Re: Fabric Engine 2.1

2016-02-29 Thread Sebastien Sterling
How is it looking on the adoption front ? are studios getting on board ? :) Each new release seems to offer a fairly considerable amount of incentive. On 29 February 2016 at 17:54, Tom Kleinenberg wrote: > In that attributes preset video, I think you spelled Gator wrong :) > > Very interesting

RE: City generator?

2016-02-29 Thread Sven Constable
Btw I remember a company several years ago, using XSI to build a similar thing to CityEngine. It was quite decent stuff. They had a dedicated website for the product and it was heavily based on Softimage. Wasn't it launched as a standalone application based on ICE? I'm pretty sure I saw a video by

Re: City generator?

2016-02-29 Thread Jordi Bares
Esri CityEngine is truly something else because it revolves around the architecture and urbanist language and being procedural allow for a much more sophisticated and realistic result. It is not cheap (last time I checked) but if you need to do some architecture landscape anything else is truly

Re: Fabric Engine 2.1

2016-02-29 Thread Tom Kleinenberg
In that attributes preset video, I think you spelled Gator wrong :) Very interesting looking stuff, it looks like it's adding features at a level I can wrap my head around now... On 29 February 2016 at 17:35, Eric Thivierge wrote: > Hey all, > > There is a new Fabric Engine release 2.1 that is

Fabric Engine 2.1

2016-02-29 Thread Eric Thivierge
Hey all, There is a new Fabric Engine release 2.1 that is now out. You can check out these 2 videos, one which is the overview of the full release and the other covering the new Attribute presets. *Overview* https://vimeo.com/156810384 *Attributes Presets* https://vimeo.com/156543124 Some high

Re: ice strand grass

2016-02-29 Thread Morten Bartholdy
I haven't tried this with RS, but Tim Crowson has made some nifty tools for working with Redshift proxies. I don't know if they can help you with your current scenario, but in case you did not know them here goes: http://www.timcrowson.com/redshift-proxy-manager/ http://www.timcrowson.com/loop-r

Re: ice strand grass

2016-02-29 Thread Kris Rivel
Awesome Morten thanks...I'll check it out! I'm actually using RS...don't have Arnold but maybe it will still work...will let you know. On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 7:20 AM, Morten Bartholdy wrote: > Kris I didn't see if you render with Redshift or Arnold - Arnold does > support > deformed instances o

RE: City generator?

2016-02-29 Thread adrian wyer
indeed, the rule based construction means you can teach it how your buildings are made, down to individual doors and window elements, and it will procedurally make stuff up given time, it's insanely powerful a -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:

RE: City generator?

2016-02-29 Thread Morten Bartholdy
It is a shame though - it looks really versatile and powerful. /MB > Den 29. februar 2016 klokken 13:22 skrev adrian wyer > : > > > we went through a painful process trying to get a demo license from them to > evaluate it's usefulness for a project > > at the time, no one outside architects/

RE: City generator?

2016-02-29 Thread adrian wyer
we went through a painful process trying to get a demo license from them to evaluate it's usefulness for a project at the time, no one outside architects/town lanners was using the software they didn't understand the 'entertainment' industry, how to deal with small studios, they wouldn't provide

Re: ice strand grass

2016-02-29 Thread Morten Bartholdy
Kris I didn't see if you render with Redshift or Arnold - Arnold does support deformed instances on strands - I have used it to create a grassfield with turbulent wind. I have sent you a simple scene demonstrating the setup. /Morten > Den 27. februar 2016 klokken 23:06 skrev Kris Rivel : > >

Re: City generator?

2016-02-29 Thread Morten Bartholdy
I have pored over Esri's site and their reseller here in DK but no pricing available without actually contacting them. Smells expensive too :) I think I will fall back on some simpler methods with curve duplication and scattering for this one. /Morten > Den 27. februar 2016 klokken 02:25 skrev

Re: -Camera. Frames issues

2016-02-29 Thread Laurence Dodd
Arnold can't handle a camera that has an animated field of view, that could be it. Laurence On 27 February 2016 at 17:00, Tenshi . wrote: > "Skipping" is the word i was trying to find. Exactly like that guys. > Just for making sure i'm not doing something wrong, i create another > Softimage cam