Re: emPolygonizer5 release (Softimage, Modo, Fabric Engine, Maya, command line)
Great! Thanks a lot for your continued support for Softimage. And I'm especially glad about the MODO plugin. That's a good sign for the future! :) Cheers Steffen P.S.: Are there plans for some sort of view / camera dependent meshing? Eric Mootz e...@mootzoid.com schrieb am Tue Oct 28 2014 at 11:29:51 AM: Hey guys, Just wanted to announce the official release of emPolygonizer5. I copy/pasted the newsletter below. Cheers! Eric Mootzoid is pleased to announce the release of *emPolygonizer5* (version 5.1). Aside from new features and many improvements this new version is not only available for *Softimage*, but also for *Maya*, *MODO*, *Fabric Engine* and as a *command line tool* = pick your poison! The plugin was heavily tested during the last few weeks to eliminate any last bugs and to make sure it can handle dozens of millions of particles on a normal workstation and so on. In short: to ensure it is a solid and reliable tool for production! The resulting renderings were put together in a four minute long release video called Wild at Mesh, see link below. The *Softimage*, the *Maya *and the *command line* versions are 100% finished, the *Fabric Engine* version as well as the *MODO* version will be available shortly (in a couple of weeks, tops) as there are still a few last little things to polish. Wild at Mesh (release video ): https://vimeo.com/109935003 emPolygonizer5 web page: http://www.mootzoid.com/plugin/empolygonizer5 Upgrade / Order: http://www.mootzoid.com/order Hope this new version will be fun to work with and helpful in production! Should you have questions regarding emPolygonizer5 don't hesitate to write me an email! Take care, Eric PS (*MODO*): one can already download the beta version and test it. There will be a video tutorial available in a couple of days that will demonstrate how to use the beta.
Re: emPolygonizer5 release (Softimage, Modo, Fabric Engine, Maya, command line)
Yummy! :) Eric Mootz e...@mootzoid.com schrieb am Tue Oct 28 2014 at 3:52:08 PM: Thanks, Steffen! the future of, ahem, *whatever* is bright :) The core has been revised and enhanced in such a way to make further implementations and improvements easier. = yes, there are plans for view depending meshing as well as adaptive meshing. Best, Eric Am 28.10.2014 12:11, schrieb Steffen Dünner: Great! Thanks a lot for your continued support for Softimage. And I'm especially glad about the MODO plugin. That's a good sign for the future! :) Cheers Steffen P.S.: Are there plans for some sort of view / camera dependent meshing?
Re: SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage 2014...any interest??
2014-06-03 13:25 GMT+02:00 Ed Manning etmth...@gmail.com: TransitionSoftware|UeberTage? Joint sponsorship from Maxon, Foundry, and Side Effects? That would be totally awesome! Cheers Steffen -- PGP-ID(RSA): 0xD6E0CE93 Fingerprint: 879F 572C FEE4 9DE5 53A8 3C1C 22A9 C8DE D6E0 CE93
Re: SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage 2014...any interest??
