Venetain Blind by Carl

Venetain Blind by Carl
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/2073.html

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ronviers wrote: There should be some kind of reward for a filter like this that stays non-low for a very long time.

LMao yes this one been around for a long time, maybe I should make a grunge concrete Venetain LOL

Your a hard man to nail down - your here - your gone - you've got a bit of the clark kent mystery man thing going on LOL

Hey Carl - did you receive the new PC yet?

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Carl wrote: resubmtted as a simple filter

Now I'm confused. How can it be a simple filter if it has height map?

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Carl wrote: whats on your computer

I have XP Pro on my system but my Mom is running Vista – new Dell laptop. Her biggest complaints are performance and lockup related. Your system has more horsepower so it will probably be much better. Vista has some annoying quirks but it is pretty. We will all be running Vista eventually. The performance issues will be corrected either with updates, possibly provided by the hardware manufacturers or a service pack. So you are on solid footing for the future.

Having to wait unitl the twenty-fifth - that's just too long.

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Carl wrote: I hope they fix them soon

Some of it will be adjusting to the new Vista way. For example, I was unable to drag to select files and the 'select all' was missing from the menus - little things like that.
I'm sure they introduced an equal or superior way but I do not like having my workflow disrupted - then again I can be a real baby when it comes to that kind of thing.

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Carl wrote: update on your Maya progress

This week I worked on particle and rigid body dynamics as well as paint effects. Next is expressions and then the embedded script language. After that the introduction will be over and I can begin tutorials that are most related to the vision I have in mind for my first project. For me to remain on schedule I would need to finish my project in the next 90 days but the concept is better and more ambitious than I originally expected so I may end up pushing my schedule back.
I want to do a filter this weekend but I don't have anything in mind - maybe I will do another plug and pray like the last one.

That is a good one..... LMAO....

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Carl wrote: big challenge

I would like to say the process has been enjoyable but mostly it has been difficult and tedious. It will get better when I begin to work in areas I have previously been introduced to. I got a little of that earlier this week when I covered tubes in paint effects. They deal with the revolving of NURBS curves, which I had covered in modeling so it was nice to finally get some consolidation time. I think it will start to be fun in the next few weeks.

Do you use Adobe Illustrator?

What does a good paint program do that Photoshop does not do? I have been wanting to get my hands on one just to have a look around.

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Carl wrote: what are your main programs

I keep it simple; Photoshop for bitmaps, Illustrator for vectors, Filter Forge for textures and Maya to bring it together - plus I don't go far without my camera.
I'm going to have to settle on something for compositing but that is down the road.

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Carl wrote: My furry little brain [ from a mis-spent youth LOL ] takes awhile to self learn and absorb things

I'm not a fast learner but I'm stubborn and sanguine about my limitations. I make no attempt at understanding Maya or Filter Forge, or anything else for that matter, at a quantitative level. I have concepts and visions that i have fantasies of bringing to reality and they don't involve being able to calculate photons doing this or that. I leave the technical stuff for those who care about that part of it - it takes the pressure off.

Doesn't it seem like Golive and Dreamweaver do kind-of the same thing? I have not used either one but reading the description on the Adobe website it made me wonder.

Maya uses a scripting language called MEL (Maya Embedded Language). I have not covered that part yet, they save that for the last chapter, but it is clear that I will need to know it at some level. Personally I hope to work at the node level as much as possible. Most of the coding I have done has been in assembly language and to be honest I don't even know what a scripting language is. My attitude toward MEL may change after I cover it. I didn't think I would like dynamics either but now I realize it is one of the most important and interesting parts of Maya.
I remember Lisp from a book I read in college but I didn't know it was used for modern day commercial applications like AutoCad. Funny I remember seeing AutoCad running on an original IBM PC in the early eighties. It was drawing the space shuttle as polygons - the system had a whopping 5MB hard drive. The prof had it at our Atari users group weekly meeting.

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StevieJ wrote: Those were the good old days, eh?

Don't even get me started. The best days are ahead though.

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StevieJ wrote: AutoDesk kinda created their own language with it.....called AutoLisp.....

----I'm waiting for the AutoHairlip update. Although I can't help but wish they'd skip straight to AutoStutter. Or am I the only one thinking "AutoLisp" is not only un-P.C., but very just uhh, odd ha-ha ?

jffe

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jffe wrote: AutoHairlip update

Oh dear, that is un-P.C. Poor Venetians; already blind, now horseless and hairlipped, it must be all those hot rocks blowing around – it’s no wonder they are in need of window treatments.