Re: ICE - Offset node-animation per particle

2012-04-17 Thread Alan Fregtman
How about plugging that animated Scalar node's output into a Multiply node's first input, then on its second input you plug either a Turbulize Around Value or a Randomize Around Value, where either's base value is set to 1. That should do it. On 4/17/2012 4:02 AM, Thomas Volkmann wrote:

Re: clean human walk cycle in .fbx or softimage format?

2012-04-17 Thread Alan Fregtman
The Carnegie Mellon University mocap database has several walks: http://mocap.cs.cmu.edu/ in various mocap formats. (bvh works best.) They don't cycle, but with a bit of work I'm sure one could be adapted to cycle properly. ;) On 4/17/2012 10:59 AM, Ed Manning wrote: Working on a pitch, so

Re: Softimage development

2012-04-17 Thread Alan Fregtman
Bummer. :/ Let's hope he can make Maya less painful to use. On 4/17/2012 11:10 AM, Alex wrote: on his linked in page http://ca.linkedin.com/pub/guillaume-laforge/7/49/bb6 On 17 April 2012 16:07, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@modusfx.com mailto:alan.fregt...@modusfx.com wrote: I don't

Re: Softimage development

2012-04-17 Thread Alan Fregtman
Isn't 2012 the end of the world for mayans anyhow? ;) On 4/17/2012 1:43 PM, David Gallagher wrote: Please don't make me go back to Maya. On 4/17/2012 12:06 PM, Luc-Eric Rousseau wrote: On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Eric Turmani.anima...@gmail.com wrote: Did the Softimage team get any

Re: Softimage development

2012-04-19 Thread Alan Fregtman
. Eric Thivierge http://www.ethivierge.com On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 4:10 AM, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@modusfx.com mailto:alan.fregt...@modusfx.com wrote: 3) Put ferrets in your underpants. -- -=T=-

Re: OT: ICE demo suggestions for a usergroup

2012-04-20 Thread Alan Fregtman
Some handy basic topics I'd recommend you tried to cover: - Understanding how to debug data. Learn to use Show Values. - Remembering about ICE optimizations, such as if you don't use a custom attribute, it doesn't really exist for reals, yo -- unless maybe you freeze your cloud. - States and

Re: Belly Wobble Ice

2012-05-01 Thread Alan Fregtman
Also if you look for the Rabbit ICE rigging example in your XSI_SAMPLES, he's got some verlet-based belly wobble stuff you can pick apart. On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Ben Beckett nebbeck...@googlemail.com wrote: Fantastic thanks On 30 April 2012 17:51, Tim Marinov tim.mari...@gmail.com

Re: Scripting: Closest Point On a Point Cloud?

2012-05-01 Thread Alan Fregtman
Care to share a sample snippet? Maybe there are even faster ways to approach it. On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Bradley Gabe witha...@gmail.com wrote: UPDATE: All things considered, it's not too horrible simply looping through every position from the Geometry.Points.PositionArray, and

Re: Project Structure

2012-05-01 Thread Alan Fregtman
Hi Nick, That's awesome you're moving to Softimage! As a polite waiter would say, Excellent choice, sir. I haven't experienced that post-reference UV creation deal you're getting. I would probably check (like Eric pointed out) that you've frozen your projections, particularly the Unfold op in

Re: Scripting: Closest Point On a Point Cloud?

2012-05-02 Thread Alan Fregtman
(inObj.ActivePrimitive.Geometry.Points.Count): Pos.Set( PosArr[0][index], PosArr[1][index], PosArr[2][index] ) Pos.SubInPlace(inPos) D = Pos.Length() if D dist: dist = D ID = index return ID On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.comwrote: Care to share a sample snippet? Maybe

Re: Convert Position Fcurves key's tangents in 3d space

2012-05-02 Thread Alan Fregtman
Nice response man! A good way to paste code safely is to highlight it first: http://tohtml.com/python/ then copy from the browser and paste into Gmail while Rich Formatting is enabled. On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 2:19 PM, jo benayoun jobenay...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Ahmidou, looks quite nice ! :)

Create Copies from Polygon Mesh not copying UVs or materials like it's supposed to

