by Gene Turnbow | Dec 4, 2002 | Art, Lightwave
I’ve just finished a couple of contracts for the U.S. Government, of all things! A lab rat and a bald eagle, both animated talking spokespersons for two different branches of the government (the National Instituts of Health and the Air Mobility Warfare Center at Fort Dix). You take your jobs where you find them, but how odd that I would find these.
The rat’s name was Sydney, and I understand it was some sort of inside joke at the National Institute of Health. And yeah, Sydney was a girl rat. Go figure.
Oh, and I’ve started learning Maya, now, too. It turns out that as fun as Lightwave is, 99.9% of the jobs out there want strong Maya skills. I love Lightwave, but I also like to eat and live in a house.
by Gene Turnbow | Sep 23, 2002 | Code, Lightwave
I am nearing completion of a small suite of plugins for a commercial client – what an adventure that’s been! I was writing Lightwave plugins to translate STL object model format into Lightwave model format, while preserving the materials attributes (raw STL doesn’t support materials). Then I had to write a new shader to render them that took into account the surface smoothing errors that the STL models tend to have in them (because of the strange tesselation choices the exporting software that creates STL files tend to make). I got it all working, finally. But boy was that stuff hard. I decided I’d never do another Lightwave plugin after that.
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