I look at Maya's fabric and hair generation, and although it could use for some improvement, it does not seem to be as dire an issue as Dean Macri seems to make it out to be. What I really want to know is how different what Dean is talking about is from what Maya does? It seems to me (and this is just from a dabbling with it) that they both use a particles system with similar, if not exact, systems for the rendering of such objects. I must be missing something, but it seems to me that the fabric modules for current modeling programs (which seems more than adequate) could simply be slid under the hood into a game engine. I agree with Dean in that we do not have the power as of yet to make this practical in our low-power/low-bandwidth society, but I disagree in that his approach does not appear to be as revolutionary as I read it to be. And, IMHO, the math isn't terribly difficult. It's high school Calculus, first semester even. It's probably my ignorance and not his. Afterall, he works at Intel (laughs to self).
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Collin (Rafajafar) C**** (like I would give out my name on/. )
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I look at Maya's fabric and hair generation, and although it could use for some improvement, it does not seem to be as dire an issue as Dean Macri seems to make it out to be. What I really want to know is how different what Dean is talking about is from what Maya does? It seems to me (and this is just from a dabbling with it) that they both use a particles system with similar, if not exact, systems for the rendering of such objects. I must be missing something, but it seems to me that the fabric modules for current modeling programs (which seems more than adequate) could simply be slid under the hood into a game engine. I agree with Dean in that we do not have the power as of yet to make this practical in our low-power/low-bandwidth society, but I disagree in that his approach does not appear to be as revolutionary as I read it to be. And, IMHO, the math isn't terribly difficult. It's high school Calculus, first semester even. It's probably my ignorance and not his. Afterall, he works at Intel (laughs to self). /. )
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Collin (Rafajafar) C**** (like I would give out my name on
Macs are anything but efficient.