RE: alembic from hou to xsi issues

2014-09-17 Thread Ho Chung Nguyen
. -sebastian > Ho Chung Nguyen > mailto:hochung.ngu...@autodesk.com>> hat am 11. > September 2014 um 06:00 geschrieben: > > > Hi Sebastian > > Do you mind sending us the Alembic file you exported from Houdini? > Vec3f is a basic type we support in XSI Alembic, unless

RE: Tweaking crowdfx

2014-09-17 Thread Ho Chung Nguyen
Hi Arvid The ground speed of each animation is stored in ICE attribute “__CrowdFX_Actor_HorizontalSpeed” of the simulation pointcloud (Crowd.Point_Cloud) It’s an array of float, in the order of the animations set up for the actor proxy. So for the pedestrian actor, with 3 animations idle, walk,

RE: alembic from hou to xsi issues

2014-09-10 Thread Ho Chung Nguyen
Hi Sebastian Do you mind sending us the Alembic file you exported from Houdini? Vec3f is a basic type we support in XSI Alembic, unless Houdini exports the data into some unexpected Alembic type. From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On B

RE: Alembic workflow question/problem

2014-08-05 Thread Ho Chung Nguyen
at 7:12 AM, Ben Beckett mailto:nebbeck...@gmail.com>> wrote: In the past I cached and then cached with Alembic On 25 July 2014 12:11, Ben Beckett mailto:nebbeck...@gmail.com>> wrote: You could prebake there positions On 25 July 2014 10:36, Ho Chung Nguyen mailto:hochung.ngu...@

RE: Again with the crowdFX

2014-07-31 Thread Ho Chung Nguyen
For the curve-following behavior, the goal is a moving target along the curve. It stays a few steps ahead of the actors. You can access ICE attribute Self.__CrowdFX_CurveGoal_CurrentIndex to see which point on the curve it is. If the curve is sampled at 100 points, that index should be from 0 to

RE: Alembic workflow question/problem

2014-07-25 Thread Ho Chung Nguyen
You might have to also export the parent hierarchy of those extra items, cause the animation is in their transforms. Do you have a scene we can help look into? From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Byron Nash Sent: Friday, Jul

RE: Softimage Alembic Plug-In with Selective Import

2014-07-16 Thread Ho Chung Nguyen
DE Thanks On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 3:19 AM, Ho Chung Nguyen mailto:hochung.ngu...@autodesk.com>> wrote: Hi Nuno, Any property in the .abc file will be imported as ICE attribute. You’ll need to add node Color Map Lookup to the RenderTree to render vertex colors. Note that setting the Vertex C

RE: Crowd FX - losing textures with RS on RRfarm?

2014-07-14 Thread Ho Chung Nguyen
Hi Darren This is due to the fact that the ICE attribute that the shaders use as UV is not evaluated on render farm. You can find the attribute name in tspace_id parameter of Image node in a render tree. In CrowdFX, it's named "Texture_Projection" If you are using Softimage 2015, we have an API

RE: Softimage Alembic Plug-In with Selective Import

2014-07-07 Thread Ho Chung Nguyen
This is for Softimage 2015 It won’t be in the SP release, but Hans has made the binary available on sourceforge From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Morten Bartholdy Sent: Monday, July 07, 2014 10:06 PM To: softimage@listproc

RE: Softimage 2015 Alembic export options

2014-06-30 Thread Ho Chung Nguyen
Hi Angus You can find the export options here: http://docs.autodesk.com/SI/2015/ENU/Softimage-Developer-Help/#!/url=./si_cmds/AbcExport.html -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Angus Davidson Sent

RE: Xray selection toggle in 2015 not working...

2014-06-12 Thread Ho Chung Nguyen
It might be related to refactoring of selection we did for 2015. To enable to the old selection system, you can set environment variable XSI_DISABLE_NEW_PICK=1 From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Andres Stephens Sent: Thursd

RE: Linking to an external weightmap

2014-06-03 Thread Ho Chung Nguyen
You can use ICE to write the weightmap value to a per-Sample attribute and cache it to Alembic. After reading the cache back, you can again use ICE to set it on the weightmap. Unless I’m missing something obvious. From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.a

RE: SI2015 alembic vs maya

2014-05-29 Thread Ho Chung Nguyen
this. https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alembic-discussion/1HaVR4LvHK8/f4732VncozwJ However, you can always use FBX to bring your materials to Maya. From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Ho Chung Nguyen Sent: Friday, May 09, 2014 8

RE: Softimage 2015 Alembic attach to geometry

2014-05-27 Thread Ho Chung Nguyen
...@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com>] On Behalf Of Ho Chung Nguyen Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2014 1:06 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com> Subject: RE: Softimage 2015 Alembic attach to geometry Hans forgot to mention that yo

