Archive for May, 2006

Mark came out really boring but my surname gave me this…

Now that is cool

Edit: 5 years on is a bit broken

I’d never have guessed the Bank of England was so big. Just shows what you can hide underground if you dig a big enough hole.

See: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4987016.stm

I’ve just uploaded the latest version of VueDynamics with added particle emitting capabilities. Particles can be subjected to the same forces as objects could in previous versions. Tha basic Vue objects are available as particles. They can be given a maximum age and set to be destroyed if they pass below infinite plains with the names water or ground. Destroyed particles are recycled to save system resources.

Download VueDynamics0_3.zip

If you need help with using python scripts in Vue 5 Infinite I’ve written a tutorial – Vue Python for Beginners.

Edit June 5th 2006: I’ve released an updated version 0.3.1 that fixes a few minor issues I found in this version. There is a demo of a roman candle made with it too.

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Almost midnight and I’ve been so busy I almost forgot to post.

Fingers crossed I’ll have a new version of VueDynamics to release tommorrow with basic particle support. The code is almost finished, just needs checking, documentation and tidying up a bit.

Other than that a quiet day of household chores, a little Civ 4 and watching "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" which I really enjoyed.

Left my PC on overnight rendering a new version of animated fog made with VueDynamics. Increased the number of sheres from 400 to 600 and added a drift from left to right to the random walk animation with spin on the spheres. Also tried a heavier standard Vue fog in the atmosphere to fade the trees in the background more.

New Mill in the Fog Animation (232KBytes DivX format)

The mill is from the Fairytale Places set from Daz.

The post with the original animation can be found:
http://impworks.blogspot.com/2006/05/v5i-animated-fog.html

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Having spent the evening learning wxPython so I can add GUIs to my Python scripts I have very little of interest to report so I thought I do a quick little round up of some of other peoples Vue tutorials, competitions and freebies.

Silverblade has an excellent tutorial on making nebulas for space scenes.
http://www.silverblades-suitcase.com/vue_tutorials/tutorial7.html
and released some interesting materials

http://www.silverblades-suitcase.com/vue_mats/vue_materials.htm

An interesting thread on Cornucopia 3D about making a section through a landscape

http://www.cornucopia3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2130

A detailed model of a barbed wire fence from garyandcatherine
http://market.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2648724

Andrew Yaple released a beta of a Leaf bed
http://www.cornucopia3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2161 and Free bamboo stick http://www.cornucopia3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2151

Captain Marlowe released a selection of free models
http://www.cornucopia3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2091

Vue 3D Environment Competition 2006 sponsored by e-on

I’ve sent Arædan off to a few friends to see what they think. I’m off to hide in a corner now…

I couldn’t get a connection to the Internet tonight. If someone had told me in 1989 that two hours without an Internet connection would ruin an evening I’d have laughed at them. Back in 1989 I’d seen a variety of blocky, slow, precursors to the WWW and none of them was going to set the world on fire. Now I can’t get a connection and I’m trying to figure out what to do instead. It didn’t help that I knew there were e-mails I wanted to reply to and some polishing on my website I wanted to get done.

It’s madness I tell you. All of it. Madness.

Here is my first stab at animated fog using VueDynamics. 400 spheres with a transmap texture and a random walk animation with spin.

Mill in the Fog Animation (500KBytes DivX format)

The mill is from the Fairytale Places set from Daz.