Photoshop Quick Masking

To quickly mask a bunch of renders using a mask pass in photoshop:

• Group all your passes together
• Apply a mask to the group
• Click on the mask and go to channels, there is now a group mask channel there
• Go back to your layers and copy the mask pass 
• Go to the channels and paste your mask pass into the group mask channel

Portfolio 3 Researching

The workflow i'm thinking of doing goes like this:

• User creates floorplan of city in black and white

• Using the texture to geometry function in maya I create a plane with topology reflective of image

• Then using the displacement to geometry function I bring out each block to create the bounding boxes for each building

• From here I extract out each building from the mesh (only the buildings are raised in Y, can use that to find a way to extract just the buildings)
• I now have a bounding box for each building
• I pull from a library of modular assets and create each building within the bounding box 
• Each one consisting of the main walls, awnings, stairways, decorations, etc

Tree Script Revisit

Tree Script Outline

• newfile()
• windowUI()
• Window has trunk scale already set to 1
• Start
• Uses scale for cube
• Draw trunk
• Update Window w/ attributes
• On scale change, redraw trunk
• Draw first level branches
• 1/4 scale of trunk
• Each has controller on end
• Scale attribute on it
• Taper/etc on too
• Draw next level of branches (Button 'New Branch Level')
• If first level hasn't been snapped, Snap first level to trunk 
• When button is pressed for a third, fourth, fifth etc level of branches:
• Array of previous list of branches will be used to snap to
• Find closest previous branch from list
• Leaves
• Clean up scene 

      UI Mock-Up: