Re: turbulize OBJECT position around value

[pingo van der brinkloev]

Awesome Rob, thanks!

... How many beers is that?

Cheers

On 16/01/2014, at 14.04, Rob Chapman wrote:

> 1.get the global kini matrix  
> 
> 2.decompose it into scaling, rotation , position
> 
> 3. add your turbulance to the position
> 
> 4. recompose the matrix
> 
> 5. set the global kini matrix
> 
> this works !
> 
> 
> On 16 January 2014 12:28, pingo van der brinkloev  wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I need to add some random motion to some objects...
> 
> And here I thought I'd get data kine.global.pos feed that into a turbulize 
> around value and into a set data and execute and... og well..
> 
> I can't "just" do that. Why not? I'm having trouble with the set data node no 
> matter what I do.
> 
> Any pointers would be greatly appreciated, so I don't have to brute force 
> animate a LOT of objects.
> 
> - it's objects with collission, so I need real geo.
> 
> - I'd rather not mess with particles on this one.
> 
> Cheers!
> 

Re: turbulize OBJECT position around value

[pingo van der brinkloev]

One should make this "Simple" stuff into a set of compounds...

...

On 16/01/2014, at 14.53, Morten Bartholdy wrote:

> Sounds like a very good explanation why simple stuff is often overcomplicated 
> to do in ICE :/
>  
> More high level control in ICE please!!
>  
>  
> Morten
>  
> 
> Den 16. januar 2014 kl. 14:04 skrev Rob Chapman : 
> 
> 1.get the global kini matrix  
> 
> 2.decompose it into scaling, rotation , position
> 3. add your turbulance to the position 
> 4. recompose the matrix 
> 5. set the global kini matrix 
> this works !
> 
> 
> On 16 January 2014 12:28, pingo van der brinkloev < xsil...@comxnet.dk > 
> wrote: 
> Hi all, 
> 
> I need to add some random motion to some objects... 
> 
> And here I thought I'd get data kine.global.pos feed that into a turbulize 
> around value and into a set data and execute and... og well.. 
> 
> I can't "just" do that. Why not? I'm having trouble with the set data node no 
> matter what I do. 
> 
> Any pointers would be greatly appreciated, so I don't have to brute force 
> animate a LOT of objects. 
> 
> - it's objects with collission, so I need real geo. 
> 
> - I'd rather not mess with particles on this one. 
> 
> Cheers!
> 
>  

Re: New solidangle.com

[Simon Reeves]

5 minimum lifted soon? That sounds good, I want that...



Simon Reeves
London, UK
*si...@simonreeves.com *
*www.simonreeves.com *
*www.analogstudio.co.uk *


On 17 January 2014 07:41, Andres Stephens  wrote:

>  Wow this is great At good timing.
>
>
> *From:* Stephen Blair 
> *Sent:* Thursday, January 16, 2014 14:13
> *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
>
> Check it http://www.solidangle.com, and maybe even try Arnold in
> Softimage.
>
>

Re: turbulize OBJECT position around value

[Simon Reeves]

True, I have things like 'Get Strand Position' when I get tired of writing
it ;)



Simon Reeves
London, UK
*si...@simonreeves.com *
*www.simonreeves.com *
*www.analogstudio.co.uk *


On 17 January 2014 09:45, pingo van der brinkloev wrote:

> One should make this "Simple" stuff into a set of compounds...
>
> ...
>
> On 16/01/2014, at 14.53, Morten Bartholdy wrote:
>
>  Sounds like a very good explanation why simple stuff is often
> overcomplicated to do in ICE :/
>
>
> More high level control in ICE please!!
>
>
>
>
> Morten
>
>
>
>
> Den 16. januar 2014 kl. 14:04 skrev Rob Chapman :
>
> 1.get the global kini matrix
>
> 2.decompose it into scaling, rotation , position
>  3. add your turbulance to the position
>  4. recompose the matrix
>  5. set the global kini matrix
>  this works !
>
>
>  On 16 January 2014 12:28, pingo van der brinkloev < xsil...@comxnet.dk > 
> wrote:
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I need to add some random motion to some objects...
>
> And here I thought I'd get data kine.global.pos feed that into a turbulize
> around value and into a set data and execute and... og well..
>
> I can't "just" do that. Why not? I'm having trouble with the set data node
> no matter what I do.
>
> Any pointers would be greatly appreciated, so I don't have to brute force
> animate a LOT of objects.
>
> - it's objects with collission, so I need real geo.
>
> - I'd rather not mess with particles on this one.
>
> Cheers!
>
>
>
>
>
>

Re: turbulize OBJECT position around value

[peter_b]

it’s not so much that it’s too complicated – it isn’t.

It’s more about how things are not made clearly visible to the user.
A simple mention “read-only” next to those parameters and no-one would ever 
have an issue with this.

But no, you’re connecting this just like you would anything else and feeding it 
correct, commonly used data, without any context issues, so no reason to assume 
you’re doing something wrong – it just doesn’t work for some unexplainable 
reason.
If no-one ever told you you can’t set the transform parameters directly, and 
have to do the whole of the global transform at once, you’re not going to think 
of this spontaneously.

Also - I can understand a number of explanations for this - performance, proper 
handling of rotations,... .
And yet - you can set an expression on those parameters or set them through 
scripting, individually or three at a time – so why not ICE set_data? It seems 
like a basic, unnecessary and unintuitive limitation to have.
...



From: pingo van der brinkloev 
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 10:45 AM
To: Morten Bartholdy ; softimage@listproc.autodesk.com 
Subject: Re: turbulize OBJECT position around value

One should make this "Simple" stuff into a set of compounds... 

...

On 16/01/2014, at 14.53, Morten Bartholdy wrote:


  Sounds like a very good explanation why simple stuff is often overcomplicated 
to do in ICE :/ 

  More high level control in ICE please!! 


  Morten 




  Den 16. januar 2014 kl. 14:04 skrev Rob Chapman : 


1.get the global kini matrix  

2.decompose it into scaling, rotation , position

3. add your turbulance to the position 

4. recompose the matrix 

5. set the global kini matrix 

this works ! 



On 16 January 2014 12:28, pingo van der brinkloev < xsil...@comxnet.dk > 
wrote: 

  Hi all, 

  I need to add some random motion to some objects... 

  And here I thought I'd get data kine.global.pos feed that into a 
turbulize around value and into a set data and execute and... og well.. 

  I can't "just" do that. Why not? I'm having trouble with the set data 
node no matter what I do. 

  Any pointers would be greatly appreciated, so I don't have to brute force 
animate a LOT of objects. 

  - it's objects with collission, so I need real geo. 

  - I'd rather not mess with particles on this one. 

  Cheers! 

