Nightshade
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Welcome to my ModDB profile page. My name is Martin and I'm a Technical Artist (TA) from Stockholm, Sweden. I started out my career in game development as a 3D Artist in late 2010, working with art production on a wide range of different platforms (PC, Xbox 360, PS3, iOS, Android). As a Tech Artist I work in the twilight zone between Programming and Art. Responsibilities involves things like: Tools development, Improving artist workflows, Writing shaders, Rigging, Research & Development, Prototyping, Technical Writing (Documentation), Teaching artists and probably most importantly: design as well as maintain new or existing pipelines. Currently I am working at King - an Activision-Blizzard division.
Nightshade Materializer is a Maya tool for managing and working with scene materials. It's a Swiss Army Knife -styled tool with loads of features aimed to make the life easier for the 3D Artist and/or Level Designer working in Maya. It's written entirely in Python using the PyMEL module.
The latest version (currently v1.1) also implements Mental Ray and V-Ray support.