Too Many Ideas - Posts Tagged ‘Tutorial’
Fixing the Little Things
Monday, February 5th, 2007Just been fixing niggly little errors around my impworks web site. Putting permanant redirects into files that had moved from the old site back last year but which were now showing up in google’s web masters tools. The number of badly written tutorials and sites about using htaccess redirects amazes me. It’s not a hard […]
One year of Too Many Ideas
Monday, January 29th, 2007Just noticed this blog was a whole year old last week. So here’s a round up of projects started and progress so far. Serious and Organised / Men of Action / The ABC System: system written needs play testing. Arædan: Originally called Untitled Fantasy #1. In need of editing. The Seer: About 50% written and […]
Object Sequence Importer Version 0.2.4
Sunday, December 17th, 2006Object 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 […]
Keyboard Burning
Wednesday, July 5th, 2006I’ve done so much typing today my keyboard should be smoking in the heat. I only stopped during the torrential thunderstorm that hit this afternoon. Couple of thousand words on a short story / novella, a rework of an old article that I’m going to serialise here on my blog for the next few months, […]
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: 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 […]
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 […]