CG Supervisor for Modus FX and Softimage user Mostafa Badran was recently interviewed and did a short behind-the-scenes style tutorial ("The Area" login required) about the movie "Source Code".

Ace indeed. Thank you for compiling these. Found a link to this thread on the area home page (top left). Still have those videos as DVDs but now I prefer watching them in the youtube.

Hey folks - Found some time to finish porting the plugin to VBScript. It actually runs faster than the old C# version now --------- (March 2013) newest version attached. main new feature is: Topo Clipboard http://rray.de/xsi/rctools/images/topocb.jpg Usage : Make a polygon, edge, sample or point sel...

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S key doesn't work for me at all, I have to use the thumb for navigation, force of habit.

I put nav on the spacebar, so panning is the same as in the Adobe apps.

Using the Alt key for navigation would be ok but it makes my thumb ache after 5 minutes of modeling because it's too far to the left.

Only the .mi based version of mia_material is supported (The one with the ugly UI)

Is there a way to make iray use both CUDA and the CPU?
It seems all CPU power is wasted when using CUDA and vice-versa.

or rather a "warning" for everyone using VBScript using local object variables in vbscript sub s and function s is extremely slow when not using dim! compare... start_t = timer for n = 0 to 1000 Set s = getvar() next logmessage("time=" & 1000*(timer-start_t) & " mill...

That's interesting thanks for posting all the info - wouldn't even have tried iray. I found this 3dsmax dll ( ) and you say that just the -cudart64_32_7.dll is there, but i found all the three of them in the Autodesk\Softimage 2012\Application\bin directory ! maybe they are the same and we can just ...

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Well ok I looks like I won't be able to get python to perform any faster with this - I guess I'm going to do aport to VBS then - seems not like too much work except changing some syntax. VBS seems the closest to Softimage's internal architecture. JScript probably is, too (COM Version) except the arr...

Oh no x_x Python performs 30 times slower than JS in my tests. I've written a simple triangle filter (sources python/JS/VBS below -- For testing I used a polymsh sphere, local subd refinement, Doo-Sabin, Level 4) Python Output: # Execution time : 3388.01209812 ms JS Output: # INFO : Execution time :...

Can't tell you what would actually run the fastest (which would probably be a big decision factor) - I'll do some tests.

Python would "sort of" make sense because I'm planing to use XPOP3 (written in python) for the popup (instead of the C++ MFC version)

source code available here. (rctools4_cs directory) Will be of assistance

In a totally crazed move rray.de/xsi updates are now available on twitter Follow rray.de @ twitter.com/sitweets Actual "following" only seems to work for twitter members, but subscribing to the twitter RSS feed should work for everyone. sitweets is also now the default RSS feed for rray.de...

You're all welcome!

Now would be a good time to start the "rray (re)coding community project",
to get rid of the c# (and let others do all the work! )

I'm in! No... wait

*-:) Here's a 2012/x64-only version with some fixes rcCustomFilters must be added to the Global Assembly Cache (GAC) if the addon is installed to a network share. Execute registerFilters.bat with admin rights to do so. Restart XSI or File > Plugin Manager > Tree > Update All to complete the installa...