People have continously kept asking me how Ive got the effect of rendering a wireframe over the ambient occlusion. and this is what this tutorial is all about.

I recently discovered this not so new software called geoControl which has just come out with version 2.. and has added a bunch of new features. I have seen everything in the software yet. especially the new isolines features, but for the general aspect of terrain generation was quite strong,
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A useful little script for easily converting and replacing your textures to .map files.

A useful little script for showing the index of blendshapes.

A useful little script for assigning a toon based wireframe to selected objects in the scene.
This Scripts is Based of my Rendering Wireframe Using Toon Shader Tutorial

Occlusion is a fast and simple method to simulate the effects of global illumination. Ambient occlusion is most often calculated by casting rays in every direction from the surface. Rays which reach the background or “sky” increase the brightness of the surface, whereas a ray which hits any other object contributes no illumination. As a result, points surrounded by a large amount of geometry are rendered dark, where as points with little geometry on the visible hemisphere appear light. The soft appearance achieved by ambient occlusion alone is similar to the way an object appears on an overcast day. So what basically this shader does is try to re-create the effect of ambient occlussion. It is moderately low on render time, and has significant advantanges in the final look of an image. The mib_amb_occlusion node come with a variety of attributes to customize the final rendered AO image.

A useful little script for giving objects in a maya scene id numbers (miLabel).
Current Version 1.0

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Well yesterday i just updraded my wordress and was searching for some new plugins.. there are always som intersting plugins that come in now and then.. and this time i found this one called FD Word Statistics, well the name is not as fancy as what the plugin is meant to …

I finally managed to get my hands on a trial version of mudbox today morning, and decided to do some stuff so that i could see whats new, or wheater it was worth the hype. Well for the first thing, it doesnt look very different from the last version other …