Re: Another Lego-iser

2014-04-04 Thread Alok Gandhi
Awesome! --

Let's Share Contacts

2014-03-27 Thread Alok Gandhi
Hi All, As I see, some people are less frequent on the list these days. Some are leaving for good, others are not tuning in at all. Sooner or later, all of us will bid goodbye to each other, or the list may close. It would be awesome if we can keep in touch. Many of us are connected by

Re: Oculus Rift

2014-03-26 Thread Alok Gandhi
I have pre-ordered OR Dev 2 Kit. They said they will let me know when they ship. Can't wait to develop for it. It opens up a lot of exciting avenues for sure. On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Leendert A. Hartog hirazib...@live.nlwrote: Paul Doyle schreef op 26-3-2014 13:08: Can we not make

Re: OT: Sorry for the shameless plug

2014-03-22 Thread Alok Gandhi
Nice Work Ognjen! On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Stephen Davidson magic...@bellsouth.netwrote: Very, very nice work! Extremely impressive. On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 12:49 AM, Martin furik...@gmail.com wrote: Nice reel ! I'm not a lighting expert but I liked it ! Thanks for sharing,

[OT] EXPERIENCED ANIMATORS REQUIRED

2014-03-19 Thread Alok Gandhi
Hi, I need a few animators (at least two, maybe more) to work on a small project with a short deadline of about a week. I am looking for experienced animators who can produce polished animation in short amount of time. Somebody who has animated characters for dance/musicals preferred but not

Re: Get an attribute a specific time.

2014-03-13 Thread Alok Gandhi
trees, no idea how to cache stuff. To the reading machine!! Cheers On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 5:43 PM, Cristobal Infante cgc...@gmail.comwrote: I've always struggled with this before, would love to see a solution for this ;) On 12 March 2014 17:36, Alok Gandhi alok.gandhi2...@gmail.com

Re: [OT] : Automated Scribing for White Board Videos

2014-03-13 Thread Alok Gandhi
Gandhi alok.gandhi2...@gmail.com wrote: testing 1 2 3 ... did anybody see this post ? Since I did not see any response, I was wondering . . . On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Alok Gandhi alok.gandhi2...@gmail.com wrote: Just to update, I was able to get something worthwhile using IFX

Re: Get an attribute a specific time.

2014-03-13 Thread Alok Gandhi
at 7:18 AM, Alok Gandhi alok.gandhi2...@gmail.comwrote: Here are two nodes (soft 2013 and up, windows 64bit): 1. getCurveInfo - Gives you all the information like isAnimated, number of keys, key and frame value. 2. getParamData - Needs a param and array of frames to get values at, returns array

Re: [OT] : Automated Scribing for White Board Videos

2014-03-12 Thread Alok Gandhi
Just to update, I was able to get something worthwhile using IFX Read and Write Images from Mr. Core. Will update soon with some videos on how I did it. On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Alok Gandhi alok.gandhi2...@gmail.comwrote: Hi All, A midst all the turmoil going on I have a question

Re: Get an attribute a specific time.

2014-03-12 Thread Alok Gandhi
Yes I did made that hackey node. Will pull it off the drive and post it soon. Sent from my iPhone On Mar 12, 2014, at 22:46, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.com wrote: It's not possible to GetData at a specific frame directly. Alok Gandhi (hopefully listening) sort of had a hack

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-11 Thread Alok Gandhi
I am all for it. I can do any custom tools/ plugins development required, custom ICE nodes in C++ or any other tech stuff that needs to be developed. On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Rares Halmagean ra...@rarebrush.comwrote: This sounds like a fun way the bring this to the attention of the

[OT] : Automated Scribing for White Board Videos

2014-03-10 Thread Alok Gandhi
Hi All, A midst all the turmoil going on I have a question. I need to develop an automated system for creating White Board Scribing Videos. Here's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZDTB8gmGvYan example. This is the intended workflow: 1. Recieve scan of sketches from the sketching artist. 2.

Re: let me fan the flames....

