The Desk

Maya 2014 Bullet Ragdoll

dobert — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 22:53:08 UTC

Maya transfer attributes

dobert — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 19:00:43 UTC

Maya_lights_101

dobert — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 19:15:12 UTC

Autodesk University Class

dobert — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 13:02:49 UTC

Virtual Production for the Real World Using Autodesk® MotionBuilder® 2013

This class will give attendees a firm understanding of the concepts and workflows involved in motion capture for virtual production. We will provide a basic overview of working with Autodesk MotionBuilder software and describe some of the options available for getting data in from low-end game tech all the way up to high-end devices like the Xsens suit.

http://area.autodesk.com/au2012

Motion Vector 101

dobert — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 02:04:20 UTC

Passing nParticle.rotatePP to a Fluid's texture attributes

dobert — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 19:09:32 UTC

Viewport 2.0 Improvements in the Extension for Maya 2013:

dobert — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 20:40:44 UTC

Viewport 2.0 Improvements in the Extension for Maya 2013:

Improved mipmapped texture filtering allowing for crisp closeup textures and smooth distant textures
VP2 now supports floating point precision allowing for improved accuracy in large scenes and objects far from origin
Performance improvements in static and animated character scenes
Stability improvements
Component level isolate select is supported
Complete support for viewport display filtering
Support for mentalray viewport UI in VP2: IBL, FG & Photon Map Vis and Custom Area light shapes (with lightshape visiblity)
Improved NURBS tessellation quality and performance
Support for high dynamic range EXR textures in VP2
Cast and Receive shadow flags are supported
All viewport modes supported (All, none, use selected)
Display Layer and object level templating supported
Improved Nurbs curve and trim surfaces support
Construction plane support
Skinned vertex influence coloring

Shading support:

High Fidelity VP2 Rendering:
Default color input on native shaders
Single component inputs
Shading switch
2d placement noise
Layered texture / shader
Multiply divide
Clamp
Ramp
Fractal
Snow
plusMinusAverage
multDoubleLinear
vectorProduct
addDoubleLinear
Condition
Contrast
setRange
Noise
Bulge
Cloth
Mountain
remap HSV, color, value
Gamma

Baked:

Projection mapping
Movie
Mandelbrot
Ocean
Water
Cloud
Wood
Brownian
Crater
Granite
Leather
Marble
Rock
solidFractal
Stucco
VolumeNoise

Cool trick for setting environment variable when launching Maya

dobert — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 00:56:01 UTC

Just put this in a .bat file:

set MAYA_VP2_DEVICE_OVERRIDE=VirtualDeviceDx11

Technology preview of livelinking between Maya and MotionBuilder

dobert — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 20:00:00 UTC

This video is a technology preview. Autodesk wishes to caution you that this preview reflects technology research, and that actual events or results could differ materially from the preview. Also, this preview is not intended to be a promise or guarantee of future delivery of products, services or features but merely reflects technology research, which may change. Purchasing decisions should not be made based upon reliance on this preview. Autodesk does not assume any obligation to update any statements we make to reflect events that occur or circumstances that exist after the date of this technology preview.

The Tokyo Big Sight environment is made by Christian Bloch and can be freely downloaded from www.hdrlabs.com/sibl/archive

Help killer CG artist Zack Detox raise money for his film.

dobert — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:00:00 UTC

www.kickstarter.com/projects/468726992/hauled-off

Viewport 2.0 vertex caching tip

dobert — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:00:00 UTC

Hot Key 101

dobert — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:00:00 UTC

Shadows in Viewport 2.0

dobert — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 19:00:00 UTC