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artifish

10-14-2002, 01:49 PM

Hi,

I just released "brainbugz" to the public. It's an addon to Maya's dynamics engine that enables you to use behavioural animation techniques on particles. It certainly is nowhere near Massive but with some tweaking you can achieve some pretty cool results. Well, decide for yourself - I put quite a lot of effort into it, so some feedback (critics, bug reports, demo animations, whatever)on any aspect (ease of use, installation, docs etc.) would be really nice.

More information, a quick look at the docs, example animations, link to the downloadable version at highend3d on my homepage:

http://www.kolve.com maya > plugins > brainbugz

a quick note: this is for maya 4.0 nt, 4.5 and linux versions will be available as soon as I get the access to them

cheers, carsten

alexx

10-14-2002, 06:26 PM

impressive carsten..

end even more impresive you release something with so much work and effort behind it for free..

:beer:
you rock!

cheers

alexx

graphiouz

10-14-2002, 09:08 PM

couldnt agree more,! :thumbsup:

cheers :beer:

ACFred

10-14-2002, 10:00 PM

Can't wait for the 4.5 version. Announce when it's ready and I'll give it a go! Looks intriguing.

Thanks for putting all of the hard work into it. It's a benefit to the Maya community.

artifish

10-15-2002, 02:57 PM

Thanks :-) Glad you like it!
The reason why brainbugz is free is : I'd really like to get a studio
position (which are quite scarce over here in Germany), so I thought the best way to get my name and work known is to distribute it for free and hope the ones who use it read the disclaimer and give me feedback on how they used it. ( Hope to spice up my resume with, "studio x" used my tool in "project y" kind of statements ). As I am no artist, I see this as an interactive demo reel thing - curious to see if it works out as intended...

ACFred: I'll give you a shout when the 4.5 version is out

cheers, carsten

MosaFacku

10-15-2002, 03:52 PM

this rocks. THANK YOU!!!!

:xtreme:

alexx

10-15-2002, 04:25 PM

Originally posted by artifish
I'd really like to get a studio
position (which are quite scarce over here in Germany

how true.. especially in this time..
most studios close or even get closed..
harsh times

artifish

10-30-2002, 10:39 PM

just a quick anouncement: 4.5 version is ready for download at highend3d. :)

cheers, carsten

ACFred

10-31-2002, 11:47 PM

Yay! I'll give it a try over the weekend. See if I can make 1000 bouncing balls following a path.....

Thanks for getting this compiled for 4.5!

Alec

iC4

11-01-2002, 01:36 PM

looks great, thx very much :beer:

sclark

11-05-2002, 11:32 PM

Originally posted by alexx
how true.. especially in this time..
most studios close or even get closed..
harsh times

Alexx, thanks for the great free tool. I gave this a go the other day on unversity machines and it worked great, perfect for my needs.... BUT, there is always a but.... are there any plans for a Maya 4.5 Mac release? I use Maya on the Mac predominately and I really need a crowd solution that works there, or does this work there already?

Thanks agian,

Sam Clark

artifish

11-07-2002, 11:25 AM

well, to get this plugin work on a Mac, it's got to be recompiled for that os (the same for linux) ... I don't have a Mac and especially no Mac with Maya and a C++ compiler at my disposal and I don't know anyone who has, so a Mac version is kind of unlikely at the moment. sorry, I can't give you a better answer...
For that, I'd need a contact which I could trust and who is willing to recompile everything for every new release and test the software so I could be sure everything runs fine prior to making it available to the public.

Thewipe

10-15-2005, 06:50 AM

Hi Alex , first I would like to thank and congratulate you for a great plug in and its free! yeah!

to all guys using this , I need some newbie help.
I was testing it few weeks ago and its works well but im just pressing buttons and connecting everything togethr, but when I get back today and try to follow the quick tutorial I got stuck on the particle velocity , Im using maya 6 and it seems the velocity is not appearing in the component editor ....or what expression should I connect to my velocity to make it get going , thanks for the help

oglop

12-27-2005, 12:42 PM

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