Maybe we could also ask Vanilla Ice and Ron Jeremy? ;) And for the german speaking guys: Call the event RueberTage. Would make it clear that a transition is in progress :D 2014-06-03 13:37 GMT+02:00 Oliver Weingarten li...@pixelpanic.de: Hey Ed..! Well... I already have those guys on my list.. ;) And maybe from next year on, it will be just UeberTage without SOFTIMAGE... But none the less, this year, if it can take place, will be the ultimate SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage Maybe and it with a big EOL party...many options are possible...depends on you and your interest in it.. Cheers, oli Am 03.06.2014 13:25, schrieb Ed Manning: TransitionSoftware|UeberTage? Joint sponsorship from Maxon, Foundry, and Side Effects? On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 5:43 AM, Stephan Haitz sha...@3d-agenten.de wrote: Hi Oliver, of course the Ubertage should happen Need helping hands? Perhaps the ubertage can be continued further with a wider topic than Softimage? As alternative / independent CG Event? No we listen to our users but don´t care companies involved... greetings Stephan HI there! Due to certain decisions coming from AD this year, I have serious trouble to get sponsors for this year (ultimate?) UeberTage event. Resellers just have a very minor interest in Softimage right now... So I would like to check you interest before I start even harder to get some money and a nice line-up together for this year. You might vote here: http://www.si-community.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=36t=5271 If not, just reply here, please...I´ll Thanks! cheers, oli -- PGP-ID(RSA): 0xD6E0CE93 Fingerprint: 879F 572C FEE4 9DE5 53A8 3C1C 22A9 C8DE D6E0 CE93
Re: A Fistful of Updates (copy/paste Mootzoid Newsletter #53)
Ah, sorry Eric. I did something wrong. It now loads perfectly in 801 as well. There are some refresh quirks, I have to reset render very often and I can't apply normal maps on emReader materials (also in 701). Are these limitations of the Modo SDK? Apart from that, emReader for Modo is another great way to enhance the cooperation of Softimage and our new favourite new Software and to get rid of the Autodesk leash. Thanks Steffen 2014-05-16 11:14 GMT+02:00 Eric Mootz e...@mootzoid.com: Hi Steffen, Is the current emReader version not running under Modo 801? I must admit that I haven't tested it yet. Let me know and - if necessary - I will make a build for 801, no problem! Cheers Eric Am 15.05.2014 17:01, schrieb Steffen Dünner: Very nice, Eric! BTW are there plans to update / recompile emReader for Modo 801? Cheers Steffen 2014-05-15 10:37 GMT+02:00 Eric Mootz e...@mootzoid.com: Hey there, The following addons for Softimage|XSI have been updated: - emFlock2 (v. 2.400) - emNewton2 (v. 2.150) - emPolygonizer4 (v. 4.300) - emRPC4 (v. 4.200) - emTools(v. 1.950) *What's new in these updates**?* Some minor bug fixes here are there, separate versions for Softimage 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015 and a few new goodies in emTools. All updates are compatible with the respective previous version, so it is safe to update your addons even if you should be in the middle of a project. *What's coming next?* Next will be another update of emTopolizer2. It will contain a new set of tools to read, write and convert particle cache files coming from Softimage, Houdini, Maya and many other applications. These tools will hopefully make it easier to keep on using Softimage in conjunction with all the other apps out there. *Okay, cool, but what's next-next?* He, he, let's see. *You can get the updates here:* http://www.mootzoid.com/plugin/emflock2 http://www.mootzoid.com/plugin/emnewton2 http://www.mootzoid.com/plugin/empolygonizer4 http://www.mootzoid.com/plugin/emrpc4 http://www.mootzoid.com/plugin/emtools * Ordering or upgrading plugins:* http://www.mootzoid.com/order Cheers! Eric PS: to subscribe or unsubscribe from the Mootzoid newsletter: http://www.mootzoid.com/newsletter -- PGP-ID(RSA): 0xD6E0CE93 Fingerprint: 879F 572C FEE4 9DE5 53A8 3C1C 22A9 C8DE D6E0 CE93 -- PGP-ID(RSA): 0xD6E0CE93 Fingerprint: 879F 572C FEE4 9DE5 53A8 3C1C 22A9 C8DE D6E0 CE93
