Thanks very much for this Justin, I had seen the Tim Withers demo, which was excellent. In fact, I saw a friend of mine had posted on there when he was getting to grips with this process, so I am playing catch up to try and get up to speed. The link to the github repo is very welcome and I expect to be digesting it (slowly) at some point, though I may save it until I have a better grasp of pythons drawing abilities. Currently, I am using Python to resolve tool requirements for two or three apps, but the studio uses 3ds Max , which Autodesk is trying to implement Python with, but the studio is using Blur Python, which has some odd issues and is largely unsupported. Much preferable to work with Python and Maya as they seem well seated together, so the development I am doing is taking place before work, in lunch hours and spare hours at home. I am confident I will get there, as mentioned, the cmiVFX videos have been an enormous help and feedback like this from artists such as yourself is also very much appreciated.
Thanks again and good luck in future work, I look forward to seeing what new stuff is coming from the site and yourself. On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 8:37 PM, Justin Israel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey there, > > Have you come across this yet from an earlier post? > http://vimeo.com/40380911 > > Tim Withers did a node based interface in Qt to control particle sims. I > had helped him along with it as part of his masters thesis. It uses svg for > the node graphics. And he posted the source here: > https://github.com/drumboy354/MayaNodeInterface > > Getting into QGraphics is probably the second hardest part of Qt, next to > the model/view system. But it has a lot of concepts you probably already > know like the transforms and scene graph. The painting and parent child > bounds stuff can be a little tricky though. Eventually it clicks though and > ends up being pretty fast. > On 22/07/2014 2:10 AM, "Credible Mulk" <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi Justin, I have been developing my Python alongside the CMX videos I >> have purchased (Awesome by the way!) and I am progressing well. I am >> starting to get to grips with the draw features from some other tutorials, >> but they can be somewhat sparse on examples. I would like to ask if you >> could give me a pointer towards the learning that will allow me to create a >> node based interface using custom or predefined SVG elements. I want to >> create a system, (unsure of what yet) that will give the end user an >> interface and ability like that of the following: >> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3rWOXgZ3qI >> >> I am slightly running before I can walk here, but some reference would be >> helpful for future developments. >> >> Many thanks and thanks for the work put into the educational videos, they >> have been excellent value for money. I am still working my way through the >> rigging ones as well. 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