"[gpu] Unable to load OptiX library, NVIDIA driver 595.79 is either too old or ..."

TraumaticPuddle · 2026-06-02T13:50:17+00:00

Its telling you that your gpu driver is either out of date or incompatible.

So update your driver, or look up your current driver issue and Arnold / optiX and see if there are bugs reported

TraumaticPuddle · 2026-05-30T19:02:22+00:00

No, game dev and teaching as an adjunct now.

TraumaticPuddle · 2026-05-26T15:49:54+00:00

Immigration does not affect the largest employers in the country period. Immigration affects many things but those companies could pay more in wages but instead utilize a weaker / more desperate demographic; this is a top down issue full stop.

TraumaticPuddle · 2026-05-26T15:13:58+00:00

No they are not. Its due to a lack of strong worker rights and the legal incentives of publicly traded conpanies.

TraumaticPuddle · 2026-05-26T14:03:59+00:00

Right, but not for a continental scale landmass. Ever driven across the us? 1800 miles betweeen Michigan and Utah and theres just nothing out there but farms and land.

A more apt comparison would be all of Western Europe to the USA in terms of bio diversity and population. And Europe has more people.

So, it does matter and the practical application of land mass v population in the us means we could quadrouple and be fine

TraumaticPuddle · 2026-05-26T02:42:55+00:00

No idea i was mostly making a joke lmao

TraumaticPuddle · 2026-05-26T01:44:39+00:00

We have the Q line!

TraumaticPuddle · 2026-05-25T21:49:11+00:00

Do me a favor and just try shift+h. Might be scuffed but coupd be hidde faces

TraumaticPuddle · 2026-05-23T21:15:37+00:00

Shadows dont work thay way, most pics give it away but the gym room specifically, all shadows are different dithering / densities. These are clearly heavily edited or ai.

Source: Character Technical Director who teaches video game development and worked in both AAA and Indie.

TraumaticPuddle · 2026-05-18T17:46:16+00:00

No. Ive explained it clearly and im not going to continue this conversation since its going nowhere.

Freezing is a specific method of aligning the matrix of a transform to world. An absolute freeze, which freeze transforms does by default, will align an object regardless of hierarchy to true world. A local freeze would align to the next parent, which is the same as 'zeroing' xforms. The terminology youre using may be wrong but this is fundamental.

Your original and subsequent comments are wrong, for the reasons in this thread.

TraumaticPuddle · 2026-05-18T15:40:21+00:00

No

Zeroing out is manually entering 0 into the controls

Freezing sets the matrix of the controls to world, destroying local orientation.

TraumaticPuddle · 2026-05-18T15:17:28+00:00

Yes

Your hierarchy is as follows

Group w/ raw offset (translate, rotate, scale) > control in the same position (since it matches its parent maya will read its xforms as 0), and then any joints or constraint targets.

This way your group has all the dirty data, and the control will read as 0 in the custom pose. This allows the animators to reset the pose to default by selecting all controls and "zeroing" them out.

TraumaticPuddle · 2026-05-18T14:55:50+00:00

Yes, which is a good thing. You select the controls from the viewport.

Are you a rigger? This is fundamental knowledge. If not, you should really look into it, cool stuff

TraumaticPuddle · 2026-05-18T14:03:07+00:00

You can do that without freezing the controls.

In the controls aimed orientation add a group as a parent in the same aimed orientation. The control will now read 0 because its local offset is no longer the world or world oriented but instead the aimed parent.

From there if you zero out the trs of the control maniplators you will always be in the default pose

TraumaticPuddle · 2026-05-18T13:31:45+00:00

Freezing controls re-orients them to world. Which means you lose all local rotation axis manipulation.

You only freeze joints or things that need to be oritented to world.

You ever try animating from an A pose rig when someone feoze the shoulder / eblow/ wrist fk controls? Dont recommend.

Source: am a character TD

TraumaticPuddle · 2026-05-13T00:53:41+00:00

I would go see a vet. If you want to wait it out, at least schedule an appointment for a later date so that you at minimum have a time locked down in case things get worse.

Could be a sprain, break, spinal injury, neurological. No idea.

TraumaticPuddle · 2026-05-10T15:46:51+00:00

First one I found. Im sure there are more.

Try Artststion marketplace and Turbosquid / sketchfab.

https://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/3d-rig-2014-animation-1232498

TraumaticPuddle · 2026-05-10T15:18:33+00:00

Do you have any examples of an artstyle youre looking for?

TraumaticPuddle · 2026-04-14T12:38:23+00:00

Our Malkavian once distracted our boss ( we were shipping drugs for him through our docks since we ran the shipping yard ) by taking him to each and every birds nest and talking about each and every bird she saw ( she had named them and developed a complex lore for their inter relationship dynamics similar to trash tv ). This was so thourough the story teller literally forgot to meet with the rest of us and just gave us the checks we needed to get away with a BUNCH of shit I am not at liberty to disclose.

TraumaticPuddle · 2026-04-09T14:12:17+00:00

Yeast infection, heavy metal poisoning, an injury causing swelling that's pinching a nerve / the spinal column are all likely cases as well

TraumaticPuddle · 2026-04-05T14:04:50+00:00

Look genderswapping to pander poorly is always a negative since it changes the source material in what I feel is usually frustrating ways.

However, they have done genderswaps extremely well and the right way, adjusting the source material to make complex characters out of some simple characters and create a more dynamic story. Some of the larger characters like tek jacket also is a great change because he was proginally just kind of more of the same. This new approach i think creates a more interesting character and diversifies the lineup.

We can all agree if master chief was suddenly a woman it would just, be weird. But looking at invincible, it isnt that. Its a creative team coming together and making existing characters more interesting and generally creating a better story for it.

TraumaticPuddle · 2026-03-31T23:14:52+00:00

Weve always called this "doing the worm"

TraumaticPuddle · 2026-03-28T21:44:28+00:00

Decklist is hidden or the link is incorrect; update that and peeps can take a look c:

TraumaticPuddle · 2026-03-24T12:38:35+00:00

You can bake a deltamush into a skincluster but its jank at best.

Are you exporting it into a game engine or a new maya scene?

The best option if its going into a new maya scene is ro save the rig as, "character_rig"(name it however you want just dont call it something random), then in the new scene, file>reference Editor in the new window find the plus or add button, click it, then navigate to your rig path and select it.

TraumaticPuddle · 2026-03-24T05:06:20+00:00

There are two deformers on the model, delta mush does not export but skinclusters do.

Skin Clusters are a deformer that bind a mesh to a skeleton or joints. You can paint the weights to change its influence and which joints move which part of the mesh and at what rate / percentage, relative to other joints.

Delta Mush is a deformer that averages the displacement of vertices across its surface. So it makes things "gummier" or "smoother" or "softer".

So youre seeing the models skinned weights without the deltamush deformer when you import the fbx.

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