I have a quick post about the Birmingham Rare expanision site that I am currently at.

http://www.itv.com/central-west/gaming-innovation83379/http://www.itv.com/central-west/gaming-
innovation83379/

I have moved here for a couple of weeks now, and I like it a lot

Due to recent spam user registering , I have decided to close “anyone can register” scheme for my site.

Some automated complete utter crap user names and email address were used to auto register to my site in hoping to …who knows what…

Anyway, if you are a real person who are affected by this decision and got your account removed, then please let me know.

Also if you wish to register to my site from now on, you must contact me first with your details. Then I will set you up with account.

I have not updated my blog for a while and that is because I was really really busy and part of my laziness.

It is at the of Mar 2010 already and I thought I will post a quick thing or two about what is going on.

As far as tools updates go, nothing much new here. One good news is that UV Autoratio tool that I was initially involved in making are selling is going to be used by Blizzard team! Who would have known some little idea to grow this far and used by so many famous big game and film studios all over the world! Check out
www.renderheads.com

My birthday was few days ago, and I thought this time I will treat myself with something and I bought Razer Mamba mouse! This crazy mouse has over the top 56000 DPI! Wow… check it out!

http://eu.razerzone.com/gaming-mice/razer-mamba/

Auto uv mapper has been updated to version 1.02 Enjoy!

Cas autoUnfold UV mapping tool version 1.02

version 1.0.2
Date : 6th Jan 2010

Maximum Relax number has increased to 200 by the requests. Please becareful using high number of iterations and undo.

More clear button name for shell and Selected.

Relax Whole Shell = relaxes uv shell that belongs to the current selection. So even if you select just one face/uv etc of that uvshell it will work on that whole uvshell.

Relax Selected Components = perform relax on the selected components only. This is the same as Relax Whole Shell if your selection is the shell itself.

When I was in the university in South Africa, one day, my car was broken in by two guys along the road near the university.

Security guy came to me and told me that they have caught the guys trying to steal the car red handed while they were going on about it inside my car. For that I had to go to the court one day to testify few things. So I went.

Upon arrival, I found myself inside a small court room with judge and the two guys who were supposed to be the accused of attempt to steal my car. My testimony was simple and it only took 5 mins.

After about 30mins into the proceeding a large table was brought inside the room and on top of it were many items like laptop computers and clothes books etc. They were stuffs stolen from the other victims around the university. From there on, they were asked one by one whether the item on the table did belong to them or not.

You can obviously guess that the things became a bit of comedy when the items like pents , glasses were asked and put them on to prove that the items were indeed theirs.

It was only almost at the end , when a small thin green book was held high and asked if it was theirs. They replied without hesitation “Yes”. But alas, it was an ID book…..!

An ID Book…. of someone else.

The court had 15 mins break after that and we all went outside to have a giggle. I just can’t forget that day. It was so funny.

Update of Cas auto UV mapper to 1.01 released!

Undo options are now saved and restored upon closing. (Thanks Destro for makeing me keep looking for the solution)

Windows UI does not relaunch itself when it already exists

Enjoy!

Update:

version 1.0 has finally been released! Nothing much as been changed since released candidate D so , if you don’t want to bother, then you don’t need this version.

check out the autouvmapper page for full description!

http://www.castorlee.com/maya-tools/auto-uv-mapper

Update : thanks for all the help guys, this tool is now at release candidate D and if there are no more major bugs, I will release version 1.0 officially at the end of this week.

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At last, version 1.0 is upon us and I have been working for few days to get this sorted out.

If you like, here is chance to try version 1.0_beta testing version before they get released to the other portal sites.

As I have said before, from version 1.0 all you have to do is run the installer to get everything setup.

then in Maya just run mel command :

Cas_APU;

before you install this version please delete all files related to the old version.

If you find any bug or suggestions, please let me know.

You will still need to install python win32com extension if you want to use save photoshop path function, but if you have done it already, then you are ok.

Cas_autoUnfold-1.0-Setup_beta.zip

I am going to make a video tutorial for all new functions I have introduced in this version soon. But feel free to experiment with the new tools and let me know what you guys think. Also contact me if you find them difficult to understand how to use them.

Version 0.43 now supports most of other known Maya 2008 and 2009 versions.

Maya 2008, Maya 2008 extension 1 , Maya 2008 2008 extension 2 , and all corresponding x64 versions

Maya 2009, Maya 2009 service pack 1 , Maya 2009 service pack 1a , and all corresponding x64 versions

- Minor update with few issues about Roadkill.exe location.
- Minor UI issue fixed (too short on some other language windows)
- Fixed issue with ABF and LSCM function distorts uvs for very small objects or scene with millimeter unit settings.
- Fixed Major bug with ABF and LSCM not working with non default uvset.
- Better Maya version check and support : Maya 2009 service pack 1 , Maya 2009 service pack 1a , and Maya 2008 extension 1 and all their corresponding 64bit versions.

Coming soon:

version 1.00

Belt mapping (this is cool)
Match UV along U or V direction
Photoshop Path export support for 64bit version of Maya
UI update
Installer ?

I welcome any suggestions or feature requests!