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End User Event 2013

Artur Leão — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 23:39:38 +0000

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It’s that time of the year… End User Event 2013 is up and it is going to be AWESOME! Wanna have your head spin around? Just check the speakers they’ve announced up until now:

David Baker, maxplugins
Eric de Broche, Luxigon
Hristo Velev, Velev FX
Japser Brekelmans, Motek (Brekel)
Jochem Aarts, Realizm
Klaas Nienhuis, DPI
Michele Bousquet, Auteur
Paul Neale, Pen Productions
Vlado, ChaosGroup
Wayne Robson… And these are just the first 10… more surprises to come soon!

Now head to official website and fill the registration form and I’ll see you there! http://enduserevent.com/

PS – We should start to take some local beverages from the country we live…. just saying!

Tell us what you think!

Artur Leão — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 18:37:31 +0000

Hi everyone, long time no see!

We want to prepare some promo stuff and we need your help! Send us some quotes, images, videos, whatever you want and have regarding our products, iDevCam, mr Manager and iRay Manager. Send it over to info@youcandoitvfx.com

Cheers!

END USER EVENT 2012

Artur Leão — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 12:16:08 +0000

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Well, I could be writing all about what I think the EUE is but I advise you to nr. 1, watch the video, nr. 2, read this:

If you are wondering what EUE is all about, check this quote from Zap Andersson, which says it all
“Don’t you wish Siggraph was 250 of your best buddies, held in a pub, and had none of the commercial stuff, but all of the talks?
Then you wish you were here ”

And now you should go at the official website and fill the registration form and I’ll see you there! http://enduserevent.com/

iDev View – R&D

Artur Leão — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 22:59:15 +0000

Hi! Have a look at what’s keeping me busy lately! I’m still not sure where to go from here! Keep in touch

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Don’t forget to share the love!

Super sale!

Artur Leão — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:00:37 +0000

Yeap, that is correct! We’re doing a super sale until March 04 where iDevcam costs only $0.99! If this campaign goes well, be sure to see some more in the future! Crazy stuff going on in here!

Materials to layers

Artur Leão — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:25:14 +0000

Hi guys and gals, long time no see! Been busy with things but I havent forgot that this is the place to share some free stuff! Well this still isn’t that WOW post I had in mind but I bet it will be of use to some of you, I know it has been for me!

This script allows you to load a material library and apply one material to all the objects in a specific layer! I have this script written for a some time so it’s methods are not the most up-to-date techniques but I think you can still learn something from the code, if you are a Maxscript newbie. I’ve strictly used .NET forms and controls to do this GUI, so you can try to learn some of it, also how to add event handlers on buttons and such. When I wrote this I tried to comment the code so it could be readable so I hope that helps out too. Big thanks to Bobo for the rendering material snippet code.

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Jamie’s Jewels

Artur Leão — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:06:13 +0000

Hi guys, I’d just like to share with you two articles I’ve wrote recently for Jamie’s Jewels blog. Jamie has been very helpfull and supportive so big THANKS to Jamie!

The latest article is about mr Options Manager, check it out here: http://jamiesjewels.typepad.com/jamies_jewels/2011/12/3ds-max-and-a-mental-ray-options-tool.html

The other one is on iRay Manager: http://jamiesjewels.typepad.com/jamies_jewels/2011/11/iray-manager-for-3ds-max-by-artur-leao.html

I hope you enjoy it and make sure you follow Jamie’s blog, it’s a great resource for 3dsmax users!

So… what’s up Doc?!

Artur Leão — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 11:34:09 +0000

Hi everyone! I’ve been quiet but also very busy and I’d like to show you guys what I’ve been doing…. Hope you like it!

Yep, that’s it! This is the next update for iDevCam 1.5, free for existing users! Which by now has the following updates:

- Control 3dsmax playback directly on iDevCam (Go to Start, Previous Frame, Play/Stop, Next Frame, Go to End)

- Enable/disable extending the timeline when recording

- Filtering the iDevice movement, Raw (which is the default and the only one present in iDevCam 1.0), High (implements an High Pass Filter), Low (implements a Low Pass Filter, basicaly smooths out the movement)

- Locks, now you can move the camera in all axis, two axis at a time

- Adjust the frequency the data is transmitted

- More to come!

