cool, glad oleg is working on a plugin.. i have made one for mesh conversion tools...

https://github.com/caron/OpenVDB_Softimage

of course it isnt for everyone cause you need to compile from source. but openvdb is a highly efficient voxel storage format.

this is a test we did internally, this eventually ended up the basis for the work we did on elysium!



here is the latest demo reel from whiskytree

these are amazing!

we had to do some car rendering recently, with arnold, and i have an idea of how difficult it is to do this type of work. you sir have nailed it!

Good news for sure, unfortunately is a plugin present also in maya. A softimage exclusive would have the same effect it had Vray for max i don't see it that way... solid angle doesn't care about maya or softimage market they care about selling arnold licenses. the arnold integrations with maya and ...

ya, you are buying arnold standalone, not the plugins. you get access to all the plugins unlike like the competition. i think it is for the best, they have a simpler model which scales predictably. obviously it doesn't work as well for 1 person... this is why they have the current model having to be...

i read the subject and was perplexed, so i read the link you provided and found the developer say this.. The skin shader in Arnold, however, is just an elaborate (and publically available) node group that I've emulated. While I've had to get creative in recreating some of the nodes that I take for g...

Whiskytree used Softimage on Elysium

http://library.creativecow.net/kaufman_debra/VFX_Elysium-Whiskytree/1

i really do like the idea of this tool, i am going to try and incorporate it into my personal workflow at home

I've had a chance to double check on some of this: 1) No. RS is smart enough to know what has changed and what hasn't. 2) Instances and ICE instancing are well supported. 3) Changes to instances seem to happen immediately. 4) There is a flythrough mode for lighting purposes but if the scene has ani...

Lord Futzi Voldemort wrote:My post you are referring to is from last year and it's obsolete. I didn't know it was possible to use the processing flag then.

whoopsie! sorry about that. hirazi posted the vray 3.0 news making the thread new again and i forgot to check the posting date... i am such an amature!

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@cacoman, @draise... thanks for the feedback, i will just need to try it myself. my questions are because of how arnold and vray are integrated into softimage, its not their fault sometimes it is softimage's fault because their sdk doesn't provide the necessary granularity to match the mental ray in...

You can just send it off to vray standalone can't you? Don't need xsibatch for that... It even says that in the thread you linked... That doesn´t matter. It´s this overall ridiculous licensing policy I´m so tired of (among many other things). It´s the limitation of batch licenses, that made chaos g...

I cant answer to all your questions but here is some info: -I think that there is no whole scene export if you change something. I am working on huge scene, about 15 million unique polygons, with animated trees (leafs are animated, ice instanced, so there is only 10-20 unique polygons for leafs), t...

are there any alpha/beta testers of redshift here willing to answer these questions about the plugin integration with softimage? they are almost all related IPR, or how interactive the scene updates from changes done by the user... -if you have a large scene with many objects and you do a modeling c...

as far as caching goes the Geometry class provides PutCache and GetCache... http://download.autodesk.com/global/docs/softimage2013/en_us/sdkguide/index.html?url=si_cpp/classXSI_1_1Geometry.html,topicNumber=si_cpp_classXSI_1_1Geometry_html,hash=a776317aeb4cf15a9d68074a17c38d824 but with a plugin ahmi...

use softimage's built in math classes... http://download.autodesk.com/global/docs/softimage2013/en_us/sdkguide/index.html?url=si_cpp/classXSI_1_1MATH_1_1CMatrix4f.html,topicNumber=si_cpp_classXSI_1_1MATH_1_1CMatrix4f_html http://download.autodesk.com/global/docs/softimage2013/en_us/sdkguide/index.ht...