07 July 2005 | |
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I speak when i talk!
Abdolreza Shirvani
Student
Tehran,
Iran
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Motion stack instead of Motion Panel!Like Mod stack...
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07 July 2005 | |
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Lord of the Thundercats
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Ian Farnsworth
FX Artist
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A "Make Something Cool" button! We really need one of those! I've heard that in Maya and XSI, there's like one button you push, and VIOLA~! You have something cool!
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07 July 2005 | |
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Expert
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Jonah Hawk
techArtist
Portland,
USA
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Slice or trim by Poly
I would dearly love to have a tool to slice or trim Polies using other Polyies as a the cutting edge. even if the polies don't intersect, the tool would trim on the projected intersection.
A simpler tool would be to align the Slice plane to a normal. I'm not a scripter and rely heavily on those gifted as such. I wish I had more to give. I look forward to your ideas/comments. jonah |
07 July 2005 | |
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Know-it-All
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James Haywood
Senior Technical Artist
Bungie Studios
Seattle,
USA
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An electricity/lightning bolt generator, with animatable end points and lots of controls for speed, size, color, forks, etc.
Kind of like this: http://digimation.com/software/asp/...7&category_id=1 I can think of a few different ways to do this, so the results should be nicely varied. |
07 July 2005 | |
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Frequenter
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I'd like to see someone make a nuclear sub burst out of the water, anyone seen that on down persicope?
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I'm nuts and I know it, your point? |
07 July 2005 | |
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Veteran
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Lars Bjorstrup
Freelance illustrator
Hellerup,
Denmark
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Just another idea ..
(l) SNOW/RAIN STORM A script to create an animated snowstorm or rain effect in a scene eg. using pflow. Could have settings for intensity, wind direction, wind force / random windbursts. (m) SPECIAL DISPLACEMENT A script for fun to run through a b/w bitmap and randomly (or in eg. jumps of say 10 pixels on the bitmap) create a geometry object (eg. a box) for each pixel eg. with a height or other setting based on the "blackness" of the given pixel (eg. white resulting in tall boxes and grey in smaller boxes). (n) WAVES A script to create foam on top of waves, eg. combining the wave modifier with pflow, or some other method. |
07 July 2005 | |
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R&D/Technical Director
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Paul Neale
PEN Productions
Canada
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Have todays Dilbert load as the start up screen. Or just random images from a folder. Easy one I know but it would be fun.
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07 July 2005 | |
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Stealthy Tea Monkey
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Martin Brennand
VFX Artist
Melbourne,
Australia
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Just letting you know the new challenge will be up in a few hours.
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"There Really is No Secret" Martin Brennand - mocha Product Manager - Imagineer Systems |
07 July 2005 | |
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Guest
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How about a maxscript that utilised Max 7's editable poly GrowSelect function, and used an incremental setMapFace operation to allow creeping textures.
I only ask as i could really use one!! |
07 July 2005 | |
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Expert
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Originally Posted by xlars.dk:
(n) WAVES A script to create foam on top of waves, eg. combining the wave modifier with pflow, or some other method. I vote for these kinds of tools as well... maybe something, that simplifies ocean-animation in general, like a plane-mesh with a distance-dependant density, and showing only faces visible in the camera frustrum. And of course something for creating foam, white caps (though that would probably have to be a plug-in, rather than a script) and maybe particle flow splashes. I know, Dreamscape offers these, but I guess it should be possible to script. Furtermore, I'd like to see some scripts making it easier to create natural environments, like scripts for tree-placement, grass creation and animation, especially keeping an eye on polygon count (so mostly using textured planes). Last edited by Laserschwert : 07 July 2005 at 10:19 AM. |
07 July 2005 | |
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Stealthy Tea Monkey
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Martin Brennand
VFX Artist
Melbourne,
Australia
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The new challenge will be up in a few hours (had a late film night!)
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"There Really is No Secret" Martin Brennand - mocha Product Manager - Imagineer Systems |
08 August 2005 | |
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Stealthy Tea Monkey
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Martin Brennand
VFX Artist
Melbourne,
Australia
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I'm noticing a severe lack of attendence in the maxscript challenges. What do we need to do to make them work for you?
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"There Really is No Secret" Martin Brennand - mocha Product Manager - Imagineer Systems |
08 August 2005 | |
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random data generator
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Georg Duemlein
New Zealand
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erilaz,
I am too slow to solve the challange in my lunch time, so please extend my lunchtime or make me faster ![]() Still like/love to "think" about the challanges, ie the idea of generating textures with maxscript. Maybe "challange" is a difficult approach as , - I can only speak for myself -, many tasks at work are challenges. Georg __________________
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08 August 2005 | |
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Frequenter
Moosley
Senior Technical Artist
United Kingdom
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Originally Posted by jonahhawk:
I would dearly love to have a tool to slice or trim Polies using other Polyies as a the cutting edge. even if the polies don't intersect, the tool would trim on the projected intersection.
A simpler tool would be to align the Slice plane to a normal. I'm not a scripter and rely heavily on those gifted as such. I wish I had more to give. I look forward to your ideas/comments. jonah I scripted a tool to do something like that a couple of weeks ago while at work... will post it up when I got a mo ![]() |
08 August 2005 | |
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in 3D!
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Joshua Newman
Director
MESHROOM
London,
United Kingdom
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Hi Erilaz,
Well it has been Siggraph week so I imagine a lot of people have been busy into the lead-up to that. I also think that some of the challenges so far have maybe been a little too in depth for a week for the normal full time employee of a 3d sweatshop. Maybe there should be two categories, a month task and a weekly task. The weekly task would be more basic scripts, like useful functions: select duplicate faces, deselect invisible edges, select spline segments that are zero length or even as stated above, align slice plane to selected faces -- i have one, download it here jonahhawk explode elements (and many other things that were in footools once!) or basic utilities: coffee table script (challenge no. 1) rename all bitmap paths Then the monthkly taks could be something a little more full on like the footprints task, a material converter, project manager (to manage scene resources), storyboard editor, and some of the things that have already been suggested. I'm just thinking this might help younger scripters to learn a bit more rather than feeling a bit put off by more advanced scripters. Anyway, keep up the good work. cheers, Josh. __________________
www.joshuanewman.net Last edited by j-man : 08 August 2005 at 04:48 PM. |
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