Tuesday 6 May 2008 - Filed under Others
Inspired by this blog entry: http://impossiblearts.com/blog/2008/05/06/bernhard-kerschbaumer-3d-portfolio-reel/
I was trying very hard to find Papervision’s traces but couldn’t then I realised this is a portfolio of a 3d guy not a 3d portfolio.
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Wednesday 23 April 2008 - Filed under Experimental
In Papervision3D, all classes that extend DisplayObject3D inherit its lookAt function. But the problem is the result of A.lookAt(B) sometimes ends up as A back facing B. This problem is more obvious when you want to rotate a plane to face the camera. The plane becomes invisible because it’s back facing the camera. If you set the material to double-sided, the material is mirrored which is not acceptable in some cases.
To work around the problem without touching 3D rotations, you can create an empty object3D as C and place it along vector BA and call A.lookAt(C). Vector BA can be calculated as {A.x-B.x, A.y-B.y, A.z-B.z} and the position for C should be {BA.x*1.1+A.x, BA.y*1.1+A.y, BA.z*1.1+A.z}. The number 1.1 is just an arbitrary number. Any number greater than 1 will do the trick.
I’ve done this piece of ugly thing as a demonstration and the source is here.
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Wednesday 23 April 2008 - Filed under Experimental
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Tuesday 22 April 2008 - Filed under Others
Recently, my hatred against Flash websites (and other non-HTML websites, Silverlight in this case) came back. I know I shouldn’t blame the platform, rather I should blame the users.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/serverunleashed/default.html
Why is this website in Flash? Why is there a robot? Yes, geeks like robots but they are not 5 year old kids. An acrobatic robot won’t convince them the OS is good. A simple HTML page with big tables and numbers is a lot more erotic.
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Thursday 10 April 2008 - Filed under Tools
I’ve made this little AIR application to generate asdoc commands. It’s in BETA 2 now. Not sure whether I should work on it further more because I’d like to keep it simple. The project is hosted here. Please help to report any bugs/issues at the issues page.
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Thursday 10 April 2008 - Filed under Others
This is not news any more. Apple bundled Safari 3.1 together with iTune update and it’s a big concern for its ethics and potential security risks. I was just wondering, if Safari 3 happens to bring PC some serious virus, is it Microsoft’s fault or Apple’s?
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Wednesday 9 April 2008 - Filed under Others
Back in 2006, I encountered a strange problem with mc_tween2. mc_tween2.as was unable to be #included. In the end, I just re-saved the file in my system and it worked. Today I encountered the same problem with the as2 version of Tweener. The compiler keeps giving me “Equations.as not found” error. I did the same trick as for mc_tween2. I opened Equations.as file, key in some spaces at the end of the file, resaved it and it worked. I guess it’s a PC/Mac or PC/Linux file format issue.
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Wednesday 9 April 2008 - Filed under Tools
Mac: “Hello, I’m a Mac.”
PC: “And I’m a PC.”
Mac: “Hi PC, what are these Thumb.db files for?”
PC: “Give me a minute. Let me figure out where these ._DS_Store files are from first.”
Use this PC batch file to remove all of them.
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Tuesday 18 March 2008 - Filed under Others
From 2005 to 2008, from Flash 7 to flash 9, from 2D to 3D, it’s quite some journey.
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Wednesday 5 March 2008 - Filed under Others
Why they release at the same time? Coincidence? I’ve been reading Godfather recently. I think it was pure “business”.
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