Programming and animation

SMTP send

A good example of sending mail is here - https://forum.antichat.ru/printthread.php?t=44490

If you need a port to C + +, write to me.
P.S. Practice has shown that the service mail.ru better not to deal with. Half day caught cause loss of messages such as “mailbox does not exist”, while the same yandex sent no questions asked.

Mental Ray warn 542003

I’ve opened a complex scene in Maya for render and for being able to see the cameras better, I’ve scaled them by 10. There are three cameras in the scene. And when it came to render from a camera with a close foreshortening to objects, mental ray could not complete visualization because of the many warnings like

warn   542003: suspect illegal geometry truncating, modify clipping plane

 I’ve reverted a scale to 1.0 and solved a render problem.

nCloth tips

A few notes on working with nCloth simulation in Maya.

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MotionBuilder UI, centered region

Tip, on how to centered a region. Not so long time ago I thought about this question and wish to share.
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GLSL shaders tips: NVidia and AMD difference.

Plugins for MotionBuilder

I’ve done a small sorting of published plugins, the result is a table of plugins. You can see it, please visit – Plugins for MotionBuilder page

Rigid body tracking

For the studio we use our inhouse software and tools.
For example, processing of points cloud.

One of the most important algorithms, which connects the entire processing of the skeleton – the tracking of rigid bodies. I have attached the recording video demonstrating the work of tracking a set of points.

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Chess Titans bug

In the delivery to Win7 there are set of games, including all the well-known chess wrapping into the Chess Titans. So I decided to play a game with the computer, but he was a shameless cheater. In the Chess Titans there is an issue where a pawn can eat your opponent’s pawn just passing by.

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Note about a sniffer code

On the internet I have found a lot of information and sample code to implement the injection of dynamic link library into an executable module. Most of examples originate from Jeffrey Richter. What I have observed, a lot of these examples forget to exit from thread in the sniffer library. This is particularly as a rule in examples for Delphi. Without this command, the executable file, which we produce injection will simply fall down. So, do not forget to leave the thread.

ExitThread(0);

SkeletonBuilder WIP

In development there is a tool to fit the skeleton \ mocap actor under a set of points, including a precise calibration using ROM file.

* ROM – range of motion

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