http://www.ethivierge.com The technical side of animation. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:26:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 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/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/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 http://www.ethivierge.com/scripting/2011/03/10/chain-upvector-positioning/ http://www.ethivierge.com/scripting/2011/03/10/chain-upvector-positioning/#comments Thu, 10 Mar 2011 19:29:32 +0000 admin http://www.ethivierge.com/?p=342 #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 43 44 45 46 47 48 from win32com.client import constants as c from [...]]]> http://www.ethivierge.com/scripting/2011/03/10/chain-upvector-positioning/feed/ 0 http://www.ethivierge.com/scripting/2010/12/21/pickup-v2-0/ http://www.ethivierge.com/scripting/2010/12/21/pickup-v2-0/#comments Wed, 22 Dec 2010 03:25:48 +0000 admin http://www.ethivierge.com/?p=319 #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 just re-wrote the ET_Pickup plug-in / addon as it wasn't working with reference models. Strange how I find out years later that it doesn't work! Either way, this should work since I changed it from keying the Active Parameter on constraints to the BlendWeight parameter. Download (Right Click > Save Target As)]]> http://www.ethivierge.com/scripting/2010/12/21/pickup-v2-0/feed/ 0 http://www.ethivierge.com/daily/2010/10/01/animstore-v1-2/ http://www.ethivierge.com/daily/2010/10/01/animstore-v1-2/#comments Fri, 01 Oct 2010 13:22:49 +0000 admin http://www.ethivierge.com/?p=314 #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; } Just fixed a bug which wouldn't find the viewport manager in the layout if you're using a custom layout and changed the view manager frame's name to something other than "vm". I search for it now using the view's Type instead. Thanks to Florian Eberle from PiXABLE in Germany for the heads up! Download (Right [...]]]> http://www.ethivierge.com/daily/2010/10/01/animstore-v1-2/feed/ 0 http://www.ethivierge.com/scripting/2010/09/30/get-selected-ice-compound-function/ http://www.ethivierge.com/scripting/2010/09/30/get-selected-ice-compound-function/#comments Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:34:20 +0000 admin http://www.ethivierge.com/?p=307 #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; } Needed to get the selected ICE Compounds via scripting today and finally got a working function that returns a dictionary { Name:FullName }. See below. 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 from [...]]]> http://www.ethivierge.com/scripting/2010/09/30/get-selected-ice-compound-function/feed/ 0 http://www.ethivierge.com/daily/2010/08/31/control-tools-2/ http://www.ethivierge.com/daily/2010/08/31/control-tools-2/#comments Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:59:53 +0000 admin http://www.ethivierge.com/?p=300 #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 preview of Control Tools, a completely re-written version of my ET_ControlSetup tool. It allows you to add / remove curve objects to the system dynamically and also combine sub-curves to make more sophisticated control objects.]]> http://www.ethivierge.com/daily/2010/08/31/control-tools-2/feed/ 0