RE: scale UVs to fit image

I made long time ago few tools to help this. I have a collection of script I made or I implemented made by others (sorry for not mentioning them, I left the original authors name in the scripts header aprt). So if you install this addon, your texture editor's Tools menu will have few addiotion,

RE: Hair from Fibermesh?

Yep, I checked, and I have to reread the thread, maybe. Thanks for the links, anyway! Cheers Szabolcs From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Alan Fregtman Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2013 5:30 PM To: XSI Mailing List Subjec

physical sky with photo exposure mia not allowing other lights?

Anybody have any idea why, when i initialize the sky shader (2014), which includes the mia photographic exposure lens shader on the pass, that no other lights I add will show up in the scene? They show up just fine in the OGL views, but do not illuminate at all any object in the scene render. th

Re: physical sky with photo exposure mia not allowing other lights?

How strong are your other lights? You'll need to increase their strength massively to counteract the photographic exposure lens shader. On 4 September 2013 10:12, illus...@mip.net wrote: > Anybody have any idea why, when i initialize the sky shader (2014), which > includes > the mia photograp

RE: scale UVs to fit image

very useful, thanks! _ From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Szabolcs Matefy Sent: 04 September 2013 08:15 To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: RE: scale UVs to fit image I made long time ago few to

Softimage Scene crashing when Opening.

SI,2013 That's killing me... It's been 2 or 3 days I'm working on a scene that has some Momentum RBD in it (I think it's Mom3) I've noticed the scene tend to crash on opening from time to time. I've even found that it opens "better" If I first do a "Merge Scene" and then just after do a "Load

Re: Softimage Scene crashing when Opening.

You can try renaming your softimage user folder and opening the scene to see if any preference is breaking havoc. Also you can try muting viewports or opening the scene with a explorer in a viewport maximized disconnect from workgroup containing momentum? I would start with this things. Hope it he

Re: Softimage Scene crashing when Opening.

that's ... Incredibel ! The Muted Maximized frame does the trick ! Oscar you saved my day ! I owe you beer or a croissant if you come to Paris ! Le 04/09/2013 12:04, Oscar Juarez a écrit : You can try renaming your softimage user folder and opening the scene to see if any preference is breaki

Re: Help me to understand workgroup

I was mostly referring to softimages plugin system actually, trying to upgrade plugins inside of a workgroup in the middle of a large project with lots of users can be a pain, older scenes that had previously worked fine might break after updating, not to mention downgrading plugins again if you fi

Re: Help me to understand workgroup

Talking about that Andreas, What is the best approach to switch per project workgroups, overwriting user preferences and having custom launchers for softimage? Thanks in advance. Oscar On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Andreas Bystrom wrote: > I was mostly referring to softimages plugin system

RE: scale UVs to fit image

Szabolcs, you just made my day! I keep having to do this manually and it should(!) just be a push on a button. Thanks!! Morten Den 4. september 2013 kl. 09:15 skrev Szabolcs Matefy : > > I made long time ago few tools to help this. I have a collection of script > I made or I implemented made

RE: scale UVs to fit image

Thanks man. I’m glad it helped! I did even a Move and Sew tool, unfortunately is not is neat as in Maya, because I have no access to UV Islands, and it makes it helluva slow… From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Morten Barth

Re: softimage.tv - Hello World!

Great idea! Tks! — Sent from Mailbox for iPhone On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Cristobal Infante wrote: > Hi All, > Would like to announce the launch of softimage.tv created to showcase the > best softimage work out there. It's meant to be mainly a video depository > but hoping it will al

softimage.tv - Hello World!

Hi All, Would like to announce the launch of softimage.tv created to showcase the best softimage work out there. It's meant to be mainly a video depository but hoping it will also function as a hub for the community. The idea sparked from Andy Moorer's Nike Evolution write up on that Nike job, I

Re: softimage.tv - Hello World!

Cool! Congratulations! 2013/9/4 Mario Domingos > Great idea! Tks! > — > Sent from Mailbox for iPhone > > > On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Cristobal Infante wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> Would like to announce the launch of softimage.tv created to showcase >> the

Re: softimage.tv - Hello World!

Awsome. Thanks Cris. On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Mario Domingos wrote: > Great idea! Tks! > — > Sent from Mailbox for iPhone > > > On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Cristobal Infante wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> Would like to announce the launch of softimage.tv

RE: softimage.tv - Hello World!

oooh look at you outdoing autodesk's 'well oiled' (hehe right) pr machine!! there's been some really great, very high profile Soft work done lately, this is a great idea to keep that momentum going, and prove that Soft is up there with the 'big boys' well done a _ From: sof

RE: softimage.tv - Hello World!

