RE: Excel spreadsheet import

[Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES II]]

Thanks everyone!  These all look quite useful.


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[mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Blair
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2016 5:18 PM
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Subject: Re: Excel spreadsheet import

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On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 2:28 PM, Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES II] 
mailto:j.ponthi...@nasa.gov>> wrote:
Howdy yall,

So I’m curious if anyone has ever imported Excel spreadsheet data into 
Softimage or Houdini?

I know that there is probably a greater chance that I could find a way export 
the sheet as CSV data, and then bring in the data that way possibly by writing 
a converter to sort the data into a collection or something, but I’m really 
looking for some way to have the sheet drive the elements in the scene. 
Essentially I’d prefer the sheet to be linked rather than imported so the data 
can be easily replaced or updated.

The idea is to use the app to create a “3D Chart” driven by the sheet content. 
I realize that it’s probably a reach with Soft but thought maybe Houdini might 
have other options. I’m also looking at Unity as well, with the assets created 
in Soft, Maya, or Houdini. I want the spreadsheet to be more a reference than 
an import however, with the cell content used to drive chart elements such as 
text, element position in space, or other characteristics.

Has anyone here ever done something like that? Soft, Houdini, and Unity are the 
primary platforms being considered.

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Re: very OT: FabricEngine simulated object deformer?

[Thomas Volkmann]

Thanks Eric!!
 
I started on friday to get into Max Creation Graph until I found out the hard
way that they don't have a undo implemented yet
 
http://3dsmaxfeedback.autodesk.com/forums/80695-general-feature-requests/suggestions/7734021-enable-undo-and-redo-in-mcg
 (accidentally deleting the wrong nodes pretty much killed it for me).
The sample scenes you sent to me got me pretty far today, and it's probably just
a matter of knowing all the node names to get really comfortable...
 
cheers,
Thomas
 
 

> Eric Thivierge  hat am 11. November 2016 um 21:35
> geschrieben:
> 
>  Hi Thomas,
>   
>  It is possible to do this. I'm working on a sample scene for you. The only
> thing is that you can't drive maps / vertex colors in 3dsMax with Fabric right
> now. However what you could do is set these weights / vertex colors on the
> Fabric geometry object in the graph and export an Alembic of the cached
> deformation which includes these properties. Then import it back into 3dsMax
> or Maya and drive maps / vertex colors by that cached data. I'm working on
> getting the sample scene running in Maya and 3dsMax so that it'll be included
> for the next release hopefully. I'll be posting a forum topic in our forums
> and will link back when done. I just wanted to let you know I'm on it. :)
>   
>  Best,
>  Eric T.
> 
>  
>  Eric Thivierge
>  http://www.ethivierge.com
> 
>  On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 4:52 AM, Thomas Volkmann  mailto:li...@thomasvolkmann.com > wrote:
>> >Hi,
> >since I know there are some Fabric guys lurking here, I thought I'd ask
> > here first
> > 
> >I need to to build a simulated deformer to create a effect for milling
> > metal (basically like creating footprints in snow or similar) and create
> > vertex colors or some sort of map where the mesh was affected. Pretty basic
> > actually
> > 
> >BUT:
> >It has to happen inside 3ds Max!!
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8Kyi0WNg40  
> > 
> >There is a cheap snowprint tool, that probably gives us what we need, but
> > since I have some time to invest on this topic I wonder if:
> >A: I should try to build something in Max's Creation Graph (not really
> > what I'm looking for as I try to stay away from Max whenever I can)
> >B: Finally take the opportunity to dive into FabricEngine (which I wanted
> > to for a loong time now).
> > 
> >To be able to go for B I would need to know if FabricEngine could do
> > simulated deforms and if it could create maps or vertexcolors or whatever.
> >And is the 3dsMax Beta for FabricEngine mature enough to support this?
> > 
> > 
> >thanks,
> >Thomas 
> > 
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RE: SI|3D Flashback

[Brent McPherson]

The volume deform was inspired by Grabber and the guy behind Grabber (who was 
working at Softimage at the time and whose name I can't remember) was 
supportive of our effort to replicate his plugin in XSI.
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[mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Grahame Fuller
Sent: 11 November 2016 20:52
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: RE: SI|3D Flashback

The company name was spelled Konshus IIRC. The design of XSI’s Volume Deformer 
was indeed based on their Grabber plugin for SI|3D. Konshus also made a 
sculpting tool called Smither (I think) and maybe another tool.

gray

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[mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Sven Constable
Sent: Friday, November 11, 2016 3:46 PM
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Subject: RE: SI|3D Flashback

I think MetaMesh was from PhoenixTools.

