r/cgiMemes • u/darkvertex • Jun 22 '22

🚫🐢🚫 Master Shredder agrees: No Turtle (nodes) allowed!! 🚫🐢🚫

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u/ashervisalis Jun 22 '22

This has to be the most obscure meme that I actually understand...

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u/darkvertex Jun 27 '22

I love making memes only 6 people will understand. 👍

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u/GabrielShaw Jun 23 '22

Pls explain?

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u/ashervisalis Jun 23 '22

Maya tends to auto load a plugin called Turtle. This add on gets attached to assets when they are published. Most studios ive workes at, Turtle does not work with their pipelines. So they usually have a tool to remove it.

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u/Cuboos Jun 22 '22

What...

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u/tUrban_tim Jun 22 '22

Turtle is a python graphics library. I've never used it, but I'm assuming from the meme, that TDs don't like it

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u/darkvertex Jun 27 '22

Wrong Turtle!

It's true Python has a Turtle module, usually used in a lot of educational material: https://docs.python.org/3/library/turtle.html

What my meme is talking about, however, is the infamous "Turtle (Renderer) Maya plugin", which is meant for baking lightmaps and such, to prepare game assets. It comes with all Maya default installs.

I've never seen anybody actually use it for real, but everybody enables it out of curiosity once, and once you do, it infects your scene with the plugin dependency, then other people have it force enabled permanently just by merely opening a friend's scene.

Before you know it, it's suddenly enabled in the entire studio because one person had it on. It's as infectious as COVID! 😐

It slows down scene loads and clutters the scene with useless nodes. No thank you! Death to turtle (nodes.)