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by Paulrus
04 May 2015, 18:52
Forum: Open Discussion
Topic: Image / video managers, organizers & asset manager review
Replies: 19
Views: 6053

Re: Image / video managers, organizers & asset manager review

Time to do a long-term follow-up to my own post. I've been using IMatch5 for a while now and it has not been all rainbows and unicorns. In fact, I'm really disappointed with it. First, the developer of IMatch has a really bad attitude on his forums. He doesn't seem to grasp that everything he does r...
by Paulrus
16 Feb 2015, 18:13
Forum: Houdini
Topic: Learning Houdini...
Replies: 53
Views: 9812

Re: Learning Houdini...

From my very non-technical viewpoint, the way Houdini's nodes work compared to ICE are a big negative. I absolutely love how simple ICE makes it to slap things together. Not just the colors, etc., but how ICE will tell you what a particular input is expecting if you try to connect the wrong type of ...
by Paulrus
13 Feb 2015, 18:07
Forum: Houdini
Topic: Learning Houdini...
Replies: 53
Views: 9812

Re: Learning Houdini...

This is commercial, but if you've never touched Houdini I think it's an excellent introduction: http://www.lynda.com/Houdini-tutorials/Up-Running-Houdini/182377-2.html One thing that concerns me with Houdini is the question of both 3rd party as well as community support & tools. I just finished ...
by Paulrus
09 Feb 2015, 19:27
Forum: Houdini
Topic: Softimage to Houdini transition references
Replies: 10
Views: 3152

Re: Softimage to Houdini transition references

I am a big fan of the Chrome extension called Dragdis. I have a folder with some Houdini training I've found. I'm not sure if this'll work or not, but here's the public link to my Houdini Dragdis folder: https://dragd.is/dmahFIsJnbmLZYl8 What's nice with Dragdis is, you're able to mix YouTube, Vimeo...
by Paulrus
03 Feb 2015, 13:59
Forum: Houdini
Topic: Learning Houdini...
Replies: 53
Views: 9812

Re: Learning Houdini...

Wow - glad to find this thread. I'm in exactly the same boat. I noticed during the Digital Tutors free trial that someone had created a video called Cinema 4D for Softimage users. It would be very smart for SideFX to create something similar. I know Jordi has published his PDFs, but I tend to prefer...
by Paulrus
29 Jan 2015, 02:55
Forum: Simulation
Topic: How to break a mesh apart dynamicly???
Replies: 5
Views: 5403

Re: How to break a mesh apart dynamicly???

Check out Eric Mootz's free tools - the stuff about vertex islands might be useful.

-Paul
by Paulrus
17 Nov 2014, 15:19
Forum: WIP
Topic: turtle for texturing !
Replies: 4
Views: 1846

Re: turtle for texturing !

If you want to learn texturing, why start in a full-blown application like Softimage? I would recommend starting with something like Mari or Substance Painter? Substance Painter comes with a couple of free models you can paint and learn with. It's a great package and it's not terribly expensive. -Paul
by Paulrus
11 Nov 2014, 17:27
Forum: News
Topic: Blackmagic Fusion 7 is released as PRO and free version
Replies: 9
Views: 3106

Re: Blackmagic Fusion 7 is released as PRO and free version

The only negative so far has been how they've handled existing customers. I am on paid maintenance. I heard about the free version via a blog post. I contacted the sales person at Eyeon (now Blackmagic) and was told they had no information for me and I should contact my reseller. I contacted my rese...
by Paulrus
03 Nov 2014, 21:15
Forum: Open Discussion
Topic: Image / video managers, organizers & asset manager review
Replies: 19
Views: 6053

Re: Image / video managers, organizers & asset manager review

Right... which is why I initially said it doesn't have a file browser. Which is a huge negative in my opinion.
by Paulrus
03 Nov 2014, 19:57
Forum: Open Discussion
Topic: Image / video managers, organizers & asset manager review
Replies: 19
Views: 6053

Re: Image / video managers, organizers & asset manager review

Sorry to turn the Softimage Community to the Daminion Q&A community. I'll take this offline. But to be clear, this is what I see for the Folder view & is the reason I was under the impression there's no file manager. As you can see by my screen grab, there's no folders & no way to naviga...
by Paulrus
03 Nov 2014, 19:20
Forum: Open Discussion
Topic: Image / video managers, organizers & asset manager review
Replies: 19
Views: 6053

Re: Image / video managers, organizers & asset manager review

I appreciate the reply. I'll give it another try.

I was under the impression both the server and local versions had a file limitation.
by Paulrus
03 Nov 2014, 18:50
Forum: Open Discussion
Topic: Image / video managers, organizers & asset manager review
Replies: 19
Views: 6053

Re: Image / video managers, organizers & asset manager review

Thanks for the reply. I can give you my specific run down of issues I see with Daminion. First, the trial has a limit on the number of items you can import. But one of the issues I wanted to test was how well the application handles dealing with 35-40,000 files of different types. Another issue I pe...
by Paulrus
03 Nov 2014, 16:42
Forum: Open Discussion
Topic: Fusion & Nuke
Replies: 26
Views: 9996

Re: Fusion & Nuke

I've used Fusion since the late 1990's, so I'm a bit biased. I think if you want to find compositing jobs, Nuke is the way to go. Nuke is to compositing what Maya is to animation - ugly & difficult, but it's the standard. Fusion is great if you're a small shop or freelancer IMHO. Black Magic too...
by Paulrus
30 Oct 2014, 19:41
Forum: Rendering
Topic: Override primary ray visibility on a polygon cluster?
Replies: 2
Views: 1352

Re: Override primary ray visibility on a polygon cluster?

Redshift. I tried rayswitching but the problem I ran into was having to set my refractive ray depth really high, which slowed things down considerably. The solution I ended up using was to extract the polygon clusters, use GATOR to transfer the envelopes to the extracted polys, then delete the origi...
by Paulrus
29 Oct 2014, 20:09
Forum: Rendering
Topic: Override primary ray visibility on a polygon cluster?
Replies: 2
Views: 1352

Override primary ray visibility on a polygon cluster?

I know you can add a visibility property to polygon clusters, but is there a way to override primary ray visibility? I need to hide a bunch of polys on some characters, but I still need them to cast shadows. If they were objects, I'd just override their primary ray visibility, but it doesn't look li...
by Paulrus
21 Oct 2014, 18:14
Forum: Open Discussion
Topic: Image / video managers, organizers & asset manager review
Replies: 19
Views: 6053

Re: Image / video managers, organizers & asset manager review

True, but many of the others can do that as well. XnViewMP has crashed 3 times today, which is just frustrating. One thing I'm trying to understand is the relationship between WIC and generating thumbnails. I know you need to download some WIC codecs if you want to read RAW files, but one dev said y...