See No Evil...sorta thing.[ROFL]
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Been throught that stage - now animation at full speed, they are turning out
some amazing stuff again!
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the compounds and they do not do what you expected/needed, we can
not be liable.
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http://softimage.wiki.softimage.com/xsidocs/idef_deforms_VerletIntegration.htm
Good info there!
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this. If you are not using
caches, then I would suspect dodgy geometry - try doing an extract of the
geometry and plotting shape - then rendering the new geometry - see if the MB
looks more correct!
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Chris - please look at the sphere scene included - i just grabbed the whole
folder, so there is likely to be some redundant stuff in there!
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it to do grass
and bushes being flattened by a vehicle and I had the bushes/grass randomly
oriented as I was rendering a field using strand deforming.
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[softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] on behalf of Rob Chapman
[tekano
I would head in Rob's first suggestion - get the data from the emit location in
terms of normal etc... and use that to set orientation of the strands.
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You know that you can stop the license server even when there are licenses in
use - when you start it again, they just get picked up again, it is easy to
install another license without shutting everyone down.
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of problems before
with nodes untill we did that!
I will see tomorrow if I can dig out which Nvidia driver I used! Evening time
here now and I am at home.
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have you got transform hidden objects off??
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OK - we found the problem - there was a python module changed that made this
particular area switch to tx files instead of tiff.
Sooo - nothing to see here
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Yes - this should be pretty much all you need to do - BTW even with that error
- it should not affect anything.
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am looking at generating a python script
that will run on our linux nodes.
What sort of caching will you be doing?
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RR can execute anything that can be executed - I have even installed Softimage
using RR before - was easier on a windows farm as it is easy to create the
environment to do it.
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Why hello there - someone let a whole herd of animals onto the
list...
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Just a stab in the dark - checked for continuous rotations?
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/courseinfo.php?id=275 - anyone
done this course, it looks quite good but I am concerned it is Maya-centric?
This is for one of our Riggers who is going for the lead role.
Thanks for any input.
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that you super knowledgeable guys would know of the
best courses.
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I agree - it is easy to get stuck into a particular methodology, especially
since we are stuck out of the mainstream here - beaches are great though, the
the mountain - well
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Lol - we have finished one movie - and now finished rigging for the second - so
quite a lot of practice has been done, and a lot of animator testing too.
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Hi Si,
Yes we decided on something - it is for Pearl to do. And yes there were some
awesome courses raised here - thanks again to all who replied.
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We do not have this here - our setup is Win7 64 workstations with FC15 Farm
nodes.
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Yep - otherwise it would be a nightmare - as have had other server issues -
this show is MUCH bigger than our previous one and we are learning a lot about
what you DO need in a server now.
Hope you sort it out.
Cheers
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Please do not tell us this a 2012 thing - as we are still on 2011!
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[softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] on behalf of Matt Lind
[speye
have you got Reload Externally Modified Image Clips on Focus set to on in the
Preferences Rendering?
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Thanks
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[softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] on behalf of Simon Anderson
[simonbenandersonl...@gmail.com]
Sent
Hi Eric - many thanks for your help, your page provided all the info we needed
- all working 100% here!
Cheers
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Pretty sure some of the Animal Logic guys would be keen - I know Simon would
from there - hope he sees this on the list - will forward it to him in case.
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You tried this scene on another machine? Not being able to load the previous
autosaves sounds dodgy - sounds to me like a runonce or prefs replacement is
needed - but quicker to test by loading on another machine.
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Hear hear - I fully agree with you Graham, we are deep in FURY land on Khumba -
which is set in the Karoo - lots of dust and fire and smoke! Which we could
not have done without Ben!
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What are you rendering with?
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- obviously - otherwise
it would not have got to v3.
Thanks
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- works 100% in MR and Arnold.
Not sure it I am missing the problem as I am bouncing between problems here and
skipped over the mails - just thought I would mail my MB solution here - might
be worth a try.
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them out - there should be a
link somewhere in the mailing list.
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[softimage
RR can be used free with 3 machines I think - meant to be trial, but worth
testing - it works very well - we use it on our farm and rendered last weekend
6000 stereo frames at film res.
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Just found that one now - thanks.
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[softimage-boun
It does - it works off the Hardware address - we are runnin dynamic IPs here
and it works fine.
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[softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] on behalf of Stephen Davidson
[magic...@bellsouth.net]
Sent
We are on effectively 2011.5 - 2011 SAP SP1 - we had a bit of a battle doing
Zambezia as we swapped from 2010 to 2011 and hit the disconnecting render trees
in a big way - so avoiding that now.
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Hi Holger,
Trying to ask you something - but my mails to @royalrender.de are being bounced
as spam. Please can you get hold of me.
Thanks
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Wow Brad - very nice spot - deja vu - we are in the middle of doing the same
thing - melena + mod compounds on Khumba. What was this rendered in may I ask?
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sense?
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Yep I have Steven - just remember all the pain of MR on Zam - and absolutley
loving Arnold now - so even if I had to sacrifice a chicken to get it working I
would ;^)
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Have voted this side - funny thing is your message about it Jeremie only came
through now - I saw all the other mee too votes from everyone and went onto the
autodesk site to see what was going on - had to dig quite a bit to find the
area to vote!
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on the machine - becomes a
tug of war to grab focus back to what you are trying to do!
LOL.
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can just run a
cache command which all have start frame and end frame inputs.
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OK Raff - you trying to confuse EVERYONE now - LOL :^)
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[softimage-boun
.
