Deborah R. Fowler
Misc Resources Overview
Updated on Nov 25 2017Updated on Jan 27 2024
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How to access D Drive on Windows from cmd (if you
use cd and a path it will leave you in C)Order below is SDM / Renderfarm / Linux / OS
commands / Misc
- Problem report? https://scad.freshservice.com/support/tickets
- Being re-routed from SDM? Try using - only available
on campus
- https://sdm.scad.edu/support/
- https://sdm.scad.edu/intranet/student/
- https://sdm.scad.edu/intranet/students/map.php
- https://sdm.scad.edu/intranet/students/schedule.php
- DMC
- Renderfarm Tips
- Renderfarm with Houdini
- Filezilla - video instructions or
written instructions in screen snap below with snap of site
manager
- Linux Quick Guide
- Python
Scripting OS and shutil
- MS-DOS Quick Guide
- ffmpeg tips
- Linkedin Tip - find your alumni - search for the school, click on the school link, go to students & alumni and use "Search this set" with any company name to find connections
- Linkedin Saved? Type in https://www.linkedin.com/feed/saved/
- Instagram uploads from desktop - login in,
inspect page, click the icon that looks like a phone ontop of
a phone, refresh and you are ready to load from desktop
- Creating gifs
in Photoshop (Don't - use webp and ffmpeg instead)
- Delete
spaces in your html (but not in Dreamweaver) -
any editor will allow this using regular expressions
[\r\n]{2,} with \n
- SeaMonkey is a free html editor that is a great tool to deal with webpages or anything you want to make using html. Incredibly easy - just select File->Edit Page and you can use the normal edit mode or html source (under the view menu)
- Screen Capture - Camtasia
is a great screen recorder. You can also use Quicktime on the
macs. Camstudio is available but please compress your files.
- Compressing pdf's. If you take a pdf file into Adobe
Acrobat Pro you can save it as an optimized pdf and this will
reduce the size substantially.
- HDRI - Looking for an HDRI? Here are
a few websites:
- https://www.hdrvault.com/ (Thanks 721-F17)
- https://hdrihaven.com/hdris/ (Thanks 721-F17)
- http://www.openfootage.net/ (Thanks Taylor H.)
- http://www.hdrlabs.com/sibl/archive.html (Thanks Eric S.)
- https://polyhaven.com/hdris
- https://www.hdrvault.com/ (Thanks 721-F17)
- Premiere Pro - Tips - graphics - click to edit select
arrow to move
- VR Viewer (GoPro) http://www.kolor.com/gopro-vr-player/download/
- Windows 10 tips
- if you want to see two things side by side, mouse focus on one, type Windows key and arrows (the arrows between the numpad and keys) left and right and voila! (Thanks Katy-Mack)
- if your graphics card display is not working correctly in your applications after a Windows update
- https://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/force-app-to-use-dedicated-gpu-windows
(Thanks SideFX support)
SIGGRAPH Resources - check these out:
- SIGGRAPH Digital Library
- ACMSIGGRAPH YouTube Channel
- Sign up to be a Student
Volunteer!
- SIGGRAPH
University YouTube Channel including:
- Computer Graphics in general video and slide set available by Mike Bailey.
- An Introduction to OpenGL by Ed Angel of the University of New Mexico and Dave Shreiner of ARM, Inc. with power point here
- An Introduction to WebGL by Ed Angel and Dave Shreiner
VIEW AND FMX conferences in Computer Graphics to
be aware of besides Siggraph and Siggraph Asia are:
- VIEW conference - October - Turin Italy
- VIEW youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChGdAnZQE6UcH_OQ5DNFW_Q
- FMX conference - April - Stuttgart Germany
Also be aware of GDC (Game Development Network) in San
Francisco usually March https://gdconf.com/
Publications/websites you should peruse regularly (some of
my favorites below):