SOuP-Development

SOuP-dev.com is place where artists and programmers can come together to discuss and share ideas. Its purpose is to build new tools and develop existing ones and make them widely available to the user base. With this in mind, we invite you to join our community.

SOuP is a collection of nodes for Maya that are based on the principles of building a flexible, non-destructive procedural pipeline. Many of the nodes are designed to work at component level allowing the artist to extract specific data, alter it and pass it on. Its this level of design that allows SOuP nodes to work seemlessly within Maya's existing architecture.

Learning SOuP gives you insight on the inner workings of the dependency graph and how data flows from one node to the next. This knowledge is very powerful and gives you the ability to create effects and solve problems more efficiently whether you are using SOuP or not.

SOuP is freely available to download from the tools page. There is also a collection of pre-built Maya scenes to help get you started.

The SOuP project is developed and supported by Peter Shipkov. Contributors include Jeremy Raven, Maxim Kotrolev, David Schoneveld, Sergey Tsyptsyn, Ivan Turgeon and David Corral. More are welcome.

PointCloudParticleEmitter

Emit particles dynamically from point cloud data like curves, meshes, scatter points or other particles. Other data can be passed between points to particles without the need for code.

mapToMesh and meshToMap nodes

Using these two nodes we gain ultimate control over the UV points. Convert the uvs to mesh, apply deformers, animate, reposition vertices by hand or using other procedural approaches, then convert the final result back to UV points.

mapToMesh - meshToMap

NEW LOOK WEBSITE

Thanks to Cinemotion, SOuP-dev.com has a new clean look. We would also like to take the chance to say thanks again to all those who have donated money, this means we can keep the site up and running so we can keep developing and delivering more to you.

TSHIRT DESIGN

Well we just had to do it, our own Nodal SOuP tshirt. Perhaps in ten years time these things will infiltrate every single wardrobe on the planet and eventually become a household name...perhaps.
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