Re: Normal Map from Photos with mirrorball Tool

[Vincent Langer]

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>>>
>>>
>>> On Jul 12, 2018, at 3:59 AM, Vincent Langer 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi there,
>>> I do not know where to ask - so I try it here.
>>>
>>> some time ago a saw a demo of a tool which creates normal maps from
>>> photos.
>>> But the special thing was that you have to have a mirror ball in the
>>> pictures so that the software can figure out the position from with the
>>> light source is coming.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know the name of this piece of software?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Vincent
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Re: Normal Map from Photos with mirrorball Tool

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YES
thank you Patrick


Am 18.07.2018 22:55 schrieb "Patrick Neese" :

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This one?

On Tue, Jul 17, 2018, 12:50 PM XSI_User XSI_User 
wrote:

> Not sure about the mirror ball thing, but is this what you are thinking of?
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> On Jul 12, 2018, at 3:59 AM, Vincent Langer 
> wrote:
>
> Hi there,
> I do not know where to ask - so I try it here.
>
> some time ago a saw a demo of a tool which creates normal maps from photos.
> But the special thing was that you have to have a mirror ball in the
> pictures so that the software can figure out the position from with the
> light source is coming.
>
> Does anyone know the name of this piece of software?
>
> Cheers,
> Vincent
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Normal Map from Photos with mirrorball Tool

[Vincent Langer]

Hi there,
I do not know where to ask - so I try it here.

some time ago a saw a demo of a tool which creates normal maps from photos.
But the special thing was that you have to have a mirror ball in the
pictures so that the software can figure out the position from with the
light source is coming.

Does anyone know the name of this piece of software?

Cheers,
Vincent
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Re: face tracking

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Re: All MOOTZOID plugins are for free now! Thanks, Eric!

[Vincent Langer]

Thank you, Eric!!!

I am curious what he will do next - any rumors?

Merry xmas everbody

2017-12-21 18:07 GMT+01:00 Sven Constable <sixsi_l...@imagefront.de>:

> Wow, that is one christmas gift. Thanks, Eric.
>
> Im a bit surprised that he also quit the Cinema, Maya, Modo part of the
> plugin development. I would have thought there are some costumers.
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Re: Official terms for Houdini Indie for anybody who's wondering.

[Vincent Langer]

Totally agree. Foundry should really jump into the current century in terms
of license flexibility

Am 21.02.2017 19:20 schrieb "Andy Nicholas" :

> Not to mention, if you're doing any sort of Python or VEX coding, then
> Apprentice isn't a restriction at all. That's incredibly useful.
>
> I only wish The Foundry were a little more flexible and Nuke
> Non-Commercial let you do that too.
> A
>
>
> On 21/02/2017 18:03, Jonathan Moore wrote:
>
> Agreed Cristobal.
>
> Outside of watermarking of renders (and lack of third party renderers),
> Apprentice is the full Houdini FX experience. It can be a smart idea to do
> your initial learning in Apprentice, especially considering Indie is a 12
> month rental.
>
> Mantra is a great renderer, so forcing yourself to learn it before moving
> onto a faster GPU renderer (e.g. you already own Redshift) is beneficial
> too.
>
>
>
> On 21 February 2017 at 17:24, Cristobal Infante  wrote:
>
>> And you can download Apprentice totally free to get started or play at
>> home..
>>
>> That's pretty awesome
>>
>> On 21 February 2017 at 17:20, Jonathan Moore 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> This is the wording on the purchase page. As I mentioned before, if
>>> you're using Houdini alongside another DCC, the income threshold SideFX are
>>> interested in only relates to income derived from Houdini itself.
>>>
>>> *I confirm that any financial considerations received, directly or
 indirectly, from use of the Software is less than $100,000 USD per calendar
 year.*
>>>
>>>
>>> They don't police it in any way but if they see your name croping up in
>>> the credits of the next Star Wars epic, expect a visit from the SideFX
>>> heavies.  :)
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split-flap wall

[Vincent Langer]

Hi there,

I have to create a split-flap airport wall.
So the oldschool info textboard with the rotating letters.

Did anybody create something similar with ice?

I am a bit clueless but maybe it would be a good project to step into
houdini.

All information are very welcome :)

Cheers,
Vincent

Re: Alembic performance?

[Vincent Langer]

I think this is a softimage thing. Not a alembic thing. Softimage is pretty
slow with lots of objects.
I bet if the cinema guy would export all objects as one it would perform
very good in softimage.
Cheers
Am 18.03.2015 11:32 schrieb Morten Bartholdy x...@colorshopvfx.dk:

   I am stuck on Softimage 2013SP1 so I am using Crate for opening alembic
 files. I am currently working with shots where we import alembic files
 created in Cinema4D and they contain many thousands of objects that scale
 and rotate. With Crate they are pretty slow to work with - scrubbing the
 timeline is slow, and creating overrides in various passes is slow.


I can see our Maya artists can actually scrub the timeline in Maya
 pretty inetractively with the same files, so I take it the built in version
 from Autodesk is faster that Crate.


I am curious to know if someone here have tried the built in alembic
 loader in a newer version of Softimage and had the opportunity to compare
 it to the one in Maya?

 Best

 Morten

Re: Exocortex Crate (the Alembic suite) goes open source.

[Vincent Langer]

AWESOME  thanks a LOT

2014-12-11 21:45 GMT+01:00 Alen amu...@xnet.hr:

 Thanks!

 a


 On 12/11/2014 9:41 PM, Ben Houston wrote:

 Hi all,

 I figured you may be interested to know that Exocortex Crate, the
 alembic suite for Maya, 3DS Max, Softimage, Arnold and Python just
 went open source.  You can download it for free and use it for free.
 Details here:

 http://exocortex.com/blog/exocortex_crate_alembic_goes_open_source

 Best regards,
 Ben Houston (Cell: 613-762-4113, Skype: ben.exocortex, Twitter:
 @exocortexcom)
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Buy Softimage - is this a real shop?

[Vincent Langer]

hi there,

is this a real shop?

http://www.topsoftpoint.com/browse/search/?q=softimage

cheers,
Vincent

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Re: Maya 2015 Bifrost to Softimage

[Vincent Langer]

maybe you cold use mtoa to generate .ass files and use them in softimage


2014-06-30 15:43 GMT+02:00 Cristobal Infante cgc...@gmail.com:

 I would try and mesh it with bifrost for sure, and bring the mesh back..


 On 30 June 2014 13:43, Nuno Conceicao nunoalexconcei...@gmail.com wrote:

 Anyone out there doing this particular workflow?
 We are animating in Softimage 2014, point cache to Maya where the fluid
 simulation is done using Maya's Bifrost new feature set, then we need to
 render this out back in Sitoa/Softimage 2014.
 What should be the best procedure to transfer the fluid data between the
 2 apps?
 Meshing in Maya or in Softimage?
 What about particular data attributes like vorticity?
 Can it be done using the native Alembic format in 2015? Or other
 export/import alternatives?
 Any pointers and/or tested workflow examples would be really appreciated

 Cheers

 Nuno






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Re: Photogrammetry - what do you use?

[Vincent Langer]

depends on what you want to do.

I think the main difference to the professional version is the ability to
orient the scene and to do 4D mesh generation (from video input).

cheers,
vincent



2014-06-04 16:02 GMT+02:00 Jens Lindgren jens.lindgren@gmail.com:

 Thread resurrection time!
 So I got a project that needs some photogrammetry and I'm looking at
 Agisoft PhotosScan right now. Only have one question: Standard or
 Professional? The price difference is huge!

 /Jens


 On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 5:00 AM, Francisco Criado malcriad...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 Hi Octavian, i used a couple of times skanect for people or indoor sets
 and must say its a time saver. If you can, give it a try!

 Francisco.


 On Wednesday, January 29, 2014, Octavian Ureche okt...@gmail.com wrote:

 Interesting topic here.
 Was just testing agisoft photoscan for some non commercial related work,
 and it seems to give pretty nice results with minimal user input.
 Has anyone tried to compare a kinekt based approach such as skanect (
 http://skanect.manctl.com) with a photogrammetrical approach for object
 scanning?

