Re: [Pool] Any interest for a grease pencil tool?
Hey Ahmidou, I will ask the animators for their feedback and forward you the results. That sounds pretty awesome already :) On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 7:36 PM, Sebastien Sterling sebastien.sterl...@gmail.com wrote: i just gota say this is pretty heart warming to see, i think I'll buy one on principal even if I'm not necessarily an animator these days, i can use it to mark stuff out on models :) On 19 April 2013 09:50, Ahmidou Lyazidi ahmidou@gmail.com wrote: Hi Enrique, good to know :) Do you have any special special expectation on it? currently I'm planning those features: 2D paint and erase screen space onion skin scene persistance ability to move frames on the timeline I'll eventually add those in a second time: multi layers per layer depth distance per layer opacity surface object space strokes (to draw on objects) wacom presure Cheers --- Ahmidou Lyazidi Director | TD | CG artist http://vimeo.com/ahmidou/videos 2013/4/18 Enrique Caballero enriquecaball...@gmail.com Not to drive the point too strongly, but if you make this tool Ahmidou and you do a really good job on it, and price it reasonably, I can promise to buy between 30-40 licenses of it. The animators here are driving me absolutely insane about the topic
RE: AMD MAXON Cinema 4D.
Normally it comes to to a bit of both. Ideally openGL should have been the del facto standard, but however due to squabbling and poor implementations of the standard (Microsoft wanting to punt directX and Apple with not supporting all the required calls) have lead to it use been minimal compared to what it should have been. Hopefully the community at large can now see the benefits of having standards that works both cross application and cross operating systems. Hopefully OpenEXR2 and OpenVDB will lead the way on this. Maybe openGL will make a comeback ;) NVIDIA have been very aggressive in getting their CUDA tech working in a wide range of places. ATI was very low key and has suffered because of it ( I am assuming because of the change of owners a few times tends to muddy the road map) Unfortunately because of its market dominance NVIDIA now has a very compelling reason to try and squash openCL where it can ;( From: Jason S [jasonsta...@gmail.com] Sent: 21 April 2013 08:00 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: AMD MAXON Cinema 4D. Apart from one card which I had to boot twice to boot my computer, I never had many problems specific with ATI, except of course for CG shaders and Cuda things not working. (being quite a biggie) But what puzzles me is why developpers predominantly choose Cuda as opposed to OpenCL since OpenCL works on both platforms? Is it technical reasons? or it's a Marketing thing? (Cuda sounding cooler?) But for me, questionable ATI driver quality mostly has to do with the interface, or general presentation. (not that I often go fiddle with driver settings but..) Everything is so tacky or like WindowsXP-y Maybe Mr. Kodury might bring some influence from Mac on that side :) On 21/04/2013 1:44 PM, Tim Leydecker wrote: A bit of news: Raja Koduri is going from Apple to AMD, becoming orporate Vice President Visual Computing. His tasks will include hardsoftware development for mobile and desktop GPUs. He´s been with AMD from 2001-2009, working on the R300 chips (Radeon HD9700/Pro) and it´s successors. Personally, I can´t say much about ATI cards but the one that came with my MacPro2008. It wasn´t fast but Maya worked on it without glitches. Generally, the AMD/ATI windows drivers are said to have be frustrating in the past. I would hope that the OpenGL and general driver quality for AMD graphics cards gets a better reputation by putting in more quality control. I would think that there is a good chance this will happen as at least one next generation console is going to use AMD chips and the tests including the technical specifications and burn-in of such a plattform may benefit any related products, if only for a rigorous testing pipeline in place already... Cheers, tim On 21.04.2013 07:59, Sam wrote: I said I haven’t bought one, but I’ve dealt with many of them, both from friends and Family (which is why I haven’t bought one). I would think that after 20 years they would get their issues straightened out, but from what I’ve seen they haven’t learned anything over the years. The last one I dealt with was about 6 months ago and I was shocked at how dated the driver panel seemed. I felt like I was dealing with windows 3.1 technology by the way the thing was put together. Using it just felt like the person or people who created it just didn’t care how well it worked. If AMD (ATI) cards work for you, great, but it’s going to take some pretty massive changes for me to seriously consider using them again. I think with programs like C4d and Modo, the developers go out of their way to write their programs to work with them. I remember Modo 1.0 worked well with ATI (from what I heard on the forums), but it had a lot of problems with NVidia cards. I seem to remember that the developers were all using ATI cards at the time… *From:*softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Raffaele Fragapane *Sent:* Friday, April 19, 2013 12:37 AM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Re: AMD MAXON Cinema 4D. I'm not an ATI fan, but if you haven't tried one in 20 years maybe you might be a bit unreasonable :) While drivers wise nVIDIA still has an edge, and usually every generation they are the top performer for a while longer (although that's a chasing game), AMD has been on top of bang for buck for quite a while, and once you find a decent driver you can stick with it for quite a while with good success, just they are fewer and further apart than nVIDIA's, which also has had many messed up releases. It's not healthy to be so strongly prejudiced, while I don't think it's there yet for me to consider as a viable alternative, but I also have some time invested in CUDA and none in OCL, AMD is worth keeping an eye out for, and it's far from the catastrophic experience it was five years ago on
Re: Ultra sound or MRI scan formats to common 3D formats?
