OT: Job Opening....

2016-08-08 Thread Chad Briggs
Hi everyone! Were looking for a lead/senior TD to come join our team. We were predominantly a Softimage house for many years, but we are starting to make those dreaded first steps away from our beloved package of choice back into Maya. :) See attached PDF. Please forward this on to any folks th

Re: Reminiscing

2016-08-08 Thread Bradley Gabe
Hi Dave! Of course I'm still following the list. You can take the TD out of CG but you can't take CG out of the TD. I'm glad to hear Houdini is tickling the creative juices in a satisfying fashion. I was starting to worry with the fading of Soft and ICE that daily production work was going to end

Reminiscing

2016-08-08 Thread David Barosin
Brad! Glad you're still checking the list. Houdini is feeling fun. In many respects it's way more than I've had before in Soft. The option to use code (vex) or ice like nodes (vops) interchangeably makes handling arrays and other loops/flow control much easier. Also the presence of volume/vdb

Re: aaOcean - SI 2014 - How to set it up on a scene?

2016-08-08 Thread Amaan Akram
If you don't rotate your ocean plane which you are planning to render, then just ignore the transform. In other words, don't rotate the ocean plane. aaocean vector displacement is in world-space. the transform helps with getting it into object space. I should do this in the shader but for now it's