ICE - geo weightmaps to particlespeed?

2014-10-20 Thread Morten Bartholdy
I am trying to use a weightmap on my emitter to drive/multiply particle speed in a simple particle simulation. I have run in to the old context mismatch between polymesh data and pointclouds trying to put my weightmap values into emission speed. I am guessing I should find weightmap values at emit

Re: ICE - geo weightmaps to particlespeed?

2014-10-20 Thread patrick nethercoat
simpler than you're expecting. In a basic way: Get_Particle_Emit_Location - getData (cls.WeightMapCls.Weight_Map.Weights) - speed input of your emit node. On 20 October 2014 13:51, Morten Bartholdy x...@colorshopvfx.dk wrote: I am trying to use a weightmap on my emitter to drive/multiply

Emitting particles from cached pointcloud?

2014-10-20 Thread Morten Bartholdy
I would like to emit particles from a cached pointcloud but it seems there is no way to plug a pointcloud directly in as emitter - how is this done? Morten

Re: Emitting particles from cached pointcloud?

2014-10-20 Thread patrick nethercoat
You can get the pointPositions from another pointcloud and feed them into the positions port of an Add Point node in your new pointcloud, then move them with forces etc. On 20 October 2014 15:24, Morten Bartholdy x...@colorshopvfx.dk wrote: I would like to emit particles from a cached

Purchasing softimage 2015

2014-10-20 Thread Oz Adi
Hi All, We have 2 softimage 2013 licenses, and we need to upgrade to 2015 The only option I could find on AD site to get Soft 2015, is via the ultimate bundle.. Is this really the only option? Can't we upgrade our 2013 to 2015? Or buy new soft 2015 licenses? I am breaking my head on AD awfull

Re: Return a value from a custom tool

2014-10-20 Thread Ahmidou Lyazidi
I'm not sure yet it's going to work, I'm trying to replicate a picking cession as the factory one, but when you pick an object it's opening a contextual menu, and return a string depending of the choosed item in the menu. Unfortunately calling a custom tool is a non blocking command, the rest of

Was: Purchasing softimage 2015

2014-10-20 Thread Graham Bell
Hi Oz You should really talk to your reseller about purchase options, you won’t find anything on the Autodesk websites. You can’t buy Softimage 2015 on its own any more. Only existing Softimage customers with active Subscriptions are able to buy stand alone Softimage 2015. See as you have

Re: Return a value from a custom tool

2014-10-20 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
right, it's not possible because you'd have to run your own message loop like pickelement does, and there is nothing for that in the SDK. On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 11:34 AM, Ahmidou Lyazidi ahmidou@gmail.com wrote: I'm not sure yet it's going to work, I'm trying to replicate a picking cession

Re: subscription for maya on linux

2014-10-20 Thread David Gallagher
Yes, good point Raffaele. We've talked about doing it that way too. On 10/19/2014 4:49 PM, Raffaele Fragapane wrote: BTW you don't need to be able to run Maya to compile something for it. As long as you have the linux header and lib includes you can compile away. Whether there are licensing

Re: Return a value from a custom tool

2014-10-20 Thread Ahmidou Lyazidi
I see... A message is just a while loop waiting to get the instruction to stop, right? So if I wrap the tool into a command the will wait for a plugin.Userdata to be valid and return it it should work I guess. Any thing against that? Thanks Le 20 oct. 2014 11:45, Luc-Eric Rousseau

Re: Return a value from a custom tool

2014-10-20 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
it's more complicated than a while loop.. you have to pump OS messages for the tool to work and the user be able to click on stuff and the viewport to redraw. You also need to prevent re-entrency (i.e preventing launching a new command while current command is still running) which would

Re: Return a value from a custom tool

2014-10-20 Thread Ahmidou Lyazidi
Well, that's too bad :/ Le 20 oct. 2014 14:17, Luc-Eric Rousseau luceri...@gmail.com a écrit : it's more complicated than a while loop.. you have to pump OS messages for the tool to work and the user be able to click on stuff and the viewport to redraw. You also need to prevent re-entrency

Re: Return a value from a custom tool

2014-10-20 Thread Ahmidou Lyazidi
Thanks for the explanation anyway Le 20 oct. 2014 18:30, ahmidou@gmail.com a écrit : Well, that's too bad :/ Le 20 oct. 2014 14:17, Luc-Eric Rousseau luceri...@gmail.com a écrit : it's more complicated than a while loop.. you have to pump OS messages for the tool to work and the user be able

Re: Off topic but useful tip: 27 Korean WQHD (2560X1440) LEDMonitors are awesome and cheap!

2014-10-20 Thread phil harbath
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