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mayaseed - Lights

http://mayaseed.net/docs/lights

Site by Jonathan Topf. Mayaseed translates spot-lights, point-lights and area-lights out of the box. Here's a few things it's useful to know when using lights in your scenes. Appleseed lights have a quadratic falloff. In the attribute editor, this won't change the render behaviour in appleseed but might make make your viewport display look slightly more like the final render. Point lights and spot lights are non physical. Appleseed does a very good job of spending more render effort on lights that contri...

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mayaseed - Export modifiers

http://mayaseed.net/docs/export_modifiers

Site by Jonathan Topf. Export modifiers are attributes you can add to Maya geometry, lights and materials that modify the way that mayaseed interprets your scene. You can add or remove export modifiers to an object by selecting it and going to one of the export modifier menus. The export modifiers will be added to an object as an attribute under the. Currently the following export modifiers are available:. Ms area light visibility. Ms cast indirect light. Materials (Only Auto translated materials). Use t...

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mayaseed - Features

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Site by Jonathan Topf. Mayaseed does a bunch of stuff but here are some of the highlights. Automatic conversion of Maya lambertian, phong and surface shaders. Spot light, point light and area light translation. All native appleseed materials. Environment and physical environment creation. Auto-conversion of textures to .exr. Transformation, deformation and camera blur export.

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mayaseed - Glossary

http://mayaseed.net/docs/glossary

Site by Jonathan Topf. This is short for bi-directional reflectance distribution function. A bdrf describes how light is reflected from a surface and in appleseed is connected to a material. The longer appleseed renders, the better the image quality will get. When an image has rendered long enough that extra render effort causes no perceivable difference, this is known as converging. Short for stochastic progressive photon mapping. Sppm is a rendering method where photons are emitted from lights....

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Monday, January 16, 2012. Spent the last week setting up a new studio space with. Soon to be joined by the animation dream team of. Fritzi Nicolaus, and Tim McCourt. Im full o envy. I love it,Well i have enjoyed it thoroughly, great design ideas and pictures . Hoping for same stuff in your future blogs also. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Simple template. Powered by Blogger.

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mayaseed - Code structure

http://mayaseed.net/docs/code_structure

Site by Jonathan Topf. Mayaseed is loaded as a standard module. See the installation. The mayaseed distribution consists of a few main parts:. Open me to install.ma. Is a simple Maya ascii file containing a script node that loads and calls. Deals with creating and saving the. File to register the mayaseed module with Maya. Directory contains all the node definitions of the mayaseed nodes plus any compiled elements of the plug-in such as. Ms export obj maya version. Ms export obj maya version.

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mayaseed - Gallery

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Site by Jonathan Topf. Light and Dark is a BBC documentary about light and the scientific discoveries it has enabled. Jonathan Topf. Used appleseed and mayaseed to create a series of character vignettes for the show. All work in this video BBC 2013. Fetch is the second animated film financed by the appleseed team, directed by François Gilliot and based on a story by Kim Uittenhove, François Beaune and François Gilliot. The film is still in production but here's a sneak peak.

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mayaseed - Directory structure

http://mayaseed.net/docs/directory_structure

Site by Jonathan Topf. When exporting, mayaseed will output files to a to a specific directory structure. Paths in the .appleseed file are relative, so you can move the outputted files wherever you like as long as any dependencies stay in the same relative location to the .appleseed scene file. Shot directory/geometry/geometry files . - /textures/texture files . - /scene file.appleseed.

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mayaseed - Tuning a scene

http://mayaseed.net/docs/tuning_a_scene

Site by Jonathan Topf. This page is a summary of tips and tricks to get the most out of your export and render time. When tuning a scene, my first point of call is usually to increase the. Attribute in the ms render settings node configurations section. If most of the light in your scene is direct this can dramatically decrease the perceived amount of noise in the your render. Tweak max ray intensity. Pt max ray intensity. Attribute in your ms render settings node's configurations section. When you are f...

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mayaseed - mayaseed materials

http://mayaseed.net/docs/mayaseed_materials

Site by Jonathan Topf. Appleseed currently supports a set of powerful predefined materials, brdfs, edfs and surface shaders. Mayaseed takes a set of entity definitions name. Generated by appleseed.cli and uses them to create shading node templates in Maya that mirror their appleseed counterparts. All mayaseed materials must have an ms material at their root. Create an ms material by choosing. Bsdf 1 - material 1.bsdf. This is similar to Maya where you might connect. Will have the same effect as. Note: Ma...