RE: Friday Flashback #413

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RE: Friday Flashback #413

back when software was proper! i miss soft 3d Adrian Wyer Fluid Pictures 4th Floor 4 Bath Place Rivington Street London EC2A 3DR ++44(0) 207 684 5575 adrian.w...@fluid-pictures.com

Re: Animation mixer heritage?

Because of the core of trax it could never do what the animation really did, it was easier for them to develop an entirely new tool while not losing some of the functionality that previous users needed with trax. It works very well, some ways better than the animation mixer for sure. Gregor

Re: Animation mixer heritage?

Wowo! It's urgent that I watch all videos on this page. THANKS! I saw this thing in Maya called Time Editor previously, but I didn't pay attention to it. So I closed it. How could I guess Autodesk would have developed a second animation mixer on top of Trax?? Why

Re: Animation mixer heritage?

Did you look at the Time Editor? Feels pretty inspired by the mixer ;)

Re: May 30th, 2010: 20th Anniversary of XSI 1.0

Softimage. "This project has been an amazing challenge from day one. The mandate was simple:

Re: OT - extruding in Maya?

ilisation which "does not move on". Le ven. 3 juil. 2020 à 00:49, Matt Lind a écrit : > It has been 6 years since retirement. People move on. > > Matt > > > > Message: 1 > > Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2020 11:46:39 +0100 > > From: Chris Marshall > > Su

Re: OT - extruding in Maya?

It has been 6 years since retirement. People move on. Matt > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2020 11:46:39 +0100 > From: Chris Marshall > Subject: Re: OT - extruding in Maya? > To: > > > It's getting very quiet in here -- Softimage Mailing List. To unsubscribe,

Re: OT - extruding in Maya?

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Re: OT - extruding in Maya?

It's getting very quiet in here On Fri, 26 Jun 2020 at 11:58, wrote: > Apologies for the Maya OT - this is the only place where it is possible to > get sensible feedback also on Maya stuff. > > > As you will know if you have used Maya, the extrude tools sucks spades > compared to XSI's .

Re: GI in animated TV series with gpu. Viable ?

Cheers Matt. We where looking at this earlier on today. (Mute the sound if you have diabetes).

Re: GI in animated TV series with gpu. Viable ?

Its a slightly open question, but essentially yes to all of those. Even 3d DoF and motion blur. On Tue, 23 Jun 2020 at 17:50, Sebastien Sterling < sebastien.sterl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey Bru's just wondering if I could get some takes. Am working on a kids > show that will be rendered to the

Re: wetmaps

Great will give it a try. Though I came across this which might work well as well.

Re: wetmaps

Yeah it would Sent from my iPad > On 22 Jun 2020, at 18:32, J R Sanchez wrote: > >  > I am wondering if that would work with an alembic file brought in from > Houdini. >

Re: wetmaps

I am wondering if that would work with an alembic file brought in from Houdini.

Re: wetmaps

It should be pretty Straightforward to make a wet map using ‘pixel particles’ to write to an image sequence. Pixel particles covers a uv’d mesh in particles that represent a pixel on the uv of the object. Then you just need to make an simmed ice tree that Changes the particles color value based

Re: May 30th, 2010: 20th Anniversary of XSI 1.0

Hey Luc-Eric, if you are looking for a puzzle worth tinkering with during eventual retirement, you might want to look into the implementation of a consistent workflow for Color Management using OpenColorIO, ACES profiles and the likes across multiple applications and levels of user proficiency.

Re: wetmaps

did you ever find a good wetmap solution?

Re: May 30th, 2010: 20th Anniversary of XSI 1.0

I think I saw that too... just download Blender or Natron, or Toxik :P Even Digital Fusion is free now I think, somewhere in Da Vinci Resolve. What a great time to be frugal! On Tue, 9 Jun 2020 at 15:34, Sven Constable wrote: > Hey Luc-Eric, > > > > just because the FXTree was mentioned… when

RE: May 30th, 2010: 20th Anniversary of XSI 1.0

36smj67nRzVGETA5Q-3D-3DMVTA_x9fWPgxQbfi69QJnHJqUKZsAJHrwlN1lgOIh62WX2fSzOH3a79TZwUaAm1i8RMfqAGWJbAybMH6fUl9d4xijxPTkjSwWac51W1qGBpsvwDkSHELkcTQ-2FqN76VsMzUVjlxcnI0LDbmk9eiaq9DkiyHZtPdwHnld76Q04x7HkqhxnAK3lhAkwivKz2NZZZ73yfq1JrEE7AKRcwa4A5F5VigsMPKFr-2BZhMyiB2FqZvnm3o-3D Subject: Re: May 30th, 2010: 20th Anniversary of XSI 1.0 > I went b

