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by janimatic
31 Aug 2009, 12:52
Forum: Plugins
Topic: emPolygonizer - metaballs for SOFTIMAGE
Replies: 108
Views: 42748

Re: emPolygonizer - metaballs for SOFTIMAGE

hey eric,

it looks really great, but i have a question
Can i use only one license to write the cache and use your operator to read the cache on all the renderfarm without additional license ?
by janimatic
13 Jul 2009, 19:54
Forum: Plugins
Topic: emPolygonizer - metaballs for SOFTIMAGE
Replies: 108
Views: 42748

Re: emPolygonizer - metaballs for SOFTIMAGE

not so easy to edit at 24 files per second !
seriously ascii is really slower than raw binary data, specially if you need topology data
by janimatic
13 Jul 2009, 19:35
Forum: Plugins
Topic: emPolygonizer - metaballs for SOFTIMAGE
Replies: 108
Views: 42748

Re: emPolygonizer - metaballs for SOFTIMAGE

obj is fine,
except it's an ascii file format so it's not very fast to read...

But if you provide a separate operator to read your own binary mesh format we could recompil for 6.5 and use the whole render farm...
by janimatic
13 Jul 2009, 08:20
Forum: Plugins
Topic: emPolygonizer - metaballs for SOFTIMAGE
Replies: 108
Views: 42748

Re: emPolygonizer - metaballs for SOFTIMAGE

hey! i don't think pc2 and mdd are well suited , because of the dynamic topology. The formats supporting this already : * obj sequence but it won't let you store custom data (such as motion vectors) but a custom op reading cache from disk would be better than nothing... * houdini bgeo but it's houdi...
by janimatic
09 Jul 2009, 14:41
Forum: Plugins
Topic: emPolygonizer - metaballs for SOFTIMAGE
Replies: 108
Views: 42748

Re: upcoming: emPolygonizer - metaballs for SOFTIMAGE

excellent work as usual Eric,

as far as i can tell using the demo, the perf looks pretty good
It will be very usefull
thanks

Julien
by janimatic
04 Jul 2009, 02:14
Forum: Plugins
Topic: emPolygonizer - metaballs for SOFTIMAGE
Replies: 108
Views: 42748

Re: upcoming: emPolygonizer - metaballs for SOFTIMAGE

Hello all, it's fantastic Eric, i just need this for my next job, just in time as usual... I'd need to do extensive testing during July though sph emFluids fft ocean and now a mesher.. Softimage is really starting to rock with fluids... thanks to you guys i would also like to know about curvature co...