Re: Softimage and Alembic?

hehe sorry but from what is seen for the past months.. years.. I really don't see Softimage on Luc-Eric's radar anymore.. hope I'm wrong.. hey Luc-Eric? :) Nothing with NDA just checking radar ;) On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 4:11 AM, Francois Lord wrote: > On 19/11/2013 2:23 PM, Luc-Eric Rousseau wr

Re: Softimage and Alembic?

On 19/11/2013 2:23 PM, Luc-Eric Rousseau wrote: That's my job even more than ever! I've recently become the head of the maya user interface team. We all know where this is going. One day, the developpers working on Maya will checkout the daily build and realize there is a new module added over

Re: Softimage and Alembic?

so in exchange, can we get Jos Stam to do cloth in XSI? -Original Message- From: Luc-Eric Rousseau Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 8:23 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Softimage and Alembic? On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Mirko Jankovic wrote: "Well, we're res

Re: Dynamic ICE wireframe

I'd think about making something that could plausibly shrinkwrap onto both objects, if they're topologically similar, and use those shapes to drive the ICE cloud. On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Tony Naqvi wrote: > Hi Alan. > Different meshes, averaging the number of points/vertices. > > Che

Re: Dynamic ICE wireframe

Hi Alan. Different meshes, averaging the number of points/vertices. Cheers Tony On 19 Nov 2013, at 20:27, "Alan Fregtman" mailto:alan.fregt...@gmail.com>> wrote: Are you after a morph between topologically identical meshes? Or completely different meshes? If the latter, how would you expect t

Re: Dynamic ICE wireframe

Are you after a morph between topologically identical meshes? Or completely different meshes? If the latter, how would you expect to handle the changes in amounts of points? On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Tony Naqvi < tony.na...@wearesmartcookie.com> wrote: > Evening all, > I need some help

Re: creating cliffs

How about sketchup? You can add a Geo Location to your scene and then check "show terrain". This way, you can pick a nice area you like, expand the Geo Location as you wish (by "Add more Imagery") then export your selection *.obj. The biggest advantage you get from that is real-world scale and

Re: creating cliffs

Have you tried in cryengine? its quite easy to generate a terrain, and then you can export as obj. Hope it helps. Francisco. On Tuesday, November 19, 2013, Doeke Wartena wrote: > hi, > > i'm working on a hl2 map where i need to make some cliffs. I really > dislike how this works in hl2. So i t

Re: Softimage and Alembic?

Maya user interface? mmm make it look like SI and you will have biggest fan in the world :) Next step.. workflow like SI.. so SI-isation of Maya.. that would be awesome :) On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 8:25 PM, Matt Lind wrote: > How big is the maya team anyway? > > > > -Original Message- > F

Re: creating cliffs

How is the Vue interface these days? Years ago, NewTek gave away copies of Vue when you bought LW, but Vue's interface was like the Kai's Power Tools of 3D, so I quickly gave up on it. -Paul On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Emilio Hernandez wrote: > I second the Vue option. It integrates wi

RE: Softimage and Alembic?

How big is the maya team anyway? -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Luc-Eric Rousseau Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 11:24 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Softimage and Alem

Re: Softimage and Alembic?

On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Mirko Jankovic wrote: > "Well, we're responsible for the windows port of Alembic and other > integration work. And we develop feature with it like the GPU cache, > alembic caching in xgen, support in scene assembly and other things."... for > Maya.. forgot to add

Re: creating cliffs

I second the Vue option. It integrates with Softimage and you can build cliffs in no time. 2013/11/19 Williams, Wayne > I would look into worldbuilder or vue. They both have powerful tools for > terrain heightmap generation. There used to be a plugin called GEM64 that > you could feed DEM’s

RE: creating cliffs

I would look into worldbuilder or vue. They both have powerful tools for terrain heightmap generation. There used to be a plugin called GEM64 that you could feed DEM's if I remember correctly which might get you going in Softimage. Not sure if that plugin still works though. From: softimage-bou

RE: creating cliffs

Terrain is often a height field with props plopped on top where you have to account for overhands or other non-strictly vertical elements. The trick is the blending between the prop and the terrain to make them look like one object. Our game achieves that with simple vertex color blending and

creating cliffs

hi, i'm working on a hl2 map where i need to make some cliffs. I really dislike how this works in hl2. So i thought maybe make it in xsi and program a converter that tries to get a close result to the xsi version. Anyway, how would you make a cliff in xsi? One way could be a grid with a displaceme

Re: Softimage and Alembic?

