Re: emTools - align velocity on deformation

2012-11-13 Thread Rob Chapman
in Modelling stack store the location positions (in relation to the mesh) for each particle strands head and tail that you want, then in simulation stack on every frame set it? On 13 November 2012 13:40, Darren Blencowe | VOODOO dar...@voodoo-animation.com wrote: Hi Folks, ** **

Re: Curl Noise Framework compound

2012-11-12 Thread Rob Chapman
think you have to have it connected AND setup properly to see it working. depends if you are moving as forces or as postions as well. Ive used it a lot and highly recommend it. also if you do GetICE|get bubbles an ICE tree compound is made with the curl noise framework correctly set up inside

Re: paper coming unstuck

2012-10-29 Thread Rob Chapman
Helge did something VERY close to what you are after a while back with a simple scene setup using MT_Static_Instancer. there is a demo scene called flowing paper or similar as part of the examples. can be found http://rray.de/xsi/index_nodyn.html best Rob On 29 October 2012 04:01, Nick Angus

Re: ICE modelling - polygon area

2012-10-23 Thread Rob Chapman
of the inset on an Extrude Polygon Island node based on Self.PolygonArea. However it seems to return 0. Any tips? Did you manage to get anything working? DAN On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Rob Chapman tekano@gmail.com wrote: Steve, great! thanks for that, will have a go at implementing

Re: Raafal

2012-10-11 Thread Rob Chapman
yeah give him a slap behind the ear will you Raph :) I would say that the look of these buttons is 'classic' On 11 October 2012 05:35, Raffaele Fragapane raffsxsil...@googlemail.comwrote: Shut up and model! Younglings today... On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Eric Thivierge

Re: Imagemodeller and Softimage

2012-10-09 Thread Rob Chapman
the camera data are interpreted different or the units of measure are out between imagemodeller and Softimage? what format are you importing / exporting with? if its FBX I believe there is/are issues with camera data between applications, no? try another format or version of FBX perhaps? On 9

Re: Runtime Error R6025

2012-10-05 Thread Rob Chapman
particles? one pinged off into infinity? On 5 October 2012 18:25, john clausing jclausin...@yahoo.com wrote: thanks, the odd part is all the other frames render just fine? weird! -- *From:* Ben Houston b...@exocortex.com *To:* Adam Seeley

Re: ICE question

2012-09-28 Thread Rob Chapman
point in volume node On 28 September 2012 14:45, Szabolcs Matefy szabol...@crytek.com wrote: Hey guys, ** ** I need a help. Is it possible to create an ICE tree that checks if a geometry isn’t penetrated by another geometry? I have a low poly object, I have a high poly object, and I

Re: Multiple particle spawning on collision.

2012-09-26 Thread Rob Chapman
couple of things, I think the 'enable spawning from spawned Particles' is what you need and of course if you are spawning from spawned particles in the manner you describe it *will* grow exponentially regardless of how you do it. I think the key here is to try and track the collision / spawning

Re: The Case of the Vanishing Spotlights

2012-09-24 Thread Rob Chapman
closest ive ever seen is vanishing constraints if the constraints is placed on a reference model. a scene reload loses the constraint. never seen spotlights disappear (yet) On 24 September 2012 15:24, Tim Crowson tim.crow...@magneticdreams.comwrote: So no one has ever seen this problem before?

Re: Our latest work

2012-09-20 Thread Rob Chapman
First I was like, eh? didn't notice any effects standing out, it was mostly live action and maybe some slight environment volume light effects so watching the right hand side video was then like oh! the flaming barrels passageway!!, so really well done, it got way past my ra3Dar! best Rob On

Re: In case you missed it..

2012-09-14 Thread Rob Chapman
Forever alone! don't know wether to laugh or cry at this :s On 14 September 2012 01:24, Eric Thivierge ethivie...@gmail.com wrote: For some fun since its Friday in OZ: http://cgmemes.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/proud-but-lonely.html?spref=tw Eric

Re: picking up ICE attribute in RenderTree still buggy???