Re: A Fistful of Updates (copy/paste Mootzoid Newsletter #53)
Very nice, Eric! BTW are there plans to update / recompile emReader for Modo 801? Cheers Steffen 2014-05-15 10:37 GMT+02:00 Eric Mootz e...@mootzoid.com: Hey there, The following addons for Softimage|XSI have been updated: - emFlock2 (v. 2.400) - emNewton2 (v. 2.150) - emPolygonizer4 (v. 4.300) - emRPC4 (v. 4.200) - emTools(v. 1.950) *What's new in these updates**?* Some minor bug fixes here are there, separate versions for Softimage 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015 and a few new goodies in emTools. All updates are compatible with the respective previous version, so it is safe to update your addons even if you should be in the middle of a project. *What's coming next?* Next will be another update of emTopolizer2. It will contain a new set of tools to read, write and convert particle cache files coming from Softimage, Houdini, Maya and many other applications. These tools will hopefully make it easier to keep on using Softimage in conjunction with all the other apps out there. *Okay, cool, but what's next-next?* He, he, let's see. *You can get the updates here:* http://www.mootzoid.com/plugin/emflock2 http://www.mootzoid.com/plugin/emnewton2 http://www.mootzoid.com/plugin/empolygonizer4 http://www.mootzoid.com/plugin/emrpc4 http://www.mootzoid.com/plugin/emtools * Ordering or upgrading plugins:* http://www.mootzoid.com/order Cheers! Eric PS: to subscribe or unsubscribe from the Mootzoid newsletter: http://www.mootzoid.com/newsletter -- PGP-ID(RSA): 0xD6E0CE93 Fingerprint: 879F 572C FEE4 9DE5 53A8 3C1C 22A9 C8DE D6E0 CE93
Re: softimage to modo
The schematic in Modo is becoming more and more powerful. But with great power comes great responsibility! What I mean is, that it's equally important to have tools to cleanup and organize your node graphs as it is to add more features / nodes. What I currently miss most is something like a group comment in ICE or backdrop in Nuke. As well as sticky notes and comments. Tools to easily align / sort multiple nodes at once, tools to get rid of unused nodes etc. But I have high hopes that the Modo dev team gets a hint from the Nuke dev team to help them sort it out. ;) Apart from that I'm already positively shocked by what the schematic can already do. Sometimes it really feels like using the SI Render Tree and ICE Tree in one single tree, where all kinds of nodes can talk to each other. I just discovered that procedural noise textures (and there are a lot of them in Modo) can be used to texture deformers / falloffs. Or take a look here: geometry lookups can directly control shader attributes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzBIO4PPUuInU1RmTEw5OWdYNGc/preview?pli=1 Something I wished for in Softimage for a long time. Cheers Steffen
Re: softimage to modo
2014-05-07 20:10 GMT+02:00 Sergio Mucino sergio.muc...@gmail.com: I just discovered the other day that the Edge Bevel tool has some crazy preset profile shapes. And whilst talking about recent discoveries: I found that the modeling falloffs (and there are plenty of them, most with artist-friendly visual feedback) are working with all possible tools. This means you can e.g. first define a falloff along edges and then use the bevel tool to get a bevel with variable radius. Or you can use the Edge Weight Tool (for creating crease weights for Pixar SubDs) in combination with falloffs to create creases that slowly fade from hard to soft. Amazing. Especially if you can adjust both, the tool properties AND the falloffs interactively as long as the tool hasn't been dropped. Cheers Steffen -- PGP-ID(RSA): 0xD6E0CE93 Fingerprint: 879F 572C FEE4 9DE5 53A8 3C1C 22A9 C8DE D6E0 CE93
Re: softimage to modo
