I do also need to do a deep dive into a python tool that was written two years ago for #Maya, that now needs implementing in #Blender Its gonna get wild as the dev who wrote it has since left the company.
Just to add insult to injury, #Maya uses 'map1' as its default, but auto renames to st on #USD export. So whilst exporting alembics from #Blender we then had two UV maps in Maya 'UVMap' and 'map1' when those files ultimately made it to rigging and then down to #Houdini#Solaris we now have 'st' and 'st1'.
Spent friday debugging why mtl.usd wasn't being applied correctly to anim.usd and well it came down to UV names.
Today, I got to work on building the frame for the cockpit itself.
I designed the frame in #Maya and then went out to purchase the lumber. I'm planning to 3D print the dashboard itself, so the lumber part just needed to be the base frame, enough to support the rest without getting in the way. This is what I came up with (along with a representation of the yoke controller).
"Beneath... dense jungle in northern #Guatemala, scientists have discovered 417 cities that date back to circa 1000 BC and that are connected by nearly 110 miles of “superhighways”... “the first freeway system in the world.”
Imagine if all the great #Maya pyramids & temples looked more like this. 🤔 Not just plain grey stone, but covered with elaborate stucco work in vivid colors. ❤️💛💚
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This is one of the layers archaeologists discovered beneath the pyramid at #Copan. 😮 Thanks to being covered for about 1,400 years, it is incredibly well preserved, with stucco and even paint intact. 😱
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This is probably how they all were - brilliant cities, dazzling to behold. 🤯
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. #honduras #archaeology#travelphotography
Blender & Houdini working at the same scale, with Maya being the odd one out. Initially we just scaled everything from Maya down by 0.01... but now that we are writing out USD files its time to bring Maya into the fold so that we can standardise
Guest: #RichardStahlerSholk, a retired Professor of Political Science at Eastern Michigan University, and community activist involved with the School of #Chiapas
MDMRN Twin 1: Are they supposed to be fighting people?
MDMRNia: What's the word for after the world ends?
Me: Post-apocalyptic?
MDMRNia: Yea, that. This video is like that.
I got my book by Giovanni Batz. The book tells the history from the perspective of the Mayan Ixil people. First invasion: the Spanish/Colonia genocide. Second invasion: dispossession of their lands and forced labor for big landowners. Third invasion: the military genocide. And forth invasion: today's extractive global capitalism. Richard Cross has some photographs of the Ixil region while the third invasion was underway. #Guatemala#photography#genocide#Maya#Ixil https://digital-collections.csun.edu/digital/collection/p17169coll1/search/searchterm/Ixil
Caged Bird by Maya Angelou (www.poetryfoundation.org)
My favorite poem, it never fails to choke me up.
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