Re: Importing of Models Deathly Slow

I found the problem. While going through the process of going through the list you supplied, I found the major source of the problem. For some reason the eyelid geometry was slowing down things when I would switch rig resolutions. I set up a test scene with 2 identical rigs in each resolution s

RE: Importing of Models Deathly Slow

The litmus test would be to compare FCurves being loaded directly on the parameters vs. those applied from a source such as a mixer source. If the raw FCurve parameters take a long time while the mixer source loads instantly, then you have a smoking gun. Otherwise, it's not that. Matt F

Re: Importing of Models Deathly Slow

... this sounds very likely. i will test now. great stuff, thank you On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Matt Lind wrote: > If switching resolutions is the issue, consider if there is FCurve > animation data being loaded onto parameters in the model. > > > > There is a known issue in 2013 with g

RE: Importing of Models Deathly Slow

If switching resolutions is the issue, consider if there is FCurve animation data being loaded onto parameters in the model. There is a known issue in 2013 with generation of FCurve data taking ridiculously long (5000% longer - no exaggeration). I had to write a C++ command to work around the

Re: Importing of Models Deathly Slow

Matt your awesome, Thanks for all of the information, I am checking everything on the list now. I've just discovered that if i load a model in using the import menu, or via scripting it takes 7 seconds, but if i drag and drop it in, it takes 46 seconds for some reason. Not a big deal that one th

Re: Photogrammetry - what do you use?

Hi Octavian, i used a couple of times skanect for people or indoor sets and must say its a time saver. If you can, give it a try! Francisco. On Wednesday, January 29, 2014, Octavian Ureche wrote: > Interesting topic here. > Was just testing agisoft photoscan for some non commercial related wor

RE: Importing of Models Deathly Slow

We're using 2013 SP1 (32 bit) and not experiencing any deathly slow imports. We have environments with 5,000+ referenced models, and while they do take a while to open because of their size, nothing along the lines of what you're reporting. I would check a few things that have caused us grief

Re: Importing of Models Deathly Slow

Thanks Min Rui, I will set up an example scene and send it your way. best, Enrique On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 2:21 PM, Min Rui Tan wrote: > Hi Enrique, > > If you have a consistent repro case, you can forward it to me and we'll > investigate if something is broken from 2013. > > Thanks! > Min R

Re: Photogrammetry - what do you use?

True, they guys at Banzai pipeline are doing something really interesting… if only they had a Softimage or Houdini plugin I would be really happy but there you go… Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.com On 29 Jan 2014, at 15:54, Laurent Makowski wrote: > Hi everyone, > > A good friend of mine is s

Re: Getting weight values for given points...

Hi Show the locations as points. Maybe you are mixing up global/local positions? On 29/01/2014 5:59 PM, Sergio Mucino wrote: Thanks a lot Alan! Seems to be working, but I don't seem to be getting the right

Re: Getting weight values for given points...

Thanks a lot Alan! Seems to be working, but I don't seem to be getting the right values. As a test, I created a grid object and painted a brush stroke on a weight map on it. I then created 3 nulls and positioned them in space floating over the grid. I know which ones

RE: The Lego Movie: Behind the Scenes and How They Made the Movie

Stop motion is typically shot on 1's, cel animation on 2's. Haven't seen the Lego movie, but what usually gives stop motion that jerky quality is the lack of motion blur, and the depth of field not quite mimicking the real world. Matt -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listpr

Re: Getting weight values for given points...

First of all, you probably wanna use a "Get Closest Location" instead of "Get Closest Points"; that way you can get locations between points (say inside a polygon) and expect a useful interpolated result instead of the closest vertex specifically. ICE locations are based on barycentric coordinates

RE: asset library + version control

Pretty sure it would be fairly easy to set up for mecurial as it should just be the command line syntax that would change a little. From: Alan Fregtman [alan.fregt...@gmail.com] Sent: 29 January 2014 10:45 PM To: XSI Mailing List Subject: Re: asset library + versi

Getting weight values for given points...

