Alan, relax. It was obvious. On 17 April 2012 16:06, Alan Fregtman <[email protected]> wrote:
> If it wasn't obvious, I was talking about the case of rigged characters > very far away, not icosohedrons. I was responding to Sandy's comment about > a mesh appearing turbulent when really far from the world center. I've seen > that in rigs all the time. > > > > On 4/17/2012 10:56 AM, Chris Marshall wrote: > > Renormalizing envelope weights? I have an icosohedron, a very big one. > Actually my repro of the problem was on a clean scene, objects at the > origin. > > > On 17 April 2012 15:51, Alan Fregtman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> In my experience the meshes usually look good again (at that distance) >> after renormalizing the envelope weights. Did you try that already? >> >> >> >> On 4/17/2012 10:24 AM, Sandy Sutherland wrote: >> >> I have had geometry issues with models not too far from origin - when >> subd set to anything above o - then the geometry looks like organge peel >> and when played back the peel moves like turbulance! Not sure of this >> threshold, but I must say Softimage does not like stuff too far away! >> >> S. >> >> _____________________________ >> Sandy Sutherland >> Technical Supervisor >> [email protected] >> _____________________________ >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> *From:* [email protected] [ >> [email protected]] on behalf of Chris Marshall [ >> [email protected]] >> *Sent:* 17 April 2012 16:02 >> *To:* [email protected] >> *Subject:* Scene scale effecting bumpmaps >> >> Hi All, >> I have a scene that came from Max, the scale is pretty big, ie I have an >> object 1500 units away from the origin (so not that big). >> But I'm having real problems with bumpmaps being generated on that object >> (using cell scalar nodes). Everything was fine, then I added an icosohedron >> scaled to surround everything, and my bumpmaps have gone very strange. I've >> tried freezing scale, different types of textures for the bump input, but >> it all ends up going weird. >> Is there anything obvious about scene size (distance from origin) and >> bumpmaps I need to know? >> >> Thanks >> Chris >> >> >> >
