Re: Blast from the past

[Andreas Böinghoff]

  
  
MetaClay.. Yeah! What a nice feature...
  
  
  On 1/27/2014 6:24 PM, Ed Harriss wrote:


  
  
  
  
  
Wow,
same here. Secrets of Softimage was such a great video.
Thanks
for the link.

I
feel old too! ;)




  
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Subject: RE: Blast from the past
  


Haha. I still have the VHS tapes somewhere,
collecting dust. And two SGI Indigos for some nerdy reasons
:)

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Sent: Monday, January 27, 2014 5:51 PM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: Re: Blast from the past


  
Yup that is the time when I fell in love with
this insanity.
  
  Two grandpas here :)


  
  
  

  
  
  
2014-01-27 Sergio
Mucino sergio.muc...@modusfx.com

  Oh, man... this brought up so many
  memories... I always loved the Soft UI!! (Call me
  grandpa) :-D
  
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlxVJXXyPiY
  
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managing render channels

[Eugen Sares]

Hi,
another silly question:
once I have added custom render channels, how can I manage them? Delete,
rename...
Just can't find them in the explorer or render manager.
Thanks!
Eugen

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Re: managing render channels

[Vladimir Jankijevic]

Render - Scene Options - Available Channels Tab

Renaming them or redefining the type is not allowed. You can just remove
them or add new ones

Cheers
Vladimir


On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 4:58 AM, Eugen Sares sof...@mail.sprit.org wrote:

  Hi,
 another silly question:
 once I have added custom render channels, how can I manage them? Delete,
 rename...
 Just can't find them in the explorer or render manager.
 Thanks!
 Eugen


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Re: managing render channels

[Andreas Böinghoff]

Add/Remove

Render - Scene Options... -Available Channels


On 1/28/2014 10:58 AM, Eugen Sares wrote:

Hi,
another silly question:
once I have added custom render channels, how can I manage them? 
Delete, rename...

Just can't find them in the explorer or render manager.
Thanks!
Eugen



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A question on FBX

[Szabolcs Matefy]

Is it possible to export data in a Z up system? AFAIK Maya, and Max (for sure) 
has this feature, and we now need it...

Cheers


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Re: Blast from the past

[wavo]

  
  
 should be 1896 :-) 
  
  
  Am 1/28/2014 12:49 PM, schrieb Arvid Bjrn:


  Would've loved to have this video when I started
learning, which year is this?
  
  

On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 5:46 PM, Sergio
  Mucino sergio.muc...@modusfx.com
  wrote:
  
 Oh, man... this
  brought up so many memories... I always loved the Soft
  UI!! (Call me grandpa)  :-D 
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlxVJXXyPiY
  
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Re: A question on FBX

[Ivan Tay]

Have you try if the send to work for maya?

Ivan

Sent from my iPad. Please excuse for typos.

On 28 Jan, 2014, at 7:05 pm, Szabolcs Matefy 
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Is it possible to export data in a Z up system? AFAIK Maya, and Max (for sure) 
has this feature, and we now need it…

Cheers


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Re: Expression For Shape Blend

[Will Sharkey]

Very cool, its a linear interpolation I'm after and this solution works
great!

Cheers.


On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 5:54 PM, Alok Gandhi alok.gandhi2...@gmail.comwrote:

 It depends on how you want to interpolate. As the relation may not be
 necessarily linear, there could be infinitely many ways in which the
 interpolation can happen.

 Take a look at my drawing http://imgur.com/bM8Gx2H to see what I mean.

 I suggest an fcurve into the expression will be of great use as you can
 completely control the interpolation. It seems that either ICE or link with
 parameters are a better choice.

 However, if you want to use expressions, it is simply a condition of
 selecting one of the two equations straight line:

 Here is the expression that you can use on Eyefix:
 *cond( Slider = 0.2, Slider / 0.2, ( 1 - Slider ) / 0.8 )*

 This expression will properly interpolate and even extrapolate( for value
 of slider outside the interval (0, 1))

 Please note that the expression is in condensed form based on the values
 you provided : (0,0), (0.2, 1.0), (0, 1.0). If you change your point of
 choice from 0.2 to some other value then this expression needs to be
 changed.

 I have not included the method to derive this expression for the reason of
 being succint but it simply is an implementation of two equations of
 straight lines through two points plugged into a condition statement.

 Good luck!


 Alok.


 On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 12:20 PM, Emilio Hernandez emi...@e-roja.comwrote:

 Yeah.  ICE, ICE, Baby.