Have a look at DeVIDE http://graphics.tudelft.nl/Projects/DeVIDE It uses, among other libraries, VTK for visualisation and processing. I managed to convert custom-made slices into MRI type formats using this. From memory, you can make processing graphs with a node editor, and I'm pretty sure you could use these graphs to then process stuff from the commandline, but I could be wrong. Good luck! On 19/04/13 20:23, Darren Blencowe | VA wrote: Hi Folks, Just putting this out there in case anyone has done this thing before - Does anyone know how/tried to turn any ultra sound scan file types or MRI data into something remotely 3D - and in a format that is 3D package friendly? I am still digging but it appears the majority of scan formats are 2D sections/plans not *really* 3D? I've found this link http://www.mccauslandcenter.sc.edu/mricro/dicom/ This is quite a common scan data format but again on skimming appears to be only 2D/sectional. Useful nuggets would be: scan file formats that are definitely 3D any small apps/programs that can change these into .stl .vrml .obj or even .dxf any help gratefully received! Thanks, D.
PPG Logic - Changing siControlBitmap without Refresh
Hey Everyone, I'm working on a Model/Asset Management system for our Company. As base for my UI I'm using the PPG logic example of Stephen Blair: Google Group Link https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21msg/xsi_list/J11vCXzYkNk/3WObQEO1EmcJ Everything is working fine so far, except one annoying thing: If I click into my Model-Listbox I have to fire a PPG.Refesh() to refresh the preview picture. This leads to an deselection of the Listbox and the user can't click throw the List with the arrow down key to get a fast preview. Is it possible to change the Bitmap of my siControlBitmap UI Item on the fly without firing a PPG.Refresh()? Somthing like that: def ppgLogic_oModelList_OnChanged(): myPPG = PPG.Inspected(0) myLayout = PPG.PPGLayout myPreviewPic.SetAttribute(c.siUIFilePath, oPicturePath ) -- ANDREAS BÖINGHOFF 3D Artist schönheitsfarm production GmbH Co. KG schönheitsfarm hamburg lippmannstrasse 79 22769 hamburg t +4940 432 91 200 f +4940 432 91 222 schönheitsfarm düsseldorf steinstraße 11 40212 düsseldorf t +49211 913 701 0 f +49211 913 701 99 schönheitsfarm frankfurt hanauer landstrasse 151-153 60314 frankfurt t +4969 484 484 90 w www.s-farm.de http://www.s-farm.de/ Geschäftsführung Manfred Brunwey DE 214892548 | Amtsgericht Hamburg HRA 95793
Re: PPG Logic - Changing siControlBitmap without Refresh
wish i could help ya, i do everything with Steven Caron and Jo's PyQT plugin now. Working with PPG's makes my head hurt On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 4:03 PM, Andreas Böinghoff boeingh...@s-farm.dewrote: Hey Everyone, I'm working on a Model/Asset Management system for our Company. As base for my UI I'm using the PPG logic example of Stephen Blair: Google Group Linkhttps://groups.google.com/forum/#%21msg/xsi_list/J11vCXzYkNk/3WObQEO1EmcJ Everything is working fine so far, except one annoying thing: If I click into my Model-Listbox I have to fire a PPG.Refesh() to refresh the preview picture. This leads to an deselection of the Listbox and the user can't click throw the List with the arrow down key to get a fast preview. Is it possible to change the Bitmap of my siControlBitmap UI Item on the fly without firing a PPG.Refresh()? Somthing like that: def ppgLogic_oModelList_OnChanged(): myPPG = PPG.Inspected(0) myLayout = PPG.PPGLayout myPreviewPic.SetAttribute(c.siUIFilePath, oPicturePath ) -- ANDREAS BÖINGHOFF 3D Artist schönheitsfarm production GmbH Co. KG schönheitsfarm hamburg lippmannstrasse 79 22769 hamburg t +4940 432 91 200 f +4940 432 91 222 schönheitsfarm düsseldorf steinstraße 11 40212 düsseldorf t +49211 913 701 0 f +49211 913 701 99 schönheitsfarm frankfurt hanauer landstrasse 151-153 60314 frankfurt t +4969 484 484 90 w www.s-farm.de Geschäftsführung Manfred Brunwey DE 214892548 | Amtsgericht Hamburg HRA 95793
Re: PPG Logic - Changing siControlBitmap without Refresh
