thanks inn advance to Vig and MoP for your help: yesterday I got to the point where I understood that in quaternion mode there AREN'T ANY tangents.... so, it leaves me with euler curves, which actually have the bezier handles. Although I tried to correct some animation with it, It doesn't seem to work 100%, because (for…
there is no question that the race is on, about keeping the detail that already exists in production for the game. However what technique at the end will "win", I think, isn't clear yet. Imo we will see less standard pipeline in future, and more customized rendering pipes with the advancement of many-core systems (GPGPU…
[ QUOTE ] What makes me mad, is the people who won't get a bicycle and use it for at least when they can. You live 30 miles from work? I'd argue that's still cycle able, and you'd be in great shape, or you should/could move closer. At the very least you can bicycle to the market with a backpack, use it when returning…
Having 4 acounts at home i belive i'm in a good position to talk aboout the WoW addiction! played it a few months right before it came out but leave it when i reached lvl42 as didn't had enought time for university plus 3d plus WoW. Thou my brothers kept playing it (those are the 4 accounts) at really hardcore way (Naxx…
I would suggest generating erosion on the terrain using a dedicated tool like WorldMachine or Terragen or the like. This will make a splat map for you, which you can use in a Composite node as your layer masks. To isolate the RGB color channels you can use Color Correction nodes, or even easier just use a single OSL Uber…
What I am trying to do is have a floor that looks as if it has holes in it and have it seems like light is coming from underneath it. I also want to have this light fading in and out. Now I have this working but even though I have use emissive for static lighting checked it does not seem to be lighting my environment at…
So I'm trying to generate hair textures from Xgen renders using mental ray in Maya 2017 and am running into some problems. Has anyone tried baking AO and the results are coming plain white? I'm trying to play with the AO Max Distance slider in the mental ray Render settings (falloff mode set to Quadratic), but I can't get…
Hey everyone! Been awhile since I last posted. I was in the Smoky Mountains last week and decided to try out doing photogrammetry. This is a sign that I found in Cades Cove on a hike. I plan on making a scene with some of my scans. Any feedback and tips would be greatly appreciated! Here is some reference of the sign in…
hey, the movie is just about to release in india, and i'm wondering if its worth the Rs.150 ticket (thats worth a big mac + a large coke + a large fries from McDs) i mean... the book was good and all, and u have to credit the "kid"! even two was good and i wanna read 3 right when it comes out! but how was the movie? i hear…
Be aware This is not a NOAA product nor sponsored by NOAA.. My older brother works for the City of Anchorage waste water utility, he has joined the outreach and education task force with NOAA on the Beluga Whale recovery. I was asked to make a video of a whale doing some stuff. Well I went a little farther and created a…