2014-03-05 Thread Alok Gandhi
I don't think Max is going anywhere. The last I heard, AD was looking for a principal max engineer. I interviewed fir the same a couple of months ago. Sent from my iPhone On Mar 6, 2014, at 0:44, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.com wrote: I guess it's a good thing Max is the lowest voted

Let's Rock Soft with more love

2014-03-05 Thread Alok Gandhi
Hey Guys, Calling out all the Soft Tool developers/ TDs out there. I know there are lots of awesome out there for Soft but let's create more tools for the community. I am willing to devote my time to develop more tools and will ask the same of other developers. If anyone has a request / idea

Re: Let's Rock Soft with more love

2014-03-05 Thread Alok Gandhi
! --- Emilio Hernández VFX 3D animation. 2014-03-05 21:05 GMT-06:00 Alok Gandhi alok.gandhi2...@gmail.com: Hey Guys, Calling out all the Soft Tool developers/ TDs out there. I know there are lots of awesome out there for Soft but let's create more tools

Re: Let's Rock Soft with more love

2014-03-05 Thread Alok Gandhi
more practical. On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 2:05 PM, Alok Gandhi alok.gandhi2...@gmail.comwrote: Hey Guys, Calling out all the Soft Tool developers/ TDs out there. I know there are lots of awesome out there for Soft but let's create more tools for the community. I am willing to devote my time

Re: Let's Rock Soft with more love

2014-03-05 Thread Alok Gandhi
:) On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 2:36 PM, Alok Gandhi alok.gandhi2...@gmail.comwrote: Raff, Well I would like to humbly disagree with your 'corspe' analogy. People will still continue to use Soft. Maybe not big shops and huge pipelines but those small shops and lone artists that have been using

Re: Save Softimage Petition

2014-03-04 Thread Alok Gandhi
Done! Sent from my iPhone On Mar 5, 2014, at 5:28, Sylvain Lebeau s...@shedmtl.com wrote: Of course i did sign too!!! Sylvain Lebeau // SHED V-P/Visual effects supervisor 1410, RUE STANLEY, 11E ÉTAGE MONTRÉAL (QUÉBEC) H3A 1P8 T 514 849-1555 F 514 849-5025 WWW.SHEDMTL.COM

Re: Salvage the list.

2014-03-04 Thread Alok Gandhi
I think a new list is good idea. It can be even more awesome if all of us can pull our resources together and ask and share about any DCC we are using. Be it maya, houdini, max, modo, blender etc. Let's make a new list and keep doing the same thing that we have been doing over the years -

Re: A way forward - We are kingmakers.

2014-03-04 Thread Alok Gandhi
+1 Sent from my iPhone On Mar 5, 2014, at 5:11, Jeffrey Dates jda...@kungfukoi.com wrote: This. Everything Andy said. On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 4:52 PM, Andy Jones andy.jo...@gmail.com wrote: Many studios having the same problems at the same time is a HUGE opportunity if we leverage it

Re: survey on visual programming

2014-03-01 Thread Alok Gandhi
Done! Sent from my iPhone On Mar 2, 2014, at 5:25, Paul Doyle technove...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone – there has been some interesting discussion on the ICE thread about likes and dislikes. Fabric 2.0 will lend itself well to visual programming, and this is an area our team has a lot

Fx Artist Required for a Short Fluid Simulation Gig

2014-02-20 Thread Alok Gandhi
Hi All, I am looking for a freelance artist for a small fluid simulation project for a client who is also a friend. It is relatively a small simulation which shows pouring of two different colored liquids from two test tubes onto a soap and changes color of the soap. The turnover time is quite

Re: Fx Artist Required for a Short Fluid Simulation Gig

2014-02-20 Thread Alok Gandhi
artur.w...@gmail.comwrote: Tight is an understatement, mate. Rendering included? Artur 2014-02-20 16:41 GMT+01:00 Alok Gandhi alok.gandhi2...@gmail.com: Hi All, I am looking for a freelance artist for a small fluid simulation project for a client who is also a friend. It is relatively a small

Re: Recent Work - Chick-Fil-A: Celebrating 50 Years

2014-02-19 Thread Alok Gandhi
Bravo ! Deserves kudos specially for making it work in the tight schedule as you say. Congrats! On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 4:47 PM, Eric Turman i.anima...@gmail.com wrote: Looks really good Tim! Any special video cards for the rendering or just standard GeForce? -=Eric On Wed, Feb 19, 2014