Most of the PPG widget types need a PPG.Refresh() when changed, e.g. all the enum types (list widget etc), and most likely also the bitmap type. What's strange is that the selection in the listbox changes/disappears when refreshing the PPG. If that widget is related to an actual parameter that holds a value on the PPG it should be properly reselected I think. Hey Everyone, I'm working on a Model/Asset Management system for our Company. As base for my UI I'm using the PPG logic example of Stephen Blair: Google Group Link https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21msg/xsi_list/J11vCXzYkNk/3WObQEO1EmcJ Everything is working fine so far, except one annoying thing: If I click into my Model-Listbox I have to fire a PPG.Refesh() to refresh the preview picture. This leads to an deselection of the Listbox and the user can't click throw the List with the arrow down key to get a fast preview. Is it possible to change the Bitmap of my siControlBitmap UI Item on the fly without firing a PPG.Refresh()? Somthing like that: def ppgLogic_oModelList_OnChanged(): myPPG = PPG.Inspected(0) myLayout = PPG.PPGLayout myPreviewPic.SetAttribute(c.siUIFilePath, oPicturePath ) -- --- Stefan Kubicek --- keyvis digital imagery Alfred Feierfeilstraße 3 A-2380 Perchtoldsdorf bei Wien Phone:+43/699/12614231 www.keyvis.at ste...@keyvis.at -- This email and its attachments are -- --confidential and for the recipient only--
Re: PPG Logic - Changing siControlBitmap without Refresh
Hey Stefan, SI reselects the selection of the Listbox properly, but doesn't reenter the Listbox. If I press the arrow down key SI does the Application.PlaybackStop() command. Andreas On 4/22/2013 10:32 AM, Stefan Kubicek wrote: Most of the PPG widget types need a PPG.Refresh() when changed, e.g. all the enum types (list widget etc), and most likely also the bitmap type. What's strange is that the selection in the listbox changes/disappears when refreshing the PPG. If that widget is related to an actual parameter that holds a value on the PPG it should be properly reselected I think. Hey Everyone, I'm working on a Model/Asset Management system for our Company. As base for my UI I'm using the PPG logic example of Stephen Blair: Google Group Link https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21msg/xsi_list/J11vCXzYkNk/3WObQEO1EmcJ Everything is working fine so far, except one annoying thing: If I click into my Model-Listbox I have to fire a PPG.Refesh() to refresh the preview picture. This leads to an deselection of the Listbox and the user can't click throw the List with the arrow down key to get a fast preview. Is it possible to change the Bitmap of my siControlBitmap UI Item on the fly without firing a PPG.Refresh()? Somthing like that: def ppgLogic_oModelList_OnChanged(): myPPG = PPG.Inspected(0) myLayout = PPG.PPGLayout myPreviewPic.SetAttribute(c.siUIFilePath, oPicturePath ) -- ANDREAS BÖINGHOFF 3D Artist schönheitsfarm production GmbH Co. KG schönheitsfarm hamburg lippmannstrasse 79 22769 hamburg t +4940 432 91 200 f +4940 432 91 222 schönheitsfarm düsseldorf steinstraße 11 40212 düsseldorf t +49211 913 701 0 f +49211 913 701 99 schönheitsfarm frankfurt hanauer landstrasse 151-153 60314 frankfurt t +4969 484 484 90 w www.s-farm.de http://www.s-farm.de/ Geschäftsführung Manfred Brunwey DE 214892548 | Amtsgericht Hamburg HRA 95793
Re: ICE: stick to surface without overlapping particles
Thanks Stephen, this seems very interesting. I partly managed to set up the thing by plugging a sphere in the Dart Throw node , then in add point then in the ice tree node. But the points do not have any shape, they're just black dots. I don't know what to do with the size output. On Julian's blog there's not manual and the example scene is outdated. Anyone knows where I could learn to use it? Thanks David On 2013-04-19 17:09, Stephen Blair wrote: Dart throw? http://julianjohnsonsblog.blogspot.ca/2010/07/dart-throwing-with-weight-maps.html On 19/04/2013 10:56 AM, David Saber wrote: Hello I'm throwing a lot of spheres on a surface where they should stick. Everything works, but is there a way to have the spheres not overlap each other? I've tried neighboring particle force and put some negative value in attraction strength, but this does not seem to have any effect... Thanks David
RE: Loop playback in animation sequencer
Hi Ronald, It's not supported in Camera Sequencer. Thanks, Joany -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Toonafish Sent: Friday, April 19, 2013 11:04 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Loop playback in animation sequencer Is the playback loop setting broken in the shiny new Camera Sequence Editor in 2014 ? It does not seem to matter if I toggle it on or off in the Playback Options. Thanks, - Ronald attachment: winmail.dat
