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

["Morten Bartholdy" <xsi(at)colorshopvfx.dk>]

Thanks Luc! This is a real gem.

Morten Bartholdy
3D & VFX Artist



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "luc froehlicher" <lulu(at)alamaison.fr>
To: <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 5:45 PM
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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