At GDC 2013 I spoke at the “Natural, Intuitive, and Immersive Gaming With Intel Perceptual Computing” and Intel Booth introducing the emerging field of Physical Technical Art, an area that focuses on human-computer, human-human interactions and physical workflows during game development and play. One of the main interaction devices that I spoke about in my talk was …
Shift dragging files into Maya 2012 can be a risky business; it turns out that it will delete your file. So if you are after new ways of off-loading some of those pesky files that clutter your hard-drive simply shift drag them into Maya and all your dreams will come true. This works for even …
In this multi-part tutorial we’ll be covering two main areas, embedding .Net forms within Maya and extracting Maya UI components and embedding them within your .Net dialogs. To get this to work we will be exploiting the windows messaging system and as a result, this will only work on Windows based systems. This technique is …
This is a compilation of some of the Maya tools I have created and was able to show. 3dsMax reel still to come. If you want more details, check out the video tags.
When I was working on my last tutorial I came across an interesting issue with the Qt UI. I went through all the elements using windows modifier and notices a number of elements that appear to be dupes. For starters we have a duplicated Display Bar?? And you can see on the right that the …