 2014-01-27 Matt Morris matt...@gmail.com

 I'd go the ice route as well, not least because you can add an fcurve
 node to control the amount of influence over the 0 - 1 range, so its a link
 with but without the keys or curves appearing in the character's
 dopesheet/ae.


 On 27 January 2014 16:56, Will Sharkey willjshar...@gmail.com wrote:

 great stuff, I'll try both but I might just go down the ICE route.

 Thanks again.


 On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Emilio Hernandez emi...@e-roja.comwrote:

 It will work faster in ICE with the described method as you bypass the
 shape manager, or the animaton mixer. And go direct to the cluster to grab
 the point data as you are direclty adding the point positions.  You can
 also drive the point positions with a weightmap as well, multiplying the
 output value by the weightmap, before setting the point positions again on
 itself.  And it's easy to debug than getting, as Sergio said an expression
 to interpolate the weight of the shape.

 Cheers!




 2014-01-27 Will Sharkey willjshar...@gmail.com

 Yeah, I would need the values interpolated. I could do it in ICE but I
 thought it would be nice to keep it as a simple expression.

 Thanks for the help.


 On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Emilio Hernandez 
 emi...@e-roja.comwrote:

 Yes you can do it with expressions.

 It is a nested conditional.  cond
 (slider=0,eyefix=0,cond(slider=.2,eyefix=1,cond(slider=1,eyefix=0,0))).
 But I wouldn't suggest this approach.  There is an easiest way to do it 
 in
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Re: Lagoa Sim Question

[Stephen Bell]

Haha, that was the conclusion we came to as well - thanks for the advice!

And no, certainly no relation that I'm aware of :p

On 27/01/2014 19:43, Mathieu Leclaire wrote:

You can use the ICE - Kinematics - Effects - Deform Objects by Particles

Then all you need to do is edit the ICE tree and match the Index 
parameter of the Transform From Array compound to match the ID of the 
particle you want it to follow.


-Mathieu




On 27/01/2014 1:35 PM, gareth bell wrote:
If you want your particle to be the ice cube then you can you not 
just set the instance shape as your ice cube?





 Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 16:59:50 +
 From: ste...@interferencepattern.com
 To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
 Subject: Lagoa Sim Question

 Hi all,

 New subscriber here, been struggling with an RD problem for a few 
days now.


 Running a Lagoa sim with the ultimate aim of creating ice cubes,
 floating in a liquid within a glass. Currently I have the liquid and a
 particle representing the ice cube together as parts of a multi-phase
 simulation. The problem I'm having is working out how to have my ice
 cube geometry follow the position and orientation of the ice cube
 particle, either by using a constraint or through an ICE tree.

 I'm still pretty new to ICE and Softimage in general, so apologies if
 there's a startlingly obvious answer to this question - any 
suggestions

 would be much appreciated!

 Cheers,

 Steve Bell

RE: Gear rotation question

[Szabolcs Matefy]

Guys,

Is there anybody, who could take a look at the animation and the rig, if I made 
something wrong, or how can we make the final frame the same as the first? I 
could send it only privately, the list has file size limit

Cheers

From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com 
[mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Mirko Jankovic
Sent: Monday, January 27, 2014 2:01 PM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: Re: Gear rotation question

Actually Matt that could make a problem inside Unity as Unity try to 
interpolate which will give him weird movement there.
Unless there is some fancy way to disable that in Unity which I missed.

Re: Gear rotation question

[Nicolas Esposito]

I've made some test of looping animations in Unity, and they worked
properly, to copy-paste the first-last loop I just used the dopesheet and
copied the keyframes without any problems

Did you have the same problems with another rig ( Species/Gear )?


2014-01-28 Szabolcs Matefy szabol...@crytek.com

 Guys,



 Is there anybody, who could take a look at the animation and the rig, if I
 made something wrong, or how can we make the final frame the same as the
 first? I could send it only privately, the list has file size limit



 Cheers



 *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:
 softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Mirko Jankovic
 *Sent:* Monday, January 27, 2014 2:01 PM
 *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
 *Subject:* Re: Gear rotation question



 Actually Matt that could make a problem inside Unity as Unity try to
 interpolate which will give him weird movement there.

 Unless there is some fancy way to disable that in Unity which I missed.

Re: Gear rotation question

[Alok Gandhi]

Sounds like a gimbal, what are the rotation values currently at first and
last frames ?



