Re: [Pool] Any interest for a grease pencil tool?

2013-12-02 Thread Enrique Caballero
still interested in this btw :) On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Enrique Caballero enriquecaball...@gmail.com wrote: hows the grease pencil plugin lookin? The animators here are eagerly looking forward to it On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 8:30 PM, Enrique Caballero enriquecaball...@gmail.com

Re: OT: shooting panoramas

2013-12-02 Thread Rob Wuijster
I would like to add a Passport Colorchecker or Datacolor SPyderCube to that list. ;-) But it's more or less the same setup as I have. If you just need backplates, just shoot as much images as possible on set with lots of overlap. ICE, Hugin or Kolor Autopano will get you a great stitched

Re: [Pool] Any interest for a grease pencil tool?

2013-12-02 Thread Sebastien Sterling
+1 On 2 December 2013 09:13, Enrique Caballero enriquecaball...@gmail.comwrote: still interested in this btw :) On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Enrique Caballero enriquecaball...@gmail.com wrote: hows the grease pencil plugin lookin? The animators here are eagerly looking forward to

Sending Softimage jobs to Deadline for rendering

2013-12-02 Thread David Rivera
Hi, I recently wrote to the guys at Thinkbox software: Deadline, to get a free evaluation from them. I got the software download link, and installed the Repository on my server machine (which is another normal machine on the network), and the executable apps (monitor, launcher, slave, etc..) on

Re: Sending Softimage jobs to Deadline for rendering

2013-12-02 Thread Mirko Jankovic
What I found helpful is to have for example setup like this: 1st computer: hard drive with letter W: and projects on it 2nd computer: mapped hardrive also to use letter W: but pointing to network location ie shared drive from 1st computer. In that case you don;t need to think about all those

Re: Sending Softimage jobs to Deadline for rendering

2013-12-02 Thread Mirko Jankovic
btw you dont need to share drive and change letter you can have Folder with projects in it and share that proejct and then mapp that folder as drive with letter ie d:\Projects on 1st computer share it on network map network drive and then map it using same letter on all computers then working

Re: Sending Softimage jobs to Deadline for rendering

2013-12-02 Thread David Rivera
Thanks Mirko, that´s a great hack. I´ll try it once I get to the office. I really hope it works. I´ve been pulling my hair out over this the whole week. Even wrote to the Deadline software guys... Bests. David. On Monday, December 2, 2013 4:30 AM, Mirko Jankovic mirkoj.anima...@gmail.com

Re: Open GL High Quality ?

2013-12-02 Thread olivier jeannel
Joke aside, I'm consulted for WebGL aplication. I just wanted to rough-up a scene (which has to include fog and normal maps) in XSI to kind of make a fast preview and set some lighting /ambient. It's completly useless here... Le 02/12/2013 06:55, Raffaele Fragapane a écrit : You can if you

Re: [Pool] Any interest for a grease pencil tool?

2013-12-02 Thread javier gonzalez
Any news? 2013/12/2 Sebastien Sterling sebastien.sterl...@gmail.com +1 On 2 December 2013 09:13, Enrique Caballero enriquecaball...@gmail.comwrote: still interested in this btw :) On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Enrique Caballero enriquecaball...@gmail.com wrote: hows the grease

OT: Motion Capture pricing?

2013-12-02 Thread Morten Bartholdy
I apologize for the OT but I know some of you have used MoCap services and need some pricing info for a quote. Does anyone know - what can I expect to pay for a days worth of ful body mocap in Europe? Thanks! Morten

Re: Sending Softimage jobs to Deadline for rendering

2013-12-02 Thread Simon Reeves
If you used the default *scene output* (mine is set to which might be default I can't remember) which is *[Project Path]/Render_Pictures/[scene]* and that gives me the output of *\\server\share\projects\project\Render_Pictures\Scene* and that suggests to me that my project (or scene) was saved

Gettin transformation at a givel frame

2013-12-02 Thread Szabolcs Matefy
Is it possible to get the transformation on a given frame? Cheers Szabolcs ___ This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the

Another OT post: Monoprice 27 IPS

2013-12-02 Thread Paul Griswold
Does anyone have an opinion on the Monoprice 27 IPS Pro monitors? They are currently on sale for $389.99 at Rakuten.com, which seems like a steal for an IPS display of that size. It's running 2560x1440. Here's the link if anyone is interested (I have no affiliation at all with this):

Re: Another OT post: Monoprice 27 IPS

2013-12-02 Thread Ognjen Vukovic
Whats the color gamut on that one... ? It all seems a bit low budget to return good results. Plus if it has a glossy screen i would drop it faster then a hot brick. On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Paul Griswold pgrisw...@fusiondigitalproductions.com wrote: Does anyone have an opinion on the

Re: Another OT post: Monoprice 27 IPS

2013-12-02 Thread Paul Griswold
Ah, I didn't even think about the glass causing issues. I just read that Dell is releasing a 4K 24 IPS monitor soon too. That looks interesting for sure. The Monoprice might be good for my kids/wife/parents, though. -Paul ᐧ On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Leonard Koch

