Tag: python
Alembic the future CG interchange format
by admin on Aug.05, 2010, under General
I believe this will be a big revolution inside the industry, is suppose to be an CG interchange format focused on storing and sharing animation and VFX scenes across multiple software applications.
Due the fact is an open source project I will give all my effort to help this project going through
Modeling via keyframes
by admin on Aug.01, 2010, under Research and Development
With this script you can generate a model based in key frames. Try to animate a simple cube and then run the script, this will bake all the animation and then create a simple boolean Union based in each mesh….very simple I know, but then you can play with dynamic objects, and bake the dynamics into keyframes and then create some kind of geometry based in forces…..Image you have a bunch of particles, then you instance some geometry to each particle, bake the simulation to key frames and run the script….This have some bugs but you have the idea…
import maya.mel as mel
def modelingAnimation(step, startFrame, endFrame):
selection = cm.ls(sl=True);
if (step < 1):
print 'the step argument must be at least higher than 1';
listObjects=list(); # empty list
for object in selection:
for n in range(startFrame,endFrame,step):
cm.currentTime(n,edit=True);
listObjects.append(cm.duplicate(object));
indexObject=0;
inc=0;
max=len(listObjects);
imageNum=1;
mel.eval('playButtonStart');
while inc<=listObjects:
nameBollean = ("bolleanOp"+str(imageNum));
cm.select(clear=True);
cm.select(listObjects[indexObject], add=False);
cm.select(listObjects[indexObject+1], add=True);
cm.polyBoolOp( listObjects[indexObject], listObjects[indexObject+1], op=1, n=nameBollean)
cm.delete(nameBollean, constructionHistory=True);
listObjects[indexObject:indexObject+2]=[nameBollean];
imageNum+=1;
inc+=1;