This is probably not that hard to do, but I haven't really worked with arrays in ICE, so I'm kinda stuck here. I have a bunch of nulls near a poly surface. This surface has a weight map painted on it. I'm trying to get the weight map's value for the closest point to each

RE: Photogrammetry - what do you use?

I thought 32gb of ram was standard in the movie industry nowadays? ;) Thanks all for the pointers. We're already checking out ReCap but I am also looking at Enwaii now. If you have anything else please keep the thread going! Thank you MAC From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:so

Re: asset library + version control

That is cool but it's "regular git" and will be pretty slow for large files as Helge pointed out. On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 1:50 PM, Angus Davidson wrote: > https://github.com/csaez/gitforsoftimage > > > -- > *From:* Alok Gandhi [alok.gandhi2...@gmail.com] > *Sent:*

Re: asset library + version control

I have tried Mercurial (hg) on personal projects with some success. http://tortoisehg.bitbucket.org/ Gustavo E Boehs Dpto. de Expressão Gráfica | Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina | http://www.gustavoeb.com.br/ 2014-01-29 Angus Davidson > https://github.com/csaez/gitforsoftimage > > > -

Re: Photogrammetry - what do you use?

this is our experience, a coworker has maxed out one of our 48gb machines... but he needs 24-30 gb average on a set of 50 images at 5k a piece. On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 7:25 AM, Jordi Bares wrote: > I have a guy next to me doing a lot of Agisoft stuff and swears by it > although he points out he

RE: Photogrammetry - what do you use?

"This should help as much as norml HDR environments do when lighting." What about using projection painting with multiple hdrs using MARI? not sure if I understood your question.. have you seen this: http://www.fxguide.com/player/?media_url=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.fxguide.com%2Ffxguidetv%2Ffxguide

RE: asset library + version control

Have you looked at this one? http://adamsoftware.net/en/what-we-do/business-propositions/enterprise-e-library/ Haven't checked it personally as we have our own solution here but it seems pretty competent. MAC From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autod

RE: asset library + version control

https://github.com/csaez/gitforsoftimage From: Alok Gandhi [alok.gandhi2...@gmail.com] Sent: 29 January 2014 08:31 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: asset library + version control You should check out git. It can work any kind of binary data a

Re: Photogrammetry - what do you use?

Hi, Does anyone know if any packages accept RAW or HDR images and can create an HDR for the final texture. This should help as much as norml HDR environments do when lighting. Adam. http://www.linkedin.com/in/adamseeleyuk https://vimeo.com/ad

Re: asset library + version control

Git is really bad for large binary files. Repositories tend to become very slow. Versioning, local branches and cherry-pick style functionality however is very powerful. I recommend to use something like git-annex (http://git-annex.branchable.com/) or git-fat. The git-bin implementation can be v

Re: asset library + version control

You should check out git. It can work any kind of binary data and gives you control over versioning. You can ofcourse make a python app with qt as front end and some kind database as back end - MySql, Mongo etc. You can also make web based front end woth python using django if you want. Sent f

Re: Photogrammetry - what do you use?

Interesting topic here. Was just testing agisoft photoscan for some non commercial related work, and it seems to give pretty nice results with minimal user input. Has anyone tried to compare a kinekt based approach such as skanect ( http://skanect.manctl.com) with a photogrammetrical approach for o

Re: asset library + version control

Can you elaborate on "not as nice as I wish"? What do you wish of such a system? On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 12:41 PM, Andreas Böinghoff wrote: > Hey! > > Over the last months, I've done some research what's the best way to store > our assets in an library with a version control. > > I've tried an

asset library + version control

Hey! Over the last months, I've done some research what's the best way to store our assets in an library with a version control. I've tried an self programmed custom python solution, Tactic and Perforce. Everything works somehow, but it's all not as nice as I wish. Knows someone of you guys

Re: Photogrammetry - what do you use?

