Note about xxxx xxx? Xxxx. xxxxx. xxxx. xxxxx.

RULE 41A:

• Example Film:Rule43A
• Example Film:Rule43A: Characters

Add youtube to pages:

You tube table code to add to posts and pages:

addYoutubeTable.txt

addYoutubeTable_oneblank.txt

Blank table of contents:

CONTENTS Heading 1 Subheading Subheading Subheading Heading 2 Heading 3 Heading 4 Subheading

MORE

1. Remove the YOUTUBE GALLERY plugin that you installed. It works with YouTube playlists which are just frustrating. You should be instead adding the youtube videos one by one, and inside tables. Whatever reason that isn’t working needs to be solved.
2. TODOLIST:
   1. When logged in, it should show links to TO DO LIST and ADD NEW POST but otherwise it shouldnt show them
3. 21STEPS PANEL:
   1. Add the 21STEPS yellow panel to the ARCHIVE page and the SEARCH page
   2. DESIGN the 21STEPS panel. It should have ‘iclone2unreal workflow 21 steps’ at the top. And each step should have a photorealistic icon not a cartoon icon, it’s confusing.
4. LINKS:
   1. Add “quick css class” to WordPress editor at top, so you can change class of links. Ideally – depending on class – this would automatically add an image to the start or end of the link, and change the bg color, etc. Maybe change the color of the link too.
      1. Step link: have a step icon then the page, background yellow
      2. internal link – article or ‘people/companies’ icon then light blue bg of link
      3. external link: gray everything, with external page icon at end
5. VIDEO GALLERY:
   1. Maybe quickly made a mockup of what you want it to end up looking like, then try to get a plugin to match that. 
   2. I want to be able to have multiple youtube previews in each row – so three columns.
      Maybe a wordpress plugin that manages that?
      Good page that needs it is here:
      https://virtualfilmer.com/using-maya-for-simulation-fire-smoke-dust-etc/

      I need the small thumbnail, the title, the author, and the date it was posted – all visible. And the link needs to open a new window.

      https://total-soft.com/wp-video-gallery/

6. SEARCH:
   1. The Ajax search at the top, when you search for water, should start with the Step that it pertains to:
      STEP#18: Add VFX
      Then have the other results:
      People&Companies: xxxx
      Article: xxxx
      Article: xxx
      But maybe it should be icons instead of “article”? Like the document icon? And for people and companies it should be an icon of a person and a building?
   2. The search page should say “this is xxxx.php” for logged-in users
   3. The search results page is too spaced out and the titles are really difficult to read – they are green on darker green
7. RULE33A:
   1. Add ‘rule33a’ to top menu. Have it link to a post that says it’s the example film that shows the iclone2film workflow. Then you can watch it, watch the behind the scenes, or step through how it was made by scrolling down. It shows the idea and then the characters etc. Then sub-pages have detail on each step for the film.
8. SITEMAP:
   1. There should be a SITEMAP page that automatically goes through and shows every page and every post that exists, sorted by category

YouTube Playlists for iClone2Unreal website:

MAYA SIMULATION

Using Maya for Simulation (Fire, Smoke, Dust, etc)

Playlist is HERE on youtube

CREATING NON-HUMAN CHARACTERS

STEP #02E: Create creatures, animals, robots, insects etc

Playlist is HERE on youtube

NIAGARA EFFECTS IN UE
iClone2Unreal_Niagara
https://virtualfilmer.com/niagara-the-unreal-vfx-system/
Playlist is HERE on youtube

HOUDINI SIMULATION
iClone2Unreal_HoudiniSimulation

Using Houdini for Simulation (Fire, Smoke, Dust, water, etc)

Playlist is HERE on youtube

MAKE FOOTPATHS WALKING TRAILS
iClone2Unreal_MakeFootpathsWalkingTrails
Playlist is HERE on youtube

UDRAPER
Playlist is HERE.

EMBERGEN
iClone2Unreal_Embergen

Embergen software for fluid, fire and smoke simulation

Playlist is HERE on youtube

MARVELOUS DESIGNER
iClone2Unreal_MarvelousDesigner
Playlist is HERE on youtube

MESH TO METAHUMANS
iClone2Unreal_MeshToMetaHumans
Playlist is HERE on youtube

CHAOS CLOTH EDITOR
iClone2Unreal_ChaosClothEditor
Playlist is HERE on youtube

UE5 SHORT FILMS
iClone2Unreal_UE5ShortFilms
Playlist is HERE on youtube

FLUID FLUX plugin
iClone2Unreal_FluidFluxplugin
Playlist is HERE on youtube

MATT WORKMAN METAHUMAN CLOTHING
iClone2Unreal_MattWorkmanMHClothing
Playlist is HERE on youtube

METAHUMAN CREATOR
iClone2Unreal_MHCreator
Playlist is HERE on youtube

CUSTOMIZE METAHUMAN TEXTURES
iClone2Unreal_CustomizeMHTextures
Playlist is HERE on youtube

CONVERT CUSTOM MODEL TO CC CHARACTER
iClone2Unreal_ConvertCustomModelToCCCharacter