Re: PPG Logic - Changing siControlBitmap without Refresh
Its been a while since I had to do any PPG editing but ill try rack my memory. Have you tried inpecting the parameter after you have reloaded it, not sure if that would work, but maybe give it a try What I would suggest if your making if for your studio is look into pyQt, I had to design a similar asset management/tracking tool for about 150 artists and we utilized pyQt for alot of things, we also used PPG's but in the case of plugins that required images we used pyQt, else if you dont want to do that, I would suggest C++. Si. On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Andreas Böinghoff boeingh...@s-farm.dewrote: Hey Stefan, SI reselects the selection of the Listbox properly, but doesn't reenter the Listbox. If I press the arrow down key SI does the Application.PlaybackStop() command. Andreas On 4/22/2013 10:32 AM, Stefan Kubicek wrote: Most of the PPG widget types need a PPG.Refresh() when changed, e.g. all the enum types (list widget etc), and most likely also the bitmap type. What's strange is that the selection in the listbox changes/disappears when refreshing the PPG. If that widget is related to an actual parameter that holds a value on the PPG it should be properly reselected I think. Hey Everyone, I'm working on a Model/Asset Management system for our Company. As base for my UI I'm using the PPG logic example of Stephen Blair: Google Group Link https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21msg/xsi_list/J11vCXzYkNk/3WObQEO1EmcJhttps://groups.google.com/forum/#%21msg/xsi_list/J11vCXzYkNk/3WObQEO1EmcJ Everything is working fine so far, except one annoying thing: If I click into my Model-Listbox I have to fire a PPG.Refesh() to refresh the preview picture. This leads to an deselection of the Listbox and the user can't click throw the List with the arrow down key to get a fast preview. Is it possible to change the Bitmap of my siControlBitmap UI Item on the fly without firing a PPG.Refresh()? Somthing like that: def ppgLogic_oModelList_OnChanged(): myPPG = PPG.Inspected(0) myLayout = PPG.PPGLayout myPreviewPic.SetAttribute(c.siUIFilePath, oPicturePath ) -- ANDREAS BÖINGHOFF 3D Artist schönheitsfarm production GmbH Co. KG schönheitsfarm hamburg lippmannstrasse 79 22769 hamburg t +4940 432 91 200 f +4940 432 91 222 schönheitsfarm düsseldorf steinstraße 11 40212 düsseldorf t +49211 913 701 0 f +49211 913 701 99 schönheitsfarm frankfurt hanauer landstrasse 151-153 60314 frankfurt t +4969 484 484 90 w www.s-farm.de Geschäftsführung Manfred Brunwey DE 214892548 | Amtsgericht Hamburg HRA 95793 -- --- Simon Ben Anderson blog: http://vinyldevelopment.wordpress.com/
OT: surround sound placement using 3d
Hi folks, A bit OT but thought I'd tap the collective genius here in case anyone can point me in the right direction. I'm creating some animation that will be projected onto screens to the front and sides of an audience. We'll be creating some 5.1 surround sound type FX to go with the graphics. Does anyone know if there's a 3d package that will help place a sound within surround sound space? i.e. If I animate something go woosh past the audience on the right , can I export those coordinates to a package that will position the audio in the right place? Many thanks, Adam. - Yoyo Digital Ltd. 07956 976 245 http://www.linkedin.com/in/adamseeleyuk https://vimeo.com/adamseeley
Re: OT: surround sound placement using 3d
i think C4D has such a feature and there are probably plugins for other 3d apps aswell.. (blender may aswell?) --stephan On 4/22/2013 12:46 PM, Adam Seeley wrote: Hi folks, A bit OT but thought I'd tap the collective genius here in case anyone can point me in the right direction. I'm creating some animation that will be projected onto screens to the front and sides of an audience. We'll be creating some 5.1 surround sound type FX to go with the graphics. Does anyone know if there's a 3d package that will help place a sound within surround sound space? i.e. If I animate something go woosh past the audience on the right , can I export those coordinates to a package that will position the audio in the right place? Many thanks, Adam. - Yoyo Digital Ltd. 07956 976 245 http://www.linkedin.com/in/adamseeleyuk http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=21162305 https://vimeo.com/adamseeley https://vimeo.com/album/2280465 No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com http://www.avg.com Version: 2013.0.3272 / Virus Database: 3162/6263 - Release Date: 04/21/13 -- Untitled Document Stephan Haidacher Freelance 3D Artist/Compositor www.shaidacher.com http://www.shaidacher.com
