Wow that's awesome! Yeah, in Fusion the ImagePlane3D is used to set up matte shots. You can feed it an image and it'll just give you a grid that's exactly the correct size/aspect to match the image & it also uses the alpha properly. It's great for quickly setting up an environment - you just load up trees, bushes, a treeline, etc.
I was thinking about it, and what would be really cool is if there was a way for ICE to read a bunch of images, create an array and then apply them to the ICE rectangle particle shapes individually. Basically the way you'd normally pick a group of objects for your instance shapes, but just with images. Thanks! Paul On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 5:34 AM, Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > My mistake, it was xres and yres. > > And now that I have opened SI, I wrote something. > > If I haven't misunderstand what you need, you could do something like this: > > //------------------- > //JScript > > // Load Texture > var ImgFilePath = "Pictures\\TEST.tga"; > var newImg = SICreateImageClip(ImgFilePath)(0); > xres = newImg.Source.xres.value; > yres = newImg.Source.yres.value; > > // Create Grid > var r = ActiveSceneRoot; > var imgName = ImgFilePath.substring(ImgFilePath.lastIndexOf("\\")+1, > ImgFilePath.lastIndexOf(".")); > var grid = r.AddGeometry("grid", "MeshSurface", imgName); > grid.vlength = (yres / xres) * grid.ulength.value; > > // Apply Material > ApplyShader("$XSI_DSPRESETS\\Shaders\\Material\\Lambert.Preset", grid, > null, "", siLetLocalMaterialsOverlap); > var Shader = grid.Material.shaders("Lambert"); > SIConnectShaderToCnxPoint(newImg, Shader.diffuse, false); > var TP = CreateProjection(grid, siTxtPlanarXZ, siTxtDefaultPlanarXZ, null, > "Texture_Projection", null, null, null)(1); > SetInstanceDataValue(null, Shader+".Image.tspace_id", TP); > grid.Material.name = imgName + "_Mat"; > //------------------- > > It will create a grid, keep the grid U value and change its Y value to > match the texture aspect ratio. > > Make a loop with FSO and your folder with your textures and do your 100 > grids in seconds. > > regards, > > M.Yara > > > On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I haven't used Fusion so I don't know exactly what is ImagePlane3D but >> if you want to create a grid, put a texture and match the aspect ratio to >> texture, I don't think there is something like that out of the box but that >> should be easily scriptable by reading the imageclip's source resx and >> resy. (I'm not in front of a PC but I think it was something like that >> imageclip.source.resx) >> >> cheers >> >> Martin >> >> On 2013/05/11, at 3:31, Paul Griswold < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >> Softimage doesn't happen to have anything like Fusion's ImagePlane3D, >> does it? >> >> It's nothing more than a simple grid with an image mapped to it. But the >> nice thing is, there's no need to create UVs or a material and the grid is >> automatically sized to match the aspect ratio of the image you're feeding >> it. >> >> I have a project where I need to create probably 100+ of these simple >> image planes, so it'd be fantastic of Soft had something like that. >> >> -Paul >> >> >
