RE: roadkill for XSI: texture UV unwrapping

Date : Tue, 10 Apr 2007 18:08:21 +0100
To : <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
From : "kim aldis" <kim.aldis(at)gmail.com>
Subject : RE: roadkill for XSI: texture UV unwrapping
Can you work out for me if it's the obj save or the load from xsi that it's
hanging on. And if it's on all meshes or just the one. If it's just one,
send it over and I'll see what I can do.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On
> Behalf Of Andre DeAngelis
> Sent: 10 April 2007 15:40
> To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> Subject: RE: roadkill for XSI: texture UV unwrapping
> 
> Kim,
> 
> When I try this plug-in, the progress bar hangs at 96-97%.
> 
> I also get this error:
> 
> OLE error 0x80020101
> 
> Andre
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On
> Behalf Of kim aldis
> Sent: April 10, 2007 4:55 AM
> To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> Subject: RE: roadkill for XSI: texture UV unwrapping
> 
> Get the new version of Roadkill from their site. I had all sorts of
> problems
> with the old version and I've completely re-written the obj
> import/export
> functions for them. It'll be both faster and a good deal more reliable
> and
> I've not seen or had any problems with it yet.
> 
> There also seems to be an issue that looks like point or sample re-
> ordering
> on some - but not all - meshes  coming out or coming back in to XSI,
> which
> is why it doesn't place the new UVs onto the selected model. Copying
> UVs
> back onto the selected mesh won't work either in these cases. The
> workaround
> for now is to use Gator. In the meantime I'm going to be looking at
> ways of
> doing it properly, when I can find the time.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On
> > Behalf Of Tim Leydecker
> > Sent: 09 April 2007 21:19
> > To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> > Subject: Re: roadkill for XSI: texture UV unwrapping
> >
> > Roadkill is lovely.
> >
> > That said, I´m not sure if it´s me or XSI (5.11) that
> > has problems with *.obj I/O and UV editing on
> > meshes that come from Roadkill.
> >
> > I´m not yet using Kim´s plug-in but the standalone
> > version (e.g. not Kim´s *.exe replacement).
> >
> > From there, if I try to edit UVs generated in Roadkill
> > inside XSI 5.11, I can´t tag and move individual UV´s
> > but instead allways end up transforming the entire set?
> >
> > The other way around, trying to refine a "unique UV"set
> > from XSI turns out to be a bit difficult since it seems as
> > if Roadkill gets confused by XSI´s object format (storing
> > the polybisectors?) and displays each edge as seperate
> > or better not connected into (said unique) shell on import.
> >
> > Other than that, it´s really great!
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > tim
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Steven Caron" <carons(at)gmail.com>
> > To: <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
> > Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 9:48 PM
> > Subject: Re: roadkill for XSI: texture UV unwrapping
> >
> >
> > > congratulations on this, kim!
> > >
> > > i hope to get to test it soon
> > >
> > > steven
> > >
> > > On 4/9/07, kim aldis <kim.aldis(at)gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Roadkill is a UV unwrapper heavily based on the unwrapper used in
> > >> Blender.
> > >> Roadkill For XSI is a plugin that interfaces with Roadkill to let
> > you
> > >> unwrap
> > >> UVs directly in XSI. Cut lines are marked in XSI by selecting
> edges
> > prior
> > >> to
> > >> unwrapping. You can unwrap UVs with a single click or have XSI
> have
> > >> Roadkill
> > >> start up in GUI mode and unwrap interactively.
> > >>
> > >> Comments, thoughts and feedback to me here.
> > >>
> > >> Find it at www.kim-aldis.co.uk
> > >>
> > >> Enjoy
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> www.kim-aldis.co.uk   |   kim(at)kim-aldis.co.uk
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
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