RE: GATOR hates me....

[Jérôme Couture-Gagnon <jcgagnon(at)Softimage.COM>]

Hi,

 

Unfortunately the UV projection def is not copied by GATOR. The UVs are transfered properly, but the UV transfo is not (rot / trans / scal). The workaround is to copy the projection def manually, which is fortunately the small part of the job.

 

I agree this is a major problem and I hope we address it soon.

 

Jerome Couture-Gagnon

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From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of kim aldis
Posted At: Monday, February 20, 2006 4:35 AM
Posted To: xsi
Conversation: GATOR hates me....
Subject: RE: GATOR hates me....

what is it about that script that makes it copy uvs without regard to the position of the objects? Whatever I do  I can't get the same - or mirrored - UVs on the target object unless both objects are in the same place?

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From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of kim aldis
Sent: 19-February-2006 18:01
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: RE: GATOR hates me....

OK, it was a thought.

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From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of key
Sent: 19-February-2006 17:13
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: RE: GATOR hates me....

From my experience UVW information is not transfered with GATOR even when objects are directly over each other.

kim aldis <kim(at)cg-soup.com> wrote:

Your cubes are in 2 different places. Last time I used Gator objects having
their attributes transferred need to be in the same place.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM
> [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of key
> Sent: 18-February-2006 23:07
> To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> Subject: Re: GATOR hates me....
>
> I don't know if anyone responded to your question, but I
> posted a similar query previously. What I wind up doing is
> manually copying the UVW co-ordinates. Ideally one could
> script the operation.... actually, ideally it would work in
> GATOR! Major workflow stopper.
>
&g! t; --- Joey Ponthieux wrote:
>
> > Ok, maybe someone can splain this to me. GATOR apparently
> refuses to
> > obey texture projection DEF UVW modifications. I've
> generated a test
> > scene. Two cubes with support, projection, and material. The
> > projection and it's support will be generated on cube and
> GATOR will
> > transfer the material and UVs to cube1 utilizing it's
> mirror function.
> > Here's the code, run in the script editor and the test
> scene will be
> > created:
> >
> >
> >
> > CreatePrim "Cube", "MeshSurface"
> > Translate , 7.02154343196307, 0, 0, siRelative, siObjCtr, siObj,
> > siXYZ, , , , , , , , , , 0 Duplicate "cube", , 2, 1, 1, 0,
> 0, 1, 0, 1,
> > , , , , , , , , , , 0 Translate , -7.0215, 0, 0,
> siAbsolute, siPivot,
> > si! Obj, siX, , , , , , , , , , 0 ActivateObjectSelTool
> > ActivateObjectSelTool ActivateObjectSelToolWithNoObjStateChange
> > AddToSelection "cube", , True
> > ActivateObjectSelToolWithNoObjStateChange
> > ResetTransform , siCtr, siSRT, siXYZ
> > DeselectAll
> > SelectObj "cube", , True
> > CreateProjection "cube", siTxtPlanarXZ, siTxtDefaultSpherical,
> > "TS_Test", "TP_Test", True, siRelDefault ApplyShader "Blinn", , , ,
> > siLetLocalMaterialsOverlap SIApplyShaderToCnxPoint "Image",
> > "Sources.Materials.DefaultLib.Material.Blinn.diffuse"
> > SelectObj "cube1", , True
> > ApplyGenOp "Gator", , "cube1;cube", 3, siPersistentOperation,
> > siKeepGenOpInputs SetValue
> > "cube1.polymsh.TransferAttributes.mirrorproperties", True SetValue
> > "cube1.polymsh.TransferAttributes.planenormal", 2
> > TransferAllPropertiesAcrossGenOp "cube1.polymsh.TransferAttributes",
> > "cube1", , True
> > SetValue "cube1.polymsh.TransferAttributes.planenormal", 0
> >
> >
> > Now modify the camera position and setup a render region in the
> > perspective view.
> >
> > Notice that the texture is mirrored as expected.
> >
> > Select the support named TS_Test under cube.
> >
> > If you scale or reposition TS_Test the texture on cube1 will update
> > accordingly.
> >
> > Now open the property page for the projection under cube,
> its called
> > TP_Test_Def under cube/Polygon
> > mesh/Clusters/Texture_Coordinates_AUTO/TP_Test
> >
> > Modify any of the UVW parameters and notice that the
> texture on cube
> > updates, but not the texture on cube1.
> >
> > So what did I do wrong here? Why does the suppo! rt work but not the
> > projection? Or does this gator hate me?
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > Joey Ponthieux
> > NCI Information Systems Inc.
> > NASA Langley Research Center
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