well it depends on what you want to accomplish. The example in my video might not be the best one, since I didn't optimize the mesh at all. So you don't really need as many polygons as shown in the video! Imagine you wanted to morph a plane to a nose. You would take the mesh of the nose... and flatten it until it's a…
There is always that tricky balance between noob and pro tool (i.e. poser / maya) or bloated vs. minimalistic (i.e. silo / max). But if you make a cut towards productivity (not functionality!) you should find a good middle path. Obviously as a developer your interests are more of a functionality nature (I have that too)…
Hi everyone, I am working on a collection of scripts for Photoshop that could be used to speed your interaction with the layers palette. The main idea was to make the scripts and use them as keyboard shortcuts. I am putting this here just to see if anyone has the need of this kind of interaction. The scripts are:…
(almost) finished... now we have a framework (python modules, max files via filein, C# dll file for max) where we can run the same python program with python GUI in 18 different flavors of max (2011 - 9.0) and maya (2011 - 2008) both 32 and 64 bit. (still working on 8.5 - we still have clients who use this :/ ) Now we have…
Flash panels tutorial part 3: packaging your extension 2 ways of packaging: * using extension manager using a .mxi file - for simple in-house deploys * manually - for adobe exchange AND if you want to restrict resizing of your panel Yes, you heard right, setting an inital size for your panel or not allowing to resize your…
wow i just discover that topic today, there is so much great thing on there :) I will contribute soon, i am working on a Zplugin , having some slow progress, but i can already share this image of the plugin with you sorry, it a wip so the final UI will evolve a little bit. hope you enjoy ! I put the much love i had to…
Hi people, I'm about to properly start work on my first game, but before I do I'm just posting this demo showcasing a few things. The main thing being 3D sphere to triangle collision detection. Also some basic dynamic lighting and fast culling. Regarding culling, this pseudo game level has 54,000 polygons, which represents…