2012-05-03 Thread Alan Fregtman
Hey guys, Anyone had any problems with this compound? I'm on 2012.SAP at work and I enabled the Texture Projection options in the compound, but it doesn't seem to transfer them. Material isn't transferring either it seems. The source mesh is a super simple grid with a frozen planar XZ

Re: Create Copies from Polygon Mesh not copying UVs or materials like it's supposed to

2012-05-03 Thread Alan Fregtman
? Guillaume On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.com wrote: Hey guys, Anyone had any problems with this compound? I'm on 2012.SAP at work and I enabled the Texture Projection options in the compound, but it doesn't seem to transfer them. Material isn't

Re: Create Copies from Polygon Mesh not copying UVs or materials like it's supposed to

2012-05-03 Thread Alan Fregtman
Library and Set Material ID like in your screenshot. No luck. What else could it be? On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.com wrote: Ouuhhh *hides for missing that part of the docs* Thanks Guillaume! On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Guillaume Laforge

Re: Tricks for cameras to get the steady cam feel

2012-05-03 Thread Alan Fregtman
Am I the only one that likes to use the mouse device driver to *mocap* the X,Y of the mouse to the X,Y of a virtual camera? *If you hold a hard mousepad or cardboard vertical in front of a surface or your other hand and hold the mouse like a small camera, your natural human shakiness will

Re:

2012-05-09 Thread Alan Fregtman
Well you can't set PointPosition on a group, or set anything on a group really. That's not permitted. There may be a way to get the highest of each object in a group without a loop though. On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Sam Cuttriss tea...@gmail.com wrote: is there any way in ice we can get

Re: Get Scene File Version

2012-05-10 Thread Alan Fregtman
That's a good way. One time I opened a .scn with WinRAR by accident and to my surprise, it was a compressed archive with several files, one of which contained the scene version quite plainly. Scene data, however, was binary. It made me ponder if one could edit the version file or at least swap

Re: New Tool: ICE Tree Trace

2012-05-14 Thread Alan Fregtman
Sweet tool, Brad! Good job. :) On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Bradley Gabe witha...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings Folks- I'm releasing a new tool for the Softimage community that I had been using extensively on a recent project, and figured plenty of folks might find it helpful. In a

Re: Another ICE workshop event in NYC

2012-05-15 Thread Alan Fregtman
That is disgustingly awesome!! :D Can't wait to see how it was done in detail. On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 7:37 AM, Vladimir Jankijevic vladi...@elefantstudios.ch wrote: Hi Gang, here is a small sneak peak of one of the things that I presented at this event. Todd is preparing the recordings

Re: Moving polygonized mesh from Soft to Max?

2012-05-15 Thread Alan Fregtman
Hmm, I think the Realflow plugin supports exporting meshes with dynamic topology. Try that? Alembic would be good for this, if Max supported it out of the box. On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 7:35 AM, Morten Bartholdy x...@colorshopvfx.dkwrote: ** We have a mesh created with Polygonizer in Soft

Melena - multiple grooms?

2012-05-15 Thread Alan Fregtman
Hey guys, Anyone done multiple StrandGrooms with Melena? If I have 2 hairstyles based on Classic Hair with equal details, just different grooming, I'd like to blend my strands grooming between the two. Anybody know the correct way to approach this? It's been a while since I played with Melena.

Re: XSI on linux

2012-05-17 Thread Alan Fregtman
We run it on CentOS 6 and it usually only segfaults like 3 or 4 times a day. On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Sandy Sutherland sandy.sutherl...@triggerfish.co.za wrote: We run Softimage on FC 14 on our farm here and it works very well. S. _ Sandy Sutherland

__sipath__, why are you so useless :/

2012-05-18 Thread Alan Fregtman
Why is it that __sipath__ isn't set most of the time? Docs say: import siutils # Add this plug-in path to python path siutils.add_to_syspath(__sipath__) but it errors! :( # File Script Block , line 29, in module # siutils.add_to_syspath(__sipath__) # NameError: name '__sipath__' is not

Re: __sipath__, why are you so useless :/

2012-05-22 Thread Alan Fregtman
use it in? That sounds silly. On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.comwrote: Why is it that __sipath__ isn't set most of the time? Docs say: import siutils # Add this plug-in path to python path siutils.add_to_syspath(__sipath__) but it errors! :( # File

Executing system commands in Linux from XSI but outside of XSI's environment?

