RE: OTish - Awesome work on Kon-Tiki by Important Looking Pirates

2012-10-16 Thread Nick Angus
This totally floored me, some amazing work with Naiad, makes me glad I bought it, then angry when I remember that Autodesk bought it more From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Steven Caron Sent: Tuesday, 16 October 2012

Re: Rendermap with Ambient Occlusion

2012-10-16 Thread Chris Marshall
Yeah but the problem isn't generating the ao map, it's that I want it to be generated baked into the surface colour in one hit. I just wonder why these are separate options in the drop down menu in RenderMap and why there isn't an option to render them in one? Not to worry. On 15 October 2012

etRenamer 3.0, now with PyQt version

2012-10-16 Thread Eric Thivierge
Hey everyone. I've just uploaded a new version of my renamer plugin. I've added a Token field which allows you to create a template when renaming objects. This should be helpful in using the tool with custom naming conventions. The tokens that are available are: prefix, name, suffix, padding,

ICE rdb noob question

2012-10-16 Thread Gerbrand Nel
Hey guys I know you can do RDB in ice using particles, but I want to fracture and simulate chunks breaking apart. I know Momentum does this with two buttons, but I don't own that yet, and this is a small job so I cant spend half my budget on software. Can this be done with out of the box

Qt Wrapper command log issue

2012-10-16 Thread Tony Barbieri
Hey Steven, I just joined the list this morning so I could join in the conversation. Do you happen to know if Jo found that in the actual Qt source code or in PySide? I compiled both debug and release but compiled PySide against the release .dlls. Thanks! -tony so, you guys are compiling it

Re: Qt Wrapper command log issue

2012-10-16 Thread jo benayoun
hey Tony, welcome aboard. I did not find any explicit message that would match what you get (I quickly grep the source code, this would deserve much more investigations). As you're the first one to report this kind of problem, and as you have compiled pyside, Ive emitted the idea that it could be

Re: Qt Wrapper command log issue

2012-10-16 Thread Tony Barbieri
Hey Jo, Thanks for the welcome and reply! I totally understand. I'm not sure where the debug info is coming from, but I did manage to *solve* it by changing one line in your demo code. I noticed that in the VK_UP case statement you had put: QApplication::sendEvent(sianchor-children().at(i),

Re: Qt Wrapper command log issue

2012-10-16 Thread Tony Barbieri
Cool, I'll just remove it. On another note, do you guys have a nicer Qt stylesheet that gives the UI a more Softimage look and feel? The default QApplication style is...bright. Thanks again! -tony On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Steven Caron car...@gmail.com wrote: ya, children() method of

Re: Qt Wrapper command log issue

2012-10-16 Thread Steven Caron
no, we haven't made one... if anyone makes one that is more in line with softimage's i will add it. simply including the .css file for users to load into their gui, i wouldn't want to hardcode it because some people might want their application to display consistently across standalone, maya, and

Re: Qt Wrapper command log issue

2012-10-16 Thread Tony Barbieri
Yea I agree. Ok, well if/when we end up making one, we'll pass it along. Thanks! -tony On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Steven Caron car...@gmail.com wrote: no, we haven't made one... if anyone makes one that is more in line with softimage's i will add it. simply including the .css file for

Re: Soooo apparently it's possible to hose...

2012-10-16 Thread Stefan Andersson
btw, I use a lot of workgroups... so I tend to have several launchers for different needs. :) regards stefan On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 9:41 PM, Stefan Andersson sander...@gmail.com wrote: I had some experience with this a while back. Though, the only way I solved it was to only use other

Re: ICE rdb noob question

2012-10-16 Thread Stefan Andersson
The hours you spend on trying to get that to work you could have spent on buying a Momentum or ImplosiaFX license :) Here are two things you can do. 1.) Brute force method But you can break up the mesh with ice and then freeze the geo, and then extract the pieces. Then use those to simulate.

Re: Soooo apparently it's possible to hose...

2012-10-16 Thread Gene Crucean
Yeah that's exactly what I did. But what a super silly issue. Thanks for the input Stefan! On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Stefan Andersson sander...@gmail.comwrote: btw, I use a lot of workgroups... so I tend to have several launchers for different needs. :) regards stefan On Tue,

Re: ICE rdb noob question

2012-10-16 Thread Adam Sale
momentum and implosia... done.. You can break up with ICE http://vimeo.com/28138992 but you will need to extract the islands individually to run with vanilla bullet rbds.. And ICE shatter has issues with complex shapes, lots of concavities. Which is where Implosia shines. The default shattering

Re: Rendermap with Ambient Occlusion

2012-10-16 Thread Adam Sale
Not in front of Softimage right now, but what if you hook up a rendertree with a surface shader as the light color input for an occlusion shader? You should be able to rendermap that and have the both the surface color and occlusion baked into the map, non? On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 1:56 AM,

Re: etRenamer 3.0, now with PyQt version

2012-10-16 Thread Eric Thivierge
Especially when mine is open source :\ Eric Thivierge http://www.ethivierge.com On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Adam Sale adamfs...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the update Eric... I still wonder why there isn't a built in renamer for

