Jon's blog

Mayaseed 0.1.5 Release

Heres the latest version of Mayaseed, version 0.1.5, a few new features and bug fixes. The main feature this time is the ability to bake maya render nodes to textures for rendering in appleseed, enjoy!

Release notes

  • Added the option to convert maya shading nodes to exr textures
  • Colors are now normalised by default
  • A bug has been fixed that stopped the attribute editor from loading correctly due to a renamed function

Download for all platforms here

Mayaseed 0.1.4 Release

Heres the latest version of Mayaseed, version 0.1.4, this is a minor release fixing a small but that prevented the render from finishing in some scenes.

Release notes

  • A bug has been fixed that prevented the export from finishing due to a missing version string in ms_export.py

Download for all platforms here

Mayaseed 0.1.3 Release

Heres the latest version of Mayaseed, the link to download is below. As it's the first version I will substitute the release notes for a list of the main features.

Main features

  • Node based render settings
  • Create environments with the Appleseed Environment node
  • Automatic texture conversion to EXR
  • Simple Maya file based installer
  • Automatic generic shader translation of maya Lambert, Blinn, Phong and Surface shader
  • Per Maya shader translation attributes
  • Python module of useful commands

Download for all platforms here

Welcome to my blog

Hi there, welcome to my new blog. Its mainly a place for me to talk about Mayaseed and more importantly for me, a place for people to talk back.

So without further ado, Mayseed is an exporter to get your scenes and shaders from Maya into appleeed, I've recently finished rewriting it as a node based plugin and thought that it was time to get organised and make a blog. Like appleseed, Mayaseed is open source and licensed under the MIT licence so feel free to download it and do whatever you like with it. At the moment it's really a hobby but its not far from being usable. As it's a hobby and I'm not a professional developer by any stretch of the imagination there will be bugs and limitations, some of which I know about and will fix and some of which I dont, which is where you come in, if you guys report bugs I can fix them, and then everyone is happy

I will be posting releases on this blog but you can also download the latest version from github here

Also, I have a personal website here for anyone who's interested

www.jonathantopf.com

enjoy!

jt