Re: houdini 16

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Re: Water drop cling

for a hero shot, you could do something like this: from the resulting simulation, emit a static trail of particles - mainly from the edge I think. polygonise and flatten towards the surface (shrinkwrap) to make an almost flat pancake mesh. You could do it as a texture as well, by prerendering

Re: Wacom Cintiq 13

My suggestion for the surface book as alternative to a Cintiq was *as a standalone with digitizer and a keyboard*. If you want an input device for an existing workstation - replacing an intuos with a cintiq - then a Surface will do you no good. The Cintiq Companion is interesting as it can do

Re: Wacom Cintiq 13

A bit late to get one under the tree. If I had that kind of money, I’d much rather get a Surface Book. Cintiq keyboard options are underwhelming - that’s a dealbreaker for 3D I think. From: Olivier Jeannel Sent: Sunday, December 25, 2016 3:17 PM To: sidefx-houdini-l...@sidefx.com ;

Re: Particle volume rendering problem

I've seen this sort of behavior as well. In my case it had to do with having camera and cube perfectly aligned -both with orientations zeroed out, or 90 degrees for instance- or the camera being close to one side of the cube, looking straight at it. Same when going from outside to inside a

Re: Babies

just swap the animation and you’re good to go. From: Toonafish Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2016 10:57 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Babies pfff, I might have to take it offline, or do a revised version if I still want to be able to travel to the US now ;-) - Ronald

Re: ICE Rigid Bodies endless spin..

> * resetting orientation when stationary (this snaps them to zero unnaturally) rather than resetting (are you doing this with ‘set data’?) you could try get... > multiply by scalar > set... with the scalar as 0.5 for example. that way it would gradually slow down, rather than snap to zero? it

Re: new member ( also has a question)

welcome to the xsilist, even if you’re a bit late to the party. If I read your question correctly, you want to have an animated character break into parts, each with their own animation, and each breaking apart again, and so on. eg. a humanoid character: the arm separates and moves on, in turn

Re: Compositing app choice

Fusion used to be industry standard, from when apple bought Shake to when Nuke became user friendly, say ~2005 to 2010? It sort of got overlooked due to Nuke’s omnipresence and better performance and handling, but they silently kept going, overcoming their shortcomings and regaining some of

Re: Aw: RE: flattening blob particles

its probably pretty much what Leo suggests: on the polygonized mesh, get closest location on the bottle, and then linear interpolate between that and the point position – so you can blend from the original surface all the way to the bottle and anywhere in between. It’s almost like a shrinkwrap.

Re: Sticking particles over a cached cloth

afaik ‘on enter state’ executes once (on one frame only) when the particle changes to this state. so rather plug it in the port ‘on every frame’ (or whatever it’s called) for continuing to evaluate the stick node. From: Pierre Schiller Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2016 10:08 PM To:

Re: Semi OT Softimage pic pluggin for mac ?

not so aware of the mac universe nor after effects myself – but shouldn’t it work with the photoshop softimage .pic plugin – AE supports those no? (here for instance: http://www.edharriss.com/xsi/tools/tools.htm – I see there is a mac version! ) I’ve used .pic a lot over the years, and usually

Re: Crate Alembic, get material names in xsi from 3dsmax abc file

> ...make me want to commit sudoku ... hilarious typo. or is it? On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 3:36 PM, Fabian Schnuer Gohde wrote: Yes, writing out the mapping info from max and then matching it back is possible but it introduces more things that can go wrong, especially with

Re: SimulatedFrameFraction on polymesh ?

I may be totally wrong but isn’t ‘SimulatedFrameFaction’ the amount of time for each simulation step – so time divided by steps. I believe I have come across this SimulatedFrameFaction inside one of the factory compounds, but which one? the first ones that come to mind are ‘state’ and ‘simulate

Re: 0 undo levels

wow, thanks for that link. I’ll never think of undo in quite the same way. From: Thomas Volkmann Sent: Friday, March 18, 2016 9:34 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: 0 undo levels Which reminded me instantly of this classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOOynE1F4P4 On

Re: si runs out of contiguous memory

hm, haven’t those words since the legacy particle system and 32bit. I understand this as ‘running out of ram’ (does task manager agree?) are you freezing the shapes? lots of dense geo, with lots of operations in the stack – sounds like you’ll eat up resources eventually. From: Matt Morris

Re: Softimage and CMYK

> Sounds interesting thx Fab > Thanks Pete, they are in .PDF but there are no layers included as far as i > can tell, > the files where intended for printing originaly. oh I see, and I assumed they were intended for making your life miserable? One can send layered files to print (it’s not

Re: Softimage and CMYK

which is arguably more doable, as you might find blueprints – I did for my own car. This is more like giving you artwork on which a bucket of paint has been dropped. It’s restoration. if that’s your predicament and the client knowingly asks you to do this – then sure, grade away! From:

Re: Softimage and CMYK

well there’s your answer then - nothing much you can do on your end except document and liaise with client. if the files are right’ and look wrong, chances are you are missing part of the puzzle. LUT’s for instance. Perhaps there’s printer specific color profiles used/baked in – perhaps they

Re: Softimage and CMYK

were they PDF’s? if the pdf is still layered, possibly there is a specific layer for creating those ultrablacks (if that is what’s going on) that you can turn off - in illustrator or indesign or such (not PS). Also, when there, and the files looks ‘normal’, you can simply try ‘export for web’

Re: Softimage and CMYK

I don’t think it’s a colorspace problem perse – as within normal ranges, going back and forth between RGB and CMYK isn’t so bad. The ultramarine blue in the blacks, might be something very different: a good print black is not 100% black and 0% C,M,Y each: this would result in a dark grey. So

Re: Goodbyes (was this is the end...)

sane – just kidding right? From: Bradley Gabe Sent: Friday, January 29, 2016 9:38 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Goodbyes (was this is the end...) In the event the list suddenly disappears with all this EOL talk, I thought I'd offer a well deserved and long overdue thanks to

Re: this is the end......

Wasn’t that the gist of that AD licensing letter? Watch out for those fingers. From: adrian wyer Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2016 4:18 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: RE: this is the end.. oh trust me, they'll have to pry it from my cold dead fingers! a

Re: Stepped curves a´la Maya in Softimage?

and keep in mind this is per segment so you can combine linear, stepped and curved, play around with the handles and extrapolation behavior (what happens before and after the curve) at will – in a single curve. XSI’s animation editor is a treasure trove. From: Andres Stephens Sent: Monday,

Re: Object motion converted to path animation but normalized atorigin?

if I read this correctly – you’re just doing position – not orientation right? it works in ICE like this: for a null path constrained on curve. make an identical copy (null1 on curve1) [( null global pos – curve global pos ) multiply by –1 ] >> translation port of an SRT to Matrix >> set

Re: Object motion converted to path animation but normalized atorigin?

> Sounds like it might work. > Did you run the scripts? You will see what the curve does... If your > suggestion does exactly the same thing then you're correct. :) ran it now – looks the same to me. since there’s no plotting involved it could be interesting in keeping the relation live...

Re: Friday Flashback #256

Oh yeah – loved those manuals. I started by just reading through them in front of the computer (Indigo). Such a great way for getting started, not having to click everywhere frantically and getting stuck because nothing makes sense. Takes a bit of time, but it a much smoother ride afterwards I

Re: 2015 year in review

yep – the times they are a-changing From: Matt Morris Sent: Sunday, January 03, 2016 4:10 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: 2015 year in review Thanks Stephen, interesting to compare to 2014's figures. At least halved activity and if comparing posts its down to a third...

Re: maya and blendshapes?

perhaps that’s why they hid the shape tools so well in Maya? From: Chris Johnson Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2015 4:21 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: maya and blendshapes? dittonot even gonna watch the video. ; ) On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 9:02 PM, Sebastien Sterling

Re: How to emit particles from intersection between volumes?

Just thinking out loud here - so possibly none of it works. You can drive a weightmap on a surface by proximity to an object and use it as filter on an emission. this looks kind of like an intersection (ok distance and intersection isn’t the same thing...) you could make something more

Re: POLY | Manipulating polygons

Just adding to the noise – this is looking great Olivier. (and Christian and Cesar) Exactly the kind of stuff I’ve hoped to see and do when first I heard of Moondust aka ICE. It didn’t turn out so easy though. Boy, it seems you guys really nailed this stuff – kudos! P. From: Olivier

Re: ICE - text file & string manipulation

Thanks Matt, you do confirm what I concluded from my testing so far, that ICE string manipulation is indeed rather limited. I assumed it was going to be better than that - and double kudos to those people who have pushed this to some degree (thinking of mr Mootz' Topolizer for instance - that

ICE - text file & string manipulation

Hi all, I would need to read in a text file, and extract it's information into ICE, for example: ABCD DDBB BCCA ABCD 'value': 4.0 CCDBA AABBD CCCAB 'value' : 456 ABC CDA ABB CBB 'value' : 0.345 I would want to assign letters to an array of particles that adapts to the what's in the text,

