4-part ICE Modeling tutorial
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Friday Flashback #22
From “Fuel For The Mind”, edition 1, La Cite des Enfants Perdus—Buf Compagnie 1995
(aka The City of Lost Children)
I remember watching this back in the old days when I worked at Softimage/Microsoft.
Many thanks to Miquel Campos for giving me this CD.
What’s this flea made of anyway? It’s not an electronic model, not a digitized photo, it’s a cute little chimera concocted in C. G. I., modelled, dreaded, and animated by his creators at the Buf Compagnie, using a mythological method of mathematics that took hundreds of hours on the computer.
The surface texture was obtain-ed by using several layers of lovely materials such as beach pebbles, green beans, snake skin, pig skin, leather, etc. The animators studied hours and hours of documentary films to find out how fleas act out there in nature. Now they know everything about how fleas hop, skip, jump, land, sting and drink, and do scores of dirty itchy tricks that have earned them a worldwide reputation.
Given the variety of shots where the flea would star, the animators modelled a series of fleas with varying degrees of definition. The most sharply defined had no less than 800.000 polygons.
Prix Ars Electronica 1996
City of Lost Children trailer
3d World: In depth: Autodesk Project Skyline
Autodesk looks to build the future of game development with Project Skyline, first shown at GDC 2011
Without a vision, the people perish. It’s a situation that can even affect digital media creation software companies like Autodesk; or perhaps that should be, especially affect companies like Autodesk.
As a giant of the industry, the company has been acquiring major rivals such as Alias and Softimage over the last few years, resulting in a more tempered product management approach to the major 3D applications.
But the big fish of the pond is running out of water to swim in. Where does Autodesk’s vision lie?
Softimage 2012 Service Pack 1 available for download
Download it here.
The latest service pack for Autodesk® Softimage® 2012 software includes 70 fixes. See below the fold for a complete list of fixes
Coexistence
Softimage 2012 SP1 is a full build and can co‐exist with Softimage 2012.
Softimage 2012 is not required to be uninstalled first.
Licensing
Softimage 2012 SP1 uses the same license as Softimage 2012. When installing Softimage 2012 SP1:
• Enter the product key 590D1 and your Softimage 2012 serial number, and then click Next.
• If you have a Network license, click Configure to switch to the Network licensing method.
The full list of fixes is as follows:
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Building an array of values that increase by a fixed value
Here’s one way to to build an array that contains a sequence of numbers like 1,5,9,13, …, where each number in the sequence is the previous number + 4.
Area :: Tutorial :: Mars Police: Hair and Render Breakdown
Recently posted on the AREA:
When Softimage ICE was released, it was clear that any dedicated user who were not afraid of words like ‘multiply vector by matrix’, have been able to develop a hair-styling system, without writing a single line of code. For Mars Police, I’ve created hair using my own free hair system called ‘Kristinka Hair’.
The system utilizes NURBS surfaces for main shapes, and exclusive procedural approach for details. Kristinka means something like “dear Christine” or “little Christine” in several Slavic languages.
via Area :: Tutorial :: Mars Police: Hair and Render Breakdown.
Another Error 1092 when trying to start raysat service
This one is pretty annoying. I remember once spending a lot of time on one case before I figured it out.
If you add an entry like to the end of the C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\services file:
mi-raysatsi2012_3_9_1_44 7024/tcp
where there is no line break after the “tcp”, then the raysat service won’t start and will report “Error 1092”.
But if you add a line break after the “tcp”, or add a # comment like this, then you can start the raysat service:
mi-raysatsi2012_3_9_1_44 7024/tcp #
Aaaargh.
About type and context
A quick look into the type and context of ports and how sometimes you have to “force” (or “initialize”) the type and context. Hey, ICE can’t always resolve everything automagically 😉
Related: See this xsibase thread , and this Paul Smith video tutorial.
3ds Max Design and Composite: Cannot check out license from C:\flexlm\maya.lic
I ended up with a 3ds Max Design case awhile ago, where Composite gave this error at startup:
--------------------------- Autodesk Toxik - Fatal Error --------------------------- Cannot check out license for "Network License: Autodesk Toxik 2011" from c:\flexlm\maya.lic. The product key was not found. --------------------------- OK ---------------------------
Usually the solution to this kind of error is to set the ADSK_COMPOSITE_LICENSE environment variable to 3DSMAX (or SOFTIMAGE or MAYA), but that didn’t work. Eventually I tried “3DSMAXDESIGN” and of course, that was it 😉 Nobody ever never mentioned that possible value, so I assumed 3DSMAX applied to both 3ds Max and 3ds Max Design.
Simulate Rigid Bodies does not support sub-frame simulation
FYI, this is by design. The Simulate Rigid Bodies node doesn’t support sub-frame simulation.
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