2012-05-22 Thread Alan Fregtman
Hey guys, I'm stuck trying to run a compiled executable utility from a plugin in XSI in Linux (CentOS though, not Fedora) and I'm getting this: /path/to/softimage/linux/Softimage_2012.SAP/Application/bin/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.11' not found (required by /path/to/myprogram) Anyone

Re: Ping!

2012-05-22 Thread Alan Fregtman
I'm told by a friend one or more people replied to me on this ping... but I haven't seen a thing yet. *cue twilight zone theme* On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 5:48 PM, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.comwrote: I'm not getting any messages since May 18th. Anybody out there?? I think something

Re: mail...

2012-05-26 Thread Alan Fregtman
Finally some mail. Tumbleweeds be gone! :D On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 9:39 PM, J. Jones jgjones...@gmail.com wrote: Ditto. Whatever was haywire appears to be fixed. On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Eric Thivierge ethivie...@gmail.comwrote: Whoo hooo!! I got it!

7zip can open SCN and EMDL files and show you a file structure inside

2012-05-27 Thread Alan Fregtman
So it turns out I wasn't delusional. It was 7zip -- not WinRAR, in fact -- that can open a SCN or EMDL file and show you files inside. I wonder if we swap the Version file it will open in older versions if nothing new is used? :p [image: Inline image 1] 7zip_opens_guts_of_SCN_and_EMDL.gif

Re: mail...

2012-05-28 Thread Alan Fregtman
Confirmation links never worked. Just reply to the email. On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Miquel Campos miquel.cam...@gmail.comwrote: 2012 is the end, ahhh!!!Ok, seriously same issue here. Confirmation link is dead. :( + Miquel Campos Character Animation TD at:

Re: mail...

2012-05-28 Thread Alan Fregtman
Yes! You're either alive, or a very articulate zombie. On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Amaan Akram xsil...@warpedspace.orgwrote: Hi guys, can you please confirm if I am alive? it will make my day. cheers, amaan On 28 May 2012 14:55, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.com wrote

Re: subscribed

2012-05-28 Thread Alan Fregtman
yes, yes you are. :p On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Leoung O'Young digim...@digimata.comwrote:

Re: Scripting Development with an external IDE

2012-05-29 Thread Alan Fregtman
I keep a Plugin Manager open and the Script Editor open to the file of my plugin. I write to it outside of SI, save and when I switch back XSI detects it changed and reloads the plugin. I try using it, find a bug, rinse, repeat... Pretty rudimentary but it works. Oh, and the best general code

Uh oh, GoogleGroups archive admin, you need to confirm

2012-05-29 Thread Alan Fregtman
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/xsi_list/TowIZVpByOQ

Re: Scripting Development with an external IDE

2012-05-29 Thread Alan Fregtman
It's good for everyone, projects big or small. The multi-select tricks in particular are like pure witchcraft. I'll make a video capture showing some of the cool stuff later when I get home. On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Gustavo Eggert Boehs gustav...@gmail.comwrote: what is so good about

Re: Scripting Development with an external IDE

2012-05-29 Thread Alan Fregtman
Sublime is better than just a text editor. It has a concept of packages, which are best managed with Package Control: http://wbond.net/sublime_packages/package_control Among the packages available are several implementations of git and svn addons, and many other cool things as Xavier has pointed

Re: [Python] Storing datas in a UserDataBlob

2012-05-29 Thread Alan Fregtman
For a dictionary the json module is nice: http://docs.python.org/library/json.html A bit less ugly than storing base64 text. On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Jeremie Passerin gerem@gmail.comwrote: okay.. I was thinking of that too... just wondering if that was the only way... so it

Re: Scripting Development with an external IDE

2012-05-29 Thread Alan Fregtman
as you wish with all features; it just nags once every so many file saves. Go try! http://www.sublimetext.com/2 On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.comwrote: It's good for everyone, projects big or small. The multi-select tricks in particular are like pure witchcraft