Yes, we have. And we're digging it more and more each day. My hint would be: Watch tutorials first! Especially about the shader tree, decoupled shading, the principle of items and the way you can copypaste polys, edges, vertices etc. in and out of them and the tool pipeline stuff. Don't open up Modo and start clicking around. You will likely be disturbed and disappointed, because many things work differently. But these are the things that will make you love Modo in a few days ;) Cheers Steffen 2014-05-06 17:40 GMT+02:00 Francisco Criado malcriad...@gmail.com: Hi guys, anyone already started using modo? first impressions or tips coming from soft? received our licenses today and soon starting to migrate...any tips from si users are more than welcome! F. -- PGP-ID(RSA): 0xD6E0CE93 Fingerprint: 879F 572C FEE4 9DE5 53A8 3C1C 22A9 C8DE D6E0 CE93
Re: Anyone in the SI list transitioning to MODO? -Please add your mail here
We'll jump on the Modo train (at least partly as long as Softimage still runs on current hardware). I think it has great potential and at that pricetag it's really a no-brainer to add to ones arsenal. ;) I've been watching / evaluating it for some time now and so far I have only been pleasantly surprised. Even the deformation / animation / rigging part looks and feels quite mature for the short time it exists. 2014-03-08 21:22 GMT+01:00 David Rivera activemotionpictu...@yahoo.com: Hi, I was really touched by some of the in-depth opinions about leaving SI. TD´s perspective, and other users who have dedicated their lives (literally) to build a rock-solid pipeline for studios all around the world using softimage, have really made me think a lot into consideration. So, to cut a long story short, I´d like to know if there´s a thread in the list that´s already being aligned into the Softimage/MODO transition? If not, I´d like to start it off with this post. I´m going into MODO and here´s my email: david_rivera...@yahoo.com Thanks. *David Rivera* *3D Compositor/Animator* LinkedIN http://ec.linkedin.com/in/3dcinetv Behance https://www.behance.net/3dcinetv VFX Reel https://vimeo.com/70551635 -- PGP-ID(RSA): 0xD6E0CE93 Fingerprint: 879F 572C FEE4 9DE5 53A8 3C1C 22A9 C8DE D6E0 CE93
Re: Luxology Modo 50% off for this mailing list
Click. License bought. Thanks Brad!!! :) 2014-03-05 11:42 GMT+01:00 Simon Reeves si...@simonreeves.com: Very generous Simon Reeves London, UK *si...@simonreeves.com si...@simonreeves.com* *www.simonreeves.com http://www.simonreeves.com* *www.analogstudio.co.uk http://www.analogstudio.co.uk* On 5 March 2014 10:13, Eric Mootz e...@mootzoid.com wrote: Ha, ha, very nice move! Thanks to Brad and Luxology! -- PGP-ID(RSA): 0xD6E0CE93 Fingerprint: 879F 572C FEE4 9DE5 53A8 3C1C 22A9 C8DE D6E0 CE93
Re: Softimage and Alembic?
Modo has it... sort of. It doesn't support changing topology and imports the Alembic as blendshapes. This means the Alembic file isn't referenced but imported once. But now that Modo is in the good hands of TheFoundry, I guess / hope this will change soon. 2013/11/19 Ognjen Vukovic ognj...@gmail.com Im not sure if modo has it as well and clarisse... On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Morten Bartholdy x...@colorshopvfx.dkwrote: Interesting Mario :) MB Den 19. november 2013 kl. 13:36 skrev i...@marioreitbauer.at: I heard it from a bird. You might be lucky with the next release. On Tue, 19 Nov 2013 13:30:42 +0100 (CET), Morten Bartholdy x...@colorshopvfx.dk wrote: I just checked 2014 features (on 2013 here) and no mention of Alembic, so I guess it is still not available out of the box. Does anyone know if AD are perhaps planning to include Softimage in the Alembic club anytime soon? I know I can go get Exocortex Crate to get Alembic support for Softimage. Maya has it from the factory and our management is asking me if there are plans to incorporate it in Softimage too. Thanks Morten -- PGP-ID(RSA): 0xD6E0CE93 Fingerprint: 879F 572C FEE4 9DE5 53A8 3C1C 22A9 C8DE D6E0 CE93
Re: Why did I pay support?? Why did I buy a suite ? I want my moneyback!
