update emPolygonizer5 (Softimage, MODO, ...)

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emPolygonizer 5Author: Eric Mootz
v.5.300 updated Dec 21st 2017 — as of now, all of Eric's plugins including emPolygonizer5 are available for free.

From the emPolygonizer5 documentation (archive): emPolygonizer is a "mesher", i.e. it creates polygon meshes based on one or more input objects by polygonizing so-called scalar fields (or isofields (archive)). The inputs for the meshing are nulls, locators, curves, polygon meshes, point clouds, particle systems, array of positions, etc. [..]

The latest 5.2 update adds the new feature »PCA Normals« which uses weighted principal component analysis (archive) to drastically reduce the »blobby« appearance in smooth areas of a liquid's surface. To learn more about PCA Normals, see the new demo (archive) and test (archive) videos in Eric's vimeo channel. The earlier 5.1 update (demoed here (archive)) introduced the enhanced polygonizer core written for emTopolizer. Also it added a lot of features and workflow enhancements as shown in the other version 5 videos in the channel. This tutorial session (archive) shows workflows possible with the new features from the previous version 4.25.

emPolygonizer5 is also available for Maya, Modo and as a command line tool.

local backup:emPolygonizer5-demoscenes.zip / emPolygonizer5-xsiaddons.zip / emPolygonizer5.pdf
author site: http://www.mootzoid.com (archive) / plugin page: /plugin/empolygonizer5 (archive) / author @ vimeo / si-community thread (5.1) / si-community thread (5.2)

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update emPolygonizer5 (Softimage, MODO, ...)

Post by Mootzoid » 02 Mar 2015, 18:56

Hey guys,

An update of emPolygonizer5 is available for Softimage, MODO, Maya and as a command line tool.

It is version 5.2 and it comes with a great new feature: PCA Normals :ymparty:


Er, sorry, but what the hell are "PCA Normals"??


Hehe, let's say one could also call them "anti-blobby normals", just check out the five minute long video tutorial below :)
Note that in the tutorial I (obviously!) use Softimage, but the usage and functionality is identical for MODO and Maya.
Just thought I'd mention it in case some unfaithful ex-XSI soul is reading this ;)

If you already have a license or wish to give the demo version a try then simply download and install the latest version from my web site.
Should you wish to purchase or upgrade then please visit my order page or contact me directly.

Long live XSI!

Take care,
Eric



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Re: update emPolygonizer5 (Softimage, MODO, ...)

Post by Draise » 02 Mar 2015, 21:25

Beautiful.
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Re: update emPolygonizer5 (Softimage, MODO, ...)

Post by FXDude » 02 Mar 2015, 23:00

Indeed, and all these meshed fluid processing and manipulation tools, give more control over look, optimisations, and quality than Realflow and others (!)
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Re: update emPolygonizer5 (Softimage, MODO, ...)

Post by wireframex » 18 Mar 2015, 07:57

I'm in
Thanks Eric :)
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