Pooby aka Paul Smith has released a great video demonstrating how to make a shrink wrap deformer in ICE and how to add it to the Deformer list in the Module menu.

Eric Mootz has released a new version of his emFluid plug-in packing in some really cool new features. Eric sent me a description of the new features listed below.

Clement Mallard has made an amazing real time shader for interactive texturing. Check out the video for more details:

From the vimeo page:
Realtime Mix8colors for Softimage with map lookup.
- Blend textures together
- Paint the influence of textures with weightmaps or vertexcolors
- View several weightmaps at the same time
- Blend textures with a weightmap
- Use vertexcolors as clusters

cmiVFX launches its next highly anticipated Softimage Training Video…. or should we say "More than just" Training Video.

Helge's been at it again, this time he's posted 3 awesome videos of the updates to his Momentum plug-in which implements the Bullet Physics inside Softimage. In these new videos he shows off cloth, soft bodies, and ropes! This is really amazing work!

I just activated a ton of accounts that have been sitting waiting to be approved. My apologies for not getting to it sooner. Going to try to keep on top of that. I had to sift through a lot of fake account registrations so if you did register and haven't been activated please register again. Also please use your full name in registering and don't put in random info for any of the sections. Some of the key things I look for when filtering out fake accounts. Please make your account as accurate as possible.

I noticed earlier that for some reason non-registered users weren't able to see / download the assets from the database. This was not what I intended at all. I've fixed the issue so now everyone can download the assets without having to be registered on the site.

You only need to register if you want to upload / add to the database.

I'm trying to get a sense of why this site isn't that successful or usable for the community. I'd really appreciate it if you could take a minute and fill out the short survey to help me improve the site to better serve the community. Please be honest and constructive with suggestions.

Thanks,
Eric T.