RUG Meeting 01

Cool Things... parts 1 and 2 covers rendering occlusion and displacement maps respectively. The Demo Project is a Maya Project folder that contains the necessary maya and image files to complete the demos. The Orange and LGHextile shaders are in both SL and SLO formats. They have been compiled using Shader 14.3 with -back option. These shader files have also been been included in a shader directory in the demo project as well.

• Cool Things You can do with RfM (Part1).
• Cool Things You can do with RfM (Part2).
• Demo Project (ZIP 18.5Megs).
• orange.sl - orange.slo
• LGHexTile.sl - LGHexTile.slo

RUG Meeting 02

This meeting featured Displacement Maps almost exclusively. The Displacement Checklist goes through some common problems if your images are not looking correct. I also demostrated my entry into the Stupid RenderMan Trick for 2009.

• Displacement Map Check List.
• LifeRib.zip - Docs, Python Scripts and Sample Animation, (req. grep and sed - Linux/Unix/Cygwin).

RUG Meeting 03

Notes from this are coming. Sorry for the delay.

RUG Meeting 04

I showed a trick to convert paint FX Hair into Curves that can be rendered as Fur. I 've included the mel script and a standard Hair Shader, (sl and slo).

• paintFX2RManCurves.doc.
• renderManCurves.mel.
• hair.sl.
• hair.slo.