Maya's a sweet cloth plugin. :) On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Sven Constable wrote: > Bullshit! Maya IS a very good addon to Softimage yet. Not to mention > 3Dsmax... a great modeller and a superior plugin to Softimage! > > > > cheers ;) > > > > *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.co

RE: Softimage and Alembic?

Bullshit! Maya IS a very good addon to Softimage yet. Not to mention 3Dsmax... a great modeller and a superior plugin to Softimage! cheers ;) From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Mirko Jankovic Sent: Tuesday, November 19

Re: Softimage and Alembic?

"Well, we're responsible for the windows port of Alembic and other integration work. And we develop feature with it like the GPU cache, alembic caching in xgen, support in scene assembly and other things."... for Maya.. forgot to add that ;) Sry couldn't resist. Keep making Maya better addon for

Re: Softimage and Alembic?

Well, we're responsible for the windows port of Alembic and other integration work. And we develop feature with it like the GPU cache, alembic caching in xgen, support in scene assembly and other things. On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 9:43 AM, Sergio Mucino wrote: > From what I heard, the reason behi

Re: Python cross platform problem

OK! Thanks Alan and Oscar for the insight. Cheers, Jean-Louis On 18 Nov 2013, at 18:52, Alan Fregtman wrote: > The animation caching pipeline I wrote at work looks at the construction > history stack and if it's operator-free it plots that item's global > kinematics, else pointcaches. This

Dynamic ICE wireframe

Evening all, I need some help with an effect i'm trying to achieve. I'm trying to create a wireframe of an object with ICE strands, that I can then 'morph' into another shape. I've got the wireframe bit done (although it's a bit too dense and some tips on lightening it up would be greatly appreci

Re: Catching Softimage Exceptions

Thanks Chris, We'll look into it On 18 November 2013 14:40, Chris Gardner wrote: > Hey Jeremie, > > There was a thread about this a while ago > (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/xsi_list/lpAw3Gid2gY), but it > didn't come to any solid conclusions, other than wrapping your > functions in

Re: Softimage and Alembic?

Autodesk hasnt developed anything in a pretty long time On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Sergio Mucino wrote: > From what I heard, the reason behind this is that the Maya Alembic > plugins and integration were actually not developed by Autodesk, but by > SPI. They sort of handed it over to

Re: Softimage and Alembic?

From what I heard, the reason behind this is that the Maya Alembic plugins and integration were actually not developed by Autodesk, but by SPI. They sort of handed it over to Autodesk (I don't really know the nature of the partnership between SPI and Adesk). So, technical

RE: xray polygons?

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Re: Softimage and Alembic?

Modo has it... sort of. It doesn't support changing topology and imports the Alembic as blendshapes. This means the Alembic file isn't referenced but imported once. But now that Modo is in the good hands of TheFoundry, I guess / hope this will change soon. 2013/11/19 Ognjen Vukovic > Im not su

Re: Softimage and Alembic?

Im not sure if modo has it as well and clarisse... On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Morten Bartholdy wrote: > Interesting Mario :) > > > > MB > > > > > > > Den 19. november 2013 kl. 13:36 skrev i...@marioreitbauer.at: > > > I heard it from a bird. > > You might be lucky with the next release

Re: Softimage and Alembic?

Interesting Mario :) MB Den 19. november 2013 kl. 13:36 skrev i...@marioreitbauer.at: > I heard it from a bird. > You might be lucky with the next release. > > On Tue, 19 Nov 2013 13:30:42 +0100 (CET), Morten Bartholdy > wrote: > > I just checked 2014 features (on 2013 here) and no menti

Re: Softimage and Alembic?

+1 Good question - not only is it Maya, but Houdini, Nuke, C4D they all have it native too (though I know it's not Autodesk so besides the point slightly) Simon Reeves London, UK *si...@simonreeves.com * *www.simonreeves.com * *www.analogstudio.co.uk

Softimage and Alembic?

I just checked 2014 features (on 2013 here) and no mention of Alembic, so I guess it is still not available out of the box. Does anyone know if AD are perhaps planning to include Softimage in the Alembic club anytime soon? I know I can go get Exocortex Crate to get Alembic support for Softimage.