Allegorithmic Substance Designer 3

With Max, Maya and ?Flame? having this integrated, is there a chance Softimage gets this too? Personally I would love to have these tools for texturing inside Softimage. -- Rob \/-\/\/

Slow motion car crash advice

Hey Guys I'm working on a pretty big sequence where cars have to crash into each other in slow motion. As far as options for the deformations and physics, Would you guys recommend Lagoa, Syflex or Verlet? I've done some work with all three these set-ups, but nothing like this before. I know

Finding objects light associations and partition info

Hi All, I am trying to find out how to connect fur caches into current lighters scenes - I would like to be able to find out all current partion info for the current point clouds and then reconnect this back onto the new clouds as well as light association info. Right now I am freezing the

Parenting to model branch selects it

Hi list, Is there a way to stop SI from branch-selecting a model after I parent something to it? It annoys me every single time. I just want the parented object to remain selected.

Re: Finding objects light associations and partition info

Hey, so your loading a scene, wanting to cycle through all the pass's and check if a specific named point cloud exists, if so then freeze and apply point cache, or delete and apply point cache? On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Eric Thivierge ethivie...@gmail.com wrote:

RE: Finding objects light associations and partition info

@Simon - Nope - found the pointclouds - easy enough - what I want to do now is replace these found ones with new one - ALSO DONE NP - then reconnect the partition assigments and the light associations. @ Eric - thanks will dig out that stuff and have a look see. S.

Re: Parenting to model branch selects it

the only way I think is to drag + drop the child. On 2 July 2012 11:49, Christian Gotzinger cgo...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi list, Is there a way to stop SI from branch-selecting a model after I parent something to it? It annoys me every single time. I just want the parented object to

Re: Slow motion car crash advice

thanks guys.. Momentum looks good. I'll take a look at that. G On 2012/07/02 11:50 AM, adrian wyer wrote: have a bash with Momentum, plasticity seems to do a good job with denting metal panels https://vimeo.com/20104657 a -Original Message- From:

Re: Parenting to model branch selects it

Yes, I was hoping there might be a preference somewhere for when you use the Parent button :-/ On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 2:30 PM, patrick nethercoat patr...@brandtanim.co.uk wrote: the only way I think is to drag + drop the child. On 2 July 2012 11:49, Christian Gotzinger

bbc olympics titles

Congrats passion peoples, lovely work - is there a high res version online anywhere? The compression is killing it slightly. http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2012/july/bbc-olympics-titles Looking forward to seeing the unedited 2 min 40 sec version in HD! Would love to see a making of too

Re: Parenting to model branch selects it

You can use the Parent Objects command and assign it to a key in your keyboard layout. I think it isn't asigned by default. You could create a button for this command if you don't want to change your keyboard. ParentObjects(null); It parents your objects (can be multiple objs) to the last

Re: Transfert a bone based skinning to a null based skinning?

thanks all for the help : ] From: Eric Turman Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 05:37 To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Transfert a bone based skinning to a null based skinning? Yep..I have not enveloped to bones since 1997. Even in the days where I had to use Maya I used locators..

Re: bbc olympics titles

yep, lovely work, congrats. love to see it in hd. On 2.7.2012. 15:48, Matt Morris wrote: Congrats passion peoples, lovely work - is there a high res version online anywhere? The compression is killing it slightly. http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2012/july/bbc-olympics-titles Looking

Re: bbc olympics titles

Really nice! Found it in HD on youtubehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxQNtDEhVgEhd=1but it looks like it have been compressed several times :( /Jens On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Alen amu...@xnet.hr wrote: yep, lovely work, congrats. love to see it in hd. On 2.7.2012. 15:48, Matt Morris

Re: bbc olympics titles

great hyper real but painterly look and fantastic animation - some guys were wondering here if any motion capture was used!? looking forward to seeing the 2:40 tomorrow night, well done! On 2 July 2012 15:20, Jens Lindgren jens.lindgren@gmail.com wrote: Really nice! Found it in HD on

RE: bbc olympics titles

Looked fantastic last night on the BBC! Well done all! Sofronis Efstathiou Postgraduate Framework Leader Computer Animation Academic Group National Centre for Computer Animation Email: sefstath...@bournemouth.ac.ukmailto:sefstath...@bournemouth.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0) 1202 965805 Profile:

