Cycles for Softimage

[Shekn]

In UI I tried to copy the position of settings from the Blender. In the Blender Transparent is inside Film tab. Motion blur is separate tab, but I decide to add it to the same Film. The reason is a balance between the number of tabs in UI and the size of each tab.

There are some idiomatic difficulties. Because there are nature internal settings groups inside Cycles render engine. But UI grouping does not coincide with this internal groups. If create UI with respect with this internal groups, then it will be very different with respect to Blender, and it's will be hard to use official Cycles documentation (or use any Blender tutorials).

[Maximus]

not a big deal but when you create a scatter system and scatter an instance shape obect, lets say a torus and you have all these torus scattered, the "instance master hidden" option in t he visibility > render tab doesnt work, so your Instance main shape is always visible.
again this is minor since you can move it out of the camera view but i wanted just to point it out ;:)

btw you did a fantastic job, ive been using this since hours with not a single crash with the render view always open... playing with all the procedrual textures, this engine is so goddamn good.

thank you so mucu Shekn, i will miss you when this website is going to be down i wish i could be able to learn how to implement scycles within softimage myself. but i have coding knowledge lol

[Shekn]

Thank you very much.

It's possible to implement your request. More over, it is not implemented, because I did not know about this parameter. Previously I think that in Softimage if master is hidden then it always hide all instances. It's good that there is possibility in Softimage to split the render visibility of the instances from master object.

[RuiSantos]

Hi there,
I would like to thank Shekn and all the people still giving us these add-ons..thanks!
I tried the new Sycles add-on (2.1.1) and i think there's a problem with one or two nodes.Or maybe i'm not doing it right!.
When i use a HDRI with "cycBackground",usually i connect a "cycmapping+cycTextureCoordinate" to be able to rotate the HDRI...somehow now i can't.
Am i missing something?
Thanks
Rui

[Shekn]

Hmm, for me this setup works:

Rotation values should be defined in degrees.

[RuiSantos]

Hi Shekn,
Yes i made that exact setup except for the cycmixRGB node...instaled,uninstaled Sycles several times,and it didn't work....saw your post go figure,i made a fresh install,and it worked!...i don't know what happened.Sorry bothering you with this!Nevertheless,thank you!
Rui

[avalon_70]

In UI I tried to copy the position of settings from the Blender. In the Blender Transparent is inside Film tab. Motion blur is separate tab, but I decide to add it to the same Film. The reason is a balance between the number of tabs in UI and the size of each tab.

There are some idiomatic difficulties. Because there are nature internal settings groups inside Cycles render engine. But UI grouping does not coincide with this internal groups. If create UI with respect with this internal groups, then it will be very different with respect to Blender, and it's will be hard to use official Cycles documentation (or use any Blender tutorials).

I understand, you did well.
Not using the blender I was just surprised, but it's my fault
You are doing a fantastic job!
Question.. How is alpha channel treated in shaders?
All softimage nodes and shaders have control of the alpha channel, while those of cycles lack it.

[Maximus]

Hmm, for me this setup works:

Rotation values should be defined in degrees.

dont use that mix rgb color it will wash out your texture, just set the color space in the environmentTexture as non-color data

[Shekn]

About alpha channel in shader nodes. In Cycles color always contains only three channels (r, g, b). Procedural texture nodes (like noise or bricks) does not generate alphas. If some alpha is required, it should be setup manually as separate scalar value. At the end this value can be connected to transparent port of the Principled BSDF or used as factor for mixing some surface shader with clear transparent shader.

About mixRGB node in the previous example. In this example I used hdr-texture with very power light. Of course, as for all hdr-txtures, the mode of the texture is non-color. Even when I set the intensity of the background shader to 0.0001, the light is too strong. So, the mixRGB node used for additional scale-down of the intensity. The second color of the mix is black and the mode is Multiply.

[avalon_70]

Today I had some time to try some things.. I would say that everything works well (apart from the links of the images inside the compound as we said before)..
Even my material (which you can find in a few pages back) works without no changes.
I am attaching an image that I made as a test.
I'm just desperately looking for a solution to have a "Matte Reflection" material that works like all other render engines (it's a cycles/blender problem)..

[Shekn]

Small update 2.1.2. Release notes and link to the download is here: https://github.com/Tugcga/Sycles/releas ... ddon.2.1.2

In particular this update fix some previously mentioned bugs and I hope, does not introduce new ones.

[avalon_70]

Small update 2.1.2. Release notes and link to the download is here: https://github.com/Tugcga/Sycles/releas ... ddon.2.1.2

In particular this update fix some previously mentioned bugs and I hope, does not introduce new ones.

Great! A thousand thanks!
I did a quick test, and everything seems to work fine.
I have a question: also in this version you haven't put the gpu libraries, is there a specific reason?

[wireframex]

Hi Shekn

Thanks a lot.
Next time put the last SyclesPlugin.dll (121 840 640 bytes) to have all GPU
Phil

[avalon_70]

I don't know if it will be useful to anyone... I am attaching a compound for "background" lights to be used with HDRI.
The basis is that of the "HDRMaster", but it can be used simply as a compound, without the need to install environmental libraries.
Inside you will find the rotation in degrees 0-360, plus the possibility to desaturate the texture.
For the uninitiated, if you copy it to the C:\Users\"your users"\Autodesk\Softimage_2015_SP2\Data\RTCompounds folder, you will find it in the "Render Tree" at the top of them all.

Edit.. I can't put (Sorry, the board attachment quota has been reached.)

[Shekn]

Include or not include, that is the question. The reason to distribute libraries for GPUs separately is to reduce the addon size. As I understand by your remarks it is inconvenient. Ok, next time I will include the lib folder into addon package.

[wireframex]

Include or not include, that is the question. The reason to distribute libraries for GPUs separately is to reduce the addon size. As I understand by your remarks it is inconvenient. Ok, next time I will include the lib folder into addon package.