Re: New solidangle.com

[peter_b]

yep – first thing I looked for – can I buy a single license?
open the gates to inviduals and freelancers!

(gotta like 3delight’s first license for free, which is now 4 cores instead of 
2 - had to do some 4k rendering in a rush and this was a godsend.)


From: Simon Reeves 
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 11:49 AM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com 
Subject: Re: New solidangle.com

5 minimum lifted soon? That sounds good, I want that...



Simon Reeves
London, UK

si...@simonreeves.com
www.simonreeves.com
www.analogstudio.co.uk




On 17 January 2014 07:41, Andres Stephens  wrote:

  Wow this is great At good timing. 


  From: Stephen Blair
  Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2014 14:13 
  To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com

  Check it http://www.solidangle.com, and maybe even try Arnold in Softimage. 

Faceware in Softimage

[Nuno Conceicao]

Is anyone testing this product in Softimage?
I got the trial, but I'm having loads of issues with getting Retargeter
4.09 to load in Soft, basically hangs in the startup.
I've been contacting Faceware but they seem a bit lost regarding this
issue, they issued me 2 trial licenses already and still no joy, the
biggest issue is basically the timezone difference making me wait till late
hours in the day to be able to talk to them.

Was wondering if someone in the list already used this plugin in Softimage
and came across with similar issues?

I did managed to load the plugin without a hang if I don't install it in
the default setup directory which is basically the factory location, but
the expressions feature in the character setup dont loadup.

:(

Nuno

Re: Faceware in Softimage

[Nicolas Esposito]

Bought it yesterday, Lite version

I tested the trial and it works pretty damn good!

Yes, usually it hangs up when opening Soft ( 2013 x64 ), but after usually
30-45 seconds it loads up properly.
If you're trial has expired Softimage won't open at all until you'll
uninstall the plugin

Regarding the pictures into the Expression tabs I already sent them an
email regarding that problem and the plane with the image sequence not
showing ( basically the pictures aren't connected to the diffuse of the
material, easily fixable )

Everything else works properly!

PS: If I remember correctly the pictures are inside the Retargeter folder
under Program files

Cheers


2014/1/17 Nuno Conceicao 

> Is anyone testing this product in Softimage?
> I got the trial, but I'm having loads of issues with getting Retargeter
> 4.09 to load in Soft, basically hangs in the startup.
> I've been contacting Faceware but they seem a bit lost regarding this
> issue, they issued me 2 trial licenses already and still no joy, the
> biggest issue is basically the timezone difference making me wait till late
> hours in the day to be able to talk to them.
>
> Was wondering if someone in the list already used this plugin in Softimage
> and came across with similar issues?
>
> I did managed to load the plugin without a hang if I don't install it in
> the default setup directory which is basically the factory location, but
> the expressions feature in the character setup dont loadup.
>
> :(
>
> Nuno
>

OT: Setting up Proxy Params in Maya?

[Eric Thivierge]

Hey all,

Sorry for the Maya question but it's semi-related to Softimage. I'm 
working on setting up a rig in Maya that clones one I have built in 
Softimage and am wondering if Maya has the Proxy Parameter type 
functionality of having a master parameter (attribute in Maya) which you 
make a shortcut to on other objects.


Haven't found anything online so far.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
Eric T.

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Re: OT: Setting up Proxy Params in Maya?

[Tony Barbieri]

I believe the only way to achieve something like this is to use
callbacks...it's kind of a flaky solution though.  There might be another
way but I can't think of one.


On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Eric Thivierge wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> Sorry for the Maya question but it's semi-related to Softimage. I'm
> working on setting up a rig in Maya that clones one I have built in
> Softimage and am wondering if Maya has the Proxy Parameter type
> functionality of having a master parameter (attribute in Maya) which you
> make a shortcut to on other objects.
>
> Haven't found anything online so far.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Eric T.
>
>


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Re: OT: Setting up Proxy Params in Maya?

[Eric Thivierge]

Ugh... Maya is stupid. :(

On Friday, January 17, 2014 11:12:53 AM, Tony Barbieri wrote:

I believe the only way to achieve something like this is to use
callbacks...it's kind of a flaky solution though.  There might be
another way but I can't think of one.


On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Eric Thivierge
mailto:ethivie...@hybride.com>> wrote:

Hey all,

Sorry for the Maya question but it's semi-related to Softimage.
I'm working on setting up a rig in Maya that clones one I have
built in Softimage and am wondering if Maya has the Proxy
Parameter type functionality of having a master parameter
(attribute in Maya) which you make a shortcut to on other objects.

Haven't found anything online so far.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
Eric T.




--
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Re: OT: Setting up Proxy Params in Maya?

[Michal Doniec]

No such thing as proxy parameters in Maya out of the box, AFAIK.


On 17 January 2014 16:02, Eric Thivierge  wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> Sorry for the Maya question but it's semi-related to Softimage. I'm
> working on setting up a rig in Maya that clones one I have built in
> Softimage and am wondering if Maya has the Proxy Parameter type
> functionality of having a master parameter (attribute in Maya) which you
> make a shortcut to on other objects.
>
> Haven't found anything online so far.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Eric T.
>
>


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Re: OT: Setting up Proxy Params in Maya?

[Bradley Gabe]

You're thinking about this the wrong way. The correct way to approach it
is, if Maya doesn't have it, you don't need it. :-p



On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Michal Doniec  wrote:

> No such thing as proxy parameters in Maya out of the box, AFAIK.
>
>
> On 17 January 2014 16:02, Eric Thivierge  wrote:
>
>> Hey all,
>>
>> Sorry for the Maya question but it's semi-related to Softimage. I'm
>> working on setting up a rig in Maya that clones one I have built in
>> Softimage and am wondering if Maya has the Proxy Parameter type
>> functionality of having a master parameter (attribute in Maya) which you
>> make a shortcut to on other objects.
>>
>> Haven't found anything online so far.
>>
>> Any help is appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Eric T.
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> --
> Michal
> http://uk.linkedin.com/in/mdoniec
>

Re: OT: Setting up Proxy Params in Maya?

[Eric Thivierge]

Well it's dumb not to have this functionality. If I delete 1 controller 
that has the parameters on it that drive expressions, positions, other 
data; it removes all those connections and has to be rebuilt.


On Friday, January 17, 2014 11:27:30 AM, Bradley Gabe wrote:

You're thinking about this the wrong way. The correct way to approach
it is, if Maya doesn't have it, you don't need it. :-p



On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Michal Doniec mailto:doni...@gmail.com>> wrote:

No such thing as proxy parameters in Maya out of the box, AFAIK.