Soft constraints evaluating differently when their nulls are invisible

2012-05-30 Thread Alan Fregtman
Hey guys, It's been years since I used soft constraints but for what I'm doing right now they are just what I needed. I thought about trying to do them with ICE or a SCOP, but it seemed like reinventing the wheel for no reason. Now I'm finding that if I show only the geo of my rig, the soft

Re: Scripting Development with an external IDE

2012-05-30 Thread Alan Fregtman
Screencast.com cut me off for eating the free monthly limit of 2GB, lol. Just put the video on my blog thanks to Vimeo: http://darkvertex.com/wp/2012/05/30/i-love-sublimetext2/ On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 9:58 PM, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.comwrote: Recorded a little video running down

Re: Scripting Development with an external IDE

2012-05-31 Thread Alan Fregtman
I know what you mean and I'm afraid not. Nobody's made one yet. Some handy tips though: * ctrl+r to cycle through functions in the current file * if you install SublimeCodeIntel, alt+click on a function and it should find the relevant file and pop it open to the line with that function

Re: mail...

2012-05-31 Thread Alan Fregtman
, May 27, 2012 2:22 AM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Re: mail... ** ** Yeah!! All good. Receiving loud and clear again! On Sunday, 27 May 2012, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.com wrote: Finally some mail. Tumbleweeds be gone! :D On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 9:39 PM

Re: ping

2012-05-31 Thread Alan Fregtman
You guys doing ping-pong? Dammit! I forgot my table tennis paddles. Someone have a spare? On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 2:34 AM, Szabolcs Matefy szabol...@crytek.comwrote: PONG ** ** *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On

Re: Test

2012-05-31 Thread Alan Fregtman
That's a good Beastie Boys song. check-check-check-che-check it out, wha-wha-wha-what-what's it all about, ... http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/beastieboys/chcheckitout.html :p On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Scott Lange sc...@turbulenceffects.comwrote: check ...check...check ** **

Re: Soft constraints evaluating differently when their nulls are invisible

2012-06-01 Thread Alan Fregtman
...@listproc.autodesk.com] on behalf of Alan Fregtman [ alan.fregt...@gmail.com] Sent: 31 May 2012 17:16 To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Soft constraints evaluating differently when their nulls are invisible It was off but turning it on made no difference. On Wed, May 30

Re: Parsing and extracting an xsiaddon with Python

2012-06-04 Thread Alan Fregtman
at 9:07 AM, Martin Saechsinger x...@saechsinger.dewrote: Great Alan, thank you very much! Martin On May 31, 2012, at 4:00 AM, Alan Fregtman wrote: Hey, Just wrote a snippet of sample code I thought someone might find educational: http://darkvertex.com/wp/2012/05/30/parse-xsiaddons

Re: ERROR : 2356 - This plug-in is not installed: ...

2012-06-05 Thread Alan Fregtman
to merging scenes and keeping passes/rendersettings. Good chance to try it out again... Cheers, tim On 05.06.2012 15:18, Alan Fregtman wrote: Didn't it used to be that to get rid of render options from an engine you no longer have installed you simply had to merge your scene with a fresh

Re: accessing XSIUtils, XSIMath, ... in netview

2012-06-16 Thread Alan Fregtman
And to complete the collection, don't forget: XSIUIToolkit = 'XSI.UIToolkit' XSIDialog = XSIDial.XSIDialog By the way, not sure in JS but in Python when getting the XSI.Application object, I have to get .Application from it to get the real Application object. On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 6:58 PM,

Re: Rigging or Character TD type courses question

2012-06-20 Thread Alan Fregtman
Hi Sandy, I agree with Eric. It's really a mixed bag without having word of mouth from people you trust... I too took Raff's course and found it fantastic, but I also took a certain Maya rigging one -- not the Judd one -- only knowing his credentials were good, but it turned out quite terribly

Re: ICE Particles - Initial state / particle pre-roll?

