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chris＠cfxassoc.demon.co.uk (chris briscoe) (chris briscoe)

>From chris(a)cfxassoc.demon.co.uk (chris briscoe) Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1995 16:16:45 GMT From: chris(a)cfxassoc.demon.co.uk (chris briscoe) Reply-To: chris(a)cfxassoc.demon.co.uk Message-Id: <395(a)cfxassoc.demon.co.uk> To: sidefx(a)sidefx.com Cc: seamus(a)techimag.demon.co.uk Subject: rental licenses X-Mailer: PCElm 1.10 Lines: 12 Status: R Dear Side FX We need to obtain temporary RENDER ONLY licenses for two rental machines for two weeks each. The machines ids are as follows: name primary id secondary id dabba 3a420200 0b25e yabba 3a4d3adc 0a2b0 Please respond by fax to 0171 494 3670. Yours, -- chris briscoe

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rental licenses 23 years, 4 months

chris＠cfxassoc.demon.co.uk (chris briscoe) (chris briscoe)

Dear Side FX We need to obtain temporary RENDER ONLY licenses for two rental machines for two weeks each. The machines ids are as follows: name primary id secondary id dabba 3a420200 0b25e yabba 3a4d3adc 0a2b0 Please respond by fax to 0171 494 3670. Yours, -- chris briscoe

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3DSite IRC Panel on modeling is today 23 years, 4 months

dani＠primenet.com (Daniele Colajacomo) (Daniele Colajacomo)

------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3DSite's IRC Panel on Modeling (created by Rick May) Wednesday, July 19th 1995 8:15pm PDT Thursday, July 20th 1995 3:15am GMT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following information can be re-distributed, provided its contents are left unaltered. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (NOTE: more info is at http://www.lightside.com/3dsite/cgi/irc/index.html although lightside' server has been unfortunately unstable for the last 48 hours) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are invited to join 3DSite's IRC panel on: Modeling Scheduled panelists are: Eduardo Batres - High Resolution Design Sandeep Divekar - C.E.O., 3Name3D Keith Hunter - Modeling Manager, Rhythm & Hues, Inc. Doug Ikeler - Lead 3D Technical Director - Dreamworks SKG Evan Ricks - V.P of Production / Creative Dir., Viewpoint Datalabs, Inc. How to Join the Panel: > connect to IRC by 8:15pm PDT through port 7000 of one of the following (dalnet) servers: skypoint.dal.net davis.dal.net mindijari.dal.net cin.dal.net, uncc.dal.net xgw.dal.net xanth.dal.net > /join #3dsite_panel You can in addition /join #3dsite_talk where members of the audience will be carrying on a parallel, unmoderated discussion. *** Panel doors will be closing at 8:15 pm. *** We hope you can join in, Daniele Colajacomo 3DSite

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Side Effects User Workshop Announcement 23 years, 4 months

alex (Alex Orgill) (Alex Orgill)

SIDE EFFECTS USER WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT All PRISMS users are invited to the SIGGRAPH '95 Side Effects User Workshop: Sunday August 6 12:30 pm - 5:30 pm Westin Bonaventure Hotel, (Meeting Room: Santa Anita A/B) Los Angeles, CA The agenda includes user feedback sessions, user presentations, an overview of sage features and a new product announcement. Please let us know if you're coming by calling Bev Gontier at (416) 504-9876 or send email to Bev at "bev(a)sidefx.com" by July 31, 1995. AGENDA 12:30 - 1:00 pm o Social/networking time and refreshments 1:00 - 1:20 pm Welcome and meeting overview o Greg Hermanovic 1:20 - 1:45 pm User feedback session 1:45 - 2:00 pm User presentation o Hilton Treves Digital Directions South Africa 2:00 - 2:45 pm Sage features o Paul Breslin 2:45 - 3:30 pm Break 3:30 - 3:45 pm User presentation o Doug Struthers Forte Dallas, TX 3:45 - 4:00 pm User presentation o Judith Crow o Caleb Howard o Kevin Mack Digital Domain Venice, CA 4:00 - 4:20 pm Future product directions 4:20 - 5:15 pm User feedback session 5:15 - 5:30 pm Wrap up

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animating texture coordinates 23 years, 4 months

Craig＠cfxassoc.demon.co.uk (Craig Zerouni) (Craig Zerouni)

Christopher Romano had a question about animating the texture stamping without altering the geometry (ie, by using a scale). Pardon me if I'm missing the point entirely, but if you have action and then lava set up as you describe, then next to the Max box in the Wrap Coords operation, you will find an arrow which allows you to choose Edit. This shoots into jive, and allows you to keyframe animate the Max (and Min) channels of the stamp operation. I think that solves your problem. What I can't figure out how to do is to tie any jive animation into my action-derived timemarks... -- Craig Zerouni CFX Associates London

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3DSite - Character Animation Panl Log available 23 years, 4 months

dani＠covina.lightside.com (Daniele Colajacomo) (Daniele Colajacomo)

