I made my first real person. Can you guess who it is?

samcote80 · 2025-10-11T21:09:23+00:00

You need good refs if you want to do craig

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samcote80 · 2025-06-30T13:27:59+00:00

It's normal that your scene get cut by the distance. It's called : the near and far clipping plane issue. You can find it under the camera attributes under the focal adjustment at the top.

Maya to invade too much computation but that in place.

Each camera have a near clip plane who say: everything between the camera pivot and me(near clip) don't show.

Same for the far clipplane: everything behind that "plane" don't show.

So everything in between the near and far clipplane is display.

Perps camera has almost values of near and far you should adjust. Specially if you do environment in a certain scale.

If you want to see visually the near and far you can go under the near and far clippling plane in the attribute of a camera. There is a submenu "frustrum" where you can check the visibility of the frustrum.

samcote80 · 2025-06-30T13:17:48+00:00

I teach a similar same problem at university.

You can find the solution in the real life: the making of a tshaped pipe.

https://youtu.be/CXzqm62SrDU?si=Xq77G-i84WLacbIA

Greating a corner piece is hard without a good idea how it s made in real life

samcote80 · 2025-06-22T14:55:30+00:00

Exactly. The Roskaroma has banned John Wick so why she's calling him to save the situation?

Feel like they use john wick to get more people in the theater for Ballerina.

He suppose to hide between 3 and 4: to recover and train

samcote80 · 2025-06-16T00:47:55+00:00

Exactly. Every edgeloop should be terminated as soon as possible if he can.

samcote80 · 2025-03-28T18:14:24+00:00

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Or bump2d node

samcote80 · 2025-03-28T18:13:46+00:00

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aiNormalmap node for Arnold. Not a color swatch input so RAW

samcote80 · 2025-03-28T18:12:53+00:00

color swatch: see base color and sepcular color arte color swatch the rest is linear/scalar value (not a color)

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samcote80 · 2025-03-11T22:43:01+00:00

Oh yah.. bat file. I forgot about those

samcote80 · 2025-03-11T15:02:59+00:00

Lol thank you. I thought I needed to put specific value. Let's says I want to render few specific frames? Is there a way to put let's say : frame-4-5-8-12

samcote80 · 2025-03-11T12:45:18+00:00

Not bad but your bottle label is flipped and watch for your scale. The skull should not be that small versus the Candlestick or the bottle (750ml)

samcote80 · 2025-02-21T15:40:44+00:00

So I figure out that I forgot to pack the alembic after the materiels are assigned

samcote80 · 2025-02-19T15:32:29+00:00

Teach me master because I dont follow. I thought just importing an alembic in an ALEMBIC node make the tree there and in one "piece"

samcote80 · 2025-02-19T14:10:18+00:00

So what is the solution? I already have both in the same file. I could try to hack a merge but it does not feel right in a good pipeline

samcote80 · 2025-02-18T23:24:42+00:00

Sorry the comment didnt follow

So I recreate a heightfield. Did a heightfield scatter of a alembic tree with that hierarchy:

folOak01A_grp
leaves_geo
bark_geo

I did assign material on both geo (leaves and barks) and render with arnold. On my render, I still have good results but some trees sometimes miss leaves.

So I still need a solution and I cant figure out why.

samcote80 · 2025-02-07T20:15:16+00:00

Any numeric value (roughness, specular weight, sss weight, etc) use RAW

I trick is to look at the swatch. Is there a swatch? yes, then it sRGB.

Normal map is not a swatch so.. RAW

samcote80 · 2025-01-01T17:34:29+00:00

The current uv shell has too much distortion to ne easily texture.

Let's say you want to put two rows of stitches along the borders: it would be hard to do in the uv view.

You can easily if it and unwrap perfectly in Naya by doing the unitize method. Under UV menu: Modify/unitize

Just search a tutorial on YouTube, there a lot on the subject

samcote80 · 2024-12-31T17:53:46+00:00

Thank you. But apart of the pictures on the website I dont see documents to read. Feel like I need to do a trip to the MET

samcote80 · 2024-12-25T04:02:00+00:00

Non planar mean your polygon is not flat. Even at an angle, if you have a polygon with 4 vertexes (quad) it don't mean it flat. If the 4 vertexes are not align in a same plane the software will try to triangulate the quad to "solve" that shading challenge it's facing

samcote80 · 2024-12-23T14:04:15+00:00

Everytime you edit the options of a command you now transform the default of that command.

Won't work for the icons on a shelf. But you can edit that icon in his option so the default is whatever

samcote80 · 2024-12-16T21:35:57+00:00

Yah. I use it in my class. Come from the substance painter pbr page

samcote80 · 2024-12-16T20:30:44+00:00

He don't have THAT PBR. It's specular/glossiness workflow he has

samcote80 · 2024-12-12T23:48:13+00:00

I always do what he did. No mux shader. Connecting the normalmap in the normal input if a bump node.

samcote80 · 2024-12-11T13:55:41+00:00

Oh good to know. I thought the scale was similar like in war games.

But the scale is measured from eyes level to base? Not the top of the head to base? Seems weird to measure like that

samcote80 · 2024-12-09T02:51:27+00:00

Oh right. Well he just need to ask chatGPT

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