Damien BATAILLE

25 years, French

Phone : + 33 6 84 17 36 78

Mail: deex@deex.info

URL: http://deex.info/

Lighting TD |  LookDev TD | Pre-compositing.

Passionate and curious, I am looking for opportunities to improve skills and expand professional network.

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Experiences ::

Feature film :

Commercial :

• Franck Provost

Full detail by date :

Softwares ::

I work mainly on Linux and windows.

Degrees ::

Work Placement at Def2shoot.

Diploma in computer graphics and 3D animation ArtFx.

Bac STI Génie Electrotechnique.

Other ::

Hobbies: BMX, film, internet, computer and console hack, traveling (lived 10 years in Réunion island, travels in USA and Canada), photography (see my website)…

Languages :

- French : native
- English : proficient

Recommendations ::

What is deeXVrayFast ?

Deex Vray Fast is a tool which help the user to work quickly and easily with Vray For Maya.

Features :

• Set the quality automatically with one slider (image sampler quality, GI quality, etc etc…)
• All qualities are controled by presets
• 2 DeeX presets builded by default (for exterior and interior)
• Edit/delete/save/share your presets qualities with all users
• Lock an attribute and the tool will keep the user value
• Optimization chooser : choose what do you want to control (Image sampler, irradiance map, light cache, system, etc etc…)
• Optimization chooser : add differente quality for each render option (Image sampler, irradiance map, light cache, system, etc etc…)
• Change resolution in one click (quality is linked to resolution)
• Fast control : choose the best « combo » for GI, quickly control the rendering options (Motion blur, displacement, ambient occlusion, DOF, etc etc…)
• PreComp : Vray To Nuke : generate automatic preCompositing Nuke files
• Tool : import multiple proxies in one click
• Tool : connect automatically all shaders to proxies materials (correspondence between proxy slot name and shader name. Work with name space/references)
• Tool : convert all (or selection) your textures into tiled exr. Color space for each texture is preserved automatically.
• Tool : automatic Material ID and Object ID generation
• API : control the tool without the interface
• Update your tool in one click
• Auto update check every 15 days

Deex Vray Fast is free

Install and start the tool :

Download the zip file, unzip and copy all files in your Maya Python path.

This tool work for Linux and Windows.

Maya 2011/2012

After in Maya, in the script editor, execute :

import deeXVrayFast
reload(deeXVrayFast)
deeXVrayFast.deeXVrayFastUI()

API :

See the documentation here : click here

History :

v0.7v0.65v0.6v0.552007


Bug Fix  : fix the fast control UI
Bug Fix  : fix the vraySettings lockNode
Bug Fix  : fix add material ID on all materials button
Modified : use hashlib module and remove deprecated md5 module
Features : add a full API to use the tool without interface
           doc here : http://deex.info/deeXVrayFast/doc/html/
Features : add auto update checker (each 15 days)
Features : add automatic preCompositing generator for Nuke

Modified : shader auto connect : shader must have the same name like the
slot name
Modified : image resolution slider removed
Features : add API to use the tool without interface
import deeXVrayFast
deeXVrayFast.deeXVrayFastUtils(quality = 10, preset = "deeX_exterior",
saveSettings = True)
Will set the quality to 10 with preset deeX_exterior, saveSettings before
deeXVrayFast.deeXVrayFastUtils(backSettings = True)
Will reset your setting
Features : add automatic multimatte ID generation on material ID
Features : object ID tool. Generate objectID automatically on mesh.
The generated ID is unique, based of the md5 of the name of the mesh.
Name space is supported.
Bug Fix  : fix the UI resize
Bug Fix  : fix material ID on selection 
Features : you can "dock" the window
Features : UI optimization
Features : material ID tool. Generate materialID automatically.
The generated color is unique, based of the md5
of the name of the shader or shading engine.
Name space is supported. 
Bug fix : skip locked attributes on "back to my saved settings"
Bug fix : found the correct VRAY_TOOLS environment
Bug fix : interface : correct fast control GI menu
Features : textures to tiled exr, add revert option 

December 2007/Janvier 2008: Commercial for “Citroën C4 Picasso” at Def2shoot.

November 2007: Work on the clip for Gulia (Lighting, rendering)

October 2007: Work on a feature animation (Yona) in Def2shoot.

2004-2007: Student at the School of digital special effects Artfx

Screenshots :

Why donate ?

Donations are a great way to show your appreciation for my work. Besides being an incredible boost to my morale, they help me pay for hosting and are also a great incentive to fix any bug you find in my tool and to add new features. I work on Deex Vray Fast in my free time. You don’t need a PayPal account to donate.

Total donations to date : €0 EUR

Requests/bugs ?

Send me an email or write a comment.

Deex.

The scene :
A chair, with 5 shaders (red, blue, yellow, green, white).

UVs :

We have 5 shaders, so, we must set all UV in 5 « UV space » in the same UVset. See the image, you will understand :

To move you uv, you can use this mel :

polyEditUV -u 0 -v -1 for UV space U 0 and V -1 (red here)

If you want move you UV like « blue » space, you must select your UV and write : polyEditUV -u -1 -v -1

Yellow : polyEditUV -u -1 -v 0

etc etc…

After that, combine all meshs in one mesh.

