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The Prestige

Monday, August 13th, 2007

Don’t ask me why but yesterday I washed all the less used pots, pans, storage containers, utensils and other kitchen stuff. I didn’t intend to but cleaning one pot I needed spiraled into a serious cleaning thing. After that I just wanted to relax and so I stuck on a DVD. I picked up The […]

Mass Convert 0.5.1. and Vue 6 Infinite build 291551

Sunday, July 22nd, 2007

E-on have updated Vue 6’s python in release 291551 so that it now produces little preview images of objects exported to their Vob file format using the default preview camera position and settings. Which sounds a bit dull but it does mean that users of my Mass Convert script will now get preview pictures of […]

Live Free or Die Hard aka Die Hard 4.0

Friday, July 6th, 2007

It’s been twelve years since we last saw John McClane. Now thanks to an interesting new application of the delete key by a group of bad guys who don’t seem to do things the simple way when there is a complicated way to do it, he’s back in action. This is the kind of popcorn […]

Thursday Thirteen #15 / Post 500

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

My Thursday Thirteen this week happens to coincide with my 500th post to this blog so I thought I’d combine the two events. Here are 13 posts from the 500 posts by Mark Caldwell about having Too Many Ideas… My First Post which isn’t particularly exciting: Staring at a Blank Page. Favourite picture: A reed […]

300

Friday, March 30th, 2007

Went to see 300 a couple of days ago. I enjoyed it and was surprised because it was less styalised than I’d expected from some of the reviews I’d read. It’s success shows Gladiator wasn’t a one off revival of the epic. I did find it a little uncomfortable in places with the violence a […]

Thursday Thirteen #1

Thursday, March 15th, 2007

Thirteen Things random things about Mark Caldwell 1… I remember far too many useless facts for my own good but can’t remember a thing if I’m on a quiz team. 2… Being in high up places doesn’t bother me. My fear is unsteady high places I may fall off. 3… I’ve just joined the moderating […]

Cop Night #3

Thursday, February 22nd, 2007

More robbers than Cops tonight really. Just finished watching The League of Gentlemen which arrived from Amazon today. Not the situation comedy but the film from 1960 that the series took its name from in which Jack Hawkins and a hand picked crew of ex soldiers stage a bank robbery. The focus is on the […]

By Permission of Heaven – The Story of the Great Fire of London

Thursday, February 1st, 2007

Just finished reading Adrian Tinniswood’s history of the great fire of London, By Permission of Heaven published by Pimlico. Came across it in a discount book shop but I’d have been happy to have paid full price. It’s starts with a fascinating day by day account of the fire itself and then moves onto the […]

Object Sequence Importer Version 0.2.4

Sunday, December 17th, 2006

Object Sequence Importer Instructions for version 0.2.4 Tested using Vue 5 Infinite 5.11-02 and Vue 6 Pre Release build 288741 What is it? The object sequence loader is a script that loads a sequence of 3d model files in a format Vue can import (obj, vob, 3ds, lwo, shd, cob and some other formats) How […]

Punching Holes in the Sky

Friday, December 1st, 2006

[I’ve added an updated version of this tutorial to my site: Punching Holes in the Sky] Controlling Godrays in Vue 6 Sunbeams, called Godrays by e-on, are one of the new features in Vue 6. They appear when heavy clouds break up the light coming from the sun light source. The atmosphere must be a […]

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