OT: Cinema4d Advanced Production Techniques

2014-09-04 Thread Pingo van der Brinkloev
ion These guys are pushing the limits of Cinema4D and their results are extraordinary. If you wanna check the previous VOD on vimeo you can use this code to get 50% off. C4DAPT#2 https://vimeo.com/ondemand/c4dapt Cheers all! X-SI user Pingo van der Brinkloev

Re: C y'all

2014-04-25 Thread Pingo van der Brinkloev
good idea! On 25/04/2014, at 13.42, Leendert A. Hartog wrote: > While I am definitively not really qualified to suggest this: > as there would seem to be an exodus of sorts starting > it might be an idea to look into the idea of severing this list from Autodesk > to make it future-proof (with ro

Re: C y'all

2014-04-25 Thread Pingo van der Brinkloev
I'll let you all know how it goes for sure. Cheers On 25/04/2014, at 13.20, Eric Turman wrote: > It is truly criminal what Autodesk has done--maybe not to the letter of the > law, but flagrantly reprehensible none the less--, but it would be a waste > and a shame to have this community unrave

C y'all

2014-04-25 Thread Pingo van der Brinkloev
So long folks. I've severed my subscription with Autodesk and received my Houdini FX license yesterday. I've got Cinema4d in my pipeline so latest news about HE was the best news ever. Cheers everyone who's been so helpful here on the list. It's been a pleasure. Good luck to Autodesk. Pingo

Re: I'm still really PO'd and it's not getting better

2014-03-21 Thread Pingo van der Brinkloev
Kinda like the same feelings I'm going through. I am gonna go into hibernation, until anything as powerful as softimage emerges. What Autodesk don't realize is this: All the people using Soft are extremely creative. I can not speak for all of them, but only for myself. I chose Soft, because it

Re: turbulize OBJECT position around value

2014-01-17 Thread pingo van der brinkloev
; > Morten > > > Den 16. januar 2014 kl. 14:04 skrev Rob Chapman : > > 1.get the global kini matrix > > 2.decompose it into scaling, rotation , position > 3. add your turbulance to the position > 4. recompose the matrix > 5. set the global kini matri

Re: turbulize OBJECT position around value

2014-01-17 Thread pingo van der brinkloev
> 5. set the global kini matrix > > this works ! > > > On 16 January 2014 12:28, pingo van der brinkloev wrote: > Hi all, > > I need to add some random motion to some objects... > > And here I thought I'd get data kine.global.pos feed that into a turbulize

turbulize OBJECT position around value

2014-01-16 Thread pingo van der brinkloev
Hi all, I need to add some random motion to some objects... And here I thought I'd get data kine.global.pos feed that into a turbulize around value and into a set data and execute and... og well.. I can't "just" do that. Why not? I'm having trouble with the set data node no matter what I do.

Re: Naiad & the Ice team

2013-09-11 Thread pingo van der brinkloev
Super interesting article. On 11/09/2013, at 03.56, Nick Angus wrote: > Perhaps not something that will put any Softimage rumours to rest, but > interesting nonetheless. > The FX guide articles are always very in-depth and well thought out and this > one is no different. > > Interesting seeing

Re: Seting Custom Attribute on object to control textures

2013-09-10 Thread pingo van der brinkloev
And now it works. Really well! Carry on! On 10/09/2013, at 11.36, pingo van der brinkloev wrote: > Hey, thanks, but it doesn't matter what I call it. Still wont work. > > I really did read the docs.. Looks so easy. > > ... > > On 10/09/2013, at 11.19, Sandy Suther

Re: Seting Custom Attribute on object to control textures

2013-09-10 Thread pingo van der brinkloev
e - and use that in the render tree. > > S. > > On 2013/09/10 11:17 AM, pingo van der brinkloev wrote: >> This should be so simple. >> >> I need to create several packshots with only Material, but different >> textures - so I only have to make corrections

Seting Custom Attribute on object to control textures

2013-09-10 Thread pingo van der brinkloev
This should be so simple. I need to create several packshots with only Material, but different textures - so I only have to make corrections one place - Clients, pffh. Anyway I create a custom attribute on my object by making an ICE Tree (under modeling) with a Set Data node(Self.Texture) I co

Re: Slowing simulation down?

