mattestela

Amazing discord community

Realised I haven't made a post here for a while, I'd say the biggest thing of note since last writing here is how the discord has taken off. I mainly use the discord to occasionally text chat, post...

More tops

Been on a tops spree at work last few weeks, have gone from seething hatred to quite enjoying it. Lots of rough edges still, but has definitely enabled me to get a LOT of work done that would have ...

New job, new focus! Git and Hda's

Hey all,

As you probably heard by now I've taken a new job with Ryot focusing on AR and realtime. I've had to hit the ground running on some areas I wasn't too familiar with, but was probably...

PDG/Tops

My next wave of activity has been around PDG/Tops. We need to get farm support going for our students this year, so I've done a lot of investigations around Tractor support within PDG. 

...

The mandatory update on sales tax

I assume you've all seen this by now, Patreon HQ is sending me increasingly panicky messages to remind you all about this update, so I've copied their form letter and pasted it below as our Patreon...

cgwiki 2.0

Well, probably closer to 5.0 if you look into the full timeline going back to about 2001, but as far as most people know, 2.0.

I installed MediaWiki in 2014, added some plugins and skins sinc...

May updates

Hey all, I don't use this handy post thing enough, time to dust it off and say hi.

So like everyone it's been interesting dealing with all this covid stuff. Our uni got 1 week warning to take...

One more thing...

A few of you have boosted your monthly pledge, which is awesome, but not the point of my twitter post.  To be clear I don't expect my current patreon folk to pay more money, I'm perfectly happ...

Hey hey

Just thought I'd drop you all a quick note. How are you? Yeah? Oh I'm fine, thanks for asking. :)

You might've seen my twitter post poking folk for Patreon support. I noticed I lost a lot of ...

Siggraph 2018

Well that was fun! Amazed that SideFx invited me for a second time, and even more amazed that I got to be part of a panel about the history of Houdini, which is crazy considering how little time I've ...

June update

Hey Patreots (that's a thing right?)

So I'm 4 month into this new teaching thing, still really enjoying it. Interestingly I've noticed my wiki updates slowed once I joined the university. Most of th...

New tiers!

On advice from my legal team (ok, a offhand comment from a friend), I've added $1, $5, $10, $20 tiers. 

There is absolutely no difference between them, no exclusive content, no tshirts, no one-...

Thanks!

Well that was a crazy month. The vex tutorial was pretty popular, I started a new job teaching at the UTS-Animal Logic Academy, and the new discord chat is a winner. Also there was an amazing increase...

Updated discord link

If you use the one in the email link its expired. I updated the post on patreon but it doesn't re-send an email. Ugh, computers.

Anyway, this link should work:

 2018-02-28 23:44:50 +0000 UTC View Post

CGWiki Discord

Ok nerds, come at me:

https://discord.gg/AeFx88f

That's a free-for-all link until I work out how to limit the invites and stu...

Speaking of feedback...

It's pretty simple to make a discord.

I could see the vex tutorial benefiting from us all interacting, would you folk be interested in a private discord? Patreons only, keep it small, I rule it with...

20 days of Vex

Well, 17 and a half at the moment, but thats the plan. 

I had a bit of a chat with Grant Inouye when he became a supporter, talking about how there's a reasonable number of Houdini folk who are...

Blades (last one I swear)

https://twitter.com/thecgwiki/status/960420648097955840

... well, at least until the next one...

Last one, shockwave 3d_2

Aww, little fireballs, cute. :)

Gif preview:

https://twitter.com/thecgwiki/status/960269285003165697...

more 2d pyro examples

Here, while I tidy them up and think of more interesting examples for the wiki. :)

edit

Oh, and the flap one too, forgot that! Tho I think I left all the previous versions in each fil...

Thanks for the feedback!

Lots of responses in comments, private messages, even some people on the q2a site itself, that's a pretty clear 'live the wiki alone'. Done. 

I think a S.O. style site has lots of potential, bu...

Wiki vs stack overflow vs future directions

First of all, I'm amazed at the update in people supporting me; something happened in the last month or two where there's been a tipping point, and growth is starting to get exponential. Don't know if...

Rbd Leaves, Rbd creatures

A work challenge became a fun little diversion, became a super fun time hole. 

I just blatted all this down in the last 2 hours, have a read, let me know if anything isn't clear before I share ...

For loops

An odforce post (and some recent work stuff) led me to look at for loops a bit closer, started to sketch out a longer tutorial.

Still a work in progress, needs more images, more text, more hips. If ...

Back into production for a bit

I've been asked to help out with finishing Peter Rabbit, which is interesting in that I'm running shots (I haven't really run shots in years), and do simulation (I don't really like simulation, and si...

First stream! Sort of!

Nathan contacted me via Twitter, asking if I could help him with a particle droplet problem. The kids were quiet(ish) and I was keen to test the streaming, so thought we'd try a live session. I think ...

stream test 2

test stream

https://go.twitch.tv/cgwiki/

just kicking the tyres on all this stuff (obs, twitch, things), only just noticed that i ...

Twitch stream?

So apparently The Young People are into twitch streams. Along with fidget spinners and 'fast and the furious' films, these are things I don't understand cos I'm old, but I can appreciate others enjoy....

Fake FEM with grains

Been a while since doing anything fun or silly with Houdini (work is keeping me busy with UE4 atm), but made this after some chat in the Houdini Discord chat. I think this might be the worst thing I'v...