On 17 January 2014 16:02, Eric Thivierge mailto:ethivie...@hybride.com>> wrote:

Hey all,

Sorry for the Maya question but it's semi-related to
Softimage. I'm working on setting up a rig in Maya that clones
one I have built in Softimage and am wondering if Maya has the
Proxy Parameter type functionality of having a master
parameter (attribute in Maya) which you make a shortcut to on
other objects.

Haven't found anything online so far.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
Eric T.




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Re: OT: Setting up Proxy Params in Maya?

[David Gallagher]

Yes, it does!

As clunky as it is, I put SetDrivenKeys and such on a separate shadow 
controller, then pipe them in to the blendshapes, etc, so if the 
deforming object has to be replaced, I don't lose all the complex 
relationships I made.


A rigging advantage of Softimage I forgot to list!
Dave G


On 1/17/2014 9:35 AM, Eric Thivierge wrote:
Well it's dumb not to have this functionality. If I delete 1 
controller that has the parameters on it that drive expressions, 
positions, other data; it removes all those connections and has to be 
rebuilt.


On Friday, January 17, 2014 11:27:30 AM, Bradley Gabe wrote:

You're thinking about this the wrong way. The correct way to approach
it is, if Maya doesn't have it, you don't need it. :-p



On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Michal Doniec mailto:doni...@gmail.com>> wrote:

No such thing as proxy parameters in Maya out of the box, AFAIK.


On 17 January 2014 16:02, Eric Thivierge mailto:ethivie...@hybride.com>> wrote:

Hey all,

Sorry for the Maya question but it's semi-related to
Softimage. I'm working on setting up a rig in Maya that clones
one I have built in Softimage and am wondering if Maya has the
Proxy Parameter type functionality of having a master
parameter (attribute in Maya) which you make a shortcut to on
other objects.

Haven't found anything online so far.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
Eric T.




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Re: Faceware in Softimage

[Nuno Conceicao]

Thanks for the answer Nicolas, the problem is it doesn't work with a brand
new trial (they already issued me 2 trials).
It hangs before it pops up the trial day counter window.

Did you install the Retargeter in the setup default directory (which is the
factory path) or you chose a different location like a workgroup or the
user profile directory?

I managed to get it partially working (without the hang) if i install it in
the the softimage user folder, but the expression list in the character
setup comes up totally empty and Im not able to setup the base expression
poses.

Can you also please give me some info about your setup? Windows version,
softimage version, cpu, graphic card, etc




On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 3:38 PM, Nicolas Esposito <3dv...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Bought it yesterday, Lite version
>
> I tested the trial and it works pretty damn good!
>
> Yes, usually it hangs up when opening Soft ( 2013 x64 ), but after usually
> 30-45 seconds it loads up properly.
> If you're trial has expired Softimage won't open at all until you'll
> uninstall the plugin
>
> Regarding the pictures into the Expression tabs I already sent them an
> email regarding that problem and the plane with the image sequence not
> showing ( basically the pictures aren't connected to the diffuse of the
> material, easily fixable )
>
> Everything else works properly!
>
> PS: If I remember correctly the pictures are inside the Retargeter folder
> under Program files
>
> Cheers
>
>
> 2014/1/17 Nuno Conceicao 
>
>> Is anyone testing this product in Softimage?
>> I got the trial, but I'm having loads of issues with getting Retargeter
>> 4.09 to load in Soft, basically hangs in the startup.
>> I've been contacting Faceware but they seem a bit lost regarding this
>> issue, they issued me 2 trial licenses already and still no joy, the
>> biggest issue is basically the timezone difference making me wait till late
>> hours in the day to be able to talk to them.
>>
>> Was wondering if someone in the list already used this plugin in
>> Softimage and came across with similar issues?
>>
>> I did managed to load the plugin without a hang if I don't install it in
>> the default setup directory which is basically the factory location, but
>> the expressions feature in the character setup dont loadup.
>>
>> :(
>>
>> Nuno
>>
>
>

Re: Faceware in Softimage

[Nuno Conceicao]

Forgot to mention the longest I waited for the hang was over an hour ...


On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 5:26 PM, Nuno Conceicao  wrote:

> Thanks for the answer Nicolas, the problem is it doesn't work with a brand
> new trial (they already issued me 2 trials).
> It hangs before it pops up the trial day counter window.
>
> Did you install the Retargeter in the setup default directory (which is
> the factory path) or you chose a different location like a workgroup or the
> user profile directory?
>
> I managed to get it partially working (without the hang) if i install it
> in the the softimage user folder, but the expression list in the character
> setup comes up totally empty and Im not able to setup the base expression
> poses.
>
> Can you also please give me some info about your setup? Windows version,
> softimage version, cpu, graphic card, etc
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 3:38 PM, Nicolas Esposito <3dv...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Bought it yesterday, Lite version
>>
>> I tested the trial and it works pretty damn good!
>>
>> Yes, usually it hangs up when opening Soft ( 2013 x64 ), but after
>> usually 30-45 seconds it loads up properly.
>> If you're trial has expired Softimage won't open at all until you'll
>> uninstall the plugin
>>
>> Regarding the pictures into the Expression tabs I already sent them an
>> email regarding that problem and the plane with the image sequence not
>> showing ( basically the pictures aren't connected to the diffuse of the
>> material, easily fixable )
>>
>> Everything else works properly!
>>
>> PS: If I remember correctly the pictures are inside the Retargeter folder
>> under Program files
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>>
>> 2014/1/17 Nuno Conceicao 
>>
>>> Is anyone testing this product in Softimage?
>>> I got the trial, but I'm having loads of issues with getting Retargeter
>>> 4.09 to load in Soft, basically hangs in the startup.
>>> I've been contacting Faceware but they seem a bit lost regarding this
>>> issue, they issued me 2 trial licenses already and still no joy, the
>>> biggest issue is basically the timezone difference making me wait till late
>>> hours in the day to be able to talk to them.
>>>
>>> Was wondering if someone in the list already used this plugin in
>>> Softimage and came across with similar issues?
>>>
>>> I did managed to load the plugin without a hang if I don't install it in
>>> the default setup directory which is basically the factory location, but
>>> the expressions feature in the character setup dont loadup.
>>>
>>> :(
>>>
>>> Nuno
>>>
>>
>>
>

Re: Setting up Proxy Params in Maya?

[peter_b]

say that to the maya devs who made that animation mixer clone.


From: Bradley Gabe 
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 5:27 PM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com 
Subject: Re: OT: Setting up Proxy Params in Maya?

You're thinking about this the wrong way. The correct way to approach it is, if 
Maya doesn't have it, you don't need it. :-p 




On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Michal Doniec  wrote:

  No such thing as proxy parameters in Maya out of the box, AFAIK.



  On 17 January 2014 16:02, Eric Thivierge  wrote:

Hey all,

Sorry for the Maya question but it's semi-related to Softimage. I'm working 
on setting up a rig in Maya that clones one I have built in Softimage and am 
wondering if Maya has the Proxy Parameter type functionality of having a master 
parameter (attribute in Maya) which you make a shortcut to on other objects.

