Beta 2.2 RC1: SoftImage XSI plugin testing thread

[Amplitude]

yep that would be great.
with all the stuff you implemented recently (since yesterday? ), your exporter is really getting pretty solid .

[mlody47]

hey smoothing is screwing up when I animate. In first frames its great and more frames more blackness on my renders

74/100 .

[face]

So, i have it...
User normals, rather the normals with the discontinuity angle, are now saved as usernormals.
And as i say, the smooth option is ever on, on the first mesh.
If smooth is on and the discontinuity angle is 0°, they look as smooth is off.
It´s a bug that Octane don´t use the s option in the obj-file for the first mesh.

A little bit background
The usernormals in Softimage can setting up under Model->Modify->Component->SetUserNormals and give us a user_normal_cluster.
These are the real usernormals and these overwrite the settings from the discontinuity angle.
This has me a little bit confused

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[mlody47]

so either that or maybe making grid 1X1 as first mesh and then sending it behind the camera?? and everything else should be fine??

[face]

hey smoothing is screwing up when I animate. In first frames its great and more frames more blackness on my renders

74/100 .

When you use models with transformations(scaling/rotation/translation), then you get errors.
The same as Amplitudes watch.

Can you send me the file, so i can check if the changes i made now work?
Recommend as a scn
Texture i don´t need.

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[face]

so either that or maybe making grid 1X1 as first mesh and then sending it behind the camera?? and everything else should be fine??

Ok, that would be a solution.
Fact is, that the bool button for smooth, have no effect for the first mesh, when the discontinuity angle is 0°.
I must test, if the button have at all no effect on meshes with user normals...

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Edit:
Ok, it works in form the discontinuity angle is.
Realy weired

[mlody47]

ye just want to upload it on vimeo first and i think you dont need sceene to see this

[mlody47]

now im rendering the same with grid 1x1 below ground

its not working :/

[face]

now im rendering the same with grid 1x1 below ground

its not working :/

The grid would be only have an effect on the smooth option for the first mesh in Octane.

I will make a new addon now, then you can test...

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[Amplitude]

hey guys,

the problem I'm having now is that the model is too smooth... really need these user normals to be able to set different smoothing angles per object.