RE: [Fwd: Fwd: How do we achieve this in XSI?]

Date : Tue, 28 Feb 2006 18:12:32 -0000
To : "'XSI(at)Softimage.COM'" <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
From : Juan Brockhaus <Juan(at)glassworks.co.uk>
Subject : RE: [Fwd: Fwd: How do we achieve this in XSI?]
very nice!
thanks!

Juan


-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Moodie [mailto:robertm(at)hybride.com]
Sent: 28 February 2006 17:15
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Fwd: How do we achieve this in XSI?]


Very generous of you, Luc.
Thanks very much


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "luc froehlicher" <lulu(at)alamaison.fr>
To: <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 11:45 AM
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Fwd: How do we achieve this in XSI?]


> we have a set of weightmap tools that we've been using for years here at 
> lamaison.
> they were mainly written by aloys just before he left us for some penguins

> adventure. :)
> we had the idea to give it away to the community for some times now and 
> periodically forget about it..
> this thread is a good opportunity to do it finally.
>
> http://www.alamaison.fr/3d/lmWeightMapTools/index.html
>
> you can achieve a lot of different effects by combining all these tools 
> together.
> We used them heavily in production here , so it should be stable.(we 
> didn't test them so much in 5.0)
> it should work on windows and linux.
> Source code is included , under GPL licence ...
>
> luc froehlicher - CG supervisor - lamaison
>
>> <mailto:XSI(at)softimage.com>somebody should still have, on XSIbase, a small

>> suite of tools that
>> change weightmaps by proximity to an implicit, including falloff
>> controls etc; I remember helping whoever it was with something in a
>> SCOP, must have been almost a year ago now.
>>
>> I also posted a self-installing plugin on CGTalk some time ago that
>> supports several types of implicits or a planar curve to describe a more
>> arbitrary shape, can't seem to find it though and I don't have it with
>> me in Oz (although I have a WIP version of some WMap tools like mixer,
>> map2grid, wmap tools etc. that I already gave to a few people).
>>
>> it should be possible to get some funky stuff done with what's already
>> out there, it will simply take some forum scavenging; but I agree, it
>> would be nice to see a new panel in XSI that revamps enveloping AND
>> weightmap painting and management.
>>
>> maybe the efforts that went into the TLE should have gone into some WMap
>> tools instead :), but then hindsight is 20/20 they say.
>>
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