Haven't found anything online so far.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
Eric T.






  -- 
  --
  Michal
  http://uk.linkedin.com/in/mdoniec 

Re: Faceware in Softimage

[Nuno Conceicao]

Also its not just the pictures missing in the expression list, its the
expression list itself not showing, like this: http://prntscr.com/2k34rp

I could live without the reference pictures by following the images they
have in the knowledge base, the problem is not doing anything if i pose the
character on all the pose frames, also the saved .xml has no pose
information.


On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Nuno Conceicao  wrote:

> Forgot to mention the longest I waited for the hang was over an hour ...
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 5:26 PM, Nuno Conceicao <
> nunoalexconcei...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the answer Nicolas, the problem is it doesn't work with a
>> brand new trial (they already issued me 2 trials).
>> It hangs before it pops up the trial day counter window.
>>
>> Did you install the Retargeter in the setup default directory (which is
>> the factory path) or you chose a different location like a workgroup or the
>> user profile directory?
>>
>> I managed to get it partially working (without the hang) if i install it
>> in the the softimage user folder, but the expression list in the character
>> setup comes up totally empty and Im not able to setup the base expression
>> poses.
>>
>> Can you also please give me some info about your setup? Windows version,
>> softimage version, cpu, graphic card, etc
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 3:38 PM, Nicolas Esposito <3dv...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Bought it yesterday, Lite version
>>>
>>> I tested the trial and it works pretty damn good!
>>>
>>> Yes, usually it hangs up when opening Soft ( 2013 x64 ), but after
>>> usually 30-45 seconds it loads up properly.
>>> If you're trial has expired Softimage won't open at all until you'll
>>> uninstall the plugin
>>>
>>> Regarding the pictures into the Expression tabs I already sent them an
>>> email regarding that problem and the plane with the image sequence not
>>> showing ( basically the pictures aren't connected to the diffuse of the
>>> material, easily fixable )
>>>
>>> Everything else works properly!
>>>
>>> PS: If I remember correctly the pictures are inside the Retargeter
>>> folder under Program files
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>>
>>> 2014/1/17 Nuno Conceicao 
>>>
 Is anyone testing this product in Softimage?
 I got the trial, but I'm having loads of issues with getting Retargeter
 4.09 to load in Soft, basically hangs in the startup.
 I've been contacting Faceware but they seem a bit lost regarding this
 issue, they issued me 2 trial licenses already and still no joy, the
 biggest issue is basically the timezone difference making me wait till late
 hours in the day to be able to talk to them.

 Was wondering if someone in the list already used this plugin in
 Softimage and came across with similar issues?

 I did managed to load the plugin without a hang if I don't install it
 in the default setup directory which is basically the factory location, but
 the expressions feature in the character setup dont loadup.

 :(

 Nuno

>>>
>>>
>>
>

Sort of OT: can I render openVDB fluids in Maya

[Morten Bartholdy]

I am looking to do emFluid simulation in Softimage. Now our project
supervisor wants to know if they can be rendered in Maya, so since I know
that some people here have Maya experience too, I thought I would ask if it
is possible to render openVDB fluid datasets from emFluid in Maya?

Thanks!

Morten

Re: OT: Setting up Proxy Params in Maya?

[Eric Thivierge]

Yes David, that works for that case, but not when you have multiple 
attributes that control 1 driven object.


Eric T.

On 1/17/2014 11:58 AM, David Gallagher wrote:


Yes, it does!

As clunky as it is, I put SetDrivenKeys and such on a separate shadow 
controller, then pipe them in to the blendshapes, etc, so if the 
deforming object has to be replaced, I don't lose all the complex 
relationships I made.


A rigging advantage of Softimage I forgot to list!
Dave G


On 1/17/2014 9:35 AM, Eric Thivierge wrote:
Well it's dumb not to have this functionality. If I delete 1 
controller that has the parameters on it that drive expressions, 
positions, other data; it removes all those connections and has to be 
rebuilt.


On Friday, January 17, 2014 11:27:30 AM, Bradley Gabe wrote:

You're thinking about this the wrong way. The correct way to approach
it is, if Maya doesn't have it, you don't need it. :-p



On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Michal Doniec mailto:doni...@gmail.com>> wrote:

No such thing as proxy parameters in Maya out of the box, AFAIK.


On 17 January 2014 16:02, Eric Thivierge mailto:ethivie...@hybride.com>> wrote:

Hey all,

Sorry for the Maya question but it's semi-related to
Softimage. I'm working on setting up a rig in Maya that clones
one I have built in Softimage and am wondering if Maya has the
Proxy Parameter type functionality of having a master
parameter (attribute in Maya) which you make a shortcut to on
other objects.

Haven't found anything online so far.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
Eric T.




--
--
Michal
http://uk.linkedin.com/in/mdoniec

Re: Faceware in Softimage

[Nicolas Esposito]

Hi Nuno,

The path for both Analyzer and Retargeter on my pc is C:\Program
Files\Faceware

As mentioned previously I had the hang problem when the license was
expired, but I remember that the first time I installed Retargeter I had a
couple of crashesm after 1-2 times I uninstalled and reinstalled it it
worked properly

Yes, the missing picture on the Expression set is known, but this is the
first release of the plugin for Softimage and so far this and the image
sequence not showing correctly are the only bugs I found...
If you want the pictures of all the expressions on my pc the path
is C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Softimage 2013\plugins\FTI\ExpressionFrames
Regarding again Retargeter and the image you posted, as soon as you'll
create a character setup ( see videotutorials on youtube ) you can start
setting up the expressions of your character

Regarding the empty XML file: did you click on parametrize on the top
right? sounds like a stupid question but better ask :)

Setup is:
i7 920 2.67Ghz ( 4 years old, I know! )
AMD Radeon HD7950 VaporX ( 3GB )
6 Gb of Ram
Windows 7 x64
Retargeter version is 4.0.9.25061
Analyzer version is  2.0.3.25036


Some details:
In order to process a 4000+ frames video it took 40 minutes ( convert to
image sequence and rotate ) with Analyzer...its quite a bit, but with
AfterFX I think is 10 minutes less or so...

