Mirai Resource

I'm going to be adding more stuff here in the near future, hopefully with your help. I might plan on adding a gallery as well. Perhaps someone a little more versed in the history of mirai wouldnt mind writing up a little blurb to tack up here. Anything you want to see here, anything you think other Mirai users will enjoy or benefit from, send it my way. -j

Some Modeling Demonstrations by Bay Raitt
Toon Shading in Mirai by Martin Kroll
Donkey's Snap Map Tutorial, also available in [PDF]
Izware's Site has some great PDF's and Quicktime movies on these topics...
Martin's Mirai Learning Area
Modeling Yoda's Head in Mirai by Ken Brilliant
Some very basic course notes @ scope.edu
A great head modeling tutorial by Martin Kroll
Izware's Site has some great PDF's and Quicktime movies on these topics...
- Texturing Characters Using Alpha Channel Blending
- Animating with Mirai's Programming Operations
- Picking Up Objects
- Animating Maps
- Creating Realistic Eyes
- Clouds
- Animating the Camera
- Using Soft Deformers
- Using Displacements with Wires
- Importing and Exporting in the .OBJ Format (??? Missing, anyone have it?)
- Using the Call Script Operation
- Light Attenuation
- Wire Basics
Tamás Varga's Subdivision Resource is Mirai-centric.
NICHIMEN_P=T The 1-1-0-1 Evironment Variable
okay, this is cool... setting this variable (control panel>system>advanced>environment settings) will give you access to some of the features that weren't enabled yet for the 1.1 release. Check out this thread from the board to see what new features people have found.

Some plugins by Mike Flemming hosted @ edgeloop.com.
- Struts
- Planter
- Mirror Skin
- Loop Edge
- Merge-Region Hotkey
Plugins direct from IZware's Site.
- Property Editor 1.0.0.9
- Texture Plug-In Utility 1.0.0.6
- Snap Map 1.0.0.8
- Map per Face 1.0.0.5
- Adobe Plug-In - This plug-in adds support for reading and writing Mirai format images (.mir and .tpx) in various Adobe Products
NOTE: I'd like to host ANY plugins here, so if you have any, or know how or who... let me know.

Here are some tools for modeling in other packages after Mirai has spoiled you...
- MeshTools for 3D Studio Max by László Sebõ (note that alot of these tools have been incorporated into Max 5...)
- MJPolyTools for Max and Maya by Mikkel Jans
- CPS, Connect Poly Shape by Dirk Bialluch

N-World PDF's. Some pdf tutorials from Nichimen's N-World, a bit outdated, but alot of the operations still apply to Mirai.
Symbolic's S-Products, Mirai's Roots
Nendo & LiveArt Workshop, um... okay.
Mirai on the Playstation 2!
Nendo on the Nintendo 64!

IZware's official Bulletin Board, this is the place for Mirai info & support.
Bay Raitt's Spiraloid Forums are a great place to discuss your work, digital sculpting & more with other artists.
Mirai Forum @ cgchat.com, hosted by Martin Kroll

Bay Raitt
Martin Kroll (ambient-whisper)
Eric J. Maki (mucky_wet_noodle)
Jason Perry (jasper)
Igor Posavec
Boyd Lake (hawkr)
Ken Brilliant
Paolo Piselli (PaoloMP)

If you're a mirai user not listed, and would like to add your website or email to this list, or if you are listed here and don't want to be, let me know.