Re: [C++] Reading UserDataBlob as JSON String

2014-02-07 Thread Alok Gandhi
No problem, you are welcome. Just let me know if this works for you. On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Jeremie Passerin gerem@gmail.comwrote: Thanks a ton Alok ! On 5 February 2014 14:35, Alok Gandhi alok.gandhi2...@gmail.com wrote: Ok I was able to finally lay my hands on this one

Re: [C++] Reading UserDataBlob as JSON String

2014-02-05 Thread Alok Gandhi
removed it while posting. Cheers ! On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 5:17 PM, Jeremie Passerin gerem@gmail.comwrote: Could definitely use an example, thanks Alok. ;-) On 4 February 2014 13:52, Alok Gandhi alok.gandhi2...@gmail.com wrote: You could definitely write through python and read

Re: Alternate Shape for particle

2014-02-04 Thread Alok Gandhi
The best and clean way would be to Check Instance Master Hidden in the visibility properties of the instance master geo as Rob has rightfully pointed out. I don't think a Hidden Instance Master would slow down arnold. Sent from my iPhone On Feb 4, 2014, at 14:10, Stephen Blair

Re: Whiskytree, Elysium breakdown

2014-02-04 Thread Alok Gandhi
Neat ! Sent from my iPhone On Feb 4, 2014, at 16:56, David Gallagher davegsoftimagel...@gmail.com wrote: Impressive! Promoted on our Fb: https://www.facebook.com/AnimSchool On 2/4/2014 11:46 AM, Steven Caron wrote: Here is a breakdown of Whiskytree's Elysium work...

Re: [C++] Reading UserDataBlob as JSON String

2014-02-03 Thread Alok Gandhi
I'd side with exactly what Matt and Oleg are saying, the data stored in a user data blob through C++ is essentially binary. That might be the cause of the issue. I wrote some plugin for userdatablob using c++ but I was writing the data instead of reading it. You can probably do the inverse of what

Re: python help

2014-01-31 Thread Alok Gandhi
You could simply use Parameter.AddFcruve2()http://download.autodesk.com/global/docs/softimage2012/en_us/sdkguide/command. On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 2:55 PM, Francisco Criado malcriad...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Simon, exactly! keyframe values for translation and rotation in a given time

Re: Missing ShapeAction Sources When Importing Model

2014-01-31 Thread Alok Gandhi
If the ICE Op is live, it requires both the target and source meshes. Try freezing it and then export. In case that does not work. Try merging your source scene in a fresh new scene and then export. On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 5:09 PM, Mitchell Lotierzo mitchlotie...@gmail.comwrote: The cluster

Re: Getting weight values for given points...

2014-01-30 Thread Alok Gandhi
Hi Sergio, This works for me. To clarify on the position attribute position of the Get Closest Location, it is the position within Object Space or local *from* where you want the find the location data *on* the geometry. Since in your case, it is a null, hence the position on the null in the

Re: asset library + version control

2014-01-29 Thread Alok Gandhi
You should check out git. It can work any kind of binary data and gives you control over versioning. You can ofcourse make a python app with qt as front end and some kind database as back end - MySql, Mongo etc. You can also make web based front end woth python using django if you want. Sent

Re: Gear rotation question

2014-01-28 Thread Alok Gandhi
Sounds like a gimbal, what are the rotation values currently at first and last frames ? On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Nicolas Esposito 3dv...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry, I just notice that the rig was built using Gear :) 2014-01-28 Nicolas Esposito 3dv...@gmail.com I've made some test of

Re: Hybride Pacific Rim Motion Graphics Breakdown

2014-01-28 Thread Alok Gandhi
Nice +1 On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 3:40 PM, Eric Thivierge ethivie...@hybride.comwrote: Just wanted to send out the Motion Graphics breakdown for the work Hybride did on Pacific Rim: http://youtu.be/NVm7rNd0fEU I arrived just a little while after that project finished and didn't get to

Re: Expression For Shape Blend

2014-01-27 Thread Alok Gandhi
It depends on how you want to interpolate. As the relation may not be necessarily linear, there could be infinitely many ways in which the interpolation can happen. Take a look at my drawing http://imgur.com/bM8Gx2H to see what I mean. I suggest an fcurve into the expression will be of great use

