Today I created my first scene from scratch (a very simple one with some primitives and slight modeling), textured the objects, and then rendered it! Very satisfying to do it all. I had considered downloading some cool models online to practice rendering, but then thought it’d be more fulfilling to do it all (even ifContinue reading “Maya Day 3 – my first render!”
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Python Day 58 – more datetime stuffs
I figured out why it wasn’t letting me subtract dates before! It was because one value was a date (year, month, day) and the other value was a date AND time (including hours, mins, seconds). The difference was really between using .datetime and .date. So I just made them both be .datetime and it worked!Continue reading “Python Day 58 – more datetime stuffs”
Maya Day 2 – rendering issue
Today I technically finished the beginner Maya tutorial, however I ran into some issues rendering which I’ll get into later… I learned: When texturing, there are a ton of preset nodes that give you ‘leather’, ‘rock’, etc patterns automatically! That was pretty neat to find. Especially when I was trying to make a leather textureContinue reading “Maya Day 2 – rendering issue”
Python Day 57 – timestamps
Today I continued with the data wrangling and learned about timestamps. I learned: Timestamps are the most basic form of time series data for Pandas. Apparently they’re used in almost all data (usually counting when the data event happened). Their class is a string, however you can convert it to datetime format (so we canContinue reading “Python Day 57 – timestamps”
Maya Day 1 – lighting basics
Today I mostly went over the lighting portion of this wonderful YouTube tutorial. This covered the types of lights and I learned some tricks for getting a cool atmosphere. I learned: For point lights, activate the decay rate (set to quadratic) for more realistic falloff. For sky dome lights (essentially the world color in BlenderContinue reading “Maya Day 1 – lighting basics”
Python Day 56 – regex and datetime
Today I did some more regex crosswords. Still couldn’t figure out the one that stumped me yesterday, although I managed to do a few more until I reached this one which is currently stumping me: So then I moved on into this worksheet for wrangling time series data… I learned: To import datetime. The basicContinue reading “Python Day 56 – regex and datetime”
Maya Day 0 – the what, why, and how
Okay I’ll come clean. This is not my 1st (or 0th) day learning Maya. I’ve been playing around with the software for the past month (spent about 5 hours on it), but from here on out, I want to create a more formalized learning path for myself. Why? Well two main reasons: Firstly, I amContinue reading “Maya Day 0 – the what, why, and how”
Python Day 55 – regex crosswords
At first I thought the regex crosswords problems were way too hard. I had no idea what was going on, but for some reason I kept getting them right. I then realized that it was much simpler than I thought and I was actually thinking about them correctly. I subsequently realized I was doing theContinue reading “Python Day 55 – regex crosswords”
Python Day 54 – intro to regex
Went through some tutorials for regex today… I learned: \d can be used to replace any digit from 0 to 9 . is a wildcard To use normal period. use \. To specify characters use [] ex: [abc]an To match any value that starts with a or b or c, and ends in ‘an’ ToContinue reading “Python Day 54 – intro to regex”
Python Day 53 – Pandas array operators
Update from yesterday’s problem: to take the mean one simply needs to call which column first, for instance data[‘column_name’].mean(). Today… I learned: How to use basic string operators in arrays with pandas. I learned that one just needs to specify a column, and the add the .str attribute to whatever operation they want to do.Continue reading “Python Day 53 – Pandas array operators”