http://www.ethivierge.com The technical side of animation. Fri, 13 Apr 2012 12:46:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.ethivierge.com/scripting/2012/04/13/toggle-softimage-script-editor/ http://www.ethivierge.com/scripting/2012/04/13/toggle-softimage-script-editor/#comments Fri, 13 Apr 2012 12:41:17 +0000 admin http://www.ethivierge.com/?p=571 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } This code toggles the Softimage script editor on and off. Useful to embed in a custom layout. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 from win32com.client import constants as c from win32com.client import Dispatch as d</code>   [...]]]> http://www.ethivierge.com/scripting/2012/04/13/toggle-softimage-script-editor/feed/ 0 http://www.ethivierge.com/scripting/2012/02/15/extract-deformer-to-weight-map/ http://www.ethivierge.com/scripting/2012/02/15/extract-deformer-to-weight-map/#comments Wed, 15 Feb 2012 22:29:00 +0000 admin http://www.ethivierge.com/?p=526 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } This is a code snippet that you can use to extract the envelope weights of a deformer to a weight map. xsi = Application oWeightMap = xsi.Selection(0) oObj = oWeightMap.Parent3DObject oEnv = oObj.Envelopes(0) defOneArray = oEnv.GetWeights2().Array[1] # Change Array index to get a different deformer oWeightMap.Elements.Array = [x / 100 for x in defOneArray]]]> http://www.ethivierge.com/scripting/2012/02/15/extract-deformer-to-weight-map/feed/ 0 http://www.ethivierge.com/scripting/2012/02/11/resize-pose-action/ http://www.ethivierge.com/scripting/2012/02/11/resize-pose-action/#comments Sat, 11 Feb 2012 08:59:46 +0000 admin http://www.ethivierge.com/?p=520 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } I needed to resize some pose actions due to a rescale on a rig so I needed to write a script to do so. I didn't need to rescale the scale parameters thus why they are not in the list of params to scale. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 [...]]]> http://www.ethivierge.com/scripting/2012/02/11/resize-pose-action/feed/ 0 http://www.ethivierge.com/scripting/2011/10/10/softimage-curve-copyicon/ http://www.ethivierge.com/scripting/2011/10/10/softimage-curve-copyicon/#comments Mon, 10 Oct 2011 10:20:56 +0000 admin http://www.ethivierge.com/?p=499 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 from win32com.client import constants as c from win32com.client import Dispatch as d   [...]]]> http://www.ethivierge.com/scripting/2011/10/10/softimage-curve-copyicon/feed/ 0 http://www.ethivierge.com/daily/2011/09/24/sydney-arrival/ http://www.ethivierge.com/daily/2011/09/24/sydney-arrival/#comments Sat, 24 Sep 2011 07:24:56 +0000 admin http://www.ethivierge.com/?p=495 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } I arrived in Sydney yesterday after around 24 hours of travel from Philadelphia to San Francisco (6.5 hrs) to Sydney (14.5 hrs). Although it was a very long trip it never felt terribly long. The timing of the flight was probably perfect as it had me traveling later at night on my normal time schedule. [...]]]> http://www.ethivierge.com/daily/2011/09/24/sydney-arrival/feed/ 0 http://www.ethivierge.com/daily/2011/05/25/bimbo/ http://www.ethivierge.com/daily/2011/05/25/bimbo/#comments Wed, 25 May 2011 16:27:49 +0000 admin http://www.ethivierge.com/?p=361 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } While at Janimation in July / August of 2010 I worked on some tool development for this project. Custom Synoptic view, Pose / Animation library. I'll be posting tool breakdown shortly.]]> http://www.ethivierge.com/daily/2011/05/25/bimbo/feed/ 0 http://www.ethivierge.com/scripting/2011/05/21/passmanger-3-0-preview/ http://www.ethivierge.com/scripting/2011/05/21/passmanger-3-0-preview/#comments Sun, 22 May 2011 03:15:14 +0000 admin http://www.ethivierge.com/?p=356 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } A walk through of the new version of ET PassManager. New features include: - GUI to allow selected of passes and settings to export - 1 file export / import - Scene Renderer Settings - Pass Environment Shaders on passes - Local Renderer Settings (local Mental Ray setting on passes) - Complete Rewrite to optimize [...]]]> http://www.ethivierge.com/scripting/2011/05/21/passmanger-3-0-preview/feed/ 0 http://www.ethivierge.com/animation/2011/05/13/wheel-rotation/ http://www.ethivierge.com/animation/2011/05/13/wheel-rotation/#comments Fri, 13 May 2011 20:09:59 +0000 admin http://www.ethivierge.com/?p=354 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } ( 360 / (2 * PI * radius) ) * object.kine.local.posz]]> http://www.ethivierge.com/animation/2011/05/13/wheel-rotation/feed/ 0 http://www.ethivierge.com/plug-ins/2011/04/02/passmanager-3-0-teaser/ http://www.ethivierge.com/plug-ins/2011/04/02/passmanager-3-0-teaser/#comments Sat, 02 Apr 2011 23:12:26 +0000 admin http://www.ethivierge.com/?p=350 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } Here is a sneak peak at ET_PassManager_v3.0:]]> http://www.ethivierge.com/plug-ins/2011/04/02/passmanager-3-0-teaser/feed/ 0 http://www.ethivierge.com/daily/2011/03/21/animstore-v1-35/ http://www.ethivierge.com/daily/2011/03/21/animstore-v1-35/#comments Tue, 22 Mar 2011 02:19:41 +0000 admin http://www.ethivierge.com/?p=344 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } Fixed a bug which caused a layout error in the Pose List GUI. It wuld error out and not build the GUI if you had more than 3 poses in a category. Fixed now. Download (Right click, save target as)]]> http://www.ethivierge.com/daily/2011/03/21/animstore-v1-35/feed/ 0