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Gonzo

11-11-2009, 04:43 AM

http://www.glyphfx.com/images/transamerica_withWire_forWeb_480x320.jpg

I recently finished development on a commercial plugin for Maya that originated from a need to better manage layered projections with complex occlusion areas. It's called the Mattepainting Toolkit and you can check it out here: http://www.glyphfx.com/mptk.html

Some features include: blend projections based on incident angle, dilate your occlusion mattes with soft edges to better blend between projections (and eliminate geometry halos), model interactively from your projection perspective with viewport updates to your projections (similar to 3dsMax), and viewport gamma shifting for linear color pipelines. A demo version for windows is available. Hope you find it useful.

joie

11-11-2009, 07:20 AM

Thank you very much for this, it seems to be powerful.

rasmusW

11-11-2009, 07:56 AM

wow! this is looking cool. very useful.
hope there you'll get a lot of puchases of this.

-r

halfknight

11-11-2009, 09:46 AM

sounds interesting, unfortunately the first three quicktime videos on the feature page don't work (only audio is playing, video is black). Do I have to install a special codec ?

pix3lm0nk

11-11-2009, 01:26 PM

vids work here in win7/qt

undoz

11-11-2009, 02:01 PM

I'm not a maya user, but those tools look sweet. I was very impressed by the occlusion blending feature.

spurcell

11-11-2009, 02:37 PM

The videos worked fine for me. Real neat stuff. What renderers does it support?

Xestion

11-11-2009, 09:17 PM

hoho, looks amazing! Cant wait to try this out tomorrow, cheers buddy :beer:

Bonedaddy

11-12-2009, 02:39 PM

Very cool. Any plans for a Linux version? I'm sure you're just dying to work through the Linux graphic driver issues, but still. ;)

Gonzo

11-12-2009, 03:15 PM

Bonedaddy

11-14-2009, 03:45 AM

Thanks for all your responses.

Halfknight--which browser are you using? The videos not loading on the site may be a problem specific to your browser (or browser version).

Bonedaddy--I have compiled for linux and tested on Ubuntu. Only the demo is Windows at this time.

I'd love to take a look at it. FWIW, most all the major FX/animation houses are on some version of Redhat/Fedora/CentOS.

erictos

11-15-2009, 12:42 PM

what about an mac version.it looks very promising!

edit:
saw that there is a mac version to buy but no mactrail version.

atuljain99

11-15-2009, 05:24 PM

Nice looking app with good price.

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