 I am curious about the pros and cons of both.

 Cheers,
 O


 On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 7:36 PM, Ed Manning etmth...@gmail.com wrote:

 Recap and 123D Catch from Autodesk do very well with some subject
 matter.

 NukeX also has camera tracking, point-could generation and meshing, and
 can export geo and camera.


 On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 10:08 AM, Marc-Andre Carbonneau 
 marc-andre.carbonn...@ubisoft.com wrote:

 Hello friends,



 I am currently investigating photogrammetry and would love to get your
 advices, opinions, experiences with such systems.

 What hardware do you use? Which software? Best practices?



 Thank you for any info!

 MAC





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Re: Photogrammetry - what do you use?

[Vincent Langer]

PhotoScan from agisoft is the one I prefer!

with canon 550D or 5D


2014-01-29 Marc-Andre Carbonneau marc-andre.carbonn...@ubisoft.com

 Hello friends,



 I am currently investigating photogrammetry and would love to get your
 advices, opinions, experiences with such systems.

 What hardware do you use? Which software? Best practices?



 Thank you for any info!

 MAC





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Re: Freeze ICE tree to geometry

[Vincent Langer]

Or em_topolizer2 - it is awesome!!

cheers,
Vincent


2013/11/4 Andreas Böinghoff boeingh...@s-farm.de

  Check Momentum - Geometry Tools - Instancer.

 It creates for you a polygon mesh with all our Instances in it. Its live,
 but is merged! If your mashes are not to big that could be a way.

 Andreas


 On 11/4/2013 6:39 PM, Jonny Grew wrote:

 Following on from my thread about issues of importing and ICE Cache for my
 MB feather tools it's been recommended I start another thread to see if
 anyone can point out a script/tool to convert my instanced geometry
 (multiple instanced objects) to geometry. - Hopefully this remains live so
 I can point cache it out for the render scene for submitting to the farm.

  It seems that PolyMesh Duplicate only allows one instance
 Taking a look at guillaume's 'create poly mesh from instance shape'.

  Any more recommendations or pointers out there?!

  Cheers
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Re: Strand Collision Framework

[Vincent Langer]

FANTASTIC!!!



2013/10/24 Edy Susanto Lim edysusant...@gmail.com

 Awesome!!!


 On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Ed Manning etmth...@gmail.com wrote:

 Ooh, I have just the thing to stress-test that on.  Awesome work,
 Mathias.

 Hope it holds up with hundreds of strands with hundreds of segments...


 On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 11:29 PM, David Barosin dbaro...@gmail.comwrote:

 Honestly that's pretty phenomenal.  No reason to downplay, it's not a
 trivial problem to solve.


 On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 10:56 PM, Mathias N mdawn...@gmail.com wrote:

 A couple of years ago I decided I needed inter-colliding strands and
 spent an ungodly amount of time trying to make it in ICE.

 As a result of not knowing anything back when I started working on it
 the code is a complete mess, and fixing the more glaring issues would be a
 significant undertaking. Thus, the project was abandoned long ago.

 A few weeks ago I got a message asking if I could share the unfinished
 product, prompting me to dust it off and apply a few strategically placed
 band-aids to at least get it functioning.
 Consider it a lesson in bad design.

 What it can do: https://vimeo.com/groups/ice/videos/76018502
 Download (Addon and example scenes):
 http://www.mayulive.com/StrandCollisionFramework.zip
 Will likely require the VC++2012 redistributable:
 http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30679

 More details on how broken it is in the si-community thread:
 http://www.si-community.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=4t=4486

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3d point position to 2D screen X/Y pixel position

[Vincent Langer]

Hi there,

there was a tool that lets you output 2D screen positions from a 3d null
point or someting like that.

but I can not remember the name.

or ist there an easier way to get that?

cheers,
Vincent

Re: 3d point position to 2D screen X/Y pixel position

[Vincent Langer]

Thanks Vincent,

but I found what I was looking for:

http://www.alamaison.fr/3d/lmProjectionPlane/lmProjectionPlane.html

cheers



2013/10/24 Vincent Ullmann vincent.ullm...@googlemail.com

 Am 24.10.2013 11:09, schrieb Vincent Langer:

  Hi there,

 there was a tool that lets you output 2D screen positions from a 3d null
 point or someting like that.

 but I can not remember the name.

 or ist there an easier way to get that?

 cheers,
 Vincent


 Hi,

 you could have a look at the Set Texture Projection Camera-Compound.

 cheers
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Re: MoCap studio in Northern Europe?