We have just published the log of our Character Animation Panel, which featured the following panelists: Steve Gray - Director of Digital Media, Electronic Arts, Canada Steph Greenberg - Character Animator, Walt Disney Imagineering VR Studio Jeff Hayes - Animator, Angel Studios Neil Richmond - Animation Director, Rhythm & Hues Carlos Saldanha - Director of Animation, Bluesky Productions You are invited to get a copy by: - visiting http://www.lightside.com/3dsite/ - retrieving the file through ftp: ftp://covina.lightside.com/pub/3DSite/panels/logs/7_12_95/panel-ftp.log - sending mail to support-3dsite(a)lightside.com stating you wish to receive a copy. we will be happy to send you one. Also, keep in mind our next IRC Panel which will be on Modeling, Wednesday, july 19th, at 8:15 PM Pacific Time and it will feature the following panelists: Eduardo Batres - High Resolution Design Sandeep Divekar - C.E.O., Yglesias/Wallock/Divekar Keith Hunter - Modeling Manager, Rhythm & Hues, Inc. Doug Ikeler - Lead 3D Technical Director, DreamWorks SKG Evan Ricks - V.P. of Production and Technology, Creative Director, Viewpoint Datalabs, Inc. See you there! Daniele Colajacomo 3DSite

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animating texture coordinates 23 years, 4 months

cdromano＠earthlink.net (Christopher Dante Romano) (Christopher Dante Romano)

Here's a simplified version of the problem I'm working on: I have a disc in the XZ plane. GRID: rows 1, columns 6, display rows, no center COPY: 20 times, transformation cumulative, rotate in Y until first and last meet FACET: consolidate points As you'll see, there are five rings of polygons. My texture map is basically a ramp, consisting of a few bands. When mapped, they appear like concentric circles. Right now, I'm using LAVA to map the disc. CYLINDRICAL PROJECTION SWAP COORDINATES: set to W U V WRAP COORDINATES: stamp inside range .2 .6 (I don't remember if I have this in U or V) APPLY COLORING The center of the disc is O, with the outside edge being 1. As you can see, I'm only mapping a portion of the disc, from .2 to about .6 (rings two and three). Now, I need to stretch the outer edge of the rings without altering the position of the inner ring. So basically, scaling is out of the question. How can I animate the position of the .6 texture coordinate? Meaning, if .6 is now 60% of the way to the outside edge from the center, how can I animate it to, oh, 80% of the way, while keeping the .2 at 20% (the map now covers rings two, three, and four)? If I have to use the texture SOP, instead of LAVA, maybe someone could explain how to swap coordinates within the texture SOP. chris

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global action.rc 23 years, 4 months

horne＠vislab.su.edu.au (Geoff Horne) (Geoff Horne)

I know that it is possible to override the defaults in action be creating an 'action.rc' in $HOME/.prisms, BUT we'd like to make changes that affect all prisms users (such as the fact that we use pal video which is 25 FPS) Q) is there a global 'action.rc' (I couldn't find one in /ufs/prisms/support) Thanx, Geoff. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Geoff Horne http://www.usyd.edu.au/~~ghorne Computational Scientist and VisLab conundrum rectifier ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Don't take life too seriously, you don't get out of it alive anyway" Burt Ward

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Prisms & StereoViewers 23 years, 5 months

Doug Struthers

I understand that we can now build models with Prisms while viewing the model with stereo glasses. I am considering StereoGraphics or NuVision, both of which claim to be compatible with Prisms. Are there any other options? Any feedback on either of these products? Any comments on doing this? Seems so helpful for those difficult models!! Thanks in advance (doug(a)plano.net) -- doug struthers

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renderman shader locations 23 years, 5 months

Christian Hogue

On Jul 6, 6:45pm, Antoine Durr wrote: > Subject: Re: renderman shader locations > > > > You should be able to set the environment (or Action) variable: > > > > RMAN_SHADERPATH > > > > to be something else. This sets the "RiOption searchpath shader" in the > > RIB file. If this variable is set, it should include > > /ufs/prisms/support/ri_shaders > > so that the default Action light shaders can be found. With this variable > > set, the light shaders won't put out the full path name. > > > > > > > > > In our production environment, it is a standard to have each > > > job in its own self-contained area, no matter what software > > > package is used... > > > > > > > I would like to be able to have shaders local to each job, > > > so that no one has to see other people's shaders, and > > > job backups are easier. > > so, set your shaderpath to > > Action -> set RMAN_SHADERPATH = \ > ".:$JOB/Shaders:/ufs/prisms/prisms/support/ri_shaders:&" > > Now, the remaining problem is that if you have PRMan on a non-PRISMS > machine, that machine will have no idea where '/ufs/ is. Being > NFS/automouted, we have to add a PRISMS machine (ideally the user's) > to the shaderpath, as in: > > ".:$JOB/Shaders:/Net/<mymachine>/usr/local/prisms/prisms/support/ri_shaders:&" > > Not the prettiest thing on earth, but it works. > > -- Antoine > > _______________________________________________________________________________ > > Antoine Durr VIFX - Video Image > Senior Technical Director 5333 McConnell Ave > antoine(a)vifx.com, adurr(a)netcom.com Los Angeles, CA 90066 > voice: 310/822-8872 fax: 310/821-1012 > _______________________________________________________________________________ > > >-- End of excerpt from Antoine Durr To aviod this problem with non-prisms machines (or non-soft or whatever) we have a convention that you always render from the job directory so that the standard search path ./Shaders:/ufs etc where we have /ufs either symbolicly linked to the machine with the software on (in our case a server) or an NFS mount to the server. so very easily renderman works on any machine that we have providing we have NFS access to the job directory to render from and a mount or link to a /ufs directory. or perhaps this is even more complicated? -- Christian Hogue xian(a)lostinspace.com Lost In Space Digital Effects and Animation 28 Nottingham Place London W1M 3FD England Tel +44 171 704 9810 Fax +44 171 704 9811

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