well my friend :) Le 01/09/2014 09:10, Tim Leydecker a écrit : On 08/30/14 13:23, Tim Leydecker wrote: I really like the concept of making monthly payments the prime and only option for earning your access to something. .. It´s genius. No more pressure. Just

Re: SoftImage Artists take on Maya @ Escape Studios

2014-09-10 Thread olivier jeannel
For people who have no other choice, I feel the pain of the transitioners from SI to MA. Frankly, if you don't do our particular job with pleasure I really hope you're well paid... Hardly / slowly learning Houdini here, but at least it makes sense. Le 10/09/2014 13:15, Ognjen Vukovic a

Re: SoftImage Artists take on Maya @ Escape Studios

2014-09-11 Thread olivier jeannel
Back in the days we had discussions about speed and velocity Now it's about open Le 11/09/2014 02:06, Cesar Saez a écrit : And there we go again... Don't you guys get bored of having the same conversation over and over again?

Re: SoftImage Artists take on Maya @ Escape Studios

2014-09-11 Thread olivier jeannel
Well, I'd say Maya has _torque_, but a top speed of 20Km/h Le 11/09/2014 14:58, Gerbrand Nel a écrit : Well I would rather describe Maya as open, not as speed or velocity :P sorry, just my 2c worth of fuel on the rant fire , G On 2014-09-11 11:11 AM, olivier jeannel wrote: Back in the days we

Re: SoftImage Artists take on Maya @ Escape Studios

2014-09-11 Thread olivier jeannel
Add to that it's diesel, pollute and give cancer... Le 11/09/2014 18:33, Sebastien Sterling a écrit : Yea! bury that analogy! ;) On 11 September 2014 17:11, Jason S jasonsta...@gmail.com mailto:jasonsta...@gmail.com wrote: And capable (with the firm intent to) running over everyones

Re: VFX-UX

2014-09-22 Thread olivier jeannel
VFX sUXx (Sorry, someone had to do it) Eeer, good luck and congratulation for your courageous decision. I too have that idea to quit in mind. Don't know what to do instead though... Den 22. september 2014 kl. 08:15 skrev Eric Lampi ericla...@gmail.com

Re: VFX-UX

2014-09-22 Thread olivier jeannel
Drawing on potatoes ? Le 22/09/2014 17:06, pedro santos a écrit : often fantasized about something rural and rugged, like potato farming. Or you know... the starting point... drawing and painting :)

Re: randomly disappearing objects

2014-09-26 Thread olivier jeannel
Polynoid has something to deform along curve. http://monophyl.com/ Le 26/09/2014 20:07, Paul Griswold a écrit : Honestly at the moment I have no idea why I was using the ICE version of Deform by Curve. We've got 2 very similar jobs for the same client going at the same time they've changed

Glasswoks Lycra

2014-09-30 Thread olivier jeannel
http://www.glassworks.co.uk/video/lycra-moves-yousearch-type=allterm=all Beautifull film, out of curiousity are we still speaking softimage here ?

Re: Glasswoks Lycra

2014-10-02 Thread olivier jeannel
return it to the sender and delete this message from your system. On 30/09/2014 18:55, olivier jeannel wrote: http://www.glassworks.co.uk/video/lycra-moves-yousearch-type=allterm=all Beautifull film, out of curiousity are we still speaking softimage here ?

Gray Scott diffusion anyone ?

2014-10-07 Thread olivier jeannel
For the sake of learning and curiousity, I was wondering if someone has managed to recreate a Gray Scott diffusion simulation within ice ? There's a nice tut here : http://www.karlsims.com/rd.html

Re: Gray Scott diffusion anyone ?

2014-10-07 Thread olivier jeannel
Eeeer In fact, I'm more asking for a how to. I think Nika Ragua would love that kind of chalenge. Got to ask him ^^ Le 07/10/2014 11:59, philipp seis a écrit : Nice Find Olivier ! Looks like a darn beautiful challenge. Keep us updated :) 2014-10-07 11:41 GMT+02:00 olivier jeannel

Re: Gray Scott diffusion anyone ?

2014-10-07 Thread olivier jeannel
Can't login or subscribe on that damn company site. If you have it downloadable somewhere else, let me know. Le 07/10/2014 12:20, olivier jeannel a écrit : Excellent ! Thank's a lot for sharing this ! I'm going to have a look at it ! Le 07/10/2014 12:05, Vladimir Jankijevic a écrit : Hey, I

Re: Gray Scott diffusion anyone ?

2014-10-07 Thread olivier jeannel
compound - could have been Vlads! On 7 October 2014 11:20, olivier jeannel olivier.jean...@noos.fr mailto:olivier.jean...@noos.fr wrote: Excellent ! Thank's a lot for sharing this ! I'm going to have a look at it ! Le 07/10/2014 12:05, Vladimir Jankijevic a écrit : Hey, I

Re: Gray Scott diffusion anyone ?

2014-10-07 Thread olivier jeannel
Thank you ! Le 07/10/2014 12:41, Vladimir Jankijevic a écrit : here you go: http://xsi.jankin.com/gray_scott_reaction_diffusion.xsicompound On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 6:32 AM, olivier jeannel olivier.jean...@noos.fr mailto:olivier.jean...@noos.fr wrote: Can't login or subscribe

Re: Polar Bear

2014-10-11 Thread olivier jeannel
Saw it, plain fantastic ! Le 11/10/2014 22:39, Jason S a écrit : A polar bear made with a custom particle based muscle system, and a 3rd party custom fuzzy fur system, all done in Maya. Maya are you kidding? Of course I'm kidding! :] Made with a unique future proof DCC featuring a built-in

BRDF Anisotropic CD Shader

2014-10-15 Thread olivier jeannel
Hi guys, Back in the days with a Tek2Shoot shader it was possible to achieve a CD-like or brushed metal (with rounds) shader. How would I do that nowaday ?

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