Re: list of external files

2014-01-22 Thread Alok Gandhi
Also you could use OpenInageIOhttps://sites.google.com/site/openimageio/home, it has python bindings. Alternatively, you could use Photoshop Scripting through python and export as you wish. If on windows, you can use pywin32 to access photoshop application as com object. On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at

Re: list of external files

2014-01-22 Thread Alok Gandhi
heavy, i dont really know how the commands go for it and time is on a bit of a budget right now. On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Alok Gandhi alok.gandhi2...@gmail.comwrote: Also you could use OpenInageIOhttps://sites.google.com/site/openimageio/home, it has python bindings. Alternatively

Re: Convert selection from UVsto polygons?

2013-12-21 Thread Alok Gandhi
This works for me: http://imgur.com/NwTAeNc On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Toonafish ron...@toonafish.nl wrote: Could it be you have the selection set to Sample instead of Point, Polygon or Edge ? - Ronald On 12/21/2013 16:48, Tim Leydecker wrote: Hi Ronald, thanks,yes.That works

Re: positivity

2013-12-20 Thread Alok Gandhi
Mine was this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Spectrum Did some cool graphics/pixel programs on it. I guess during 1987 to 1989. Still have it somewhere in my attic. ALOK GANDHI / directeur technique senior- senior technical director alok.gan...@modusfx.com mailto:alok.gan...@modusfx.com

Re: positivity

2013-12-20 Thread Alok Gandhi
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Re: How to weight size preference on instance shapes in ICE?

2013-12-19 Thread Alok Gandhi
In fact you could use the random node in ice. The test random probability node uses it. What you are looking for a is a gaussian distribution(bell curve). I think the random probability node implements the gaussian distribution, if I am not wrong. ALOK GANDHI / directeur technique senior

Re: emPolygonizer in Fabric Engine using KL extension

2013-12-19 Thread Alok Gandhi
+1 ALOK GANDHI / directeur technique senior- senior technical director alok.gan...@modusfx.com mailto:alok.gan...@modusfx.com T: *450 430-0010 x225 F: *450 430-0009 www.modusfx.com http://www.modusfx.com

OT: A great Shading/Rendering learning resource

2013-12-17 Thread Alok Gandhi
Hey Guys, Usually I do not indulge in promotions on the list, but this one is a great free learning resource which should not be missed, just wanted to share: http://www.scratchapixel.com/ Enjoy ! --

Re: A new cage deformer

2013-12-17 Thread Alok Gandhi
Will check that out, thanks Ahmidou! On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 6:28 PM, Ahmidou Lyazidi ahmidou@gmail.comwrote: Here is a new cage defomer based on this paper: http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~ylipman/pmvc/pmvc.htm The result is very close the Harmonic coordinates deformation done by

Re: A new cage deformer

2013-12-17 Thread Alok Gandhi
) xsi.SelectObj(cube, , ) xsi.AddICENode(GetDataNode, sphere.polymsh.ICETree1) xsi.SetValue(sphere.polymsh.ICETree1.SceneReferenceNode.reference, cube, ) xsi.ConnectICENodes(sphere.polymsh.ICETree1.PMVC.cage, sphere.polymsh.ICETree1.SceneReferenceNode.outname) On 17 December 2013 15:37, Alok

Re: Pointer for Cage Deformer Logic/Implementation

2013-12-13 Thread Alok Gandhi
%20Polygons.pdf Not sure if there is quality issues with it that I don't know about. You probably don't want to be doing novel research on a tight deadline. On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Alok Gandhi alok.gandhi2...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Ben. That is some good info. I was thinking more along

Re: Scramble polymesh Indices?

2013-12-13 Thread Alok Gandhi
You cannot modify certain attributes, including inconsistent changes to topology. If you want to assign some random ids to polygon for later use, create a custom attribute. And yes you can set kine.global but not local. Sent from my iPhone On Dec 13, 2013, at 10:21 AM, pedro santos

Re: Pointer for Cage Deformer Logic/Implementation

2013-12-12 Thread Alok Gandhi
getting crushed in the gears at the end of this video -- the actual simulation bunny was super low res, but we uprezed it for rendering: http://vimeo.com/874168 Best regards, -ben On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Alok Gandhi alok.gandhi2...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Very soon, I am

