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Hi All, I'm trying to use LightRig plugin in V8 but the application closes when I ask to create the lights. Someone is currently using LightRig on EIAS 8? Thanks Diego

Wow! holly polygons, you looks so happy Richard congratulations! Cheers Diego

Hola Juanxer, Same problem here, I use QuicktimePro to convert PNG sequences that come from EIAS, also you can just open an stitched sequence and just save it as Quicktime.mov. My upgrade from CS3 cost € 1200 and works worse in many tasks:(but it is faster and better in the previews:) Cheers Diego

Hi Tom, I've learned a lot with your 3 examples, photons are definitely the best for light. Thank you very much for take the time to do theses tutorials + sample project. Cheers Diego

Hi Phungus, It seems that your MDD file is ok, but your model is not exactly the same than the MDD. Your first MDD frame it is a character running, but your .obj it is a cross position of the character, so it is not possible to match it. A nice trick that Igors taught me is that you can use "Display Point Shaded" Mode in Camera view window so you can see the points of the MDD. and see the differences between the MDD and OBJ. Im not expert but, the most typical MDD issues are: _First frame of the MDD it is not identical to de .OBJ _different scales or positions between the MDD and OBJ (need to be corrected in the export process) Hi hope this help.:) Cheers Diego

Hi, Messiah Dare to Share finally achieved its goal and we can enjoy it in EIAS thanks to the MDD export. congrats! Cheers Diego

Hello Kishore, drive any animation channel through the intensity of a sound is a dream for us because 95% of our work is music based and this opens the door to endless expression forms. Thank you very much for your interest in bringing Sonica to EIAS community. Cheers Diego

Wow! are already at 70% here I go with my 40 dollars, too good to miss it. Cheers Diego

Hello, I've seen some Toon look made with Normality, I think you can get something interesting on this way and now that the plugin is CS5 64 bits ready, is definitely an option I would contemplate if I had to do something toon looking . Cheers Diego

Hello, here is a test that I have done with Normality pluguin: it is just one render that comes from EIAS with a Normal Map, and all variation are done in AE positioning different lights. This is a fantastic Plugin for music work, you can change the lights on stage and synchronize with the music of a very easy way. Cheers Diego

:angel::angel::angel::angel::angel::angel::angel::angel::angel::angel: Ola, Привет, Merry Christmas and Happy V9 Year!! For All. Best wishes and success for EIAS3D Team Greetings from the snowy Madrid Cheers Diego

Ola Tom, I'll certainly sleep well tonight, I slept 2 hours yesterday to migrate the projects to another computer. I'll render many angels tonight in my brain:) Cheers Diego

Hello, I finally updated the system to Snow Leopard and all problems are solved!!! I have even installed the damn HD and everything works:) Thanks Juan for the warning on the 32-64 bits start up. Also Tom that was working in a film was all the time to contact me via e-mails thanks my friend. Thanks to Richard too:) I can not tell you the great help that was for me to be in communication with you, EIAS is like working in a large virtual studio together, even on Sundays!!! Now at last it seems that I can concentrate on my new 12-core machine with SSD Drive's, so far I can say this is the first time I can use all the cores of an Apple machine, without losing any rendering speed, even frames with 5 million polygons! A good Team! Cheers Diego

Hola, I removed the disk until I get to launch the render farm, I am now installing the system on a secondary disk, I hope this solves the problem momentarily. The disc came in a separate box that the dealer sent me without the metal tray. Also Tom suggested to me upgrade to OS x 10.6.5 to have a chance to solve the issue. Thanks a lot for your support Cheers Diego

Tom help me to see what is wrong with the new disk: "I think I understood the problem, what happened!! You have a 8 core machine with your main HD (each hard disk have a ID, when it's a Start-up disk, it's zero), so, if I understood correctly, you installed the main HD from your new machine in the octocore, so, you have two HD with ID zero (start up), your machine become crazy. To change a HD from ID zero to be HD slave, you need to change a fisical plastic connector in the side of your HD. You will never have the option to format and install a OSX system in the new HD, if both are in the same machine, the machine will see two start up disks (zero ID)." Thank you Tom.