2013-09-09 Thread Pingo van der Brinkloev
You could cheat.. with high framerate/sec. 3D Slowmotion :-P Cheers! On 09/09/2013, at 10.09, Morten Bartholdy wrote: > I am making thin ribbons hanging from a hot air lantern , which are supposed > to be flowing gently and poetically in the air. I am using Syflex (not the > ICE version) whic

Re: softimage.tv - Hello World!

2013-09-05 Thread Pingo van der Brinkloev
Great initiative! Cheers P On 05/09/2013, at 22.34, David Gallagher wrote: > > So happy to see this! > > Great job Cris and Cesar. > > Dave G > > On 9/5/2013 11:10 AM, Michael Clarke wrote: >> Great job. >> That's a huge contribution to the community. >> >> >> >> On Sep 5, 2013, at 11:

Re: Online render farm recommendations.

2013-09-05 Thread Pingo van der Brinkloev
Oh, rebusfarm has an iPhone/android app so you can keep track of your renders from the poolside ;) P On 05/09/2013, at 23.23, Pingo van der Brinkloev wrote: > Foxrenderfarm.com is indeed very good, very helpful via skype chat and quite > inexpensive. You need to upload your project yo

Re: Online render farm recommendations.

2013-09-05 Thread Pingo van der Brinkloev
Foxrenderfarm.com is indeed very good, very helpful via skype chat and quite inexpensive. You need to upload your project yourself and I think you can upload caches for sims as well - haven't tried this. Good thing about the self administered upload is if you make a mistake you just re-upload th

Re: Deform ICE pointcloud, not

2013-08-27 Thread Pingo van der Brinkloev
-Original Message- > From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com > [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Pingo van der > Brinkloev > Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2013 3:32 PM > To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com > Subject: Deform ICE pointcloud, not

Deform ICE pointcloud, not

2013-08-27 Thread Pingo van der Brinkloev
Hey list, I wanted to apply a bend operator (or whatever ole deformer) to a pointcloud and I just assumed that I could. But I can't deform an ICE pointcloud? Was that the old legacy particles? - Would I have to build the deformer in ICE (with getters and setters and some math) and apply it und

Re: bin format from soft to maya

2013-08-16 Thread Pingo van der Brinkloev
Hey check this out. Someone recently helped me with exporting ice particles to cinema4d. He wrote this: i used the exchange-plugin from realflow. unfortunately alembic does not support any particle-attributes except position as far as i know. but it works quite well with the realflow-plugin. f

Re: Nike Evolution and a community thank you

2013-08-12 Thread Pingo van der Brinkloev
Such a good read. Thanks for sharing, and inspiration :) Looking forward to the release of LKfabric! Pingo On 05/08/2013, at 17.48, Kris Rivel wrote: > Nice work guys...spot looks fantastic...gorgeous. > > Kris > > > On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 7:31 PM, Sylvain Lebeau wrote: > o yeah! >

Re: Why did I pay support?? Why did I buy a suite ? I want my moneyback!

2013-07-31 Thread Pingo van der Brinkloev
omfg I'm switching right now! So if I pour a glass of beer into the keyboard I'm gonna get a realtime Bifrost flooding sim :) On 31/07/2013, at 21.14, Sebastien Sterling wrote: > http://area.autodesk.com/mayaleapplugin > > > Meanwile ! Yay ! Warning ! its like a sick parody of kinect for may

Re: OT: Vitaly Bulgarov timelapse

2013-07-22 Thread Pingo van der Brinkloev
Really intense stuff Thanks for sharing P On 22/07/2013, at 22.22, Rob Wuijster wrote: > wow. just wow > thanks for the link, very impressive video and work! > > Rob > > \/-\/\/ > On 22-7-2013 11:26, adrian wyer wrote: >> in my opinion one of the finest indus

Re: Cinefex

2013-07-21 Thread Pingo van der Brinkloev
This is a good observation Adrian, Cinefex should go more into detail. P On 19/07/2013, at 11.49, adrian wyer wrote: > agree that they are better kept in the office, great reference and good > reading while waiting for simulations/renders > > if you want back issues, i get mine from ebay, t