Re: Another OT post: Monoprice 27 IPS

2013-12-02 Thread Ognjen Vukovic
That leaked dell looks amazing but i think the price could hit well above 3k in dollars. Im looking into getting an LG 24EB23PY-B for home, im curious if anyone here has had any experience with this monitor...? On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Paul Griswold

Re: Gettin transformation at a givel frame

2013-12-02 Thread Guillaume Laforge
It depends. From native tools, I don't think so. From the SDK, definitely (assuming you don't want to access a given simulated frame). The closest native tool I can think about that gives you access to any frame is the ICE node Get Action Source at Frame. If you can store your transformations as

Re: Lagoa realistic water

2013-12-02 Thread Morten Bartholdy
Hi David You will want to go with the Splashy Water preset , and like Olivier says, it is quite slow, which is also clear from the stats in those videos. I made a test a while ago to see what could be achieved and stuck with a fairly small volume of water as I didn't quite have the patience.

'The Little Ghost' - Visual Effects Breakdown

2013-12-02 Thread Vladimir Jankijevic
Hello List, over the course of one year, a small team here at Elefant Studios created a CG head replacement for a talking owl, set extensions for a steeple, talking ‘haunted’ paintings, background matte-paintings as well as general shot compositing in 111 shots for the movie ‘The Little Ghost’ (

Re: How to Refresh a combo list in a Custom Primitive PPG

2013-12-02 Thread Guillaume Laforge
I meant : I still don't know how to call a refresh on the PPG of a custom PRIMITIVE :) On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Guillaume Laforge guillaume.laforge...@gmail.com wrote: So I just took a look and realized I did already check this event ID. In the case of the 2014 new SDK feature Custom

Re: 'The Little Ghost' - Visual Effects Breakdown

2013-12-02 Thread Vladimir Jankijevic
well, the reason is the size of the studio and to a certain degree my personal preference :) On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 4:11 PM, pete...@skynet.be wrote: That’s looking very good. Nice to see a film workflow going from Maya to Softimage, rather than the other way around. Any reason in

Re: Lagoa realistic water

2013-12-02 Thread Gustavo Eggert Boehs
Lagoa's presets are set up with a SI unit of 1 meter in mind, therefore you will get slo-mo behaviour (maybe they have one-click workflow to max and maya in mind). If you use SI units as decimeters (like many people do) you will want to multiply your gravity force by 10 to correct that. You will

Re: Another OT post: Monoprice 27 IPS

2013-12-02 Thread Paul Griswold
Ha - $3k is right! They just announced the 32 version is shipping: http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=usl=encs=19sku=210-ACBL ᐧ On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Ognjen Vukovic ognj...@gmail.com wrote: That leaked dell looks amazing but i think the price could hit well

Re: Sending Softimage jobs to Deadline for rendering

2013-12-02 Thread David Rivera
Simon, thanks. I think that //[path] in the original Softimage file is my problem. I will try that option as well. Mirko, I just realized my original machine where the Softimage project was created, has an extra drive letter, the other slave machine doesn´t have. So I can´t map it the way you

Re: OT: shooting panoramas

2013-12-02 Thread Alan Fregtman
For the unaware, that's not ICE from Softimage but *Microsoft ICE (Image Composite Editor)*: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/ivm/ICE/ On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 3:27 AM, Rob Wuijster r...@casema.nl wrote: I would like to add a Passport Colorchecker or Datacolor SPyderCube

GATOR transfer to cluster

2013-12-02 Thread Sergio Mucino
Does anyone know if it's possible to transfer attributes only to selected verts (or a verts cluster) using GATOR? I have a mesh that was already weighted (envelope deformer), and now I need a certain area of it to follow a different mesh, but I can't seem to transfer

Re: GATOR transfer to cluster

2013-12-02 Thread Sergio Mucino
Okay. Looks like this won't work anyway because the mesh I'm trying to copy weights to already has an envelope on it, and GATOR did not like that. Gonna have to do this the ol' fashioned way... On 02/12/2013 1:50 PM, Sergio Mucino wrote:

Re: Sending Softimage jobs to Deadline for rendering

2013-12-02 Thread Mirko Jankovic
You can map any drive letter you wan't, my main comp has like 3 additional drives, while other computers have only 1 ssd with system, and they are all working from mapped drive letter which is on my main computer on raid 10 drive. Not sure maybe I misunderstood current problem but hope you find

JP_separate

2013-12-02 Thread Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES]
Hey folks, I wanted to pass on some information about JP_Separate. The other day I discovered that if you try to separate an object while it is under a Model it will not work as expected. If the object you are separating is anywhere under a Model, it will separate one object and then quit,

Re: [Pool] Any interest for a grease pencil tool?

