Re: dual quaternion enveloping

ive used it many times in production, i had no issues with it. just blend between dual quat and linear with an envelope and you should get some really nice deformation it flips when you rotate something past 180 though, so dont use it if your character is especially twisty On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 a

Re: dual quaternion enveloping

err meant to type weightmap not envelope On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Enrique Caballero < enriquecaball...@gmail.com> wrote: > ive used it many times in production, i had no issues with it. > > just blend between dual quat and linear with an envelope and you should > get some really nice defo

Re: dual quaternion enveloping

Thanks for the info guys. I won't be moving the model null around (heresy!) and mostly envelope to nulls rather than bones, so will give it a shot. Good to hear its being used in production. On 29 October 2014 07:31, Enrique Caballero wrote: > err meant to type weightmap not envelope > > On Wed

Re: dual quaternion enveloping

+1 about what Enrique said about the flipping with 180 degree movement. I would highly recommend using a weight map to blend between dual quaternion and linear to address problem areas such a the fingers...they trend to get funky when poised into a fist. On Oct 29, 2014 5:09 AM, "Matt Morris" wrot

Re: Stand-Alone to Network license?

Angus Davidson schreef op 28-10-2014 18:01: Hi Jill Can these changes please be updated the resellers. They are normally the first point of call for the customers and so far they in large been inaccurate with their advise, Kind regards Angus But then again: if more and clear information would

Thaigo's company Lagoa is being acquired by Autodesk for $62M

> Lagoa is in talks to be acquired byAutoDesk for around $62 million. Lagoa is > a "cloud platform enabling 3D visualization of content for the engineering, > architecture, media and entertainment sectors." The company has raised $6.9 > million in funding and the 'venture firm formerly known as

RE: Thaigo's company Lagoa is being acquired by Autodesk for $62M

read this last week, chinny must be overjoyed.h congrats to them all, i guess a -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Ben Houston Sent: 29 October 2014 12:21 To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.c

Re: Thaigo's company Lagoa is being acquired by Autodesk for $62M

If there's any logic in this madness (cloud-based apps), wouldn't clara.io and hence exocortex be next? Greetz Leendert PS Definitely not saying this to be a good or a bad thing BTW. -- Leendert A. Hartog AKA Hirazi Blue Administrator NOT the owner of si-community.com

RE: Thaigo's company Lagoa is being acquired by Autodesk for $62M

I'm sure everyone who has met him never doubted he would make it big. This is amazing news for him and the Lagoa team. -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of adrian wyer Sent: October-29-14 8:24 AM T

Re: Thaigo's company Lagoa is being acquired by Autodesk for $62M

It is autodesks next logical step. Excortex crate would also be a great addition. Maybe they would finally admidt that FBX is fubar ;) On 2014/10/29, 2:35 PM, "Leendert A. Hartog" wrote: >If there's any logic in this madness (cloud-based apps), wouldn't >clara.io and hence exocortex be next? >

Re: Thaigo's company Lagoa is being acquired by Autodesk for $62M

AD: "Lagoa I am your owner..." Our repons: "NOo.." ;-) Rob \/-\/\/ On 29-10-2014 13:21, Ben Houston wrote: Lagoa is in talks to be acquired byAutoDesk for around $62 million. Lagoa is a "cloud platform enabling 3D visualization of content for the

Re: Thaigo's company Lagoa is being acquired by Autodesk for $62M

I'm just hoping Lagoa goes to the CAD branch and not M&E. Eric T.

Re: Thaigo's company Lagoa is being acquired by Autodesk for $62M

In this day and age one would expect Autodesk to hire companies, not acquire them, no? (Sorry, couldn't resist) Greetz Leendert -- Leendert A. Hartog AKA Hirazi Blue Administrator NOT the owner of si-community.com

Re: Thaigo's company Lagoa is being acquired by Autodesk for $62M

AD buying companies does not mean that AD will further develop what they are buying. After a couple years they will say that at the end it was not worth it... and is better to EOL them, cause now they have better "technology"... --- Emilio Herná

Re: Thaigo's company Lagoa is being acquired by Autodesk for $62M

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/11/03/le-divorce-2 -- summarizes why acquisitions are usually a bad idea (not for the people who profit from being bought though!). Since acquisitions have essentially been AD's business model for the last several years... On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 10:19 AM,

Re: Thaigo's company Lagoa is being acquired by Autodesk for $62M

Why buy something you have no commitment or intention of understanding ? unless you want to remove it from the market, i hope Thaigo can make something cool. On 29 October 2014 14:22, Ed Manning wrote: > http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/11/03/le-divorce-2 > > -- summarizes why acquisitions

Re: Thaigo's company Lagoa is being acquired by Autodesk for $62M

Well Lagoa for SI met it's dead end and together with SI it's doom.. will history repeat? Hope not, wish al the best to Thiago ofc but if history teaches us anything... Or we are looking at small part of new AD 1 app to rule them all: only works in cloud on web interface, login and pay per hour to

Re: Thaigo's company Lagoa is being acquired by Autodesk for $62M

One ring to rule them all... Mmmm I think I've heard that before... --- Emilio Hernández VFX & 3D animation. On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 8:38 AM, Mirko Jankovic wrote: > Well Lagoa for SI met it's dead end and together with SI it's doom.. > wil

Where's the best place to send any Maya questions?