Hi Juan, I've done the fsck check that you recommend and "the disk appers to be OK" I tryed to install a new OS x system in the new hard disk and give an error on install disk 2, The new disk was the default disk that comes in my new 12 cores and I have installed it in a Octacore machine. seems that the problems never come singly:) Thank you for your support Cheers Diego

Hola Juan, All other applications that I have tried works ok it is only EIAS8 that can't access to the files. Permission Disk Utility give errors like: (sorry is in spanish) Los permisos difieren en “Library/Application Support/ProApps/Internal Plug-Ins/BrowserKit/iLife.bkplugin/Contents/CodeResourcesâ€: deberían ser -rw-rw-r-- pero son lrw-rw-r-- . Los permisos difieren en “System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/BrowserKit.framework/Versions/A/CodeResourcesâ€: deberían ser -rw-r--r-- pero son lrw-r--r-- . Los permisos difieren en “System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ProKit.framework/Versions/A/Resources/LeopardPanels.bundle/Contents/CodeResourcesâ€: deberían ser -rw-r--r-- pero son lrw-r--r-- . Los permisos difieren en “System/Library/Components/AudioCodecs.component/Contents/CodeResourcesâ€: deberían ser -rw-r--r-- pero son lrw-r--r-- . Los permisos difieren en “private/var/spool/cups/cache/rssâ€: deberían ser drwxr-xr-x pero son drwxrwxr-x . Los permisos difieren en “System/Library/Frameworks/AppKit.framework/Versions/C/_CodeSignature/CodeResourcesâ€: deberían ser ?--------- pero son ---------- . Los permisos difieren en “System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/CarbonCore.framework/Versions/A/_CodeSignature/CodeResourcesâ€: deberían ser ?--------- pero son ---------- . I Also tried new user account but, problem persist. Now Im trying to install a new OS X system in the new hard disk... I'll post here the results. Thank you very much for your help Cheers Diego Hi Richard, Yes I trashed .plist in library. it is a Mac and I never used Virus protection... Wibu key? you mean the the software for the hardward key? not yet.. Thanks for you help Cheers Diego

Hello to all, I added a new internal hard drive to my main computer and after that, EIAS has not worked more, it shows me these screens. -I've deleted preferences. -Repaired disk permissions -I installed completely from 0 EIAS 8 -I also finally removed the hard drive that had installed. Mac 2 x 3.2 Ghz Quad OSX 10.5.8 I not find a way to re-start my render farm and tomorrow I have clients in my studio. please any help will be appreciated Cheers Diego

Hola Tomas, thank you very much for reply my question. $74.50 is not expensive for a particle system. cheers Diego

Hello all, anyone know if PPP will may be used in EIAS version 9 and if it will works to render in render farm? Just to see if PPP is worth buying before it disappeared on December 3 2010. My copy of Dante is completely unusable in EIAS8, (no works in render farm) Cheers Diego

Hola, I spent the morning figuring out how to install an SSD Drive in to the optical bay. I have Octacores from the end of 2008, other from this year 2010 a Nehalem one, and the new one with two 6 Core “Westmere†processors. Thank you very much for all this detailed information that saves me a lot of hours of research. when I have the first results, I'll share it here to have a comparative. Cheers Diego

Hi, Yes, frames are generally quite close to the 2 GB on each Camera and disk activity is very high. I'm going to buy a Mac Pro 12 cores with 24 GB Ram + 4 hard disk , I'll add a SSD 64 Gb as Juanxer said in the optical drive. when I get it I'll do some tests and share them here. Up to 1.2 GB of RAM per frame, I can use all 8 cores with no problems, more than that starts to cause delays. Thank you Dave and Juanxer, Cheers Diego

Hello to all, I am making a 3DTV (Shutter Glasses) version for our "Lichmond" project, it is 50min HD animation work but now being a stereoscopic rendering it is a 100min!!! HD rendering. For this reason I am trying to optimize my render farm, One of the problems is that in the 8-core slave computers I only can use 6 cameras, if I use 8 cameras then all cameras become slower. Even with 4 hard drives in the slave computer and two cameras for each hard drive the problem persist. Would it make any difference if I make a partitions of the hard disks in order to have one partition for each camera? Also wanted to know what type of network can accelerate the speed of data transference, Is there any card that can help in this? Please any guidance regarding how to increase render farm capabilities will be welcome:) Thanks in advance. Cheers Diego

Hello, sorry I've been away and I could not answer. Thank you very much for your comments about Lichtmond BluRay. It is now being launched in Germany and things are going well, we are among the 20 DVD-Music Charts Best Selling! :) Alonzo: to buy from outside Germany have to do it via Amazon.de http://www.amazon.de/Lichtmond-Blu-ray-Animation/dp/3868420231/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1288783959&sr=8-1 At the moment this is the only way. We are looking for release partners on other countries. Thank you very much for your interest, Lichtmond is released on DVD and BluRay, I hope you can see it in BluRay + 5.1 or 7.1 is magic. Cheers Diego

Hallo Alex, Thank you very much for uploading the photo; Saturn / Mediamark distribute Lichtmond BluRay throughout its stores in all Germany. We are now preparing a 3D Shutter glass version, we have already done a test and it looks amazing! I have done with a standard stereoscopic workflow in EIAS. in November I will upload some clips to the EIAS gallery. Cheers Diego