I am watching a seminarium from the Human right days. The seminarium is discussing woman rights during the arab spring. This observation is certainly not something new but the fact that women rights is discussed almost in parallell to human rights is shocking. When will the concept of human right include all humans, not depending of gender or where you were born.
Kunskapskanalen FTW
Easel is a javascript library for working with the html5 canvas element. Just had a quick look at it and it seemed like fun ! Html5 canvas all AS3 style :)
To render a UV pass from Maya using V-Ray simply create a samplerInfo node and connect the uCoord to the vray extra texture Red channel and vCoord to the Green channel.
Render and your done.
Make sure that you render in 32 bit and make sure that when imported into your composition app no color adjustments are applied to the image.
To understand how a UV map is constructed it is helpful to think of the UV map as information of position in X and Y. The UV map consists of two colors, red and green. The U element is mapped from 0 to 1 in the red channel. Starting on the left side t with 0 to 1 on the right side.
The V element is contained in the G green channel starting with 0 at the bottom ranging to 1 at the top.
When combined the UV map looks like this and is able to give unique position on a 2d plane with values ranging from 0 to 1 in both the x and y dimensions.
Stumbeled over the Plexus plug for afx today. it look so fun I did this quick test of it.