sIBL_GUI For Softimage

[Bullit]

Thanks. Nice that you are looking into Vray.

[caledonian_tartan]

sIBL 4 VRay 4 SI

how great is that! thanks a lot!

[pluMmet]

It sounds like my workstation needs to be online in order to use this...?

That is unfortunate

[eternal art]

Thanks you man for your effort .

[Rork]

It sounds like my workstation needs to be online in order to use this...?

Yes, sIBLGUI will actively check for updates of itself, and templates.
and no, you don't have to be linked to the web to use sIBLGUI itself.

But maybe you can transfer the new templates to the proper folders on your pc after downloading from another machine.

[Kel Solaar]

Hi!

sIBL_GUI 4.0.7 is out!

This release focuses on bringing a neat new feature: Larges Panoramic Thumbnails!

Those are generated once from the background images ( With fallback on the preview ones ) upon startup.

Here is a video to showcase the stuff: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGAL-QWe9qo

And some images:




Unicode supports has been improved: Users with non ASCII characters in their names should have less issues.

Softimage Templates have received a precise per channel colors control property that will allow very fine tuning of the lighting solution:



For Softimage 2013 users, I have also released a new compatibility build with stripped features for the TCPServer_For _Softimage Addon: http://thomasmansencal.com/Sharing/?dir ... es/Nightly

Here is the complete Change Log:

sIBL_GUI - 4.0.7 - Stable:

sIBL_GUI 4.0.7 - Stable - Milestone: https://github.com/KelSolaar/sIBL_GUI/i ... ate=closed
Umbra 1.0.8 - Stable - Milestone: https://github.com/KelSolaar/Umbra/issu ... ate=closed
Manager 2.0.4 - Stable - Milestone: https://github.com/KelSolaar/Manager/is ... ate=closed
Foundations 2.0.8 - Stable - Milestone: https://github.com/KelSolaar/Foundation ... ate=closed

• Implemented large thumbnails support.
• Implemented better unicode support.
• Implemented precise per channel color control over the IBL setup in Softimage Templates.
• Fixed Softimage_Arnold_Standard and Softimage_Arnold_Dome_Light Templates color profiles issues.
• Fixed exception in Softimage_VRay_Standard Template.
• Dropped sqlalchemy-migrate support.

Thats all folks!

KS

[Rork]

He Thomas,

Kudos for another great feature!!

Will have a look asap


P.S. For the people looking into Lightsmith sets, have a look at this thread: http://www.si-community.com/community/v ... f=4&t=3452
Sorry Thomas, to steal a little bit of your 'thunder' ;)


rob

[Kel Solaar]

Sorry Thomas, to steal a little bit of your 'thunder' ;)
rob

No worries mate

It just reminds me that I forgot to fix the ZeroDivision error in the Lightsmith Templates!

KS

[Rork]

LOL!!!

Get back to work!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Kel Solaar]

LOL!!!

Get back to work!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hehehe

KS

[Bullit]

Thanks.

[aio]

First, Thanks for making this available.
I have two minor requests, when i tried the recent version sometime ago, launch time was very long, probably because my pc is not on the internet, so I stopped using it. Secondly the download links are not easy to find you should make them more visible and the github is confusing because i didn't find any compiled version there.
But thanks anyway.

[Kel Solaar]

Hi!

Thanks for reporting that issue, it's a bug I introduced when changing my default test connection address, it went from a numeric format ( xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx ) to "www.google.com" which unfortunately makes a dns lookup that takes around 14 seconds of nothing. I'll roll the fix in the next update, by the mean time you can replace the following file: HDRLabs/sIBL_GUI 4/foundations/common.py by this one:

https://raw.github.com/KelSolaar/Founda ... /common.py

KS

[caledonian_tartan]

hello and happy new year!

i have an essential question about the tcp-server plugin.
i use it also to recieve data other than from sIBL. from an application designed for maya.
but it communicates well with the softimage tcp. i just uses the wrong language. mel. very wrong...

NOW:

Can i translate the incoming events??
And at which point?



e.g.:
incoming maya event:

createNode VRayMtl -n "GlassArch_Window_1_"


should become same command in python for softimage:

oObj = Application.Selection(0)
Application.AddVrayMtl()
oObj.material.Name = "GlassArch_Window_1_"


Or another example:

incoming maya event:

setAttr ".dc" -type "float3" 0.95686275 0.98039216 0.94117647 ;


should become same command in python for softimage:

Application.SetValue("Sources.Materials.DefaultLib.VRayMtl1.VRayMtl.diffuse_color.red", 0.9568, "")
Application.SetValue("Sources.Materials.DefaultLib.VRayMtl1.VRayMtl.diffuse_color.green", 0.9803, "")
Application.SetValue("Sources.Materials.DefaultLib.VRayMtl1.VRayMtl.diffuse_color.blue", 0.9411, "")

[Rork]

I don't think you need it for Maya.
The plugin was created because SI didn't have this functionality natively, like Max and Maya.

But... I could be wrong on this one ;-)

[caledonian_tartan]

i'm sorry, i may have explained myself badly.

there is that 3rd party application i'm testing. designed to talk to maya over a tcp port.
as the events sent are only about (vray)materials which also exist in softimage, i thought i could use sibl_server to make the tcp connection to Softimage.
so far this works, which is great! now the question is:
can i translate MEL to Python for Softimage?
example:
incomming MEL Event: createNode VRayMtl
what it should be in Softimage(pys): Application.AddVrayMtl()