Thanks for the kind words guys. "I was never lucky enough to work on a project (besides when I was still making games, but not in commercials) that allowed for such sophisticated tool development. Out of personal interest: How long did it take to develop it up tho this point of maturity?" Good question. It took about two months to get to this state, which was the majority of the length of the job. The tool reached a production ready state after only a few weeks though and then I iterated from there. It worked out quite well. While I did spend spend quite some time patching in functionality that was needed in the moment, I mostly got to focus on the vision of creating a well rounded, polished tool-set. I think it is the much superior way compared to how it often goes where you're under the gun and just hack solutions together that you then stack on top of one another day after day without ever building a solid well thought-out base.
"Could you recycle pieces from LKLighnting?" Unfortunately I couldn't reuse any of the pieces from LKLightning, but having built it was tremendously helpful. LK Fabric works different than LKL in that it grabs all the information about the involved geometry at the beginning and then creates giant arrays which it performs operations on. LKL keeps looking at the involved geometries while it performs operations and then looks at different parts of the geometries based on the outputs of those sub-operations. it's a difference in approach which makes LKLightning more adaptable, but allows LK Fabric to be a lot faster and deal with much more dense detail. On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Daniel Brassard <dbrassar...@gmail.com>wrote: > Thanks Leonard. > > XMas came early this year .... Mootzoid emTopolizer2 and emReader and now > Leonard LK Fabric. You rocks guys! > > > > > > > On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 9:18 AM, olivier jeannel > <olivier.jean...@noos.fr>wrote: > >> Enormous gift here ! >> That's super cool, the community has grown to a certain level of maturity >> regarding overal ice strand manipulation. >> Top of my head : the lectures on productions such as G star Raw, nike, >> polynoid and some tutorials on vimeo (like the ones from Vincent Ulmann) >> All those tools and methods shared makes effective and efficient users in >> the strands area ! >> >> >> Le 09/10/2013 15:02, Paul Griswold a écrit : >> >> The Softimage community continues to be one of the most generous I've >> ever been a part of. >> >> Thank you Leonard! >> >> -Paul >> >> >> >> On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 8:54 AM, Alok Gandhi <alok.gandhi2...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> Very nice! Thanks Leonard. >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>> On Oct 9, 2013, at 6:31 AM, Leonard Koch <leonardkoch...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Hey list, today I have a new plugin for you. >>> >>> LK Fabric is an unsimulated tool-set made up of 50+ components, designed >>> for the creation and animation of fabrics and cloths. >>> Here is a video <https://vimeo.com/76474426> giving a tour of the basic >>> functionality: https://vimeo.com/76474426 >>> >>> LK Fabric gives you control over the geometry of the cloth down to the >>> fibres which make up the threads which then in turn make up the fabric. >>> It supports motionblur, strand-texturing directly in ICE, fabric flowing >>> over multiple surfaces and many more things. >>> >>> This tool has come out of a series of commercials for Nike, which I got >>> to work on at *Royale* <http://www.weareroyale.com/> this summer. Here >>> is their site: http://www.weareroyale.com/ >>> They have graciously given me permission to release this tool-set for >>> free to the community. Major thanks to them for that! >>> >>> Big thanks also go to Billy Morrison and Andy Moorer who provided pages >>> and pages of feedback during production and then used the tools to create >>> all the pretty images. >>> >>> The two spots are available on Vimeo. >>> Nike Tech Fleece <https://vimeo.com/73986114> >>> Nike Evolution <https://vimeo.com/70825432> >>> >>> Andy did a nice write-up about the production here on the list: >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/xsi_list/hOECya3-bOA/JMNTPhu2qXUJ >>> >>> *You can download LK Fabric <http://leonardkoch.com/download> for free >>> at: **http://leonardkoch.com/download* <http://leonardkoch.com/download> >>> >>> If you find any bugs or have suggestions, feel free to shoot me an email >>> to lkplug...@gmail.com. >>> >>> I hope you guys check out the tool and that it helps you out in >>> production. >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >>> -------------------------- >>> >>> To unsubscribe: mail softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with >>> subject "unsubscribe" and reply to the confirmation email. >>> >>> >>> -------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe: mail softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with >>> subject "unsubscribe" and reply to the confirmation email. >>> >> >> >> >> -------------------------- >> To unsubscribe: mail softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with subject >> "unsubscribe" and reply to the confirmation email. >> >> >> >> -------------------------- >> To unsubscribe: mail softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with >> subject "unsubscribe" and reply to the confirmation email. >> > > > -------------------------- > To unsubscribe: mail softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with subject > "unsubscribe" and reply to the confirmation email. >
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