Dorian Fevrier's blog

In this ticket, I present a simple way hack (keep in mind we are talking about mental ray for Maya :baffed: ) to drastically decrease Final Gather flicking.

You will see this method is a little tricky but it simply aims to reproduce the Interp. samples Vray's option behavior.

An "ultra express" post! :marioCours:

The color picker has been modified since Maya 2011 and its transition to Qt and it's now impossible to pick a color outside the Maya interface.

Actually yes, you can! And it's quite easy to do! :hehe:

You just need to select the picker, click anywhere inside Maya interface, keep the left mouse button, and drag outside the interface on the color you want.

I must confess, I have not found it myself. :baffed:

Here is a tutorial I wanted to do for quite some time. :dentcasse:

For a long time now, VRay can use per object attributes to control some values. It can go far but often, this values are used in shaders. The general idea is to apply a single and unique shader to a big number of object, but that each object had some "special" attributes with value in them that will be applied to the shader. If you remember, I presented (french) a similar feature for mental ray (User Data).

But before doing that, this tutorial will explain how to export/import vrmesh then redo shader assignments directly within the vrmesh! As you can see, we have a lot to do! :bravo:

It's been a while since I heard Damien (aka Deex) talk about his tool. I even had the opportunity to be on the same production when he thought the main line. When he told me that his tool was finally done, I could not help but ask him a license to test it out. :sourit:

The idea of this post is to present the main features of Arsenal. You will see that despite an approach that may seem a little too user friendly, this tool is a true production tool that make the job quite easier.

Let's go! :sauteJoie:

If you ever had to recover vertex positions of a mesh object, you probably crash yourself against the xform command and his legendary slowness. :baffed:

In this post, I purpose a piece of Python script using the Python Maya API that allows you to faster recover the list of all vertex positions of an object.

Primarily didactic, these codes may interest peoples who want to look a little more deeply how to use the API while having a concrete application. :laClasse:

This is an english traduction of a post I've made some time ago.

As you maybe know, the feature film Tales of the Night (Les Contes de la Nuit in french) from Michel Ocelot (Kirikou, Azur et Asmar and others) has been released in August.

I was fortunate to supervise the technical aspects of production. Beyond that I think this film is a real artistic success, it was definitely one of my most beautiful experience. :sourit:

In this post I purpose to go around the means in place to achieve that beautiful, what do I say? Wonderfull project!

(And do little advertising too :siffle: )

This post is a english translation of this post. I'd wrote it after post this on CGTalk. Great thanks to Daisy C. Lyle. She translate all the french version to english and make a great work! She save me hours doing this! :sourit: . Hope that this tutorial will be usefull.