Shit hits the fan, when you want to to have sculpt like deformation in XSI. Unfortunately the current system doesn't let you build up your strokes properly, due to the weightmap limitation. What I think, that each "stroke" should have its own weight map, but that would slaughter the performance. The graphite toolset has quite nice things, but our max artist hate it, it's nowhere close to the original polyboost feature set.
Maybe, texture should have its own history stack? And an additional Freeze T button to freeze texturing only? Anyway, while a texture operator is live, I'd sometimes have it sit on the top of the stack, so the Texture History is a good idea. I tried to recreate for example, the DPK Paint Deform (http://dpk.stargrav.com/pafiledb/pafiledb.php?action=file&id=32) with ICE, and more or less succeeded. Unfortunately the buildup is missing (when your strokes are accumulating, causing the increased effect. Maya's artisan treats it pretty well. And since I do all of my modeling with my Wacom pen, I'd be happy with a proper sculpting tool. And not to mention, the ability to disable the weightmap display during sculpting...Seeing the model in constant shading with the weight map is not really help in deformation. My 2 cents Szabolcs From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Sebastien Sterling Sent: Friday, March 29, 2013 12:31 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Softimage 2014 I agree with matt, if only to add a new tab like m freeze, but which would preserve texture, the tool you are talking about in max is called paint deformation, and it is at the bottom of the edit poly operation menu, you can push pull relax, its basically like artisan in maya. On 28 March 2013 23:08, Matt Lind <ml...@carbinestudios.com> wrote: I think the point is that many of these features are not readily available out of the box. We have to write the tools ourselves and there are many blockades to getting the job done. I have the ICE compound Guillame LaForge sent out last year, but it's a bit hit and miss. We're not supporting ICE in our pipeline yet due to instability when using ICE on reference models. 80% of our content is referenced models. I cannot let ICE compounds run amok in scenes that become referenced models and are reused in hundreds of other scenes. We don't have the bandwidth to manage such a situation. Paint - Softimage is light years behind everybody else. That is the point. Their animation-first mindset has been an obstacle to developing a pipeline as the parts we need most are modeling and texturing. Animation is nice, but it too lacks a lot of tools and workflows expected out of the box. Max does have tools to modify topology as our character artist showed me the tools a year or so ago spurring me to request the same from Softimage. They had the ability to pinch and pull, displace, as well as cut into the mesh almost like Zbrush. ZBrush was definitely more robust, but what Max offered was enough for what we needed to do. I'm not a Max user, so don't ask me the names of the tools. The best I can remember was something to do with a graphite toolset and the brush has the ability to have operators assigned to it so they could be painted on meshes. It was intuitive - something which softimage's paint workflow is anything but. Matt From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Ahmidou Lyazidi Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 4:32 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Softimage 2014 Hi Matt, as you moved to 2013 lately, there might be workarounds for some of you problems. Preserve UVs: I think it's not publicly available, but piotrek did a swim UVs for explicit using the custom tool SDK, so it's doable. Paint: A Maya Artisan like paint tool is also possible, I have an unfinished one, it's only doing push and smooth, but working, I also never found the time to implement undo/redo. Also I'm not sure that maya and max have a brush to modify topology. Locking topology: Since 2012 there is a pin UVs that survive to freeze. I'm surprise that a all levels locked ICE tree can be freezed (bug?!), but you ca still make an operator that will lock a point and all it's attached properties. Locked operators are not freezable. Cheers ----------------------------------------------- Ahmidou Lyazidi Director | TD | CG artist http://vimeo.com/ahmidou/videos