2013/8/8 Eugen Sares sof...@mail.sprit.org Wait, wasn't there a 3rd 3D application among those? Yes, this: http://area.autodesk.com/products/features/extensionmudbox :( Cheers Steffen -- PGP-ID(RSA): 0xD6E0CE93 Fingerprint: 879F 572C FEE4 9DE5 53A8 3C1C 22A9 C8DE D6E0 CE93
Re: Line-Up SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage2013
This sounds too good to be missed! :) Cheers Steffen 2013/8/7 Oliver Weingarten li...@pixelpanic.de Hello there! I´m happy to announce this year´s line-up for SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage 2013! Teaser: http://vimeo.com/71882674 Here you go: Rüdiger Kaltenhäuser, 3D Lead at Glassworks, Amsterdam/Netherlands : Making of.. www.glassworksamsterdam.nl/ Eric Mootz, Developer at Mootzoid, Saarbrücken/ Germany : Current Developments www.mootzoid.com Polynoid GmbH , Berlin/Germany : Making of.. www.polynoid.tv Stephan Wörmann, Developer, Dortmund/Germany: Octane Render for Softimage www.otoy.com Helge Mathee, Developer at Fabric Engine Inc. : Fabric Engine: Splice in Softimage www.fabricengine.com Oliver Weingarten, VFX Artist and 3D Generalist, Siegen/Germany: Sneak Peak: Redshift for Softimage www.redshift3d.com Register here and participate for free! http://uebertage.eventbrite.com/ See you! cheers, oli -- PGP-ID(RSA): 0xD6E0CE93 Fingerprint: 879F 572C FEE4 9DE5 53A8 3C1C 22A9 C8DE D6E0 CE93
Re: Softimage promo
Adam Sale rocked the house... and in the end, ALL died! Awesome presentation! Cheers Steffen 2013/4/11 Tim Leydecker bauero...@gmx.de Hi guys, as part of the Autodesk Unfold event in Montreal, Softimage was a part of the show. A montage of the presentation can be seen here: http://area.autodesk.com/**2014unfold/live/unfoldevent/**workflow.htmlhttp://area.autodesk.com/2014unfold/live/unfoldevent/workflow.html Topics: 3ds Max, Maya, Softimage, MotionBuilder, Mudbox There´s quite a bit of interesting stuff to be seen in the above, maybe not in the ultrahighest level of finishing but at least at a glance that allows to get updated on possibilities. Cheers, tim
Re: Softimage 2014
2013/4/8 Toonafish ron...@toonafish.nl the only thing that annoys me every time I model something in Modo is that with the Tweak tool, or Element move tool as it's called in Modo, you have to pick a vertex with pixel accuracy. It doesn't snap to the nearest component as with the Tweak tool in SI. Maybe Lazy Selection mode helps here ;) Cheers Steffen
Re: Industry Solidarity...
We can deal with even the darkest and brightest shades of green! ;) Have you ever seen a perfectly lit greenscreen? 2013/2/25 Meng-Yang Lu ntmon...@gmail.com I think we should align our chroma greens a bit better. We don't wanna look like schlubs protesting if we can't even get the same color values. -Lu On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Eric Thivierge ethivie...@gmail.comwrote: Don't forget to post information about the issues to raise awareness to your friends who aren't in the industry. Eric Thivierge http://www.ethivierge.com On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 4:54 PM, Marc-Andre Carbonneau marc-andre.carbonn...@ubisoft.com wrote: The 51st. ** ** *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Steven Caron *Sent:* 25 février 2013 16:49 *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Re: Industry Solidarity... ** ** wait which shade of green? ;) ** ** On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Eric Thivierge ethivie...@gmail.com wrote: Stay green until this problem is fixed! Do not relent!
Re: Copy and paste ICE trees from two instances of Soft
AFAIR it has *never* been possible for Render Tree nodes (which I always hated), but *always* been possible since the very first incarnation of ICE. 2013/2/21 Jason S jasonsta...@gmail.com It actually use to not be possible, while possible for rendertree nodes, And now it's NOT possible for rendertree nodes while possible for Ice nodes, go figure :] On 20/02/2013 6:01 PM, Grahame Fuller wrote: It's actually documented: http://download.autodesk.com/** global/docs/softimage2013/en_**us/userguide/index.html?url=** files/ICE_basics_**AddingNodestoICETrees.htm,**topicNumber=d30e265739http://download.autodesk.com/global/docs/softimage2013/en_us/userguide/index.html?url=files/ICE_basics_AddingNodestoICETrees.htm,topicNumber=d30e265739 Just don't try it between different version of Soft, even if you're sure that all the nodes are compatible. gray From: softimage-bounces@listproc.**autodesk.comsoftimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com[mailto: softimage-bounces@**listproc.autodesk.comsoftimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Adam Sale Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 05:28 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.**com softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Copy and paste ICE trees from two instances of Soft I never knew you could do this. ... accidentally came up upon it today So useful !!
Re: Octane render
2013/2/14 Ed Manning etmth...@gmail.com Will someone PLEASE put some edgeloops or hard edges on those blackboards so they don't shade like domes? +1 ;) My first thought as well.
