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		<title>Wacom Intous 4 (small) vs. Bamboo</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:24:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of months ago I purchased a Wacom Bamboo Tablet because my older one was falling appart. I chose the cheapest model, without touch and other fancy stuff. I was pretty satisfied with this, but I was missing the express keys and the eraser on the back of the pen. Therefore I decided to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=baltazaar.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3040385&amp;post=246&amp;subd=baltazaar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Final Gather with Mental Ray (Maya)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 17:35:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My last post described the GI indirect lighting method that uses photons to create the secondary lighting. Another way to achieve indirect lighting is with Final Gather, that in contrast to GI looks at the information in the regular direct light and based on that it sends out Final Gather Points. These points land where [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=baltazaar.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3040385&amp;post=244&amp;subd=baltazaar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Global Illumination in Mental Ray Part 1 (Maya 2012)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 15:54:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Direct light is the light we see in our scene without Global Illumination turned on. GI will trace the light and make it bounce between surfaces to give a more real-life light behavior. The thing that makes GI work is the use of light photons that is emitted from the light source and travel through [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=baltazaar.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3040385&amp;post=241&amp;subd=baltazaar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Setting up Mental Ray Satellite with Windows slave and Mac OS X host</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know why, but every time I have to set up Mental Ray between different platforms I always stumble some before everything works perfect. Today I configured my quad core Windows computer to do the chewing when rendering from my MacBook Pro laptop. This is a super-simple setup, but somehow it wasn&#8217;t all click [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=baltazaar.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3040385&amp;post=236&amp;subd=baltazaar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to stop Maya from asking for network connection (OS X)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:05:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For some reason, Maya isn&#8217;t allowed to receive network connections without manually letting it by choosing &#8220;Allow&#8221; or &#8220;Deny&#8221; in the firewall pop up message. Even if it is listed as &#8220;Allow&#8221; in the firewall preferences, it asks again every time. I&#8217;m not sure whats causing this behavior, but it sure is annoying. Finally I found [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=baltazaar.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3040385&amp;post=228&amp;subd=baltazaar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Python scripting in Maya week 2</title>
		<link>http://baltazaar.wordpress.com/2011/10/24/python-scripting-in-maya-week-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 23:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What I forgot to tell you in the last post is how to actually execute the code in the script editor. To keep the code you&#8217;ve written, select the text first, then press ctrl+enter. This executes the code, but does not clear the editor. Just a little tip. Let&#8217;s get on with Python in Maya! [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=baltazaar.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3040385&amp;post=226&amp;subd=baltazaar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>First post about Python scripting in Maya</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:41:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Baltazaar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the first post in a planned series of posts about Python scripting in Autodesk Maya. Don&#8217;t expect this to turn you into a pro or something, this is something I do to learn the material better myself. I don&#8217;t know about your experience with Python, but this is not meant to be a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=baltazaar.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3040385&amp;post=220&amp;subd=baltazaar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scripting Maya with Python</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 23:08:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the introduction to a series of small tutorials I&#8217;m going to make while learning to use Python in Maya. I always learn stuff better if I try to teach what I learn to others while doing it. Maybe someone out there will find use for my experiences! To start with I want to explain why [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=baltazaar.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3040385&amp;post=213&amp;subd=baltazaar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Easy way to get Apache and MOD_WSGI working on OS X</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 13:40:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Baltazaar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve fooled around with some Python Web-frameworks lately, and maybe someone would care to know that you don&#8217;t have to install MAMP or XXAMP or whatever they are called, because as you probably already know, OS X does have Apache 2 Server already installed, just waiting to be configured to your needs. Off course, it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=baltazaar.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3040385&amp;post=210&amp;subd=baltazaar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Useful search commands in GNU/Linux</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jul 2011 13:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finding commands and stuff in Linux: which &#60;command&#62; Lists the first occurrence of the &#60;command&#62; whereis &#60;command&#62; Lists all occurrences of &#60;command&#62; locate &#60;command&#62; Lists all that contains the word apropos &#60;command&#62; Search man page descriptions for &#60;*command*&#62; whatis &#60;command&#62; Search man pages description for &#60;command&#62; (sudo) find / -name &#60;command&#62; Searches entire filesystem for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=baltazaar.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3040385&amp;post=202&amp;subd=baltazaar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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