Re: set raycast direction with a Null?

2013-04-09 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
I suggest anybody who has issues with the current system, but is genuinely interested in their products (not just mine, there are some very solid things out on CGS and more coming) gets in touch with them and sees what they can do. TODs are a fresh thing, there's still plasticity to the offer, and

RE: set raycast direction with a Null?

2013-04-09 Thread Angus Davidson
Hi Raff Our university course is in South Africa. Streaming from anywhere except Digital Tutors (which is stil not great but manageable) is a disaster. We would really like the option to be able to buy the course and setup someway of allowing our students to stream it locally (as I wouldnt want

Re: set raycast direction with a Null?

2013-04-09 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
In principle I'm not fond of the idea of assuming everybody is a pirate and forcing these always online models on people, so no argument there. They did have a case for it it turns out, but (again in principle) I would have rather have opted out of it and risked losing a few sales, it wasn't possib

Re: Is there a new version of GEAR being planned?

2013-04-09 Thread Christopher
Jeremie, nice Job with GEAR, just to let you know, not that you don't know this by now :) Christopher Jeremie Passerin Tuesday, April 09, 2013 12:33 PM Thanks for the feedback guys... Well as I mentionned, it's not going to happen any time soon. I'll push to release a

Re: set raycast direction with a Null?

2013-04-09 Thread Christopher
Never saw the film but Vanessa Hudgens is very easy on the eyes, or atleast my eyes :) Christopher Xavier Lapointe Wednesday, April 10, 2013 12:18 AM If Raff had been involved in the writing process, it would have been quite interesting q:-- Xavier Sa

Re: set raycast direction with a Null?

2013-04-09 Thread Xavier Lapointe
If Raff had been involved in the writing process, it would have been quite interesting q: On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Sam wrote: > Thanks Raff. I understand about the problem with Piracy, but some of the > players these guys come up with are truly terrible and make it very > difficult to n

RE: set raycast direction with a Null?

2013-04-09 Thread Sam
Thanks Raff. I understand about the problem with Piracy, but some of the players these guys come up with are truly terrible and make it very difficult to navigate the videos. That's my only real concern with streaming, well, that and if my internet goes out in middle of me watching the video.

RE: Softimage 2014

2013-04-09 Thread Matt Lind
All of the above. There are parts of the core that are archaic and need to be updated. Other areas perfectly fine but need somebody to step in and finish an implementation of an existing feature. In my opinion, the biggest problem is politics of getting the issues identified to be addressed.

Advice on creating particles effects

2013-04-09 Thread carl callewaert
>I looking for information on how to create nice particles effects. I am >not looking for a tutorial that explains the sliders but more from a design viewpoint. Any information out there? c

Re: Softimage 2014

2013-04-09 Thread Sebastien Sterling
If these things are to hard to accomplish for third party people, then what realistic chance is there that they will ever be implemented ? is what i want to know, Autodesk don't exactly have a good track record of treating there customers as a valid source of input... is there some secret ballot wh

Re: Create SI compatible eps files on Linux

2013-04-09 Thread Thomas Volkmann
Unfortunately no application I tried so far (inkscape, scribus, karbon, libreoffice, xfig) had a checkbox for that. I guess they are using the same library for saving eps anyway :/ On 04/09/2013 10:54 PM, Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES] wrote: Is the EPS file you are using saved as Illu

RE: Create SI compatible eps files on Linux

2013-04-09 Thread Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES]
Is the EPS file you are using saved as Illustrator 8 EPS? -- Joey Ponthieux LaRC Information Technology Enhanced Services (LITES) Mymic Technical Services NASA Langley Research Center __ Opinions stated here-in are strictly those of the author and do

Create SI compatible eps files on Linux

2013-04-09 Thread Thomas Volkmann
HOW I am totally freaking about that one I will gladly accept any dirty hack/workaround/whatever as long as it avoids Illustrator and Windows. /Thomas

Re: imf_disp error: Could not connect to the socket specified in the stubfile

2013-04-09 Thread Dan Yargici
OK, pedantry aside, can we make it so it just works. Like it used to. :) DAN On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 6:07 PM, Grahame Fuller wrote: > It is on -- you need to turn it off. :) > > >From the help: > > MI_ENABLE_PIPE_MODE > > Tells mental ray not to open any TCP/IP sockets. This prevents problems

Re: Tumbling in ICE?

