GEAR_mc a fork of Jeremie Passerin's GEAR project

[Miquel Campos]

Hello,

I have just uploaded to github my custom fork of Jeremie Passerin's GEAR project.

https://github.com/miquelcampos/GEAR_mc

Here is a little list of what's the new:

-New Menu re-arrange  

-New Facial components   

-New options for icon creator    

-Selection sets and poseLib not part of Gear  

-poseLib should work now in Linux (but not tested)  

-Zipper tool for curves  

-New solvers  

-Wireframe color tool  

-Guides support for store wireframe color  

-New commands for inspect Guides PPG and solvers options  

-Command for merge symmetry mapping templates.

Some of these new features were initially developed by Jeremie, who kindly shared with me some of his personal WIP code.

 BIG THANKS to Jeremie for the original code and all the help. And also BIG THANKS to Sly and PH from Shed  Montreal to allow me to release some internal code for the poseLib, selection sets and some of the facial components.

I will prepare with Alan some videos explaining the new features and tools. Stay tune to TDsurvival ;)

Cheers,

Miquel

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Miquel Campos
www.miquelTD.com

[Gustavo Eggert Boehs]

Very kind of you to share Miquel. Looks packed with good stuff!

I would ask a lot of questions, but I guess I will just wait for the funny video :D

Gustavo E Boehs

Dpto. de Expressão Gráfica
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
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2013/8/26 Miquel Campos <miquel...@gmail.com>

[Raffaele Fragapane]

Is Jeremy still working on/maintaining GEAR?

Maybe administration could be shared and this merged back into the original GEAR?

Good job Miquel.

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[Emilio Hernandez]

Awsome!  Good Job!  Thanks a lot!

2013/8/26 Raffaele Fragapane <raffsx...@googlemail.com>

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[Octavian Ureche]

Big thanks to you, jeremie, and the crew at shed for this.

It will save lives :)

[Martin]

Thanks for sharing Miquel !

I'm looking forward to your new videos.

And thanks to the rest of Shed too, big fan of your work.

Martin

[Daniel Kim]

It's really awesome. Thank you so much Miquel :)

Daniel

[Nour Almasri]

Awesome , thank you Miquel .

[Matt Morris]

Great way to start the week! Thanks Miquel and shed for sharing :)

On 27 August 2013 09:38, Nour Almasri <mr.nour...@gmail.com> wrote:

Awesome , thank you Miquel .

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[Darren Macpherson]

I'm a big fan of GEAR, so thank you Miquel and Shed for sharing, and of course Jeremie.  Looking forward to the videos.


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[Daniel Brassard]

Thanks Miquel,

A couple of questions:

* Do you need the original Gear for your addons?

* Do you need to remove the original Gear before installing?

Dan

P.S.  Look like Jeremie main site is offline.

[Daniel Brassard]

OK, Found his Github site.

https://github.com/jpasserin

[Miquel Campos]

Hello,

Thanks for the comments :)

Daniel: This version is replacing the original GEAR. The guides and rigs should be compatible. I will prepare today some videos of how to install it or switch between the 2 version if is needed. Also the xml need to be regenerated to handle the colours of the controls. I will do videos for everything :)

Miq

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2013/8/27 Daniel Brassard <dbras...@gmail.com>

[Miquel Campos]

Raffaele:

as far I know he is not working on Gear. But maybe he, can add more light on this topic :)

About merging. I just discover today (Thanks to Daniel) that Jeremie has Github :P so yes why not :) I will ask to him.

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2013/8/26 Raffaele Fragapane <raffsx...@googlemail.com>

[Miquel Campos]

Almost forget::

BIG THANKS to Helge for the original cpp solvers :)

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2013/8/27 Miquel Campos <miquel...@gmail.com>

[Jeremie Passerin]

Hey guys !

First of all congrats Miquel on the release now I can officially forward you all the support emails I'm getting ;-)

So Miquel kind of took over the Gear project. That was the idea behind it, everyone is free to grab it and extend what I did. 

I no longer work on Gear because I'm working on new stuff for Blur that I hope will also be open source in a near future (need to finish it first though).

Miquel grabbed an unrealeased version of Gear that included a couple of WIP stuff I was working on before dropping it. He cleaned it and kept the things that were working in. 

Miquel is an awesome TD and we were working closely together at the time I developed Gear so he knows it really well (probably better than I do now) and I trust him completely to have it extended in a Gear way !

Just take a look at his work at Shed, it's already a mix of Gear and his own stuff ! Looks really cool !

Yeah Gear is on Github but I don't really remember the last time I updated the repo... but yeah it could be a branch of the project or Miquel I could give you access to the repo if you just want to make it the official release.

Anyway, good luck with that, I'm still available for help if needed. 

And yeah my website is done, should be back shortly... this is what happen when you don't pay your bills !

Jeremie

[Rares Halmagean]

I'll through in a Huzzah and big thanks for the addition. Can't wait to try it out.

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[Adam Sale]

Awesome news. Just in time for the start of September classes. 

Adam

[Mirko Jankovic]

hip hip hip hooray for our SI masters! :)

[Emilio Hernandez]

Yeah!  Waiting anxiously for the videos!

Thanks Jeremie for the solid foundation of GEAR and thank you Miquel for keeping it not only alive but sailing!

2013/8/27 Mirko Jankovic <mirkoj....@gmail.com>

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[Halim Negadi]

Thank you Miguel, couldn't dream of a better timing as we were planning to use gear for our first teaser over here.

Glad to see you guys keeping our weapon alive.

[Miquel Campos]

Oh! nice! :) Halim, where is "here"?

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Miquel Campos
www.miquelTD.com

2013/8/27 Halim Negadi <hne...@gmail.com>

[Sylvain Lebeau]

Hi guys!!! 

Nice to see the reception of this new version. 

Gear as changed the way we do characters at shed when Miquel came in to work with us…  And was mostly introduced in our initial IGA commercials if i remember well.. 

And then spreaded out to every projects we do.  It helped us out a lot. 

It was just a matter of common sense to share it back to our sweet SI community and keep it alive.

Thanks Miquel for your devotion and hard work!

sly

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[Sylvain Lebeau]

Thanks to you too Jeremie…. Of course…..you laid down the whole thing quite nicely for Miq to play with!!

But please… Don't directly forward the support mails to Miquel … pouahahahahahahah ;-) 

Oh well…. I think he'll have to live with that now… 

And it won't be very obvious he's awnsering them in the daytime work since he his always freaking typing his keyboard.

:-)

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[Halim Negadi]

Hi Miguel,

We plan to work with GEAR in the next few months at Forge Animation, in south of france. ( www.forge-animation.com )

[Szabolcs Matefy]

Thanks Miguel and Jeremie, Gear is one of the ebst and most important contribution to Softimage community. J

 

So when the new features video will be alive?

 

 

 

Cheers

 

 

Szabolcs

[Sebastien Sterling]

YES !

[Muhamad Faizol Abd. Halim]

Hi Miquel,

Any laid out road map for future development?

Cheers.

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>> On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 7:46 PM, Miquel Campos <miquel...@gmail.com>

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>> 2013/8/27 Halim Negadi <hne...@gmail.com>****

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>> Thank you Miguel, couldn't dream of a better timing as we were planning
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>> use gear for our first teaser over here.****
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>> Glad to see you guys keeping our weapon alive.****
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>> On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 7:06 PM, Emilio Hernandez <emi...@e-roja.com>

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>> Yeah! Waiting anxiously for the videos!****

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>> Thanks Jeremie for the solid foundation of GEAR and thank you Miquel for

>> keeping it not only alive but sailing!****
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>> 2013/8/27 Mirko Jankovic <mirkoj....@gmail.com>****
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>> hip hip hip hooray for our SI masters! :)****
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>> On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 6:34 PM, Adam Sale <adam...@gmail.com>

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>> On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Rares Halmagean <ra...@rarebrush.com>

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>> I'll through in a Huzzah and big thanks for the addition. Can't wait to

>> try it out. ****
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>> On 8/26/2013 9:48 PM, Miquel Campos wrote:****
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>> Hello, ****
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>> I have just uploaded to github my custom fork of Jeremie Passerin's GEAR

>> project.****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> https://github.com/miquelcampos/GEAR_mc****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Here is a little list of what's the new:****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> -New Menu re-arrange ****
>>
>> -New Facial components ****
>>
>> -New options for icon creator ****
>>
>> -Selection sets and poseLib not part of Gear ****
>>
>> -poseLib should work now in Linux (but not tested) ****
>>
>> -Zipper tool for curves ****
>>
>> -New solvers ****
>>
>> -Wireframe color tool ****
>>
>> -Guides support for store wireframe color ****
>>
>> -New commands for inspect Guides PPG and solvers options ****
>>
>> -Command for merge symmetry mapping templates.****
>>
>> ** **

>>
>> Some of these new features were initially developed by Jeremie, who
>> kindly

>> shared with me some of his personal WIP code.****
>>
>> ** **

>>
>> BIG THANKS to Jeremie for the original code and all the help. And also
>> BIG THANKS to Sly and PH from Shed Montreal to allow me to release some
>> internal code for the poseLib, selection sets and some of the facial

>> components.****
>>
>> ** **

>>
>> I will prepare with Alan some videos explaining the new features and

>> tools. Stay tune to TDsurvival ;)****
>>
>> ** **
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>> Cheers,****
>>
>> Miquel****
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>> Miquel Campos
>> www.miquelTD.com****
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[Miquel Campos]

Thanks for the link Halim,

Windwalkers looks really nice. I like the idea of 16+ film :)   And I see Marc Caro as an Artistic Director :D I Hope the best for the project :) 

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2013/8/28 Halim Negadi <hne...@gmail.com>

[Miquel Campos]

 Muhamad:  Any laid out road map for future development?

Yes I have a kind of road map :P

For the moment I would like to add (ASAP) some more rigging components  and add some functionalities to some of the tools. Later I have a list of ideas, but not sure where to start yet :P

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2013/8/28 Miquel Campos <miquel...@gmail.com>

[Mirko Jankovic]

there is plan to make installation friendly as well, something like in form of addon?

also so far I helped like bunch of people to install gear, they all had problems with python path and modules. 

if that part could be solved to have everything for installation as much as possible user friendly it would me this even better if that is possible at all :)

[Miquel Campos]

Hello Mirko,

For the moments no plans to make an easier installation. But I recorded a video of how to install it, should be online today :)

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www.miquelTD.com

2013/8/28 Mirko Jankovic <mirkoj....@gmail.com>

[Miquel Campos]

Hello,

first videos are ready:

001 - installation https://vimeo.com/73286635
002 - icons https://vimeo.com/73286662
003 - zipper https://vimeo.com/73304786
004 - wireframe colorizer https://vimeo.com/73304787
005 - solvers https://vimeo.com/73304788

:)

Miq

[Emilio Hernandez]

Hey Miquel.... You rule!!!

Thanks a lot

2013/8/28 Miquel Campos <miquel...@gmail.com>

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[Tim Crowson]

Thanks so much Miquel! Are there any known compatibility problems with the previous versions of GEAR?

-Tim

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[Miquel Campos]

Hello Tim,

The only issue that I found was with the xml templates. You need to generate it with the original GEAR. Later save the guide as a model/scene. Reload Gear_mc and re-export the guide to an xml template.

This will avoid an error at loading time with the color in the controls.  If you already have controls stored in the guide all the controls will turn grey when you generate the rig.

Use the wireframe color tool and extract the controls from the rig to the guide. This action will re-color your guide for future use :)

I will do a video of this for better explanation.

Cheers,

Miquel

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