Well, hope this turns out a good update and that you all like it! Cheers and keep in touch! Don’t forget to e-mail me what you’ve been doing with iDevCam!

iDevCam is out!

Artur Leão — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 21:36:49 +0000

Yeah! It’s true! iDevCam has been out for 3 days now and I must admit that I had no idea that it was going to have such an impact! But I’m glad it did!

I hope you guys are enjoying it also and I’d like to ask to anyone that does some cool stuff using iDevCam to please let me know! Also if you have any feature requests, find bugs or whatever e-mail me at info@youcandoitvfx.com

Well, I’m gonna get back to coding and see you guys soon

Cheers,
Artur Leão

Second (actually third) real post! – Archive & Upload

Artur Leão — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 23:39:29 +0000

Hi everyone, as promised, here’s the first free thingie… actually I hope to make this section not only for free stuff but also for stuff where you can learn something about it, that’s why all the scripts I’ll post here are not being encrypted or anything like that and if I post more stuff here other than scripts, they’ll be free too, I love free stuff, free software, free learning! YEAH Most part of my knowledge was acquired by learning from what others posted, wrote on their blogs, etc, so I hope to be up to that and give back.

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So… let’s get back to what really matters, this script I’ve gave it the artistic name of “Archive & Upload” … since it archives (using max default archive method) and uploads the scene to an FTP… So why I’m I posting this first? Well, because I wrote it to help someone on CGTalk so nothing more appropriate
This might come as a handy tool for you but you are starting to learn Maxscript take a look at the code where you can learn some cool stuff, both Maxscript and Dotnet.

On the Maxscript part, the most interesting thing in the script is the saving and loading settings from an INI file. On the Dotnet part, lot’s of stuff going on there, I would recommend bookmarking both Maxscript and MSDN online help.

First I’ve used System.Security.Cryptography.SymmetricAlgorithm that represents a class to create a Rijndael algorithm which I’ve used to encrypt and decrypt the password text field that goes into the INI file, we wouldn’t want to save passwords in plain text, right Sony?

Each function uses some more Dotnet magic that I’ll skip explaining step-by-step in this post, but if you take a look at the Create Method example of the System.Security.Cryptography.SymmetricAlgorithm page it helps for sure.

Right, next step System.Net.WebClient, this provides methods to get/send data to HTTP or FTP and since we want to upload a file to an FTP, this is the way to go. After creating the System.Net.WebClient class, we need to connect the event handlers from the class to our Maxscript functions that will handle that job, how do we do that? Simple using dotnet.addEventHandler, here’s the code used in the script:

dotnet.addEventHandler webClient “UploadProgressChanged” UploadProgressChanged
dotnet.addEventHandler webClient “UploadFileCompleted” UploadFileCompleted

We’re using the first method to update our progress bar and the second method to check if the upload was completed successfully. How to actually upload? Using the UploadFileAsync method from the System.Net.WebClient class, why are we using the UploadFileAsync instead of the UploadFile? Because that way 3ds Max thread won’t freeze and we can continue working happilly while the file gets transfered.

theRemote=theFTP+theFile+”.zip”

theUri=dotnetObject “System.Uri” theRemote

webClient.Credentials = dotnetObject “System.Net.NetworkCredential” theUsername thePassword

webClient.UploadFileAsync theUri theZip

Right, first we create the full path to where we are uploading, containing the string entered in the FTP textbox plus the filename of the archive, we then need to convert that into an URI and then, since we are uploading to an FTP, we need proper credentials to connect to the host, so we set the Credentials properties of the System.Net.WebClient class using a System.Net.NetworkCredential followed by our username and password and then… and then… and then…. (I love Dude where’s my car) just upload using UploadFileAsync!

That’s about it, I hope the code isn’t to messy for you and remember Maxscript and MSDN help are your friends! If you made it till here… YOU ARE COOL!

Artur Leão