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Web Hosting Tutorial Choose a Good Web Host

Submitted 10 July 2009

You have an idea what web hosting is now, and has decided which web server platform to build your website, but there are so many web hosting provider out there, how do I know which is a good, friendly and reliable provider that is suitable for me ?...

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Using Comparison Operators

Submitted 28 April 2008

I'm not sure exactly why this is true; I think it's related to the way the English language is spoken. (Normally, we say, "If I had five dollars, I'd buy some milk," instead of, "If five dollars had I, I'd buy some milk," even though both are correct.)

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Falling leaves with nCloth and Paint Effects

Submitted 22 October 2008

With nCloth, Maya users finally have a simple method for handling falling leaves. One can also easily attach leaves to branches and have the attachments broken by windforces by using nCloth constraints with glue strength. The basic workflow is very simple. Make a paint effects tree, convert it to poly, select the leaves and make nCloth. What follows is a more detailed tutorial.

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Using the Arithmetic Operators

Submitted 28 April 2008

When an exponentiation operator is employed, the base value (the value to the left of the **) is the number to be repeatedly multiplied. The number to the right, called the exponent, is the number of times the multiplication is to be performed. Here are some other simple examples of the exponentiation operator

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UV smoothing in Maya

Submitted 22 October 2008

There has been discussion again on Maya highend3d mailing list about the UV distortion caused by polygon smoothing in Maya. I have been working on this problem and devising solutions for a recent production, and as it's hard to explain verbally in a reasonably short email I thought it would be best to sum it up in some tutorial.

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Interchangeability of Strings and Numeric Values

Submitted 28 April 2008

As you've seen, you can use a scalar variable to store a character string, an integer, or a floating-point value. In scalar variables, a value that was assigned as a string can be used as an integer whenever it makes sense to do so, and vice versa.

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Rotating Wheels on a Car

Submitted 13 October 2008

I created this tutorial for use in my classes and most of my students found them to be helpful. I now decided to submit it to be published on the web hoping it can help others as well.

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Making of Varga In MAYA

Submitted 25 June 2008

I will summarize the workflow I used for one of my characters with lots of images and some print-screens directly from the applications used (Maya/Mudbox/Photoshop, etc ...), also at the end I will provide some info about tangent space normal maps so you could think of this tutorial as primarily normal mapping related stuff.

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Cat Scratching Post - Do You Need One?

Submitted 14 May 2008

You could make a scratching post from a log or similar but there are so many available on the market which are quite inexpensive, that you're sure to find something suitable. Of course, you could always buy a tree in a pot, if you have the room for it and if you can anchor it to the floor or wall so that it doesn't fall over when the cat stretches against it.

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