Comments on: About http://www.djx.com.au/blog more serious than before (in a good way) Sat, 17 Jul 2010 03:58:27 +1000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: carlo890 http://www.djx.com.au/blog/about/comment-page-1/#comment-10487 carlo890 Wed, 12 May 2010 07:10:00 +0000 #comment-10487 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 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 http://www.djx.com.au/blog/about/comment-page-1/#comment-10444 smokedogg Sun, 06 Dec 2009 08:33:17 +0000 #comment-10444 Yes I was. My fault. Thanks. Yes I was. My fault. Thanks.

]]> By: david http://www.djx.com.au/blog/about/comment-page-1/#comment-10439 david Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:13:12 +0000 #comment-10439 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 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 http://www.djx.com.au/blog/about/comment-page-1/#comment-10438 smokedogg Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:36:23 +0000 #comment-10438 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? 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 http://www.djx.com.au/blog/about/comment-page-1/#comment-10418 david Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:12:16 +0000 #comment-10418 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. 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 http://www.djx.com.au/blog/about/comment-page-1/#comment-10417 matt Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:50:23 +0000 #comment-10417 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 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 http://www.djx.com.au/blog/about/comment-page-1/#comment-10386 david Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:24:59 +0000 #comment-10386 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.) 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.)

]]> By: lee griggs http://www.djx.com.au/blog/about/comment-page-1/#comment-10385 lee griggs Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:26:16 +0000 #comment-10385 Hi David, first of all thankyou for some great tips. I checked out your recommendations for zdepth DOF and tried out your specific scene. I was hoping your scene would enable transparency with z depth. I see that zdepth DOF supports transparency with z depth. However it seems to only support maya 8.0 32 bit plus we have a 300 node renderfarm and installing plugins can be a problem. I was wondering if you knew of any other workarounds that supported z depth with transparent texture maps on cards? cheers, leegriggs464@hotmail.com Hi David, first of all thankyou for some great tips.

I checked out your recommendations for zdepth DOF and tried out your specific scene. I was hoping your scene would enable transparency with z depth. I see that zdepth DOF supports transparency with z depth. However it seems to only support maya 8.0 32 bit plus we have a 300 node renderfarm and installing plugins can be a problem.

I was wondering if you knew of any other workarounds that supported z depth with transparent texture maps on cards?

cheers,
leegriggs464@hotmail.com

]]> By: Sty http://www.djx.com.au/blog/about/comment-page-1/#comment-10340 Sty Mon, 18 May 2009 11:46:34 +0000 #comment-10340 Hey David...my first post on your blog! Nice stuff by the way ;) Just curious, which company do you work and where do you live? Thanx and i hope you will keep posting ideas and knowlegde! Hey David...my first post on your blog! Nice stuff by the way ;)

Just curious, which company do you work and where do you live?

Thanx and i hope you will keep posting ideas and knowlegde!

]]> By: david http://www.djx.com.au/blog/about/comment-page-1/#comment-10338 david Sun, 17 May 2009 14:27:59 +0000 #comment-10338 No apology required! Feel free to ask anything you like. If I don't know the answer, I'll try to find out and that way I learn something too. No apology required! Feel free to ask anything you like. If I don't know the answer, I'll try to find out and that way I learn something too.

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