RE: Point Oven Offset sometimes deforms mesh

Date : Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:51:37 -0400
To : <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
From : "Mathieu Leclaire" <mleclair(at)hybride.com>
Subject : RE: Point Oven Offset sometimes deforms mesh
Yeah... it does the same thing... but not always. It seems to randomly do it
in already set-up scenes. It's weird.

I guess I'll try Kai Pirinha's point caching tool. Where can I find it? Is
it a plug-in? Where can I get more info on it?

Thanks.


Mathieu Leclaire
R&D Programmer
Hybride Technologies

"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift and that is
why it's called the present"

-----Original Message-----
From: Julien Stiegler [mailto:julien.stiegler(at)free.fr]
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 12:36 PM
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: Re: Point Oven Offset sometimes deforms mesh

Maybe MDD doesn't support negative frame numbers very well ?
Did you try baking from frame 5 to x and then apply -5 offset ?

Selon Mathieu Leclaire <mleclair(at)hybride.com>:

> OK, this is starting to drive me crazy. I bake .mdd files with Point Oven
in
> XSI 5.11 and in some scenes, when I apply an Offset to the PO_XSI_Reader
to
> make the animation start at the right frame, it deforms the mesh instead
of
> offsetting the animation. Why? The thing is I usually bake it from
frame -5
> to whatever frame I need so I want to offset it by -5 frames to synch it
> with the rest of the animation in the scene. It usually skip the shape on
> frame 0 and it gives me weird shapes if I apply the offset but not in all
> scenes. If I import the same PO model in an empty scene, it usually works
> fine. If I don't put an offset, it usually works fine too but then I have
to
> decal every animation in the scene to match the PO one and then have to
> rename each frame number by -5 frames and well, it brings lots of
confusion,
> errors, little pieces we forget to adjust here and there... Anybody ever
> encountered something similar before?
>
>
> Mathieu Leclaire
> R&D Programmer
> Hybride Technologies
>
> "Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift and that is
> why it's called the present"
>
>


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Julien Stiegler

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