Is that what you meant?
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Yep - I guess i assumed that what Christian was trying to do was just that.
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I think Stephen means the factory weight map generator - when you create a
weight map - it pops up the operator - and you can specify one 'fill' or fill
X, Z, Y - ermm I think - something like that not in front of Soft right now.
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Sorry - forgot my manners too - thanks a stack for this one Simon - it will be
a big help - the biggest plus for us is the mirroring feature!
Good one!
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Africa still
sits in the stone age.
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Cough .RR..cough..
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data out of RR into whatever you need it for.
Absolute best thing about RR is that Holger is the man in charge and he always
provides superb support, help and takes any suggestion you give seriously.
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LOL - that is so awesome - nice idea too, and very nicely executed - well done!
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LOL - yeah yeah - on it's way - was pasted nicely into the email when I sent it
- admired it as it went - but obviously pasting into emails does not work - so
it is coming (hopefully) attached to another one.
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Don't tell me the pic that I pasted into the mail did not come through trying
again -
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Stephen Blair has been MR Softimage for US - Autodesk - sorry but you are the
biggest bunch of blundering idiots that 3D animation has ever seen!
my 0.02c
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[softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] on behalf of Graham Bell
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LOL I used to get caught by that one too - now I pretty much use the parent
button all the time!
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Wondering myself - as we have used ICE extensively to huge set dressing and
creation of bushes etc.. for Khumba - worked like a charm - and using that
'other' renderer proved to be the cherry on the top - we certainly did not hit
any walls.
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Can you try plotting it before submitting to render? Maybe with an Fcurve
there it might work - I have found similar things before that worked like that.
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- but
Anyway - just a suggestion.
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ones if they are named
with a number. Once frozen xforms you could unparent if you need to.
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You can use any rig - as long as you can tag it - if you open the tag rig
dialogue you will see what 'section' you need to tag.
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You can indeed.
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[softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] on behalf of Adam
Ah yes - did not realise you had THAT problem - that has hit me before - if the
clip does not sit on the whole time line, and you render on a farm - can be
chaos - always stick a hold on!
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You could try a simple ice tree on the point cloud brining in the cache - that
reads the attribute and writes it directly back. We have not had too hectic
problems with this stuff and caches here.
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[softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] on behalf of Juan Brockhaus
[juan.brockh
- but we are still on 2011.5 so I wonder if
there are new issues to do with 2012 and 2013 fur/hair.
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Awesome stuff Nick! @Raff - I am going to get Simon to buy you a big wooden
spoon - LOL.
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LOL - no wooden spoon here - just a nice split length of bamboo - makes
everyone obey the word of the Supe. Ask Simon about it.
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to do
caching to geometry for rendering.
Cheers
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Hi Rob,
Zam was done in MR - Khumba is being rendered with Arnold - still busy with
that one. Night and day though - we did sweat somewhat with MR.
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with Zam - will post them in this
thread.
http://triggerfish.co.za/en/
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Good idea - do you think I should post about Zambezia there too?
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[softimage
Works well here too - we are still on 2011.5 - have various workgroups
depending on dept.
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like the endless loops
the guys got the ME29 into when I was at college.
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Does the same thing not work - grab them all, tag the frame in question and
enter R(x,y) in the relevant field - does work here (I think LOL - busy doing
something else so cannot check it right now)
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Look at logs from the farm - best place to start. Need to know which machines
rendered the black frames.
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. The min I activate IR BOOOM! Black random frames here
and there.
Its Odd :(
From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com
[mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Sandy Sutherland
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2012 11:05 AM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: RE
If you want/can send the FBX to me I will have a look see my side?
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Wierd thing is Debdas sent me an FBX, I do have Crosswalk that comes with
2011.5 running and it has a framerate setting in the options, which is
defaulted to 30 - the FBX is supposed to be 24 - anyway the FBX works fine my
side.
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Sandy Sutherlandmailto:sandy.sutherl...@triggerfish.co.za |
Why not install Softimage 2011.5 to do your fbx stuff - we know it works in
this version.
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I must admit I am very guilty of this - extremely sorry Holger, as one who very
much values your expertise as we also use RR I should have known better. I
think part of the problem is the stuff we work on has to wait for permission
from certain parties before we can release frames, so when it
Probably best way is to test velocity and if over a certain number - delete the
particles, did that before to fix something similar happening from realflow.
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Jules, I had something similar come out of some realflow sims, so I just tested
for PointVelocity and if over a certain threshold, deleted the particle.
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] On Behalf Of Sandy Sutherland
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 12:42 PM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com; Morten Bartholdy
Subject: RE: BA Fluid Shader
I must admit I am very guilty of this - extremely sorry Holger, as one who very
much values your expertise as we also use RR I should have known
I would suggest that most Softimage folk are using other renderers such as
Arnold!
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We are pretty much doing the same here - we did Zam in MR and it did get there
and looked good for what it needed to be - but I have a few more grey hairs
because of it - Khumba has been such a pleasure to light and render in Arnold
and it just looks so much better so much easier!
Sorry - not
LOL - that sounds to me like one of those Naughty geoms that given you are
following a nice sensible Ref model loading setup anyway, should be placed in a
locked cupboard never allowed to be used by any animator - you know the kind,
that suddenly starts saving as a 500BM model instead of 5MB
Certainly - we also found animation layers + ref models to be a big no-no - but
we are also still on 2011.5 - not sure if there was anything done in that
regard in 2012 or 2013+
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