[Vincent Langer]

www.metricminds.com

frankfurt, Germany


2013/8/14 Morten Bartholdy x...@colorshopvfx.dk

 **

 Hi all



 I am looking for a MoCap Studio in or somewhere around the Denmark
 neighborhood, ie. in Sweden or Germany. Does anyone here have som pointers
 regarding this?



 Thanks!



 Morten






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Re: Rendermapping a reflection?

[Vincent Langer]

You Can render a new hdri with the spherical cam lens shader oder adjust
the former hdri in nuke
Am 20.02.2013 11:52 schrieb Morten Bartholdy x...@colorshopvfx.dk:

 **

 I need to reposition an environmentmap hdri, essentially moving it on the
 z axis and create a new env map hdri from that, because space on the hdri
 aquirement location did not allow me to put the camera exactly where it
 should have been.



 Thinking I just need to rendermap out reflections from a sphere, I tried
 this, but get a black image. I am in Arnold land so MR techniques are not
 very present - should this not be possible, and what might I be missing?



 Thanks!



 Best

 Morten

Stick nulls to PointCloud

[Vincent Langer]

Hi there,

i have some pointcaches of underwater float particles and i want to create
a small ice setup which lets me move a null by this pointCloud.

i want to attach some bigger float pieces to that nulls.


i had no success so far.

the math is not the problem.

i take the three closest points at the modeling stack and in the simulation
stack i use the 3 positions to calculate the transformation and orientation.

but i can not get the null go back to an initial position which i define by
another null at the first frame.

maybe somebody has done something similar!

cheers,
Vincent

Re: Realflow .md files

[Vincent Langer]

i think eric´s plugins can import realflow .bin files - but .md s do not
work.



2012/10/22 Darren Blencowe | VOODOO dar...@voodoo-animation.com

 Hi Vincent,

 ** **

 You could try the emPolygonizer4 plugin – the demo is free – and may even
 just work to import the meshes, at least you can try it out.

 ** **

 http://www.mootzoid.com/wb/pages/softimagexsi/empolygonizer4.php

 ** **

 Cheers,

 ** **

 D.

 ** **

 ** **

 ** **

 *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:
 softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Vincent Langer
 *Sent:* 21 October 2012 18:53
 *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
 *Subject:* Realflow .md files

 ** **

 hi there -
 is there a way to import realflow .md files into softimage?

 the realflow soft plugin is not able to do so! or am i wrong?

 cheers,
 Vincent

 




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Re: Realflow .md files

[Vincent Langer]

ah okay - thanks,

the extra attributes in the .md files is what i am looking for.

cheers,
vincent

2012/10/22 Debdas Mohanty devj...@gmail.com

 Hello Vincent,


 REAL FLOW:

The MD format is very similar to a particle emitter’s PD files. With
 MD it’s also possible to choose from a wide variety of attributes to become
 stored with the file, as you can see from the image below. Currently, MD is
 not natively supported by the plug-ins and requires custom import filters.
 A third option is to write out an OBJ sequence. OBJ is implemented in many
 applications, but most programs can only load one OBJ file per scene,
 instead of entire sequences.


 I think its best way to import .bin files through empolygonizer...




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Realflow .md files

[Vincent Langer]

hi there -
is there a way to import realflow .md files into softimage?

the realflow soft plugin is not able to do so! or am i wrong?

cheers,
Vincent

is there a way to get the current Pass render Camera in ICE?

[Vincent Langer]

hi there,

is there a way to get the current Pass render Camera in ICE?

cheers,
Vincent

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