On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Nicolas Esposito 3dv...@gmail.com wrote:

 Sorry, I just notice that the rig was built using Gear :)


 2014-01-28 Nicolas Esposito 3dv...@gmail.com

 I've made some test of looping animations in Unity, and they worked
 properly, to copy-paste the first-last loop I just used the dopesheet and
 copied the keyframes without any problems

 Did you have the same problems with another rig ( Species/Gear )?


 2014-01-28 Szabolcs Matefy szabol...@crytek.com

 Guys,



 Is there anybody, who could take a look at the animation and the rig, if
 I made something wrong, or how can we make the final frame the same as the
 first? I could send it only privately, the list has file size limit



 Cheers



 *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:
 softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Mirko Jankovic
 *Sent:* Monday, January 27, 2014 2:01 PM
 *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
 *Subject:* Re: Gear rotation question



 Actually Matt that could make a problem inside Unity as Unity try to
 interpolate which will give him weird movement there.

 Unless there is some fancy way to disable that in Unity which I missed.






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Re: Gear rotation question

[Nicolas Esposito]

Sorry, I just notice that the rig was built using Gear :)


2014-01-28 Nicolas Esposito 3dv...@gmail.com

 I've made some test of looping animations in Unity, and they worked
 properly, to copy-paste the first-last loop I just used the dopesheet and
 copied the keyframes without any problems

 Did you have the same problems with another rig ( Species/Gear )?


 2014-01-28 Szabolcs Matefy szabol...@crytek.com

 Guys,



 Is there anybody, who could take a look at the animation and the rig, if
 I made something wrong, or how can we make the final frame the same as the
 first? I could send it only privately, the list has file size limit



 Cheers



 *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:
 softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Mirko Jankovic
 *Sent:* Monday, January 27, 2014 2:01 PM
 *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
 *Subject:* Re: Gear rotation question



 Actually Matt that could make a problem inside Unity as Unity try to
 interpolate which will give him weird movement there.

 Unless there is some fancy way to disable that in Unity which I missed.

Exocortex

[Toonafish]

Hi,

If someone from Exocortex reads this post,  please get in touch with me 
( ronald at toonafish dot nl ). Sorry to abuse this list, but I've been 
trying the support email adress and phone several times, but no luck so 
far.


Thanks,

- Ronald

image sequence doesnt render with vray

[Kris Rivel]

Anyone know why an image sequence used as a texture doesn't seem to render
with vray?  It just seems locked to one frame.  But ironically...a render
region seems to work.  Its like it just grabs whatever frame the scene is
at, then renders that frame of the image sequence but the buffer isn't
clear for the next frame so it just uses the same frame again.

Kris

Re: image sequence doesnt render with vray

[Eric Thivierge]

Are we talking particles or just applied to geo?

On Tuesday, January 28, 2014 1:12:14 PM, Kris Rivel wrote:

Anyone know why an image sequence used as a texture doesn't seem to
render with vray?  It just seems locked to one frame.  But
ironically...a render region seems to work.  Its like it just grabs
whatever frame the scene is at, then renders that frame of the image
sequence but the buffer isn't clear for the next frame so it just uses
the same frame again.

Kris

Re: image sequence doesnt render with vray

[Eric Lampi]

Vray has be a royal pain in the butt for the project I have been working
on. It's been buggy and inconsistent.

I'm definitely regretting letting someone talk me into it. I should have
stood firm on Arnold.

Eric

Freelance 3D and VFX animator

http://vimeopro.com/user7979713/3d-work


On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Kris Rivel krisri...@gmail.com wrote:

 Anyone know why an image sequence used as a texture doesn't seem to render
 with vray?  It just seems locked to one frame.  But ironically...a render
 region seems to work.  Its like it just grabs whatever frame the scene is
 at, then renders that frame of the image sequence but the buffer isn't
 clear for the next frame so it just uses the same frame again.

 Kris

Re: image sequence doesnt render with vray

[Kris Rivel]

Just applied to geoits very weird.  Its like I need to render each
frame...but close and reload the buffer each time.  So render one frame,
close, advance to next, render that frame, etc.


On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Eric Lampi ericla...@gmail.com wrote:

 Vray has be a royal pain in the butt for the project I have been working
 on. It's been buggy and inconsistent.

 I'm definitely regretting letting someone talk me into it. I should have
 stood firm on Arnold.

