Re: OT Match mover questions

2013-09-15 Thread Toonafish
Maybe give Blender a shot, I used it for some tracking a while ago and 
it worked very well.


- Ronald


On 9/13/2013 14:46, Gerbrand Nel wrote:
I know the rest of the world is on pf track, but we have allot of 
shots to track and only 1 pf license.
I would like to help the tracking along in matchmover, but it has been 
YEARS since I touched it, So I thought I'd ask here :)


1st problem: I did the elastic tutorial in Match mover, but I cant 
seem to export to .XSI or .FBX.

It exports to Maya and max, but I don't have those to check.
Is it broken, or am I breaking it?

We need to track moving heads in hand held footage. Can matchmover do 
this and do you guys know of handy tutorials on this?
I tried the mocap tutorial, but it uses 2 cameras, and we only have 
footage from 1 camera.

Thanks for reading, and sorry for the OT
G







Re: random instance ICE behaviour

2013-09-15 Thread Oscar Juarez
Randomize nodes with integers are weird, we always use on scalar values and
a floor node to get proper values.
Also you can put explorer on sorting to none (creation), check the groups
to have the same order, if they don't you can use the reorder tool instead
of recreating the groups.


On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 6:48 PM, Rob Chapman tekano@gmail.com wrote:

 Try Clamp the random value node, sometimes it gives a -1 when frankly it
 shouldn't
 On 13 Sep 2013 19:02, adrian wyer adrian.w...@fluid-pictures.com
 wrote:

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 we have a problem;

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 pointcloud A scatters random geometry from group A on a surface

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 pointcloud B (which is a duplicate of pointcloud A) scatters random
 geometry from group B on the same surface

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 with me so far?

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 the purpose of this is to have the same objects (Arnold standins
 of trees) on 2 clouds, Colour ones for RGB, black ones for depth pass

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 (you can't override standin materials, scattered with ICE go figure)*
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 problem  the two clouds pick DIFFERENT random objects in each case, they
 DON'T MATCH!

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 i have a scene to repro if anyone fancies a look. this is a Soft
 problem (the override thing is arnold's)

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 the workaround is to duplicate cloud A, freeze it, and in a new ICE tree,
 reset the shape using a copy of the original portion of the original ICE
 tree

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 confused? we were...

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 Adrian Wyer
 Fluid Pictures
 75-77 Margaret St.
 London
 W1W 8SY
 ++44(0) 207 580 0829 


 adrian.w...@fluid-pictures.com

 www.fluid-pictures.com 

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Re: Le Gouffre short film done in Softimage - Project of the Dayon Kickstarter

2013-09-15 Thread Sebastien Sterling
Na i'm the only softies in the village !, a lonely life, its cool to know
there are other french speaking softies hanging around. cool to get stuff
started :) great piece i'll say it again je le redis encore, bravo




On 13 September 2013 15:25, pete...@skynet.be wrote:

   what planet you from?
 France used to be one of the most Softimage minded countries and many
 individuals are still out there despite an always diminishing amount of
 studios.
 You’ll find them all over the world, Canada, UK and Australia of course,
 but also US, China.
 Hell, there’s more French than Belgian softies in Belgium – dunno if
 there’s any left at your studio but there were a couple not so long ago.
   *From:* Sebastien Sterling sebastien.sterl...@gmail.com
 *Sent:* Friday, September 13, 2013 2:41 AM
 *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
 *Subject:* Re: Le Gouffre short film done in Softimage - Project of
 the Dayon Kickstarter

  are there many, french softies ? looking good


 On 13 September 2013 02:30, Rares Halmagean ra...@rarebrush.com wrote:

 Beautiful work. Love the illustrative style and you've captured the
 emotive subtleties in the characters nicely. Looking forward to seeing
 this.

 On 9/12/2013 3:45 PM, Carl Beauchemin wrote:

 Hi everyone,

 We've just released a first teaser for our upcoming animated short Le
 Gouffre. We've been working on this for 2 years now, no salary, and it was
 all done in Softimage.

 It was featured this week as Project of the Dayon Kickstarter. You can
 check out our ongoing campaign at:


 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1662185920/le-gouffre-animated-short-film

 And here's the Vimeo link for the HD teaser only:

 https://vimeo.com/74127187

 Hope you enjoy!

 -Lightning Boy Studio


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