Viewcube tip

[Jason Brynford-Jones]

I use the viewcube - especially when I have a cup of coffee in one hand and can't use the keyboard.
But, one cool thing is that in an Ortho view it can orbit. Very handy sometimes (I forgot to mention it in the video)

That's all for now

Chin

[Marc-Andre Carbonneau]

Chinny, you know you can use the DVD tray as a cup holder right? ;)

 

From: softimag...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimag...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Jason Brynford-Jones
Sent: October 8, 2010 8:59 AM
To: soft...@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: Viewcube tip

 

I use the viewcube – especially when I have a cup of coffee in one hand and can’t use the keyboard.

[Eric Thivierge]

I don't understand Chinny, I thought you if anyone, could run Soft
with 1 arm tied behind your back... or holding a coffee cup for that
matter. Without the view cube!

: )

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Technical Director
http://www.ethivierge.com

On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Marc-Andre Carbonneau
<marc-andre...@ubisoft.com> wrote:
> Chinny, you know you can use the DVD tray as a cup holder right? ;)
>
>
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> From: softimag...@listproc.autodesk.com
> [mailto:softimag...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Jason
> Brynford-Jones
> Sent: October 8, 2010 8:59 AM
> To: soft...@listproc.autodesk.com
> Subject: Viewcube tip
>
>
>

> I use the viewcube � especially when I have a cup of coffee in one hand and
> can�t use the keyboard.
>
> But, one cool thing is that in an Ortho view it can orbit.� Very handy

> sometimes (I forgot to mention it in the video)
>
>
>

> That�s all for now
>
>
>
> Chin

[Arvid Björn]

Finally, the double-handedly-challenged 3D-artists can have a play with Softimage!

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[Christopher Tedin]

...in an Ortho view it can orbit.

Actually, I found that very handy myself.

[tak...@earthlink.net]

Yeah I was initially wanting to hate on the viewcube but after using it a bit it's much better than using the "xyz" thingies at the top of the screen. It also lets me just have one perspective view maximized and switch to orthos by sort of swiping.

I remember in soft3d there was like an angle turntable dial for the ortho views. This is similar but much more usable.

Kind of nice to be wrong sometimes. :)

-T

[Daniel H]

Starting my own ViewCube club complete with customized Dunny line.

[Greg Punchatz]

EXACTLY how I felt....first saw it..."ooohhh no!!  then...."wait...I kinda like this thing....." 

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[Christopher Tedin]

We should have coffee cups made. I'll get right on that.

[Christopher Tedin]

We should have coffee cups made for the club. I'll get right on that.

On 10/8/10 2:17 PM, Daniel H wrote:

[Fabian Schnuer]

On the topic of ortho views and a maximized viewport. A while ago I
mapped Shift1-6 to user/top/etc in the same sequence as houdini
(although there it is space+#) since I use both all the time.

Since then I rarely have more than one big viewport and swap between
them happily using the hot-keys. Floating panes get push over to screen
#2 most of the time.

-F

[Sam Cuttriss]

i was looking forward to hating the view cube,
buuut its handy.
i approve

[Sam J. Bowling]

I noticed that right away. It seems like a useful feature, but I'm not sure
how often I'll actually use it.

--
Sam J. Bowling

[Eugen Sares]

Am 08.10.2010, 14:58 Uhr, schrieb Jason Brynford-Jones
<Jason.Bryn...@autodesk.com>:

> I use the viewcube - especially when I have a cup of coffee in one hand
> and can't use the keyboard.
> But, one cool thing is that in an Ortho view it can orbit. Very handy
> sometimes (I forgot to mention it in the video)

If the Viewcube can orbit an ortho view, it should be an easy thing to
implement the same for the regular Navigation Tool, yes?
Would be cool.
3ds max can do this (Maya also cannot).

Since we are talking about viewport navigation enhancements:
does "Zoom On Cursor" work with the Navigation Tool (S, or ALT) already in
2011.5 ?
For now it just does with the "Pan And Zoom Tool", which nobody uses.

[Daniel Rajcic]

Actually you can do this in Maya by unlocking your orthographic views in
your tumble tool options. But it doesn't behave as fluent as it does in 3ds
max for example. When using alt and your mouse keys you can only orbit in
the direction you're inital moving your mouse. But when using the viewcube
in an unlocked orthographic view it orbits quiet smoothly.

cheers,
Daniel

[Schoenberger]

|> If the Viewcube can orbit an ortho view, it should be an
|> easy thing to implement the same for the regular Navigation
|> Tool, yes?

For now I am using a user camera if I want to manually rotate an ortho view.
Or I selected a grid/object which has the right orientation and used the
x/y/z button on top of the screen.

Holger Sch�nberger
technical director
The day has 24 hours, if that does not suffice, I will take the night

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|> From: softimag...@listproc.autodesk.com
|> [mailto:softimag...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf

[Piotrek Marczak]

Any way to disable it in max? Its annoyin as hell

W dniu 2010-10-09 11:31, Daniel Rajcic pisze:

[Adam Sale]

perhaps like the pixar booth with the tepaot giveaways each year, Autodesk could start giving away viewcube schwag..  

[Alan Fregtman]

Like a a squishy Viewcube toy for the stressing times...

[Adam Sale]

Yeah, and squishy to fit into your carry ons along with all the other stuff you amass at these shows.
Tradeshow swag behave a lot like tribbles. Day of departure as you're packing, for your flight, you're damned if you can figure out how so much stuff came into your being in such a concentrated amount of time.

Joey knows this all too well. I've seen him toting along impressive amounts of loot from years past...
anyways, guess i'm getting dangerously OT so....

[Brent McPherson]

A little birdie told me the viewcube textures are stored in the install directory (Application/AutoCam/Textures) so if any of you creative types whip up any new skins please share... ;-)
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Brent

From: softimag...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimag...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Adam Sale
Sent: 11 October 2010 05:00
To: soft...@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: Re: Viewcube tip

Yeah, and squishy to fit into your carry ons along with all the other stuff you amass at these shows.
Tradeshow swag behave a lot like tribbles. Day of departure as you're packing, for your flight, you're damned if you can figure out how so much stuff came into your being in such a concentrated amount of time.

Joey knows this all too well. I've seen him toting along impressive amounts of loot from years past...
anyways, guess i'm getting dangerously OT so....

On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Alan Fregtman <alan.f...@gmail.com<mailto:alan.f...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Like a a squishy Viewcube toy for the stressing times...

On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Adam Sale <adam...@gmail.com<mailto:adam...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> perhaps like the pixar booth with the tepaot giveaways each year, Autodesk
> could start giving away viewcube schwag..
>

> On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 4:12 AM, Piotrek Marczak <orig...@gmail.com<mailto:orig...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Any way to disable it in max? Its annoyin as hell
>>
>> W dniu 2010-10-09 11:31, Daniel Rajcic pisze:
>>>
>>> Actually you can do this in Maya by unlocking your orthographic views in
>>> your tumble tool options. But it doesn't behave as fluent as it does in 3ds
>>> max for example. When using alt and your mouse keys you can only orbit in
>>> the direction you're inital moving your mouse. But when using the viewcube
>>> in an unlocked orthographic view it orbits quiet smoothly.
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>> Daniel
>>>
>>>
>>>> If the Viewcube can orbit an ortho view, it should be an easy thing to
>>>> implement the same for the regular Navigation Tool, yes?
>>>> Would be cool.
>>>> 3ds max can do this (Maya also cannot).
>>>
>>
>
>

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[Rob Wuijster]

You mean... like this??

Sorry, couldn't resist ;-)

rob

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[Mirko Jankovic]

booorg cube! i want it I want it I want it!

:)

[Gerbrand Nel]

Now who's the bigger nerd :)


G

[Rob Wuijster]

ROFLMAO....

You win!!!!

rob

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[Gerbrand Nel]

Someone stop me, I'm having too much fun with this view cube :)
Glad Hitler didn't fire that b#tch who wrote it ;)
G

[Rob Wuijster]

Forgot to say, love the pink hearts.... LOL!!!

rob

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[André Adam]

Seems to need an explanation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weighted_companion_cube

    -André

[Rob Wuijster]

:-D

rob

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[Gerbrand Nel]

Yeah but it only needs explaining to low, and high level nerds.. only the mid-level nerds play portal :)
G

[Rob Wuijster]

Phew.... saved ;-)

rob

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[Nic Groot Bluemink]

Lovelovelove.

I want this on my screen, as soon as we switch to 2011 here, haha!

[Christopher Tedin]

That's it, I'm "modding" my son's Softimage! (If he hasn't done it already...) ROTFL!

[adrian wyer]

The view cube is a lie….

 

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Fluid Pictures
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[Darrin Hofmeyr]

r2d2
http://www.akeric.com/blog/?p=765
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Animation Supervisor
BlackGinger
+27 21 4881188

[Christopher Tedin]

Okay, someone has to create a "viewcake".

More Rhubarb!

Sorry, last OT comment...

[Alan Fregtman]

Darnit, you beat me to it! :)

I was gonna make that. Did you make your own texture or get the one from the papercraft model some guy did?

[adrian wyer]

Rubik’s cube?

 

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Fluid Pictures
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[Mirko Jankovic]

hehe Max and Maya people have this cube for how long now.. and I never saw a single modification until now.

Now there is new marketing message: 

Softimage: Brings creativity out of you! 

or something like that hehehe

[Rob Wuijster]

here you go... ;-)

vr.gr.,

Rob Wuijster
E ro...@casema.nl

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[adrian wyer]

Sweet

 

a

 

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Fluid Pictures
16-18 Beak St.
London W1F 9RD
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F.++44(0) 207 100 1989
E. adria...@fluid-pictures.com
www.fluid-pictures.com

Fluid Pictures Limited is registered in England and Wales.
Company number:5657815
VAT number: 872 6893 71

[Gerbrand Nel]

hehehe, used some icon I got on the net, and cleaned it up a bit.
I uploaded it to the area, so it could be anywhere right now ;)
its should be under "fun extras", but being the area, it could be under jobs, or links, or tutorials, or whatever
G

 
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[Gerbrand Nel]

nice!!, I actually thought about that, but I've never solved one of those damn things, so I hate them
G

[Adam Seeley]

bonsai kitten?

 

A.

 

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From: softimag...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimag...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of adrian wyer
Sent: 12 October 2010 17:06
To: ro...@casema.nl; soft...@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: RE: Viewcube tip

 

Sweet

 

a

 

Adrian Wyer
Fluid Pictures
16-18 Beak St.
London W1F 9RD
T.++44(0) 207 434 3565
F.++44(0) 207 100 1989
E. adria...@fluid-pictures.com
www.fluid-pictures.com

Fluid Pictures Limited is registered in England and Wales.
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Sent: 12 October 2010 17:05

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[Joe Williamsen]

LOL - Awesome!

[Joe Williamsen]

The Softimage Companion Cube!  I'll bet they use this at Valve....

On 10/12/2010 1:33 AM, Gerbrand Nel wrote:

[Alan Fregtman]

Eric, new section at XSIDB for Viewcube skins? watcha say? ;) haha

[César Sáez]

Nice, I love the rubik version! :)

[Marc-Andre Carbonneau]

Guys, you were all eager to get your hands on Lagoa and all I see is posts about the viewcube?!!!

Really! LOL!

MAC

[Gerbrand Nel]

Yeah, looked at lagoa... meh, it has nothing on the view cube :)

Seriously, I loaded all the lagoa sample scenes, and it blew my mind to the extend where I can do nothing but mod the view cube until I recover.
I supose it will take some time to wrap my head around lagoa before I can start asking dumb questions about it.
So far this is a pretty awesome release. It seems like its a bigger release than 2011
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[Alan Fregtman]

Another cool tip... There is a hidden preference that will enable animated camera transitions for everything (like in Maya) but it's considered *unsupported* so use at your own peril. (Seems to work ok for me though.)

SetValue "Preferences.camera.animate", 1

:)

[Raffaele Fragapane]

Nice, now I need a supermario skin for it...

[Robert Chapman]

feeling lucky...?


also to change the lettering put the amended VCfacetext.png in the ENU folder

[Orlando Esponda]

Here's mine... 

Check this site and have fun  :)    http://www.cubeecraft.com/



Orlando.

[Bradley Gabe]

I did this one for my Maya install not too long after the aquisition of Soft:

 

[Steven Caron]

sweet, look who is on top...

s

[Kris Rivel]

Lol you guys are nuts...hysterical.

Kris

[Eric Thivierge]

I'll make a new section for sure.  >:p

This is an amazing thread btw. We should have a thread of the year award. Seriously. Winner gets the previously mentioned plush view cube toy.

All your cube r belong to us....

--------------------------------------------
Eric Thivierge
Technical Director
http://www.ethivierge.com

[Adam Sale]

keen observation there mr. caron

[Darren Macpherson]

[

Gesh Gerbrand, way to derail productivity :)  You should put yours on the beginning of your showreel, you could headline it 'for the guy who brought portal to a UI near you' you'll get snapped up for jobs in no time!

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[Gerbrand Nel]

Adventure, excitement. A Jedi craves not these things. :)

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[Rob Wuijster]

or a trooper.... ;-)

vr.gr.,

Rob Wuijster
E ro...@casema.nl

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[Rob Wuijster]

last one, for the British Sci-Fi lovers.. ;-)

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[Rob Wuijster]

last one, for the British Sci-Fi lovers.. ;-)

vr.gr.,

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On 10/13/2010 10:12 AM, Gerbrand Nel wrote:

[Bradley Gabe]

British Sci-Fi?!  Where is Lister, Rimmer, Cat, Kryten???

[Rob Wuijster]

hehe... True... Kryten would make a nice viewcube :-)

rob

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[Luc-Eric Rousseau]

fyi: The Tangible View Cube

http://dux.typepad.com/dux/2009/03/the-tangible-view-cube.html

[Joe Williamsen]

Bring back the (Explore) Dial Box! :)

[Adam Seeley]

Hi,

Has anybody used the Sleeping mode in Momentum?

I'm assuming it's this feature activates the simulation when another element has an influence on it, e.g. a collision.
Although I've set GImpact Actual shape on all the elements, the Sleeping mode seem to use a bounding box to set off the simulation rather than actual shape.

This is fine for cubes, brick and spheres but not so great for more complex geometry.

Is this the expected behaviour or am I mssing an option somewhere?
I've attached a small scene to demonstrate.

Many thanks,

Adam.

p.s. 2011.5... lagoa... bl**dy hell... so much to learn, so much work in the way!