Re: Old tekkon particle presets

I found it! its legacy - all the scenes don't render but they load and play OK in 2012 . Ive taken the liberty of putting the original .zip on my Google Drive thingy here https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B0WD7fSUkxAMSlphUjJianZpN1U theres nothing here that cant be setup really easy in ICE

Re: NY ICE workshop videos live

Thanks for putting this stuff out there! On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 4:34 PM, tak...@earthlink.net wrote: Hey guys, A while back Psyop hosted an informal event (featuring a rather broad cross-section of presenters) that we'd recorded and have now put online.

Re: NY ICE workshop videos live

yes, much appreciated. Thanks!

RE: price increases?

Apologies for the late reply, but I believe (though TBC) that the oldest upgradeable version for Softimage is 2010. -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of pete...@skynet.be Sent: 22 June 2012 20:00

Re: Transfert a bone based skinning to a null based skinning?

Is that script downloadable? I was writing an script like that a few months ago, and I was considering to continue it but if there is already something done I would like to take a look at it, if is possible. M.Yara On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 8:12 AM, Alok alok.gan...@modusfx.com wrote: That is

Re: Transfert a bone based skinning to a null based skinning?

sure thing, here it is (I am not attaching it, instead copying the code, because google blocks _vbscript_s as attachments.) Also please note that it is very old and was written in a hurry. If I were to rewrite this, I would write that with python with

Re: Transfert a bone based skinning to a null based skinning?

Thanks Alok ! good ol' VBS code in these Python days :D I'll give it a try ! Thanks again! M.Yara On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 2:26 AM, Alok alok.gan...@modusfx.com wrote: sure thing, here it is (I am not attaching it, instead copying the code, because google blocks vb scripts as attachments.)

Re: Parenting to model branch selects it

Thank you very much! That sounds like it'll do the trick. On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Martin furik...@gmail.com wrote: You can use the Parent Objects command and assign it to a key in your keyboard layout. I think it isn't asigned by default. You could create a button for this command

Re: NY ICE workshop videos live

Thanks for this. Very interesting. El 02/07/2012, a las 17:34, tak...@earthlink.net escribió: Hey guys, A while back Psyop hosted an informal event (featuring a rather broad cross-section of presenters) that we'd recorded and have now put online.

Re: NY ICE workshop videos live

yes, thanks everyone for sharing their time. but was i the only one who wanted to take the mouse out of andy's hand!? lol. zoom in and zoom out and then back in and out and on over and over. s On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Javier Vega javierelas...@gmail.comwrote: Thanks for this. Very

Re: NY ICE workshop videos live

thanks! On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 11:34 AM, tak...@earthlink.net wrote: Hey guys, A while back Psyop hosted an informal event (featuring a rather broad cross-section of presenters) that we'd recorded and have now put online. http://www.psyop.tv/psyop-softimage-ice-workshop/ Special thanks

Re: price increases?

thanks for getting back graham, hm 2010, that’s only 3 releases back then - not 6. Oh well. -Original Message- From: Graham Bell Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 6:56 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: RE: price increases? Apologies for the late reply, but I believe (though

Re: bbc olympics titles

I did some early previs at the New York office, but from what I understand the artists in the London office didn't use any mocap data for the animation. - Jonathan K. Kelly 3D / VFX Artist / Programmer http://www.thatguy.tvwww.thatguy.tv On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at

lagoa cloth meshing

Hi guys, I've got a tearing lagoa cloth sim that I'm fairly happy with, and am meshing it with empolygonizer3, but getting some extreme stretched polygons. Attached a small quicktime to show the prob. http://www.matinai.com/si/cloth_sim_v17.mov I've tried pretty much every checkbox/easily

RE: price increases?

I think for Soft its different, as 6 versions back takes it into Avid territory and am not sure how that stands, etc. Though Soft 7.5 was post acquisition so not sure about that particular version? It appears they have followed the standard support policy which is the current verion and 3

RE: Faster way of getting subcomponents from samples in scripting?

Thanks I checked it and it's faster! From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Martin Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2012 7:10 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Faster way of getting subcomponents from samples in