2012-09-14 Thread Rob Chapman
depends how or what you are trying to do. Lately Ive found adding a custom attribute display per attribute I need caching will always save that attribute in the cache. without then ICE saves the attribute name but not the type or any data. Always when bringing in the cache into a new scene I can

Re: picking up ICE attribute in RenderTree still buggy???

2012-09-14 Thread Rob Chapman
-- *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Rob Chapman *Sent:* 14 September 2012 12:10 *To:* **softimage@listproc.autodesk.com** *Subject:* Re: picking up ICE attribute in RenderTree still buggy

Re: In case you missed it..

2012-09-13 Thread Rob Chapman
It aint my fault Oddball Ive had nothing but good thoughts ever since we left that damn bridge :) On 13 September 2012 09:43, piotrek marczak piotrek.marc...@gmail.comwrote: well said! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuStsFW4EmQ

Re: Digital Golem is hiring an FX ICE Freelancer

2012-09-13 Thread Rob Chapman
Nice! looks really interesting job company Marco. As an aside, just out of interest - how many freelance ICE FX guys or girls left standing on this list that are available in the future for work in UK / Europe? I get asked regularly and most often am not available, and the seasoned up fer

Re: Digital Golem is hiring an FX ICE Freelancer

2012-09-13 Thread Rob Chapman
have been at the same studio for over a year now... Simon Reeves Freelance 3D VFX Artist London, UK *email: si...@simonreeves.com* *website: http://www.simonreeves.com* * * On 13 September 2012 14:06, Rob Chapman tekano@gmail.com wrote: Nice! looks really interesting job company

Re: Digital Golem is hiring an FX ICE Freelancer

2012-09-13 Thread Rob Chapman
good on yer Olly, you were already on the shortlist, was aware you were not available atm from your tweets ;) And as I always saydon't drink from the mainstream ; ) Olly x

Re: Digital Golem is hiring an FX ICE Freelancer

2012-09-13 Thread Rob Chapman
@ Marco, oh noes! we cant let it happen, hitting the twittersphere hard right now! :D the SI_ICE_FX_TD freelance list is growing by the minute but so far we are all booked up ! Much appreciated Rob! ps: If I can't find someone today, we're gonna switch to MAYA ;-) Marco

Re: Digital Golem is hiring an FX ICE Freelancer

2012-09-13 Thread Rob Chapman
woop woop! our numbers are growing strong. Hello Mr Laborde in Canada! On 13 September 2012 17:38, Jonathan Laborde labordeor...@gmail.com wrote: Not a freelancer, and not in Europe (Montreal in fact), but it never hurts to say hello to fellow ICE artists! So... Hello!

Re: In case you missed it..

2012-09-13 Thread Rob Chapman
did Ronald leave same time as Halfy? I miss his contributions too :( On 13 September 2012 17:51, Gene Crucean emailgeneonthel...@gmail.comwrote: Matt essentially nailed it on the head. It boils down to actions speak louder than words. To me... Soft died when Ronald left. That was the sign

Re: Digital Golem is hiring an FX ICE Freelancer

2012-09-13 Thread Rob Chapman
and find ICE quite fun also. ;) On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Rob Chapman tekano@gmail.comwrote: woop woop! our numbers are growing strong. Hello Mr Laborde in Canada! On 13 September 2012 17:38, Jonathan Laborde labordeor...@gmail.comwrote: Not a freelancer, and not in Europe

Re: In case you missed it..

2012-09-12 Thread Rob Chapman
wait, Maurice, you hired a company that used Max Maya animators to evaluate Softimage for its benefits to them? then based your entire strategy on this? what about benefits to the existing Softimage user basel! this is the problem we have you fool don't you see it?! pardon the french, calling

Re: In case you missed it..

2012-09-12 Thread Rob Chapman
: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Rob Chapman Sent: 12 September 2012 10:29 To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: In case you missed it.. wait, Maurice, you hired a company that used Max Maya animators to evaluate

Re: In case you missed it..

2012-09-12 Thread Rob Chapman
...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Rob Chapman Sent: 12 September 2012 13:17 To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: In case you missed it.. so basically, the existing Softimage user base can jsut sod off! On 12 September 2012 13:08, Graham Bell graham.b...@autodesk.commailto

Re: In case you missed it..