2012-06-20 Thread Alan Fregtman
Cache out the beginning of the sim. Load it with a Cache on File node set to Read, but only in the first frame. (You can use an If mode and an Equals node to test the current frame.) On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 11:18 AM, David Rivera activemotionpictu...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello list. I was reading

Re: Rigging or Character TD type courses question

2012-06-20 Thread Alan Fregtman
* Another tip: Even though scripting small repetitive tasks is not a bad idea, if you're new'ish to rigging, stay away from making the ultimate auto-rigger script, because chances are your methods will evolve with practice, your script will thus soon be outdated and if you use the script to make

Re: ICE Color Attribute Q

2012-06-21 Thread Alan Fregtman
Hi Morten, Is the node plugged in? It won't list things properly if it's floating, disconnected. It also won't be proper if the material is not yet applied on those meshes. (It uses the current objects with the material to populate those Attribute lists.) If it's still flaky, then you may need

Re: Who has switched to Vray and loves it?

2012-06-21 Thread Alan Fregtman
I agree with you. It's way easier than mentalray. On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Mirko Jankovic mirko.janko...@aeonproduction.com wrote: Hmm I found Arnold learning curve to be really really short and in less than a week you can be production ready.

Re: Evalution outside simulation

2012-06-22 Thread Alan Fregtman
Depending what you're after post-sim might work if you think of Simulation as storage of values to use and process in post-sim. I recently did a sim of falling money bills. I drove ICE-modeling-instanced meshes with particles and to deform them I only needed to know the velocity difference

Re: Malaware on XSIbase

2012-06-23 Thread Alan Fregtman
http://safebrowsing.clients.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.xsibase.com%2Fforum%2Findex.php%3Fboard%3D7%3Baction%3Ddisplay%3Bthreadid%3D46476client=googlechromehl=en-US and yeah, I get it too. The owner needs to check with Google Webmaster Tools to see what's up. On

Any tips to fix non-manifold vertices in Soft?

2012-06-26 Thread Alan Fregtman
Hey guys, We're making some shells with ZBrush and when they come in they sometimes have non-manifold vertices, the only kind of non-manifold geometry that XSI unfortunately permits. Any modelers out there know any tool to find and/or fix this sort of bad geo? Right now I'm opening Maya and

Re: Any tips to fix non-manifold vertices in Soft?

2012-06-26 Thread Alan Fregtman
[mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Alan Fregtman *Sent:* Tuesday, June 26, 2012 4:46 PM *To:* XSI Mailing List *Subject:* Any tips to fix non-manifold vertices in Soft? ** ** Hey guys, ** ** We're making some shells with ZBrush and when they come

Re: Any tips to fix non-manifold vertices in Soft?

2012-06-26 Thread Alan Fregtman
, are there more than two faces sharing the same edge? A bunch of edges sharing the same vertex? Can you post some pics? On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.comwrote: Hey guys, We're making some shells with ZBrush and when they come in they sometimes have

Re: Any tips to fix non-manifold vertices in Soft?

2012-06-26 Thread Alan Fregtman
: Theres a few different ways a mesh can be non-manifold. Like, are there more than two faces sharing the same edge? A bunch of edges sharing the same vertex? Can you post some pics? On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.com **wrote: Hey guys, We're making some

Re: Any tips to fix non-manifold vertices in Soft?

2012-06-26 Thread Alan Fregtman
, are there more than two faces sharing the same edge? A bunch of edges sharing the same vertex? Can you post some pics? On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.comwrote: Hey guys, We're making some shells with ZBrush and when they come

Re: Boolean

2012-06-26 Thread Alan Fregtman
I got it working in 2012 with some tinkering. Probably the same process to make it work in 2013. I had to regenerate the presets or something like that. I'll check when I have some proper free time. On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Stephen Davidson magic...@bellsouth.netwrote: I was trying to

Re: Asymmetrical GATORing

2012-06-27 Thread Alan Fregtman
Alan, That link you provided is a bit over my head, but I get what you're saying. On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.comwrote: Well GATOR is not doing a 1:1 copy of the shapes, it's reinterpreting every point by the transformation of each individual closest

Re: Storing a variable within the softimage application

2012-06-27 Thread Alan Fregtman
. _ Sandy Sutherland Technical Supervisor sandy.sutherl...@triggerfish.co.za _ -- *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [ softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] on behalf of Alan Fregtman [ alan.fregt