Re: Fabric Engine 1.10 is out with added Splice :)

2013-12-12 Thread Alok Gandhi
Congrats to all Fabric Engine Team ! --

Pointer for Cage Deformer Logic/Implementation

2013-12-11 Thread Alok Gandhi
Hi All, Very soon, I am starting on my own generic custom cage deformer. A mix of C++/Cython/Python. I am thinking of implementing fast calculations on barycentric coordinates with affine transformations. I have some good papers (in my treasure trove but haven't checked it yet). Anyone suggest

Re: ICE deformation not rendering on the farm

2013-12-10 Thread Alok Gandhi
It seems that farm is not updating the deoformer operators when opening the scene at the particular frame. Try plotting all the parameters on the operators, even if they have constant value. Sent from my iPhone On Dec 10, 2013, at 8:09 AM, Morten Bartholdy x...@colorshopvfx.dk wrote: It is

Re: ICE deformation not rendering on the farm

2013-12-10 Thread Alok Gandhi
Den 10. december 2013 kl. 14:35 skrev Alok Gandhi alok.gandhi2...@gmail.com: It seems that farm is not updating the deoformer operators when opening the scene at the particular frame. Try plotting all the parameters on the operators, even if they have constant value. Sent from my iPhone

Re: Tim Borgmann's emTopolizer2 Experiments

2013-12-05 Thread Alok Gandhi
Awesome stuff! Very inspiring indeed! Sent from my iPhone On Dec 5, 2013, at 12:45 PM, Eric Mootz e...@mootzoid.com wrote: Hey Olivier, I just finished implementing instance shape animation. He, he, told you it wasn't a big deal :) Tomorrow I will release an update of emTopolizer2

Re: Progressbar in scripting

2013-12-04 Thread Alok Gandhi
@grapecity.com wrote: You may also try sprinkle some Desktop.RedrawUI() in your script to force UI update. Use it with caution though as it will slow you down. :/ From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Alok Gandhi Sent: Wednesday

Re: Best way to animate shaders for use in a refmodel?

2013-12-02 Thread Alok Gandhi
I like Matt M's idea of ice scalar. It should be reliable and honestly not that cumbersome. On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 5:28 PM, Xavier lapointe.xav...@gmail.com wrote: Hmm, use expressions but add a on ref model load event to reconnect them? It shouldn't be too expensive to setup/execute. --

Re: Memory resources taken up by selection

2013-11-28 Thread Alok Gandhi
Not sure about the selection, but scene debugger gives you the full info on various scene memories. I think it will serve your purpose. To open just click on the button with the bag icon, it is next to the script editor button at the bottom. On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 5:50 AM, Ognjen Vukovic

Re: Softimage udp data

2013-11-28 Thread Alok Gandhi
done that would let connect incoming data to a primitive? Thanks in advance. Francisco. -- ALOK GANDHI / directeur technique senior- senior technical director alok.gan...@modusfx.com mailto:alok.gan...@modusfx.com T: *450 430-0010 x225 F: *450 430

Re: Softimage udp data

2013-11-28 Thread Alok Gandhi
be found here: softimage installation folder\XSISDK\examples\workgroup\Addons\XSIServer\Application\Plugins\ si_tcp_server.py tcpclient.py On 11/28/2013 2:11 PM, Alan Fregtman wrote: The github one is pure-Python. It does not require compiling. On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Alok Gandhi

Re: How to detect a cancelled sceneopen event?

2013-11-25 Thread Alok Gandhi
...@gmail.com wrote: OnBeginSceneOpen -- ALOK GANDHI / directeur technique senior- senior technical director alok.gan...@modusfx.com mailto:alok.gan...@modusfx.com T: *450 430-0010 x225 F: *450 430-0009 www.modusfx.com http://www.modusfx.com

Re: How to detect a cancelled sceneopen event?

2013-11-25 Thread Alok Gandhi
ah now that I read full post , you want to detect whether user has clicked the cancel button. Well for that, I think once the event has you are too late to detect that. You better implement that on onBeginSave instead. On 11/25/2013 6:04 PM, Alok Gandhi wrote: Just return True to abort

Re: Whiskeytree Athens tech demo

2013-11-22 Thread Alok Gandhi
Very impressive indeed! Bravo Whiskeytree! Sent from my iPhone On Nov 22, 2013, at 11:58 PM, Frederic Servant frederic.serv...@gmail.com wrote: nice work On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 10:29 PM, Votch megavo...@gmail.com wrote: We did build some tools for auto aligning objects (non

Re: Softimage and Alembic?