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 [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Francois Lord
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Ah yes the Grabber! It became the Volume Deform in XSI. I thought it worked 
better as a modeling tool in soft, but was a better deform tool in XSI.

Conscious also made the MetaMesh plugin if my memory serves me well. It was an 
implementation of subd in Soft|3D.

On 11/11/2016 01:31 PM, Sven Constable wrote:
Hey list,

a demo by Chinny and he's talking about some plugins. I remember many of them, 
like PhoenixTools, Arete and the Ray Rebels stuff but I never heard of 
"Conscious". They developed a plugin called Grabber, that seems it was 
incorporated in XSI later on, as "Volume Deform". Ha, didn't know that!
Quite entertaining demo btw. Great foleys ;)

sven

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVPawEVWDT8




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Re: Softimage 2014 SP2 - Crashing when opening material editor

[Morten Bartholdy]

Interesting. I have almost given up using the Material Manage on some projects 
because it crashes XSI instantly - and I have shaderballs turned off. These are 
usually what I consider dirty scenes with lots of data coming from Maya from a 
non vfx pipeline, and I rarely have issues with stuff I create myself.
Bad headers is a thing to look for then, but given that I use Arnold texture 
workflow it should not be an issue, unless there are leftovers somewhere in the 
scene.

Morten


> Den 11. november 2016 klokken 16:33 skrev Pierre Schiller 
> :
> 
> 
> Thanks. Yes, I handled it there as well. Finally came to the culprit on
> this: a .png and a .jpg corrupted header data
> (displaying good, but reading bad) and this crushed the entire SI.
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 7:16 AM, Morten Bartholdy 
> wrote:
> 
> > If you are just repathing textures this is easily done in the External
> > Files Manager.
> >
> > MB
> >
> >
> > > Den 10. november 2016 klokken 00:35 skrev Pierre Schiller <
> > activemotionpictu...@gmail.com>:
> > >
> > >
> > > Merge worked. Thanks everyone for your help.
> > > Though I will try to turn off preview ball on Mat Editor. Thanks :)
> > >
> > > On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 3:17 AM, Rob Wuijster  wrote:
> > >
> > > > Or, if that doesn't help, try to merge the scene into a new one.
> > > > As it is crashing on another pc as well, it could be the scene itself.
> > > >
> > > > Rob
> > > >
> > > > \/-\/\/
> > > >
> > > > On 8-11-2016 22:59, Tenshi Sama wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Exactly, turn off the thumbnail preview. I have the same issues a while
> > > > ago, now i only have "text" materials.; but only in the Material
> > Manager;
> > > > in the render tree i always have thumbnails on.
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 4:55 PM, Stephen Davidson <
> > magic...@bellsouth.net>
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> Turn off the material ball preview, then load your scene.
> > > >>
> > > >> Best Regards,
> > > >> *  Stephen P. Davidson*
> > > >>
> > > >> *(954) 552-7956 <%28954%29%20552-7956> *
> > > >> sdavid...@3danimationmagic.com
> > > >>
> > > >> 3D Animation Magic Facebook page
> > > >> 
> > > >>
> > > >> *Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic*
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >>- Arthur C. Clarke
> > > >>
> > > >> 
> > > >>
> > > >> On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 4:43 PM Pierre Schiller <
> > > >> activemotionpictu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >>> Hello everyone. I´m on a tight deadline, and I have been using arnold
> > > >>> 3.13.0 for my renders.
> > > >>> It all went fine until 2 days ago. My scene crashes every time I
> > dare to
> > > >>> touch the material editor /or/ resize it. I´m cheking the sources
> > for all
> > > >>> of my textures to be path relative to the user of the project folder,
> > > >>> instead of a full path. (pictures/texture/diffuse1K.jpg - is
> > desired)
> > > >>> so I can later share the project.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> But SI crashes. I can´t repath all my textures.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> I followed the recommendations on ex-xsi about leaving the mat editor
> > > >>> open, then opening the scene, but I can´t even start scrolling and
> > the
> > > >>> material editor window, crashes softimage (goes blank). I tested it
> > on
> > > >>> another machine with SI 2015 and goes kap00t as well.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Please, if anyone could give me directions on where to check, I´d be
> > > >>> more than thankful.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> ps: I have also deleted all backup folders for the scene. Cleared all
> > > >>> .tmp files from windows. but I can´t think of a work around on this
> > one.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Best regards.
> > > >>> David.
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