Re: FBX issues

2013-07-21 Thread Pingo van der Brinkloev
Hey Sandy, recently had this problem myself. I just focused on how many frames I needed. In my case I needed 10 secs in PAL = 250 frames. So I retained the 30 fps (that fbx loves) in softimage untill I comped. Still very annoying! Cheers Pingo On 20/07/2013, at 09.54, Sandy Sutherland wro

Re: Car-setup

2013-07-11 Thread Pingo van der Brinkloev
> make oversampling viable. > > Really, for me this was one of the big reasons I decided that the long > term future for rendering will be full 3d motion blur, and I try to > build my lighting/compositing workflows with that in mind. > > On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 9:13 AM, Pingo

Re: Car-setup

2013-07-09 Thread Pingo van der Brinkloev
No car lovers out there :) On 06/07/2013, at 22.41, Pingo van der Brinkloev wrote: > Hey, > > I have an upcoming project where a car(3D) is driving inbetween shapes, that > turn out to be a logo. It's gonna be semi realistic, so I need to make the > cars movements belie

Re: Honda 'Hands' Commercial

2013-07-06 Thread Pingo van der Brinkloev
Holy... that's eyecandy. Thanks for sharing that. Very inspirational. P On 05/07/2013, at 18.05, Simon Reeves wrote: > Hey everyone, > > Here at Analog we've just finished up working on a commercial directed by > Smith & Foulkes with Nexus for Honda, and I convinced the guys here to give > S

Car-setup

2013-07-06 Thread Pingo van der Brinkloev
Hey, I have an upcoming project where a car(3D) is driving inbetween shapes, that turn out to be a logo. It's gonna be semi realistic, so I need to make the cars movements believable. I have a fast edit (quick cuts), so I'm probably going to animate by hand (don't think I need dynamics). But if

Re: 2014-2013

2013-07-06 Thread Pingo van der Brinkloev
2013 12:41, Sandy Sutherland > mailto:sandy.mailli...@gmail.com>> wrote: > Well you could write out caches - then export obj of geometry - go into the > previous Softimage, import the obj - load the cache onto it and redo the > texture - UV should go with the obj - camera you c

Re: 2014-2013

2013-07-05 Thread Pingo van der Brinkloev
I don't evern have caches. This scene is so simple. I'm using 2 texture maps and everything else is super simple animation and geo. Isn't there a cheat? Somehow to get soft to think it's a 2013 scene? P On 05/07/2013, at 12.33, Sandy Sutherland wrote: > It would be easy to get the caches back

Re: Visual feedback from batch rendering.. What's that thing called??

2013-07-05 Thread Pingo van der Brinkloev
Ys imfdisp! Beers are on me! P On 04/07/2013, at 14.47, Sandy Sutherland wrote: > Is imf_disp what you are looking for? As far as I remember you can use it to > display images such as exr files as they are being rendered. > > S. > > On 2013/07/04 2:08 PM, pingo van d

2014-2013

2013-07-05 Thread Pingo van der Brinkloev
Hey, I'm running into some problems with render farm services that hasn't upgraded to soft 2014 yet (which I'm running - yay me) Can I somehow convert my scenes back to 2013? They're very simple... Sorry if this has been discussed before. Cheers Pingo

Re: Test

2013-07-04 Thread Pingo van der Brinkloev
Mailbox lag. Sorry for the noise. Carry on On 04/07/2013, at 16.22, Mats Bertil Tegner wrote: > Pingo van der Brinkloev skrev 2013-07-04 14:40: >> anybody? >> > Yes effendi?

Test

2013-07-04 Thread Pingo van der Brinkloev
anybody?

test

2013-07-04 Thread pingo van der brinkloev
working?

Visual feedback from batch rendering.. What's that thing called??

2013-07-04 Thread pingo van der brinkloev
Lst! I want visual feedback during batch rendering.. I can't remember how I do it. It's an app right? What's it called!? yeah rtfm, but I dunno what to look for :-/ Yeah beers on me Yeah yeah yeah P

Re: congrats to Jellyfish

2013-06-21 Thread Pingo van der Brinkloev
Very impressive! Thanks for sharing. P On 21/06/2013, at 17.20, adrian wyer wrote: > great short by Shynola that Jellyfish worked on > > http://www.created-to-help-you.com/ > > a > > Adrian Wyer > Fluid Pictures > 75-77 Margaret St. > London > W1W 8SY > ++44(0) 207 580 0829 > > adrian.