Re: animation editor display error

, it's easy to zoom back to seek for the result in the fcurve with its moved points let's keep it at that!, thanks a lot everyone mathyas Le mar. 9 juin 2020 à 18:07, Luc-Eric Rousseau a écrit : > It's not worth running "runonce" or re-installing the product or the video >

Re: animation editor display error

It's not worth running "runonce" or re-installing the product or the video driver. What you first need to do is delete your Softimage user preferences. Facerobot probably changed them, and now they are saved so you keep getting it back even if you disable FaceRobot On Mon, 8 Jun 202

Re: animation editor display error

e given up as i can manage the hassle to "edit blindly" > and zoom with the wheel to check what change it did on the fcurve > (sorry for my continuous non-professionalism on such a forum) > i could of course re-install softimage but as i don't master nothing once > we talk about

Re: animation editor display error

rry for my continuous non-professionalism on such a forum) i could of course re-install softimage but as i don't master nothing once we talk about technology i 'll wait to be very old to read the softimage manuals from Alpha to Omega and work thru the und

Re: animation editor display error

nge it did on the fcurve (sorry for my continuous non-professionalism on such a forum) i could of course re-install softimage but as i don't master nothing once we talk about technology i 'll wait to be very old to read the softimage manuals from Alpha to Omega and work thru the understanding as eve

Re: May 30th, 2010: 20th Anniversary of XSI 1.0

;>>> today announced the first shipment of its groundbreaking 3-D >>>>>>> animation >>>>>>> SOFTIMAGE(R)|XSI(TM) system. The next-generation of 3-D animation >>>>>>> technology, the SOFTIMAGE|XSI system is a significa

Re: May 30th, 2010: 20th Anniversary of XSI 1.0

; the international digital media industry because it allows animators >>>>>> in the broadcast, feature films and games industries to take advantage >>>>>> of a first-of-its-kind, truly non-linear animation system. Within the >>>>>> first few week

Re: May 30th, 2010: 20th Anniversary of XSI 1.0

and games industries to take advantage >>>>> of a first-of-its-kind, truly non-linear animation system. Within the >>>>> first few weeks of availability, Softimage anticipates delivering the >>>>> new software to over 17,000 users worldwi

Re: animation editor display error

I've answered this before, I cannot recall the details. The changes you see are probably due to the face robot plugin being loaded and changing user prefs I think you need to disable facerobot and save the scene again. There is some explanation for the UI for that here:

Re: May 30th, 2010: 20th Anniversary of XSI 1.0

of availability, Softimage anticipates delivering the >>>> new software to over 17,000 users worldwide. >>>> >>>> "SOFTIMAGE|XSI represents a tremendous amount of hard work, talent and >>>> energy from Softimage an

Re: May 30th, 2010: 20th Anniversary of XSI 1.0

w weeks of availability, Softimage anticipates delivering the >>> new software to over 17,000 users worldwide. >>> >>> "SOFTIMAGE|XSI represents a tremendous amount of hard work, talent and >>> energy from Softimage and we are extremely proud of it

Re: MC Gear and Softimage 2014 Synoptic

why 2014 and not 2015 SP2? On Fri, Jun 5, 2020, 15:00 Pierre Schiller wrote: > Hi, I remember the original GEAR addon created the synoptic view as a > property in the gear icon, you'd click it and then the synoptic would > instantly pop up pressing F3. > > 7 years later, and I decided to try

Re: animation editor display error

Hi Mathias, you saved the original file with Face Robot active. In order to deactivate it, just save a copy of the file with the default layout. On Friday, June 5, 2020, 8:34:40 PM GMT+2, Nicole Beeckmans-Jacqmain wrote: hello. i use softimage 2015 R2 on windows 10 i recently

Re: May 30th, 2010: 20th Anniversary of XSI 1.0

oftimage anticipates delivering the > new software to over 17,000 users worldwide. > > "SOFTIMAGE|XSI represents a tremendous amount of hard work, talent and > energy from Softimage and we are extremely proud of it," said Marc > Petit, vice president of 3-D products for Soft

Re: May 30th, 2010: 20th Anniversary of XSI 1.0

ftimage and we are extremely proud of it," said Marc >> Petit, vice president of 3-D products for Softimage. "This project has >> been an amazing challenge from day one. The mandate was simple: >> completely re-invent[...[ >> >> >> >> ht