Re: PPG Logic - Changing siControlBitmap without Refresh
im with Simon. We only use PPG's here on very minor occasions We have been using PYQT heavily simply due to how much time it saves. We have very few TD's here. I hate seeing them spend a week on a PPG that even if done incredibly well cant hold a candle to something thats made in PYQT in less then half the time. On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 6:40 PM, Simon Anderson simonbenandersonl...@gmail.com wrote: Its been a while since I had to do any PPG editing but ill try rack my memory. Have you tried inpecting the parameter after you have reloaded it, not sure if that would work, but maybe give it a try What I would suggest if your making if for your studio is look into pyQt, I had to design a similar asset management/tracking tool for about 150 artists and we utilized pyQt for alot of things, we also used PPG's but in the case of plugins that required images we used pyQt, else if you dont want to do that, I would suggest C++. Si. On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Andreas Böinghoff boeingh...@s-farm.dewrote: Hey Stefan, SI reselects the selection of the Listbox properly, but doesn't reenter the Listbox. If I press the arrow down key SI does the Application.PlaybackStop() command. Andreas On 4/22/2013 10:32 AM, Stefan Kubicek wrote: Most of the PPG widget types need a PPG.Refresh() when changed, e.g. all the enum types (list widget etc), and most likely also the bitmap type. What's strange is that the selection in the listbox changes/disappears when refreshing the PPG. If that widget is related to an actual parameter that holds a value on the PPG it should be properly reselected I think. Hey Everyone, I'm working on a Model/Asset Management system for our Company. As base for my UI I'm using the PPG logic example of Stephen Blair: Google Group Link https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21msg/xsi_list/J11vCXzYkNk/3WObQEO1EmcJhttps://groups.google.com/forum/#%21msg/xsi_list/J11vCXzYkNk/3WObQEO1EmcJ Everything is working fine so far, except one annoying thing: If I click into my Model-Listbox I have to fire a PPG.Refesh() to refresh the preview picture. This leads to an deselection of the Listbox and the user can't click throw the List with the arrow down key to get a fast preview. Is it possible to change the Bitmap of my siControlBitmap UI Item on the fly without firing a PPG.Refresh()? Somthing like that: def ppgLogic_oModelList_OnChanged(): myPPG = PPG.Inspected(0) myLayout = PPG.PPGLayout myPreviewPic.SetAttribute(c.siUIFilePath, oPicturePath ) -- ANDREAS BÖINGHOFF 3D Artist schönheitsfarm production GmbH Co. KG schönheitsfarm hamburg lippmannstrasse 79 22769 hamburg t +4940 432 91 200 f +4940 432 91 222 schönheitsfarm düsseldorf steinstraße 11 40212 düsseldorf t +49211 913 701 0 f +49211 913 701 99 schönheitsfarm frankfurt hanauer landstrasse 151-153 60314 frankfurt t +4969 484 484 90 w www.s-farm.de Geschäftsführung Manfred Brunwey DE 214892548 | Amtsgericht Hamburg HRA 95793 -- --- Simon Ben Anderson blog: http://vinyldevelopment.wordpress.com/
Re: Vray promotion for freelancers
Solidangle recently changed their policy which made it possible to buy only one license - which makes it within price range. Cheers! Pingo On 19/04/2013, at 22.30, Andy Moorer andymoo...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.chaosgroup.com/en/2/usa_promo.html FYI chaos group is promoting a deal on Vray for freelancers in the US worth looking at. Discussion... I wish Arnold was even available at any kind of reasonable cost for freelancers. The majority of the studios I encounter use one or the other and I am noticing a trend where boutique studios which would like to use Arnold instead turn to Vray simply because of the high cost. I'm sure SolidAngle has their reasons but I note that ChaosGroup is making very serious efforts to be competitive and has gained some traction with this kind of outreach. Vray is quite a capable renderer which I've enjoyed using, I just wish the price difference didn't become the basis for choosing between the two. All that aside, kudos to ChaosGroup for their efforts to support Softimage and the freelance community!