I'm in! :) — Sent from Mailbox for iPhone On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 1:34 PM, adrian wyer wrote: > oooh look at you outdoing autodesk's 'well oiled' (hehe right) pr machine!! > > there's been some really great, very high profile Soft work done lately, > this is a great idea to keep that momen

Re: softimage.tv - Hello World!

Very nice website, congrats! On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 8:40 AM, Mario Domingos wrote: > I'm in! :) > — > Sent from Mailbox for iPhone > > > On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 1:34 PM, adrian wyer < > adrian.w...@fluid-pictures.com> wrote: > >> oooh look at you outdoing autode

Re: softimage.tv - Hello World!

Count me in, hello Mario ! On 4 September 2013 14:40, Mario Domingos wrote: > I'm in! :) > — > Sent from Mailbox for iPhone > > > On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 1:34 PM, adrian wyer < > adrian.w...@fluid-pictures.com> wrote: > >> oooh look at you outdoing autodesk's '

Re: softimage.tv - Hello World!

Hey Sebastien!  — Sent from Mailbox for iPhone On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Sebastien Sterling wrote: > Count me in, hello Mario ! > On 4 September 2013 14:40, Mario Domingos wrote: >> I'm in! :) >> — >> Sent from Mailbox for iPhone >> >> >> On Wed, Sep

Re: softimage.tv - Hello World!

Awesome!!! Very cool !! Miquel Campos www.miquelTD.com 2013/9/4 Sebastien Sterling > Count me in, hello Mario ! > > > On 4 September 2013 14:40, Mario Domingos wrote: > >> I'm in! :) >> — >> Sent from Mailbox

Re: Poly islands in ICE

I tried to change your compound o use the weightmap but I cant make it work... :( I'm sure I'm missing some simple basic stuff.  — Sent from Mailbox for iPhone On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Mario Domingos wrote: > Yep, I understand how you did it now. Great stuff. I'm now trying to do th

Re: softimage.tv - Hello World!

Congrats and Well Done for all your efforts guys. looks awesome On 4 September 2013 14:49, Sebastien Sterling wrote: > Count me in, hello Mario ! > > > On 4 September 2013 14:40, Mario Domingos wrote: > >> I'm in! :) >> — >> Sent from Mailbox for iPhone >> >> >>

Re: softimage.tv - Hello World!

Hi Miquel, Looking foward to see all TDsurvival set in there! Thanks everyone ;) On 4 September 2013 13:59, royston michaels wrote: > Congrats and Well Done for all your efforts guys. > looks awesome > > > On 4 September 2013 14:49, Sebastien Sterling < > sebastien.sterl...@gmail.com> wrote:

Lagoa cloth turbulent wind?

I am doing ribbons hanging from lanterns flying in the air using Lagoa cloth since it is much faster than Syflex. It is working pretty much like I want it, but I find it hard to create nice soft swirling turbulence in the cloth. I have tried wind and turbulizing direction and intensity, but it is

Re: softimage.tv - Hello World!

Sure thing! :D Should we register in the web to post stuff? how it works? Miquel Campos www.miquelTD.com 2013/9/4 Cristobal Infante > Hi Miquel, > > Looking foward to see all TDsurvival set in there! > > Thanks everyone ;) > > > On 4 S

Re: softimage.tv - Hello World!

Yes, just register an account and make sure to be logged in when submitting. Thanks Mario for being our first submission! On 4 September 2013 14:15, Miquel Campos wrote: > Sure thing! :D Should we register in the web to post stuff? how it works? > > > > > -

Re: softimage.tv - Hello World!

Awsome .

Re: softimage.tv - Hello World!

Thanks for making the effort! This would definitely keep every studio updated with what Softimage could do. Chris On 4 Sep, 2013, at 8:18 PM, "Cristobal Infante" mailto:cgc...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hi All, Would like to announce the launch of softimage.tv created to showcase

different types of nurb surfaces

Hey! the last days I was working in maya and now I try to port things to softimage. one thing I noticed was, that si doesn't has different types of nurbs degrees when creating. Is it possible to to create different types of surfaces (linear (surface degree1) or cubic (suface degree 3)) via script?

Re: softimage.tv - Hello World!

Nice looking website, really clean. Also loving the fact my student film was showcased! Was a bit of a shock to see it on there, but I'm not complaining ;p Regards, Tim On 04/09/2013 14:18, Cristobal Infante wrote: Hi All, Would like to announce the launch of softimage.tv

Re: softimage.tv - Hello World!

