07 November 2009

Kill It Kid

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I don't care - this has nothing to do with CGI, Softimage or my stuff but I'm going to plug 'em anyway. I love their music and I...
31 October 2009

Unity is now FREE

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I've been looking into Unity recently and was seriously considering purchasing the Indie version, primarily because of its ability to r...
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24 October 2009

Alternative to bevel

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I say don't use the bevel. At all. Instead: 1. Press plus (numpad "+") to work in subdivision mode from the get go. (Times 2...
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Softimage 2010 SP1: dxfimporter and sunposition updated

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Get the v2010 SP1 compiles of the: DXFimporter plugins here Sunposition plugins here
10 October 2009

RTCompound: Architectural Framebuffers Compound

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This is a rendertree compound that splits up the Architectural Shader over ALL the framebuffer channels. Something similar has been done ...
04 October 2009

Convex collision mesh creation with Stanhull/Softimage

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I use a number of scripts for speeding up the creation of collision boxes for Valves SMD exporter in Softimage. The process I follow is laid...
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03 October 2009

New Ultimapper Options in Softimage 2010

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Softimage 2010 has new Ultimapper options: now supporting the creation of bent normal maps, plus the full arrange of Ambient Occlusion shad...
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24 September 2009

SunPosition update for 2010

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Updated for Autodesk Softimage v2010 (8.0.201.0). Download it from here . SunPosition 2010 demonstration from Jason Wells on Vimeo . ...
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23 September 2009

Colorspace/Physically correct colours in Softimage

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I've noticed two blogs recently post tips on how to get physically correct texture colours when rendering indirect illumination (and usi...
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Isolating individual scene objects per pass

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This is a pass setup I came up with to address a question posted here. Basically, the query was how to remove individual elements from...
18 September 2009

dxf importer 2010

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I've recompiled the dxfimporter 23 & 3d for Softimage 2010. Get them from the usual place, here.
06 September 2009

Bot Walk 2

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Slightly different take on the bot walk. From scratch again, this time I tried to match the rig motion with foot motion, so it travels forw...
05 September 2009

Bot Walk 1

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My second go at creating a walk cycle using a premade, free to use character rig from www.creativecrash.com (formerly known as highend3d.co...
29 August 2009

Architectural modeling tools

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Archtools for Softimage demostration from Jason Wells on Vimeo . V2 released -Cameras- Fixed Polygon Cam (new) - create a view perpendicul...
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02 August 2009

New Archviz Website

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Just set up a new Archviz website. I've tried to keep it simple. You can find it here .
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09 June 2009

New IES Light plugin

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wombat778 is currently letting people test his new IES light plugin for Softimage at xsibase here . I've not tried it yet but it looks p...

New Softimage Community Forum

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Since Autodesk's "The Area" took over from the SI community website, it seems that people are pretty unhappy about using the s...
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07 June 2009

dxf importer plugin now at The Area

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Due to the sad assimilation of community.softimage into the Autodesk discussion boards, I've re- uploaded the dxf importer addons to the...
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24 May 2009

Environment Art Portfolio site now up!

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I've got my game art portfolio up online now - check it out here: link I have extensive experience using Valve's source engine and s...
12 May 2009

Cloudwright plug-in Open Alpha

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This great new plug-in has arrived as an open alpha from  http://www.simul.co.uk/ . You can download the installer from here:  http://www.si...
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