Re: May 30th, 2010: 20th Anniversary of XSI 1.0

f hard work, talent and > energy from Softimage and we are extremely proud of it," said Marc > Petit, vice president of 3-D products for Softimage. "This project has > been an amazing challenge from day one. The mandate was simple: > completely re-invent[...[ > > > > http

Re: [Maya] Add value to multiple Keyframes

wow exactly what I wanted! Thanks a lot!! On 2020-05-15 23:30, Eugene Flormata wrote: yeah if you type +=5 it'll add 5 to each selected key in the gif I do +=-3 to make it  minus 3 from it's original value

Re: From XSI to Zbrush with hard edges

Ok. But we still need a way to transfer creased edges from XSI to Zbrush. Or maybe GOZ for Softimage. пн, 18 мая 2020 г. в 04:01, balazs kiss : > yes > > > "You mean xsi to mudbox via fbx transfers the creased edges right ?" > -- > Softimage Mailing List. > To unsubscribe, send a mail to

Re: From XSI to Zbrush with hard edges

yes "You mean xsi to mudbox via fbx transfers the creased edges right ?" -- Softimage Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm.

Re: Friday Flashback #410

My first version of Softimage. I got the educational version while in a University that was fortunate enough to have both Maya and Softimage classes. I learned both at the same time.

Re: Is there a mail list for Ex or Current XSI peeps who use Houdini ?

Thanks Pedro

Re: From XSI to Zbrush with hard edges

You mean xsi to mudbox via fbx transfers the creased edges right ? We find out that FBX export doesn't works in Maya as it was shown in video. But the GOZ Maya to Zbrush works great. It transfer creased edges as it should. Unfortunately i don't know if GOZ exist for Softimage and zbrush 2019 to

Re: 2 questions regarding ICE / blendshapes

Hey, thanks for the answer! yes, I had the shapes, and I freezed it. I'll take another look when I have the time.. On 5/6/20, pedro santos wrote: > Hi balaz been a while since I used XSI ICE overall, but you did create your > shapes first in advance before trying to write to them correct? >

Re: From XSI to Zbrush with hard edges

could be a zbrush issue, it works in mudbox.. used to anyway, didn't check it for a while -- Softimage Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm.

Re: [Maya] Add value to multiple Keyframes

Also try animbot There is optino to select keys, part of timeline or whole aniamtion, add modification , transalte rotate whatever and that adds that modification to every selected keyframe ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, May 15, 2020 11:29 PM, Eugene Flormata wrote: > yeah if

Re: [Maya] Add value to multiple Keyframes

yeah if you type +=5 it'll add 5 to each selected key [image: input box maya numbers.gif] in the gif I do +=-3 to make it minus 3 from it's original value On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 7:07 AM David Saber wrote: > Hi all, > > In Softimage's animation editor, it was easy to increase or decrease the

Re: Is there a mail list for Ex or Current XSI peeps who use Houdini ?

Discord invite:

Re: Is there a mail list for Ex or Current XSI peeps who use Houdini ?

Thanks I didn't know about 2 of those.

Re: Is there a mail list for Ex or Current XSI peeps who use Houdini ?

Houdini artists don’t go to Facebook (no pun intended). You go to either the official forum, odforce forum or directly to the Discord Houdini server. jb > On 9 May 2020, at 22:20, J R Sanchez wrote: > > I was on a facebook Houdini artists group and got kicked out all of a sudden > for

Re: Maya Price

AD sucks and you recently noticed this? They'll just milk the cow a few more years without caring for real benefits for the users. AD will going down. I don't care about Houdini but i know they doing great things, i don't like what Blender is but i know they're doing great things too. The only

Re: Maya Price

If yoiu are lucky to have maya indi available at your country at all-- Softimage Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm.

Re: Benchmark scene?

nope, generally! :) On 2020-05-09 21:33, Tenshi wrote: in softimage? On Sat, May 9, 2020, 13:32 David Saber wrote: What's the best scene for testing render time? The

Re: Maya Price

I'd let it expire for the perm soft and Maya lic, and then pic up Maya indie for the character stuff. Blender is worth adding to the arsenal for sure. On Sun, 10 May 2020, 00:56 J R Sanchez, wrote: > Honestly you are not getting much. There is a Maya Indie as well. > > >

Re: Maya Price

Honestly you are not getting much. There is a Maya Indie as well.

Re: Is there a mail list for Ex or Current XSI peeps who use Houdini ?

