well before the summertime rolled in i had a craving to play some diablo 2, and until last month i quit playing, well now i have an account with a nice mf sorc and a dueling wwsin which i dont want to go to waste, so ill give them away to anyone who needs it the most, (this is on useast ladder btw) my mf sorc uses…
For something static it's easy . Just render a picture of whats behind , a cube map projection maybe, and distort /displace it by a normal map with vector warp node . if you want time of day changing and something moving behind the glass you need a special render target in the engine. A dynamic cube map maybe or have this…
Yea i did sorenson 3 my file comes out to 12mb which is not what i think of when i think of small. I got a xvid mpeg4 codec render and it was about 1.3mb but i dont kno if mac can play videos with this codec. It's difficult because i cant install codecs on the macs in my school. =/ The 1.3mb is a turnaround of my model in…
Hi! I have a funny error... For job they asked to me to work on Maya 8.5 =___=... I'm basicaly on Maya 2008 then some script don't work anymore... Anyway... when I try to open my script editor, the pannel is completly grey, nothing appear, no menu, nothing. And I have this error in the bottom right log : // Error: file:…
You might want to try something like this... start with a larger shape, that already has some falloff like a PRABOLOID. Use a TRANSFORM node to OFFSET it slightly in X, then use either another TRANSFORM or a SYMMETRY node (in my case I have my own symmetry node) to mirror the offset shape across the Y axis. It will…
I don't think I've ever had that error, but I've seen many new users come up with a variety of bizarre problems and it is almost always a result of user error. If you don't know what's going on then it's easy to do things that Maya doesn't like and that crap builds up over time and can screw up your scene. Keep your…
Comes out tomorrow for those interested. Picking up my physical copy tomorrow, but have had a chance to listen to the whole thing a few times and it's an amazing rock album from start to finish.
I have two objects in my scene, a line called curve1 and a circle called nurbsCircle1. I want to attach one end of curve1 line to the nurbsCircle1 shape. So that when I move the circle, one end of curve1 will always move with the circle, with the other side of curve1 always staying put. Something like this example I have…
@oglu , i've never touched bifrost before, but yeah a quick glance looks like it might be helpful for this sort of thing. At least in this case, just doing the manual work was like 30 minutes, but if I have to do something similar again I'll see what what might be possible with bifrost. I do love me some node graphs :)
Are you in the mood for a new tool for crafting objects in 3 dimensions? If so, you might take a look at Clarisse. Hit the jump for more infos. What is Clarisse? Well here's what they had to say about it: Clarisse is a new breed of high-end 2D/3D animation software that reinvents the traditional approaches of creating…