Love it. Well done. On 4 September 2013 15:17, Tim Bolland wrote: > Nice looking website, really clean. Also loving the fact my student film > was showcased! Was a bit of a shock to see it on there, but I'm not > complaining ;p > > Regards, > > Tim > > > On 04/09/2013 14:18, Cristobal Infante

Re: softimage.tv - Hello World!

Nice work guys, I look forward to seeing how it goes! Simon Reeves London, UK *si...@simonreeves.com* *www.simonreeves.com* * * On 4 September 2013 16:03, Mario Domingos wrote: > "Thanks Mario for being our first submission!" > > Yey! Whats the prize? > — > Sent from Mailbox

Re: softimage.tv - Hello World!

Great initiative!! 2013/9/4 Miquel Campos > Awesome!!! Very cool !! > > > > > > Miquel Campos > www.miquelTD.com > > > > 2013/9/4 Sebastien Sterling > >> Count me in, hello Mario ! >> >> >> On 4 September 2013 14:40, Mario Domingos wrote: >>

Re: softimage.tv - Hello World!

Very cool :) On 4 September 2013 14:37, michael johansson wrote: > Great initiative!! > > > 2013/9/4 Miquel Campos > >> Awesome!!! Very cool !! >> >> >> >> >> >> Miquel Campos >> www.miquelTD.com >> >> >> >> 2013/9/4 Sebastien Sterling >> >

Re: softimage.tv - Hello World!

Thanks Simon, feel free to post all your goodies. Just make sure you are logged in when you do! On 4 September 2013 16:20, Simon Reeves wrote: > Nice work guys, I look forward to seeing how it goes! > > > > Simon Reeves > London, UK > *si...@simonreeves.com* > *www.simonreeves.com* > * > * > >

Re: softimage.tv - Hello World!

Sweet! I've been wanting something like this to exist for some time now. :) On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Matthew Graves wrote: > Very cool :) > > > On 4 September 2013 14:37, michael johansson wrote: > >> Great initiative!! >> >> >> 2013/9/4 Miquel Campos >> >>> Awesome!!! Very cool !! >>

Re: Softimage Scene crashing when Opening.

It's not working anymore... If I maximize and mute frame, it loads and freeze a few seconds once the scene is opened. Merging seems ok still. Where is the softimage user folder ? The on I should delete ? Thank's ! Le 04/09/2013 12:10, olivier jeannel a écrit : that's ... Incredibel ! The

scale relative to camera

Hello, I have a situation where I would like an object to remain the same size relative to the camera. Think in terms of "pixel width" for example. I managed to accomplish this through ICE by using the distance between the camera and the object to manage the scale for the object. The problem i

RE: softimage.tv - Hello World!

Wow! Thanks for sharing. I have to let the team see this :) -Ivan From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] on behalf of Cristobal Infante [cgc...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2013 8:18 PM To: softimage@

Re: softimage.tv - Hello World!

Hello I just submitted a video from vimeo with the following link: https://vimeo.com/73208380 But it's not showing up. Anything wrong or you review the videos before going on-line? Thanks. Emilio 2013/9/4 David Barosin > Well done! Feels like new life for the community. Thanks for puttin

Re: softimage.tv - Hello World!

Hi Emilio, Nice Emilio some Redshift action ;) I just need to approve them, will be doing them on batches otherwise I will be a slave! Cris On 4 September 2013 17:10, Emilio Hernandez wrote: > Hello I just submitted a video from vimeo with the following link: > > https://vimeo.com/73208380

Re: softimage.tv - Hello World!

Looks promising! Thanks for your efforts. Signed up and posted a video. On 9/4/2013 7:18 AM, Cristobal Infante wrote: Hi All, Would like to announce the launch of softimage.tv created to showcase the best softimage work out there. It's meant to be mainly a video deposito

Re: scale relative to camera

You'll have to adjust for the shift from the camera center. Instead of using the camera-to-object distance as your multiplier, you should use (I haven't tried it, so hopefully the math is right): (cosine alpha) * (distance camera-to-object) alpha is the angle between your "camera-to-object-vector"

Re: softimage.tv - Hello World!

Awesome idea! Looks great. Chris Covelli http://www.polygonpusherinc.com/ http://exocortex.com/products/species TurboSquid Models On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Rares Halmagean wrote: > Looks promising! Thanks

Re: softimage.tv - Hello World!

I absolutely will! I really appreciate that you created a space for it! Chris Covelli http://www.polygonpusherinc.com/ http://exocortex.com/products/species TurboSquid Models On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Crist

Re: softimage.tv - Hello World!

