Re: Math behind Smooth Weights

2017-01-27 Thread pedro santos
Martin I made a compound some time ago that might help it mimics what XSI Smooth Weights does, but with an addition that I always missed: Iterations. It's a smooth after all so sometimes you want some settings to repeat and instead of adding multiple smooth operators one could just add more

Re: Math behind Smooth Weights

2017-01-27 Thread wavo
Iam not a Maya-user, but what about with this plugin http://www.ngskintools.com/features/ Iam still not a Maya-user, Walter Am 1/27/2017 um 3:39 PM schrieb Martin Yara: Thanks Matt, I kinda understand the logic, but I can't figure out how to do it yet. I'll have to study it a little more.

Re: Math behind Smooth Weights

2017-01-27 Thread Martin Yara
Thanks Matt, I kinda understand the logic, but I can't figure out how to do it yet. I'll have to study it a little more. Thanks Michael, but he is using just the default smooth brush and the default Weight Hammer. Using Maya's brush (artUserPaintCtx) through scripting without a brush has better

Re: Math behind Smooth Weights

2017-01-27 Thread michael malinowski
Hey Martin, This tool has a similar smoothing brush in it. It's all python so you can browse the math behind it there if you didn't want to use the tool in its entirety. Maya has a long way to go before it's skinning tools have any sort of parity with Soft!

Re: Math behind Smooth Weights

2017-01-27 Thread Matt Lind
I had to write my own version of this tool due to an undesired behavior in the Softimage version. The math is basically the same as a paint brush in a paint program. You define a radius centered on the point being smoothed, as well as a falloff function which determines how influence of the

Re: No -seriously, why don?t we GUMROAD for Softimage?

2017-01-27 Thread Matt Lind
That's a management issue, not a technical issue. Matt Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 00:09:57 -0500 From: Pierre Schiller Subject: Re: No -seriously, why don?t we GUMROAD for Softimage? To: "Official Softimage Users Mailing List. Thank you for your reply Matt and very

Math behind Smooth Weights

2017-01-27 Thread Martin Yara
Hi, Does any have some light to shed about this ? I really like Softimage's Smooth Weights, and really hate Maya's Weight Hammer. So I would like to implement, if it is possible, a Smooth Weights tool for Maya that work as good as the SI one, or at least better than Weight Hammer. Meanwhile I'm