Uniphonic has just released a new refill: Auditory Vortex – Thor Volume 1. What beter way to ring in the new year, than a new refill for Propellerhead Reason? This killer Refill has over 400 Thor patches and over 170 Combinator patches featuring the Thor synth. 100% of the sounds in the demo song are … Read more
For my Flash projects, I’ve started using a debugger called MonsterDebugger which allows you to debug right from the browser, or if you’re creating an AIR app, right from the app it self. This is great because the default Flash debugger doesn’t allow you to do much if your app is embedded in a CMS … Read more
Ever wondered why your hard drive was so full? Ever wondered what was taking up so much space? Wouldn’t it be great to have a visual representation of all of your files at once? If you said yes to any of those questions, WinDirStat might be just the program you’ve been looking for! WinDirStat can … Read more
The best open source media player we’ve found, has finally been fully released (version 1.0). The VLC Media Player ( http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ ) can play just about any kind of media file you can throw at it. Even FLV files. If you’re tired of not having the right codec to play video and audio files, you … Read more
For doing complex development with Flash, it can help to have a more powerful Actionscript editor than the built in Flash CS3 editor. I’ve been testing Flex Builder and FlashDevelop, both of which can export both Flash or Flex (Flex is Flash with a library of components built for making web applications). Both seem to … Read more
There are a multitude of free fonts out there now! How do you manage them all? How do you see them all to select one to use? I have found this Font Viewer software from AMPsoft, to be very helpful. Plus, it’s free! So it can’t hurt to give it a try… http://www.ampsoft.net/utilities/FontViewer.php
This is a nifty little application which is written in the Processing language, which allows you to draw stick figures and export them to Blender for animation. http://screamyguy.net/sketchBoard/index.htm If you haven’t heard of Processing, it’s an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions. You can check … Read more
There is an interesting talk on Papervision at the Blender conference: http://river-valley.tv/conferences/blender_conference_2008/
Finally there is a way to get 3D into Flash, from Blender (or another program such as 3DsMax), with Animation! It’s a tool called Cast3D. Check out this: http://www.rustpunk.co.za/blog/?p=10 You can download the Papervision 3D component for Flash CS3 from here:http://code.google.com/p/papervision3d/downloads/list
I thought this was a very cool demonstration of the fluid capabilities of Blender. It shows a "magician" character, who "magically" conjures the water into different shapes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WruTNnF6Ztg You can find more info here: http://www10.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/~sinithue/ani_mfc/ and here: Magic Fluid Control