Re: Softimage Panoramic OpenGL viewer (does it exist?)

sounds right to me, and as far as rendering goes, that’s how I would approach it. camera rig with 4 to 6 cameras, (1:1 square, 90 degree fov, aligned to xyz axis), the renders mapped to the corresponding sides of a cube for preview, as well as for a second stage render with the panoramic lens

Re: Cluster of points driving another cluster of points

woops – not much time behind the computer today - > Still some rotation problem I might ask you ;) you mean in the test scene I sent you? at first sight the rotations looked correct but I’m not sure From: Olivier Jeannel Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2015 9:34 PM To:

Re: Cluster of points driving another cluster of points

sent a quick test scene offline – unfortunately I don’t have the ones I’ve done in the past, which tackled a few interesting issues (at least for me) From: Olivier Jeannel Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2015 2:33 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Cluster of points driving

Re: Cluster of points driving another cluster of points

just sent you a second test which might work better for you – see your inbox. first you’re building a castle with unfolding ribbons and then you are collapsing it? sounds like a cool job you’re on! From: Olivier Jeannel Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2015 6:59 PM To:

Re: Cluster of points driving another cluster of points

I’ve done it like this: upon generation of particles, 1 out of x becomes a master – the others become slaves not behind the computer, but I used the modulo of the particle ID by x, which gives the remainder upon division by x. if it’s 0 you make it a master, if not a slave. Add a boolean

Re: Rendering Vertex color - Uvs are present

‘Sampling -> Vertices only (RenderVertex)’ It’s all in the name: RenderVertex renders TO the vertex colors – if for instance you want to bake lighting or AO and have them available as VertexColors. Not the other way around – Francois’ suggestion of using the Vertex_Color node in the rendertree

Re: SP2???

of course I do - it wasn't serious. and it's not just a matter of shear amount of resources needed - there's the interdependence of bugs and code - fix one thing, you might break another - perhaps some issues/solutions are mutually exclusive. still - for a final release (this one will be the

Re: SP2???

likely last softimage SP ever, so if it leaves one bug alive, it’s not enough... From: Cesar Saez Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2015 11:04 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: SP2??? Prepare yourself to read people complaining about the lack of new features/bugfixes on SP2...

Re: Lucas Martell VFXPHD - xsi lighting // Video reference?

come on man, ‘I don’t have access to phdvfx so please tell me what was in some of their lesson materials’? not the way to ask. From: Pierre Schiller Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2015 3:17 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Lucas Martell VFXPHD - xsi lighting // Video

Re: 3Delight (free) - 8 core restriction and toon renders

but did you check in task manager to see if there are actually 8 cores active? in my tests with the 8-core restricted version, there were only 4 cores active as before – and I’ve seen it mentioned here as well. (not saying that what you got out of those 4 cores wasn’t cool) From: Pierre

Re: deja view

yep – you’re thinking of SI3D. (it was much more needed then with the multitude of separate data) From: Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES] Sent: Friday, September 18, 2015 8:45 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: RE: deja view I knew I could do that. But that requires every

Re: Soft licenses still available for purchase?

doesn’t a Softimage license come with 5 or so batch licenses - or was this changed at some point? From: Patrick Neese Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2015 10:23 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Soft licenses still available for purchase? As a hobbyist with a single

Re: Friday Flashback #240

Nice follow up on last weeks Flashback. “ The final suite of Digital Studio tools will include: digital ink and Paint, 2D image editing, compositing, 3D animation, audio, and online editing in a truly resolution-independent system. Nearly all of the above capabilities exist in current

Re: Friday Flashback #239

don’t call those vintage, you’ll wake up the dinosaurs! ‘...back when I was starting 3D, computers had to be fed punched cards - rroooaarrr’ From: Stephen Blair Sent: Friday, September 04, 2015 8:21 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Friday Flashback #239 Vintage Softimage

Re: Last Friday's Flashback #238

call me old-fashioned, but ‘more 3D in the comp’ was not really what I was after. what good is a 3D environment without proper modelling, animation, simulation tools? Adding a decent renderer to the comp raises more problems than it solves IMO. quick placement of some imageplanes or 3D objects

Re: Friday Flashback #238

Hm - me getting it wrong is certainly a possibility. But when I'm picking my memory about this, little bits and pieces seem to bubble up. There was this studio owner who had a DS, and he came by all excited, asking me for a softimage 3D scene and corresponding render for testing. I was

