Rather than simply re-use Daniel Brassard’s topo pack, I took a quick stab at doing something myself (the only way to learn). Here, I try to implement the equations from wikipedia. Nothing fancy, I just add points to see if I’m getting it right.
I had to whip up some compounds for the hyperbolic functions cosh, sinh, and tanh.
When you install Softimage 2014 on Linux, the license server name (or IP address) that you enter during setup goes into $SI_HOME/Application/bin/License.env.
rem Licensing method: Standalone | MSSA | Network SOFTIMAGE_LICENSE_METHOD=Network rem License servers specified from the setup. Format: [port1]@host1[;[port2]@host2]... ADSKFLEX_LICENSE_FILE=@my_license_server
So, if you need to change ADSKFLEX_LICENSE_FILE, edit License.env.
ADSKFLEX_LICENSE_FILE is also set in the .xsi resource file (eg $SI_HOME/.xsi_2014_SP2), but License.env takes precedence. Unless, of course, you set ADLM_LICENSE_METHOD or SOFTIMAGE_LICENSE_METHOD:
# Set the ADSKFLEX_LICENSE_FILE setenv ADSKFLEX_LICENSE_FILE "@192.168.1.221" # Get License if ( $?ADLM_LICENSE_METHOD ) then setenv SILicMethod $ADLM_LICENSE_METHOD setenv ADSKFLEX_LICENSE_FILE $ADSKFLEX_LICENSE_FILE else if ( $?SOFTIMAGE_LICENSE_METHOD ) then setenv SILicMethod $SOFTIMAGE_LICENSE_METHOD setenv ADSKFLEX_LICENSE_FILE $ADSKFLEX_LICENSE_FILE else if ( -f "$SI_HOME/Application/bin/License.env" ) then setenv SILicMethod `sed -n s/SOFTIMAGE_LICENSE_METHOD=//p "$SI_HOME/Application/bin/License.env"` setenv ADSKFLEX_LICENSE_FILE `sed -n s/ADSKFLEX_LICENSE_FILE=//p "$SI_HOME/Application/bin/License.env"` else setenv SILicMethod Network endif
See how the .xsi resource file uses the sed swiss army knife to extract the environment variable values from License.env?
One last Siggraph flashback (until next year?). This time, back to Siggraph 2006 in Boston.
Some basic tips for troubleshooting when a plugin won’t load.
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It’s not hard to do:
I used to do it with a few ad-hoc perl and python scripts, but that utility works great.
Given a shader, it’s not too hard to find all materials that use (aka “own”) an instance of that shader. Here’s a Python snippet that does just that.
Note that I don’t check whether or not the shader is actually used. This snippet finds all instances, whether they are used or not (last week I posted another snippet for checking whether a shader instances was ultimately connected to the material).
from sipyutils import si # win32com.client.Dispatch('XSI.Application')
from sipyutils import disp # win32com.client.Dispatch
from sipyutils import C # win32com.client.constants
si = si()
def get_materials_that_use_shader( s ):
mats = disp( "XSI.Collection" )
oShaderDef = si.GetShaderDef( s.ProgID )
for i in oShaderDef.ShaderInstances:
try:
mats.Add( i.Owners(0) )
except Exception:
pass
mats.Unique = True
return mats
#
# Find all materials that use a specific shader
#
s = si.Selection(0)
if s.IsClassOf( C.siShaderID ):
mats = get_materials_that_use_shader( s )
for m in mats:
print( "%s in %s" % (m.Name, m.Owners(0)) )
else:
si.LogMessage( "Cannot find shader instances. Please select a shader." )
# Material in Sources.Materials.DefaultLib
# Material1 in Sources.Materials.DefaultLib
# Material2 in Sources.Materials.DefaultLib
# Material3 in Sources.Materials.DefaultLib
# Material7 in Sources.Materials.DefaultLib
# Material6 in Sources.Materials.DefaultLib
# Material5 in Sources.Materials.DefaultLib
# Material4 in Sources.Materials.DefaultLib
Inverse distance weighting
by grahamef
Maths problem
by David Barosin
Get closest location on group
by Alan Fregtman
by Jack Kao
Mixed Contexts
by Vladimir Jankijevic
Setting data on a particle based off data from another particle in the same cloud
by Leonard Koch
Arnold Scene Viewer integrated in Softimage using Creation Platform
GitForSoftimage
How to use the cached Face Robot animation on a head
Building your own Voronoi shattering effect with blackjack and hookers in Softimage part 2
Siggraph 2002 in San Antonio, where Softimage announced XSI 3.0, Discreet launched 3ds Max 5, Alias/Wavefront showed Maya 5, Pixologic had ZBrush 1.5, and Newtek demoed Lightwave 7.5.
softimage.com web page from 21 July 2002
In ICE, you can’t get data from any arbitrary frame. You get whatever data comes though through your input ports for the current evaluation time. There’s no way (except for Get Data at Previous Frame) for you to read the scene graph at any other time than the time at which the ICE Tree operator is being evaluated.
A few related notes:
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