Recap and 123D Catch from Autodesk do very well with some subject matter. NukeX also has camera tracking, point-could generation and meshing, and can export geo and camera. On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 10:08 AM, Marc-Andre Carbonneau < marc-andre.carbonn...@ubisoft.com> wrote: > Hello friends, > > >

Re: The Lego Movie: Behind the Scenes and How They Made the Movie

This proves once again that Softimage is an amazing tool. So much better than Maya, I hope that this kind of amazing projects, will open Autodesk eyes and realize they have the keys of the kingdom in their pocket. But they are too blind to see 2014-01-29 Simon Anderson > Its LDD, Le

RE: Photogrammetry - what do you use?

I used image modeler several times and it works great, is a really simple but precise tool. It sucks that it isn't available for sale anymore... As for banzai pipeline, the last time I spoke with their support rep this is what he told me: "...Enwaii is currently Maya centric. In London

Re: Photogrammetry - what do you use?

Still using imagemodeler over here. Nuke 8 has some interesting ways of creating pointclouds from a bunch of images and linking hdri's: http://youtu.be/dRpLNoSSUlM?t=44m31s I've had a similar question a while ago about image modeler

Re: Photogrammetry - what do you use?

Hi everyone, A good friend of mine is selling an incredible tool for photogrammetry. Check his website: http://www.banzai-pipeline.com/gallery/smurfs_2/index.html I love Agisoft too, but as Jordi says, it requieres a lot of memory, processing time, preparation, and you have less control over the

Re: The Lego Movie: Behind the Scenes and How They Made the Movie

Its LDD, Lego Digital Designer, its a free bit of software you can download from Lego and create your own lego buildings. Its was an awesome project to have worked on :D On 2014-01-29 05:01 PM, Marc-Andre Carbonneau wrote: We see a software that was developed solely for this movie. Some kind o

Re: Photogrammetry - what do you use?

Last time we did a fair bit I think we found that 123d and photoscan usually gave very similar results, though I have a feeling 123d was more limited in input image resolution - and that might not be a problem or even true anymore. As I say, often similar results, sometimes one was better than the

RE: Photogrammetry - what do you use?

Oh yeah I forgot to specify that this is mainly for environment and huge props... not so much for people or props! From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Jordi Bares Sent: 29 janvier 2014 10:26 To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.

Re: Photogrammetry - what do you use?

I have a guy next to me doing a lot of Agisoft stuff and swears by it although he points out he needs tons of memory (he has 24Gb!!!) to deal with the kind of things he does (a bit of architecture and tons of images with a 7D) so… I am considering to test it properly because I can't see any

Re: Photogrammetry - what do you use?

PhotoScan from agisoft is the one I prefer! with canon 550D or 5D 2014-01-29 Marc-Andre Carbonneau > Hello friends, > > > > I am currently investigating photogrammetry and would love to get your > advices, opinions, experiences with such systems. > > What hardware do you use? Which software? B

Gear Eye setup

Hi guys (Miquel, please?) So, I have created an eye using the eye guide. I have the option to pick IK reference, however when I try to pick the body as reference, rig creation crashes with an OLE error. It accepts only the local controller apparently. I also try to connect to the UIHost of the

Re: image sequence doesnt render with vray

I found an OK solutionjust wrote a script that renders the current frame, advances to the next frame, renders the current frame...etc. Ugly as hell and just ran it in the UI but gets the job done! Kris On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 6:52 AM, Will Sharkey wrote: > Discovered this a while ago. A so

Photogrammetry - what do you use?