Thanks for having my back Olivier. I just sent a request. They had actually blocked me before for some weird reason. I really appreciate this.

Re: Maya Price

My one question was not sarcastic, what do you get for the trading in a permanent license for subscription (the price doubles). I can still maintain my Maya/Softimage license for 1 more year then it has to be converted to subscription however they have discontinued the Entertainment suite.

Re: Is there a mail list for Ex or Current XSI peeps who use Houdini ?

Ok so sebastian should unblock you, but you'll have to subscribe again. Le sam. 9 mai 2020 à 23:32, Olivier Jeannel a écrit : > Sent a msg to the administrator ;) > > Le sam. 9 mai 2020 à 23:28, Olivier Jeannel a > écrit : > >> Uuuh weird to be blocked for that. >> I myself posted meme once

Re: Is there a mail list for Ex or Current XSI peeps who use Houdini ?

Sent a msg to the administrator ;) Le sam. 9 mai 2020 à 23:28, Olivier Jeannel a écrit : > Uuuh weird to be blocked for that. > I myself posted meme once and never got annoyed. > > Le sam. 9 mai 2020 à 23:20, J R Sanchez a > écrit : > >> I was on a facebook Houdini artists group and got kicked

Re: Is there a mail list for Ex or Current XSI peeps who use Houdini ?

Uuuh weird to be blocked for that. I myself posted meme once and never got annoyed. Le sam. 9 mai 2020 à 23:20, J R Sanchez a écrit : > I was on a facebook Houdini artists group and got kicked out all of a > sudden for posting "How do you Uninstall anxiety" meme as a joke. I was > blocked. So

Re: Maya Price

Houdini Indie is pretty reasonable. I just signed up for 2 year sub for about $350 or so.

Re: Benchmark scene?

in softimage? On Sat, May 9, 2020, 13:32 David Saber wrote: > What's the best scene for testing render time? The natural history > museum scene? Is there a Houdini version? > > Thanks > > David > > -- > Softimage Mailing List. > To unsubscribe, send a mail to

Re: Cool Softimage branding

These are the most detailed XSI 7 images I've found in the entire net. The man who made the branding has linked in profile: he continues in the marketing design team of AD. Well, this surely was an awesome timeless branding, indeed. :) *

Re: Maya Price

Indeed, let alone Blender who right now has also exploded in capabilities… just look at the viewport, whole cow!! jb > On 8 May 2020, at 10:35, Jonathan Moore wrote: > > This only makes the annual subscription price of C4D with Redshift all the > ore compelling. And obviously Houdini is a

Re: Maya Price

This only makes the annual subscription price of C4D with Redshift all the ore compelling. And obviously Houdini is a strong option but the seat cost with maintenance is more far more than C4D. $5k purchase, $2.5k yearly maintenance for Houdini compared to $82 per month for C4D. And C4D has gone

Re: 2 questions regarding ICE / blendshapes

Hi balaz been a while since I used XSI ICE overall, but you did create your shapes first in advance before trying to write to them correct? Also, did you freeze the ICE tree after you set it? I don't know about such "visual wireframes", maybe you can share an image. I would do what you mentioned

Re: 2 questions regarding ICE / blendshapes

ps: if you ever need to filter such noise, you have to insert 'length' before the filter, just noticed :) On 5/6/20, balazs kiss wrote: > Hi all! > > I'm trying to understand what is wrong with the methods I came up with > ( I've solved both issues with extra steps, but it's still unclear to >

Re: Friday Flashback #409

I still have that T-shirt. It's not a DS shirt, it's a SIGGRAPH '98 T-shirt with logos from all the Softimage products on the front (DS, 3D, Sumatra, Eddie, Toonz, ...), and a huge ugly banner on the back advertising Softimage at Siggraph. Very fruitful year for Softimage swag. Matt Date:

Re: Softimage and Houdini work flow

For a quick way to transfer geo between applications (including XSI, Maya, Houdini and Max) you might want to check out Oliver Hotz' CopyPasteExternal scripts here:

RE: Friday Flashback #408

-3DrjJE_x9fWPgxQbfi69QJnHJqUKZsAJHrwlN1lgOIh62WX2fQKYZPEC2jhGo90KbmkbVvsS2oYdsmB6jTuMSRn8cGRVshrLIQgs2yMV3dIrFA4YhxinboER28HnRBn5JWeD-2BxMqFVViFlg9KXt4oqfT2FfK2eTjAJ6bhwVO56A62FX7bmJ4lMiOWosfVLkp1lmpRt-2BOxJqwA-2FHvliCWyUl-2BGM-2FGW7gE0O-2Bel7wmxscSPw2qKQ1eOkOnnwJaEmnxPkeX3PG Subject: Re: Friday Flashback #408 One of my top 5 movies of all time!! That’s one of the first times I thought, they’ve really