Re: Softimage 2015 Alembic attach to geometry

2014-05-09 Thread Ho Chung Nguyen
On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 4:51 PM, Ho Chung Nguyen mailto:hochung.ngu...@autodesk.com>> wrote: 1. Did you export the abc at the same framerate as you read it? 2. In the script, there's a flag specifying if the XSI object kine is driven by the abc cache. Should set it to True gridData.Set

Re: Softimage 2015 Alembic attach to geometry

2014-05-09 Thread Ho Chung Nguyen
1. Did you export the abc at the same framerate as you read it? 2. In the script, there's a flag specifying if the XSI object kine is driven by the abc cache. Should set it to True gridData.SetCell(2, 0, True) Sent from my iPad > On May 9, 2014, at 10:31 PM, "Nuno Conceicao" > wrote: > > #Th

Re: Softimage 2015 Alembic attach to geometry

2014-05-09 Thread Ho Chung Nguyen
If the mesh topology doesn't change, it should work Sent On May 9, 2014, at 8:14 PM, "Nuno Conceicao" mailto:nunoalexconcei...@gmail.com>> wrote: Thanks, does this works with geometry instead of a pointcloud? On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Ho Chung Nguye

RE: Softimage 2015 Alembic attach to geometry

2014-05-09 Thread Ho Chung Nguyen
to re-attach an alembic read cache node to the frozen mesh and reconnect to the point cache path which is easily script-able. On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 5:27 AM, Ho Chung Nguyen mailto:hochung.ngu...@autodesk.com>> wrote: Can you explain what you need? From: softimage-boun...@li

RE: SI2015 alembic vs maya

2014-05-09 Thread Ho Chung Nguyen
=e6512b6db1792aa797641511737124fb2cbf0794 From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Ho Chung Nguyen Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2014 9:22 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: RE: SI2015 alembic vs maya This seems like an issue with the Alembic

RE: Softimage 2015 Alembic attach to geometry

2014-05-08 Thread Ho Chung Nguyen
2014 at 4:06 AM, Ho Chung Nguyen mailto:hochung.ngu...@autodesk.com>> wrote: Caching of subframe is supported, the objects need to have property SimulationSettings and option Cache All Simulation Samples checked. Pointclouds have this property by default. Polymeshes will have it if you crea

Re: Alembic export in 2015 not exporting attibutes

2014-05-05 Thread Ho Chung Nguyen
Those attributes were not found or defined on the exported objects. It's not a problem if you don't use those attributes in your scene. The default list is comprehensive, including necessary attributes for the built-in renderers and sample scenes. Therefore you sometimes gets these warning if y

RE: SI2015 alembic vs maya

2014-04-23 Thread Ho Chung Nguyen
This seems like an issue with the Alembic plugin in Maya, even an abc file exported from Maya can’t be re-imported correctly when there are multiple materials on the mesh. We’re looking into it. From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Be

RE: Softimage 2015 Alembic attach to geometry

2014-04-21 Thread Ho Chung Nguyen
-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Ho Chung Nguyen Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2014 10:56 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: RE: Softimage 2015 Alembic attach to geometry Can you attach the abc file so we can look into it? From

RE: Softimage 2015 Alembic attach to geometry

2014-04-21 Thread Ho Chung Nguyen
Can you attach the abc file so we can look into it? From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Nuno Conceicao Sent: Monday, April 21, 2014 10:28 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Softimage 2015 Alembic attach to ge

RE: Crowd FX 2014 help

2014-04-08 Thread Ho Chung Nguyen
Hi John You can find the foo fighter scene done in the new CrowdFX system here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/81523789/FooFighter.zip From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of John Richard Sanchez Sent: Thursday, March 27,

RE: C++ : custom ice node with custom data type

2013-04-15 Thread Ho Chung Nguyen
ing the argument be an array of strings vs a single string s On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 8:07 PM, Ho Chung Nguyen mailto:hochung.ngu...@autodesk.com>> wrote: You can connect to the SDK example workgroup and check out this custom ICE node \XSISDK\examples\workgroup\Addons\CustomICENodes\cppsrc_gridwalker\GridWalker.cpp <>

RE: C++ : custom ice node with custom data type

2013-04-11 Thread Ho Chung Nguyen
You can connect to the SDK example workgroup and check out this custom ICE node \XSISDK\examples\workgroup\Addons\CustomICENodes\cppsrc_gridwalker\GridWalker.cpp (To connect, go to File > Plugin Manager > Workgroup > Connect > Try SDK Examples workgroup) The demo scene for this ICE node is here:

RE: finding the hidden variable

2013-04-06 Thread Ho Chung Nguyen
This is another plugin you can use https://bitbucket.org/nghochung/public/src/7ea9985ee032/FindICEAttribute?at=master -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Jeff McFall Sent: Saturday, April 06, 2013

RE: setting ICEAttribute.DataArray in JScript

2013-03-24 Thread Ho Chung Nguyen
- In Jscript, the array needs to be converted to safearray before you can set it on ICE attribute data. Check out the code below for the conversion. - As a workaround for setting MaterialID, you can store the data in a custom attribute, then use ICE to read from it and set MaterialID function ge