Re: Hiring Artists! Come see us at Siggraph! - CG FX Artist

2012-08-16 Thread Graham D. Clark
For those that missed us at SIGGRAPH, and can work in LA and use ICE, please give us a call or email. We have some candidates, looking for more ICE knowledge ;) Cheers, Graham -- Graham D Clark, Head of Stereography, Deluxe 3D dba Stereo D phone: why-I-stereo, Stereo D office: 818 861 3100

Re: Cool ICE animations?

2012-08-16 Thread Andy Moorer
If inspiration/ideas is what you need why restrict to ice? Check out the proceduralism channel on Vimeo, that's precisely why i made it... to act as a huge repository for stuff ranging from particle animations to art films. If you can browse through it for 30 minutes without being inspired I'll

RE: Autodesk aquires Naiad

2012-08-16 Thread Nick Angus
Ah of course, there is a good example of why the source code will be of no use to me ; ) -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Luc-Eric Rousseau Sent: Thursday, 16 August 2012 10:10 PM To:

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-16 Thread James De Colling
i'll add a few - texture editor - why is it proportional settings are so small for this? repeat key doesnt work clip-grid properties are in preferences...at least make a dropdown/slider in the toolbar (cant change colors either) default clip display res is 256x256...

Re: A few Softimage Questions

2012-08-16 Thread Tim Leydecker
Here´s some nice info on how Ubisoft does it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzkSNCeHuSA You may also find Marc Schoenagel´s blog (Softimage Evangelist) has a video of him playing with a Microsoft kinect and real-time capture directly into the Softimage viewport. There´s also someone on the

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-16 Thread Xavier Lapointe
Meh .. - Expose a Color object in scripting so we don't have to create a light, and query the OGLLight ... this is really annoying. - Fix the Copy/Paste in Linux(!?!) - Euler filter (that works) in the Animation Editor I'm sure there are many little things here and there but .. this

Re: ICE string to integer/scalar conversion + reading numbers from object names from within ICE

2012-08-16 Thread Alan Fregtman
Yes, but it asks for strings to be pre-delimited by commas, does it not? On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 2:42 AM, Ahmidou Lyazidi ahmidou@gmail.comwrote: Hi Alan, Thanks for the posts, but did you know that there is a very usefull string to array node that convert to integers? Cheers A.

Re: ICE string to integer/scalar conversion + reading numbers from object names from within ICE

2012-08-16 Thread Alan Fregtman
Though on second thought, I guess I could still use it to identify a single digit instead of the Find in String. Is that where you were hinting? On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.comwrote: Yes, but it asks for strings to be pre-delimited by commas, does it

Re: ICE string to integer/scalar conversion + reading numbers from object names from within ICE

2012-08-16 Thread Alan Fregtman
Oh d'oh, I can do the whole number. I'm gonna go hide in a hole now... Anyone else need a coffee? :p On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.comwrote: Though on second thought, I guess I could still use it to identify a single digit instead of the Find in String.

Re: ICE modelling: topo cache when polygon count is changing

2012-08-16 Thread Rob Chapman
Ciaran, thank you very much indeed that worked a treat! I had a slight issue recreating getting the txt_proj attribute over but mostly just a typo in the name I think. for those that are stuck in Production on 2012 still and want a slice of Topo caching action from Ciaran, I converted it to

Re: ICE string to integer/scalar conversion + reading numbers from object names from within ICE

2012-08-16 Thread Alan Fregtman
On third thought, when I researched this I was in 2011 which didn't have the node. I guess I'll ammend the post later to elaborate the different approaches. On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 10:07 AM, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.comwrote: Oh d'oh, I can do the whole number. I'm gonna go hide in a

Re: [BUG] Softimage crashing on workgroup unload containing a custom renderer and at least on .xsirtcompound file

2012-08-16 Thread Steffen Dünner
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

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-16 Thread Toonafish
Oeh, let me add a few as well: - Raycast / no raycast toggle only works for default rectangle selection tool. Would be swell if all other selection tools would support this too, at the moment they are all only ray-cast, which renders them almost useless in most cases. - Hidden components should

Re: ICE string to integer/scalar conversion + reading numbers from object names from within ICE

2012-08-16 Thread Chris Chia
U r doing a great job! Great effort in the contributing! Chris On 16 Aug, 2012, at 10:07 PM, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.commailto:alan.fregt...@gmail.com wrote: Oh d'oh, I can do the whole number. I'm gonna go hide in a hole now... Anyone else need a coffee? :p On Thu, Aug 16, 2012

latest work

2012-08-16 Thread Stefan Andersson
Hi All, Haven't posted one of these in ages :) Here is one of the latest batch of commercials that we did at MadCrew http://www.madcrew.se. We actually made 16 of them. We are working on an article... http://vimeo.com/47438021 Particles done with standard ICE and some shots with emFluids. All

Re: latest work

2012-08-16 Thread Stefan Andersson
I should have included this, sorry. Client: Toyota, U.K.Agency: Saatchi Saatchi, London Director: againstallodds Creative Director: Kevin Grady Producer: Fritte Colliander Animation and postproduction: Mad Crew Live Action: Passion Pictures Passion Pictures Producer: Adriana Piasek-Wanski On

Re: latest work

2012-08-16 Thread Nic Groot Bluemink
Nice work mad crew! On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 8:48 PM, Stefan Andersson sander...@gmail.comwrote: I should have included this, sorry. Client: Toyota, U.K.Agency: Saatchi Saatchi, London Director: againstallodds Creative Director: Kevin Grady Producer: Fritte Colliander Animation and

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-16 Thread Votch
This same behavior with modal windows happens in win7 as well and can be very frustrating. On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 8:05 AM, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.comwrote: In Linux modal XSI windows aren't quite modal... You can accidentally click behind them and lose focus, wondering why XSI is

Re: ICE string to integer/scalar conversion + reading numbers from object names from within ICE

2012-08-16 Thread Ahmidou Lyazidi
Yes It's not in 2011 :) Any way it's still a very ICE logic exercise ! 2012/8/17 Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.com On third thought, when I researched this I was in 2011 which didn't have the node. I guess I'll ammend the post later to elaborate the different approaches. On Thu, Aug

Re: lego blocks

2012-08-16 Thread Kris Rivel
Anyone have his email? I tried contacting him through vimeo but haven't heard back. Kris On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 5:02 AM, olivier jeannel olivier.jean...@noos.frwrote: You should contact Claude. I wanted to give a try to his WaveToSpectrum, but wasn't able to make it work. It seem it was

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-16 Thread Eugen Sares
- File dialog: Would be nice if renaming was possible. A list of available harddrives is missing. Could be a dropdown menu, or a separate, always visible part of the folder tree (the shortcuts button is more like a workaround for this). Am 16.08.2012 23:31, schrieb Votch: This same behavior