A few years ago I've written a tool called screeninfo that calculates the screen XY position of an object, and can export the 2D animated position to AE. No 3D though.

Good job!


Shadow map = 2 color-only shadow map, no transparency
Deep shadow map = Pixar's original "with tranparency" shadow map format (pdf)
Detail shadow map = mental image's version of deep shadow maps
Volume shadow map = Softimage's GUI name for MR detail shadow map

not available yet in the subscription center but here:

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps ... D=12544121
(1348232Kb)

pdf readme

among many other fixes:
FELX‐2164 Delay before Softimage 2012 starts rendering a frame

The new version 4.5 should e work with 2010-2012 (I tested 2011 and 2012 only)
http://rray.de/xsi/rctools/

This error should appear only once after installation, and disappear after restart.

Pimeto, in each script editor there a menu at the top that shows the available scripting languages. Is python included in there?

Here's it zipped but that shouldn't be the problem. Could you look in the plugin-manager if there's an entry under UserRoot->rcTools->XPOP for RCTools Python Plugin? If there isn't, there might be a problem with the python installation--- In the script editor, does python appear in the list of scrip...

In this repost of a recent (May 11th) Webinar, Mark does a really good job of explaining in simple terms what ICE is all about. A good video to show to newcomers to ICE.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=do1kzR6g ... ideo_title [50' length]

I'd suggest installing the newer version 4.5 from this link here. Has a few additional options like subselection boolean ops, fill selection etc.

Ok I think I have an idea now what happened... PF Popup and orenoXPOP were using the XPOP 2.0 popup plugin that's included with rctools 4.3 In rctools 4.5 this isn't included anymore (it has it's own popup) so by uninstalling rctools 4.3 those plugins stopped working. (It's not an incompatibiliy wit...

Thanks for the Follow-ups! Ramon, what error message do you see? Couldn't reproduce it here. Double checked for conflicts with other XPOPs. Do you have a newer version of Junki's OrenoXPOPs than the one that's available here ? That one uses an old version of XPOP (non python) which shouldn't be affe...

Cool let me know how it works, (btw using internal "Grow selection" a few times might be faster than the grow to islands command for a high number of islands.)

Hi Rork, it sounds like this would be possible with the random polygon filter followed by the "grow to island" command. But you'd have use a lower value for "selection propability", like if you aim for 50% of the islands and you have 5 polygons per island, you'd have to use 0,1 (...

It needs the old version of XPOP installed:

http://rray.de/xsi/xpop/index_oldversion.html

(direct link to addon)

The link in the first post goes (went) to the new version because I just replaced the page contents. Sorry for the confusion. Going to update the link.

Glad that you like it!

Here's an online version of the documentation:
http://rray.de/xsi/rctools/doc.htm

You're welcome! :-bd ______ .. And it doesn't seem to stop.. :-t In another coffee and cupcake fueled frenzy I added a few new features to RCtools today... What's new? (4.4 -> 4.5) Updated rcCustomPointFilter with position and distance filtering. Subcomponent (poly/edge/point) clipboard commands: Co...

Dominici Marco recently released a Motion Capture plugin for Softimage based on the Microsoft Kinect technology, available at

http://www.kinemocap.com/

Price is €99 for a standalone license. Kinect device required, but no XBox 360 required.