RE: Linking to an external weightmap

2014-06-03 Thread Ho Chung Nguyen
You can use ICE to write the weightmap value to a per-Sample attribute and cache it to Alembic. After reading the cache back, you can again use ICE to set it on the weightmap. Unless I’m missing something obvious. From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com

Re: OT: What strong features have you found in your new transition software that SI didn´t have?

2014-06-03 Thread Angus Davidson
HI Matt This is the type of vertex maps that Modo supports http://docs.luxology.com/modo/801/help/pages/modotoolbox/WorkingWithVmaps.html Quick table to summarise the link Weight Map Weight Strength Values stored for Falloff and Texturing purposes SubD Weight Map Weight

SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage 2014...any interest??

2014-06-03 Thread Oliver Weingarten
HI there! Due to certain decisions coming from AD this year, I have serious trouble to get sponsors for this year (ultimate?) UeberTage event. Resellers just have a very minor interest in Softimage right now... So I would like to check you interest before I start even harder to get some

Re: Hiding an item from a PPG

2014-06-03 Thread Dan Yargici
Thanks for the insight Matt, that's all great stuff to know. DAN On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 12:31 AM, Matt Lind ml...@carbinestudios.com wrote: Depends on how you want to attack the problem and how many parameters you want to hide/unhide in the PPGLayout. If it’s only one or two parameters,

Re: SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage 2014...any interest??

2014-06-03 Thread Stephan Haitz
Hi Oliver, of course the Ubertage should happen Need helping hands? Perhaps the ubertage can be continued further with a wider topic than Softimage? As alternative / independent CG Event? No we listen to our users but don?t care companies involved... greetings Stephan HI there! Due

Re: Camera addon for use with Redshift

2014-06-03 Thread Toonafish
Great stuff !! Thanks Emilio. -Ronald On 6/3/2014 02:39, Emilio Hernandez wrote: Hello list. I want to share with you the ehRSCamera addon for use with Redshift. In the link you will find a pdf file with the documentation describing its features and use, as well as the xsiaddon in case you

Re: Camera addon for use with Redshift

2014-06-03 Thread Ivan Vasiljevic
Great stuff, thanks for sharing. I'll give it a go! Cheers. Ivan On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 12:46 PM, Toonafish ron...@toonafish.nl wrote: Great stuff !! Thanks Emilio. -Ronald On 6/3/2014 02:39, Emilio Hernandez wrote: Hello list. I want to share with you the ehRSCamera addon for

Re: Camera addon for use with Redshift

2014-06-03 Thread Ivan Vasiljevic
Hmm... No luck installing it here. SI 2014 SP2, win 7 x64. Installation goes fine but no menu nor in View-Toolbars-ehRSCamera... Anyone had similar experience? Ivan On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Ivan Vasiljevic klebed...@gmail.com wrote: Great stuff, thanks for sharing. I'll give it a go!

Re: SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage 2014...any interest??

2014-06-03 Thread Ed Manning
TransitionSoftware|UeberTage? Joint sponsorship from Maxon, Foundry, and Side Effects? On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 5:43 AM, Stephan Haitz sha...@3d-agenten.de wrote: Hi Oliver, of course the Ubertage should happen Need helping hands? Perhaps the ubertage can be continued further with a

Re: SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage 2014...any interest??

2014-06-03 Thread Steffen Dünner
2014-06-03 13:25 GMT+02:00 Ed Manning etmth...@gmail.com: TransitionSoftware|UeberTage? Joint sponsorship from Maxon, Foundry, and Side Effects? That would be totally awesome! Cheers Steffen -- PGP-ID(RSA): 0xD6E0CE93 Fingerprint: 879F 572C FEE4 9DE5 53A8 3C1C 22A9 C8DE D6E0 CE93

Re: SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage 2014...any interest??

2014-06-03 Thread Eric Mootz
Yo Oliver, I will be there, of course :) Cheers! Eric

Re: SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage 2014...any interest??

2014-06-03 Thread Oliver Weingarten
Hey Ed..! Well... I already have those guys on my list.. ;) And maybe from next year on, it will be just UeberTage without SOFTIMAGE... But none the less, this year, if it can take place, will be the ultimate SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage Maybe and it with a big EOL party...many options are

Re: SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage 2014...any interest??