2012-09-12 Thread Rob Chapman
So Maurice, A brave effort with your rhetoric but sadly the results you achieved are letting you down. It is exactly what we did not expect or *were used to*before you are your crew took it upon yourselves to remarket Softimage within the given framework of ME apps at AD. Do you think what you

Re: In case you missed it..

2012-09-12 Thread Rob Chapman
Oh Im still behind Softimage all right, its just it being under Autodesk is leaving such a bitter taste that im kind of forced/willing to try alternatives. whatever happens its still good for a good few years as it is :) Phil may be seeing a pattern here that others who were not familiar

Re: In case you missed it..

2012-09-11 Thread Rob Chapman
If there is more profit to be made from Softimage from hiding it as a general, competing against Max / Maya application and selling it as a particle plugin why wouldnt they do it? this is what they have done since the Suites brainiac idea, there is not a shred of evidence anywhere that they tried

Re: Motionbuilder/Softimage default rig for MocapData slap-ons?

2012-09-11 Thread Rob Chapman
. Cheers, tim On 11.09.2012 12:55, Chris Chia wrote: Motor comes with support for the different XSI built in rig. Note: diff rigs might perform slightly different because of the difference in the tagging. Chris On 11 Sep, 2012, at 5:45 PM, Rob Chapman tekano@gmail.commailto:t

Re: nulls2mesh

2012-09-07 Thread Rob Chapman
true - is 'pass through' not the similar as a dot node? On 7 September 2012 17:12, piotrek marczak piotrek.marc...@gmail.comwrote: This image reminds me that ice needs dot node *From:* Rob Chapman tekano@gmail.com *Sent:* Friday, September 07, 2012 5:56 PM *To:* softimage

Re: ICE in Maya is an engineer's worst nightmare

2012-09-06 Thread Rob Chapman
are the UI team although that might end up being useful in FX or Rendering. Who is reports to is meaningless. On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 6:28 AM, Rob Chapman tekano@gmail.com wrote: So its just a confirmation then of what Luceric has already hinted as to why the ex devs from Softimage are working

Re: ICE in Maya is an engineer's worst nightmare

2012-09-06 Thread Rob Chapman
PM, Rob Chapman tekano@gmail.com wrote: OK, thanks all. so what confirmations, if any, do we actually have or 'allowed' to talk about? 1. its not going to be ICE but will have same workflow / functionality - I really dont appreciate the difference? so each node will be called

Re: ICE in Maya is an engineer's worst nightmare

2012-09-06 Thread Rob Chapman
*On 6 September 2012 17:34, Bradley Gabe witha...@gmail.com wrote: * * The real threat is their fear of ADSK, and the potential that they re-wire their trucks without dependence on any DCC app.* and this is what Guy is talking about in another thread , no? in which case its already starting

Re: ICE in Maya is an engineer's worst nightmare

2012-09-06 Thread Rob Chapman
On 6 September 2012 23:00, Bradley Gabe witha...@gmail.com wrote: I'm starting to think a better analogy would have been cars pulling trailers. nice, so in the case the studios are trailers of different sizes and maya and softimage are the cars and trucks ? So Softimage can be the fiat panda

Re: nulls2mesh

2012-09-05 Thread Rob Chapman
oh! ICE topo should be able to do this, :) but not sure how you are to build the polygon description from a set of random positions!? not so easy what kind of mesh are you after? if its not just a regular clean topology then you could simply put all nulls into a group and use the

Re: nulls2mesh

2012-09-05 Thread Rob Chapman
be a useful tool to have and it would exist already (sure there used to be a script)!! Polygoniser takes the nulls but gives blobs rather then a single mesh! Thanks for looking though! Cheers Lawrence On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Rob Chapman tekano@gmail.com wrote: oh! ICE topo

Re: nulls2mesh

2012-09-05 Thread Rob Chapman
you want a convex hull of the null's points. Pretty sure there was a compound once, if not you might try Mr. LaForge's Convex Hullhttp://frenchdog.wordpress.com/2012/01/05/happy-2012/ICE node. On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Rob Chapman tekano@gmail.com wrote: yeah I dont think