Re: Vray promotion for freelancers
Is this public? Because on their website there is still nothing official. Just a form to contact them. cheers Massimo From: Pingo van der Brinkloev Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 4:37 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Vray promotion for freelancers Solidangle recently changed their policy which made it possible to buy only one license - which makes it within price range. Cheers! Pingo On 19/04/2013, at 22.30, Andy Moorer andymoo...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.chaosgroup.com/en/2/usa_promo.html FYI chaos group is promoting a deal on Vray for freelancers in the US worth looking at. Discussion... I wish Arnold was even available at any kind of reasonable cost for freelancers. The majority of the studios I encounter use one or the other and I am noticing a trend where boutique studios which would like to use Arnold instead turn to Vray simply because of the high cost. I'm sure SolidAngle has their reasons but I note that ChaosGroup is making very serious efforts to be competitive and has gained some traction with this kind of outreach. Vray is quite a capable renderer which I've enjoyed using, I just wish the price difference didn't become the basis for choosing between the two. All that aside, kudos to ChaosGroup for their efforts to support Softimage and the freelance community!
Re: Wots changed w/ cmd and/or bat rendering..
This works fine for me xsibatch -r -scene path_to_scene_with_backslashes\*.scn -pass pass_name -startframe 1 -endframe 100 -step 1 On 19 April 2013 22:42, Stephen Blair stephenrbl...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Why don't you use xsibatch instead of xsi? On 19/04/2013 7:56 PM, rob...@texturelighting.com wrote: I used to be perfectly content to make a quick little .bat file, save to desktop, and render XSI in the background with one click. My syntax, ever since XSI v5 or 6 was: xsi -render path_to_scene_with_**backslashes\ myscene.scn -pass passName Now, there is no joy, and I am not sure why. (Besides it is Friday and I will be working all weekend) Win 7 XSI 2013 and 2012 installed. Thank you, -Robert
Pixar OpenSubdiv and Autodesk webinar
Originally posted by Graham on Si-community. Next Tuesday, the 23th, yours truly will be hosting a webinar with special guests, Bill Polson, Dirk Van Gelder, Manuel Kraemer, Takahito Tejima, David G. Yu and Dale Ruffolo, from Pixar Animation Studios’ GPU team, to show how Autodesk and Pixar are working together to build technology with stunning real-time results and how real time display of subdivision surfaces helps artists be more productive, and how this code is open source and engineered for ease of integration. OpenSubdiv is a set of open source libraries that implement high-performance subdivision surface (subdiv) evaluation on massively parallel CPU and GPU architectures. The code embodies decades of research and experience by Pixar. Here's a link to the webinar: Join Pixar Animation Studios, to learn about the OpenSubdiv Projecthttp://www.autodesk.co.uk/adsk/servlet/pc/index?id=17144365siteID=452932mktvar001=558804mktvar002=558804 The webinar page has different links depending on what general time zone you're in, so be sure to choose the right one. Webinar will be in English only. _ Graham Bell - Technical Specialist Autodesk Media Entertainment - EMEA --- Should be informative. OpenSubdiv website and access to Github: http://graphics.pixar.com/opensubdiv/ Cheers! Daniel Brassard
Did I over-complicate this?
I wanted to ask for your collective wisdom on this. I have a project where I'm animating around 30 different cables. Some are USB, some Firewire, and so on. Initially for the storyboards I use PowerExtrude to lay out all the designs, but now I need to fly the cables down my curves. If I didn't need the connectors, I could just animate PowerExtrude and be done with it, but all the various connectors need to be there as they extrude. My thought was, constrain a null to the curve, animate the null down the curve and use that to drive PowerExtrude. I then parent the connector to the null. I can't just build the cables beforehand and then deform them with a curve (AFAIK) because they need to appear to be growing from the client's product and the connectors can't be deformed by the curve in any way - just the cables can bend. So does my method seem ok, or is that overly complicated for what I'm doing? Sometimes I can't see the forest for the trees. -Paul
RE: Did I over-complicate this?
Create a cylinder surface with the base at zero and the height at 1. You'll want to freeze transforms to get this right. Deform the cylinder to curve uising AnimateDeformDeform By Curve. Create a cluster at the end of the deformed cylinder Constrain the connector to the cluster using Object to Cluster and use the normal constraing in Obj2Cls to align the connector to the end of the cable. You can use the curve deform scale to extrude along the curve, but for best results the source mesh or surface needs to be one unit in length in Y. Therefore scaling the curve deform to two will make it two units long along the curve, etc. -- Joey Ponthieux LaRC Information Technology Enhanced Services (LITES) Mymic Technical Services NASA Langley Research Center __ Opinions stated here-in are strictly those of the author and do not represent the opinions of NASA or any other party. From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Paul Griswold Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 1:30 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Did I over-complicate this? I wanted to ask for your collective wisdom on this. I have a project where I'm animating around 30 different cables. Some are USB, some Firewire, and so on. Initially for the storyboards I use PowerExtrude to lay out all the designs, but now I need to fly the cables down my curves. If I didn't need the connectors, I could just animate PowerExtrude and be done with it, but all the various connectors need to be there as they extrude. My thought was, constrain a null to the curve, animate the null down the curve and use that to drive PowerExtrude. I then parent the connector to the null. I can't just build the cables beforehand and then deform them with a curve (AFAIK) because they need to appear to be growing from the client's product and the connectors can't be deformed by the curve in any way - just the cables can bend. So does my method seem ok, or is that overly complicated for what I'm doing? Sometimes I can't see the forest for the trees. -Paul
Re: A must see
Absolutely fantastic. Thanks for sharing. On 26/03/2013, at 22.41, olivier jeannel wrote: If you're on Vimeo and more specially in the Softimage Ice Video don't miss https://vimeo.com/60296337 It's the making of this https://vimeo.com/59230893 Awarded at Annecy, Ice poetry...