2013-11-20 Thread Alok Gandhi
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Re: I'll be back...

2013-11-20 Thread Alok Gandhi
Research Center __ Opinions stated here-in are strictly those of the author and do not represent the opinions of NASA or any other party. -- ALOK GANDHI / directeur technique senior- senior technical director alok.gan...@modusfx.com

Re: I'll be back...

2013-11-20 Thread Alok Gandhi
Enhanced Services (LITES) Mymic Technical Services NASA Langley Research Center __ Opinions stated here-in are strictly those of the author and do not represent the opinions of NASA or any other party. -- ALOK GANDHI / directeur technique

Re: A Custom ICE Node for directly reading .pc2 file

2013-11-16 Thread Alok Gandhi
Gandhi alok.gandhi2...@gmail.comwrote: And here is the github for the code: https://github.com/alok1974/KP_PointCache-Reader-ICE-Node On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 8:42 PM, Alok Gandhi alok.gandhi2...@gmail.comwrote: Here is the code for the pc2 reader

Re: A Custom ICE Node for directly reading .pc2 file

2013-11-16 Thread Alok Gandhi
2GB? I ended up splitting my meshes to work around it, but now I wonder... On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Alok Gandhi alok.gandhi2...@gmail.comwrote: Hi All, I have update the ReadPC2ICE node to version 1.1 You can find the addon here http://bit.ly/1axgUea and code herehttp://bit.ly

Re: Fastest way to store an action ?

2013-11-11 Thread Alok Gandhi
Did you try using the SIStoreAction command without opening the PPG, is it faster ? On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Jeremie Passerin gerem@gmail.comwrote: Hey Eric, thanks for the answer. I never really used the character Key Sets. Never really understood the point of it. Does that

Re: PC2\MDD\MC format Question

2013-11-08 Thread Alok Gandhi
___ *Marc Brinkley* GO GO GO Microsoft Studios [Fun]ction Studio marc.brinkley [at] microsoft.com -- ALOK GANDHI / directeur technique senior- senior technical director alok.gan...@modusfx.com mailto:alok.gan...@modusfx.com T: *450 430-0010 x225 F: *450

Re: Controlling a parameter live via slider through scripting

2013-11-05 Thread Alok Gandhi
Also take a look a proxy parameters. You can add proxy parameters from the operator to your custom PPG. Sent from my iPhone On Nov 5, 2013, at 7:30 AM, Christian Gotzinger cgo...@googlemail.com wrote: Thank you for the links, I think these contain what I need. What would be the standard

Re: A Custom ICE Node for directly reading .pc2 file

2013-11-04 Thread Alok Gandhi
, Alok Gandhi alok.gandhi2...@gmail.com wrote: Ah I see, I was confused when you said i haven't tried multiple files per frame (does softimage even export pc2 files this way?). Well in that, sure you can export single file per frame per object through KP_PointCache manager, you simply have

Re: A Custom ICE Node for directly reading .pc2 file

2013-11-04 Thread Alok Gandhi
reader so far.. On 4 November 2013 13:58, Alok Gandhi alok.gandhi2...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Cristobal, The node output a single array of pointpositions. So you have to convert the array to per point attribute. A getpointid plugged into the select in array and them set

Re: ICEAttribute from custom operator not updating

2013-11-04 Thread Alok Gandhi
Is there a particular reason you are reading the pointposition from a custom operator and not from the ice tree which is supposed to have the data ? On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 6:48 PM, Mathias N mdawn...@gmail.com wrote: I have set up a custom operator that reads the point positions of a mesh and

Re: ICEAttribute from custom operator not updating

2013-11-04 Thread Alok Gandhi
(userdatamaps and userdatablobs) which are combined to generate the attribute data. Seeing as the operator itself is evaluating correctly, I felt it best to use a simplified example. On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 1:15 AM, Alok Gandhi alok.gandhi2...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a particular reason you

