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by csaez
02 Dec 2015, 12:12
Forum: News
Topic: GIMP 2.9.2 announced
Replies: 5
Views: 1752

Re: GIMP 2.9.2 announced

2.9.x are considered unstable/dev-preview releases and I doubt there will be any official build until 2.10 (stable).
by csaez
12 Nov 2015, 14:25
Forum: Maya
Topic: Maya Modelling
Replies: 8
Views: 4923

Re: Maya Modelling

Performance wise is waaaaaaay better than having an expensive copyop going on (at least from a rigging POV... we used to copy selectively through ICE as a workaround to copyop slowness on the rigs of the latest production I worked on, not fun at all).

But yeah, haters gonna hate :)
by csaez
12 Nov 2015, 14:02
Forum: Maya
Topic: Maya Modelling
Replies: 8
Views: 4923

Re: Maya Modelling

... Intensively tried the first Maya 2016 this spring, didn't find any of these duplicate specials (in this version), able to re-assemble SI clone, which functionally is end result of one construction history... You can parent a shape to different transform nodes (sharing the same instance). 1. Sel...
by csaez
27 Sep 2015, 07:25
Forum: Programming
Topic: Get ShapeKey cluster elment by index
Replies: 3
Views: 1502

Re: Get ShapeKey cluster elment by index

Hi Mike, Be aware that ID mapping is 1:1 on entire clusters (probably the shapes you're testing), but you can also create partial clusters to hold shapekeys in which case indices will not match the mesh, shapekeys/weightmaps are indexed by its cluster ID :) I haven't done much with shapekeys lately,...
by csaez
26 Sep 2015, 02:17
Forum: Programming
Topic: Get ShapeKey cluster elment by index
Replies: 3
Views: 1502

Re: Get ShapeKey cluster elment by index

I dont have access to softimage on this computer, but afaik clusterProperty.Elements.Array gives you an array of deltas (vector3) indexed by the point id on the cluster, so you should map pointID/clusterID and there you go. I also recommend you to get the entire dataset in one call and play around o...
by csaez
26 Sep 2015, 02:08
Forum: ICE
Topic: Visualize Database/Excell in ICE
Replies: 5
Views: 1463

Re: Visualize Database/Excell in ICE

how about converting the data into icecache format externally ? maybe this thread will help .. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/xsi_list/swX-MLw258s/X9bQ9i08WPMJ i tried compiling the pdb2ice tool by ben rogall in the past but its missing some custom header files :( A python alternative to eas...
by csaez
04 May 2015, 13:57
Forum: 3ds Max
Topic: 3ds Max 2016
Replies: 38
Views: 16993

Re: 3ds Max 2016

Max already has widely used and supported node based particle system with pflow, so it's a totally different story then in Softimage and Maya, where the previous system is all ppg-based. Come on... I think most ppl are expecting some level of proceduralism, and while pflow has a nodal GUI, it's jus...
by csaez
19 Mar 2015, 03:31
Forum: Programming
Topic: How define current selection type?
Replies: 1
Views: 1313

Re: How define current selection type?

You can check the selection type, but it will fail if nothing is selected... What you need is toggle the selection filter instead (python). from sipyutils import si si = si() filters = { "object": "Vertex", "Vertex": "Edge", "Edge": "Polygon&quo...
by csaez
18 Mar 2015, 12:53
Forum: Programming
Topic: Need help navigating a folder structure
Replies: 3
Views: 1505

Re: Need help navigating a folder structure

Hi Pete, I don't have Softimage in front of me, but looks like an easy task for python. The snippet below should print the path to the parent directory of the current project. import os from sipyutils import si project_path = si().ActiveProject2.Path parent_path = os.path.join(project_path, ".....
by csaez
08 Mar 2015, 22:17
Forum: Announcements
Topic: Open source Softimage!
Replies: 86
Views: 50659

Re: Open source Softimage!

Healthy competition is extremely valuable in the open source world as well. You definitely do need it. Take for instance btrfs vs ZFS. BSDs vs Linux. The BSDs versus each other, the linux distributions vs each other. X11 vs Mir vs Wayland. There is lots of instances where some healthy competition h...
by csaez
08 Mar 2015, 11:46
Forum: Announcements
Topic: Open source Softimage!
Replies: 86
Views: 50659

Re: Open source Softimage!

Why compete in an open source world when you can directly help to fix things in the project (and they are really open to accept contributions)? if you want to move cool ideas from Softimage to another software, I think Blender is a great platform to do it... everyone wins! Competition is healthy whe...
by csaez
08 Mar 2015, 07:34
Forum: Announcements
Topic: Open source Softimage!
Replies: 86
Views: 50659

Re: Open source Softimage!

Why not contribute to an existing open source project instead?
Creating a full DCC from scratch is a gigantic project! I'm pretty sure your contributions would be gladly accepted in any existing project (e.g. Blender!?).
by csaez
06 Mar 2015, 10:20
Forum: Programming
Topic: Undo/redo history
Replies: 7
Views: 2390

Re: Undo/redo history

There's a way to encapsulate your script into one big undo step by using the BeginUndo/EndUndo commands. Application.BeginUndo() # YOUR CODE HERE Application.EndUndo() If you're using python it is possible to wrap this up as a convenient decorator or context manager, here is an old blog post about t...
by csaez
18 Feb 2015, 12:52
Forum: Houdini
Topic: Yet another Houdini adventure
Replies: 1
Views: 1181

Yet another Houdini adventure

Hi guys, I don't have the privilege to choose my daily software, but I like Houdini a lot and have been playing with it on my spare time. Said that, here's a video I recently did porting a procedural DNA chain from an ICE setup. It's not a 1-1 match, of course, but it was never intended that way and...
by csaez
29 Dec 2014, 03:23
Forum: ICE
Topic: image gradient to ICE
Replies: 2
Views: 1306

Re: image gradient to ICE

Hi maksut, I don't have softimage in front of me, but a general solution might be something like getting the uv coords by point from Softimage (using something like UVWProperty.Elements.Array), query the color information at that pixel using a python library like PIL/Pillow, and storing the informat...