Lagoa Topology Data is empty! And it's a bug!

[iamVFX]

Since SI 2012 has ICE topo nodes we can create a compound that will generate the cloth meshes from the Lagoa simulations. The problem is: Lagoa_TopologyIndex, Lagoa_TopologyRemoved and LagoaTopology_DirtyStates attributes are absolute empty.

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Attribute display property or writing to custom attribute doesn't show anything

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[iamVFX]

:tumbleweed:

It's seems to be worked back then. But it's broken now as advect mesh compound was since 2012 until 2013 release came out.

Well, whatever, nobody use lagoa anyway

[scaron]

Well, whatever, nobody use lagoa anyway

maybe not, when i use it on occasion i need these features to work. log a bug?

[iamVFX]

log a bug?

yes please!

[Hirazi Blue]

You could start by reporting it to the Any Bugs found, you can report here thread over at the xsibase...
;)

[iamVFX]

You could start by reporting it to the Any Bugs found, you can report here thread over at the xsibase...
;)

I didn't know about that thread, thanks, Hirazi!

[gfxman]

:tumbleweed:
Well, whatever, nobody use lagoa anyway

Really? Why is that so?

[iamVFX]

:tumbleweed:
Well, whatever, nobody use lagoa anyway

Really? Why is that so?

Is this a question you want to ask me?

I don't know, but the fact is that no one is faced with similar problems or vimeo group, for example, that shows only "5 minutes" user tests makes me think about that in this way. Do you have any videos with Lagoa? Do you use it still?

I'm trying to, but things like that is just ... A simple question: if it works with polygonizer (I don't know, but it should since it's sold), should I buy a third-party plugin to have access to data in my scene? I love plugins of Eric (emRPC especially), but I don't like when I'm forced to buy stuff just because native SI things is not working when they should ...

[xsisupport]

:tumbleweed:
Well, whatever, nobody use lagoa anyway

Really? Why is that so?

Is this a question you want to ask me?

I don't know, but the fact is that no one is faced with similar problems or vimeo group, for example, that shows only "5 minutes" user tests makes me think about that in this way. Do you have any videos with Lagoa? Do you use it still?

I'm trying to, but things like that is just ... A simple question: if it works with polygonizer (I don't know, but it should since it's sold), should I buy a third-party plugin to have access to data in my scene? I love plugins of Eric (emRPC especially), but I don't like when I'm forced to buy stuff just because native SI things is not working when they should ...

Model toolbar. Create > Poly Mesh > Polygonizer

[iamVFX]

Model toolbar. Create > Poly Mesh > Polygonizer

Features like tearing of cloth or thickness only available in paid version. When it's just these attributes that we can use now since we have ice topology feature, but we can't, because we have no access to

[iamVFX]

Ok, Steve on xsibase is pointed out that example scene from 2011 SAP is working fine on simulated mesh, so that means these attributes not generated by lagoa, most likely it is topology of the mesh, because lagoa was released before 2012 and ice topology feature.

And I feel uncomfortable now - am I so stupid and it was so obvious or what ...

[scaron]

log a bug?

yes please!

i was suggesting you do that, i logged countless bugs for my personal issues, my companies issues, and for others.

[iamVFX]

log a bug?

yes please!

i was suggesting you do that

I thought so... But I use Softimage in non-commercial ways (for now)... So I can't do that...

[xsisupport]

Ok, Steve on xsibase is pointed out that example scene from 2011 SAP is working fine on simulated mesh, so that means these attributes not generated by lagoa, most likely it is topology of the mesh, because lagoa was released before 2012 and ice topology feature.

And I feel uncomfortable now - am I so stupid and it was so obvious or what ...

I would still prefer to hear back from Dev/QA ;-) The docs (well, that one sentence in the docs) say it should work with point clouds.
Is it a doc bug, or are the docs correct and the bug is in the software?

[iamVFX]

Is it a doc bug, or are the docs correct and the bug is in the software?

Docs bug... There a lot of them, I reported 3 of them... By the way, there no "Please send us your comment about this page" button for SI 2013 user guide: http://download.autodesk.com/global/doc ... userguide/

[iamVFX]

But you know what? It's software bug, because how can I get Lagoa_TopologyRemoved attribute then? I can't tear the geometry of the simulated mesh (2011 SAP as an example), so I should simulate cloth on a point cloud! So I not so stupid and it makes sense if you think about it!