Re: Friday Flashback #408

One of my top 5 movies of all time!! That’s one of the first times I thought, they’ve really nailed that look! The bugs were really there. On Friday, 24 April 2020, Stephen Blair wrote: > warrior bugs! >

Re: Softimage and Houdini work flow

gt; On 21 Apr 2020, at 20:48, J R Sanchez wrote: > > Yes *Jodi*. I started out in Maya in 2004 and have now been using it > exclusively since 2014. However with this lockdown I had an opportunity to > learn Houdini (finally) and I got re acquainted with Soft again and the > workflow j

Re: Softimage and Houdini work flow

Below > On 21 Apr 2020, at 20:48, J R Sanchez wrote: > > Yes Jodi. I started out in Maya in 2004 and have now been using it > exclusively since 2014. However with this lockdown I had an opportunity to > learn Houdini (finally) and I got re acquainted with Soft again and the

Re: Softimage and Houdini work flow

Yes *Jodi*. I started out in Maya in 2004 and have now been using it exclusively since 2014. However with this lockdown I had an opportunity to learn Houdini (finally) and I got re acquainted with Soft again and the workflow just made me fall in love with it again. I was hoping to use Soft Houdini

Re: Softimage and Houdini work flow

That comment regarding all around app needs to be revisited more and more often now. You can literally design your own workflow more and more these days in Houdini, giving you workflows that you're familiar with while also boosting it procedurally in other aspects. By default, no, Houdini will

Re: Softimage and Houdini work flow

My only suggestion, do the homework now to learn Houdini or any other tool that makes you happy… anytime now a driver or OS change will break XSI forever and you won’t be able to produce at all. If we are to compare things.. you are simply trading a bunch of great tools for a different set of

Re: Softimage and Houdini work flow

Thank you guys. I appreciate all of your input. I think Steven Caron hit it on the head. ( " Y*ou're going to find the lack of updates to Softimage is really going to start making itself difficult. ie. format incompatibilities or just pushing so much data that Softimage can't handle it

Re: Softimage and Houdini work flow

Seems you already have you're own opinion about Houdini ! If Softimage ICE was in a separate app I bet you wouldn't use it so much. Same goes if you choose to use Houdini and keep Softimage... too cumbersome ! Houdini extrude = same click count than XSI ;-) On Tue, 21 Apr 2020 at 01:56, J R

Re: Softimage and Houdini work flow

tgTApo07hk0SZ0T6-2FwIlXV3yiVLzJhoq9siwZ3wj8-3D > > " > > Sent: Tuesday, 21 April, 2020 4:49:26 PM > > Subject: Re: Softimage and Houdini work flow > > > Yeah, well probably Softimage is laking a few things nowaday, but just > try > > importing a pointcloud

Re: Softimage and Houdini work flow

-2BcZXOxmILLSbJOhxailwZekAdya1WIoNK5d-2Bb9pfPexWoMxNtEpKbMgdXSmwD1ZYggjp6Einn7djPQjL2u1zVrUra39t1n751yO8pXzh6Iuh4-2BZQvH1t7uPEmLk-2BIWeS11JomNyjJBEvtaJnPFl7CgeuthYG9LZ1fud-2BEVfL5uf6eTqBjfw4z4rPZCrtnUj2E3ZbdK6t-2F > " > Sent: Tuesday, 21 April, 2020 4:49:26 PM > Subject: Re: Softimage and Houdini work flow >

Re: Softimage and Houdini work flow

Yeah, well probably Softimage is laking a few things nowaday, but just try importing a pointcloud from Houdini to Maya. Here, we gave up, we ended up relying on Vray proxies ^^ Le mar. 21 avr. 2020 à 07:05, Mirko Jankovic a écrit : > And why not looking option for other way around, modeling and

Re: Softimage and Houdini work flow

And why not looking option for other way around, modeling and aall up to lighting.shading rendering can be done in SI, then transfer them to Houdini. Modeling, character animation, all that where Softiamge is still rather strong. Then move to Houdini for lookdev, shading lightning and rendering.

