Troubleshooting 3ds Max - Profile Reset- December 22, 2007 The last few days have offered a nice vacation from daily work and given me time to get back to some house projects and in-between back to some rendering related fun. With that in mind here is a great tip for Max users to help troubleshoot corrupt files and other "anomalies". Similar to the profile in AutoCAD, Max has a .ini file that holds things like plug-in paths and more. This file ishttp://rndr4food.blogspot.com/2007/12/troubleshooting-3ds-max-profile-reset.html Create a 3D Snowflake even if its warm out...- December 20, 2007 The weather here at Will render for food headquarters is jumping from 70 to 30 every few days so this is a way to bridge those gaps this season. With a focus on modeling, rendering and animation sometimes one of the best things you can do is to take a step back and try a different approach. From the title you probably thought this was going to show how to create a digital snowflake, instead howhttp://rndr4food.blogspot.com/2007/12/3d-snowflakes-for-you-to-create.html Maya native file export formats- December 19, 2007 To follow up on the last post and look at best possible workflows here are the native export file formats for Maya: Supported GeometryScene Formats mayaAscii, mayaBinary, MEL, Autodesk FBX, aliasWire (Autodesk AliasStudio), IGES, DXF, OBJ, VRML2, MOV (ascii motion), GE2, RTG, OpenFlight, VRML2, mental ray, RIB, Open Inventor2. Supported Image Formats Maya IFF, Maya IFF 16, AVI,http://rndr4food.blogspot.com/2007/12/maya-native-file-export-formats.html Maya export to .dwg- December 19, 2007 In a technology preview from Autodesk released yesterday we now have access to exporting to the .dwg file format from Maya courtesy of Autodesk Labs. From the site: The DWG Plug-in for Maya 2008 enables users to export complex conceptual building designs from Maya for further design development and documentation in Autodesk Revit Architecture 2008. For additional information including a how-tohttp://rndr4food.blogspot.com/2007/12/maya-export-to-dwg.html Production Rendering Offsite- December 18, 2007 In one of my previous roles we worked hard to expand our rendering capabilitiescapacity to get renderings and animations out faster. We did this with a combination of afterhours distributed network rendering and dedicated serversmachines just to handle the load of work we were completing. One thing that always caught my eye was offsite rendering (think a dedicated server farm focused justhttp://rndr4food.blogspot.com/2007/12/production-rendering-offsite.html Windows Vista SP1 Preview- December 18, 2007 The Windows Vista Public Release Candidate 1 is now ready for those brave testers here. Here goes my plunge into RC1 (downloading now)...http://rndr4food.blogspot.com/2007/12/windows-vista-sp1-preview.html Primavera and Autodesk Interoperability- December 18, 2007 From the Development side we (Avatech) have had several inquiries from users over the last few months to look into developing some tools to allow users to go from Autodesk Design Products to Primavera. On a related note to that and with Autodesks aquirement of Navisworks this past year in a press release this morning both parties have agreed to continue working together to keep the existinghttp://rndr4food.blogspot.com/2007/12/primavera-and-autodesk-interoperability.html Combining Existing & New Technologies- December 14, 2007 With the rise of new technologies it is useful to have existing "tried & true" technologies take advantage of newer ones. That said users of Outlook can now utilize twitter thanks to OuTwit from TechHit.http://rndr4food.blogspot.com/2007/12/combining-existing-new-technologies.html Google Earth Inner Workings- December 13, 2007 Ran across this link earlier and with the recent update we have done to take your file from Revit and publish to Google Earth it provides an interesting look at what drives this. Google Earth inner workings described in newly published Google Patent Apphttp://rndr4food.blogspot.com/2007/12/google-earth-inner-workings.html AU Post Wrap-Up- December 4, 2007 What a week it has been at Autodesk University in Las Vegas... If there was one recurring theme for the week it would have to be networking. It would have been hard not to with 9,800+- attendees (last number I heard) from all over. Here a few quick highlights and notes: To start with the ADN Developers Conference on Monday offered some great information and sneak peeks into some things onhttp://rndr4food.blogspot.com/2007/12/au-post-wrap-up.html |