The Truth be, I haven't been very lazy

I wish I had been but I wasn't, so now that I am back home and not in a school environment anymore (I graduated ). I'll be putting up what I've been working on for the week here. Just have look at what I've done lately :

dvRenderCurve Script:
A script that creates geometry that match your curves, so you can render them out with Mental Ray



shadingLighting Script:
A small toolset that has some commonly used tools by shading and lighting artists, as asked for by a friend



facialGui Script v. 1.0:
An automated facial gui system based on blendshapes so that students can see how their blendshapes are interpolating with one another in a more "sophisticated" system.



nukeRender Script v. 1.0:
A script for a project with ESPN, the purpose is so all they have to do is hit a button to change a text in nuke, re-render all their shots with the new text and turns the image sequences into a movie file. This is the portion of the script that edits and makes the new Nuke files. The script has been updated some more since this video went live, new video coming soon.



Work In Progress


This is the Renamer Script version 2 ! Right Now I am going through and making sure all the functions of the layout are working before implementing the renaming code into it, which will be the easy part. The new script is a complete overhaul from the original, since then I have learned more about object oriented programming , regular expressions, file management , and much more. I will be implementing all these new concepts to the new script, thus making it more professional and useful. Did I mention it follows PEP 8 now ?



I will also be redoing the rig for this model by my friend Kyle Havrilesko, which is going to be a lot of fun !

Other than that, I am also going to be messing around with Fur and Hair systems some more, will put up results when I get them , keep working on my rig builder, and other work that I have coming my way. Anything that I can put up here will be here :)

The dvRenderScript and shadingLighting scripts will be up on creativeCrash.com once they are approved by them and if you want to check Kyle's Site , it's www.awesomeharvey.com

Take Care !

- David

Pro Tips I which existed

In my travels in the land of python, I have come across some information that wasn't easy find or clear up, so here is what I learned:

* To create a File , you just have to use the file.open(file_name, "w") command and give it a name that doesn't exist. This applies for creating files with any other commands, such as XML or Pickle, except that with a Pickle it's pickle.dump().

* If you are trying to create a Folder, you have to look up how to create a Dictionary (And I don't mean a dictionary to store data a.k.a {} ). Prior to Windows, folders were called dictionaries. The command is os.mkDir by the way

* To edit a single object in a list, you can just do list[1] = new value, instead of having to use the remove and insert commands