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By: DarkoP

DarkoP — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 14:56:09 +0000

Hi David! Been lurking this blog for a while and I just wanted to create a login and say that I appreciate everything you do here, thx for sharing your vast knowledge!

By: Sham

Sham — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 00:43:33 +0000

Hey David,
Just wanting to wish you and the family a Merry Xmas and to say thanks for all the time, effort and help !
cheers,
Sham

By: yobo

yobo — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:30:11 +0000

Hello David

Matt Turley (your ole banjo playing pal) here - cld you drop me a line soonish please on my email which you may still have? I have lost ALL my email addresses!

thanks

By: carlo890

carlo890 — Wed, 12 May 2010 07:10:00 +0000

Hi Mr. Johnson,

My name is Carlo Cherisier, an aspiring Character TD and I stumbled about your blog about a few months ago when I was looking how to make Maya fur look better; and have been following your blog ever since. I just wanted to say thank you for all your posts; I have only skimmed the surface of some and know that there are plenty more that I would find useful. I wanted to thank you because I know you probably don't get the credit you deserve for all the time you spend writing everything down. I truly do appreciate all you have given back, and it's nice to know that new guys like myself have a place to go when I am not sure of a problem or when I just need improve my work flow with more useful and professional methods. So on behalf of those that read but never give you credit, I say thank you for everything.

~Sincerely,
Carlo Cherisier

By: smokedogg

smokedogg — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 08:33:17 +0000

Yes I was. My fault. Thanks.

By: david

david — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:13:12 +0000

The only one I can think of in the bonustools is the HouseGenerator which creates very simple poly house shapes. Probably not that useful. Maybe you were thinking of qTown

http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/scripts-plugins/modeling/poly-tools/c/qtown

By: smokedogg

smokedogg — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:36:23 +0000

Do you know anything about the building generator that supposedly came with the Maya 2009 bonus tools? Is there such thing for Maya, or is it just a Max thing?

By: david

david — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:12:16 +0000

Wow Matt, that sure is going to take some time to digest. You must have spent considerable effort figuring it all out. Fantastic tip! Well done.

By: matt

matt — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:50:23 +0000

Hey David,

I just finished a kinda fiddly job involving proxies, you might find some of it useful. Managed to get past the problems of motion blur, animated proxies, and shader replacement. Woo! http://www.tokeru.com/t/bin/view/Maya/MayaMentalRay#Proxies

By: david

david — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:24:59 +0000

Hi Lee, have you tried Pavel Ledin's (aka puppet) p_z shader for mentalray. Its part of his shaders_p suite, and it supports transparency. http://www.puppet.tfdv.com/download/shaders_p_e.shtml

Our render farm is set up to access a shared library for mentalray shaders which makes them very easy to install. We just have to make sure every machine has mapped the server to X: and Maya.env contains a line like this:

MI_CUSTOM_SHADER_PATH = X:\maya\mentalray-x64\lib;X:\maya\mentalray-x64\include;

(Actually smedge lets us specify a UNC path to disk label mapping, so its even easier.)