ICE Scatter Compound
by flord on Apr.07, 2011, under Softimage
After some tests with Arnold, we quickly realized we didn’t need Vue anymore for stuff like scattering trees on a landscape. An artist at Oblique asked me to create a compound in ICE to mimic the parameters in Vue to scatter particles with some rules. Here is the compound. It’s quickly done but it works.
FL_ScatterTool.1.3.xsicompound.zip
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Dubois Anaglyph Nuke Gizmo
by flord on Apr.05, 2011, under Nuke
I don’t remember how I stumbled on Eric Dubois’ page on how to create an optimized anaglyph while keeping the colors, but I do remember that I thought it was semi useless since I always do my anaglyphs in black and white, it just works so much better. Even the default anaglyph node in Nuke [...]
Scaling Mountains
by flord on Feb.24, 2011, under Computer Graphics, Softimage
I needed to load some DEM file into Softimage and Polytrans didn’t like the DEM flavor I had in hands. I wrote my own script to import it and happily ended up with a very hires model of the Rocky Mountains to scale. One Softimage unit equals 1 kilometer.
When I get the camera very close [...]