Using 2014sp2 and have the same error when trying to connect the initPMVC.
Thanks for being so generous with your compounds ahmidou!
On 18 December 2013 08:09, Andreas Böinghoff <boeingh...@s-farm.de> wrote:
> I got the same error here with SI 2013 SP1.
>
> Andreas
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> On 12/18/2013 5:34 AM, Alok Gandhi wrote:
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> Hi Ahmidou,
>
> I am getting the same error as Jeremie. From what I concur, the phi
> distribution on sphere node furnishes an array of position which is plugged
> into the direction of the a raycast node. The direction can be either a
> single vector or vector per point of the deformee while you are are
> supplying an array of vector, thereby causing incompatible types error.
>
> I did not have time to compare your implementation with the paper to
> further debug this, but this can give you an direction to further solve
> this issue.
>
> Either that or we are not setting up in the tree in the correct way.
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 9:09 PM, Jeremie Passerin <gerem....@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Not sure, I'll try again tomorrow morning..
>>
>> if anyone else on the list is testing it, let me know if it works for
>> you.
>>
>> thanks again for sharing, that might be a nice addition to my tool set !
>>
>>
>> On 17 December 2013 17:32, Ahmidou.xsi <ahmidou....@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm not in front on my computer, but what kind of error did you got?
>>>
>>> Le 18 déc. 2013 à 11:52, Jeremie Passerin <gerem....@gmail.com> a
>>> écrit :
>>>
>>> Nice job Ahmidou !
>>> Looks pretty straight forward but I wasn't able to make it work yet. :D
>>> I got an error on the phi distribution on Sphere... I might be doing
>>> something wrong.
>>> I'm using XSI 2013, could that be it ?
>>>
>>> Here is what I've done
>>>
>>>
>>> # python
>>> xsi = Application
>>>
>>> # Your path here !
>>> compoundPath =
>>> "\\\\source\\source\\dev\\passerin\\blurdev\\workgroups\\xsi_blurdev\\data\\Compounds"
>>>
>>> xsi.CreatePrim("Sphere", "MeshSurface", "", "")
>>> xsi.SetValue("sphere.polymsh.geom.subdivu", 24, "")
>>> xsi.SetValue("sphere.polymsh.geom.subdivv", 24, "")
>>> xsi.FreezeObj("", "", "")
>>> xsi.CreatePrim("Cube", "MeshSurface", "", "")
>>> xsi.SetValue("cube.cube.length", 9, "")
>>> xsi.ApplyTopoOp("TriangulatePolygons", "cube", "siUnspecified",
>>> "siPersistentOperation", "")
>>> xsi.FreezeObj("", "", "")
>>>
>>> xsi.SelectObj("sphere", "", True)
>>> xsi.ApplyOp("ICETree", "sphere", "siNode", "", "", 0)
>>> xsi.AddICECompoundNode(compoundPath+"\\initPMVC.xsicompound",
>>> "sphere.polymsh.ICETree")
>>> xsi.ConnectICENodes("sphere.polymsh.ICETree.port1",
>>> "sphere.polymsh.ICETree.initPMVC.Execute")
>>> xsi.SelectObj("cube", "", "")
>>> xsi.AddICENode("GetDataNode", "sphere.polymsh.ICETree")
>>> xsi.SetValue("sphere.polymsh.ICETree.SceneReferenceNode.reference",
>>> "cube", "")
>>> xsi.ConnectICENodes("sphere.polymsh.ICETree.initPMVC.cage",
>>> "sphere.polymsh.ICETree.SceneReferenceNode.outname")
>>> xsi.SelectObj("sphere", "", True)
>>> xsi.ApplyOp("ICETree", "sphere", "siNode", "", "", 0)
>>> xsi.MoveOperatorAfter("sphere.polymsh", "sphere.polymsh.ICETree1",
>>> "sphere.polymsh.shapemarker")
>>> xsi.AddICECompoundNode(compoundPath+"\\PMVC.xsicompound",
>>> "sphere.polymsh.ICETree1")
>>> xsi.ConnectICENodes("sphere.polymsh.ICETree1.port1",
>>> "sphere.polymsh.ICETree1.PMVC.Execute")
>>> xsi.SelectObj("cube", "", "")
>>> xsi.AddICENode("GetDataNode", "sphere.polymsh.ICETree1")
>>> xsi.SetValue("sphere.polymsh.ICETree1.SceneReferenceNode.reference",
>>> "cube", "")
>>> xsi.ConnectICENodes("sphere.polymsh.ICETree1.PMVC.cage",
>>> "sphere.polymsh.ICETree1.SceneReferenceNode.outname")
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 17 December 2013 15:37, Alok Gandhi <alok.gandhi2...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Will check that out, thanks Ahmidou!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 6:28 PM, Ahmidou Lyazidi <ahmidou....@gmail.com
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Here is a new cage defomer based on this paper:
>>>>> http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~ylipman/pmvc/pmvc.htm
>>>>>
>>>>> The result is very close the Harmonic coordinates deformation done by
>>>>> Pixar, but faster to compute, it's also better deformation than the
>>>>> Softimage factory one.
>>>>> To use it, just connect the initPMVC compound in the modeling region,
>>>>> and the PMVC one in the animation region, both on the deformed object.
>>>>> The cage must be triangulated! .. but once your happy with the
>>>>> deformation the initPMVC compound may be frozen , and then cage can be
>>>>> quadrangulated.
>>>>> The only limitation is that all the point of the deformee must be
>>>>> inside the cage.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.si-community.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=4683
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers
>>>>> -----------------------------------------------
>>>>> Ahmidou Lyazidi
>>>>> Director | TD | CG artist
>>>>> http://vimeo.com/ahmidou/videos
>>>>> http://www.cappuccino-films.com
>>>>>
>>>>
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