Re: Softimage and Houdini work flow

if you want VDB files why are you using Alembic? I don't remember Alembic supporting volumes, or did I miss something? Regarding the other types of assets, meshes, transforms, etc. You're going to find the lack of updates to Softimage is really going to start making itself difficult. ie. format

Re: Softimage and Houdini work flow

I don't want to have to do 100 clicks to extrude a face with procedural modeling. Even Maya modeling tools are better than Houdini's. There may be some limited circumstances where procedural modeling is cool but not many.

Re: Softimage and Houdini work flow

The guy is looking for a workflow in Softimage/Houdini bcs he loves xsi. I'm interested in that workflow too. Don't want to switch. On Mon, Apr 20, 2020, 20:39 javier gonzalez wrote: > My advice just jump to houdini complete, let it go. > > El lun., 20 de abril de 2020 18:02, J R Sanchez >

Re: Softimage and Houdini work flow

My advice just jump to houdini complete, let it go. El lun., 20 de abril de 2020 18:02, J R Sanchez escribió: > So I am a little late to get on the Houdini Bandwagon. Great for FX but > wouldn't use it for modelling etc. I am wondering how many are using both > Softimage and Houdini? I am

Re: avi corruption

Re: avi corruption

As far as I remember avi has a file size limit, can't remember if it was 2gb or 4gb, is your sequence long enough that will output a file that big? On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 2:18 AM Nicole Beeckmans-Jacqmain < arc.ann...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi. > Do you know how to re make

Re: freelance work

Re: freelance work

Cheers On Wednesday, 1 April 2020, Tekano Bob wrote: > this is doing the rounds at the moment.. >

Re: freelance work

this is doing the rounds at the moment..

Re: anyone know how ICE "get closest location" actually works under the hood?

Thanks, Steve! On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 1:30 AM Steven Caron wrote: > I am not suggesting you copy it... read the comments and treat it as a > guide as how to make your own. Jerome left really detailed comments! > > On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 6:47 PM Ben Paschke > wrote: > >> Oh man! I would if I

Re: anyone know how ICE "get closest location" actually works

Thanks, Matt -- this is very helpful info. The brilliant kid developer we have working on this (a few years out of Stanford CS) went ahead and just built it in several hours night before last. It seems to work really well on splines; he's working on generalizing to surfaces next. Performance is

Re: anyone know how ICE "get closest location" actually works under the hood?

I am not suggesting you copy it... read the comments and treat it as a guide as how to make your own. Jerome left really detailed comments! On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 6:47 PM Ben Paschke wrote: > Oh man! I would if I could!! > > -- Softimage Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send a mail to

Re: anyone know how ICE "get closest location" actually works under the hood?

zo-2FGT4Jz9aEiiHQYf-2Bi7 > " > > Sent: Tuesday, 31 March, 2020 11:44:40 AM > Subject: Re: anyone know how ICE "get closest location" actually works under > the hood? > oh, if we are going that route I would look up the FabricEngine implementation > as a guide/hint

Re: anyone know how ICE "get closest location" actually works under the hood?

oh, if we are going that route I would look up the FabricEngine implementation as a guide/hint since it was written by the same person who maintained much of the Softimage implementation. [image: image.png] On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 5:48 PM Ben Paschke wrote: > Just for ideas, maybe you could

Re: anyone know how ICE "get closest location" actually works under the hood?

Just for ideas, maybe you could check out blender source code for the implementation of their closest_point_on_mesh function? Possibly in here somewhere:

Re: anyone know how ICE "get closest location" actually works

'Get closest Locations' is patent protected, so you won't be able to do anything commercial from the algorithm as implemented (but you may be able to find it's description at the patent office). I spoke with the author of that tool at great length a few years ago as I had questions about

Re: freelance work

same here, have had upcoming contracts cancelled and newer ones seem to have dried , will be same for everyone and competition will only increase. Us Freelance folks in UK on PAYE short term contracts will end up with zero support from government so we have no choice but to find new work or out

Re: freelance work

Hey thanks guys. I'm pretty solid on After Effects as there's been more call for that kind of work generally over the last few years, so have also picked up some C4D skills as the result of that. It's going to be a weird few months absolutely. On Mon, 30 Mar 2020 at 14:13, Matt Morris wrote: >

Re: anyone know how ICE "get closest location" actually works under the hood?

touchdesigner. Should have mentioned we need it run on the GPU. On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 1:06 AM Steven Caron wrote: > I don't know the exact implementation but generally speaking they are > spatial queries backed by some sort of an acceleration structure with some > barycentric coordinates to

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