Re: nulls2mesh

2012-09-05 Thread Rob Chapman
for sure! but it was Mr Pankhurst who asked first :) On 5 September 2012 12:57, Chris Chia chris.c...@autodesk.com wrote: Hey Rob, do you need a compound for building the description? I might have a plugin for you... Chris

Re: Friday Flashback

2012-09-03 Thread Rob Chapman
where 'will not be bought by Autodesk' in the contract is a definite selling point. On 3 September 2012 17:46, Andy Moorer andymoo...@gmail.com wrote: I can imagine boutiques purchasing specific software modules, perhaps from a wide choice made by various TDs similar to the Helge, Eric

Re: Bye Bye

2012-09-02 Thread Rob Chapman
au revoir, mais ce n'est pas la fin On 1 September 2012 03:49, Guillaume Laforge guillaume.laforge...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Guys, I just wanted to say thank you for all the good words I heard today. I'm out of AD and won't follow this list as much as before, but it was a real pleasure to

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-31 Thread Rob Chapman
having a path input for compounds that contain 'cache on file' nodes

Re: Friday Flashback

2012-08-31 Thread Rob Chapman
??? Mr Stephen Blair leaving!? voluntarily? or part of the 7% ??? On 31 August 2012 11:58, Sajjad Amjad sajjad.am...@gmail.com wrote: O_o On 31 August 2012 11:54, Stephen Blair stephenrbl...@gmail.com wrote: Friday Flashback #85 The end part II http://wp.me/powV4-24o On Fri,

Re: Friday Flashback

2012-08-31 Thread Rob Chapman
I wonder if this is the action of Mr. 'Mayalicious' Softimage's new product manager? I need a phone number or email address to complain to, this is a truly preposterous decision.

Re: Friday Flashback

2012-08-31 Thread Rob Chapman
No, not at all. He is in a completely separate division (Dev) from product support. Product Support reports up into the Sales and Services org. On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 7:36 AM, Rob Chapman tekano@gmail.com wrote: I wonder if this is the action of Mr. 'Mayalicious' Softimage's new product

Re: Friday Flashback

2012-08-31 Thread Rob Chapman
this news any more than anyone else. G From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Rob Chapman Sent: 31 August 2012 12:36 To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Friday Flashback I wonder if this is the action of Mr

Re: Feathers done with ICE, developed from our development based on Melena.

2012-08-30 Thread Rob Chapman
pic or it didnt happen :) On 30 August 2012 15:22, Sandy Sutherland sandy.sutherl...@triggerfish.co.za wrote: Hi all, Thought I would pop this amazing pic done by our super duper Fur lead - she took Fur and developed it into feathers, we used MB feathers on Zambezia - which are

Re: ICE modelling: topo cache when polygon count is changing

2012-08-25 Thread Rob Chapman
, Rob Chapman tekano@gmail.commailto: tekano@gmail.com wrote: Ciaran, thank you very much indeed that worked a treat! I had a slight issue recreating getting the txt_proj attribute over but mostly just a typo in the name I think. for those that are stuck in Production on 2012 still

Re: ICE modelling: topo cache when polygon count is changing

2012-08-16 Thread Rob Chapman
it to work in 2012 and can be reached here https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B0WD7fSUkxAMODRlZl9GQ0FsTWc now if only there was a centralized resource for uploading and sharing all these cool new compounds, tricks and techniques ;) Best Rob On 15 August 2012 15:29, Rob Chapman tekano@gmail.com wrote

Re: InstanceShape not cached correctly with 2013 Sp1

2012-08-15 Thread Rob Chapman
/ On 8/14/2012 3:20 PM, Rob Chapman wrote: also.. are you positive your attributes you say you wanted cached and need for the correct ID transfer *are* actually being cached? could be a little 'force attribute cache' may be needed to coerce ICE into doing what you ask. http

