Constrain strand along simulated shape
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Friday Flashback #126
And old picture from 2004 that I found: Moving the Shape Tape.
What stands out to me is how ugly the old monitors were.
Checking what attributes are in a cache
On the Read tab of the Cache Manager there’s a Dump Header button:
Dump Header dumps the cache header and attribute list to XML and pops up NetView:
If you want to dump the XML and parse it yourself, you can do it with this scripting command:
Application.DumpCacheHeader("[project path]\\Simulation\\scene_root\\pointcloud\\pointcloud_AnimTake1_[1..100].icecache", False)
Wednesday word cloud: keyboard mappings
Top 50 most common keyboard mappings in the default Softimage keymap.
After the obvious F1 (22 assignments) and Delete (17), the next most-assigned key is F5 with 15.
Fun with PPG shortcut keys
You can use the PageUp and PageDown keys to move back and forward through the history of recently inspected nodes.
If you right-click one of those arrows, you can see the history list of inspected nodes, and select a specific node to inspect:
If there’s no property page open at the moment, pressing PageUp (or PageDown) will open a property page and load the most recently inspected node.
Here’s a related TD Survival video on PageUp (and some other handy shortcut keys):
Friday Flashback #125
SIGGRAPH 2006 Eye Candy
https://vimeo.com/27618536
Fit Subcomponent UVs To Image
When you click Fit Subcomponent UVs to Image in the Texture Projection property editor, you’ll get these ERRORs in the script history:
' ERROR : Object doesn't support this property or method: 'in_uvprops.IsClassOf' - [line 1842 in C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Softimage 2014\Application\DSScripts\Texture.vbs] ' ERROR : - [line 25] ' ERROR : Property Page Script Logic Error ' ERROR : [23] end if ' ERROR : [24] (null) ' ERROR : >[25] FitSubcomponentUVsToImage Pset.InspectedObjects, filtered ' ERROR : [26] End Sub
The fix for this requires that you edit $XSI_HOME\Application\DSScripts\Texture.vbs. You’ll probably need to edit the Permissions on Texture.vbs so that you have Full Control or Modify permissions.
Find line 1842 in Texture.vbs, and then replace the if..else..endif with this:
set coll = CreateObject("XSI.Collection")
if in_uvprops.Type = "XSICollection" then
set coll = in_uvprops
elseif in_uvprops.IsClassOf( siUVPropertyID ) = True then
coll.Add in_uvprops
end if
The fix I posted on the Softimage mailing list awhile ago was a one-liner that would enable you to use Fit Subcomponent UVs to Image on a single texture projection. This fix will work if you have multiple texture projections in the property editor.
Subscription Extra: CrowdFX Plotting Plugin
I see there is an Extra for Softimage Subscription customers. It’s a plugin that adds two commands for exporting CrowdFX:
Export Crowd as FBX (Null Rig) – Exports a null rig for each actor including the animations created by the crowd simulation
Export Crowd as FBX (Null Rig and Geometry) – In addition to the null rig, it exports one geometry per actor enveloped to the null rig
There’s some docs on the Documentation tab in the Sub center.
Friday Flashback #124
Screenshots from SOFTIMAGE Creative Environment v2.66 (captured on an SGI Indy running IRIX 5.3; it only has 8-bit graphics, hence the dithering in the shaded view).
Many thanks to Aaron Rodgers for contributing these screenshots.
Lost connections to license servers
Ever wonder what happens if you lose your connection to the license server?
Well, two hours after the connection is lost, you’ll get a warning:
When you click OK, you’ll be prompted to either save or discard your work.
And after you save your scene, Softimage will exit.
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