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by Daniel Brassard
29 Dec 2021, 02:46
Forum: Feedback
Topic: Season's Greetings
Replies: 16
Views: 9202

Re: Season's Greetings

Happy Holidays to all and a very good year 2022.
by Daniel Brassard
21 Apr 2020, 23:42
Forum: Open Discussion
Topic: Ptex -mental ray 3.12- softimage 2015-help-Environment Variables
Replies: 10
Views: 2628

Re: Ptex -mental ray 3.12- softimage 2015-help-Environment Variables

There are several version of Mental Ray that you have to be aware of: - Mental Ray for specific DCC applications such as Softimage, Maya, 3DMax, C4D, etc. - Mental Ray satellite - Mental Ray standalone. The standalone version is not the same as the one that came with Softimage. Mental Ray satellite ...
by Daniel Brassard
20 Apr 2020, 21:23
Forum: Open Discussion
Topic: Ptex -mental ray 3.12- softimage 2015-help-Environment Variables
Replies: 10
Views: 2628

Re: Ptex -mental ray 3.12- softimage 2015_who can help

PTEX ray3rc file modification #***************************************************************************** # # RAYLIB Initialization file. This file is read at RAYLIB startup time before # any mi stream is loaded in. It ensures mental ray is initialized correctly # and can accept a subset of defau...
by Daniel Brassard
20 Apr 2020, 21:19
Forum: Open Discussion
Topic: Ptex -mental ray 3.12- softimage 2015-help-Environment Variables
Replies: 10
Views: 2628

Re: Ptex -mental ray 3.12- softimage 2015_who can help

Correct, its all about the environment variable. For test, I commented the ptex registry modification and got the same warning: Warning object "polymesh/polygon mesh (4)". ptex information not available, must be turned on. This make me thing the ray3rc file modification is being ignored. a...
by Daniel Brassard
17 Apr 2020, 07:10
Forum: Open Discussion
Topic: Ptex -mental ray 3.12- softimage 2015-help-Environment Variables
Replies: 10
Views: 2628

Re: Ptex -mental ray 3.12- softimage 2015_who can help

I have not done it for a while (since 2013) so hope this help: In Softimage 2015 R2 SP2: - Check ptex.mi (old version) and mrptex.mi (newer version) is at location C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Softimage 2015 R2-SP2\Application\phenolib\mi or where the softimage application is located on your system. - ...
by Daniel Brassard
10 Sep 2019, 20:04
Forum: Finished Work
Topic: Battle Trak
Replies: 6
Views: 8537

Re: Battle Trak

Hi Grubber, Good job on the hard surface modeling. A couple of point to consider: a. Consider adding a displacement map to the track treads to make them more believable, especially seen from the edges. b. Consider changing the glass shader to add more reflectivity as follows: * Refraction the index ...
by Daniel Brassard
04 Sep 2019, 15:47
Forum: General & Troubleshooting
Topic: Softimage XSI 5.11 x64
Replies: 12
Views: 4759

Re: Softimage XSI 5.11 x64

SDK (Software development kit)
GDK (Game development Kit)
FTK (File toolkit or Rle Transfer Kit) depending of the Softimage literature. dotXSI and the Collada SDK are part of the FTK from what I understand.
by Daniel Brassard
11 Jul 2019, 14:16
Forum: General & Troubleshooting
Topic: Can't open scenes
Replies: 10
Views: 6298

Re: Can't open scenes

Happen to the best of us. Glad you found and resolve your issue. Softimage needs full privilege read/write to its files and folders and Windows is preventing any apps to change files and folders for security reason. I learn the hard way as well and had to setup the Softimage shortcut icon to launch ...
by Daniel Brassard
10 Jul 2019, 15:38
Forum: General & Troubleshooting
Topic: Can't open scenes
Replies: 10
Views: 6298

Re: Can't open scenes

What OS version are you running/using? Have you confirm that your action clip exist in the location C:\\Softimage\\Softimage_Mod_Tool_7.5\\Data\\DF2 assets\\Scenes\\Gorc.exp? Did you do a wide search on your C drive to find the moaudio.dll and its location? Have you confirm the DF2 assets directory ...
by Daniel Brassard
04 Jul 2019, 21:40
Forum: ICE Compounds
Topic: aa_Ocean: Tessendorf Waves
Replies: 28
Views: 27608

Re: aa_Ocean: Tessendorf Waves

Just notice that the latest AAOcean plugin is now at V345 and can be downloaded from Amaan website at: https://www.amaanakram.com/plugins-shaders/aaocean-suite/ Download link to the newest plugin at: https://bitbucket.org/amaanakram/aaocean/downloads/ The latest plugin is available for Arnold, Houdi...
by Daniel Brassard
03 Jul 2019, 04:30
Forum: Open Discussion
Topic: So long, and thanks for all the Fish.....
Replies: 15
Views: 5534

Re: So long, and thanks for all the Fish.....

Best of luck Rork and drop by from time to time.
by Daniel Brassard
13 Jun 2019, 16:03
Forum: Plugins
Topic: Where can i download old Soft|3D plugins?
Replies: 6
Views: 7542

Re: Where can i download old Soft|3D plugins?

I think you will be out of luck for many of those Soft3D plugins but put a post on the Softimage Mailing List as well as many of the users of Softimage 3D are still active there. Sometime a quick search may pay off. Check this thread on Softimage Blog from one of the author of the Phoenix tool. http...
by Daniel Brassard
04 Jun 2019, 21:29
Forum: News
Topic: Welcome..!
Replies: 65
Views: 34719

Re: Welcome..!

Happy 10th Year Anniversary - how the time has gone bye.

Congratulation and thanks to all the volunteers and members who made this site so great.
by Daniel Brassard
14 May 2019, 19:22
Forum: Animation
Topic: Editing Shapes in the Shape Manager
Replies: 5
Views: 4197

Re: Editing Shapes in the Shape Manager

Select the cluster you want to modify

Select the components (points) in the cluster you want to delete

Do one of the following:

- In the Edit panel, click the minus ( – ) button (next to the Cluster button).

or

- Choose Edit > Remove from Cluster from the Edit panel.
by Daniel Brassard
08 Apr 2019, 18:44
Forum: Programming
Topic: Can you remove clusters with Object Model? (not using "Application"")
Replies: 9
Views: 4396

Re: Can you remove clusters with Object Model? (not using "Application"")

If I am not mistaken Clusters are a XSICollection and can be manipulated via XSICollection Methods. You access the XSICollection via the geometry as follows: Geometry.Clusters You can then add or remove item from the collection as such Geometry.Clusters.Item(Item) Geometry.Clusters.Add (item) Geomet...
by Daniel Brassard
04 Apr 2019, 16:42
Forum: News
Topic: Cycles for Softimage
Replies: 802
Views: 388575

Re: Cycles for Softimage

To complement Shekn response, The current Cycles will work on a GeForce RTX graphic card but will not use the new RTX realtime ray tracing platform. For that, we will have to wait for the Cycles team to catch up. The Cycles team will need to use the new SDK to program specific instructions that will...