ICE modelling: topo cache when polygon count is changing

2012-08-15 Thread Rob Chapman
so, ICE topo is been around for a while now, can we cache it? ' WARNING : 3000 - Caching : Object topology (points count or edges count or polygons count or uv sample) doesn't match. it appears not. there is nothing in the manual either. currently searching some french ex softimage dev web site

Re: ICE modelling: topo cache when polygon count is changing

2012-08-15 Thread Rob Chapman
mine or Softimages? :) no-worries - been there done that already, trick is to replace the compiled 2013 node with a renamed 2012 version then export the icetree. et voilà - forward compatability On 15 August 2012 15:19, Ciaran Moloney moloney.cia...@gmail.com wrote: er...careful. 2013 uses a

memory leak - how to kill Softimage

2012-08-15 Thread Rob Chapman
Heres an interesting one, and I am aware that Softimage is NOT meant to be forward compatible, but still, *most* compounds can be exported from 2013 and loaded into 2012 ok. try loading a point position cache from 2013 into 2012 SP1 = instant crash to desktop with no CER then for laughs, after

Re: Autodesk aquires Naiad

2012-08-14 Thread Rob Chapman
yeah I know right! sadly we live in depressing times, if only there was some light at the end of the tunnel... On 14 August 2012 18:18, olivier jeannel olivier.jean...@noos.fr wrote: Guys I love you, but sometimes it's depressing to read you... 1Le 14/08/2012 18:59, Rob Chapman a écrit

Re: InstanceShape not cached correctly with 2013 Sp1

2012-08-14 Thread Rob Chapman
ah Arnold, I see because fixing the instance shape after the cache applied has always happened for me when transferring to a new scene, its simple to fix and has always worked. normally Its just a pointer to which object to pick in a group. Think we have had some luck in the past with exporting a

Re: Autodesk Masters

2012-08-13 Thread Rob Chapman
last time I logged in to the area was to vote a Softimage master as well :) gl to get a jacket! On 13 August 2012 19:08, Miquel Campos miquel.cam...@gmail.com wrote: Done! ;) Miquel

Re: ICE modelling - polygon area

2012-08-09 Thread Rob Chapman
must be getting close - keep getting this now ' ERROR : 2429 - Access to a custom ICE node index set failed. This can occur when accessing an index set from the BeginEvaluate or EndEvaluate callback. all im trying to do is repeat in an array each selected polygons changes at the point level. ie

Re: Blending displacement using raylength

2012-08-08 Thread Rob Chapman
he did say 'one' of those and also, havn't loaded the scene (2012 still here) but doesn't seem any different from the 2nd example pic I sent. slight problem between the chair and keyboard I say ! :) On 8 August 2012 16:02, Chris Marshall chrismarshal...@gmail.com wrote: That's really great

Re: ICE modelling - polygon area

2012-08-06 Thread Rob Chapman
Hi Alok, yes the attribute PolygonArea is read only. I have a list of selected polygons taken from the polygon index and I would like to scale them arbitrarily with per polgon values I have set up already like inset amount extrude length. I am wondering if there is an easier way to scale

Re: beerage tonight

2012-08-06 Thread Rob Chapman
on a Monday..! outrageous. :) sorry have to be elsewhere this evening - but deffo more towards the end of the week next time :) Inbox (10,117) https://mail.google.com/mail/ca/#inbox On 6 August 2012 13:53, Matt Morris matt...@gmail.com wrote: Awesome! Think I might be able to drag one or

Re: ICE Topo grow polygon array

2012-08-01 Thread Rob Chapman
through some extrude nodes, in a loop, can give an interesting result. Chris On 31 July 2012 17:27, Rob Chapman tekano@gmail.com wrote: Nice one Chris, sort of following cluelessly and trying to rebuild something similar - quick question - what are the Test nodes testing mode? Is Element

Re: ICE Topo grow polygon array

2012-07-31 Thread Rob Chapman
Nice one Chris, sort of following cluelessly and trying to rebuild something similar - quick question - what are the Test nodes testing mode? Is Element, Integer Array or Comparison? Cheers Rob

Re: Fluid shaper

2012-07-25 Thread Rob Chapman
what do you want to know? make some lagoa particle thing, turn this into a polygoniser mesh then use Lagoa fluid shaper which makes the mesh more 'fluidy' or stringy or thinner - whatever adjective best describes the result :) On 25 July 2012 16:11, Andi Farhall

ERROR : 2006-FILE-SIImportModel - Unexpected failure.