Re: Rumors
Hehehe, I hope The Foundry buys SideFX and gives us Modini! ;) I'd contact the Solid Angle guys and beg them to write MOtoA! Cheers Steffen 2012/12/19 Marc-Andre Carbonneau marc-andre.carbonn...@ubisoft.com Wish The Foundry had bought Softimage… ** ** *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *César Sáez *Sent:* 19 décembre 2012 14:56 *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Re: Rumors ** ** Please, leave Softimage's future to someone who can actually do something about it, we don't have the proper context to know what is happening and what is coming. We've been through this, not again!
Re: Rumors
I'd boot all people mentioning the two M-products from Ad on this list! ;) 2012/12/19 Andreas Bystrom andreas.byst...@gmail.com that would be a good idea yes On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Eric Thivierge ethivie...@gmail.comwrote: Can we boot people from the list for starting or spreading rumors? Please? Especially with no solid backup of what they are saying. On Dec 20, 2012 7:27 AM, Javier Vega javierelas...@gmail.com wrote: Well... what happened here today?. Lot of panic!. I love Softimage and i dont think that will dissapear soon. But if they discontinue Softimage, well... is not a drama. I love Softimage, but I love more CGI. I will adapt to other softwares or I will continue with the last Softimage version. I think that in that point Softimage is a great application. Best wishes for all Softimage Users! *Javier Vega* www.zao3d.com Visita mi blog: http://blog.zao3d.com móvil: *616 64 73 57* 08922-Santa Coloma de Gramenet (Barcelona) 2012/12/19 Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.com But the apocalypse isn't until Friday! :p Negativity never helped anyone. Let's go easy on the rumours. Merry Christmas, softies and devs! On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Tim Marinov tim.mari...@gmail.comwrote: I've heard that ICE and Naid are going to Maya..This rumor is coming from one of the latest events .I am not going to specify, all I can say is from reliable source. I hope is not true for the ICE but I can't keep rely only on hopes. No more Autodesk for us that for sure ..We (my company) recently started to realize that our industry is just fine without Autodesk and every day work is much more fun and productive.Houdini,Modo,Cinema4D,Nuke are some of the tools that are much better from what autodesk has to offer(buying and adding plugins,almost none development, introducing more and more bugs with each version, innovation and development are not their driving force but only moneymaking ). Let's guys support this companies that care and love what they do as a product, this companies that are growing not only of making money but also of making innovations . We have to stop to be controlled from evil corporations and don't forget that we little people can make the difference and stay against the money sucking monsters.We are not zombies.This is the only way to see progress... -- Andreas Byström Weta Digital
Re: New baEssential Shader version
Thanks for your invaluable contribution, Holger! Cheers Steffen P.S.: You list the Softimage 2013 version as 2012 on the download page ;) 2012/12/12 Schoenberger x...@digidragon.de Hi I have released a new version of my essential package. Changes: Texture coordinate: world drag Texture coordinate: arnold Point Reference Cell: New type Smooth You can view the new cell type and the new World Drag texture space here: http://www.binaryalchemy.de/**develop/shd_ess/whatsnew25.htmhttp://www.binaryalchemy.de/develop/shd_ess/whatsnew25.htm Download: http://www.binaryalchemy.de/**index_dev.htmhttp://www.binaryalchemy.de/index_dev.htm cheers, Holger Schoenberger technical director The day has 24 hours, if that does not suffice, I will take the night
Re: [BUG] Softimage crashing on workgroup unload containing a custom renderer and at least on .xsirtcompound file
I would rather vote for fixing it where it's broken, i.e. on the Softimage side. :) Cheers 2012/8/15 Nic Groot Bluemink nicgrootbluem...@gmail.com Hey Martin, Though it's little help, I recall running across a warning in the SI docs that unloading custom renderers in-session could introduce instabilities back when I was investigating the same thing. I can't find the exact entry for you, it was weeks before I accidentally stumbled across it last time, but that's pretty much where I threw my hands in the air and wrote a workgroup switcher that would restart sessions instead here at Kettle. Nic
Re: Who has switched to Vray and loves it?
