Too Many Ideas - Archive for the ‘3d’ Category
V5I: Using Eco To CSV / CSV to Eco
Tuesday, July 4th, 2006A minor update to last nights scripts to make them more useful (they now allow instances to be deleted) and some basic instructions on using them. Download: ecocsv.zip (5Kbyte Zip Archive) This file includes two python files ecotocsv.py and csvtoeco.py. An ecosystem consists of a number of instances of the objects that make it up. […]
V5I: Eco To CSV / CSV to Eco
Monday, July 3rd, 2006Two free Python script for Vue 5 Infinite tonight. ecotocsv.py saves a selected EcoSystem as a CSV file that can be edited in most spreadsheet packages. The other, csvtoeco.py, loads the edited csv file back into Vue modifying the instances with any changes you made in the CSV. Download: ecocsv.zip (3Kbyte Zip Archive)
V5I: Bifurcated Lava Flow
Thursday, June 29th, 2006An updated version of this article is now available on my website at Creating a Bifurcated Lava Flow in Vue Infinite. After more experimentation I’ve finally achieved a Bifurcated Lava Flow in Vue 5 Infinite that I’m happy with. To make this I first looked at some maps of Bifurcated flows. I then drew a […]
V5I: EcoSystem to Objects Python Script
Thursday, June 29th, 2006A little python script that will place a cube at the same location as each instance in an EcoSystem. It gives each cube the same rotation as the instance. It also scales it by the same scale factor in each direction as the instance. There is an additional parameter to allow the scaling to be […]
Vue Python for Beginners Updated
Tuesday, June 27th, 2006I’ve spent the evening updating my Vue Python for Beginners tutorial. What started as a few minor tweaks turned into a major reorganisation but hopefully it was worth the effort.
V5I: Bifurcated Lava Flow (Almost)
Monday, June 19th, 2006An updated version of this article is now available on my website at Creating a Bifurcated Lava Flow in Vue Infinite. I’ve been trying to make a better Lava flow in Vue tonight. I wanted a less rectangular shape preferably with some bifurcation. Not quite there yet but getting better.
V5I: Lava Flow
Sunday, June 18th, 2006An updated version of this article is now available on my website at Creating a Bifurcated Lava Flow in Vue Infinite. I’m working on a picture of a volcanic eruption. The explosion part is coming on well, the smoke not so well. Today though I wanted to get something that might be a lava flow […]
V5I: Progressive Drop Python Script
Saturday, June 17th, 2006I wanted to create a heap of objects for a picture today but Vue’s drop puts all the selected objects on the same level. I could have selected and dropped each one by hand but that would have been laborious and I was feeling lazy so I created a Python script to do the hard […]
V5I: Colourful Roman Candle
Friday, June 9th, 2006A couple of people have said they would like to see a more colourful Roman Candle made using VueDynamics Animation: romancandle3b.avi (509Kbyte DivX)
Fire, Brimstone but No Smoke
Wednesday, June 7th, 2006Been trying to build a volcanic eruption in Vue. I’ve managed to get a passable magma burst but smoke is proving somewhat harder to get a nice effect for. It’s rather annoying as in places the smoke looks really good but when it thins out a bit its obvious how its made and the whole […]