2012-07-19 Thread Rob Chapman
So, in 2012 SP1, I exported a model containing only an ICE Modelling geometry (with the ice tree live) a curve and two nulls when I try and import said model I get ' INFO : 4152 - Data loaded from file \\aka03\in_progress\**path snipped**\ICE_SLIDE_Model.emdl was created with build number:

Re: ERROR : 2006-FILE-SIImportModel - Unexpected failure.

2012-07-19 Thread Rob Chapman
? On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Rob Chapman tekano@gmail.com wrote: So, in 2012 SP1, I exported a model containing only an ICE Modelling geometry (with the ice tree live) a curve and two nulls when I try and import said model I get ' INFO : 4152 - Data loaded from file \\aka03

Re: ERROR : 2006-FILE-SIImportModel - Unexpected failure.

2012-07-19 Thread Rob Chapman
and further investigation it seems it was a curve that was created with 'fit curve' not being frozen and its input curve being outside the model is the main culprit here. apologies to ICE modelling, always blame the new guy first :) On 19 July 2012 16:15, Rob Chapman tekano@gmail.com wrote

Re: ICE modeling

2012-07-18 Thread Rob Chapman
So still fumbling through some ICE modelling examples, and what is bothering me right now is that when dealing with the polygon index array displays as a big list of values for each isolated elements attribute whereas I'm used to a per point array the values get displayed on each point... is there

Re: ICE modeling

2012-07-18 Thread Rob Chapman
? cheers Rob On 18 July 2012 11:04, Vincent Ullmann vincent.ullm...@googlemail.com wrote: @Rob Chapman: You simply need a perPolygon-Context Try this: Get Data (Polygon Index) - Select in Array (Your Array of Values) - Dispaly This -SetData (TMP)

Re: crash when using Referenced Model - Soft2012 SAP

2012-07-18 Thread Rob Chapman
had this not so long ago. Scripters were blamed, ICE tree wranglers were framed for derision but the eventual problem? Quicktime! if any quicktime files were referenced in the clips or sources then Filenew or Fileopen would desktop Softimage. solution - do not use Quicktime as source clips :)

Re: crash when using Referenced Model - Soft2012 SAP

2012-07-18 Thread Rob Chapman
, not a Quicktime in sight. Next solution please?! On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Rob Chapman tekano@gmail.com wrote: had this not so long ago. Scripters were blamed, ICE tree wranglers were framed for derision but the eventual problem? Quicktime! if any quicktime files were

Re: crash when using Referenced Model - Soft2012 SAP

2012-07-18 Thread Rob Chapman
ah yeah that old chestnut of corrupt scenes, good luck in isolating the cause again ! so in your hunt for live operators did you try Brad's plugin 'Sanity check' ? https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topicsearchin/xsi_list/group:xsi_list$20AND$20subject:sanity/xsi_list/FmE0agPe6d8 damn

Re: ICE modeling

2012-07-17 Thread Rob Chapman
Agreed, also how to 'grow' meshes from curves or animation data, on these newly generated meshes to then select polys by area or closest to a pointcloud ,merge surrounding polys to current selection, extrude this etc. maybe how to blend between some instances and a ICE modelling mesh. A

Re: AE relight

2012-07-06 Thread Rob Chapman
dont forget AtomKraft for the win! https://atomkraft.hk/aftereffects On 6 July 2012 14:33, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.com wrote: And there's also the classic Normality plugin, which allow lighting shading using normals passes: http://www.3dcg.net/software/normality/

Re: WHATTA HELL???????

