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 First EJB 3 Tutorial showing a session and entity beans with annotations and JBoss.
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EJB 3 Tutorial using Eclipse, MyEclipse, JBoss
EJB 3 Tutorial using Eclipse and the MyEclipse plugin showing how to create session and entity beans with EJB 3 annotations and JBoss application server.
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| Video Tutorial - Afterburn Explosion
This 5 minute long video tutorial demonstrates how to create a realistic explosion using afterburn. It Requires the latest DivX Codec.
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| Flash Calendar
A lightweight calendar written in Actionscript. It includes navigating through months, and has a user-assigned 'click' function for when users click a day.
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| Water, Fire and Smoke Effects Using Particles and Opacity Maps
Learn how to use particles and Opacity maps to create smoke, fire or water using 3d studio max
First we need some particles. In general, start by creating a super spray particle system. Then start changing parameters.
Both Off-Axis and Off-Plane spreads should be numbers between 10-20. This will let the particles spread out a bit after they're launched from the emitter.
Adjust the particle rate and speed for whatever effect you're trying to achieve. Rushing water is fast, smoke is slow, fire somewhere in between. Remember to add some variation.
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 It is time for another photo gallery tutorial! This one is a little more advanced than the other photo gallery tutorial on this site. So, now, what would make me write another tutorial on a topic that has already been covered? The answer is easier maintenance! In the earlier photo gallery tutorial, if you wanted to add an extra image, you had to manually edit the FLA file and add the image's name to the array. That usually requires a few more steps such as uploading a new SWF and a possible renaming the file and embed paths to avoid browser caching.
In this version, if you want to add another image to your photo gallery, all you have to do is edit an XML file. Your photo gallery automatically incorporates your addition without you having to even touch the FLA. In the long run, you may find that the time you save in adding or editing existing images is worth more than your time in going through this tutorial. Plus, this version of the tutorial accommodates captions for your images. Everybody loves captions
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| Creating a Human Face in 3DS MAX using NURMS
NURMS (Non Rational Mesh Smooth) or Subdivision Surface technique uses low-polygonal mesh to control the shape of the smooth surface. In this tutorial, George Polevoy demonstrates his favorite techniques for symmetric NURMS modeling and 3D sketching.
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| In this tutorial i will explain on how to make a tank track and then how to animate it, its very easy, in 5 easy steps your done, it will cost you 10 min!. I also learnt this of some tutorials but i cant find them no more on the internet. So i though i going to write one, this is also my first tutorial i wrote ever. And don't watch my English its BAD
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| Landscape
Here you will be taught how to make a realistic landscape in 3dsm.
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| Easy Dynamic Photo Gallery - Using Loader Component
This tutorial uses the Loader Component already built into Flash MX and above. I will show you how to use it to create a simple dynamic photo gallery. This is great in situations where you need to update images frequently as well.
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| Video Tutorial - Particle Dispersion
This video tutorial demonstrates how to create the effect of an object crumbling with the particle dispersion and positioning generated from a procedural texture map.
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| Scrolling Marquee
Learn how to make a scrolling marquee in Flash.
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| Using Dreamweaver and PHP to send form results in an email
by Ramandeep
Ramandeep
Ramandeep runs a design studio named RDS networks Ltd in Birmingham, UK. His company provides quality web services to clients all over the worldThe form is a primary way to get web interactivity and structured communication. Dreamweaver has a robust and superior implementation of HTML forms. Forms enable user not only to read information passively from the screen, but also to send information back.
One of the more common questions is how to submit a form to send information in an e-mail. Using PHP, it's really very easy. Here we'll learn about processing forms to send e-mail using PHP.
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| Cave Scene
This tutorial covers the modelling of a cave, complete with textures, water effects and lighting. It can be done in 10 minutes and looks quite nice!
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| This tutorials is for intermediate people of Max with this tutorial you'll create a simple face and animate it.
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| EJB 3 tutorial using Eclipse, Ant and JBoss
First EJB 3 Tutorial explaining Ant and showing how to create a session and entity beans with EJB 3 annotations and JBoss.
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| Simple water
So you wanna make some simple, yet realistic water like in the example below?
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| Creating a GUI in wxPython using wxGlade wxPython is a toolkit for creating cross platform graphical user interfaces (GUI) for the programming language Python. wxGlade is a GUI designer for wxPython.
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| Shine Text Effect
Have you ever wanted to learn how to create advanced text effect using AS?
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 Hi there and welcome to this fun, easy tutorial which is going to teach you a couple more things about Reactor. Here’s the scenario. Two cars are going to come speeding down a track, bumping into each other and off against the walls, jump over a ramp and then fall into a swimming pool. Follow the step by step instructions for more details....
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 Make animated spinning wheels in flash
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 Reactor is a powerful tool that comes with 3d Studio Max, it makes it possible to simulate realistic dynamics based on physically-defined properties, such as hard body, soft body, cloth, and liquid. It can simulate the reaction occurring when a box falling from a high place hits the ground. This could be compared to all the time required to do the same effect using keyframes, and that wouldn't still give us a realistic animation similar to the one possible to create using reactor. This tutorial will teach you how to simulate car motion using the Wheel Reactor. The video below features the result that we are going to create in this tutorial.
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| Animated scrolling mask text ad banner
Learn to create a flash ad banner with scrolling mask text that reveals an image. The effect has a great visual appeal, while it is easy to make.
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| Wine Glass
You'll learn how to model and texturize a fine wine glass in 3D Studio.
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| EJB 3 tutorial using Eclipse, Ant and JBoss
First EJB 3 Tutorial explaining Ant and showing how to create a session and entity beans with EJB 3 annotations and JBoss.
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| Rain drops
Learn how to make photorealistic rain drops.
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| Manny Dimatulac aka Thoripes
Now I wrote a second version for this effect because so many people were e-mailing me (and I thank you all), about, "How do I make it choose the letter faster?", or "why doesn't it work?", or "why can't I use numbers?", etc.
Well I made this tutorial to make answering those questions easier, as well as a better and more efficient way of making this effect (wait, there's efficiency involved in flash??? yes.).
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| In this lesson we shall use this method.
Let's place the flat object on the sphere. Changing the radius of sphere and the placement of object on it, we can cover all the points of space and all locations.
We shall begin from geometry.
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 This is the best settings fow wood in Vray. You will get very realistic render using this settings.
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 This tutorial aims to give a simple way of adding a shattered glass effect to an image using some very basic tools.
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| Box Modeling - TV
Here you will be taught how box model a TV.
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| Blend materials
Learn how to use the Blend material type.
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| BlobMesh: Simulating Water
This tutorial shows you how to take advantage of BlobMesh to create some very neat water effects.
In this tutorial, you'll learn how to use BlobMesh, or metaballs as they are commonly called, to make a fountain of water. BlobMesh is a new feature of 3ds max 6 that's essentially metaballs. Metaballs are lots of sphere-like objects, but when you put them close together, they will join together. Example: if two blobs of water a floating together in space and they get near each other, they will merge into one blob. Of course, real water would be attracted to each other, but that is not simulated very well here.
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| Glowing Text Effect
In this Flash tutorial you will learn how to make text glow (this effect will also work for anything drawn in Flash). The glowing edges around the text will ease in and ease out in this animations. Topics include: soften fill edges, alpha control, and basic tweening. No actionscript involved and source file is included.
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| Model a Hand Gun
Tutorial for people who don't know anything about polygon-modelling, but want to learn how to use the most important tools fast.
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| Sparks Effect
A very detailed 55 page tutorial on creating sparks for animation, using the "SuperSpray" particle system, as well as "Gravity" and "Deflector" spacewarps and "Video Post" to add glow effects. Aimed at beginners and people with little knowledge of 3dmax or particles. Lots of pictures are included.
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 Excel files are great for many things. It might though be a little bit tricky to generate them on the fly with php. Therefor I will guide you exactly how to do it, quick and simple.
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| Rotating Wheels on a Car
The purpose of this handout is to show you how to rotate the wheels on a car so they follow the pace of the car as it move. By doing it this way, you will get a more accurate result without setting numerous keyframes. To do this, we will use the distance tool, set driven key, and infinity cycles in the graph editor.
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 This is cool way to turn your photos into a cartoon
Using Photoshop.
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| Shake Effect
In this tutorial we will show you how to create shake effect on some object or text by action script.
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| Page Peel Tricks
Replace the reflection from the Page Peel Transition with a logo or graphic by nesting the transition.
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| Flash Drop Down Menu
Flash tutorial showing how to make a nice simple drop down menu. Includes example and screenshots.
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| This is a very simple tutorial describing how to animate a ball or a wheel rolling down an irregular path. It was devised by my in answer to a need for a car which could drive around corners but still have the wheels rotate accordingly. I assume you know a fair amount about MAX and won't bother explaining every little detail.
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| Show hide menu
Learn how to create a show/hide menu using javascript.
In the first javascript tutorial you have the opportunity to learn how to make a simple menu with submenu that is opened and closed by click (onclick).
Menu works like this: some parts of the table (submenues) are left invisible (diplay: none). When we click on the link, javascript navigation function, with ID that should be shown, is called and the hidden part of the table is opened as submenu.
Let us get started with JavaScript function that we will place inside of head tags, together with css.
JavaScript
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| Setting up a Samba PDC with an OpenLDAP backend on SuSE
This tutorial takes a step by step look at setting up a Samba Primary Domain Controller with an OpenLDAP backend on SuSE 9/10. The end result is a fully operational Windows domain that is reliable capable of growing to support hundreds of users. Also covered is the setting up of active virus scanning with ClamAV.
SuSE/OpenLDAP/Samba Howto
Tuesday, 13 September 2005
Article Index
SuSE/OpenLDAP/Samba Howto
Configuring OpenLDAP
Using OpenLDAP with Samba
Setting up phpLDAPAdmin
Configuring PAM to use LDAP
Configuring Samba
Preparing the Domain
Joining the Domain
Virus Scanning with Samba
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This tutorial assumes you are familar with basic Linux and Windows concepts and are comfortable using SuSE Linux 9 (Professional or Enterprize). SuSE 9.2 Professional was used during the production of this guide but for most part the commands, software and general concepts should be applicable on any current version of SuSE (or OpenSUSE).
To ease configuration it is very helpful to do most things from another desktop so that you can use really useful utilities like graphical Internet browsers and copy/paste tools.
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| Interactive Spot-Light Effect (Masking) Using ActionScript
The advantage of masking a movie clip using ActionScript rather than the timeline gives you the ability to manipulate the mask with ease unlike timeline masks that cannot be created using movie clip symbols as masks.
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| SSL and Cryptography
This free book is an excellent tutorial book for beginners. It is a collection of notes and sample codes written by the author while he was learning cryptography himself. Topics include Blowfish, CA, certificate, cipher, cryptography, CSR, decryption, DES, encryption, Java, JCE, JDK, OpenSSL, PEM, private key, public key, RSA, sample codes, secret key, self-signed certificate, SSL, X509. Key sections: Basic Concepts - Cipher - DES Algorithm - DES Algorithm - Illustrated with Java Programs - DES Algorithm - Java Implementation - JDK/JCE - Cipher for Encryption and Decryption - Cipher - Blowfish Algorithm - 8366 Hex Digits of PI - What is OpenSSL? - Installing OpenSSL on Windows - Generating RSA Key Pairs - Viewing Components of RSA Keys - Encrypting RSA Keys - What is a certificate? - Generating Self-Signed Certificates - Viewing Components of Certificates - Why Certificates Need to Be Signed by CAs? - Generating a Certificate Signing Request for Your Own Public Key - Viewing Components of Certificate Signing Request - Signing a Certificate Signing Request - Certification Path Validation - Using Certificates in Web Browsers.
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| Vertical shooters are also known as Fixed Shooter.
A fixed shooter has players only able to control their two-dimensional position on the screen and sometimes the direction they are facing*
*Wikipedia
So, we will create a game using our super hero Pawel to kill dragons that are coming from one side of the screen. I have provided an FLA with all of the graphics you will need, but you will need to place the graphics in the right spot. This tutorial is more of an explanation of the code w
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| Palm Tree
Make realistic looking palm trees!
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| Multiple materials in max
Learn how to have more than 24 materials in Max.
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| Tips on customizing input boxes, list menus, submit buttons. Also learn how to validate forms using Dreamweaver behaviors.
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| Creating A Bullet Effect
This Tutrial will Teach you how to create The Bullet Effect Like In The Matrix in Maya, u will expirience The maya intenser, and some mel scripting.
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| Realistic Glass
This is a basic tutorial, suitable for beginners, it produces a realistic glass effect using only the scanline renderer.
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| Silk material
This is a tutorial on how to make a silk material out of just procedural maps (well can be just procedural and one bitmap).
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| Basic smoke
This tutorial is designed to cover the basics of particles, essentially creating smoke using spray.
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| Using NDISWrapper to Install Windows Drivers on Linux
How to set up wireless network cards in Linux using NDISWrapper and Knoppix 4.0.
Dell Wireless 1350 WLAN on Knoppix 4.0 Using NDISWrapper
Setting up the Dell Wireless 1350 Card is relatively easy on Knoppix 4.0. My card happened to come with my Inspiron 1200. I would assume most people using this card also got it with a Dell Notebook. If you like Knoppix, then you are going to definitely want to set this up.
Requirements:
Knoppix 4.0 CD (I have gotten this to work with versions as low as 3.6)
Windows/Linux PC to transfer files from CD to thumbdrive
USB Thumbdrive
Laptop with PCMCIA port
Dell Wireless 1350 card and Driver disk
Wifi network to connect to (preferably using DHCP and unencrypted)
Let's get started! You will need to boot your
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| Tutorial for creating stunning Flash photo albums to color your digital life.
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| Import audio mp3 file and control using action script
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| Using Blend Shape for Facial Expressions
In this file we will go over using blend shape for facial expressions. This is an extremely easy and effective way to enhance you animations.
My name is Larry Neuberger and I am a professor at Alfred State College in Alfred NY. I created these handouts to use in my classes and most of my students found them to be helpful. I now decided to submit them to be published on the web hoping they can help others as well.
In this file we will go over using blend shape for facial expressions. This is an extremely easy and effective way to enhance you animations.
First we want to duplicate the mouse once for each expression or partial expression you want. (Fig. 1.) This depends on how much you want to control the face. You can have a head sculpted for individual expressions (I.E. happy, sad, angry, etc.), or you could have a duplicated head for individual body parts, which you can combine for more detailed expressions (I.E. raised eye brow, smile, from, grin, lowered brow, etc.). For this example I will simply sculpt a few individual body part expressions. Two for the eyes (open and squint) and two for the mouth (open and smile), which I can combine to get different facial expressions.
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| Object to Surface Constraints in Maya
For this tutorial I'll be using a example of a button on a shirt, but this could be any object or group node like a belt buckle or a bug on the tip of a characters nose.
Object too Surface Constraints in Maya
For this tutorial I'll be using a example of a button on a shirt, but this could be any object or group node like a belt buckle or a bug on the tip of a characters nose.
If you ever wanted too attach a button to a shirt on a character you've most likely found out there is no straight forward way to do this in Maya
What you want is the button to follow alone with the surface as it deforms, this deformation can be any method in Maya, softBind, ridgedBind, softbodys,cloth etc.......
I'll discuss different methods of doing this based on;
The surface type ie...polys, nurbs and subD's:
In Maya tools vs mel, plugs-ins and scripts:
Pros and cons of each method:
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| Basic Calculator
In this tutorial we will learn to create a basic calculator in Visual Basic.
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| Muscle deformations and Facial Expressions
Blend Shape and Set Driven Key are two excellent tools for deformations and facial expressions. In the following file we will go over in detail how to use these tools to the best of their advantages to create better animations and poses.
My name is Larry Neuberger and I am a professor at Alfred State College in Alfred NY. I created these handouts to use in my classes and most of my students found them to be helpful. I now decided to submit them to be published on the web hoping they can help others as well.
Blend Shape and Set Driven Key are two excellent tools for deformations and facial expressions. In the following file we will go over in detail how to use these tools to the best of their advantages to create better animations and poses. First we will go over using blend shape and set driven key for muscle deformations. Then we will go over using just blend shape for facial expressions.
