Re: Best online resources to help with a Maya migration.

2014-02-27 Thread Dominik
To add to vincent's list of tutorial for houdini, you also have: Fxphd, digital tutor Cheers On 27 Feb 2014 16:15, Vincent Fortin vfor...@gmail.com wrote:SideFXs MasterclassesCMIVFXOdforce.nethttp://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini13.0/Theres enough information there to make your head explode :-) On

Re: slightly OT : for those of us (like me) who've never been near maya

2013-09-30 Thread Dominik Kirouac
http://www.sidefx.com http://www.sidefx.com/ :P Le 30/09/2013 12:44 PM, Sergio Mucino a écrit : Ugh. Tough cookie. This is one of those very delicate topics that usually end with rotten vegetables flying from camp to camp. It just happens that some people take the tools they use quite

Re: Do you have a fluid cache file for me?

2013-01-16 Thread Dominik Kirouac
Hey guys, Just asking since I heard in the posts about openvdb, I did some research and find the houdini openvdb files on the site that Rob mention. Someone know if it is tough to install the openvdb format in Houdini or it just a copy operation in different directory ? is there any

Re: Do you have a fluid cache file for me?

2013-01-11 Thread Dominik Kirouac
Hi Holger, It's weird about the afterworks contact, I sent an email in march 2012 about the maya beta and they answered the same day. On 1/11/2013 7:29 AM, Schoenberger wrote: Hi Everyone I am currently updating my fluid shader for mentalRay and Arnold (probably VRay if the others are

Re: Do you have a fluid cache file for me?

2013-01-11 Thread Dominik Kirouac
not suffice, I will take the night *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Dominik Kirouac *Sent:* Friday, January 11, 2013 2:53 PM

Re: Scene crash on load

2013-01-11 Thread Dominik Kirouac
If you have Icecache, try to delete them. It happened to me last year, the cache on file node tried to read caches when the scn loaded. After icecaches was deleted, the scn reopen correctly... Just an idea like that, if you have ice cache... On 1/11/2013 1:26 PM, Toonafish wrote: Neh, it's

Smoothing Strands Deformation

2012-09-25 Thread Dominik Kirouac
, but I'm not able to apply this technic to strands. Anyone could help me with this? Thanks, *Dominik Kirouac // SHED ** *3D Artist / FX - SIMULATION 1410, RUE STANLEY, 11E ETAGE MONTREAL (QUEBEC) H3A 1P8 T 514 849-1555 F 514 849-5025 WWW.SHEDMTL.COM http://www.shedmtl.com/

Re: Smoothing Strands Deformation

2012-09-25 Thread Dominik Kirouac
to do it for each index in the strandposition array. How can I create a loop for this smooth to pass through each index of the strandposition array? On 9/25/2012 11:07 AM, Dominik Kirouac wrote: Hey all, Anyone know if a compound exist to smooth strands deformation. I have some weird strand

Re: Smoothing Strands Deformation

2012-09-25 Thread Dominik Kirouac
further. Hope this helps. -Mathieu Dominik Kirouac wrote: Thanks for the help guys, Mathieu: I tried to resample strands, but it doesn't repair the zigzag deformation that I get in my simulation.. At the moment, I'm able to smooth(average) one position in the strandposition array

Re: InstanceShape not cached correctly with 2013 Sp1

2012-08-15 Thread Dominik Kirouac
the mixer op (ever). On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Dominik Kirouac d...@shedmtl.com mailto:d...@shedmtl.com wrote: Hey Chris, Thanks to bear interest to my problem. I know the way to cache pointcloud and add attributes. I did it several time. I think it's more a problem related

Re: InstanceShape not cached correctly with 2013 Sp1

2012-08-14 Thread Dominik
and ID number of my own using a custom parameter. Either way, basically you can't trust XSI to reconnect things. On 14 August 2012 17:15, Dominik d...@shedmtl.com mailto:d...@shedmtl.com wrote: Hey list, I really need help with this one! In Softimage 2013 sp1, Did someone

Re: InstanceShape not cached correctly with 2013 Sp1

2012-08-14 Thread Dominik
Thx Rob for the reply, We finally switched to alembic until the next wall :). I keep the idea in my bag for when I'll have to face the next project with Icecache ;). Cheer! *Dominik Kirouac // SHED ** *3D Artist / FX - SIMULATION 1410, RUE STANLEY, 11E ÉTAGE MONTRÉAL (QUÉBEC) H3A 1P8 T 514

Re: Maya trying to get credit for Softimage ( Mootzoids) work

2012-08-03 Thread Dominik
this isn't slipstream from exocortex ? Ben ? with a generate strands trail... Maya can do that ? :P nahhh!!! :) On 8/3/2012 11:17 AM, Ben Houston wrote: It is absolutely beautiful. :-) -ben On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Jeff McFall jeff.mcf...@sas.com wrote: I think this is really

Create extrusion along strands grid shape ?

2012-07-09 Thread Dominik
Hello list, I'm playing with the Tim feather compound and try to extrude the strands as flat grid. When I set the Base shape to sphere and sides to 2. It still give me a 2 sided shape( a grid with thickness)... Someone know how to modify the compound to get grids instead of cylinder

Re: Create extrusion along strands grid shape ?

2012-07-09 Thread Dominik
Thx Vincent! I know my explanation wasn't clear, but it's exactly what I was trying to do. Tim feather work on 2012, If you have it. On 7/9/2012 3:24 PM, Vincent Ullmann wrote: Sorry, i am not sure if i really understood what you want... but here is a solution for thaht what i understood.

Re: Softimage 2010 SP1 Syflex Set Constraint Map

2012-06-28 Thread Dominik
Hey valter, The way you make the selection to apply the map is important. Try selecting the constraint and the weightmap in the explorer with ctrl and try to set the map after this. Maybe it's the inverse, select the map and the csn. I always forget. Good luck Dominik Kirouac Envoyé de mon

Re: Ice syflex integration

2012-04-30 Thread Dominik
Thx Chris for the answer. I'm not good with point array so I think I'll go for a more pin and mimic way :) Thx guillaume I'll check what I can do with that :). On 4/30/2012 11:08 AM, Guillaume Laforge wrote: Hello Dominik, Unfortunately the Syflex force nodes got a lot of per object input