Re: Storing a variable within the softimage application

2012-06-27 Thread Alan Fregtman
Alternatively, you could write your data to a dictionary saved out to a json file to that same path, and there wouldn't be errors ever. On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 7:21 PM, Bradley Gabe witha...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Simon. Just an additional note, these preference PPG's are saved out in your

Re: wire colors

2012-06-29 Thread Alan Fregtman
The sad truth is XSI toolbars don't support color widgets. :/ Bitmap buttons is as advanced as it gets. On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Paul Griswold pgrisw...@fusiondigitalproductions.com wrote: I guess I should have phrased that better. Why, when you click on the Palette and Script

Re: wire colors

2012-06-29 Thread Alan Fregtman
Or drag one Display property to another object in the Explorer while holding Ctrl to copy. On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Bradley Gabe witha...@gmail.com wrote: Don't forget, you can also modify one local display node, then copy (CTRL-C) and paste (CTRL-V ) it onto multiple objects...

Re: ICE Trees and Static Kinematic States?

2012-06-29 Thread Alan Fregtman
Second thing sounds like a bug, but for the first thing: If you know beforehand you'll potentially want to freeze the weightmaps, the trick is to store your weightmap data to a custom attribute, then with a second icetree *on the weightmap* (just select the map when creating the icetree) then you

Re: Softimage on new retina MBP

2012-06-30 Thread Alan Fregtman
Last I heard there are no updated Bootcamp drivers for the Retina Macbook yet, so I suspect the OpenGL performance is poor for the time being. That said, I've read evidence that Windows still sees the full resolution and I'm sure it looks quite nice, though I wonder if the menus appear small

Re: WHATTA HELL???????

2012-07-05 Thread Alan Fregtman
I've also had the case of a buggy rig update causing a scene load to fail where it didn't use to. *shudder* On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Chris Covelli kylevar...@gmail.com wrote: This might be a long shot but try opening your scene's .scntoc file in a text editor. You may be able to find

Re: WHATTA HELL???????

2012-07-05 Thread Alan Fregtman
It's not dangerous, but with every version of XSI you can never open new scenes in old versions. It's always been this way for as long as I remember. On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 11:39 AM, olivier jeannel olivier.jean...@noos.frwrote: Isn't there some backward compatibility issues (there was a topic

Python trick to have a picking session of any arbitrary unlimited number of items

2012-07-06 Thread Alan Fregtman
Shameless educational plug about Python yield magic, for any coders interested... http://darkvertex.com/wp/2012/07/05/xsi-picking-forever-in-python/

Re: AE relight

2012-07-06 Thread Alan Fregtman
And there's also the classic Normality plugin, which allow lighting shading using normals passes: http://www.3dcg.net/software/normality/ http://www.3dcg.net/manual/normality-user-guide/ On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 7:53 AM, olivier jeannel olivier.jean...@noos.frwrote: This one is not bad either

Getting the bounding box for a subcomponentcollection?

2012-07-09 Thread Alan Fregtman
Any ideas what's the best way to get the bounding box and center for a collection of subcomponents, points perhaps? Cheers, -- Alan

Re: Getting the bounding box for a subcomponentcollection?

2012-07-09 Thread Alan Fregtman
Thanks everyone! :) On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 5:08 PM, jo benayoun jobenay...@gmail.com wrote: for completeness... -- Jo def get_bbox_pos(obj): pos = [0, 0, 0] res = Application.GetBBox(obj) xmin, ymin, zmin, xmax, ymax, zmax = res x = (xmin + xmax) * 0.5 y = (ymin +

Simulate Bullet Rigid Bodies evaluates even when condition is False?!

2012-07-10 Thread Alan Fregtman
Hey guys, It would appear that even when I have an If node presumably preventing executation of Simulate Bullet Rigid Bodies, it STILL EVALUATES. :o Ever seen this happen? I'm trying to disable it when I don't need it. I even tried setting particles as passive RBDs but they still react and

Re: Simulate Bullet Rigid Bodies evaluates even when condition is False?!