Hi Chris, Thanks, please submit all your species videos, under the ADDON category! On 4 September 2013 17:44, Chris Covelli wrote: > Awesome idea! Looks great. > > Chris Covelli > http://www.polygonpusherinc.com/ > http://exocortex.com/products/species > TurboSquid > Models

Re: Help me to understand workgroup

I'm not Andreas, but from my experience it's best to rewrite user preferences. (We have a module at work to do this.) Not sure if it's still so, but just before the module was made, if I remember correctly we found some of the other methods accumulate workgroups in the list. Rewriting is the best

Re: Lagoa cloth turbulent wind?

Simple effect would be to just turbulize in post sim and move the turbulance center or something. -J On 4 September 2013 16:11, Morten Bartholdy wrote: > ** > > I am doing ribbons hanging from lanterns flying in the air using Lagoa > cloth since it is much faster than Syflex. > > >It is w

RE: different types of nurb surfaces

You can create NURBS Curves and surfaces of degree 1 (Linear) and/or degree 3 (Cubic) interpolation. You can accomplish both from the UI and script. To create a NURBS Curve from UI: Model > [Create] Curve > Draw Cubic by CVs Model > [Create] Curve > Draw Cubic by Bezier-Knot Poin

Re: softimage.tv - Hello World!

"Thanks Mario for being our first submission!" Yey! Whats the prize? — Sent from Mailbox for iPhone On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Cristobal Infante wrote: > Yes, just register an account and make sure to be logged in when > submitting. > Thanks Mario for being our first

Re: softimage.tv - Hello World!

Awesome initiative guys. Instant bookmark. Cheers, Octav On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 5:30 PM, patrick nethercoat wrote: > Love it. Well done. > > > On 4 September 2013 15:17, Tim Bolland wrote: > >> Nice looking website, really clean. Also loving the fact my student >> film was showcased! Was a

Re: softimage.tv - Hello World!

Awesome, thank you so much for this Christobal! Hi All, Would like to announce the launch of softimage.tv created to showcase the best softimage work out there. It's meant to be mainly a video depository but hoping it will also function as a hub for the community. The idea sparked from Andy

Re: Softimage Scene crashing when Opening.

Ok, will try all this later. For the moment working on a merged scene seems fine. I just need to go on on that project... I think I will remove completly the Momentum operator and see if it is really the cause later. The most bizarre is that since I merged the scene, I can reopen it and save

Re: softimage.tv - Hello World!

Nice! Thanks for the efforts. This for sure will be a place to go. Just a thought, how about adding a site where we could find the artists that worked on all these beautiful things? Like a Softimage Freelance Register or something, just because Work is always done by people and it would be nice to

Re: Softimage Scene crashing when Opening.

Rename don't delete C:\Users\xxx\Autodesk\Softimage_2013_SP1\Data\Preferences\ You can try the Scene Debugging options in the "Data Management" preferences to turn off certain features on load. Or offload references (if any) using the scntoc. On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 11:25 AM, olivier jeannel wro

Re: softimage.tv - Hello World!

Really nice indeed ! Good job guys ! On 4 September 2013 08:43, Alok Gandhi wrote: > Very nice! A much needed resource. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 2013-09-04, at 11:31 AM, Vladimir Jankijevic < > vladi...@elefantstudios.ch> wrote: > > Nice! Thanks for the efforts. This for sure will be a p

Re: softimage.tv - Hello World!

Very nice! A much needed resource. Sent from my iPhone On 2013-09-04, at 11:31 AM, Vladimir Jankijevic wrote: > Nice! Thanks for the efforts. This for sure will be a place to go. > Just a thought, how about adding a site where we could find the artists that > worked on all these beautiful t

Re: softimage.tv - Hello World!

Thanks Cris. The site is amazing. Let's show the world!!! 2013/9/4 Chris Covelli > I absolutely will! I really appreciate that you created a space for it! > > Chris Covelli > http://www.polygonpusherinc.com/ > http://exocortex.com/products/species > TurboSquid > Models

Re: Help me to understand workgroup

Yeah that is the case as far as I know, it is saved every time you add a workgroup and the list keeps getting bigger and bigger. Thanks Alan. On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 4:30 PM, Alan Fregtman wrote: > I'm not Andreas, but from my experience it's best to rewrite user > preferences. (We have a module

Re: softimage.tv - Hello World!

Super good initiative ! Le 04/09/2013 19:01, Emilio Hernandez a écrit : Thanks Cris. The site is amazing. Let's show the world!!! 2013/9/4 Chris Covelli > I absolutely will! I really appreciate that you created a space for it! Chris Covelli

Re: softimage.tv - Hello World!

