Good to see Mental Images has a handle on what's holding back their FG from being useful in production....
Cheers,
Alan.
On 4/3/07, Halfdan Ingvarsson <hingvars(at)softimage.com> wrote:
> The logical/efficient thing would've been for me to set the default
> mode to "Automatic" to avoid snarky comments ;-)
>
> I set the default FG file to have the [Frame] token because appending FG points to a single file for a scene with animation can cause all kinds of odd artifacts popping up. Point appending, and hence the "multiframe" mode, is really only intended if you're doing static scene flythroughs and such. Animation may not work as expected and accumulate a complete overkill of points.
>
> To be honest though, there isn't much *technical* difference between those two modes. You gain an extra slider to control a maximum search radius for final gather points in "multiframe". That's all.
>
> - ½
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On
> Behalf Of Sam Cuttriss
> Sent: 03-Apr-2007 14:25
> To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> Subject: Re: FG Map Sequences
>
> so when rendering with the new multi frame fg setting.
> removing the [frame] token and turning on append is logical/ efficient?
>
> _sam
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> Halfdan Ingvarsson wrote:
> > I'm also assuming you've removed the [Frame] token.
> >
> > I just tried this here and it is appending to the file but only with new points, of course.
> >
> > If you have a scene that demonstrates otherwise, I'd love to have it
> > :)
> >
> > - ½
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On
> > Behalf Of Andre DeAngelis
> > Sent: 03-Apr-2007 13:56
> > To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> > Subject: RE: FG Map Sequences
> >
> > Hi Halfy,
> >
> > Same deal with both Append and Overwrite existing file.
> >
> > Andre
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On
> > Behalf Of Halfdan Ingvarsson
> > Sent: April 3, 2007 1:36 PM
> > To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> > Subject: RE: FG Map Sequences
> >
> > Have you set it to "Append new FG point to file"?
> >
> > - ½
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On
> > Behalf Of Andre DeAngelis
> > Sent: 03-Apr-2007 13:30
> > To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> > Subject: FG Map Sequences
> >
> > Has anyone toyed with rendering FG maps for whole sequences?
> >
> > We are finding that as the render progresses, the previous file is overwritten with the current one. This seem self defeating for multi-frame mode, which requires the previous map to generate the current one.
> >
> > Is this a bug or by design?
> >
> > Andre
> >
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