RE: custom ICENode - questions and request for example source code

2013-05-15 Thread Matt Lind
day, May 15, 2013 4:24 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: custom ICENode - questions and request for example source code Matt, is the test case you outlined also your use case? Reparametrization, even outside of ICE, is non-trivial since if you want equidistant you are basica

Re: custom ICENode - questions and request for example source code

2013-05-15 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
Matt, is the test case you outlined also your use case? Reparametrization, even outside of ICE, is non-trivial since if you want equidistant you are basically facing a minimization problem, which is where I assume you went for forward walking technique (repeat with bouncing or decreasing increment

RE: custom ICENode - questions and request for example source code

2013-05-15 Thread Matt Lind
utodesk.com<mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com> Subject: RE: custom ICENode - questions and request for example source code I think your assumptions are rather off base, Raff. I'd be interested in seeing how you remap a non-uniform UV coordinate to uniform space in ICE using your brute force tec

Re: custom ICENode - questions and request for example source code

2013-05-15 Thread Ahmidou Lyazidi
ednesday, May 15, 2013 3:07 AM > *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com > *Subject:* Re: custom ICENode - questions and request for example source > code > > ** ** > > From my small experience about this, you can't make a custom topology or > kinematics "node", you make

Re[2]: custom ICENode - questions and request for example source code

2013-05-15 Thread Guillaume Laforge
opo is that they can update clusters... Now you know as much as I know on ICE topo ;) Cheers G.    -Original Message- From: "Sebastien Sterling" To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Date: 05/15/13 14:58 Subject: Re: custom ICENode - questions and request for example source

RE: custom ICENode - questions and request for example source code

2013-05-15 Thread Matt Lind
M To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: RE: custom ICENode - questions and request for example source code I'm confused. Calculating the local tranform of of object relative to another is just a matter of matrix inversion and multiplication. But of course you already know that, Matt, so I must

RE: custom ICENode - questions and request for example source code

2013-05-15 Thread Matt Lind
. Matt From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Raffaele Fragapane Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 3:36 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: custom ICENode - questions and request for example source code If you are using while an

Re: custom ICENode - questions and request for example source code

2013-05-15 Thread Steven Caron
; >> ** ** >> >> ** ** >> >> ** ** >> >> *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: >> softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Ahmidou Lyazidi >> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 15, 2013 3:07 AM >> >> *To:* softi

RE: custom ICENode - questions and request for example source code

2013-05-15 Thread Grahame Fuller
image-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Matt Lind Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 02:26 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: RE: custom ICENode - questions and request for example source code That's what I was afraid of. I remember your findings from a while ago, which was

Re: custom ICENode - questions and request for example source code

2013-05-15 Thread Sebastien Sterling
; > ** ** > > *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: > softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Ahmidou Lyazidi > *Sent:* Wednesday, May 15, 2013 3:07 AM > > *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com > *Subject:* Re: custom ICENode - questions an

RE: custom ICENode - questions and request for example source code

2013-05-15 Thread Matt Lind
ooglemail.com<mailto:raffsxsil...@googlemail.com>] Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 9:00 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com> Subject: Re: custom ICENode - questions and request for example source code Yeah, same hunch here. Unless the performance exp

RE: custom ICENode - questions and request for example source code

2013-05-15 Thread Matt Lind
n Behalf Of Raffaele Fragapane [raffsxsil...@googlemail.com<mailto:raffsxsil...@googlemail.com>] Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 9:00 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com> Subject: Re: custom ICENode - questions and request for example source code

Re: custom ICENode - questions and request for example source code

2013-05-15 Thread Guillaume Laforge
rns red and >>> sits patiently until conditions improve. This gives artists a chance to >>> fix the problem without having to sweat the details because they can read >>> the GetData node to see what's missing, then find and repair it. I'm >>> trying to make t

Re: custom ICENode - questions and request for example source code

2013-05-15 Thread Guillaume Laforge
durable. >> >> So...I'm looking for code samples of how to deal with topology and >> geometry in ICE. So far I have not found any. >> >> >> Matt >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> *From:* so

Re: custom ICENode - questions and request for example source code

2013-05-15 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
in our pipeline more durable. > > So...I'm looking for code samples of how to deal with topology and > geometry in ICE. So far I have not found any. > > > Matt > > > > > > > ---------- > *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [ > so

Re: custom ICENode - questions and request for example source code

2013-05-15 Thread Ahmidou Lyazidi
more durable. > > So...I'm looking for code samples of how to deal with topology and > geometry in ICE. So far I have not found any. > > > Matt > > > > > > > -- > *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [ > so

RE: custom ICENode - questions and request for example source code

2013-05-15 Thread Matt Lind
From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Raffaele Fragapane [raffsxsil...@googlemail.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 9:00 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: custom ICENode - questions and requ

Re: custom ICENode - questions and request for example source code

2013-05-14 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
Yeah, same hunch here. Unless the performance expectations are in the multiple characters real-time concurrently, in which case I think neither way is gonna get there usually. On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Ciaran Moloney wrote: > I'm sorta , kinda sure that's a dead end for a custom node. You

Re: custom ICENode - questions and request for example source code

2013-05-14 Thread Ciaran Moloney
I'm sorta , kinda sure that's a dead end for a custom node. You might be better off optimizing your ICE tree. It doesn't sound like such a complex problem, care to share? On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 2:41 AM, Matt Lind wrote: > I’ve been looking at the ICE SDK as a start to the process of writing >

custom ICENode - questions and request for example source code

2013-05-14 Thread Matt Lind
I've been looking at the ICE SDK as a start to the process of writing custom ICE Nodes in C++. I need to write topology generators, modifiers and deformation nodes. So far all the source code I've seen supplied with Softimage only deal with particle clouds or primitive data such as converting