Friday, October 26, 2012

Mocha Pro v3 | :O

Hace unos dias buscaba información de planar trackers y camera trackers. Con mayores resultados esta obviamente Nuke, que integra soluciones para ambos casos, pero los resultados no siempre son tan buenos o tan sencillos de conseguir.

Buscando en VFXtalk, encontre Mocha Pro pero no me sonaba mucho el nombre. Para no hacer el cuento largo, pense que seria bueno probarlo...


Wednesday, October 24, 2012

3Delight for Maya | Visible in Reflections


3Delight for Maya 6.0.21 - 2012-09-25

  • Objects now visible to specular rays as per render stats attr by default. This can be disabled by defining the “_3DFM_NO_DEFAULT_RT_VISIBILITY” env var.
  • Fixed issue with GI & env maps generated from Hypershade nodes (such as Env Sphere).
  • Fixed the rendering progress window on Maya 2012 and 2013.
  • Introducing IPR support!

Este release de 3Delight es importante, sobre todo porque puede causar problemas si se nos olvida que por default en Maya, todo es visible a reflejos y refracciones.

Con un solo objeto simple no debe haber mayor problema, pero si les pasa como a mi, que necesitaba speculars en algunas instancias... bueno, el render time de 1 frame con motion blur se iba a 2 horas!



Asi que no lo olviden (yo no lo hare): 3Delight es un *raytracer.

* No realmente.

Friday, October 19, 2012

jefeCheck for free

A Free, Easy to Use yet Highly Flexible High-Res Image Flipbook for Film and TV  Post Work that runs on Linux, Windows and OSX.





If you are using ubuntu 10.04 you may need to update your libstdc++6:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test
sudo apt-get update

From synaptic, search libtsdc++6 and update this lib. After that you'll be able to run jefecheck :)

Thursday, October 18, 2012

dnPtcViewerNode | Maya 2013 Linux

Plugin dnPtcViewerNode para Maya 2013 y 3Delight (Linux). Pueden bajarlo de https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B3HCwjjdp4w7dEc1U196LWtxQlU y un point cloud de prueba (el de la imagen): https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B3HCwjjdp4w7SXRaZkxvTjM1VXM





Tuesday, August 14, 2012

3Delight for Maya | IBL

Hace unos dias me preguntaron como se usa el IBL con 3Delight. Asi que vamos a hacer un ejercicio rápido. Este es el link para la escena: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B3HCwjjdp4w7TC1yODJ4Y2lZSTQ

Y el resultado será algo asi:


Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Realflow RenderKit 2

You probably know the RenderKit. You may also know it is a good product that can be found here: http://www.realflow.com/rf_renderkit.php

Well, sometimes I have to deal with realflow's bin sequences to render them and the last thing I want is to mess with NextLimit's scripts to make them work - Why? you may wonder...

rfrkRmsExecShelfCmd rfm rfrkRmsCreateMesher2;

// Error: Plug-in, "RenderMan_for_Maya.so", was not found on MAYA_PLUG_IN_PATH. // 
rfrkRmsExecShelfCmd rfm rfrkRmsUpdateVpMesh;
// Error: Plug-in, "RenderMan_for_Maya.so", was not found on MAYA_PLUG_IN_PATH. // 
rfrkRmsExecShelfCmd rfm rfrkRmsCreateParticler2;
// Error: Plug-in, "RenderMan_for_Maya.so", was not found on MAYA_PLUG_IN_PATH. // 
rfrkRmsExecShelfCmd rfm rfrkRmsCreateCloud2;
// Error: Plug-in, "RenderMan_for_Maya.so", was not found on MAYA_PLUG_IN_PATH. // 
rfrkRmsExecShelfCmd rfm rfrkRmsAssignDisplacement;
// Error: Plug-in, "RenderMan_for_Maya.so", was not found on MAYA_PLUG_IN_PATH. // 
rfrkRmsExecShelfCmd rat rfrkRmsCreateMesher2RAT;
// Error: You need to load the mtor plug-in before using this RF RenderKit toolbar button. // 
rfrkRmsExecShelfCmd rat rfrkRmsCreateParticler2RAT;
// Error: You need to load the mtor plug-in before using this RF RenderKit toolbar button. // 


I would like that everyone reading this could experience a little bit of my frustration right now. 

Should I post the final mutilated script for others having this problem? Maybe. Maybe I should just shut the fuck up and avoid particle sequences like the plague and demand meshes instead. 

"Just load the damn plug-in!", right? NO. I'm rendering with 3delight.

Thursday, July 26, 2012

3Delight for Maya 6.0.17

Update de la versión gratuita de 3Delight. Esto paso el 3 de julio, pero lo dejo aqui por si alguien aun no lo actualiza:

Aqui pueden ver el changelog
http://www.3delight.com/en/modules/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=3delight_for_maya_changelog

Y aqui para descargarlo:
http://www.3delight.com/en/index.php?page=3DFM_download

3Delight Studio PRO tambien fue actualizado a la version 10.0.50:
http://www.3delight.com/en/index.php?page=3DSP_download

Aqui el changelog:
http://www.3delight.com/en/modules/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=3delight_changelog

Alguien me pregunto acerca de ibl y 3delight.. creo que es lo que sigue :)

saludos,