Build your « one » shader :

We will start to merge the « white » shader and the « yellow » shader.

To do this, we use the « blendColor » utility.

When the blender attribut in the blendColor utility is set to 1, we have the color 1. When is set to 0, we have the color 2.

Create a ramp with one white color, and a dark default color.

Now select the « place2dTexture » from your ramp, uncheck wrap U, unckeck wrap V.

In the translate frame attribut, set the same value like you UV space for every shaders.

For example, for the « yellow shader », we set the value to -1 and 0.

When we do this, we have a white color in the -1,  0 UV space, and a black color in other UV space.

Now it is simple, connect the outColorR (or B or G) of the ramp to blender attribut of the blendColors.

And connect the output of the blendColors to a surfaceShader. Apply the surface shader in your object, here, my chair.

If your render your image, you will have this :

So, connect your « yellow » shader in the red slot (color 1) on the blendColor utility.

Now in the blue slot, you will connect and other blendColor utility (blendColor2).

Now we must apply the green shader.

Create a white ramp, default color to black, uncheck wrap U, wrap V, and set the value of the translate frame to 1, -1.

Like before, connect this ramp on the blender attribut of the blendColor2.

In the color 1, connect your green shader.

Your will have this :

Now continu with the same logic on all UV space and you will have this :

Enjoy !

This trick work also for texture map.

Here a test with my shader and the classroom.

Workflow :
- linear
- skyportal
- color bleeding
- exr multichannel with my shaders

Here all pass :

Here the compositing : Beauty = diffuse_level * (diffuse_raw + indirect_post_ao) + refl_result + refr_result + spec_result

Deex Shaders Pack V2

Deex shaders Pack is a collection of shaders with buffers output pass in « one » click for MentalRay. You can output all pass quickly like : diffuse, specular, reflection… This pack is based on the p_shaders from Ledin Pavel aka Puppet. Thank you Pavel. Thank to FEVRIER Dorian for the help for the compilation of the version 2.

In this shaders pack :

Shaders :

- deeX_Buffer_writter :

It is a simple constant/surface shader to build your custom pass if you want !

- deeX_mi_car_paint :

Like mi_car_paint_phen with outputs. You can upgrade your shader to mi_car_paint_phen_x in one click.

- deeX_mi_metallic_paint :

Like mi_metallic_paint with outputs. You can upgrade your shader to mi_metallic_paint_x in one click.

- deeX_mia_material :

Like mia_material_x with outputs. You can upgrade your shader to mia_material_x in one click.

- deeX_misss_fast_shader :

Like misss_fast_shader with outputs. You can upgrade your shader to misss_fast_shader_x in one click. Be careful : do not forget to create/connect your lightmap network !

- deeX_Buffers_pass :

It is the shader for output your pass. Create a « dummy » geometry (like a polygon cube), connect this shader in the transform of your cube —-> mentalray —-> geometry shader.

Version 2 :

- code optimized with the new code of p_shaders from Pavel

- you can save in deex_exr_saver with many compression and nice name in the exr :

-  you can choose virtual buffers :

- you can gamma correct all shaders in one click for linear workflow :

- you can check outputs in one click :

- add 10 extras buffers for all shaders to create mask or other :

- you can check extras buffers in one click :

Version 2.01 :

- fix pass with cutout opacity in deeX_mia_material

- fix error in gamma linear button in deeX_buffers_pass

- add renderLayer overide on the name of the image in the deeX_buffers_pass

- reorder short name of all deex shader

Version 2.02 :

- compile shaders for linux64

Trick :

To convert all mia_material (_x(_passes)) in deex_mia_material :

source AEupgradeMiShader;
string $malistes2[] = `ls -type "mia_material" -type "mia_material_x" -type "mia_material_x_passes" `;

string $montruc;

for ($montruc in $malistes2 )

{

 AEdoMiShaderConversion $montruc deeX_mia_material _deex;

}

Download :

11/04/2010 : actually, this shaders pack is compiled for :

- win64 Maya 2009/2010/2011.

- win32 Maya 2009/2010/2011

- linux64 Maya 2009/2010/2011

Total donations to date : €0 EUR

Here all sources of deex shaders : http://bitbucket.org/narann/deex-shaders-pack/

If someone can compil shaders for Linux, Osx, all maya version, etc etc…now you can. For help for linux and osx version, you can see the make file of p_shaders. Obviously, if someone compil shaders for other platform, share with everyone…

I write this script this night. Ths script generate a Nuke save with all renderElement composited.

Just copy the script in your Python path and write in python mode:

import vrayToNuke;vrayToNuke.DB_vraytonuke()

Voila la sortie d’un outil que j’ai crée depuis quelques jours : Deex Render Booster Tile.

Il permet de rendre une image en « morceau », recoller les partie automatiquement. La révolution est que vous pouvez rendre et découper juste la zone de la ou il y a les objets sélectionnés.

Cliquez sur l’image :