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ICE modeling videos

Here’s some ICE modeling videos recorded by Guillaume Laforge, the principle developer working on ICE modeling. ICE Modeling 01 and 02 look at the Columns from Strands example scene. 03 and 04 look at...

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ICE modeling – aligning copies to edges

Here’s my first try. I used the EdgePosition attribute to position the copies of the cylinder on the edges of a cube. Notice how the cylinder is aligned along the Y axis of the EdgeReferenceFrame. If I...

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zaps mental ray tips: 2012 and Unified Sampling

zaps mental ray tips: 2012 and Unified Sampling.

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Using mesh ICE attributes to drive shaders in a render tree

In Softimage 2012, you can now use attributes from the ICE tree on a mesh to drive the render tree. For example, the ICE tree on a cube could calculate an attribute that drives the position of the...

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Wildcards You can use the wildcards * and ?. * matches one or more characters, and ? matches a single character. Special Characters Ignored The following special characters are ignored and treated as...

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ERROR : RCMP 0.4 error: cannot open temporary map file “mrmap0_tmp.a08740″...

This is an issue that we recently discovered. When final gathering is enabled, mental ray writes temporary files (such as mrmap0_tmp.a08740) to the Softimage installation folder: C:\Program...

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Autodesk Softimage 2011 Subscription Advantage Pack Service Pack 1 available...

Requires Subscription login. Autodesk Softimage 2011 Subscription Advantage Pack Service Pack 1.

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Why a SP instead of a HF?

If you’re wondering why we released a service pack instead of another hot fix, here’s an explanation from Luc-Eric, our sw dev mgr: The thinking is that the scene corruption hot fixes are important...

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Service packs and disconnected shaders

This post is about the latest 2011 service packs: Softimage 2011 SP2 Softimage 2011 Subscription Advantage Pack SP1 and the “disconnected shader” issue. How do I use the Service Pack to fix shader...

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New view attributes in 2012

For the Scene Layer Manager, there is a selectedlayer attribute. For the Schematic view, there are two view attributes: AnchorPointID and Target. Target is available for the node context menu only....

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