2012-07-05 Thread Rob Chapman
and tried merging the problematic scene? been here before, its horrible :/ think there is some debug mode you can switch on in the SI startup script as well which may help, Fabrice did a while back when we encountered some errors on previously loadable scenes , think it was an error on a

Re: NY ICE workshop videos live

2012-07-03 Thread Rob Chapman
that's like totally like awesome with like tons of good shit! New Yorkers eh, gotta, like, love em :) thanks a lot for sharing - good visuals to see and some real clever stuff! On 2 July 2012 19:34, Ed Manning etmth...@gmail.com wrote: thanks! On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 11:34 AM,

Re: bbc olympics titles

2012-07-02 Thread Rob Chapman
great hyper real but painterly look and fantastic animation - some guys were wondering here if any motion capture was used!? looking forward to seeing the 2:40 tomorrow night, well done! On 2 July 2012 15:20, Jens Lindgren jens.lindgren@gmail.com wrote: Really nice! Found it in HD on

Re: Old tekkon particle presets

2012-07-02 Thread Rob Chapman
I found it! its legacy - all the scenes don't render but they load and play OK in 2012 . Ive taken the liberty of putting the original .zip on my Google Drive thingy here https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B0WD7fSUkxAMSlphUjJianZpN1U theres nothing here that cant be setup really easy in ICE

Re: memory not flushed after caching

2012-06-08 Thread Rob Chapman
ok well if the issue is the original emit from volume then I highly recommend Cairan's SDF emitter. shaves literally hours of waiting for the original emit by volume to emit. On 8 June 2012 15:47, Anthony Martin anthonymarti...@googlemail.com wrote: Do you think this would also effect things

Re: memory not flushed after caching

2012-06-08 Thread Rob Chapman
http://blog.blackredking.org/?p=47 a link might help! :) On 8 June 2012 15:59, Rob Chapman tekano@gmail.com wrote: ok well if the issue is the original emit from volume then I highly recommend Cairan's SDF emitter. shaves literally hours of waiting for the original emit by volume to emit

Re: memory not flushed after caching

2012-06-08 Thread Rob Chapman
really? thats awesome news. Can't say enough times how much I rate this set of custom ICE compounds. Used it for all sorts of things, its really helped me bridge the gap with Geometry / Volumes / Voxels / Grids and even the terminology from Houdini :D would be nice to get some ICE volume viewport

Re: prefiltering pointposition before getting closest points

2012-06-06 Thread Rob Chapman
Hi Sebastian, what are you trying to do with the 10 million+ point cloud? closest location to itself is going to be painful yes :) when the point clouds are reaching that high sometimes its best to have a similar pointcloud around but with far fewer points. like say 1%. Surprisingly it is a

Re: prefiltering pointposition before getting closest points

2012-06-06 Thread Rob Chapman
. i will see if i can provide a repro scene. if i calm down Am 06.06.2012 um 11:35 schrieb Rob Chapman: Hi Sebastian, what are you trying to do with the 10 million+ point cloud?  closest location to itself is going to be painful yes :)  when the point clouds are reaching that high

Re: Scale by density

2012-06-03 Thread Rob Chapman
get neighbours amount rescale size ? :) On 3 June 2012 14:12, Anthony Martin anthonymarti...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi there, I want to scale/change the size of a particle based on how many nearby particles there are. In my mind it feels like it should be very easy (I'm sure it is): for

Re: SiC London - emFluid presentation.

2012-06-02 Thread Rob Chapman
splendid Anthony ! very informative, thanks Rob On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 12:00 AM, Anthony Martin anthonymarti...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi all, I gave a presentation about emFluid on Tuesday at the SiC London event. It was fun but also very noisy, making it difficult for anyone other than

Re: Test

2012-05-31 Thread Rob Chapman
Hi Stephen is there anyway to get the bounce message received by the mailing list from Google so we can at least ask Google whats up? Looking at the google help forums anytime this kind of situation crops up they simply ask for the original bounce message - which we dont receive. then they deal

Re: Test - mail server seems to be down again

2012-05-30 Thread Rob Chapman
yes its that or there is not many posts today?? On 30 May 2012 16:55, Kamen Lilov kamen.li...@chaosgroup.com wrote: Ping?

