having a small issue with zbump7beta6. in both 5.11 and 6. unzip it and
install it, but i only have an spdl and a dll no .preset file. am i
installing it wrong? (just drag and drop the addon file into xsi) any
help would be great on the issue. for not i have to revert back to using
beta 5
Wayne Williams wrote:
*nod in agreement*
----- Original Message ----- From: "Andre DeAngelis"
<andre.deangelis(at)ubisoft.com>
To: <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 1:18 PM
Subject: RE: New ZBump
Halfy,
Your honesty and frankness is one of the things we most admire about
you - aside from your huge talents. ;-) Please don't ever hesitate
to express yourself.
I think I speak for most of us when I say I would much rather you say
it like it is than insult our intelligence with the vague marketing
spin that doesn't address the problem.
Knowing that you are on the same page us users is much more
reassuring than pretending that everything is OK and that it's "just
a matter of knowing how to use it".
Andre
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On
Behalf Of Halfdan Ingvarsson
Sent: December 1, 2006 12:22 PM
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: RE: New ZBump
Anything I write to this list, unless explicitly stated, is my own
personal opinion and not an official, quotable response as to what
direction Softimage may or may not take in development. I can start
adding page long disclaimers to all my e-mails, for clarification, if
that's what's needed. Or I can just take my ball and go home.
The ultimate goal is to try to fix this *properly* and hopefully
cover many other cases while we're at it, to make it more useful than
just a "fix bump mapping" hatchet job. Previous attempts at "just
fixing bump mapping" is why we have the god-awful mess that we do
have today.
Nurse!
- ½
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On
Behalf Of Chris Marshall
Sent: 1-Dec-06 10:59
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: Re: New ZBump
...and, if you don't mind me saying, if your rather light-hearted reply
to this very important issue is the official Softimage response, frankly
I find it rather disturbing!
I just wonder how many other people on this list *don't* want
bumpmapping to be fixed?
Chris Marshall wrote:
Whether trivial or non-trivial, decent bumpmapping is an extremely
important
feature required in XSI.
My concern about individuals writing plugins, that we become heavily
reliant on,
is that if they (the plugin) goes wrong (which zbump did) and the
individual
isn't available to help fix the problem, then I'm in doodoo deeper
than a
celebrity waiting to eat a sheeps testicle in front of millions of
viewers. If I
had a problem with nice shiny new XSI Bump node, I would get support
from
(potentially) a number of skilled people at Soft.
Fortunately for me, when I had a problem with ZBump, Ben *was*
available and
managed to deliver very quickly a fixed version of the plugin. But,
if he had
been away from his desk on that day, I would have been in (said)
doodoo's. Which
is somewhere I'd rather not be.
Halfdan Ingvarsson wrote:
> It's a deeper problem than just doing a bump node. To do bump
properly > requires supporting tangents on polymesh objects. That
would give a > local coordinate system for each vertex, which is
something that NURBS > have, by definition, but polymeshes don't.
This'll also help with > anisotropic materials, normals maps, toon
shading, along with a lot of > other interesting things.
>
> It requires some development effort but if everyone requests it,
it > moves up the list.
>
> It's like the congress down south. You gotta lobby for your
feature in > need. And if you throw me some money... well... you
know... wheels get > greased :)
>
> - ½
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On
> Behalf Of Chris Marshall
> Sent: 1-Dec-06 08:00
> To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> Subject: Re: New ZBump
>
> I wonder whether XSI 6 will include a 'working' bump node?
> Not that it matters, of course, we have ZBump. But it'll be
interesting
> to see if we still have to rely on people like Ben to provide us with
> some of the most basic of tools.
>
>
>
> Bernard Lebel wrote:
>
>> Absolutely. Send the sources over, and if you got the make file,
>> please include it.
>>
>>
>> Cheers
>> Bernard
>>
>>
>> On 11/30/06, Ben Rogall <brogall(at)excite.com> wrote:
>> Btw if you have the time and inclination to do a linux compile,
I'd be
>> happy to post it.
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