2012-07-10 Thread Alan Fregtman
thing with an If node. I event tried plugging in a second, muted Simulate Bullet Rigid Bodies node into the False port From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Alan Fregtman Sent: July-10-12 1:55 PM To: XSI Mailing List

Trying to read StrandPosition via Python, getting empty tuples

2012-07-11 Thread Alan Fregtman
Anyone else had this problem? Even with the sample code from the docs, I cannot for the life of me read this particular pointcloud's StrandPosition attribute. It's the right size, but it's full of empty tuples. :/ Argh! Any clues appreciated. Cheers, -- Alan

Re: Trying to read StrandPosition via Python, getting empty tuples

2012-07-11 Thread Alan Fregtman
It's from the docs, but sure... http://pastebin.com/B5MFweQC On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Alok alok.gan...@modusfx.com wrote: Hi Alan, Can you please post the relevant code On 11/07/2012 10:06 AM, Alan Fregtman wrote: Anyone else had this problem? Even with the sample code from

Re: Trying to read StrandPosition via Python, getting empty tuples

2012-07-11 Thread Alan Fregtman
, Jul 11, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.comwrote: It's from the docs, but sure... http://pastebin.com/B5MFweQC On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Alok alok.gan...@modusfx.com wrote: Hi Alan, Can you please post the relevant code On 11/07/2012 10:06 AM, Alan

Re: traveling the shortest distance between two points on a sphere?

2012-07-11 Thread Alan Fregtman
Slight variation on the same general idea, plus visual path debugging and ICE kinematics to constrain a null between two quaternions: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/441883/xsi/quatPathInterpolate_example.gif ...and an emdl (saved in SI 2012) of it:

Re: Creating a dual polyhedron

2012-07-11 Thread Alan Fregtman
It's a little ugly to import this Collada stuff, but it might be close to what you need: http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=6471b4f8826aa94d501e315ee3bac6cprevstart=0 On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Simon Van de Lagemaat si...@theembassyvfx.com wrote: I'm looking to create a

Re: What’s a CER?

2012-07-17 Thread Alan Fregtman
Are they Windows-only? Because I never see one pop up in my CentOS at work when SI segfaults. On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 9:38 PM, Chris Chia chris.c...@autodesk.com wrote: Hi all, A lot of users don’t know what a Crash Error Report (CER) is or why they’re important for the Softimage Team. I’d

Re: ICE modeling

2012-07-17 Thread Alan Fregtman
Are you talking about ICE rigging as in doing a whole character with ICE? Or just ICE kinematics? What's confusing about them in your opinion? On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Eric Cosky e...@cosky.com wrote: I was trying to find a way to describe my difficulty with ICE modeling, you pretty

Re: Greeble?

2012-07-18 Thread Alan Fregtman
Maybe it came from a link in this thread of yours from last year? https://groups.google.com/d/topic/xsi_list/qwVPXxCxG-E/discussion On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Paul Griswold pgrisw...@fusiondigitalproductions.com wrote: I'm not sure if I can attach files to the list or not, but I had this

Re: ICE modeling

2012-07-18 Thread Alan Fregtman
...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Alan Fregtman Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 1:57 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: ICE modeling Are you talking about ICE rigging as in doing a whole character with ICE? Or just ICE kinematics? What's confusing about them in your opinion

Re: ERROR : 2006-FILE-SIImportModel - Unexpected failure.

2012-07-19 Thread Alan Fregtman
You sure everything involved in that ICEtree was in that exported model? Also, if you had explicit model references (modelname.someobject) to its own model, you should change those to use this_model in place of the explicit model name so it's more portable. Does it still error after considering

ICE self-referential array building, without a loop?

2012-07-19 Thread Alan Fregtman
Hey guys, At the risk of looking stupid, I'm wondering if anyone knows a cool way of procedurally generating an array from a given length that results in: #0: 1 #1: 10 #2: 100 #3: 1000 #4: 1 #5: ... and so on. The reason I used the term self-referential is because with a repeat/while loop I

Re: Can't edit geo on a polymesh under this very strange condition...

2012-07-19 Thread Alan Fregtman
I'd check the stack for locks. There's a Node/Topology Lock kind of lock which can lock topo and make some things error. I've never heard of the lock disappearing after renaming though, so it may not be that. Very odd indeed! On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Tim Crowson

Re: ICE self-referential array building, without a loop?

