For those have been interested in using my seUVBlendShape plugin and tools, now there is one more reason to jump aboard! Coming soon a GPU accelerated version will be available in Maya 2016. This adds a good amount of performance and playback speed. For a little demonstration on this new addition, take a look...
I have been doing some development in Maya’s new GPU deformer override and I found it very handy and straight forward to implement. There is a simple feature to build the OpenCL kernel from an external file. This is fine if you want to provide the kernel source for others to improve or fix...
Not too long ago I finally released my UV BlendShape deformer and received lots of positive feedback. One thing that I didn’t think about initially was other than watching my videos for demostration, how are they going to know how it will benefit them? I decided to come up with a plan for a...
It’s finally here! After a lots of time spent on putting everything in place to make this a solid and complete tool, it’s ready to go. Since I posted my first version almost 3 years ago, I have received several emails asking if this would be made pubic at some time. At the time...
I needed a way to get the geometry index on a deformer based on the deforming shape name. Rather than trying to trace the connections in the dependency graph, Maya’s API has a much easier and faster method. This is also better than using the deformer command for the information since the command does...