 Eric

 Freelance 3D and VFX animator

 http://vimeopro.com/user7979713/3d-work


 On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Kris Rivel krisri...@gmail.com wrote:

 Anyone know why an image sequence used as a texture doesn't seem to
 render with vray?  It just seems locked to one frame.  But ironically...a
 render region seems to work.  Its like it just grabs whatever frame the
 scene is at, then renders that frame of the image sequence but the buffer
 isn't clear for the next frame so it just uses the same frame again.

 Kris

Re: managing render channels

[Stephen Davidson]

To rename the channel output filename, just rename the pass name.


On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 5:05 AM, Vladimir Jankijevic 
vladi...@elefantstudios.ch wrote:

 Render - Scene Options - Available Channels Tab

 Renaming them or redefining the type is not allowed. You can just remove
 them or add new ones

 Cheers
 Vladimir


 On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 4:58 AM, Eugen Sares sof...@mail.sprit.orgwrote:

  Hi,
 another silly question:
 once I have added custom render channels, how can I manage them? Delete,
 rename...
 Just can't find them in the explorer or render manager.
 Thanks!
 Eugen


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Re: Exocortex

[Ben Houston]

Hi Ronald,

I have responded off list.

Best regards,
Ben Houston

On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 12:21 PM, Toonafish ron...@toonafish.nl wrote:
 Hi,

 If someone from Exocortex reads this post,  please get in touch with me (
 ronald at toonafish dot nl ). Sorry to abuse this list, but I've been trying
 the support email adress and phone several times, but no luck so far.

 Thanks,

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Re: image sequence doesnt render with vray

[Steven Caron]

i wonder how much of that is the softimage implementation versus the
standalone renderer versus another dcc integration?


On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Eric Lampi ericla...@gmail.com wrote:

 Vray has be a royal pain in the butt for the project I have been working
 on. It's been buggy and inconsistent.

 I'm definitely regretting letting someone talk me into it. I should have
 stood firm on Arnold.

 Eric

 Freelance 3D and VFX animator

 http://vimeopro.com/user7979713/3d-work

Re[2]: image sequence doesnt render with vray

[Eugen Sares]

I suspect the implementation. Sorry to say... despite the countless bugs
they fix all the time, there seems to be still always something...
Had to quit on using VRay for this architectural project because of a
nasty hang. And unluckily, they couldn't repro my problem... I'll get
back on this when I have time.
Using mental delay now... (has it's advantages, btw.)


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Gesendet: 28.01.2014 20:35:27
Betreff: Re: image sequence doesnt render with vray


i wonder how much of that is the softimage implementation versus the
standalone renderer versus another dcc integration?


On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Eric Lampi ericla...@gmail.com
wrote:

Vray has be a royal pain in the butt for the project I have been
working on. It's been buggy and inconsistent.

I'm definitely regretting letting someone talk me into it. I should
have stood firm on Arnold.

Eric

Freelance 3D and VFX animator

http://vimeopro.com/user7979713/3d-work



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Re: Re[2]: image sequence doesnt render with vray

[Steven Caron]

well, don't be sorry.. just means the plugin integration is lacking,
nothing wrong with the core of vray, right?

On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Eugen Sares sof...@mail.sprit.org wrote:

  I suspect the implementation. Sorry to say... despite the countless bugs
 they fix all the time, there seems to be still always something...

Re[4]: image sequence doesnt render with vray

[Eugen Sares]

Yes, I mean the SI implementation. The core of VRay is quite stable. Has
to be, after all it's kind of industry standard for the 3ds max
visualization crowd (not only, of course) for over a decade now.
Might be that Chaosgroup's Softimage department is a bit understaffed...
I wonder if they make their money with it... hope so, it's basically a
very good renderer, and I want to keep it in my toolbox.

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An: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Gesendet: 28.01.2014 20:52:50
Betreff: Re: Re[2]: image sequence doesnt render with vray


well, don't be sorry.. just means the plugin integration is lacking,
nothing wrong with the core of vray, right?

On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Eugen Sares sof...@mail.sprit.org
wrote:

I suspect the implementation. Sorry to say... despite the countless
bugs they fix all the time, there seems to be still always
something...


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Re: refresh issue with gear limbs

[Matt Morris]

Ok, so with a bit more investigation the problem can be fixed by unhiding
the leg_L0_0_jnt. This has a scripted op undeneath it setting a number of
things related to the leg bend, and I can only guess that the op is not
being evaluated on certain frames, causing the twisting.

My fix for now is to make it visible yet unselectable, and shrink the
shadow scale down so its not confusing to animators.