2013-12-02 Thread David Rivera
YES!! Grease pencil, PLEASE Totally useful for the 2D artist to motion the 3D model! On Monday, December 2, 2013 5:05 AM, javier gonzalez javi09warr...@gmail.com wrote: Any news? 2013/12/2 Sebastien Sterling sebastien.sterl...@gmail.com +1 On 2 December 2013 09:13, Enrique

Re: GATOR transfer to cluster

2013-12-02 Thread Alan Fregtman
You can do some gator surgery: 1. Have an enveloped mesh with just the polygons you need for one area. 2. Have another enveloped mesh with the rest of the polygons. 3. In a third mesh with the topology of both (same points, no seams) but no envelope, do Gator on it and pick the first two meshes

Re: GATOR transfer to cluster

2013-12-02 Thread Steven Caron
blur's tools has a tool called the 'skin panel'... it has this feature and many more. On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Sergio Mucino sergio.muc...@modusfx.comwrote: Does anyone know if it's possible to transfer attributes only to selected verts (or a verts cluster) using GATOR? I have a mesh

Re: GATOR transfer to cluster

2013-12-02 Thread Sergio Mucino
Hmmm, I'll Google those. Thanks Steven! On 02/12/2013 3:24 PM, Steven Caron wrote: blur's tools has a tool called the 'skin panel'... it has this feature and many more. On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Sergio

Re: GATOR transfer to cluster

2013-12-02 Thread Sergio Mucino
Ah, should've thought of that. Thanks a lot Alan! On 02/12/2013 3:18 PM, Alan Fregtman wrote: You can do some gator surgery: 1. Have an enveloped mesh with just the polygons you need for one area. 2. Have another

Best way to animate shaders for use in a refmodel?

2013-12-02 Thread Alan Fregtman
Hey guys, I'm aiming to animate the coloring of some meshes and the animators may load one or more of this model as a reference. I don't wanna do expressions on materials as that breaks easily, so I've gone with ICE controlling vertexcolors and reading that in the shader. It works but it's

Re: GATOR transfer to cluster

2013-12-02 Thread Steven Caron
https://code.google.com/p/blur-dev/ or for a backup rray.de/xsi On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Sergio Mucino sergio.muc...@modusfx.comwrote: Hmmm, I'll Google those. Thanks Steven!

Re: GATOR transfer to cluster

2013-12-02 Thread Sergio Mucino
Thanks Steven! I did find them... gonna give these a look. Thanks! On 02/12/2013 4:24 PM, Steven Caron wrote: https://code.google.com/p/blur-dev/ or for a backup rray.de/xsi

Re: Best way to animate shaders for use in a refmodel?

2013-12-02 Thread Matt Morris
Use a weightmap in a mix2colors weight, drive it with an ice scalar? Still fairly cumbersome... On 2 December 2013 21:20, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.com wrote: Hey guys, I'm aiming to animate the coloring of some meshes and the animators may load one or more of this model as a

RE: Best way to animate shaders for use in a refmodel?

2013-12-02 Thread Matt Lind
Why do you need to color the meshes? Eg; what role/purpose does the coloring serve? That'll narrow down the response for implementation. If you're using ref models, consider passes and partitions with parameter overrides on the shaders. That'll allow you to isolate copies of the ref models

Re: Best way to animate shaders for use in a refmodel?

2013-12-02 Thread Alan Fregtman
It's for some vehicles. The animators wanna do test renders and they want the lights to respond to their animated sliders. The lights in this case not being actual lights but meshes of lights. We want to color them so you can see them flashing or whatever. There are many many shots. It can't be

Re: Best way to animate shaders for use in a refmodel?

2013-12-02 Thread Matt Morris
Sorry, got the wrong end of the stick. My hacky way would be to create a slightly larger secondary mesh and unhide/hide visibility, if you're just talking for use in captures. On 2 December 2013 22:07, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.com wrote: It's for some vehicles. The animators wanna do

Re: Best way to animate shaders for use in a refmodel?

2013-12-02 Thread Xavier
Hmm, use expressions but add a on ref model load event to reconnect them? It shouldn't be too expensive to setup/execute.

Re: Best way to animate shaders for use in a refmodel?

2013-12-02 Thread Alok Gandhi
I like Matt M's idea of ice scalar. It should be reliable and honestly not that cumbersome. On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 5:28 PM, Xavier lapointe.xav...@gmail.com wrote: Hmm, use expressions but add a on ref model load event to reconnect them? It shouldn't be too expensive to setup/execute. --

Re: OT: shooting panoramas

2013-12-02 Thread Adam Sale
I second the nodal ninja. Its very portable, more so than the heavier manfrotto pano heads we lug around. A sigma 4.5 mm lens on our 60D kit works very well. Mounted on a standard Manfrotto tripod I use DSLR controller ( 7.99 in the Play store) for the android to maintain pixel accuracy on the

Re: Sending Softimage jobs to Deadline for rendering

2013-12-02 Thread David Rivera
Hi Mirko. I mapped a drive in the slave machine2, so it can be accessible from all locations as W:\XSI_Project\Render_Pictures On the Render manager on xsi, I go to the render channels output and configure it as: W:\XSI_Project\Render_Pictures On the Archive tab, I also configure it like so: