It's been brought to my attention that there were compatibility issues with Softimage 2012 SAP on the most recent version of LKL. You can now get a version compatible with SI 2012 SAP from the website here: http://leonardkoch.com/?p=98
Thanks to Tristam Gieni for the heads-up! On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Leonard Koch <leonardkoch...@gmail.com>wrote: > Re-sending this because I don't think the list registered it the last > time. If any of you get this email twice I apologize. > > " any description of the bug fixes? " > Sure. > > 1. In some cases Strands were unable to properly access the Turbulence > Factor value of their parent strand, leading to a situation in which > strands sometimes appear out of nothing instead of coming off of another > strand. > 2. In some rare cases ICE over-optimized some emissions making no > strands appear in certain frames. > 3. In a rather elaborate case the emission array for the previous > frame was sorted differently than the current one's, leading to incorrect > motionblur. This is solved more robustly now. > > Really nothing that exciting except for number 1 which was sort of a pain > in the ass. > > "when adding turbulence to a subdivided branching lightning fork. not all > branches receive turbulence " > Interesting, I haven't heard that before. Are you sure you just don't have > your splitter's Turbulence Factor Mode set to relative and the Turbulence > Factor to something really low? You know, you can only multiply 1 so many > times by something like 0.5 until you get a number really close to zero, > aka no turbulence effect on that strand. > If that's not the case please send me a scene so I can hunt the issue > causing that down. > > "Arnold is unable to render lightning lightning strands that are truncated > by "local time animation"" > I find that really hard to believe, as I can't think of a reason that > could possibly be causing this. It's possible that Arnold has different > expectations for the strand attributes but I don't think that's the case, > and MentalRay is already really picky about it's inputs for generating > strands... Now unfortunately I don't have Arnold available to me, so if you > continue to encounter this problem I would appreciate it if we could maybe > sit down in skype or something like that so we can investigate. > I'm really sorry if there are problems with Arnold, but I simply have no > way of testing it out myself. > > Let me know Sam. > > On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Sam Cuttriss <tea...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> oh, and thank you for your efforts. >> this tool is very useful. >> > >
