Select Case doesn’t want to clone points. Suppose you have a set up like this:
If you plug Clone Point nodes into two consecutive Case ports, the first Clone Point only is executed.
If you plug something else into a Case port, between two Clone Points, then both Clone Points work:
But unfortunately I couldn’t trick ICE by multiplying the shapeID by 2. When I did that, ICE went back to evaluating the first Clone Point only.
For the searching the current SDK documentation, I would install the SDK docs locally. The local docs use a different search that works better.
To download a single installer for both the User Guide and SDK Guide:
http://www.autodesk.com/softimage-documentation
Just the SDK:
http://images.autodesk.com/adsk/files/softimage-2013-sdk-doc0.zip
Local search results are much better than the online search:
I’ve never seen this one before: “Verifying the failed access to ‘tools.vbs’ took 155 seconds.”
155 seconds? It seemed like forever…
Domemaster3D Lens Shader for Softimage
by Andrew Hazelden
Texture Instance Shader
by rray
Emit from polygon cluster
by Vladimir Jankijevic
Motion vectors
by Softimage_Japan
June 11 “break one’s neck” by CGWORLDjp
From early this morning when I went to check out the recent activity on the xsibase:
As a word cloud
I had added the words “Softimage” and “2013SP1” and “Fixes” to the word cloud on purpose, as a sort of title tags for the cloud. Here’s a cloud without them. Note that some words, like “SDK” and “Crosswalk” and “Rendering”, are there because I added an occurrence of those words for each fix in that category.
Email blast for an “Experience Softimage XSI 5.1 and Face Robot 1.0” event in Orlando, June 2006.
The “jellyfish solver” bit caught my eye. I’d forgetten about that phrase. Here’s the “jellyfish solver” graphic:
and a description of the jellyfish solver from an xsibase interview with Thomas Kang, a co-creator of Face Robot:
The core of Face Robot is based on what we call the “jellyfish solver,” which is a densely interconnected web of nonlinear interpolation algorithms that can be tuned and manipulated through a common set of interfaces.
From that 3d mastermind Manny:
To fix it so that the 2012 Python shortcuts would work in 2013 SP1, we did an Undo on the changes to the siutils module. So now, scripts that use the 2012 siutils shortcuts will work unchanged in 2013 SP1.
We moved all the changes [which included some bug fixes] to a new module named sipyutils. When you use the Syntax Help in the 2013 SP1 script editor, you’ll get these shortcuts:
#
# Softimage 2013 SP1 shortcuts
#
from sipyutils import si # win32com.client.Dispatch('XSI.Application')
from sipyutils import siut # win32com.client.Dispatch('XSI.Utils')
from sipyutils import siui # win32com.client.Dispatch('XSI.UIToolkit')
from sipyutils import simath # win32com.client.Dispatch('XSI.Math')
from sipyutils import log # LogMessage
from sipyutils import disp # win32com.client.Dispatch
from sipyutils import C # win32com.client.constants
from sipyutils import logf
si = si()
logf( "Version %s has %d commands", si.Version(), si.Commands.Count )
Note that you get an si shortcut that is a function, so you have to call it to get the actual XSIApplication object.
In summary:
2013 shortcuts won’t work in 2013 SP1. This line will give you an error:
si = si() # win32com.client.Dispatch('XSI.Application')
You have to either comment that line out, or edit siutils and uncomment the definition of si(). Or just switch to using the new sipyutils shortcuts.
For reference, here’s the shortcuts from previous versions:
#
# 2013 shortcuts
#
from siutils import si
si = si() # win32com.client.Dispatch('XSI.Application')
from siutils import log # LogMessage
from siutils import disp # win32com.client.Dispatch
from siutils import C # win32com.client.constants
# # 2012 shortcuts # from siutils import si # Application from siutils import sidesk # Desktop from siutils import sidict # Dictionary from siutils import sifact # XSIFactory from siutils import simath # XSIMath from siutils import siproj # ActiveProject2 from siutils import sisel # Selection from siutils import siuitk # XSIUIToolkit from siutils import siut # XSIUtils from siutils import log # LogMessage from siutils import disp # win32com.client.Dispatch from siutils import C # win32com.client.constants
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