Unrolling a banner

2012-06-04 Thread Alex Dinnin
Afternoon All, I'm trying to unfurl a banner down the side of a building.. something a bit like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI8ccSGghRY it needs to be quite a bit longer than the one in the video.. but hopefully you get my meaning I've tried doing using Syflex and the basic cloth..

Re: Unrolling a banner

2012-06-04 Thread Eric Lampi
I did something exactly like this several years ago. If I can recall correctly, I had an animated cylinder inside the roll as a collision object, to help move the roll along, because the self-collision messes it up big time without it. Also this was pre-ICE, which could be a better solution for

Re: Unrolling a banner

2012-06-04 Thread Eric Lampi
Ooops. Wrong links! https://vimeo.com/user7979713/review/42504313/98fa97fce5 https://vimeo.com/user7979713/review/40608551/10477a5323 Eric On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Alex Dinnin adin...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the replies.. Eric I can't open the Vimeo movies.. says they don't

Re: Unrolling a banner

2012-06-04 Thread Darrin Hofmeyr
Awesome work, Eric. On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Eric Lampi ericla...@gmail.com wrote: Ooops. Wrong links! https://vimeo.com/user7979713/review/42504313/98fa97fce5 https://vimeo.com/user7979713/review/40608551/10477a5323 Eric -- Darrin Hofmeyr Animation Supervisor BlackGinger

Re: Unrolling a banner

2012-06-04 Thread Alok Gandhi
+1 On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Andy Moorer andymoo...@gmail.com wrote: I agree, cool effect Eric! On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Rob Wuijster r...@casema.nl wrote: that looks pretty slick! :-) Rob \/-\/\/ On 4-6-2012 17:04, Eric Lampi wrote:

Re: Unrolling a banner

2012-06-04 Thread Rares Halmagean
Yea, Looks great. Was all of this xsi Eric? On 6/4/2012 10:04 AM, Eric Lampi wrote: Ooops. Wrong links! https://vimeo.com/user7979713/review/42504313/98fa97fce5 https://vimeo.com/user7979713/review/40608551/10477a5323 Eric On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Alex Dinnin adin...@gmail.com

Re: Unrolling a banner

2012-06-04 Thread Eric Lampi
Thanks. I've dabbled here and there in ICE, lots of particle stuff of course, but this was really the first thing I dug into on my own and combined ICE with a bunch of other stuff.. I am by no means a math wizard and I'm still learning something everytime I use ICE, and sometimes need some help

Re: Unrolling a banner

2012-06-04 Thread Alex Dinnin
Thanks for the reply Erik, How did you get from rolled up to flat.. Did you put a skeleton on the spiral, then animate the chain out ?? Alex On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Eric Lampi ericla...@gmail.com wrote: The carpet was SoftImage, the flowers and other objects were Maya. Houdini was

Re: Unrolling a banner

2012-06-04 Thread Eric Lampi
That took some time to figure out, it's deformed on a spiral curve with a straight tail to keep it flat as it moves off. I made an expression to translate the grid along the curve deform proportional to the translation of the curve itself. Also the order, and construction mode is critical to

Re: Unrolling a banner

2012-06-04 Thread Rares Halmagean
Cool, thanks for the breakdown. That's a few apps used for something you'd think would be enough in xsi alone. Great work again Eric. I remember seeing this spot on the tube and wondering who and how it was done. Would be nice to see a break down of the process, at least on the xsi side.

Re: Unrolling a banner

2012-06-04 Thread Alex Dinnin
Thanks for the run down Erik. I think I am nearly there.. thanks again On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Rares Halmagean ra...@rarebrush.com wrote: Cool, thanks for the breakdown. That's a few apps used for something you'd think would be enough in xsi alone. Great work again Eric. I remember

RE: Unrolling a banner

2012-06-04 Thread Grahame Fuller
Like this: http://vimeo.com/25096113 ? gray From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Andy Nicholas Sent: Monday, June 04, 2012 12:53 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Unrolling a banner Nice spot Eric! Alex

Re: Unrolling a banner

2012-06-04 Thread olivier jeannel
...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Andy Nicholas Sent: Monday, June 04, 2012 12:53 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Unrolling a banner Nice spot Eric! Alex, funnily enough I was trying to do an unfurling banner a couple of weeks ago

Re: Unrolling a banner

2012-06-04 Thread Eric Lampi
@**listproc.autodesk.comsoftimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Andy Nicholas Sent: Monday, June 04, 2012 12:53 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.**com softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Unrolling a banner Nice spot Eric! Alex, funnily enough I was trying to do an unfurling

Re: Unrolling a banner

2012-06-04 Thread Andy Nicholas
[mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Andy Nicholas Sent: Monday, June 04, 2012 12:53 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Unrolling a banner Nice spot Eric! Alex, funnily enough I was trying to do an unfurling banner a couple of weeks ago. Syflex didn't get