Hello friends, I am currently investigating photogrammetry and would love to get your advices, opinions, experiences with such systems. What hardware do you use? Which software? Best practices? Thank you for any info! MAC [cid:image001.jpg@01CF1CD9.FF266120]

RE: The Lego Movie: Behind the Scenes and How They Made the Movie

We see a software that was developed solely for this movie. Some kind of Lego designer for concept artist. I'm curious as to how the concepts were passed to modelers or "assembled" for them! Procedural seems it could play a big role in this movie! An you gotta love the Legofied effects! LOL! M

Re: The Lego Movie: Behind the Scenes and How They Made the Movie

How were things usually modeled? Did they make volumes and use a voxelizer or something to approximate the brick placements? On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Eric Thivierge wrote: > You'd be surprised. You know how many bricks are in those renders??? > Having to load and manage all those brick

Re: The Lego Movie: Behind the Scenes and How They Made the Movie

Maybe Aloys would be the one to explain, if he can divulge the info. Eric T. On Wednesday, January 29, 2014 9:49:22 AM, Alan Fregtman wrote: How were things usually modeled? Did they make volumes and use a voxelizer or something to approximate the brick placements? On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 9

Re: The Lego Movie: Behind the Scenes and How They Made the Movie

You'd be surprised. You know how many bricks are in those renders??? Having to load and manage all those bricks in each asset and load them into the viewports so animators could see what they are doing... some really awesome tech was done for it by the AL RnD team. Eric T. On Wednesday, Janua

Re: refresh issue with gear limbs

I may have spoken to soon about a fix, as when the scene is captured, the viewport solos and there is no way of having the null visible if the viewport is set to show geo only. I tried removing some of the optimisations from the solver in the modules folder, so that it would always calculate blend

Re: Ice Polygon reduction ?

We must do something for that terrible musical taste you have :D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T178DsQHLDs#t=66 Le 29/01/2014 13:01, Nika Ragua a écrit : you asked the gang http://www.tennessean.com/includes/publicus/projects/projects04/paper/photos/BigPhoto_01.jpg i want to make it !!! i jo

A question on FBX

Or use fbx converter. http://www.autodesk.com/products/fbx/overview Hope it helps. Francisco On Wednesday, January 29, 2014, Min Rui Tan > wrote: > Softimage does not convert to Z-Up for FBX Export. > Can go through Maya for that, or if you work with the FBX SDK, it has a > ConvertScene functi

Re: Ice Polygon reduction ?

you asked the gang http://www.tennessean.com/includes/publicus/projects/projects04/paper/photos/BigPhoto_01.jpg i want to make it !!! i join the crew !!!anyone else? https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ky6gSUmP4rs 2014-01-29 olivier jeannel > Hi gang, > > I'd like to know

Re: image sequence doesnt render with vray

Discovered this a while ago. A solution is to render with a frame range of 1, so your scene reloads after every frame. Not a pretty solution but it gets the job rendered! Actually, I think I always applied the animated texture in the comp having rendered a animated texture pass with Mental Ray. Fo

Re: Re[4]: image sequence doesnt render with vray

Does Vray for Si allow you to export to a .vrscene and then you can render that with standalone vray ? That way you could possibly be able to see if its an issue with the plugin or the core. Kind regards Angus From: Eugen Sares mailto:sof...@mail.sprit.org>> Reply-To: Eugen Sares mailto:sof..

Ice Polygon reduction ?

Hi gang, I'd like to know if it is possible to apply polygon reduction within Ice, and this driven by a Weightmap or Modulate by null? Are there any examples lying around somewhere on the web ? The weigthmap doesn't update if I use the classic PolygonReduction Thank's a lot !

Re: image sequence doesnt render with vray

A shot in the dark, but this sounds like an export optimisation thing that was badly implemented (like the exporter saying: "Oh, I already know this texture, I won't export again to speed up the refresh), even if it's not an interactive session.Have you tried disabling "Enable incremental export"

Re: image sequence doesnt render with vray

Regarding the original question, yes I think it's bug. I recall seeing a post about it on the official forum (which is a good place to ask these questions) On Tuesday, 28 January 2014, Eugen Sares wrote: > Yes, I mean the SI implementation. The core of VRay is quite stable. Has > to be, after