Blend Shape and Set Driven Key for Muscle deformations
The best way to demonstrate the benefit of these tools is to show you how to control the flexing of a characters’ muscles without having to set keyframes for individual objects or doing any unnecessary extra work.
NOTE: for best results using blend shape, do all work BEFORE binding the skeleton. If you use blend shape after binding the skeleton, your results will not be accurate and deformations will not update correctly.
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| Architectual Modeling Using Splines
A 3 Part step by step tutorial for 3ds max beginners and intermediate users. Learn simple spline techniques to build architectual models from houses to detailed buildings. Learn how to avoid using booleans to cut window and door holes. With these techniques you will model faster, use less polygons and create cleaner meshes.
Part I - Creating A Wall With Openings.
Part II- Creating Simple Double Doors.
Part III - Creating The Windows and Adding Some Details.
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| Like I have been doing for the past few versions of Flash, I have decided that my first tutorial for Flash 8 would be the "Creating a Simple Animation" tutorial. If you are new to Flash or Flash 8, this tutorial will serve as a good introduction to simple animation effects and the tools you will use to create those effects.
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| Flawless Flesh
This tutorial will show you how to hide blemishes and bad lighting when taking shots of your friends and family. With a bit of work you can make them look just like models!
Achieving a natural looking smooth flesh tone is one of the many Holy Grail’s of commercial retouchers. Most retouchers develop their own individual methods but these usually rely heavily on Gaussian Blur which is a big mistake as it more often than not destroys too much of the natural detail. The method described below has been used successfully for many years for clients such as Prada, Selfridges and Laura Ashley and is very flexible even to the extent of working on surfaces that require smoothing other than flesh such as ceramics, chrome, fabrics etc.
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| This free book is an excellent tutorial book for beginners. It is a collection of notes and sample codes written by the author while he was learning XSL-FO and XHTML. Topics include CSS, HTML, PDF, XHTML, XSL-FO, XSLT
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| Animated face
Learn how to create a remote control to animate a face in 3D Studio Max.
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| If you have a group of pictures you want to put up on the web quickly, this nifty feature is just for you. Dreamweaver will process a group of images and index them as thumbnails as well as put each full sized image on it's own page with navigation.
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| Linking in XML is divided into two parts, XLink and XPointers. XLink, the XML Linking Language, defines how one document links to another document. XPointer, the XML Pointer Language, defines how individual parts of a document are addressed. An XLink points to a URI (in practice, a URL) that specifies a particular resource. This URI may include an XPointer part that more specifically identifies the desired part or section of the targeted resource or document. This paper explores XLinks.
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| Simulating the Bullet-Time Effect in Adobe Premiere
In this tutorial, Satish Kumar demonstrates the famous Matrix style Bullet-time effect in Premiere: A man leaps in the air with a gun, fires a shot, and then hovers in the air while the camera moves around him 180 degrees.
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| Why should you be interested in ColdFusion? As Charles tells all us webmasters, "if business likes it, you love it." And businesses love ColdFusion, because this database-to-Web gateway provides an effective and simple way to make a dynamic Web.
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| Bubbles
If you ever need to create bubbles for an animation, and would like to do it without spending a fortune on a plug-in
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| Creating Animated Professional Looking Preloader Step-by-step in Flash MX 2004
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| This is a comple sample code which converts seconds to time. We could use this code to display a web client how many hours and minutes browsed on our website. But here our aim is juts to convert seconds to hours. Rest of coding will be your choise
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 Turn a digital photo into an oil painting and then apply the effect to any other photos instantly with your "Instant Photo To Oil Painting" action!
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| The first step is to create a link for the sound to be played on Rollover or on Click. You can make a simple text link with the '#' symbol.
The next step is to add a behavior to the link. Open the Behaviors panel by clicking on Windows/Behaviors and click on the '+' symbol in the Behaviors Panel. Click on 'Play Sound'. Browse to find the sound you want to play and click on OK.
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| How to build a website using CherryPy
How to build a simple website using CherryPy, a pythonic, object-oriented web development framework.
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| A simple tutorial which teaches you how to create an amoeba effect which would make a nice background.
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| