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I did think about resizing while I was writing it – it’s especially annoying when an OpenEXR file is not a multiple of 8 pixels wide, or whatever Flame’s restriction on that is, because you then can’t load them at all 🙂 Cropping should be doable, resizing opens the whole can of filtering and interpolation worms… I’ll aim for a version that actually works for people first 😉
Tom, you have the same problem as Cerebros, the sequence file browser only works in Inferno 6 and up. I’ll try and do a cruder version that will work for you too. Thanks for testing 🙂
Cerebros, the easiest way would be if I fix it up so that to load a still, you put it in a directory all on its own, would that work for you? As it is a still is output on all frames anyway.
Oh no 🙁 I checked the older docs and it seems anything before Flame 9/Inferno 6/Smoke 6.5 doesn’t let you choose an image sequence in a file browser from a Spark 🙁 So the version above is only going to work on Flint/Flame 9, Inferno 6, Smoke/Fire 6.5 and up 🙁
I might be able to make one which works for older versions by making it read all files from a folder as a sequence, if people want… thanks for the bug report 🙂
patdawg wrote:I’ll have a dual Opteron box in-house soon if you can lead me through what I need to do to compile it.Happy to, give me a bell when you have it under your fingers.
Quote:Also, which version of flame is this compatible with?Hard to say 😉 Should be okay with 7 and up, maybe even 6, but it’s all a little confusing. Try it 🙂
Okay, some confusion 🙂 The 32-bit version is sparkOpenEXR.spark_pthreads. The weird extension is what Discreet recommends, what can I say 😉 At some point they switched from .spark to .spark_pthreads… what extension do the other sparks in y’all’s collective folders have?
I did notice that the newest Spark API docs say that the non-64 bit Irix versions aren’t supported any more but as far as I can see nothing’s changed, it should work… I don’t have a 32-bit system installed to test with any more, sorry 🙁
http://www.theorphanage.com/tech/OrphEXR/
I’ve never tried it, not even sure if it works in Combustion at all.
Combustion doesn’t support even Z from EXR? Dang! Does the Orphange’s EXR plugin for AfterEffects?
I used the docs from the EXR source and I also dived into the source itself, since the PDFs they include aren’t exactly what you’d call detailed…
It does not. Irix’s Firewire support is crap.
Does anyone make a Firewire RS422 deck control box? Would be neat.
Yeeeeahhh, and if you were to animate a blur on the z-depth (basically what a face shot like that would be) you could make the displacement start off as a smooth bulge then resolve into features and finer detail. Or you could animate a really sharp luma key to threshold it such that first the nose appears, then the further back parts.
You might be able to just paint a z-matte with a face as reference, would just need the general shape of nose, cheekbones, chin if you textured it well.
Hey, you’re right, I went and checked and the new-ish Quadro 4500 can do 12 bit. Cool… ignore me 😉
IIRC no Linux system can do 12 bit yet – 10 bit yes.
If you’re tracking fairly smooth moves, pans and dollies so on, you could smooth the curves afterwards, in the timeline.
The Octane’s built-in SCSI post is kinda slow – 40 MBytes/sec, so maybe that array expects a faster SCSI card, I think there is a 4-port 80MBytes/sec XIO card for Octanes. I guess you just have to check if it says Stone on it anywhere 😉 But since Inferno could work with other arrays back in the day, it might not nessecarily be one.
Yeah, jeez, if you don’t reset the bus things will rapidly go to hell 😮 After scsiadminswap (or scsiha for FC), ioconfig -f /hw is sometimes your friend to rescan the busses…
The Stone disks are not keyed to the machine, or directly to anything, you’re quite right, it’s just a special type of serial number. So any Stone disk should work on any machine. Stone Switched wouldn’t work if this wasn’t the case 😉