Re: Did I over-complicate this?
I thought about constrained clusters, but for some reason thought they didn't work with deform by curve. That's basically where my hair-brained scheme came from. Thanks! Paul On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES] j.ponthi...@nasa.gov wrote: Create a cylinder surface with the base at zero and the height at 1. You’ll want to freeze transforms to get this right. ** ** Deform the cylinder to curve uising AnimateDeformDeform By Curve. ** ** Create a cluster at the end of the deformed cylinder ** ** Constrain the connector to the cluster using Object to Cluster and use the normal constraing in Obj2Cls to align the connector to the end of the cable. ** ** ** ** You can use the curve deform scale to extrude along the curve, but for best results the source mesh or surface needs to be one unit in length in Y. Therefore scaling the curve deform to two will make it two units long along the curve, etc. ** ** -- Joey Ponthieux LaRC Information Technology Enhanced Services (LITES) Mymic Technical Services NASA Langley Research Center __ Opinions stated here-in are strictly those of the author and do not represent the opinions of NASA or any other party. ** ** *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Paul Griswold *Sent:* Monday, April 22, 2013 1:30 PM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Did I over-complicate this? ** ** I wanted to ask for your collective wisdom on this. ** ** I have a project where I'm animating around 30 different cables. Some are USB, some Firewire, and so on. Initially for the storyboards I use PowerExtrude to lay out all the designs, but now I need to fly the cables down my curves. ** ** If I didn't need the connectors, I could just animate PowerExtrude and be done with it, but all the various connectors need to be there as they extrude. ** ** My thought was, constrain a null to the curve, animate the null down the curve and use that to drive PowerExtrude. I then parent the connector to the null. ** ** I can't just build the cables beforehand and then deform them with a curve (AFAIK) because they need to appear to be growing from the client's product and the connectors can't be deformed by the curve in any way - just the cables can bend. ** ** So does my method seem ok, or is that overly complicated for what I'm doing? ** ** Sometimes I can't see the forest for the trees. ** ** -Paul ** ** ** **
Product Activation Wizard issues
Hey everyone. I thought I would ask here first before digging further, Many of my students have complained about this issue with the Product activation wizard, with Softimage and with Maya. they simply can't get an activation beyond the 30 day trial. The link i have found is here. http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?linkID=9240617id=6404339siteID=123112 There appear to be about 7 ways to fix this issue. I had the issue myself with a MotionBuilder 2013. Has anyone else come across this, and without having to dig into each and every fix or hack my registry, was there a quick fix? Do the latest version of Autodesk have this same issue? Any help or thoughts on this would be most welcome. Thanks Adam
RE: Wots changed w/ cmd and/or bat rendering..
Our licenses expired last November and we had to get replacements. Upon doing so some of our batch scripts no longer functioned. Apparently something has changed with licensing. We had to revise all our scripts by appending -processing as an argument to xsibatch.exe before anything would work again. Try that. Matt From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of rob...@texturelighting.com Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 4:39 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Wots changed w/ cmd and/or bat rendering.. Yes, I have it working as before with a call to setenv.bat (thanks to Dan Yarguci), on all my other computers and a few remote servers, it is just my main do it here computer w/ various vanilla installs of 2011, 2012, 2013 that fails. I have checked all the setenv.bats and related w/ User Tools and also checked my paths and env vars.., nothing yet however. I also re-registered jscript.dll and vbscript.dll, ran runonce.bat, and all the Stupid User Tricks I know from way back to Softimage 2 or 3.. My last hope will be to un-install the XSI's, and the Python, and etc, start fresh and see when it fails. No big deal at present, but it bugs me. -Robert On 4/22/2013 9:46 AM, Pete Edmunds wrote: This works fine for me xsibatch -r -scene path_to_scene_with_backslashes\*.scn -pass pass_name -startframe 1 -endframe 100 -step 1 On 19 April 2013 22:42, Stephen Blair stephenrbl...@gmail.commailto:stephenrbl...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Why don't you use xsibatch instead of xsi?