Re: A Custom ICE Node for directly reading .pc2 file

2013-11-03 Thread Alok Gandhi
support for the format. On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 9:32 PM, Alok Gandhi alok.gandhi2...@gmail.comwrote: Hey All, I made a custom ice node for directly reading .pc2 file in ICE. Not sure if somebody already wrote that, but it was fun spending almost an hour of weekend. This implements most

Re: A Custom ICE Node for directly reading .pc2 file

2013-11-03 Thread Alok Gandhi
in the same .pc2 file. On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 8:37 PM, Alok Gandhi alok.gandhi2...@gmail.comwrote: I am a little confused... For sure, you cannot have multiple objects in the same .pc2 file, the format simply doesn't support that. --

A Custom ICE Node for directly reading .pc2 file

2013-11-02 Thread Alok Gandhi
Hey All, I made a custom ice node for directly reading .pc2 file in ICE. Not sure if somebody already wrote that, but it was fun spending almost an hour of weekend. This implements most of the logic from KP_PointCache by Kai Wolter (available with source code on http://rray.de/xsi/) You can

Re: Extracted meshes and performance

2013-11-01 Thread Alok Gandhi
everyone! -- -- ALOK GANDHI / directeur technique senior- senior technical director alok.gan...@modusfx.com mailto:alok.gan...@modusfx.com T: *450 430-0010 x225 F: *450 430-0009 www.modusfx.com http://www.modusfx.com

Re: About SI spring tails

2013-11-01 Thread Alok Gandhi
Yes MT Spring is the way to go. Recently I used it on one of my game characters. I was looking for a nice jiggle and a tail. I used MT Spring on both. It works great for the fat jiggle as well. On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Gustavo Eggert Boehs gustav...@gmail.comwrote: Mt Spring is very

Re: Extracted meshes and performance

2013-11-01 Thread Alok Gandhi
*Sent:* Friday, November 01, 2013 11:09 AM *To:* XSI Mailing List *Subject:* Re: Extracted meshes and performance Historically Soft has dealt quite well with few objects with intense topology much better than thousands of low-res objects. -- -- ALOK GANDHI / directeur technique senior

Re: How to refresh a PPG

2013-10-28 Thread Alok Gandhi
You can enclose your code within: gridObj.BeginEdit() and gridObj.EndEdit() to add rows without the need to refresh ppg. It should reflect the changes immediately and is faster. On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Guillaume Laforge guillaume.laforge...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Guys, I've got a

Re: Tips on exporting scenes from Maya to Soft while maintaining sane pivots?

2013-10-25 Thread Alok Gandhi
you can look for a command called Make Rotation continious or something like that, That command is called Euler Filter in maya. Available in fcurve editor and MEL/python. It is a counterpart of Make rotations continous in Softimage. Sent from my iPhone

Re: CICEAttributeDataArray and SDK backwards compatibility

2013-10-23 Thread Alok Gandhi
the 2014SP2 SDK for my 2011 plugins. Thanks for clearing that up. -- ALOK GANDHI / directeur technique senior- senior technical director alok.gan...@modusfx.com mailto:alok.gan...@modusfx.com T: *450 430-0010 x225 F: *450 430-0009 www.modusfx.com http://www.modusfx.com

Re: Global Python interpreter?

2013-10-22 Thread Alok Gandhi
I think it can be done with some tricks. The inspect module does not work directly on the script editor code because of the way python is implemented in softimage. With some wizardry, what can be done though is to grab the current file path directly from the layout views of the script editor. Once

Re: [ICE] location subsurface index

2013-10-21 Thread Alok Gandhi
Location Node' with a surface with 4 sub surfaces. I don't see any way to find the index of the subsurface of the location. I can get the UV and even the number of subsurface, but how do I get which subsurface the location is actually on ? thanks for your help, Jeremie -- ALOK GANDHI

Re: weightmap driven by velocity?

2013-10-21 Thread Alok Gandhi
intensity can be affected by velocity? Can you do that in ICE? -- ALOK GANDHI / directeur technique senior- senior technical director alok.gan...@modusfx.com mailto:alok.gan...@modusfx.com T: *450 430-0010 x225 F: *450 430-0009 www.modusfx.com http://www.modusfx.com

Re: weightmap driven by velocity?

