A Camera is Watching You

I figure somebody at the park may chance upon this and read this after noticing the SSID from my wifi. Anyhow, take a look at the light posts on the streets around the park. At least one has a camera on the top of it. No, it's not the typical "bubble" cam or one of those blue light specials like you see in the seedier neighborhoods. But none the less, there's a camera up there. When you get a chance, wave "hi" to it. Go ahead and do it. It'll be funny!

Somebody mad?

YOU JELLY?
I don't know who's mad, but somebody felt inclined to egg my car. Even though it's 10 years old with scratches, it still must be too nice compared to theirs.

Maybe they heard I found work on the internet or something. I've been out of work for so long, why shouldn't I get some opportunities every now and then?

Don't worry though, you'll get yours in due time...

But on the business of work, I'm back to getting a 3D model done. Put in 4hrs last night, and will get more done today. Now that I'm keeping track of time on these things, they take longer than I thought. Seems most of the time goes into prep and then making decisions about where to place the edge loops or whether to commit to a smooth operation. Crazy, but whatever. It's all good.

Sound in Flash Player Broken?

Anyone know when or which update broke how event sounds play in Flash? I have some old stuff that used to work just fine, and now the sounds don't play correctly or not at all. I figure it had to be in one of the recent Adobe 10.x Flash player updates. This bug has to affect a lot of pages that have UIs or games made in older versions of the Flash authoring tool.

Surely I can't be the only person to notice this.

PMG Messiah:Studio - nice limited time offer

I figure there's a rare few that may read this blog, so I have some new news.

There's a pretty tight deal for a very limited time where you may be able to get a $1100 suite of graphics software for $40. Pretty much it's professional quality rigging and animation software that various studios use in their production pipeline.

Oh, and if $40 is still too much you can get the "light" $540 software for $10.

And here's the link:
http://projectmessiah.com/x6/shop.html

And for some reason if you don't see the green bar (which was hovering at 75% at the time of this post), you may be too late.

Modeling A Preserve Jar

A Wings3D video tutorial, in case you missed it. Covers basic box modeling and UV mapping, as well as some of Wings3D vector operations. Dunno who reads this blog, but what the hey!



















Quite a bit, isn't it? Hopefully something can be learned from it.

Menus: Dropdown vs Pulldown explained

I was looking for some reference to clarify this issue on the web, and what do I see in the first couple hits on google? Bad information on the topic. It seems that a lot of sites say there is no difference between dropdown and pulldown menus. Guess what? THEY'RE WRONG!

Here's the difference:

Dropdown menu: When you click on the menu header to access the menu, the menu stays on the screen until a selection is made. Note that clicking outside the box also counts as a "selection".

Pulldown menu: You have to hold the mouse button down to access the menu. If you release the mouse button or drag off the menu, the menu goes away. In other words a PULLdown menu is a DRAGdown menu, but it is not a DROPdown menu!

A subtle difference I'm sure, but it's quite a big one in regards to UI workflow. Also note that a dropdown takes two mouse clicks. One to access the menu, and one to access the menu item. A pulldown (dragdown) only takes one click, but you must hold down the button as with a mouse drag operation.

Now is it clear? I hope so.

Cassius & Cassandra

This is probably what I'd have for a webcomic if I regularly did webcomics. No, actually I'd have something more random. This is just something from a sketchbook of mine that I figured was funny enough to share. But I'll leave the contents of the previous page up to your imagination.