RE: etRenamer 3.0, now with PyQt version

2012-10-16 Thread Matt Lind
I wrote a regular expression renamer for XSI 1.0 all those years ago. After offline conversation Olivier Ozoux followed suit and supplied his own renamer as part of Netview in XSI 1.5, but with the deprecation of the old Netview library it disappeared like so many other tools. I've since

Re: etRenamer 3.0, now with PyQt version

2012-10-16 Thread Eric Turman
FYI, the legacy netview can be downloaded from here: http://area.autodesk.com/downloads/plugins?word=netviewwhere=2software=14 I use Olivier's renamer on nearly a daily basis...good stuff. the only thing is that it is a PITA to get to in the netview. On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 6:46 PM, Matt Lind

Re: etRenamer 3.0, now with PyQt version

2012-10-16 Thread Alan Fregtman
I sometimes use the simple renamer in RigTools from the TD Love Tour CD. On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 8:02 PM, Eric Turman i.anima...@gmail.com wrote: FYI, the legacy netview can be downloaded from here: http://area.autodesk.com/downloads/plugins?word=netviewwhere=2software=14 I use Olivier's

Re: etRenamer 3.0, now with PyQt version

2012-10-16 Thread Eric Thivierge
I sometimes use the etRenamer one cause its awesome! :P Eric Thivierge http://www.ethivierge.com On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.comwrote: I sometimes use the simple renamer in RigTools from the TD Love Tour CD.

Re: etRenamer 3.0, now with PyQt version

2012-10-16 Thread Jeremie Passerin
Thanks for sharing Eric ! I love the fact that you have both a Softimage and Qt UI integration :D I would really love to see a native Qt implementation in XSI. I feel bad right now sharing tools that require another plugin installation... and in the meanwhile I am know using pyQt on a daily basis

Re: etRenamer 3.0, now with PyQt version

2012-10-16 Thread Xavier Lapointe
You should use Regex because it's awesome! :P On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Eric Thivierge ethivie...@gmail.comwrote: Especially when mine is open source :\ Eric Thivierge http://www.ethivierge.com On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:30 AM,

Re: etRenamer 3.0, now with PyQt version

2012-10-16 Thread Eric Thivierge
Yeah I feel the same but thought I should offer the PyQt to those who have it or can install it. I did know that if I didn't have the PPG based one I'd hear about it too. :) I have the same one working Maya as well and like I said in the video wih a few sub-classes and few lines of code you can

Re: etRenamer 3.0, now with PyQt version

2012-10-16 Thread Eric Thivierge
Regex is the devil. Eric Thivierge http://www.ethivierge.com On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Xavier Lapointe xl.mailingl...@gmail.comwrote: You should use Regex because it's awesome! :P On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Eric Thivierge

Re: etRenamer 3.0, now with PyQt version

2012-10-16 Thread Steven Caron
just the language of the devil... not the devil itself. i actually feel like god when i get a regex just right. On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Eric Thivierge ethivie...@gmail.comwrote: Regex is the devil.

Re: etRenamer 3.0, now with PyQt version

2012-10-16 Thread Eric Thivierge
Yeah its awesome when it works but its the most screwed up syntax ever. Nothing is intuitive with it. I always have to hack it for a while before getting what I need. Just frustrating while tinkering. Eric Thivierge http://www.ethivierge.com On Wed,

Re: etRenamer 3.0, now with PyQt version

2012-10-16 Thread Eric Turman
This is a really handy tools to nail that regex just right. http://download.cnet.com/The-Regex-Coach/3000-2056_4-10795049.html On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 8:02 PM, Eric Thivierge ethivie...@gmail.comwrote: Yeah its awesome when it works but its the most screwed up syntax ever. Nothing is intuitive

Re: etRenamer 3.0, now with PyQt version

2012-10-16 Thread Mitchell Lotierzo
@Eric That's pretty much how I feel about regex too. Also, your renamer is looking better than ever. Thanks for sharing!

Re: etRenamer 3.0, now with PyQt version

2012-10-16 Thread Eric Turman
nice..I like that one since it has community examples. Thanks for sharing. On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 8:25 PM, Chris Gardner chrisg.dot@gmail.comwrote: I use this one online: http://gskinner.com/RegExr/ get it right in realtime before you stuff it into code. cheers, chrisg On 17

Re: etRenamer 3.0, now with PyQt version

2012-10-16 Thread Mitchell Lotierzo
Awesome. These will definitely come in handy. Thanks.

RE: etRenamer 3.0, now with PyQt version

2012-10-16 Thread Matt Lind
For the most part you can only use a small subset of regular expressions inside of Softimage because it limits object/property names to letters, numbers, and underscores. I'd be curious to know what people are trying to do with Regular expressions inside of Softimage and why they're having

Re: etRenamer 3.0, now with PyQt version

2012-10-16 Thread jo benayoun
regular expressions are clearly a must have ... you clearly see their power when switching to linux. because when you have a dude who called you to his desk to say Hey that cmd gives me an error like what the *bip* has no subscriptions to the *bip* but in the *bip* it turns out it has ... well,

Re: etRenamer 3.0, now with PyQt version

2012-10-16 Thread Xavier Lapointe
Even made my blog Sublime q: http://lamdacore.blogspot.com.au/ On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 1:03 PM, jo benayoun jobenay...@gmail.com wrote: regular expressions are clearly a must have ... you clearly see their power when switching to linux. because when you have a dude who called you to his