2014-06-03 Thread Oliver Weingarten
Hey Stephan! I?ll let you know asap ;) And yes...that might be the way to go for the next years...if interest is high enough ;) cheers, oli Am 03.06.2014 11:43, schrieb Stephan Haitz: Hi Oliver, of course the Ubertage should happen Need helping hands? Perhaps the ubertage can be

Re: SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage 2014...any interest??

2014-06-03 Thread Ivan Vasiljevic
I've never been at Uebertage and I have big wish to visit one, so I will push hard to make it this year. Cheers. Ivan On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Oliver Weingarten li...@pixelpanic.de wrote: Hey Stephan! I´ll let you know asap ;) And yes...that might be the way to go for the next

Re: SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage 2014...any interest??

2014-06-03 Thread Steffen Dünner
Maybe we could also ask Vanilla Ice and Ron Jeremy? ;) And for the german speaking guys: Call the event RueberTage. Would make it clear that a transition is in progress :D 2014-06-03 13:37 GMT+02:00 Oliver Weingarten li...@pixelpanic.de: Hey Ed..! Well... I already have those guys on my

Re: Camera addon for use with Redshift

2014-06-03 Thread Toonafish
check the file size of the addon you downloaded, if it's too small, try using the Dropbox download menu. -Ronald On 6/3/2014 13:22, Ivan Vasiljevic wrote: Hmm... No luck installing it here. SI 2014 SP2, win 7 x64. Installation goes fine but no menu nor in View-Toolbars-ehRSCamera... Anyone

Re: Camera addon for use with Redshift

2014-06-03 Thread Ivan Vasiljevic
That helped, thanks! On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Toonafish ron...@toonafish.nl wrote: check the file size of the addon you downloaded, if it's too small, try using the Dropbox download menu. -Ronald On 6/3/2014 13:22, Ivan Vasiljevic wrote: Hmm... No luck installing it here.

Re: SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage 2014...any interest??

2014-06-03 Thread Stephan Haitz
Of course they are welcome, some blender developers too. They should get a booth each and tell us, why their software is the best for transitioning SI-People. And let´s invite the MAX MAYA Users ... TransitionSoftware|UeberTage? Joint sponsorship from Maxon, Foundry, and Side Effects? On

Re: SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage 2014...any interest??

2014-06-03 Thread Mirko Jankovic
... and then show them all why actually Softimage is still best option and that no one else actually offers all round out of the box solution for transition and there will be missing pieces for years ;) On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 2:28 PM, Stephan Haitz sha...@3d-agenten.de wrote: Of course they

Re: SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage 2014...any interest??

2014-06-03 Thread Eric Mootz
Ahem, I really would prefer to have a pure Softimage user meeting and not some melting pot of X different 3D apps/users and all the /my-software-is-the-best-because-blabla/ discussions. Why is everybody talking about transitioning? Is anybody seriously afraid that Softimage will be

Re: SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage 2014...any interest??

2014-06-03 Thread Mirko Jankovic
Absolutely petly right Eric, Would rather to see improvements on something that affects SI as well like Fabric Engine and SI-FE work and is it closer to artis tool and not only dev guys On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Eric Mootz e...@mootzoid.com wrote: Ahem, I really would prefer to have a

Re: SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage 2014...any interest??

2014-06-03 Thread Stephan Haitz
Ok you are right. Thought more of a look here, what do you think about that thing sort of discussion. But religious but my is the best things are surely not what we want (apart from SI, of course :-) ) . Thought about keeping the uebertage alive in a future with less and less SI-Userbase...

Extract two point positions from one edge?

2014-06-03 Thread Arvid Björn
Hi folks, Is there a way to iterate though each edge of a mesh and extract its two point components, one at each end of the edge? I'd like to use those two points to interpolate between and add a bunch of points along the edge. Cheers!

Re: Extract two point positions from one edge?

2014-06-03 Thread Jens Lindgren
In ICE, just Get self.EdgeToVertices That will give you a array of the two Point Indexes for every edge. /Jens On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 6:04 PM, Arvid Björn arvidbj...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, Is there a way to iterate though each edge of a mesh and extract its two point components, one at

Re: Extract two point positions from one edge?

2014-06-03 Thread Oscar Juarez
Or if you want to do it in script, PolygonMesh.Edges get you all the edges and you can iterate all the edges and their Points property. On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 6:09 PM, Jens Lindgren jens.lindgren@gmail.com wrote: In ICE, just Get self.EdgeToVertices That will give you a array of the two

Re: SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage 2014...any interest??

