My apology if this is Off Topic.

I noticed that Disney recently released the texture mapping system/API they used in movies like 'Bolt' and 'Meet the Robinsons' as Open Source.
I'm not trying to request a feature as much as wonder what it all means.


Some links:
http://ptex.us/
http://www.disneyanimation.com/library/ptex/
http://www.disneyanimation.com/library/ptex/ptex-slides.pdf
http://ptex.us/apidocs/index.html

This is one of those things that I wonder if splines would work better than what they originally designed it for with polys.

looks like am paint

Its not a paint program, although its used by some of them.
Its a system for organizing, distributing and storing textures and applying them to a surface that can be painted.

I think its more akin to Baking Textures.
(and because I'm likely wrong in this assessment... I'm askin'. )

Here's a movie/turnaround of some textured objects (looks kind of like Dusan Kastelic's work in A:M):

http://www.disneyanimation.com/library/pte...xTurntables.mov

looks like a nice system. It looks like creating Auto-UV tiles, without the problems that you get from mip-mapping

It sounds like auto tiling with maybe some extra information on each tile so it knows what the adjacent tiles are and so the renderer can regard them as a continuous surface when it needs to.

But I just looked through their pdf slide set... they don't seem to be solving many problems that aren't already solved in A:M's manner of dealing with the same thing, no?

I'm liking what little could be seen from the interface on the youtube video. It appears that the tool puts a nice user-friendly interface to the process of flattening, painting, texturing etc. Having little enough experience in doing comparable steps in A:M, I can't/won't speak too much to whether it's better or worse, but it does seem like it makes the process eassier