Month: April 2008

Ubercart – Themeing product pages

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I found a nice tutorial about how to theme your product pages in Ubercart. In Ubercart it’s easy to get basic product pages, but to make them look unique requires a bit more finesse. Here’s the post from the forum: http://www.ubercart.org/forum/development/3868/nifty_products_tutorial_part_1 And while we’re talking about themes, this seems to be a nice module for … Read more

Camera Tracking with Blender

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Ever wonder how to make it look like a 3D object is moving in relation to a moving camera? For the effect I’m talking about, have a look at this: http://3d-synthesis.com/movies/Lincoln_1961_02.mov The car on the left is created in Blender, the car on the right is real. To make 3D generated objects look like they’re … Read more

Video Editing – Adobe Premiere, vs Final Cut, vs Avid, vs Vegas Pro

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I’ve been looking around at upgrading my video editing software, and found this discussion here, and because of this decided to stay with Adobe Premiere Pro CS3: http://www.wwug.com/cgi-bin/readwholethread.fcgi?forum=adobe_premiere&post=070426024433.htm&toppostid=31752 I have access to Final Cut Pro, and Sony Vegas Video, but because of the integration with other CS3 apps and high degree of features, I think … Read more

Open Source e-Commerce – Magento vs. Ubercart

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To my eyes, the most promising open source e-Commerce platforms I’ve seen lately are Ubercart and Magento. We’re actually currently using Ubercart here as I write this, for this very site! Ubercart is actually a module for Drupal (a powerful content managment system). Drupal has another e-Commerce module… Drupal e-Commerce (yes, not very imaginitive, I … Read more

3D Flash Game Example

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Here is an example of a 3D Flash game, that uses Away3D: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/427278 If you use the arrow keys while making your character jump by clicking with the mouse, you can get some Matrix style turns. 😉

3D Animation in Flash

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Want to do 3D in Flash? There are 3 basic ways to get 3D animation in Flash.

Methods:

  1. You can export video (or a series of images) from your 3D program, and import it into Flash. These would be basically a series of raster images (i.e. bitmaps) in Flash, that look like 3D.
  2. You can use some type of export from a 3D program that renders directly as a vector object in Flash. This would be similar to method 1, except that it would be in a Vector format instead of raster.

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