Re: Friday Flashback #238

' Each application also needed to go in directions that didn't make sense for the other. ' yes of course. I've always been hoping for more convergence/integration between 3D and comp in one streamlined package. but then there's the hard reality of studios, and their needs and projects - which

Re: Friday Flashback #238

ah DS discontinued by Avid and XSI discontinued by AD. and what’s there to fill that particular void? they shared architecture and interface to a degree, and both had some very interesting forward thinking (visionary?) concepts at their origin. I remember opening a softimage 3D asset in the DS

Re: animate polygon faces individually

it's cold in here. because it isn’t as simple as you think? best is to go the ICE way, disconnect/poly islands driven by particles’ SRTs works fine and fast. There was also the older ICE method, (was it guillaume’s?) exploding the object into it’s poly islands, and using them as

Re: Referenced models crashing Softimage

does it happen in one particular direction only - ex. res1 to res2 works fine but not the other way around? can you change the resolution back and forth ten times in a row on the same model without any issues? what if you change resolution on four of them, save scene, restart xsi, open scene

Re: Get rid of your flip phone and get current on maya!

Hey Eric, quite on the contrary, AD’s marketing is spot on: It’s Maya. For rent. At a premium price. Of course it’s for douchebags! Don’t forget, at AD, they are living so far in the future that these are normal prices for a cup of coffee or daily rates – I think they call that inflation. Or

Re: Get rid of your flip phone and get current on maya!

industry standard 3d software – that’s so mental ray. right about when they started promoting it as industry standard, development froze in it’s tracks. perhaps if every marketeer at Adsk was replaced with a developer, they might have a future. and what’s with all the guitars? oh my, this

Re: Paul Smiths Fuzz for animation

have seen this on some production shots. because of massive scene size (as in: things happening a long way from the origin) we ran into limits of floating point precision. The solution was to offset the whole shot (parent whole scene under a null) so it was centered around the origin, and rebake

Re: Virtual Apps

well, the infuriating thing must be that there is enough money to solve a problem, but because of policy, rather than being flexible and doing just that, more money can be found but not to solve the problem. And so now one tries to go through hoops to see if by throwing the money elsewhere the

Re: Virtual Apps

that’s surreal, being forced into buying highly expensive state of the art tech, in stead of some off the shelf computers, out of budgetary constraints. I’m sure that’s exactly how European administration is run. that VCA looks like it would allow you to set up a nice 3D rendering workflow, but

Re: Virtual Apps

if you mean using a thin client on the desk, to connect to a remote workstation (in the server room) – then yes – have used this at a former studio. overall it worked quite well. on the thin client you would launch an app, on which you chose the workstation to login to and then a full screen

Re: GDC presentation: Guilty Gear Xrd and Softimage

For the anime content he's showing on screen, there's really no reason to have as many tiles as shown if they all consist of the same dimensions and color. A single tan tile, for example, consisting of only a few pixels in U and V will serve just as well and consume much less memory

Re: Selecting Edge Loops in python script

First time posting a question here in ... euh ... 10 years. if silence is gold, you must have gathered a small fortune by now. different needs will lead to different approaches altogether I think - so some more context would help: does it have to be the actual edge loops or a curve on

Re: dripping

sounds like a task for polygonizer, if you can reconstruct the object with particles. (as in: it’s organic looking – ice cream would certainly work) emit static particles from the object, get properties, such as color from the emitter polygonize the particles into an approximation of the

Re: Friday Flashback #223

thanks, you guys make me feel so young again From: Softimage Sent: Saturday, May 09, 2015 8:55 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Friday Flashback #223 Lol, you've got a little bit on me! Spaceward Supernova/Rodin backend of the 80's and then Symbolics, Poweranimator, didn't

Re: unable to change reference model path

did you try making the top model local? I’d say changing the paths of the nested models would be considered as a change in the top reference model – and perhaps one that is not accounted for or disallowed in it’s deltas perhaps? From: Simon van de Lagemaat Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Re: volumetric particle render - with motion blur

you might be a smarter cookie than I am (it’s likely even) – but as far as I know motion blur does NOT work on volumetric particles. What does work with the particle volume shader, is aligning the particles along their velocity, and making them soft streaks which is going to give you something

Re: Hypershade changes in Maya 2016

From: Sylvain Lebeau You’ve never heard about a company blending 2 softwares togheter because there was no existing one that needed to do so. Ever! Pretty normal. What is Maya but the blending together of Alias Poweranimator and Wavefront Explore, with a sauce of Softimage 3D on top for

Re: OT: I just had a brief with 4 of these in there :)

OT: I just had a brief with 4 of these in there :) but will you do the ‘job’? starving artists/studios are at least partly in fault, because they do accept to work for no pay. the cunning ‘producer’ knows this and seeks it out. might have a few to add to the list soon – the word isn’t out yet.

Re: very slow skip frame

“overrides from partitions had biggest performance gain so far”. ok, so if you put all objects in a partition and put a default phong material on the partition (rendering everything as grey phong, no textures, no displacement...) – does it become really fast (or normal speed)? there are

Re: Fwd: very slow skip frame

just a few stabs in the dark: is this on renderfarm / using a rendermanager? is there any simulations (not just ice, also syflex...) ? if so, any chance that the caches aren’t working and it’s simulating – on each machine? lot’s of huge textures or other data from a shared server that isn’t up

Re: Retro reflective Materials?

perhaps not very helpful, but have you tried plugging the incidence into a mixer_gradient? experiment with the different types of incidence - there's a 360 degree incidence based on light - in combination with the gradient you get more control than from a simple incidence. also - there is

Re: testing

yep From: Alok Gandhi Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2015 8:26 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: testing Anyone got this? --

Re: ICE emit particles and follow branching geometry

I hope the image gets through. this is what I get with closest location on group of curves, and combining the pointtangent as a force, as well as a force pulling towards the closest position – in order not to stray too far from the curve. particles get emitted from the curves in the center, and

Re: baVolume fog pass with sprites

I think Rob is right on this one - replacing the sprite shader with a constant should work (crank up the raydepth!) and should not affect the look of the volume the reason this happens is that the sprite shader is a bit of a hack: it resets the raycount when a ray enters it - so you get

Re: Check this!

Hey David your mail is almost indistinguishable from spam. I was about to write you to say that your email account was likely hacked :-). so to our fellow listers - it is really worth a watch - saying too much would spoil it. -Original Message- From: David Saber Sent: Sunday,

Re: Excellent Recent Gems

you got a link or something? I wanna buy what they are using. From: olivier jeannel Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2015 7:05 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Excellent Recent Gems That's the program they use, Softifromage or something like that if I remember ;) Le 03/02/2015

Re: Modo Sale again 40% off

I remember iTunes disabling all optical drives in the registry upon installation on windows. it was a well known/documented issue – that’s the last time I let anything from Apple on my computer. Apple is evil. (just to put things in perspective, I pretty much grew up with Apple computers in

Re: Modo Sale again 40% off

can’t see how Apple could possibly need that – this market is much too small (+professional, specialized and difficult) to offer anything to a giant such as Apple. They need an ‘app’ they can sell in the millions, and that runs on phones and tablets, and doesn’t require any thinking by the

Re: Export to STL with textures?

Looking good there! so obj + mtl + jpg and edit the path in the mtl works - good to know! -Original Message- From: David Saber Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2014 2:29 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Export to STL with textures? Thanks Olivier for the help.

Re: realistic hair shading SI-MR

Thanks Matt - interesting - I've come across a custom hair normals shader that was giving a better, more tube or cone feel - that gave some more presence to the hairs. (More so at close up) - and in my understanding the flat vs cylindrical normals was the explanation. But I stand corrected.

Re: Reddit Thread with Carl Bass, CEO of Autodesk, on 3D printers...

not those specifically I thought – all the autodesk policy bashing questions really. I like to see an AD responsible person grilled just as much as the next person – but as this was supposed to be about 3D printers and the future of making things, so most of it was way OT. It’s kind of

Re: realistic hair shading SI-MR

well, if it's a financial issue - get 3delight. You can use it for free with some number-of-cores limitation, that still makes it awesome at a lot of things were MR isnt. Hair in particular being one of those. For me, a huge issue with hair in XSI/MR is the normals. The hair primitive is

Re: ICE: Speed, Velocity and circular motion

This is normal behaviour. the pointtangent is not giving a circular force/vector (that doesn’t exist) – it’s a straight vector, that is tangent to the circle. So at each simulation step, the particle gets moved a bit, away from the circle in a tangent direction. At the next step it gets the new

Re: Export to STL with textures?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STL_%28file_format%29 ... STL files describe only the surface geometry of a three-dimensional object without any representation of color, texture or other common CAD model attributes ... -Original Message- From: David Saber Sent: Saturday, November

Re: UV projection by raycasting from geo?

SignatureGator? From: Tim Crowson Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2014 4:11 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: UV projection by raycasting from geo? Is it possible to create a UV projection similar to a camera projection, but using geometry as the projector instead? I have a

Re: UV projection by raycasting from geo?

SignatureGator as in my previous, retardedly short mail – or ICE of course! (get closest location – get data UV – set data) From: Tim Crowson Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2014 4:11 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: UV projection by raycasting from geo? Is it possible to create a

Re: external material libraries.....

well, that’s what you end up doing – everything is built into the model – reference it in scenes and add animation on it and override materials/shaders through the passes system. And it works fine. but it would be interesting to have materials seperated, as a reference library– eg, one eye

Re: external material libraries.....

well – it’s the inverse actually – I’d prefer nothing local in the scenes/models. the workflow that I’d love, is having no materials in the models – only pointers to materials in an external library. (and pointers to texture supports and image clips – yeah I wanna have my cake and eat it)

Re: unreal engine

I’m no specialist at all – but it’s not because the lights move around that there’s no baking involved. In my understanding and the little bit of research I did nearly a decade years ago – which was unrelated to Unreal – that was one of the paths being actively explored: baking a scene, and

Re: EOL and using older Softimages

preventing the use of previous versions unless you basically commit forever, and even then – only 3 versions back! 2012 is now officially off-limits for subscription customers. I remember a message from an AD rep here, suggesting not to upgrade a few licenses just in order to keep access to an

Re: Scene crash on startup - any advice

ha ha I'm happy to hear both workflows! each scenario is different seeings I explained more about the shot and that it needs rendering! think of it in photoshop terms: on one hand you work in layers, adjustment layers and groups – to be able to make modifications but at some point you

Re: Rendermap SSS albedo

If the albedo drop down doesn’t work - you can try and set up a pass to produce flat lighting, and rendermap from that pass. (you can set it up manually as well ) you can use ambience - texture you ambience channel with the proper texture, hide all lights, crank up the ambience to full white.

Re: How many ?

say a thousand places were using it for about ten years doing 10 productions per year. that’s 100.000 From: olivier jeannel Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2014 12:09 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: How many ? Ok, it's sunday and I'm borred finishing that animatic Since

Re: Running in circle, The CrossProduct question

this does make sense to me, if I think of it as a rocket orbiting a planet. at each moment in time the rocket is pushing itself forward with a linear force (the vector) - so it will tend to move from where it is to where the force is telling it to go – in a straight line, tangent to the circle

Re: A freelance job.... really?

The person might as well just put No pay, will look good on your website / demo and help you get future work. would certainly generate more goodwill than what he wrote. this will go wrong in so many ways it's not funny. unless you're into sarcasm. which I am of course. On Friday, June 27,

Re: Hanging basket

ncloth is your baby wow radical thinking - maya as a plugin to softimage? as for an obvious, out of the (XSI) box solution, why yes: RBD’s are your friend! I’ve done chains – 30 or so, each made out of about a hundred RBD elements, I think each a ball and socket joint or whatever it was.

Re: Eric MOOTZOID Mootz is nominated for a 3D World CG Award!

Hi Eric, you have enabled the whole Softimage community to do things they couldn’t do before - with simple as well as some very involved tools. Dependable, well thought out, genuinely useful and not just gimmicks – for many one or other of your tools has become an essential part of their work.

Re: Software company Autodesk creates synthetic virus

AutoVir360 – design your own virus, on the cloud, in the knowledge that you are safe at all times*. When things run out of control, don’t worry! All cloud servers and manufacture tanks are installed in our underground facility in Singapore, right next to the vaults where we keep discontinued 3D

Re: Nest Mommentum, reversing animation

nope I’m freelancer. I have worked on a few jobs for them, but that’s been a while. nice people, if you were thinking of getting in touch with them – and their output is awesome. From: Sebastien Sterling Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2014 10:35 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re:

Re: Shameless plug

wow – you’ve been at this since Barnyard? that’s epic in itself. I’m not much of a gamer, let alone online gaming – but I sure hope this one’s a success. All the artwork I’ve seen is very appealing and different – and let’s not forget the teaser by Blur, which is just awesome. Kudos for having

Re: Nest Mommentum, reversing animation

usually it’s cache the dynamics first, then plot to the mixer, and then reverse the clip in the mixer. does this not work for you? From: Sebastien Sterling Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2014 8:30 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Nest Mommentum, reversing animation i have a momentum

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