2013-10-21 Thread Alok Gandhi
you want it to normalise to 1 as Alok says. S. On 2013/10/21 9:29 PM, Alok Gandhi wrote: Don't know of a tutorial but I guess you can take the magnitude of the velocity and plug it into weight values. Of course you will need to normalize to [0, 1] using a rescale. On 10/21/2013 3:23 PM

Re: Overriding commands

2013-10-19 Thread Alok Gandhi
In my opinion, overriding the commands is not advisable. You are effectively removing the native funtionality of the app, which might be needed in certain cases, if not now, then in future. Yes you can do it by hooking into the command events but note that the command is still going to finish

Re: My Speedometer plugin

2013-10-17 Thread Alok Gandhi
the direction when you double the magnitude :p It's twice the speed that's impossible. On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 4:34 AM, Sam Cuttriss tea...@gmail.commailto:tea...@gmail.com wrote: i shit you not: In the same amount of time, travel the same distance, but at twice the velocity -- ALOK GANDHI

Re: Global Python interpreter?

2013-10-17 Thread Alok Gandhi
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Re: Global Python interpreter?

2013-10-17 Thread Alok Gandhi
As far as I know Django extensively employs python meta classes for the magic stuff. Python Meta Class concept is extremely powerful in case one is curious enough to learn it. Alok. Sent from my iPhone On Oct 17, 2013, at 6:22 PM, Raffaele Fragapane raffsxsil...@googlemail.com wrote:

Re: XSIBatch python does not support named arguments?

2013-10-16 Thread Alok Gandhi
: ## inKSOMode rendertest.scn inSName To_Delete inDb PassA inPass true Holger Schoenberger technical director The day has 24 hours, if that does not suffice, I will take the night -- ALOK GANDHI / directeur technique senior- senior technical director alok.gan...@modusfx.com

Re: My Speedometer plugin

2013-10-16 Thread Alok Gandhi
were truly supersonic.) Hope it's useful to somebody. Cheers, -- Alan ps: If you find bugs, post in the Issues page on the github project, thanks. -- ALOK GANDHI / directeur technique senior- senior technical director alok.gan...@modusfx.com mailto:alok.gan...@modusfx.com T

Re: Swap instance master

2013-10-16 Thread Alok Gandhi
Not really, you have to write your own script. Sent from my iPhone On Oct 16, 2013, at 12:00 PM, David Saber davidsa...@sfr.fr wrote: Hi all Is there a way to Swap the instances master? Also, how do i search scripts in the Area? I didn't see an advanced search button... Thanks David

Re: XSIUIToolkit.FileBrowser - get multiple files?

2013-10-16 Thread Alok Gandhi
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Re: XSIUIToolkit.FileBrowser - get multiple files?

2013-10-16 Thread Alok Gandhi
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Re: New Plugin: LK Fabric

2013-10-09 Thread Alok Gandhi
Very nice! Thanks Leonard. Sent from my iPhone On Oct 9, 2013, at 6:31 AM, Leonard Koch leonardkoch...@gmail.com wrote: Hey list, today I have a new plugin for you. LK Fabric is an unsimulated tool-set made up of 50+ components, designed for the creation and animation of fabrics and

Re: Adding points to curve with object model in python

2013-10-08 Thread Alok Gandhi
Doesn't the om method AddNurbsCurve() command fit your needs ? On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Vladimir Jankijevic vladi...@elefantstudios.ch wrote: I think you will need to use the NurbsCurve.Get and NurbsCurve.Set methods to recreate the curves geometry with the new points added in.

Re: SetValue question...

2013-10-08 Thread Alok Gandhi
+1 On 10/8/2013 10:46 AM, Luc-Eric Rousseau wrote: Maya's script editor is terrible, it doesn't even remember that you loaded a script from a file on disk, so it doesn't know what to do when you hit ctrl+s. plus it deletes your script if you run it with the default button. -- ALOK GANDHI

Re: Scntoc Res Manager v 1.0 released

2013-10-08 Thread Alok Gandhi
\scntocResManagerPlugin.py] ** ** Cheers, F. On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Alok Gandhi alok.gandhi2...@gmail.comwrote: Ok let me check and get back to you. On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 9:12 AM, Fabrice Altman fabr...@studioaka.co.ukwrote: Yes I do. However, please ignore

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