Receiving emails after 12 hours is not great, but at least they usually
reply within the day, so at least you'll get a reply, even if its late at
night :)

Try again with Retargeter to uninstall and reinstall it a couple of times,
maybe it'll work or maybe they'll find a solution for the problem

Nicolas


2014/1/17 Nuno Conceicao 

> Also its not just the pictures missing in the expression list, its the
> expression list itself not showing, like this: http://prntscr.com/2k34rp
>
> I could live without the reference pictures by following the images they
> have in the knowledge base, the problem is not doing anything if i pose the
> character on all the pose frames, also the saved .xml has no pose
> information.
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Nuno Conceicao <
> nunoalexconcei...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Forgot to mention the longest I waited for the hang was over an hour ...
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 5:26 PM, Nuno Conceicao <
>> nunoalexconcei...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for the answer Nicolas, the problem is it doesn't work with a
>>> brand new trial (they already issued me 2 trials).
>>> It hangs before it pops up the trial day counter window.
>>>
>>> Did you install the Retargeter in the setup default directory (which is
>>> the factory path) or you chose a different location like a workgroup or the
>>> user profile directory?
>>>
>>> I managed to get it partially working (without the hang) if i install it
>>> in the the softimage user folder, but the expression list in the character
>>> setup comes up totally empty and Im not able to setup the base expression
>>> poses.
>>>
>>> Can you also please give me some info about your setup? Windows version,
>>> softimage version, cpu, graphic card, etc
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 3:38 PM, Nicolas Esposito <3dv...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
 Bought it yesterday, Lite version

 I tested the trial and it works pretty damn good!

 Yes, usually it hangs up when opening Soft ( 2013 x64 ), but after
 usually 30-45 seconds it loads up properly.
 If you're trial has expired Softimage won't open at all until you'll
 uninstall the plugin

 Regarding the pictures into the Expression tabs I already sent them an
 email regarding that problem and the plane with the image sequence not
 showing ( basically the pictures aren't connected to the diffuse of the
 material, easily fixable )

 Everything else works properly!

 PS: If I remember correctly the pictures are inside the Retargeter
 folder under Program files

 Cheers


 2014/1/17 Nuno Conceicao 

> Is anyone testing this product in Softimage?
> I got the trial, but I'm having loads of issues with getting
> Retargeter 4.09 to load in Soft, basically hangs in the startup.
> I've been contacting Faceware but they seem a bit lost regarding this
> issue, they issued me 2 trial licenses already and still no joy, the
> biggest issue is basically the timezone difference making me wait till 
> late
> hours in the day to be able to talk to them.
>
> Was wondering if someone in the list already used this plugin in
> Softimage and came across with similar issues?
>
> I did managed to load the plugin without a hang if I don't install it
> in the default setup directory which is basically the factory location, 
> but
> the expressions feature in the character setup dont loadup.
>
> :(
>
> Nuno
>


>>>
>>
>

Re: Faceware in Softimage

[Nuno Conceicao]

Hi Nicolas
Notice the screen grab link i sent of the expression module? Its not just
missing the face pictures, its missing the entire list also!
The missing pictures by itself wouldn't keep me from doing the expressions,
but having no list to link expressions basically keeps me from doing any
retargeting.
Like you said after doing the character setup (creating the list of
controlers from my rig) I should have been able to set up the expressions,
but thats the problem, I cant.

Apparently you managed to install the retargeter plugin in the factory
default directory of Softimage, if I do the same here, basically retargeter
hangs indefinitely!

The parametrize is a feature of the Analizer and basically everything works
well with that and i can generate a .fwr file with no problems, what i
mention about the .xml its not really empty it has all the moveeable
attributes, but the Poses tags are all empty (I compared with a demo .xml)

Regarding uninstalling and reinstalling, ohh man, I'm not exagerating if I
say I did that around 40 or 50 times, in different test machines and
different Softimage versions with different plugin locations, besides the
factory default ones.






On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 7:00 PM, Nicolas Esposito <3dv...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Nuno,
>
> The path for both Analyzer and Retargeter on my pc is C:\Program
> Files\Faceware
>
> As mentioned previously I had the hang problem when the license was
> expired, but I remember that the first time I installed Retargeter I had a
> couple of crashesm after 1-2 times I uninstalled and reinstalled it it
> worked properly
>
> Yes, the missing picture on the Expression set is known, but this is the
> first release of the plugin for Softimage and so far this and the image
> sequence not showing correctly are the only bugs I found...
> If you want the pictures of all the expressions on my pc the path
> is C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Softimage 2013\plugins\FTI\ExpressionFrames
> Regarding again Retargeter and the image you posted, as soon as you'll
> create a character setup ( see videotutorials on youtube ) you can start
> setting up the expressions of your character
>
> Regarding the empty XML file: did you click on parametrize on the top
> right? sounds like a stupid question but better ask :)
>
> Setup is:
> i7 920 2.67Ghz ( 4 years old, I know! )
> AMD Radeon HD7950 VaporX ( 3GB )
> 6 Gb of Ram
> Windows 7 x64
> Retargeter version is 4.0.9.25061
> Analyzer version is  2.0.3.25036
>
>
> Some details:
> In order to process a 4000+ frames video it took 40 minutes ( convert to
> image sequence and rotate ) with Analyzer...its quite a bit, but with
> AfterFX I think is 10 minutes less or so...
>
> Receiving emails after 12 hours is not great, but at least they usually
> reply within the day, so at least you'll get a reply, even if its late at
> night :)
>
> Try again with Retargeter to uninstall and reinstall it a couple of times,
> maybe it'll work or maybe they'll find a solution for the problem
>
> Nicolas
>
>
> 2014/1/17 Nuno Conceicao 
>
>> Also its not just the pictures missing in the expression list, its the
>> expression list itself not showing, like this: http://prntscr.com/2k34rp
>>
>> I could live without the reference pictures by following the images they
>> have in the knowledge base, the problem is not doing anything if i pose the
>> character on all the pose frames, also the saved .xml has no pose
>> information.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Nuno Conceicao <
>> nunoalexconcei...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Forgot to mention the longest I waited for the hang was over an hour ...
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 5:26 PM, Nuno Conceicao <
>>> nunoalexconcei...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
 Thanks for the answer Nicolas, the problem is it doesn't work with a
 brand new trial (they already issued me 2 trials).
 It hangs before it pops up the trial day counter window.

 Did you install the Retargeter in the setup default directory (which is
 the factory path) or you chose a different location like a workgroup or the
 user profile directory?

 I managed to get it partially working (without the hang) if i install
 it in the the softimage user folder, but the expression list in the
 character setup comes up totally empty and Im not able to setup the base
 expression poses.

 Can you also please give me some info about your setup? Windows
 version, softimage version, cpu, graphic card, etc




 On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 3:38 PM, Nicolas Esposito <3dv...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Bought it yesterday, Lite version
>
> I tested the trial and it works pretty damn good!
>
> Yes, usually it hangs up when opening Soft ( 2013 x64 ), but after
> usually 30-45 seconds it loads up properly.
> If you're trial has expired Softimage won't open at all until you'll
> uninstall the plugin
>
> Regarding the pictures into the Expression tabs I already 

Re: OT: Setting up Proxy Params in Maya?

[Luc-Eric Rousseau]

Character Sets should be the equivalent of proxy parameters.
although Trax relies on Character sets, you can use them of course without Trax

On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 11:27 AM, Bradley Gabe  wrote:
> You're thinking about this the wrong way. The correct way to approach it is,
> if Maya doesn't have it, you don't need it. :-p
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Michal Doniec  wrote:
>>
>> No such thing as proxy parameters in Maya out of the box, AFAIK.

Re: OT: Setting up Proxy Params in Maya?

[Eric Thivierge]

OK I'll take a look.

Thanks,
Eric T.

On Friday, January 17, 2014 3:52:47 PM, Luc-Eric Rousseau wrote:

Character Sets should be the equivalent of proxy parameters.
although Trax relies on Character sets, you can use them of course without Trax

On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 11:27 AM, Bradley Gabe  wrote:

You're thinking about this the wrong way. The correct way to approach it is,
if Maya doesn't have it, you don't need it. :-p



On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Michal Doniec  wrote:


No such thing as proxy parameters in Maya out of the box, AFAIK.

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[Stephen Blair]

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Was it worth the wait?
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Re: Faceware in Softimage

[Nicolas Esposito]

So, you tested on other workstation and didn't work on none of them?

This is really strange...
Also the Analyzer problem without the Poses is reeally strange...

I don't know, as described in my previous post I had only the Retargeter
problem which was fixed with a couple of uninstall-reinstall

What I suggest you to do is to ask ( if you didn't do that ) the previous
version of both Analyzer and Retargeter in order to see if its a release
problem or is just that on your machine it doesn't work at all

Regarding the installation on the default facroty of Softimage I just
installed it as it was, I didn't make any changes to the path or anything
else, so I can't helop you a lot on that

Anyway its a great software, so I really hope you'll find a solution to
those problems, because its really worthed the price


2014/1/17 Nuno Conceicao 

> Hi Nicolas
> Notice the screen grab link i sent of the expression module? Its not just
> missing the face pictures, its missing the entire list also!
> The missing pictures by itself wouldn't keep me from doing the
> expressions, but having no list to link expressions basically keeps me from
> doing any retargeting.
> Like you said after doing the character setup (creating the list of
> controlers from my rig) I should have been able to set up the expressions,
> but thats the problem, I cant.
>
> Apparently you managed to install the retargeter plugin in the factory
> default directory of Softimage, if I do the same here, basically retargeter
> hangs indefinitely!
>
> The parametrize is a feature of the Analizer and basically everything
> works well with that and i can generate a .fwr file with no problems, what
> i mention about the .xml its not really empty it has all the moveeable
> attributes, but the Poses tags are all empty (I compared with a demo .xml)
>
> Regarding uninstalling and reinstalling, ohh man, I'm not exagerating if I
> say I did that around 40 or 50 times, in different test machines and
> different Softimage versions with different plugin locations, besides the
> factory default ones.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 7:00 PM, Nicolas Esposito <3dv...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi Nuno,
>>
>> The path for both Analyzer and Retargeter on my pc is C:\Program
>> Files\Faceware
>>
>> As mentioned previously I had the hang problem when the license was
>> expired, but I remember that the first time I installed Retargeter I had a
>> couple of crashesm after 1-2 times I uninstalled and reinstalled it it
>> worked properly
>>
>> Yes, the missing picture on the Expression set is known, but this is the
>> first release of the plugin for Softimage and so far this and the image
>> sequence not showing correctly are the only bugs I found...
>> If you want the pictures of all the expressions on my pc the path
>> is C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Softimage 2013\plugins\FTI\ExpressionFrames
>> Regarding again Retargeter and the image you posted, as soon as you'll
>> create a character setup ( see videotutorials on youtube ) you can start
>> setting up the expressions of your character
>>
>> Regarding the empty XML file: did you click on parametrize on the top
>> right? sounds like a stupid question but better ask :)
>>
>> Setup is:
>> i7 920 2.67Ghz ( 4 years old, I know! )
>> AMD Radeon HD7950 VaporX ( 3GB )
>> 6 Gb of Ram
>> Windows 7 x64
>> Retargeter version is 4.0.9.25061
>> Analyzer version is  2.0.3.25036
>>
>>
>> Some details:
>> In order to process a 4000+ frames video it took 40 minutes ( convert to
>> image sequence and rotate ) with Analyzer...its quite a bit, but with
>> AfterFX I think is 10 minutes less or so...
>>
>> Receiving emails after 12 hours is not great, but at least they usually
>> reply within the day, so at least you'll get a reply, even if its late at
>> night :)
>>
>> Try again with Retargeter to uninstall and reinstall it a couple of
>> times, maybe it'll work or maybe they'll find a solution for the problem
>>
>> Nicolas
>>
>>
>> 2014/1/17 Nuno Conceicao 
>>
>>> Also its not just the pictures missing in the expression list, its the
>>> expression list itself not showing, like this: http://prntscr.com/2k34rp
>>>
>>> I could live without the reference pictures by following the images they
>>> have in the knowledge base, the problem is not doing anything if i pose the
>>> character on all the pose frames, also the saved .xml has no pose
>>> information.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Nuno Conceicao <
>>> nunoalexconcei...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
 Forgot to mention the longest I waited for the hang was over an hour ...


 On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 5:26 PM, Nuno Conceicao <
 nunoalexconcei...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the answer Nicolas, the problem is it doesn't work with a
> brand new trial (they already issued me 2 trials).
> It hangs before it pops up the trial day counter window.
>
> Did you install the Retargeter in the setup default directory (which
> is the factory path) or 

Re: Faceware in Softimage

[Nuno Conceicao]

Sure Ill try asking them about other versions, thank you for your help, it
good to know at least that it works in 2013 leaving everything at default.
Thank you Nicolas


On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 9:07 PM, Nicolas Esposito <3dv...@gmail.com> wrote:

> So, you tested on other workstation and didn't work on none of them?
>
> This is really strange...
> Also the Analyzer problem without the Poses is reeally strange...
>
> I don't know, as described in my previous post I had only the Retargeter
> problem which was fixed with a couple of uninstall-reinstall
>
> What I suggest you to do is to ask ( if you didn't do that ) the previous
> version of both Analyzer and Retargeter in order to see if its a release
> problem or is just that on your machine it doesn't work at all
>
> Regarding the installation on the default facroty of Softimage I just
> installed it as it was, I didn't make any changes to the path or anything
> else, so I can't helop you a lot on that
>
> Anyway its a great software, so I really hope you'll find a solution to
> those problems, because its really worthed the price
>
>
> 2014/1/17 Nuno Conceicao 
>
>> Hi Nicolas
>> Notice the screen grab link i sent of the expression module? Its not just
>> missing the face pictures, its missing the entire list also!
>> The missing pictures by itself wouldn't keep me from doing the
>> expressions, but having no list to link expressions basically keeps me from
>> doing any retargeting.
>> Like you said after doing the character setup (creating the list of
>> controlers from my rig) I should have been able to set up the expressions,
>> but thats the problem, I cant.
>>
>> Apparently you managed to install the retargeter plugin in the factory
>> default directory of Softimage, if I do the same here, basically retargeter
>> hangs indefinitely!
>>
>> The parametrize is a feature of the Analizer and basically everything
>> works well with that and i can generate a .fwr file with no problems, what
>> i mention about the .xml its not really empty it has all the moveeable
>> attributes, but the Poses tags are all empty (I compared with a demo .xml)
>>
>> Regarding uninstalling and reinstalling, ohh man, I'm not exagerating if
>> I say I did that around 40 or 50 times, in different test machines and
>> different Softimage versions with different plugin locations, besides the
>> factory default ones.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 7:00 PM, Nicolas Esposito <3dv...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Nuno,
>>>
>>> The path for both Analyzer and Retargeter on my pc is C:\Program
>>> Files\Faceware
>>>
>>> As mentioned previously I had the hang problem when the license was
>>> expired, but I remember that the first time I installed Retargeter I had a
>>> couple of crashesm after 1-2 times I uninstalled and reinstalled it it
>>> worked properly
>>>
>>> Yes, the missing picture on the Expression set is known, but this is the
>>> first release of the plugin for Softimage and so far this and the image
>>> sequence not showing correctly are the only bugs I found...
>>> If you want the pictures of all the expressions on my pc the path
>>> is C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Softimage 2013\plugins\FTI\ExpressionFrames
>>> Regarding again Retargeter and the image you posted, as soon as you'll
>>> create a character setup ( see videotutorials on youtube ) you can start
>>> setting up the expressions of your character
>>>
>>> Regarding the empty XML file: did you click on parametrize on the top
>>> right? sounds like a stupid question but better ask :)
>>>
>>> Setup is:
>>> i7 920 2.67Ghz ( 4 years old, I know! )
>>> AMD Radeon HD7950 VaporX ( 3GB )
>>> 6 Gb of Ram
>>> Windows 7 x64
>>> Retargeter version is 4.0.9.25061
>>> Analyzer version is  2.0.3.25036
>>>
>>>
>>> Some details:
>>> In order to process a 4000+ frames video it took 40 minutes ( convert to
>>> image sequence and rotate ) with Analyzer...its quite a bit, but with
>>> AfterFX I think is 10 minutes less or so...
>>>
>>> Receiving emails after 12 hours is not great, but at least they usually
>>> reply within the day, so at least you'll get a reply, even if its late at
>>> night :)
>>>
>>> Try again with Retargeter to uninstall and reinstall it a couple of
>>> times, maybe it'll work or maybe they'll find a solution for the problem
>>>
>>> Nicolas
>>>
>>>
>>> 2014/1/17 Nuno Conceicao 
>>>
 Also its not just the pictures missing in the expression list, its the
 expression list itself not showing, like this:
 http://prntscr.com/2k34rp

 I could live without the reference pictures by following the images
 they have in the knowledge base, the problem is not doing anything if i
 pose the character on all the pose frames, also the saved .xml has no pose
 information.


 On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Nuno Conceicao <
 nunoalexconcei...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Forgot to mention the longest I waited for the hang was over an hour
> ...
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 1

Re: Faceware in Softimage

[Nuno Conceicao]

Ok after a long time fiddling with setups i found out that Retargeter
doesnt work with Softimage 2014 SP2, Softimage 2013 SP1 and Softimage 2012
SAP (funny coincidence I only had those installed on my computer), because
since u mentioned in the details you have 2013 (not service pack) working,
 i decided to give it a try in 2013 not 2013 sp1 and it worked! Then i
tried 2012 Sp1 and it worked, so i guess that's it really.
I reported it to Faceware and I-m sure they will do something about it
pretty soon.
Thank you Nicolas you contributed for the solution of this case!
Cheers




On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 9:41 PM, Nuno Conceicao  wrote:

> Sure Ill try asking them about other versions, thank you for your help, it
> good to know at least that it works in 2013 leaving everything at default.
> Thank you Nicolas
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 9:07 PM, Nicolas Esposito <3dv...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> So, you tested on other workstation and didn't work on none of them?
>>
>> This is really strange...
>> Also the Analyzer problem without the Poses is reeally strange...
>>
>> I don't know, as described in my previous post I had only the Retargeter
>> problem which was fixed with a couple of uninstall-reinstall
>>
>> What I suggest you to do is to ask ( if you didn't do that ) the previous
>> version of both Analyzer and Retargeter in order to see if its a release
>> problem or is just that on your machine it doesn't work at all
>>
>> Regarding the installation on the default facroty of Softimage I just
>> installed it as it was, I didn't make any changes to the path or anything
>> else, so I can't helop you a lot on that
>>
>> Anyway its a great software, so I really hope you'll find a solution to
>> those problems, because its really worthed the price
>>
>>
>> 2014/1/17 Nuno Conceicao 
>>
>>> Hi Nicolas
>>> Notice the screen grab link i sent of the expression module? Its not
>>> just missing the face pictures, its missing the entire list also!
>>> The missing pictures by itself wouldn't keep me from doing the
>>> expressions, but having no list to link expressions basically keeps me from
>>> doing any retargeting.
>>> Like you said after doing the character setup (creating the list of
>>> controlers from my rig) I should have been able to set up the expressions,
>>> but thats the problem, I cant.
>>>
>>> Apparently you managed to install the retargeter plugin in the factory
>>> default directory of Softimage, if I do the same here, basically retargeter
>>> hangs indefinitely!
>>>
>>> The parametrize is a feature of the Analizer and basically everything
>>> works well with that and i can generate a .fwr file with no problems, what
>>> i mention about the .xml its not really empty it has all the moveeable
>>> attributes, but the Poses tags are all empty (I compared with a demo .xml)
>>>
>>> Regarding uninstalling and reinstalling, ohh man, I'm not exagerating if
>>> I say I did that around 40 or 50 times, in different test machines and
>>> different Softimage versions with different plugin locations, besides the
>>> factory default ones.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 7:00 PM, Nicolas Esposito <3dv...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
 Hi Nuno,

 The path for both Analyzer and Retargeter on my pc is C:\Program
 Files\Faceware

 As mentioned previously I had the hang problem when the license was
 expired, but I remember that the first time I installed Retargeter I had a
 couple of crashesm after 1-2 times I uninstalled and reinstalled it it
 worked properly

