RE: News from the users group

["jason slabber" <jason(at)waterfrontstudios.co.za>]

O man, the Tech stuff sounds great!! I wish soft would put up a tech section on there site so we can all see!

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From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Kris Rivel
Sent: 02 August 2006 07:12 AM
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: News from the users group

 

Ah well, it looks like I may be the first to post some info.  Mind you I'm a bit drunk right now as I just got back from the party but here ya go:

The event kicked off with Mark showing us some really cool stuff in something called, "Softimage 3d".  They ran it on this mysterious "SGI Octane".....lol....actually I'm being serious.  They did this funny flashback thing and played around a bit with SI3D on an old Octane to remind us all how how much we loved the stuff.  It is pretty amazing to compare SI3D's 60,000 polygon limit to XSI's millions of polygons.

A couple very funny pictures of Kim Aldis, Greg Punchatz and Steve Caron were put on display.  I sure hope the pop up again and someone could provide a link....they were very amusing.

Some cool demos by the Factor 5 guys and some Face Robot using the data from the new Contour motion capture system by Mova.

Finally, a sneak peak at some TECH PREVIEW stuff showing:

Shaderballs - yep, you heard it hear...shaderballs.  They are displayed in a separate window or in each node in your render tree to show you the result of your tree up to that point.  Your default shader ball however can be whatever geometry you might want it to be.

Animation Layering - You can have multiple "layers" of animation.  So you have some fcurves or clips driving a character.  You then can switch to another "layer" to add more fcurves or clips.  The result is an offset animation which you can tweak by going back and fourth through the layers....looks pretty cool.

Render Region - A couple cool things to the render region.  You can have multiple render regions open.  You can also save regions like you would save a view port view and toggle back and fourth to "compare" your current region with a saved one.  No more "print screen" and bringing it into Photoshop.

Anyway, thats it for now.  Hope I don't get in trouble for that but oh well.  I'm a bit toasted at the moment and I figure it was shown to the public so what the hell  :-)


Kris


Scott C. Lange wrote:

Hi peeps,

I just wanted to reiterate Sascha’s request for posting news from the users group meeting tonight. It would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you and wishing I could go,

Scott