[Gringo]

izyk, on Jul 27 2009, 04:39 PM, said:

• Subsurface Scattering Part I
  
• Subsurface Scattering Part II

Really interesting tricks indeed!
Thank you!

[Pilalitos]

I love Mondays!!

[nt65]

Izyk,
Bloody marvelous.
Thank-you.
nick

[Drazen]

woowww, great tricks, looking forward to see more!!!

[izyk]

A new video is now available - showing how the Favorites tool category can be configured for quick access to commonly used Tools, Images, Clips, Settings, Macros and Fuses. Next weeks video will cover setting up a stand alone Bin server.

Configuring the Favorites Menu

[ChadCapeland]

You had almost 3 minutes left over to show how you have hierarchies by creating named folders, as well as how you can have Favorites in other bins, like on the network, so you can have per-project favorites or global favorites that everyone can see and use.

- Chad

[izyk]

ChadCapeland, on 20 August 2009 - 03:00 PM, said:

You had almost 3 minutes left over to show how you have hierarchies by creating named folders, as well as how you can have Favorites in other bins, like on the network, so you can have per-project favorites or global favorites that everyone can see and use.

- Chad

Hmm. You know, I have never setup my favorites that way, so it slipped my mind, but yes - all that is possible.

As for sharing them over the network - well this weeks video shows how you can create a bin server that shares the bins over the network.

[bfloch]

A video on caching would be nice. I didn't know much of the info on the caching vfxpedia site, also I remember that you can cache to tga instead of raw etc.
I use savers loaders a lot to cache simply because I didn't really get into caching yet. But I remember that it looked nice when I saw it on IBC some years ago. I bet there are more users to be convinced.


Btw. great work so far Isaac.

Cheers
Blazej

[ChadCapeland]

izyk, on 24 August 2009 - 02:05 PM, said:

As for sharing them over the network - well this weeks video shows how you can create a bin server that shares the bins over the network.

We like to make per-project bins, so instead of "Library on Binserver" we have "ProjectName on Binserver". We can make those read-only when a project wraps as well as back up the library with the assets to tape. Also helps prevent dreaded bin bloat, as bin searching is rather limited.

- Chad

[skonrad]

ChadCapeland, on 24 August 2009 - 03:32 PM, said:

We like to make per-project bins, so instead of "Library on Binserver" we have "ProjectName on Binserver". We can make those read-only when a project wraps as well as back up the library with the assets to tape. Also helps prevent dreaded bin bloat, as bin searching is rather limited.

- Chad

That's a decent idea, Chad. It would probably work nicely for generic elements as well, like "fire on x" or "splashes on x". An archiving script would go well with that as well.

[ChadCapeland]

skonrad, on 30 August 2009 - 02:40 AM, said:

ChadCapeland, on 24 August 2009 - 03:32 PM, said:

We like to make per-project bins, so instead of "Library on Binserver" we have "ProjectName on Binserver". We can make those read-only when a project wraps as well as back up the library with the assets to tape. Also helps prevent dreaded bin bloat, as bin searching is rather limited.

- Chad

That's a decent idea, Chad. It would probably work nicely for generic elements as well, like "fire on x" or "splashes on x". An archiving script would go well with that as well.

Especially with the read-only, sure, I like that. You'd need an "inbox" bin or something to let people submit new ones that get QA'd by the lead compositor/TD or whatever, since you can't have different permissions on different folders in a bin. Another of my annoyances on this, though, is that you can't copy a bin item from one bin to another, but a script could fix that, if someone was willing. There's not a lot of example scripts for bins (heck, try to find any reference to the ability to make a bin script in the docs), and I've only managed some rudimentary ones. Of course it's not terribly hard to open a setting/LD/comp/whatever and just resave it to the read-only bin (assuming the person doing QA has write access). Ah, another peeve is that you can't have per-bin stamp settings, so in the case of the generic read-only ones, it would make a lot of sense to have those stamps local, while the project read-write bins should have network stamps.

So what are you up to now Sean?

[pingking]

isn't already tuesday?

[Pilalitos]

C'mon Isaac! Keep the traditions man! Where's the video?! :P

[bfloch]

I bet he tries hard to get Miss Piggy for the next one.

[izyk]

Hmm. Been working on updated beginner tutorials for a while, so the youtube channel got sidelined, sorry. Three new posts this week though, courtesy of Eric Westphal and IBC. It's the Generation II demo, and it comes in three parts.

Generation 2.0 Part I
Generation 2.0 Part II
Generation 2.0 Part III