Re: particle flow along curve with turbulence

2013-06-10 Thread Pingo van der Brinkloev
e" then it was given to > community, > we need a "factory preset" turbulize on curve flow :) > > D > > > > From: Pingo van der Brinkloev > To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com > Sent: Saturday, June 1, 2013 3:59 PM > Subject: Re: particle flow

Re: particle flow along curve with turbulence

2013-06-01 Thread Pingo van der Brinkloev
t; - turbulence to randomize > > you can multiply each of those vectors with a scalar - and by changing the > scalars have fine control over the blending of the different forces. > > > > > -Original Message- From: Pingo van der Brinkloev > Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2013 1

Re: particle flow along curve with turbulence

2013-06-01 Thread Pingo van der Brinkloev
Damn, I can't get any of the solutions to work.. this should be a walk in the park. Any other ideas? P On 01/06/2013, at 12.52, Rob Chapman wrote: > turbulences accumulate in the valleys you say? try curl noise framework > > > On 1 June 2013 10:25, Pingo van der Brinkl

particle flow along curve with turbulence

2013-06-01 Thread Pingo van der Brinkloev
Hey list, I have some particles flowing along a curve nicely (with strands). I would like to add turbulence to the particles, so they wiggle, but still follow the curve(!) How do I do this without the particles going a-walk on me? Whichever way I try it it, the turbulence always cumulate. Feel

Re: Controlling geometry changes interactively?

2013-05-08 Thread Pingo van der Brinkloev
Looks like a Motion tools or EmTopo-job.. Or gimme a call and I can do it in Cinema for u (mwaaahaha) Cheers M ;) On 08/05/2013, at 09.53, Morten Bartholdy wrote: > Basically I need something similar to the shown effect here: > > https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/763668/ICE/Wipe_Matte_ICE_

Re: The 2014 help buttons

2013-05-02 Thread Pingo van der Brinkloev
Eeh.. and now it works (?) Really.. It does. Didn't do anything other that restart since last. Cheers Pingo On 30/04/2013, at 10.39, Pingo van der Brinkloev wrote: > Yeah, something as silly as the help button. You know that small questionmark > you click and it takes you to the

Re: The 2014 help buttons

2013-04-30 Thread pingo van der brinkloev
> From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com > [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Pingo van der > Brinkloev > Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 4:39 PM > To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com > Subject: The 2014 help buttons > > Yeah, somethi

The 2014 help buttons

2013-04-30 Thread Pingo van der Brinkloev
Yeah, something as silly as the help button. You know that small questionmark you click and it takes you to the online docs in a webbrowser? Very helpful! Well in 2014 when i click or press F1, it takes me to this Autodesk SI startup menu instead - That is it shows me a glimpse of what seems to

Re: Vray promotion for freelancers

2013-04-23 Thread Pingo van der Brinkloev
I think so... Try contacting them :) Pingo On 22/04/2013, at 16.50, Massimo Galluzzo wrote: > Is this public? Because on their website there is still nothing official. > Just a form to contact them. > > cheers > > Massimo > > From: Pingo van der Brinkloev > S

Re: ICE: stick to surface without overlapping particles

2013-04-23 Thread Pingo van der Brinkloev
Have a look at Eric's EM Tools. Think they're free. http://www.mootzoid.com/wb/pages/documentation/emtools.php#EqualDistributiononSurface Cheers! Pingo On 19/04/2013, at 16.56, David Saber wrote: > Hello > > I'm throwing a lot of spheres on a surface where they should stick. > Everything wo

Re: A must see

2013-04-22 Thread pingo van der brinkloev
Absolutely fantastic. Thanks for sharing. On 26/03/2013, at 22.41, olivier jeannel wrote: > If you're on Vimeo and more specially in the Softimage Ice Video don't miss > https://vimeo.com/60296337 > It's the making of this > https://vimeo.com/59230893 > > Awarded at Annecy, Ice poetry...

Re: Vray promotion for freelancers

2013-04-22 Thread Pingo van der Brinkloev
Solidangle recently changed their policy which made it possible to buy "only" one license - which makes it within price range. Cheers! Pingo On 19/04/2013, at 22.30, Andy Moorer wrote: > http://www.chaosgroup.com/en/2/usa_promo.html > > FYI chaos group is promoting a deal on Vray for freelan