Category: "Maya"
Creating multiple masks with Renderman
This tip describes how to create multiple masks with Renderman. This technique comes to expand the simple RGBA as masks technique. The problem with masks is usually anti-aliasing. If you use an object channel, it can only have a discreet value for each pixel, meaning that each pixel can hold only one object id value (as demonstrated in the image below,) and this means no anti-aliasing.
Dynamic UI in Maya using Python
In a recent job, I needed to create a dynamic user interface in Maya. I don't really like MEL, so I decided to go with Python. This was the first time I really used Python for anything.
One of the reasons I don't like MEL, is it kind of forces you to use global variables (using local ones becomes a pain if not impossible at some point.)
So, on I went and wrote something like this:
