houdini quickie: divide ‘particle fluid surface’ output geometry

The Particle Fluid Surface SOP can create some very messed-up polygons sometimes — it’s well worth triangulating it using (say) a Divide SOP.

(Within Houdini it might not casue problems, but other apps — like Maya — aren’t that tolerant.)

 

git: link local branch to remote branch

git branch --set-upstream master remotes/origin/master

(From here.)

home computer OS update

Did a new install of Ubuntu 10.04 (because of LTS — I don’t want to touch the stuff for several years).

I have nvidia driver version 275.09.07 installed, and I’m having problems constantly. I’ll have to downgrade to an older version (I wish I knew how to find out which one is the most stable).

git: fetch branch from remote repo

git fetch <remote repo> <remote branch>:<local branch to create>

Maya bug: do/while break/continue

Take the following MEL code in Maya:

 
print("one...\n");
do {

print("two...\n");

break;

print("three...\n");
} while(false);

print("four...\n\n");

…and the result is:

one...
two...

instead of the expected

one...
two...
four...

If you replace the break statement with a continue, it gives the correct result.

Found recently after 10+ yrs of working with Maya :)

ubuntu 10.04 install from usb fstab issue

comment out your fake cdrom line from /etc/fstab or the system won’t be able to automount things like usb sticks.

C++ obfuscator

http://www.semdesigns.com/products/obfuscators/CppObfuscationExample.html

What Every Programmer Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic

http://floating-point-gui.de/

quick python rant: subprocess sucks

I mean the subprocess module. Big time. Don’t get me started. :(

Cross-platform subprocess with hidden window

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1016384/cross-platform-subprocess-with-hidden-window