Steve Patterson

3D modeling, animating, & generalist...ing.

[🇺🇸 💙 DTM Woodworks 💙 🇺🇸 @DTM_Woodworks]

South African forest guard would tell his bosses he slept in the cheetah enclosure. They didn’t believe him and set up a camera…

[Steve Patterson @pixelPackRat]

@AdobeCare @AdobeAE, even with the keyboard shortcut editor, I can't seem to find a way to assign a shortcut to tracking the current mask forward/backward one frame. Is it right in front of me? Sorry if so. :)

[Mark Hamill @MarkHamill]

The Force is strong with this lobsterwoman. 🦞

[Steve Patterson @pixelPackRat]

@ChaosGroup Thanks for your lightning fast resolution, @ChaosGroup! Alexander on your support team helped ID the PATH variable needing an additional "/hostbin" even though it wasn't a zip install. Thanks again!

[Steve Patterson @pixelPackRat]

@ChaosGroup hi! getting this recent error in fully patched VRay and Maya 2020. Any ideas? Is there a Qt lib patch that needs to happen?
The current Qt version (5.12.5) does not match the expected version (5.12.9) ! As a precaution, the V-Ray Frame Buffer will be disabled.

[Steve Patterson @pixelPackRat]

@ChaosGroup Thanks!

[Loek Vugs @LoekVugs]

I had this idea to create a walkcycle with a specific rule. The rule I set up for this animation was to have the whole character consist of just 1 continuous line and to never have the line overlap itself.

[Bobby Chiu @bobbychiu]

Sometimes we need a little extra motivation to get us going! The more you know about what makes you tick, the more productive you can become. Discover what motivates you! #ballpointpendrawing

[Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson]

An overdue reminder of what can happen when you go to the Moon.

[Dr. Haley Wahl @hwahl16]

Even if you’re fully vaccinated, the CDC recommends not asking graduate students how long they have left until they graduate.

[Steve Patterson @pixelPackRat]

And...here's the error that is being thrown:
V-Ray error: Cannot send asset ... Error opening file: [PFileStream::Open] 2: (2) The system cannot find the file specified.

[Steve Patterson @pixelPackRat]

Hey @ChaosGroup! I've been getting this error and googling it has been inconclusive. I think I've discovered that VRay seems to be trying to send parts of an image sequence being used as a texture to render nodes (transfer missing assets enabled) based on the file name. (1/2)

[Steve Patterson @pixelPackRat]

"image.###.jpg", "image.##.jpg", etc., resulting in thrown errors on any image sequence being used to render. The sequence will still render, but with lots of thrown errors. Any ideas on how to fix it? Something I'm missing, or something else?
Using VRay 5.0.22 (hotfix 2)

[Steve Patterson @pixelPackRat]

For example, an image sequence is named: "image.#####.jpg". VRay seems to be trying to send images that aren't part of the sequence to the render nodes. Specifically, VRay is trying to send lower-digit counts to the nodes, for example, it tries "image.####.jpg", (2/3)

[Steve Patterson @pixelPackRat]

@physicsJ Couldn't agree more! Different tools for different jobs :)

[Steve Patterson @pixelPackRat]

@physicsJ lots of physics tools would be available to you, as would natural 3D space (not 2.5D). Also, you'd be able to take advantage of modern day GPU benefits.

[Steve Patterson @pixelPackRat]

@physicsJ Ah, I see. Sadly, you're going to hit that computational wall with AE. As you said, it may be worth looking at how things can be done differently to save you time moving forward. I'd imagine a 3D app of choice paired with Unity would be ideal dev tools for you.