Re: semi OT : running SI on a Macbook Pro

On 01/02/15 13:08, Angus Davidson wrote: ... while the news might have been bad the overall effect has been positive. Despite perhaps some positive aspects, I seriously doubt that the overall end effect(s)

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Re: Spam:Re: Softimage mailing list year in review

Happy New year to you too Angus ! On 2 January 2015 at 18:08, Angus Davidson wrote: > Was a very sad year for the Softimage community as a whole. The EOL > while not unexpected was handled very badly and gave particularly the EDU > sector very little wiggle room. On the positive side I got to g

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Re: Turbulizing particle velocity and back (ICE)

Wowowww!! Thank you!! Behaves exactly as I had it on mind. Cheers. David. -- On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 12:18 PM ECT Thomas Volkmann wrote: >For a start you could take a look inside the flow-along-curve compound and just >turbulize the direction slightly. >I made a

RE: Spam:Re: Softimage mailing list year in review

Was a very sad year for the Softimage community as a whole. The EOL while not unexpected was handled very badly and gave particularly the EDU sector very little wiggle room. On the positive side I got to get in contact with a great many more educators using softimage and feel as though while the

Re: Turbulizing particle velocity and back (ICE)

For a start you could take a look inside the flow-along-curve compound and just turbulize the direction slightly. I made a quick test with this: just added the turbulize and normalize node. And the compound is set to "maintain speed". If you want the speed turbulized as well you have to make chang

Turbulizing particle velocity and back (ICE)

Hello, I noticed long ago there was a post trying to turbulize particle velocity on a flow curve ICE setup. I'm trying to create a random movement of the particle while it's moving on the flow along curve node. What I did was to: get particle velocity, multiply it to a turbulize node and plug

Re: Strands colliding and sliding on moving mesh?

Easiest way to smooth a strand is to do the following for each strand point: p(n) = A x p(n) + (1-A) x 1/2 x ( p(n-1) + p(n+1) ) Where: p(n) = Current strand point position p(n-1) = Previous strand point position p(n+1) = Next strand point position A = Smoothing factor (from 0 to 1) For best eff

Re: Strands colliding and sliding on moving mesh?

Hello, To be honest, I think you're both right : it's probably not worth the time, especially considering I don't even have a month to setup everything properly in each scene and then render it. And only a handful of frames would actually benefit from that. I barely tried the dynamic framework sol

Re: Strands colliding and sliding on moving mesh?

> On 2 Jan 2015, at 12:39, Stefan Kubicek > wrote: > > > PS: If the runners trails are meant as a graphical element rather than an > actual physical element in your picture I doubt I will look nice when it > collides with the runner. > Agreed. I doubt it

Re: semi OT : running SI on a Macbook Pro

The power management difference under Bootcamp is that the machine takes a lot more power under average use, then it does under osx. The result is the battery life is shorter, the fan turns on more often (when just web browsing, for example), etc, under normal use. When you're rendering it makes

Re: Strands colliding and sliding on moving mesh?

Hi Olivier, I think there are example scenes for strand collision that ship with XSI. No friction between strands and geo is modeled as far as I can remember, but it might get you started. Then there is also the strand collision framework for more accurate collisions, but I don't know how it

Re: Softimage mailing list year in review

He - I still make it into top 20. I will surely miss this... Happy NewYear from Copenhagen! Best Morten Den 31. december 2014 kl. 17:28 skrev Stephen Blair : > 2014 year in review > http://wp.me/powV4-38U

Re: OT: Flowbox

Marcus Ottoson posted a link to an fx-guide video of an interview with the makers of flowbox during siggraph asia on the fabric engine mailing list a couple of days ago: http://www.fxguide.com/fxguidetv/fxguidetv-198-siggraph-asia-2014/ Very interesting: flowbox.io --

RE: semi OT : running SI on a Macbook Pro

Havent done any rendering. Its just command line stuff (Marching squares for big point clouds) So the cpu runs maxed for hours but havent had any issues with it running any hotter then when it run Mac OSX (do that via booting a thunderbolt drive) Kind regards Angus

Re: semi OT : running SI on a Macbook Pro

I'm freezing my nipples off my tits here, I need my socks on! But more seriously, does everything work or is it going to run thermonuclear hot and render stuff at random sizes like most of Luc-Eric's boxes seem to do? :) On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 9:42 AM, Angus Davidson wrote: > Linux mint on a MB

RE: semi OT : running SI on a Macbook Pro

Linux mint on a MBP will blow your socks off ;) From: Raffaele Fragapane [raffsxsil...@googlemail.com] Sent: 02 January 2015 10:20 AM To: Graham D. Clark; softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: semi OT : running SI on a Macbook Pro Since we have a few adven

Re: semi OT : running SI on a Macbook Pro

Since we have a few adventurous Xplatforming Mac lovers around, How is the Linux experience these days on an MBP? I read very conflicting opinions ranging from "practically native" to "it burnt my laptop and killed all my family pets". On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 2:03 AM, Graham D. Clark wrote: > On