Sean Nolan Skel Creation

Added to the link on the right side.

He's a good TD guy, which gave me full support on the script. Thanks Sean.

You should check his Skel Creation mel. Nice concept of orienting joints without confusing new bie like me eheh.

Maya env (environment) file.

This function is used to set path to your scripts folder.
Case: you have more than 100 scripts in your maya scripts folder, cluttered, and now u're confused to filter those which are not used.
example: u have 15 scripts for modeling, 55 for rigging, 20 for texturing, and 30 for the rest.
solution:
- create a folder based on the category ( ex: modeling, texturing) it can be anywhere.
- put relevant scripts to each folder.
- go to my computer, RMB and click properties, then follow this.



- what it does is actually set custom path, because maya's default script folder is in your 'my document\...'

Gnomon New DVD release

This is truly christmas gift!
My wish list:
- MEL Bundle.
- Vray interior.

Maya UV pelting tool

Hip hip hurray, no more cumbersome of unwrapping UV all day long, this script try to mimic UV pelt in Max. It's a very smart way of using dynamic to generate the pelt. Wonderful thing is...It's free..

I've tried version 0.99 before, it could be improved more. some calculation are still messed up..I hope in this version it's more accurate.

This script comes with handy and complete documentation as well..So no worry if u're first timer.

Needless to say, this is a must have script for those maya users. I'm personally testing a beta UVlayout software, which uses similar method, but too bad they're not integral part of maya.

MVA result

Congratulations..MoonFx won a lot, especially for editing and Special effect. Twisted didn't send his work this year. RM60 this time was quite worth it, we're served with some snacks and drinks. Well, the ambient was not bad.

MVA tonite

Click the link above to go to the site. No idea whether it stands for Malaysian Video Award or Moon Video Award. Anyway, I'm out of political issue here.

Blendshape + joint

*image removed due to confidentiality issue

Say, u've got the head, properly done with blendshape applied. Suddenly client said.."oh you know, it should be bigger or tapered". Changing the main shape will affect the rest when you adjust the slider. and if you have defomer (lattice) applied, deleting history won't solve the problem..I'm using maya 6 in the office, but tried on v7 "bake topology to target" still doesn't work, because it's DEFORMER, not adjusting components (verts, edge, or faces).

So Khiang (our 3d head) come out with a very simple solution that i never thought of:
- so u have the head with all blendshape applied.
- modify the base head ( bigger, tapered)
- don't delete the history yet
- depending on how many expression you have, let's put 2, frown and smile.
- slide frown to 1, and then duplicate the base shape.
- slide back frown to 0 and slide smile to 1 , and then duplicate again.
- Now, u've got the new shape (tapered head).
- Delete history on base head
- Create blendshape again.

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The second problem I encountered today is set preffered angle for joint.

Maya had problem calculating preferred angle if you set your joint parallel.meaning they're straight 90*. try create 3 joint from top by holding shift and apply ikHandle on it. It won't work.

Solution:
1. Create joints slanted a bit. meaning they have a little bit of bend so maya know where and how to calculate.
2. you can still create straight joints, but BEFORE you create ikHandle. rotate them a bit, then RMB>set preffered angle. Set the rotation back to 0 and apply ikHandle. That way Maya remember the angle that you preffered.

I wish even myself understand this after a while :P

3D whore

A silly conversation I had with KFC last nite:

necreation: hehe... well... maya is a bitch when u donno her.
elte_tan: she's gonna be my wife man..
elte_tan: we're engaged!
necreation: wife? hahaa.... another one of those "maya is my wife" guy
necreation: maya is my whore.... LOL
elte_tan: maya is a whore then!
necreation: xsi is another one that i'm seeing.
elte_tan: damn...too many husband
elte_tan: eh i heard houdini before
necreation: modo is my wet dream.
necreation: houdini is a high class whore.
necreation: haven't got chance to touch her yet
elte_tan: good idea to post on my blog haha
elte_tan: and max is a cheap whore with too many guys(plugins)?
necreation: LOL
necreation: no. max is a cheap whore with too many make ups.
elte_tan: and i dunno how to call blender man..
necreation: not so fuckable without make ups on.
necreation: blender? they are hmmm.... girls u can pick up with nothing.
necreation: not a single penny spent.
elte_tan: what about lightwave?
elte_tan: twin whore?
necreation: lightwave? hmmm.... she's the old prostitude at chow kit. 10RM
once...
elte_tan: since u can f*** separately?
necreation: hmmm... no buy 1 get 1 free.
necreation: LOL
elte_tan: hahahah
necreation: cinema 4d....
necreation: u name it
elte_tan: tanjinho sure will kill you man
necreation: eh... don let him know lor.
elte_tan: cinema4d = foreign whore to me
necreation: actually he admits that
necreation: cinema 4d? hmmm.... she's a german whore.... hmmm...
necreation: can make good wife type.
elte_tan: yeah..seems so loyal..
necreation: LOL
elte_tan: no make up, not many husband
elte_tan: but problem is, u gotta learn german language then hahha
necreation: skip this 1st.
necreation: yeah... the german language is the obstacles which resembles
it's handicap in no ngon support.
elte_tan: silo is another underage bitch
necreation: Silo? LOL....
necreation: she only knows how to suck dick lar.
elte_tan: u'll get caught fuckin her
necreation: but suck damm well.
necreation: suck dick won't get caught
elte_tan: hahaha...barely legal eh?
elte_tan: but in the end we're all glad there is no gay in our 3d software
necreation: no. there's a gay one.
elte_tan: huh?
necreation: http://www.ayam3d.org
necreation: opposite of maya.
necreation: so it's gay
elte_tan: ayam is just another cheap bitch
elte_tan: u know what's gay?
elte_tan: http://www.e-frontier.com/article/articleview/1597/1/281?sbss=281
elte_tan: it's poser!!
necreation: u won't say it's gay when u finds out that it can earns u money
faster than other app.
necreation: LOL
elte_tan: ssst...
necreation: heard of truespace b4?
elte_tan: that's why gay never admit they're rite?
elte_tan: space galaxy bitch?
necreation: oh.... it's an alien whore trying to get ppl to fuck them.
necreation: have u read about the new truespace 7? seems to be ambitious on
their target market.
elte_tan: ow...is it?
elte_tan: and this one new hexagon
elte_tan: whore wannabe
necreation: hexagon? hmmm....yeah. definately a whore wannabe.
necreation: carrara?
elte_tan: dun even mention that
elte_tan: ugly whore
necreation: lol
necreation: u tried it b4?
elte_tan: who wanna try ugly whore?
necreation: i tot it's better than truespace.
necreation: lol
necreation: zbrush is russian whore.
elte_tan: zbrush is a modern whore i would say
necreation: speaks in funny accent but did the job right.
elte_tan: bring new sensation
necreation:
necreation: oh well... u can call that too
elte_tan: up to date whore
necreation: eh... i'd rather call it... indian whore knows yoga. (flexible)
elte_tan: yeah the zsphere can do yoga man
necreation: yeah
necreation: haha
elte_tan: ah..japanese whore = shade
necreation: anymore?
necreation: shade ar? hmmm.... that one...
necreation: sushi whore.

Lor's farewell photo

I'm in the middle Yay! Jose's on my right and Lor, the skinny crazy guy.

Interesting stuffs

open your command shell : start>run>type cmd, and then type this:
telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl <- starwars in ASCII!!

face morpher: http://www.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~morph/Transformer/