2012-07-19 Thread Alan Fregtman
...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Alan Fregtman Sent: July-19-12 1:18 PM To: XSI Mailing List Subject: ICE self-referential array building, without a loop? Hey guys, At the risk of looking stupid, I'm wondering if anyone knows a cool way

Re: ICE: Setting Data in Groups

2012-07-20 Thread Alan Fregtman
Well, if he just wants random values, he could probably get the kine.global.pos from a GetData of the group, thus returning a position array, and... If you feed said array to a slightly modified Turbulize node you can get a random value for every object. For example if you open a Turbulize Around

Re: ICE: Setting Data in Groups

2012-07-20 Thread Alan Fregtman
Sure you can... store it in a custom attribute on any object. If you have Show Values enabled to force data to exist then Freeze Modeling with your icetree there, the data is permanently set and can be read later by reading the object's attribute. On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Vincent

Re: Make a pass non-renderable?

2012-07-22 Thread Alan Fregtman
Royal Render is made from fire-breathing eagles that shoot lasers of awesomeness... Also it's very good. On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Eric Turman i.anima...@gmail.com wrote: Royal Render is top notch. I can not say enough good things about it. On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Sandy

Re: Fluid shaper

2012-07-25 Thread Alan Fregtman
Python examples for Fluid Shaper? I don't understand. On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Gustavo Eggert Boehs gustav...@gmail.com wrote: Python examples, specially

UV relaxing fail / Mapping evenly sized noise along unwrapped tubes of varying lengths

2012-07-25 Thread Alan Fregtman
Hey guys, We're doing an asset with a lot of tubes of various lengths. We need noise to travel along them. We succeed at unwrapping cylindrically with Best Fit, giving us UVs of a vertical rectangle filling the 1,1 space vertically, however... As-is the UVs cause the noise to warp as the lengths

Re: Siggraph dinner details - ITTA 10

2012-07-29 Thread Alan Fregtman
And one for me too. :) I wish I could go. On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Adam Sale adamfs...@gmail.com wrote: I had to rain check Sig this year... too much work over here to find a few day window.. Down a pint for me.. :-) Adam On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 10:14 PM, Sandy Sutherland

Re: get all the expressions driven by a parameter

2012-07-29 Thread Alan Fregtman
Hey guys, *You're all forgetting the ConnectionStack.* It tells you what's connected under the hood. *No need to scan through all expressions in the scene!* import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET def getExpressionsDrivenByParameter( param ): stack =

Re: using ice to drive text ?

2012-07-30 Thread Alan Fregtman
You can also do... http://darkvertex.com/wp/2010/11/15/softimage-ice-string-to-particles/ On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Jeff McFall jeff.mcf...@sas.com wrote: Thank you, I am beginning to see that this approach is probably going to be the best way to handle lots of live text, especially

Re: using ice to drive text ?

2012-07-30 Thread Alan Fregtman
They're self-installing plugins which means you put them in your Plugins folder. So in your userroot... /Application/Plugins/ On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Jeff McFall jeff.mcf...@sas.com wrote: yes, these look very interesting - thanks ** ** not sure how to install since they

Re: get all the expressions driven by a parameter

2012-07-30 Thread Alan Fregtman
. :) Eric Thivierge http://www.ethivierge.com On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.comwrote: If you ever looked at how to parse the operator stack you must've seen the doc page for *ConstructionHistory*: http://download.autodesk.com/global/docs/softimage2012/en_us

Re: A good Cap All Holes script?

2012-07-31 Thread Alan Fregtman
# capMeshHoles(xsi.Selection(0)) On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.comwrote: I have made my own Python function since creating this thread long ago. In the interest of sharing: xsi = Application def capMeshHoles(mesh, freezeModeling = True

Re: A good Cap All Holes script?

2012-08-01 Thread Alan Fregtman
. On 2/13/2012 1:12 PM, Alan Fregtman wrote: Sweet! Thanks, Mr.Core! ;) On 2/13/2012 11:47 AM, Oleg Bliznuk wrote: Hi Alan, you can also do it with a little bit modified cap holes compound via ICE, we are using it in ImplosiaFX http://clip2net.com/s/1ABrt -Oleg

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