stl export and plugin to see size of object
Is there any FREE plugin to export to stl format? And is there any plugin to see the size of objects in softimage. By that i mean the width, height and depth of an object. I know the story of softimage units is whatever unit you want it to be, but this isn't really helping if you can't see it. And counting the grid is kinda time consuming. hope service pack 1 will bring this :)
Re: stl export and plugin to see size of object
here is a plugin I wrote that you can use. It's all in python so there should not be any problems with it. You'll find it under File-Export-Export STL. Exporting through the menu allows only for binary STLs but the command itself has a switch to export in ascii format too. hope this helps cheers vladimir On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 4:46 PM, Doeke Wartena clankil...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any FREE plugin to export to stl format? And is there any plugin to see the size of objects in softimage. By that i mean the width, height and depth of an object. I know the story of softimage units is whatever unit you want it to be, but this isn't really helping if you can't see it. And counting the grid is kinda time consuming. hope service pack 1 will bring this :) -- --- Vladimir Jankijevic Technical Direction Elefant Studios AG Lessingstrasse 15 CH-8002 Zürich +41 44 500 48 20 www.elefantstudios.ch --- STL_ExportPlugin.py Description: Binary data
Re: stl export and plugin to see size of object
Just download MeshLab, (it's free and opensource) http://meshlab.sourceforge.net/ It can import OBJs. Here's a tutorial about using MeshLab to figure out and adjust scaling for a 3D print: http://www.shapeways.com/tutorials/how_to_use_meshlab_and_netfabb When you figure out how much a 1x1x1 Softimage cube is in real units according to MeshLab, let us know! :) On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 4:46 PM, Doeke Wartena clankil...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any FREE plugin to export to stl format? And is there any plugin to see the size of objects in softimage. By that i mean the width, height and depth of an object. I know the story of softimage units is whatever unit you want it to be, but this isn't really helping if you can't see it. And counting the grid is kinda time consuming. hope service pack 1 will bring this :)
Re: stl export and plugin to see size of object
This simple script will also work for finding width, height and depth,
of the bounding box of course:
ret = Application.GetBBox(Application.Selection(0))
print 'Width: %s' % (ret('UpperBoundX') - ret('LowerBoundX'))
print 'Height: %s' % (ret('UpperBoundY') - ret('LowerBoundY'))
print 'Depth: %s' % (ret('UpperBoundZ') - ret('LowerBoundZ'))
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On 22/04/2013 4:46 PM, Doeke Wartena wrote:
Is there any FREE plugin to export to stl format?
And is there any plugin to see the size of objects in softimage.
By that i mean the width, height and depth of an object.
I know the story of softimage units is whatever unit you want it to
be, but this isn't really helping if you can't see it. And counting
the grid is kinda time consuming.
hope service pack 1 will bring this :)
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Finding Duplicate Vertices in a mesh
Folks, Whats easiest way to find duplicate vertices in a model? Seems like something that should be easy to find, but I'm drawing a blank... Anyone have any ideas? -- Adrian Lopez CEO.Producer.Director Liquid Light Digital www.liquidlightdigital.com
Controlling Strand length using flow along curve?
I am emitting particles which flow along curves, and I need a strand to trail after the particle, so I use Align Strand to Particle trajectory. My problem is that at the start of the curve, the strand, which is rather long, points straight down until the particle has traveled the length of the curve which corresponds to the trail length, after which the strand follows the curve nicely. I have tried animating the length of the strand so it grows from zero length, which is what I would prefer, but this leaves me with a very short strand trail for the whole animation. How can I fix the strand so it doesn't point straight down in the beginning, and is there a way to make the strand animate longer as the particle moves along the curve it flows along? Thanks! Morten Bartholdy Tired particle pusher
Re: ICE: stick to surface without overlapping particles
On 22/04/2013 10:40, David Saber wrote: Thanks Stephen, this seems very interesting. I partly managed to set up the thing by plugging a sphere in the Dart Throw node , then in add point then in the ice tree node. But the points do not have any shape, they're just black dots. I don't know what to do with the size output. On Julian's blog there's not manual and the example scene is outdated. Anyone knows where I could learn to use it? Thanks David David - to use the size output, plug the size array into the array port of a 'select in array' node. Get 'self.id' and plug that into the index port of the 'select in array' node. Set 'self.size' using the output of the select in array node.
