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	<description>more serious than before (in a good way)</description>
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		<title>toggle hypershade thumbnail updates maya 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A while back I did a mod for the hypershade window to add a button for toggling the updating of the thumbnails. Turning off updates can improve performance when you are modifying complex shader networks. I've just added a version for maya 2012. The hyperShadePanel.rar on the downloads page now contains 2 new hyperShadePanel.mel versions [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.djx.com.au/blog/2011/05/20/toggle-hypershade-thumbnail-updates-maya-2012/</link>
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		<title>restore shelf after maya 2012 physX plugin load</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Maya 2012 came with a nice looking dynamics plugin called physX and it creates a shelf when it loads. However I don't like the way this becomes the active shelf every time I start maya. I suppose I could unload the plugin, but then I'll have to reload it every time I need it. Fortunately [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.djx.com.au/blog/2011/04/11/restore-shelf-after-maya-2012-physx-plugin-load/</link>
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		<title>hide Notes Rollout in maya 2012 attributes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The attribute editor in Maya 2012 keeps expanding the Notes roll-out. I'd never noticed this being quite so annoying in previous versions. I'm pretty sure that previously, once I closed it by dragging the divider bar to the bottom of the window, it stayed like that until I pulled it up again. Now, in maya [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.djx.com.au/blog/2011/04/10/hide-notes-rollout-in-maya-2012-attributes/</link>
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		<title>maya 2012 plugin updates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I've updated the rar files on my downloads page to include maya 2012-x64 (windows) versions of Michael Comet's Pose Deformer and the Sony Pictures Reticle (aka spReticle).]]></description>
		<link>http://www.djx.com.au/blog/2011/04/09/maya-2012-plugin-updates/</link>
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		<title>maya paintFX leaf UV layout script</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a long, long thread on cgTalk called "Forests in maya mental ray".  The discussion is all about techniques for creating and rendering the vast numbers of polygons needed to make convincing grass and trees in large numbers. Maya's paintFX can be used to make trees which can be converted to polygons with leaves [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.djx.com.au/blog/2011/03/10/maya-paintfx-leaf-uv-layout-script/</link>
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		<title>dj_correctFilterList.mel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Maya 2011 lets you choose between two different "Dialog Styles" for interacting with the file system. This one, called "Maya default" or this one called "OS native" This is the UI you see when you do things like open or save, import or export a file. The default (called "Maya default") lets you do more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.djx.com.au/blog/2011/02/09/dj_correctfilterlist-mel/</link>
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		<title>workaround for AEhardwareTextureTemplate.mel bug</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever since I can remember, maya has had an annoying bug that causes materials to display incorrectly in the viewport in both "Smooth shade all"  and "Textured" modes. If you've ever encountered something similar to this error // Error: file: D:/Program Files/Autodesk/Maya2011/scripts/AETemplates/AEhardwareTextureTemplate.mel line 721: Found no attribute match for "mia_material_x1.diffuse" // or this one // [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.djx.com.au/blog/2011/01/26/workaround-for-aehardwaretexturetemplate-mel-bug/</link>
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		<title>then one day you find ten years have got behind you</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This time last year I started a new job at a new studio. For me, this was a big change since I had been at the previous studio (one that I helped build from almost nothing) more than 20 years. My new job has given me the opportunity to learn several new applications and as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.djx.com.au/blog/2011/01/05/and-then-one-day-you-find-ten-years-have-got-behind-you/</link>
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		<title>avoiding the path inconsistencies in maya 2011.5 (2)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I may have been a little naive thinking that I could simply copy a few scripts from one install to the other and upgrade my sp1 install to subscription advantage pack without the name change. Well it almost worked but as it turns out the instructions in my previous post missed some things. I've updated [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.djx.com.au/blog/2010/10/04/avoiding-the-path-inconsistencies-in-maya-2011-5-2/</link>
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		<title>avoiding the path inconsistencies in maya 2011.5</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I downloaded and installed the "Maya 2011 Subscription Advantage Pack". This is really just "Maya 2011 Service Pack 1" with a couple of extras thrown in to sweeten the deal for subscribers. For some reason, so far unknown to me, the autodesk devs decided to distribute the subscription advantage pack as "2011.5" while [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.djx.com.au/blog/2010/10/04/avoiding-the-path-inconsistencies-in-maya-2011-5/</link>
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