I'm not working this week end (no Softimage), but I don't really get
what is this image plane you're so enthousiast about.
Feel free to throw a screen grab (if you've got time).
Take care,
Olivier
Le 11/05/2013 19:46, Paul Griswold a écrit :
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]
<mailto:[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 <http://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]
<mailto:[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]
<mailto:[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
