Technical Art Adventures: 2015

Wednesday, October 7, 2015

Noticeable Differences - Week 9

Major milestone: 20 Minutes on Rowing Machine @ 27s/m

Monday, September 21, 2015

To Create Custom Menus in Zbrush:

Preferences/Config/Enable Customize
Preferences/Custom UI/Create New Menu
Name it
It will appear along the top menus
Drag it to the right most pane to edit it
Ctrl + Drag Items into the New Menu
To add a Sub Palette, drag it from Preferences/Custom UI/Custom Subpalette (Ctrl + Click SubPalette's name to rename, AFTER it has things in it)
When Done, CLICK OFF "Enable Customize" Button
Preferences/Config/Save UI
Name and Save it.

Customizing Zbrush UI

Preferences/Config/Enable Customize
Ctrl + Alt + Drag Any Button from Any menu to Zbrush desktop
Brushes Can ONLY be taken from the Brush Menu on the top. not the icons
When Done, CLICK OFF "Enable Customize" Button
Preferences/Config/Save UI
Name and Save it.

Sunday, September 20, 2015

- 20 minutes on stationary bike, speed 8mph, resistance 3.
- 10 minutes on Rowing Machine, 24spm
- walking up from Civic Center platform no longer makes legs wobbly. I am not as winded either.
- belt down to 2nd notch
- noticed more definition on arms.

Monday, August 3, 2015

Blender -- Cycles Renderer

Cycles Renderer -- Enable

To enable Cycles rendering in Blender:

Select Cycles Render from the 3D View's pulldown.

Thursday, June 25, 2015

VFX - Blizzard's Blend Add Technique

Saturday, May 30, 2015

PBR -- Material Value Chart -- (Spec/Glossiness Translation)

PBR Glossiness/Specular translation by me. The original version can be found here.

Tuesday, May 26, 2015

ZBrush -- Add Eyes (or another primitive) to a Tool

Select the Insert Sphere Brush and draw in the eyes
After Drawing in the Eyes, they are Automatically Masked.
Subtool/Split Unmasked Points to make the eyes a SubTool

Monday, May 25, 2015

ZBrush -- Polymesh to Dynamesh Workflow

Create Dynamesh:

Select Polymesh Tool
Geometry/Dynamesh/Dynamesh Button (Settings from image below)

Update Dynamesh:

Ctrl + Drag Outside of Model

ZBrush -- ZSpheres to Polymesh Workflow

Create ZSpheres Base Model
Press "A" to preview resulting Polymesh (Adjust Density)
Adaptive Skin/Make Adaptive Skin
Select new skin mesh "Skin_ZSpheres*" Tool (created by previous step)
Tool/Make Polymesh 3D

Saturday, May 23, 2015

ZBrush Navigation

Free Rotate – Click & drag Background
Move – Alt+Click & drag Background
Constrain to 90-degree rotation – Click+drag, press Shift
Scale – Alt+Click, Release Alt, drag Background
Rotate around Z-axis – Shift, Click, release Shift, drag

Thursday, May 21, 2015

Local only GIT source control

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1960799/using-git-and-dropbox-together-effectively

~/project $ git init

~/project $ git add .

~/project $ git commit -m "first commit"

~/project $ cd ~/Dropbox/git

~/Dropbox/git $ git init --bare project.git

~/Dropbox/git $ cd ~/project

~/project $ git remote add origin ~/Dropbox/git/project.git

~/project $ git push -u origin master