There are _a lot_ more buttons in Vray than in Arnold! ;) The combination of GI algorithms ( primary / secondary) alone is intimidating. The funny thing in Arnold is that the result most of the time converges to the same image, only the rendertime varies if you e.g. shoot rays that you don't actually need to sample or have useless diffuse rays bounce inside your glass objects. Optimizing Arnold scenes can be a time consuming process as well, but it's not mandatory to get a result. It's only mandatory if you need a result in time. ;) I remember the not so good old mental ray times where optimizing scenes made the difference between a rendered image and a crashing renderfarm. But on the other hand I kind of masochistically liked the challenge of pushing the right buttons. Cheers Steffen 2012/6/21 olivier jeannel olivier.jean...@noos.fr Well, I easily found some videos showing click here, enter this value for Vray. While there were buttons in Arnold, I was really not sure of what I was doing. But to tell the truth, I really did not try a lot. Le 21/06/2012 22:15, Mirko Jankovic a écrit : Hmm I found Arnold learning curve to be really really short and in less than a week you can be production ready. -- PGP-ID(RSA): 0xCCE2E989 / 0xE045734C CCE2E989 Fingerprint: 394B 3DA9 9A9A 96C6 3A5A 0595 EF92 EE1F
Re: price increases?
Thanks for confirming my first impressions :) That's what I meant by ancient. I hoped that such a brand new architecture would offer me a more modern concept of material editing. The RayGL mode is awesome though! 2012/6/19 Toonafish ron...@toonafish.nl Neh, unfortunately the Render Tree in Modo is not node based. I works more like Photoshop layers, just like in Lightwave, but a bit more advanced. There are some advantages over the Render Tree in Softimage, but even in a medium complex scene it becomes extemely flaky and very confusing. -Ronald On 6/19/2012 12:55 PM, Steffen Dünner wrote: 2012/6/19 Thomas Helzle thomashel...@gmail.com especially their render tree They have a render tree? Node based? Last time I checked, all I found was some sort of layer-based stack that felt somehow ancient. Can you point me to a tutorial or feature description that shows this render tree? I would be very interested in it. Cheers Steffen -- PGP-ID(RSA): 0xCCE2E989 / 0xE045734C CCE2E989 Fingerprint: 394B 3DA9 9A9A 96C6 3A5A 0595 EF92 EE1F -- PGP-ID(RSA): 0xCCE2E989 / 0xE045734C CCE2E989 Fingerprint: 394B 3DA9 9A9A 96C6 3A5A 0595 EF92 EE1F
Re: OT: @ fmx
Cool, I will be there :-) Cheers Steffen Sent from no IPhone Am 08.05.2012 01:57 schrieb Thiago Costa thiagocost...@gmail.com: Hi fellows, I'm here in Germany. We'll be presenting a new project we are workinghttp://getteamup.comon at FMX. If you are around, please drop by at our Session on the 10th, or just drop me a line. Sorry for the plug, but I thought this might interest you. :) cheers, -Thiagoq
Re: Intro to the new team (was RE: Softimage development)
Interestingly Chinny didn't say that he works on Maya now but instead on something new. Cheers Steffen P.S.: It's just my wish that so much Softimage talent and passion doesn't get sucked up completely by the evil Mayans! ;) -- PGP-ID(RSA): 0xCCE2E989 / 0xE045734C CCE2E989 Fingerprint: 394B 3DA9 9A9A 96C6 3A5A 0595 EF92 EE1F
Re: Intro to the new team (was RE: Softimage development)
Welcome Singapore team, to the most awesome mailinglist of all of the Autodesk universe! :) 2012/4/19 Paul Griswold pgrisw...@fusiondigitalproductions.com Might I make a request? Could you guys post your twitter handles and/or Google+ info? +1 :) Cheers Steffen -- PGP-ID(RSA): 0xCCE2E989 / 0xE045734C CCE2E989 Fingerprint: 394B 3DA9 9A9A 96C6 3A5A 0595 EF92 EE1F