Re: Uh oh, GoogleGroups archive admin, you need to confirm

2012-05-29 Thread Rob Chapman
do we need to forward this to someone at Maya? :D whose got the reigns now then!? On 29 May 2012 14:41, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.com wrote: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/xsi_list/TowIZVpByOQ

Re: Uh oh, GoogleGroups archive admin, you need to confirm

2012-05-29 Thread Rob Chapman
-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Rob Chapman Sent: May-29-12 9:51 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Uh oh, GoogleGroups archive admin, you need to confirm do we need to forward this to someone at Maya?  :D  whose got the reigns now then!? On 29 May 2012 14:41, Alan

Re: [Python] Storing datas in a UserDataBlob

2012-05-29 Thread Rob Chapman
hey , its been a while but is this the Softimage badass thread? :) python... meh! On 29 May 2012 20:24, Jeremie Passerin gerem@gmail.com wrote: Interesting ! That looks nicer import json root = Application.ActiveSceneRoot blob = root.Properties(Test) if not blob: blob =

Re: mail...

2012-05-27 Thread Rob Chapman
ah...! so wait a minute - Autodesk listserve is getting bounces from google.com? and the the link listserve provided in this email to ensure my membership stays is faulty. whats going on Autodesk??? Your membership in the mailing list Softimage has been disabled due to excessive bounces

Re: mail...

2012-05-27 Thread Rob Chapman
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Re: mail...

2012-05-27 Thread Rob Chapman
, 2012 at 8:31 PM, Rob Chapman tekano@gmail.com wrote: Oops! Google Chrome could not find listproc.autodesk.com

Re: Procedural textures on particles

2012-05-23 Thread Rob Chapman
So this thread is not on the google mailing list archive... https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/xsi_list but can see it in gmail, I wonder how many others have disappeared!?

Re: is the list dead?

2012-05-20 Thread Rob Chapman
hmm how can it be dead if I can see your post saying the list is dead. bit of a conundrum :) On 20 May 2012 14:04, Sebastian Kowalski l...@sekow.com wrote: seems the list is dead.. even my submitted mails dont show up.. hello? anybody out there? the silence is killing me.

Re: OT: @ fmx

2012-05-18 Thread Rob Chapman
awesome - very intriguing , can't wait to see what you folks come up with! best Rob

Re: ICE strand orientation trouble - again :/ now with images

2012-05-16 Thread Rob Chapman
'a technique I came across somewhere' oh! , sounds a bit like this http://sites.google.com/site/tekanoice/tutorials/ice-flowers-part-i ;) heres the scene file from that tutorial

Re: naiad particles into ICE

2012-05-11 Thread Rob Chapman
wait... Fury can load .PRT files? thats a new one - very handy! On 11 May 2012 11:28, Ciaran Moloney moloney.cia...@gmail.com wrote: Partio supports .prt, but not .icecache. I'd be interested to know if anyone was able to compile the icecache patch from the good folks at Mad Crew? I couldn't

Re: naiad particles into ICE

2012-05-11 Thread Rob Chapman
that works a treat Cairan! PRT to Icecache - in your face! and a side thanks to Brad as well! and yes of course, deferred loading is the way to go with many millions, this is for research and testing process right now and am very happy to see the Naiad particles in Softimage. many thanks

Re: OT: @ fmx

2012-05-08 Thread Rob Chapman
oh! well leaving it completely open ended like that leaves a lot of room for speculation as to what Teamup actually is / does!? I'm going for TeamUP is GPU hardware based ICE acceleration for Lagoa... ;) Cheers Rob On 8 May 2012 07:59, Juhani Karlsson juhani.karls...@talvi.com wrote: Can`t

Re: Intro to the new team (was RE: Softimage development)

2012-04-20 Thread Rob Chapman
are just off the top of my head. dont forget all the support guys too! stephen, graham, siddarth, matthew.. i am sure i am missing someone... s On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Rob Chapman tekano@gmail.commailto:tekano@gmail.com wrote: incredulous, absolve the the entire known dev

Re: Intro to the new team (was RE: Softimage development)

2012-04-20 Thread Rob Chapman
- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Rob Chapman Sent: 20 April 2012 13:57 To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Intro to the new team (was RE: Softimage development) 'Until you manage to reverse the information

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