2014-06-03 Thread Angus Davidson
While I can understand Eric’s point of view the harsh fact is this. Just like in the EDU sphere when it comes to funders Softimage is EOL and by that virtue not worth putting money into. There is a much better chance of getting funding by having a more general event. The question is wether

Re: Extract two point positions from one edge?

2014-06-03 Thread Arvid Björn
THANKS! I've been going in circles for an hour, I almost had it before, but now I'm back on track, cheers Jens =) On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 6:09 PM, Jens Lindgren jens.lindgren@gmail.com wrote: In ICE, just Get self.EdgeToVertices That will give you a array of the two Point Indexes for

Re: SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage 2014...any interest??

2014-06-03 Thread Cristobal Infante
I have to agree here with Angus, the event would be more interesting for attendees of it showed an open mind of what the future could look like. Approaching Fabric, Maxon and SideFX could be an interesting way of putting some energy on the event. I had a great time last year by the way, Oliver

Re: Camera addon for use with Redshift

2014-06-03 Thread Emilio Hernandez
Glad to hear it is working Ivan --- Emilio Hernández VFX 3D animation. 2014-06-03 7:19 GMT-05:00 Ivan Vasiljevic klebed...@gmail.com: That helped, thanks! On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Toonafish ron...@toonafish.nl wrote: check

Re: Extract two point positions from one edge?

2014-06-03 Thread Jens Lindgren
Hehe no problem, Arvid :) I think all the Get SomethingToSomething data is underrated and very few examples are out there of how one could use them. Since I learned how they work, I have been able to do amazing things with polymeshes in ICE. /Jens On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 6:26 PM, Arvid Björn

Re: Extract two point positions from one edge?

2014-06-03 Thread Francois Lord
Yeah, I started using them recently too and they are very powerful. Getting your head around the usage is not obvious, though. F On 03-Jun-14 13:49, Jens Lindgren wrote: Hehe no problem, Arvid :) I think all the Get SomethingToSomething data is underrated and very few examples are out there

Nest Mommentum, reversing animation

2014-06-03 Thread Sebastien Sterling
i have a momentum simulationm i ploted, is it possible to reverse the animation ? i'd do it in post, but i'm hoping to use some motion blur on some text, i's like it not to be reversed

Re: Nest Mommentum, reversing animation

2014-06-03 Thread peter_b
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

Re: Extract two point positions from one edge?

2014-06-03 Thread pedro santos
Not obvious because of the wording. PolygonToEdges at first seems to retriving indices from polygons to their surrounding edges. When it's the other way around it's retrives indices from edges to their bordering polygons. More over indices it's all it does so you have always to flatten out sets of

Re: Nest Mommentum, reversing animation

2014-06-03 Thread peter_b
the animation mixer is for high level control over animation, including combining different types of animation. (fcurves, expressions, constraints, caches, plots,...) the most obvious use is to combine a number of animation cycles on a character into a little edit. Because it looks so much

Re: Nest Mommentum, reversing animation

2014-06-03 Thread Sebastien Sterling
Do you work for digital golem ? On 3 June 2014 21:34, Sebastien Sterling sebastien.sterl...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you Peter for taking the time to expand on this :), i am a character artist, and even if this is not a character job, it is good to know about such functionality its true that

Re: Shameless plug

2014-06-03 Thread David Gallagher
Congratulations! Looks great. Thank you Softimage! I feel sick again. On 6/3/2014 8:00 PM, Matt Lind wrote: I don't get to say this often, but I've finished a project using Softimage which all can see. Well, it's not actually 'finished' as it's an online game which is continuously

Re: Shameless plug

2014-06-03 Thread Adam Sale
Congratulations Matt! That's one hell of a long run on one project. On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 7:27 PM, David Gallagher davegsoftimagel...@gmail.com wrote: Congratulations! Looks great. Thank you Softimage! I feel sick again. On 6/3/2014 8:00 PM, Matt Lind wrote: I don’t get to say

Re: Shameless plug

2014-06-03 Thread Andres Stephens
*long slow clap* That was great; I just saw your game promoted by a number of online magazines and news hubs via facebook; and it is great to see the minds, the talent and the software behind it - knowing full well how much work and love went into it, and it’s great to see how good the

Re: Nest Mommentum, reversing animation

2014-06-03 Thread Andres Stephens
Agreed, love the Animation Mixer. I actually compared it to Maya’s briefly in the documentation, and by far SI’s has a few more bells and whistles. It really helps in production, for blocking animation with a preset library of clips you may have created, , whipping out a sequence of actions