Cycles for Softimage

[Shekn]

Yes, you are right. I have the same issue. I will try to understand, why it happens.

[opoppopopp]

im having issues on rendering high pixel dimension images, anyone have noticed some problems going above 5000 pixels format?
My cpu usage stays at 10% the whole rendering time, i have to cancel the rendering task because it takes forever.

Try increase "tile size"？
to like 512,
I remember, in a previous quick project, solo CPU, 7000px, 128*128 only at ~10% but 512*512 give me 100% (at lease for that particular scene)

I know in theory, CPU should use relative "small" tiles size, and opposite for GPU

BTW, I also think, 100% utilisation, not necessary mean the quickest/optimised frame time, am I wrong?

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[Maximus]

unfortunately changing the tile size doesnt help.

I have another issue with multiple UV, when i want to control other kind of UV to apply text and some other effects.
I can not find a way to have Cycles read the different UV depending on the projection/subprojection applied for the texture i wanna use.
I've read the "manual" and also checked the cycles blender manual where it just says to use cycles attribute, but in this case it doesnt work on softimage for some reason
Im following the way descriped in the cycles pdf from shekn, and it doesnt work

here is a link



this is quite a crucial thing to have, hope its a bug or im doing something wrong. Im using 2 textures, one is the grudge texture the other is a simple text which it doesnt show on render.

p.s. in this example the second Texture_Projection1 node is set on Repeat, but even if i change it to "Extend" it doesnt work. I applied the Mesh property with "save all UV coordinates but nothing.

i also followed this tutorial "" where he uses the attribute node but it doesnt work on Softimage

[Maximus]

ok installing the latest version fixed the issue, both cycUVMap and cycAttribute now works as intended...

[wireframex]

Hi

Just to tell you Softimage works perfectly with the last windows 11 x64
I will work more years with SI then
Cheers
Phil

[I3D]

Hi

Just to tell you Softimage works perfectly with the last windows 11 x64
I will work more years with SI then
Cheers
Phil

A well built software, not like it's pissy caca replacement

[Maximus]

anyone have any issues with hdri showing in the backgorund? i tried everything even on hdri master, it always renders black on the environment

[Shekn]

To see the background in the render image, you should turn off the parameter Transparent in the Background tab in the render settings.

[Maximus]

To see the background in the render image, you should turn off the parameter Transparent in the Background tab in the render settings.

thanks you are always the best

[Shekn]

I understand the reason of the slow render process when it renders a big image. And I can not fix it. The problem is in the communication of the render engine with the Softimage. This slowdown occurs in the moment when the engine render the tile and sent it to the Softimage to draw it on the screen. I will add in the next release the parameter to ignore tiles drawing during the rendering. This is not perfect solution, but at least it fix the issue. Alternatively it is possible to render final big image by using default xsi-batch command. This also works at the maximal performance.

[Maximus]

I understand the reason of the slow render process when it renders a big image. And I can not fix it. The problem is in the communication of the render engine with the Softimage. This slowdown occurs in the moment when the engine render the tile and sent it to the Softimage to draw it on the screen. I will add in the next release the parameter to ignore tiles drawing during the rendering. This is not perfect solution, but at least it fix the issue. Alternatively it is possible to render final big image by using default xsi-batch command. This also works at the maximal performance.

thanks man!

[opoppopopp]

...This slowdown occurs in the moment when the engine render the tile and sent it to the Softimage to draw it on the screen

Thanks !
The drawing blocking the rendering ?
Your "temperate" solution is make sense.

[Maximus]

hey Shekn, im having an issue with sCycles not recognizing scattering and rendering blank pointclouds.
I use SiScatter and Scatter Tools from milan vasek here are the link for download:

viewtopic.php?f=19&t=5003 - addon: http://si-community.com/download/lb/jul ... r.xsiaddon

milan vasek Scatter tools: http://si-community.com/download/lb/mil ... 1.xsiaddon

These are fairly simple scattering ice addons for scattering, but for some reason it doesnt work, even with pointcloud basic geometry, neither with instance shapes.

is there a simple way to have these work? thanks


p.s. after some testing it looks like if you pull out a "init particle data" from an emit from geometry compound, and plug this into an ice tree port AFTER the scatter compound it works, at least is a workaround for now

[Shekn]

siScatter works without any additional tweaks. Empty pointcloud in the ScatterTools is not a bug, it's a feature. Actual this pointcloud is not empty, but it contains particles with zero scale. Some times ago someone in the thread asked to add scale attribute support to particle instances. Now Sycles multiply size and scale attribute for final particles transform. ScatterTool generate the pointcloud with zero scale, but default particle generator (for example, in Emit From Geometry) init particles with unit scale. So, to fix the issue, add SetData compound and setup the unit scale (attribute self.Scale).

[Maximus]

siScatter works without any additional tweaks. Empty pointcloud in the ScatterTools is not a bug, it's a feature. Actual this pointcloud is not empty, but it contains particles with zero scale. Some times ago someone in the thread asked to add scale attribute support to particle instances. Now Sycles multiply size and scale attribute for final particles transform. ScatterTool generate the pointcloud with zero scale, but default particle generator (for example, in Emit From Geometry) init particles with unit scale. So, to fix the issue, add SetData compound and setup the unit scale (attribute self.Scale).

thanks a lot !

[Maximus]

Shekn how do you import a vdb sequence for animation? i checked the pdf guide but its apparently just for static single vdb, not a sequence, or am i wrong?