Really nice progress, this is a very solid thread. I like how much attention you’re giving to materials and how you’re documenting the problem-solving along the way.
"On the “pro-AI” angle, I get why it reads that way. The intent isn’t to promote it, it’s more that it’s already in the mix whether people like it or not" That's like saying 'arsonists exist whether we like it or not, so we should group them together with firefighters because they sort of do the same thing.' or 'rapists…
what happens if you wiggle a point a bit and back? if that solves it for you, a lil script should be able to "fix" this? could you possibly upload a somewhat complex faulty mesh so this could be tested?
Hi, The installation procedure changed. Here is some sort of troubleshooting guide. Any of these (in any order) might solve the issue. But if you want a bullet-proof run, maybe execute all of these : 1. Re-install Crease+ by dropping the CreasePlus_install.py in the viewport and restarting maya 2. After 1. Run this…
Oh by the way, I should also probably mention the following as it is a bit of a personal journey : a few years ago (way before the emergence of slop machines like ChatGPT and Midjourney), developments in the field of machine learning made me daydream about the possible ways of, for instance, sketching a rough shape and…
Hi! [TLDR: Tree's shadows break when masking out polygons that are perpendicular to the camera by multiplying the opacity mask with the Dot product of Camera Vector and Normals that have been calculated using DDX and DDY (as the tree has edited vertex normals). Shadows work when using Pixel or Vertex normals instead of the…
Fire Bernanke? Fire the whole Federal Reserve Bank! Revoke their charter! Make it solely the power of the US Treasury to issue currency and make it illegal for anyone else to do so. That's the first step to solving this. Also, throw everyone involved in the Fed in jail for fraud.
I want to show you my characters from the game "Star Wolves". I've been made these characters a long time ago, of course they are a little outdated. I would like to know - how they look now? Because for me, they always still excellent ;)
Hi guys, these are some models i create for the forthcoming game "Selves". Hope you can enjoy it! https://www.artstation.com/artwork/wYXnV this is my art station link so you can view them in marmoset viewer too. (If i can upload the marmoset viewer version here too, please tell me how)