STEP #02B Create Human Character with Character Creator

Playlist is HERE on youtube

CUSTOM HEADS WITH ZBRUSH AND CHARACTER CREATOR
iClone2Unreal_CustomHeadsZbrushCC

STEP #02C Create Human Character with ZBrush and Character Creator

Playlist is HERE on youtube

ADD THIS STUFF

UE FELLOWSHIP COURSE

Epic Games Launched a Free Unreal Fellowship: Animation Course

https://80.lv/articles/epic-games-launched-a-free-unreal-fellowship-animation-course/

FredNilsson (@Fredrik Nilsson) posted: Interested in learning more about animating in Unreal? Our currently active Animation Fellowship courses are now available and new videos will be dropping in every week until the end of this month. These will only be available for a limited time!!

https://t.co/4IWWukxKF8 https://x.com/frednilsson/status/1701996168065191971?s=51&t=O6qZEATxTI8ijndeM9fcTg

STYLIZE CHAR SHADER

Setting Up a Stylized Character Shader With Unreal Engine 5
https://80.lv/articles/setting-up-a-stylized-character-shader-with-unreal-engine-5/

ROKOKO VP

Setting up Virtual Production in Rokoko Studio – Rokoko
https://support.rokoko.com/hc/en-us/articles/18316035716113-Setting-up-Virtual-Production-in-Rokoko-Studio

UNREAL DIRECTIVE

Unreal Engine Resource Collection
https://www.unrealdirective.com/resource-collection

OVERAL VIRTUAL FILMMAKING PROCESS

MH ANIMATOR

RETARGETING IN UE

UE 5.3 DISPLACEMENT

Sarkamari – using displacement in UE 5.3, sept 23

m3rddev video on 5.3 displacement

UE5.3 VBS

winbush – how to enable & render vdb path tracer in UE5.3

STYLIZED CHARACTERS

QUESTIONS

Why Maya and zbrush and marvelous designer and embergen and fluid flux and even iClone and character creator “necessary”? Why can the free products not do?

NERFS VS SPLAT

bilawalsidhu (@Bilawal Sidhu) posted: Played with @LumaLabsAI web GUI – drop in a video sequence, get back a pretty sweet #NeRF! Probably the most accessible way to harness neural 3D representations rn. If you desire more control; local training + inference – check out @nerfstudioteam or #InstantNGP. Quick A vs. B  https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1592176688842289153?s=51&t=O6qZEATxTI8ijndeM9fcTg

bilawalsidhu (@Bilawal Sidhu) posted: If you want a visual comparison to NeRFs — here’s the same dataset (334 photos) processed with Luma AI and Instant NGP: https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1703972305053811130?s=51&t=O6qZEATxTI8ijndeM9fcTg

bilawalsidhu (@Bilawal Sidhu) posted: 3D scanning and rendering is moving so fast – got my splats up and running and I’m mind blown getting ~100fps for this complex 3D scene  

1. WAY faster than NeRF: For comparison, NeRFs would takes around 10 seconds per frame (!) Instead I’m zipping around with FPV controls… https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1703950467607249173?s=51&t=O6qZEATxTI8ijndeM9fcTg

SIMULON

diveshnaidoo (@Divesh Naidoo) posted: Excited to share a new @Simulon workflow video, showcasing real-time environment meshing, multi-surface object placement and persistent AR – allowing you to save & revisit 3D scenes in the real world 

Beginning with a cloud-rendered sequence, we then break down the process. https://x.com/diveshnaidoo/status/1703836197833801744?s=51&t=O6qZEATxTI8ijndeM9fcTg

CHAOS CLOTH

Yokohara_h (@Hirokazu Yokohara) posted: UE5.3のNew chaos cloth editor使った布シミュレーション続き。衝突にSkinned Level Setっていう実験機能があったので試した。いつもはカプセル系しか使ってなかったけどこれはスケルタルメッシュが形状どおりコリジョンするっぽい。今のところめちゃくちゃ重いのと使い方が正しいかはわからないけど https://x.com/yokohara_h/status/1703350283697614983?s=51&t=O6qZEATxTI8ijndeM9fcTg

CLOTHING GENERAL

HOUDINI REALISTIC RIVER

Learn How to Set Up a Realistic River in Houdini With This Tutorial

https://80.lv/articles/learn-how-to-set-up-a-realistic-river-in-houdini-with-this-tutorial/

MORE THINGS TO ADD

“Heygen” video translate with mouth change

3dscanstore

ActionVFX launches free Practice Footage Library | CG Channel
https://www.cgchannel.com/2023/10/actionvfx-launches-free-practice-footage-library/

Boonika Art Tools launches AAA Terrains and Erosion Mixer | CG Channel
https://www.cgchannel.com/2023/09/boonika-art-tools-launches-aaa-terrains-and-erosion-mixer/

AlexandreDevaux (@Alexandre Devaux) posted: 3D Gaussian Splatting is really impressive 
Pushing some test here with 25 photos as input and only 10000 iterations.
Hair, eyelashes are incomparable to photogrammetry.
I’ll bench against NeRF a bit more in detail soon! https://x.com/alexandredevaux/status/1707365670596284857?s=51&t=O6qZEATxTI8ijndeM9fcTg

ADD STORYBOARDER