Now that we're no longer in Kansas, I'm wondering where I should direct any questions relating to maya. Is it really the area forums? cheers, Andi. ... http://www.hackneyeffects.com/https://vimeo.com/user4174293http://www.lin

Re: Thaigo's company Lagoa is being acquired by Autodesk for $62M

Moni-moni-moni-moni-monay! m-m-mmonay! (dirty) On 10/29/14 9:32, Leendert A. Hartog wrote: In this day and age one would expect Autodesk to hire companies, not acquire them, no? (Sorry, couldn't resist) Greetz Leendert

Re: Where's the best place to send any Maya questions?

The maya_he3d (Maya Highend3d) mailinglist is a pretty good place: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/maya_he3d On Wed Oct 29 2014 at 10:54:27 AM Andi Farhall wrote: > > Now that we're no longer in Kansas, I'm wondering where I should direct > any questions relating to maya. Is it really t

Re: Thaigo's company Lagoa is being acquired by Autodesk for $62M

And we all know how that ended... ;-) Rob \/-\/\/ On 29-10-2014 15:47, Emilio Hernandez wrote: One ring to rule them all... Mmmm I think I've heard that before... --- Emilio Hernández VFX & 3D animation. On W

RE: Where's the best place to send any Maya questions?

Much obliged Alan, A> ... http://www.hackneyeffects.com/https://vimeo.com/user4174293http://www.linkedin.com/pub/andi-farhall/b/496/b21 http://www.flickr.com/photos/lord_hackney/ http://spylon.tumblr.com/ This email and any a

Re: Where's the best place to send any Maya questions?

sorry, couldn't resist. :) On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Alan Fregtman wrote: > The maya_he3d (Maya Highend3d) mailinglist is a pretty good place: > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/maya_he3d > > > On Wed Oct 29 2014 at 10:54:27 AM Andi Farhall > wrote: > >> >> Now that we're no longe

RE: Where's the best place to send any Maya questions?

ho ho ho. Normally I'm up for a bit of maya bashing but, now I have to learn a bit and do a job in it I have no time for fun anymore. ;) ... http://www.hackneyeffects.com/https://vimeo.com/user4174293http://www.linkedin.c

Re: Where's the best place to send any Maya questions?

cgtalk's maya forum On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 10:54 AM, Andi Farhall wrote: > > Now that we're no longer in Kansas, I'm wondering where I should direct any > questions relating to maya. Is it really the area forums? > > cheers, > > Andi. > > .

Removing Deformers from envelope, multiple connection sets in one go?

Is it possible to send multiple connection sets to remove deformers from multiple meshes at the same time if the meshes have different deformer lists that you want to remove? Normally: si.RemoveFlexEnvDeformer("myModel.body_M_geo;myModel.weapon1_L_def,myModel.weapon2_L_def") Where this is the

RE: Where's the best place to send any Maya questions?

cheers Luc-Eric, A> ... http://www.hackneyeffects.com/https://vimeo.com/user4174293http://www.linkedin.com/pub/andi-farhall/b/496/b21 http://www.flickr.com/photos/lord_hackney/ http://spylon.tumblr.com/ This email and any att

Re: Removing Deformers from envelope, multiple connection sets in one go?

You can do: si.RemoveFlexEnvDeformer("myModel.body_M_geo,myModel.teeth_M_geo;myModel. weapon1_L_def,myModel.weapon2_L_def,myModel.arm_L_def, myModel.leg_L_def") This way you're removing the chosen deformers from all of the chosen source meshes. If you want to be more specific than that I reckon yo

RE: Stand-Alone to Network license?

Hi guys, Actually the resellers all have an extremely detailed FAQ with more info than your average customer would care to wade through: that was the rationale behind the abbreviated one for the customers and the idea that you would talk to your resellers for more info. As mentioned, the custome

Re: New ww.Lagoa.com

I can see how anything cloud related can be salivated upon by  "master ass owners" (what do people want more than their own things.. then becoming leverage-able poker chips) But you can be sure that the (current) terms won't be getting any less

Re: Removing Deformers from envelope, multiple connection sets in one go?

Yeah looks like multiple commands. On Wednesday, October 29, 2014 12:05:11 PM, Alan Fregtman wrote: You can do: si.RemoveFlexEnvDeformer("__myModel.body_M_geo,myModel.teeth_M_geo;myModel.__weapon1_L_def,myModel.weapon2___L_def,myModel.__arm_L_def, myModel.leg_L_def") This way you're removing th

primary ray visibility on polygon clusters?

Is it possible to override the primary ray visibility on polygon clusters? I know you can add a visibility property, but that's all or none. -Paul

Re: New ww.Lagoa.com

The terms you quote are reason enough for people like me to generally distrust any service like this. The attempts to sugarcoat it as clumsy wording is a bit problematic too IMHO: if it can be worded better, do so: word it better! These aren't playground discussions, these are the basis for bin

Re: Stand-Alone to Network license?

Great, and even if it may have missed a point or two, the May version was already was quite straightforward. & Thanks very-much for your efforts in making it so! J On 10/29/14 12:14, Jill Ramsay (Contractor) wrote: Hi guys, Actually the resellers all have an extremely detailed FAQ with more in

RE: Thaigo's company Lagoa is being acquired by Autodesk for $62M

I have to chime in. I worked with Thiago in Toronto for about a month a few years back. We shared an apartment provided by the studio. He's got to be one of the smartest normal people I have had the pleasure to work with in VFX. When I say normal, he's not that typical brainiac type who is condesce

Re: New ww.Lagoa.com

This highlights an issue that has been on my mind as of late. I am not directing this at anyone in particular... How to read a contract. Art/Animation schools don't teach students anything about how to read contracts or how to manage your intellectual property rights. It's time they started and I

RE: Upgrading Softimage. Was: Stand-Alone to Network license?

Maybe its of interest to others: If you upgrade and you're non subscribtion costumer, resellers will tell you you cannot update Softimage alone. You have to choose a bundle. '3dsmax with soft' or 'maya with soft'. Nothing new to us so far. What was new to me is, the product you will receive is act

Re: Thaigo's company Lagoa is being acquired by Autodesk for $62M

he does deserve it I am quite sure, however if Autodesk keeps buying up tech, it just strangles the industry. Mudbox, Combustion, Softimage, CAT, all of these products were doing fine before the acquisition now mostly dead, or dead. One might come to the conclusion that people get in this ga

Re: Upgrading Softimage. Was: Stand-Alone to Network license?

It's the same thing as buying a suite. When you install the suite you need to use the suite product key, not a maya/softimage product key. it's a licensing thing. On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Sven Constable wrote: > Maybe its of interest to others: If you upgrade and you're non subscribtion >

Re: Upgrading Softimage. Was: Stand-Alone to Network license?

This applies to customers on subscription as well, or so it would seem. My Softimage license turned into a MayaS license, where MayaS obviously stands for Maya plus Softimage. In the subscription center a separate download for Softimage 2015 is available, but the license issue by registeronce a

Re: New ww.Lagoa.com

Hi Eric Very good points. We have been going through this at the moment as a lot of our students have been offered an opportunity. It is funded by what we call SETA’s here in South Africa. They are designed to allow people to be paid for building expertise in a commercial company. A paid inter

Re: Upgrading Softimage. Was: Stand-Alone to Network license?

Leendert A. Hartog schreef op 29-10-2014 21:07: This applies to customers on subscription as well, or so it would seem. My Softimage license turned into a MayaS license, where MayaS obviously stands for Maya plus Softimage. In the subscription center a separate download for Softimage 2015 is av

Re: Thaigo's company Lagoa is being acquired by Autodesk for $62M

Just need to chime in and mention this is probably not an M&E division acquisition so all the speculation about it just getting acquired and letting it rot maybe not really apply here. Probably going to the CAD division. On Wednesday, October 29, 2014 3:57:44 PM, phil harbath wrote: he does d

Re: Thaigo's company Lagoa is being acquired by Autodesk for $62M

Lets hope its not bought to die ;) He deservers better then that even for the cost ;) From: phil harbath mailto:phil.harb...@jamination.com>> Reply-To: "softimage@listproc.autodesk.com" mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com>> Date: Wednesday 29 October

EDU Maintenance

Got the following email a few days ago Autodesk maintenance subscription is going to be attached for free to your edu licences, As much as I call out Autodesk when they are doing things wrong(the way they handled the EOL for softimage was particularly brutal for EDU), the one thing they are doing

Re: EDU Maintenance

The new licensing policy is great, kudos to Autodesk... the only missing piece is add Linux support, seems a bit embarrassing that their software works fine on linux but the licensing system is not figured out yet. On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Angus Davidson wrote: > Got the following email

Re: Merging Meshes & Transferring Weights takes forever

Just to update everyone. The Softimage RemoveFlexEnv() command is super slow. The better approach is to get the weights array, iterate over that cleaning out deformers that you don't need while keeping the removal of deformer arrays and the removal of the unused deformers from their respective

Re: EDU Maintenance

I am very curious if they made any improvements to the linux installer (there was a call for feedback on that last year I think) However its not for download on the ARC licences ;( From: Cesar Saez mailto:cesa...@gmail.com>> Reply-To: "softimage@listproc.autodesk.com