This is using gear 1.1.0, will test gear mc tomorrow and if it repros,
maybe dig out miquel's email for a bug report ;)



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Re: refresh issue with gear limbs

[Jeremie Passerin]

If it's the solver not being properly evaluated, that won't be fixed in
Miquel's version. Afaik he didn't do any change on the solvers.

That might be coming from the optimization of the solver that's trying to
be evaluated only when needed. :(
Sorry about that


On 28 January 2014 13:52, Matt Morris matt...@gmail.com wrote:

 Ok, so with a bit more investigation the problem can be fixed by unhiding
 the leg_L0_0_jnt. This has a scripted op undeneath it setting a number of
 things related to the leg bend, and I can only guess that the op is not
 being evaluated on certain frames, causing the twisting.

 My fix for now is to make it visible yet unselectable, and shrink the
 shadow scale down so its not confusing to animators.

 This is using gear 1.1.0, will test gear mc tomorrow and if it repros,
 maybe dig out miquel's email for a bug report ;)



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Re: Hybride Pacific Rim Motion Graphics Breakdown

[Alok Gandhi]

Nice +1


On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 3:40 PM, Eric Thivierge ethivie...@hybride.comwrote:

 Just wanted to send out the Motion Graphics breakdown for the work Hybride
 did on Pacific Rim:
 http://youtu.be/NVm7rNd0fEU

 I arrived just a little while after that project finished and didn't get
 to contribute but the folks who did here are pretty proud of their work.
 Usual motion graphics apps + Softimage.

 Cheers,
 Eric T.




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Re: The Lego Movie: Behind the Scenes and How They Made the Movie

[Ahmidou Lyazidi]

Everything is CG, some people were talking about stop motion after the
first trailer release,
but they were just abused by the extraordinary work did by the team :)

The purpose of the face rig was to simplify the select  move  keyframe
workflow and the hierarchies to the maximum.
So instead of having a lots of control object to drive the curves we
decided to work directly with the curves (which has to be bezier ones ).
Shape animation wasn't an option either, as we needed more flexibilityity.

Actually there was 3 levels of manipulation:
1- the curve itself fot SRT
2- the soft controls basic and predefined shaping mostly driven by ICE
3 -A custom manipulation tool was built that was kind of like the tweak
tool with extra options for fast and
direct point manipulation (click drag, without selection).
But instead of moving the points, it was updating per point translation
parameters
then a custom C++ operator was reading those parameters to drive the points.
another operators was doing the curves offsetting to give thickness.

The curve had some color and other properties used by a realtime
shaderapplied on the heads.
And that's pretty much all, I hope you'll enjoy the movie!

Cheers
-A

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http://www.cappuccino-films.com


2014-01-27 David Gallagher davegsoftimagel...@gmail.com


 Great work. Excited about this! My children were sure this was a
 stop-motion movie. (heh)


 On 1/27/2014 8:13 AM, Alan Fregtman wrote:

 Nice!! Great work, animals. :)



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Re: refresh issue with gear limbs

[Matt Morris]

No apologies needed Jeremie! You and Miquel and everyone releasing  tools
like this deserve medals. Maybe just a silver now though ;)




On 28 January 2014 22:00, Jeremie Passerin gerem@gmail.com wrote:

 If it's the solver not being properly evaluated, that won't be fixed in
 Miquel's version. Afaik he didn't do any change on the solvers.

 That might be coming from the optimization of the solver that's trying to
 be evaluated only when needed. :(
 Sorry about that


 On 28 January 2014 13:52, Matt Morris matt...@gmail.com wrote:

 Ok, so with a bit more investigation the problem can be fixed by unhiding
 the leg_L0_0_jnt. This has a scripted op undeneath it setting a number
 of things related to the leg bend, and I can only guess that the op is not
 being evaluated on certain frames, causing the twisting.

 My fix for now is to make it visible yet unselectable, and shrink the
 shadow scale down so its not confusing to animators.

 This is using gear 1.1.0, will test gear mc tomorrow and if it repros,
 maybe dig out miquel's email for a bug report ;)



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Re: refresh issue with gear limbs

[Jeremie Passerin]

he he ;-)


On 28 January 2014 14:51, Matt Morris matt...@gmail.com wrote:

 No apologies needed Jeremie! You and Miquel and everyone releasing  tools
 like this deserve medals. Maybe just a silver now though ;)




 On 28 January 2014 22:00, Jeremie Passerin gerem@gmail.com wrote:

 If it's the solver not being properly evaluated, that won't be fixed in
 Miquel's version. Afaik he didn't do any change on the solvers.

 That might be coming from the optimization of the solver that's trying to
 be evaluated only when needed. :(
 Sorry about that


 On 28 January 2014 13:52, Matt Morris matt...@gmail.com wrote:

 Ok, so with a bit more investigation the problem can be fixed by
 unhiding the leg_L0_0_jnt. This has a scripted op undeneath it setting
 a number of things related to the leg bend, and I can only guess that the
 op is not being evaluated on certain frames, causing the twisting.

 My fix for now is to make it visible yet unselectable, and shrink the
 shadow scale down so its not confusing to animators.

 This is using gear 1.1.0, will test gear mc tomorrow and if it repros,
 maybe dig out miquel's email for a bug report ;)



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Re: Hybride Pacific Rim Motion Graphics Breakdown

[Sebastien Sterling]

Galumptious !


On 28 January 2014 23:18, Alok Gandhi alok.gandhi2...@gmail.com wrote:

 Nice +1


 On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 3:40 PM, Eric Thivierge ethivie...@hybride.comwrote:

 Just wanted to send out the Motion Graphics breakdown for the work
 Hybride did on Pacific Rim:
 http://youtu.be/NVm7rNd0fEU

 I arrived just a little while after that project finished and didn't get
 to contribute but the folks who did here are pretty proud of their work.
 Usual motion graphics apps + Softimage.

 Cheers,
 Eric T.




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RE: A question on FBX

[Min Rui Tan]

Softimage does not convert to Z-Up for FBX Export.
Can go through Maya for that, or if you work with the FBX SDK, it has a 
ConvertScene function that handles all these.

Min Rui


From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com 
[mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Ivan Tay
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2014 8:25 PM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: Re: A question on FBX

Have you try if the send to work for maya?

Ivan

Sent from my iPad. Please excuse for typos.

On 28 Jan, 2014, at 7:05 pm, Szabolcs Matefy 
szabol...@crytek.commailto:szabol...@crytek.com wrote:
Is it possible to export data in a Z up system? AFAIK Maya, and Max (for sure) 
has this feature, and we now need it…

Cheers


Szabolcs
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Re: Hybride Pacific Rim Motion Graphics Breakdown

[Alan Fregtman]

Nice work hybrids! :)

They were the icing on the cake of our Pacific shots done at Rodeo, hehe.
 On Jan 28, 2014 3:41 PM, Eric Thivierge ethivie...@hybride.com wrote:

 Just wanted to send out the Motion Graphics breakdown for the work Hybride
 did on Pacific Rim:
 http://youtu.be/NVm7rNd0fEU

 I arrived just a little while after that project finished and didn't get
 to contribute but the folks who did here are pretty proud of their work.
 Usual motion graphics apps + Softimage.

 Cheers,
 Eric T.

Re: Hybride Pacific Rim Motion Graphics Breakdown

[Eric Thivierge]

Or was it the other way around? :P


Eric Thivierge
http://www.ethivierge.com


On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 10:18 PM, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.comwrote:

 Nice work hybrids! :)

 They were the icing on the cake of our Pacific shots done at Rodeo, hehe.
  On Jan 28, 2014 3:41 PM, Eric Thivierge ethivie...@hybride.com wrote:

 Just wanted to send out the Motion Graphics breakdown for the work
 Hybride did on Pacific Rim:
 http://youtu.be/NVm7rNd0fEU

 I arrived just a little while after that project finished and didn't get
 to contribute but the folks who did here are pretty proud of their work.
 Usual motion graphics apps + Softimage.

 Cheers,
 Eric T.

Redshift

[Mirko Jankovic]

Hey,
Anyone else having problems with Redshift web page?

Re: Redshift

[Angus Davidson]

Seems to be working fine here . Any specific page ?



From: Mirko Jankovic 
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softimage@listproc.autodesk.commailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com 
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Date: Wednesday 29 January 2014 at 9:18 AM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.commailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com 
softimage@listproc.autodesk.commailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: Redshift

Hey,
Anyone else having problems with Redshift web page?

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Re: Redshift

[Mirko Jankovic]

just got back online... sry for disturbing


On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 8:22 AM, Angus Davidson
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  Seems to be working fine here . Any specific page ?



   From: Mirko Jankovic mirkoj.anima...@gmail.com
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 softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
 Date: Wednesday 29 January 2014 at 9:18 AM
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 Subject: Redshift

   Hey,
 Anyone else having problems with Redshift web page?

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