jonadb
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RE: The MCG Thread: Post Tools, Compounds and questions here!

denisT: what was happened? where are new-cool-useful-helpful-engraved MCG toys? is the clown dead? The party has moved to the MCG Facebook gro…

10 years ago
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RE: The MCG Thread: Post Tools, Compounds and questions here!

I think we’ve stopped trying to sell it to you and Denis some time ago, it’s like performing a play while being live critiqued by Waldorf and Statler

10 years ago
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RE: The MCG Thread: Post Tools, Compounds and questions here!

you can replace the Map with a parallelMap to make it multithreaded, should speed it up a bit. but the combineAllMeshes is the resources hog here, th…

10 years ago
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RE: The MCG Thread: Post Tools, Compounds and questions here!

When you package a graph it becomes a fully self contained unit containing all the dependencies, 1 file file for user to install. You can give a pack…

10 years ago
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RE: The MCG Thread: Post Tools, Compounds and questions here!

denisT: is it available for everyone or just exclusively for MCG followers? It’s a MCG feature, not supported in mxs. Embree is on github so if …

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RE: The MCG Thread: Post Tools, Compounds and questions here!

All MCG is 2016, I’ll ask if all nodes are somehow directly available in mxs. Technically speaking it shouldn’t be an issue… they are all dotnet func…

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RE: The MCG Thread: Post Tools, Compounds and questions here!

Yeah it is! And you can publish mxs functions using MCG as well, you can wire some basic Embree building blocks together and use it like that. Here…

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RE: The MCG Thread: Post Tools, Compounds and questions here!

Yes of coarse! But there is not always time for that, I’m a generalist and half the tools I make I use maybe a few times on specific projects so I jus…

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RE: The MCG Thread: Post Tools, Compounds and questions here!

Here’s an old example I did during beta, it does volumetric calculations based on the amount of length a ray spends inside a mesh while traveling from…

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RE: The MCG Thread: Post Tools, Compounds and questions here!

That ‘transform mesh’ compound probably had a non-parallel map in it somewhere, so there you can gain some speed. And the combineAllmeshes node is a …

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RE: The MCG Thread: Post Tools, Compounds and questions here!

This doesn’t really sounds like a tool you’d use mcg for.

10 years ago
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RE: The MCG Thread: Post Tools, Compounds and questions here!

it’s not better or worse, it’s just a different set of tools to get the job done. as selling points I would say: -better performance then mxs (multi…

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RE: The MCG Thread: Post Tools, Compounds and questions here!

This is an unpacked graph, those compounds can come from anywhere so abs is allright here. Packed will not have this.

10 years ago
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RE: The MCG Thread: Post Tools, Compounds and questions here!

You guys sounds like old people yelling how maps are so much better then those GPS devices that never work

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RE: The MCG Thread: Post Tools, Compounds and questions here!

Here’s the ms from a simple twist modifier I just made: plugin simpleMeshMod test name:”test” classID:#(0x3401A356, 0x5D09D7FF) category:”Max…

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