Kodde’s humus.name cube map pack

I decided to download all environments from humus.name to make a nice cube map pack. I command line processed each and every one of them to a 1024px (at mip lvl 0), pre-blurred the mips (by mip initial filter angle …

TGA Physically Based Shader

A Physically Based Lighting CGFX real-time shader for Maya which was originally created to be used by our students at The Game Assembly for their 3D game projects. This shader uses a few different textures which differ from the traditional …

MayaToCubeMapGen Script

This project initially began with the urge to try out the QT implementation of Maya, specifically using the bundled QT Designer application in Maya 2012. I came up with the idea of simplifying and speeding up the process of rendering …

KoddeShader 2.0

A CGFX real-time shader for Maya to reproduce a “game like” look.

Highlight Features

• 2-pass Transparency support (support for Specular and Reflections on transparent surfaces)
• Fresnel based Specularity and Reflections
• Gloss based Cube Map Mip Level modulation (For blurring, etc)

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Maya + Xbox 360 controller = Fun!

Here are some of the most fun projects I have worked with in Maya. The actual setup is achieved with the “ControllerServer” application by Dave More. What it does is read the input from the Xbox360 controller and …

Stylistic CGFX Shader

What started out as an idea to blend a crosshatch pattern ended up a bit more fancy

Features

• Light based Crosshatch Texture, controlled through a ramp texture.
• Diffuse Warp through ramp texture.
• Light based Hue Shift.
• Diffuse map
• Specular with

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Various Smaller Shader Projects

This post features a few smaller shader projects I’ve created. I figured these could be nice to show as well but I grouped them together as this one post as they are not that grand on their own.

The first …

EyeShaderSimple

A CGFX real-time shader for Maya to reproduce a “game like” look.

Features

• Phong Shading
• 3 Directional Lights
• Diffuse Map
• Specular with Specular Map option
• Gloss Factor with Gloss Map option
• Tangent Space Normal Map
• Reflections using Cube Map with

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KoddeShader

A CGFX real-time shader for Maya to reproduce a “game like” look.

Features

• Phong Shading
• 3 Directional Lights,4 Point Lights and 4 Spotlights.
• Diffuse Map.
• Transparency using Diffuse Map’s alpha channel. Thank you Ryan Burke.
• Specular with Specular Map option.

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ExperimentalEyeShader

An experimental real-time eye shader which allows custom dilation animations based on a mask texture.

Features

• Custom adaptable dilation animation based on mask texture.
• Mask Normal Map Border to create illusion of thickness.
• Animated glow effect

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