 Yes, the missing picture on the Expression set is known, but this is
 the first release of the plugin for Softimage and so far this and the image
 sequence not showing correctly are the only bugs I found...
 If you want the pictures of all the expressions on my pc the path
 is C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Softimage 2013\plugins\FTI\ExpressionFrames
 Regarding again Retargeter and the image you posted, as soon as you'll
 create a character setup ( see videotutorials on youtube ) you can start
 setting up the expressions of your character

 Regarding the empty XML file: did you click on parametrize on the top
 right? sounds like a stupid question but better ask :)

 Setup is:
 i7 920 2.67Ghz ( 4 years old, I know! )
 AMD Radeon HD7950 VaporX ( 3GB )
 6 Gb of Ram
 Windows 7 x64
 Retargeter version is 4.0.9.25061
 Analyzer version is  2.0.3.25036


 Some details:
 In order to process a 4000+ frames video it took 40 minutes ( convert
 to image sequence and rotate ) with Analyzer...its quite a bit, but with
 AfterFX I think is 10 minutes less or so...

 Receiving emails after 12 hours is not great, but at least they usually
 reply within the day, so at least you'll get a reply, even if its late at
 night :)

 Try again with Retargeter to uninstall and reinstall it a couple of
 times, maybe it'll work

Re: LINUX again

[Sylvain Lebeau]

Hi Gareth, yes of course, path are different But my problem was the scene was not loading at all even locally on a XSI interactive windows session and crashed it right away.We were able to make the scene finally load. And then was hoping deadline automatic path translation would cary the rest. But unfortunatly, its was doing well to access the .scn file and load it.. but everything inside xsi pointing to something external stuffs was not translated. (textures, Alembic, xref models, ...)   I will look at the idea of hacking the Deadline submitter to convert the inner paths at the moment of sending to the farm. maybe a good patch before we do the whole farm conversion to linux.  Also will talk to Ryan at thinkbox for other toughts.We also we're able to fix the realtime playback crash bug by adding an X11 fix... I also think this fixed the numeric parameters that we're disapearing when sliding the slider in a PPGlook's it shows up properly now.Deleted the /usr/Softimage/Softimage_2014_SP2/Application/mainwin/mw/lib-amd64_linux/X11 directory to make sure that we don't use the X11 libraries provided with SoftImage.  It was an old fix from our early tests that we didnt applied yet since we we're able to start Xsi Just did apply this fix again and it did help alot it seem'sAlso, my preferences are now kept and drag and drop works inside of xsi. We simply deleted the prefs and redone it again from scratch. Now everything in my favorite shader container is drag and dropping properly in the render tree... I dont know if i will ever be able to drag and drop from XnView to Xsi since they both use seperate window managers  that's sad, but not a show stopper So far so good, sun is finally rising !  All credits goes to JF my Linux IT Alien. we are almost there!  sly
Sylvain Lebeau // SHEDV-P/Visual effects supervisor1410, RUE STANLEY, 11E ÉTAGE MONTRÉAL (QUÉBEC) H3A 1P8T 514 849-1555 F 514 849-5025 WWW.SHEDMTL.COM VFX Curriculum 03: Compositing Basicsmail to: s...@shedmtl.com

On Jan 16, 2014, at 5:25 AM, gareth bell  wrote:3. will be fixed with a path swapper script - as the paths on windows will be different to the ones on linux  - I've had to do this beforeFrom: s...@shedmtl.comSubject: LINUX againDate: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 21:31:20 -0500To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.comCC: j...@suid.comHi everyone!!! We finally have a running XSI 2014 sp2 on Linux CentOS 6.3 and Arnold (sitoa 3.0.1)  it's all fresh and "overall" run's pretty well...   Just want to ask you guys if you got these bugs on your side too?  And if you got any advices to counter them. 1- If we select RealTime playback mode and press play, XSI vanish away.  Even in an empty scene. 100% reproducable.2- Preferences does not seems to be kept.  (We will look into this tomorrow with linux IT)3- Scenes created on linux wont open on a windows box. (Error says everything is disconnected from the scene) This fucks up my plan for small projects i wanted to render with deadline and automatic path translation on my windows farm.  We will convert the farm soon enough tough. Wich will probably fix this... 4- When you use a slider in a PPG, the parametric number disapears. Graphics drivers maybe? We use the ones from Nvidia and not the RPM fusion ones.5- Drag and drop doesnt work from XnView to render tree But also inside the rendertree when you want to drag a shader from the left list onto the tree... I need to go in menu/nodes then select one ak ... Not able to use my favorites column anymore. @Marc Antoinethank you for the recompile, everything works perfectly bro!!  And cant wait for Holger's and Platige's shader pack!!  I miss them alot.thank you all for any help and toughts!  Greatly appreciated. slySylvain Lebeau // SHEDV-P/Visual effects supervisor1410, RUE STANLEY, 11E ÉTAGE MONTRÉAL (QUÉBEC) H3A 1P8T 514 849-1555 F 514 849-5025 WWW.SHEDMTL.COM VFX Curriculum 03: Compositing Basicsmail to: s...@shedmtl.com

Remember location in Anim Editor per curve.

[Simon Pickard]

Hello all,

Hopefully I'm mssing something silly (quite possible) but Is there a way to
tell Softimage Xsi to remember where is was framed in the anim editor as
you work per curve?

It's a good workout having to pan and zoom each time I go from a PosY to a
RotX, and I'll miss it for sure, but if there's some setting that'll made
Softimage a little more 'smart' when it comes to working in the anim editor
(so it remembers where it was per curve) before my hand falls off I'd love
to hear about it.

Regards,
Simon

Re: New solidangle.com

[Nour Almasri]

Very nice site , congratulation .


On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 4:24 PM,  wrote:

>   yep – first thing I looked for – can I buy a single license?
> open the gates to inviduals and freelancers!
>
> *(gotta like 3delight’s first license for free, which is now 4 cores
> instead of 2 - had to do some 4k rendering in a rush and this was a
> godsend.)*
>
>
>  *From:* Simon Reeves 
>  *Sent:* Friday, January 17, 2014 11:49 AM
> *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
> *Subject:* Re: New solidangle.com
>
>  5 minimum lifted soon? That sounds good, I want that...
>
>
>
> Simon Reeves
> London, UK
> *si...@simonreeves.com *
> *www.simonreeves.com *
> *www.analogstudio.co.uk *
>
>
> On 17 January 2014 07:41, Andres Stephens  wrote:
>
>>  Wow this is great At good timing.
>>
>>
>>  *From:* Stephen Blair 
>> *Sent:* Thursday, January 16, 2014 14:13
>> *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
>>
>>  Check it http://www.solidangle.com, and maybe even try Arnold in
>> Softimage.
>>
>>
>
>