2013-04-09 Thread Adam Sale
Shoot.. Sorry, I should have read the initial post thoroughly.. On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Adam Sale wrote: > What about the spin particle compound? It has a tumble function.. > > > On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 8:20 AM, Andy Nicholas wrote: > >> Hi Morten, >> The only issue with randomising or

Re: Tumbling in ICE?

2013-04-09 Thread Adam Sale
What about the spin particle compound? It has a tumble function.. On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 8:20 AM, Andy Nicholas wrote: > Hi Morten, > The only issue with randomising or turbulising it, is that the particles > will > look like they're being acted on by some sort of force because their > angular

Re: OT: Looking for a studio who specializes in Mocap (preferably Sports)

2013-04-09 Thread Adam Sale
Hey Oz.. Long time since I've seen your name pop up. Welcome back. My colleague Al Macleod rolls his own Mocap Solution, If you're interested, you can contact him through his website. His solutions are for Maya, but he is a really talented guy, and may be able to help you out. http://mocap.ca/ A

Re: Is there a new version of GEAR being planned?

2013-04-09 Thread Jeremie Passerin
Thanks for the feedback guys... Well as I mentionned, it's not going to happen any time soon. I'll push to release a brand new tool this year that is also a rig builder but slightly different from Gear. There might be some facial stuff but not that much because it's just not the way we are doing i

RE: Animated Short Film Masterclass with Lucas Martell

2013-04-09 Thread Grahame Fuller
Speaking of Lucas Martell, I just came across this: http://area.autodesk.com/blogs/pointsnap/the-oceanmaker-with-lucas-martell gray From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Angus Davidson Sent: Monday, April 08, 2013 03:43 PM To

Re: Tumbling in ICE?

2013-04-09 Thread Andy Nicholas
Hi Morten, The only issue with randomising or turbulising it, is that the particles will look like they're being acted on by some sort of force because their angular momentum is varying. If you want something a little more like tumbling debris in zero gravity, then during emission; store a random

OT: Looking for a studio who specializes in Mocap (preferably Sports)

2013-04-09 Thread Oz Adi
Hello, Sorry for the OT on my first post. This is actually not my first post, but I've been missing from this list since 2002 or so :) The company I work for, is looking for a 3D production studio, that has proven experience doing and handling multi player capturing (football for instance), a

RE: imf_disp error: Could not connect to the socket specified in the stubfile

2013-04-09 Thread Grahame Fuller
It is on -- you need to turn it off. :) >From the help: MI_ENABLE_PIPE_MODE Tells mental ray not to open any TCP/IP sockets. This prevents problems with firewalls when running Softimage. By default this is set but you may need to unset it, for example, to use imf_disp to show renders in progr

Re: Tumbling in ICE?

2013-04-09 Thread Alan Fregtman
>> Is there a more elegant way to make particles tumble (flying slowly through the air) totally randomly? That's a little vague a description, but isn't "*Turbulize Particle Velocity *" doing it for you? What more do you need? On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 7:38 AM, Morten Bartholdy wrote: > ** > > Wh

Tumbling in ICE?

2013-04-09 Thread Morten Bartholdy
Which is the best method to make totally randomly tumbling particles in ICE? I am doing it with Spin Particle and altering the input axis with Randomizing the rotation by cone. I am thinking I would like to turbulize direction of the the vector instead of randomizing but have not cracked that one y

Re: Softimage 2014

2013-04-09 Thread Eugen Sares
Oil on my fire. That cluster SDK restriction really really sucks. It is the reason why there never were any good topology/modelling addons from 3rd parties, which leads to stagantion if there aren't any new "factory" modelling tools brought also. In 3ds max or Maya, all kinds of plugins are ava

Re: Softimage 2014

2013-04-09 Thread Piotrek Marczak
Just give us proper SDK and let community do the rest. " Softimage currently does not fully support custom topology operators. The problem is that any cluster or cluster property will not properly update when a topology operator adds or removes points that belong to the cluster. In the worst case

RE: Softimage 2014

2013-04-09 Thread Szabolcs Matefy
+1 J From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Sam Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2013 6:54 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: RE: Softimage 2014 I bought Modo 1.0 when I got sick of modeling things in Lightwave and i

RE: Is there a new version of GEAR being planned?

2013-04-09 Thread Szabolcs Matefy
Hi Jeremie, 1. Facial stuff would be awesome 2. We talked a year ago or so about sliding and volume preserving stuffs, that would be fantastic too 3. To me the lines from the knee and elbow controllers to the joint is always off (not pointing into the direction of the joint,