Hi Vladimir, Couldn't agree with you more. This is why I think that registration in the website can be crucial. It will also allow you to change your details whenever you want. It's the next step! On 4 September 2013 16:31, Vladimir Jankijevic wrote: > Nice! Thanks for the efforts. This for su

Re: softimage.tv - Hello World!

Well done! Feels like new life for the community. Thanks for putting this together. On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Jeremie Passerin wrote: > Really nice indeed ! Good job guys ! > > > On 4 September 2013 08:43, Alok Gandhi wrote: > >> Very nice! A much needed resource. >> >> Sent from my i

Re: turbulence on polygonizer issue..

That's because the Turbulize node is being fed with a point position that's moving (animated sphere). You must dive inside the Turbulize node and replace the PointPosition by another attribute that represent the point positions of the sphere at a rest (non-moving) frame. But since there is no way

Re: turbulence on polygonizer issue..

turbulence depends on the pointpositions of the underlying object. That's why it changes. On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Debdas Mohanty wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Hopefully this time someone reply my question.. > > I created a simple animated sphere and added ICE turbulence (Animated Off) >

RE: scale relative to camera

Christian, Indeed, this did the trick nicely! Thanks! -- Joey Ponthieux LaRC Information Technology Enhanced Services (LITES) Mymic Technical Services NASA Langley Research Center __ Opinions stated here-in are strictly those of the author and do n

turbulence on polygonizer issue..

Hello everyone, Hopefully this time someone reply my question.. I created a simple animated sphere and added ICE turbulence (Animated Off) on modeling stag . its working perfectly as expected .. Next I created a polygonizer on top of the same animated turbulized sphere. and added turbulence on

RE: turbulence on polygonizer issue..

The polygonizer is evaluated every frame so his PointPosition change every frame. The turbulence seems to be animated because the PointPosition used in the turbulence node is changing every frame. best regards, RB From: Debdas Mohanty [mailto:devj...@gmail.com] Sent: September-04-13 3:50 PM To:

Re: Poly islands in ICE

This is great Christian, thank you for your patience. I knew that I had to change the context and tried several things but with no luck.  Ok, so you get all the vertices ids on the the polys of the object (arrays of ids per poly) then get the weightmap scalar values (per point)

Re: turbulence on polygonizer issue..

Thanks for the reply... But I dont think that is the issue here...turbulize working fine with any kind of animated object except polygonizer object... On polygonizer object, on every frame poly count changes.. that may be the reason.(just my guess). i tried the way Vincent suggested but not worki

RE: softimage.tv - Hello World!

Wow! Really good idea and good website! I hope all SI users get together on that website, and share what they do. Really good job Cris! Daniel From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Cristobal Infante Sent: Thursday, September

Re: softimage.tv - Hello World!

Web site is down for me Eric Thivierge http://www.ethivierge.com On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Daniel Kim wrote: > Wow! Really good idea and good website! > > I hope all SI users get together on that website, and share what they do.* > ***

Re: softimage.tv - Hello World!

Sorry just doing a few tweaks on those permalinks before the videos are published. Check back tomorrow! On 5 September 2013 00:39, Eric Thivierge wrote: > Web site is down for me > > > Eric Thivierge > http://www.ethivierge.com > > > On Wed, Sep

Re: turbulence on polygonizer issue..

Indeed, maybe the problem has to do with how polygonizer works. But I don't have it here. Maybe send a simple scene to the list so we can have a look at it? On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Debdas Mohanty wrote: > Thanks for the reply... > > But I dont think that is the issue here...turbulize wo

Re: turbulence on polygonizer issue..

If the polygonizer moves points around, yes. If the polygonizer is not simulated then I'm afraid this is a case for the infamous duplicate-freeze-and-reinterpret-location trick. On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Renaud Bousquet < rbousq...@digitaldimension.com> wrote: > ** > > The polygonizer i

RE: softimage.tv - Hello World!

Great idea Cris, Stand by for content! N From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] on behalf of Cristobal Infante [cgc...@gmail.com] Sent: 04 September 2013 22:18 To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: softimag

Re: softimage.tv - Hello World!

Great idea...love it! On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 8:10 PM, Nick Angus wrote: > Great idea Cris, > > Stand by for content! > > N > -- > *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [ > softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] on behalf of Cristobal Infante [ > cgc..

RE: scale UVs to fit image

hey Szabolcs, thanks a lot mate! I ll check out your script tomorrow at work! Also thanks for the speedtree tip ;) IMDB | Portfolio | Vimeo | Linkedin From: szabol...@crytek.com To: x...@colorshopvfx.dk; softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 13:42:02 +0200 Subject: RE: scale UV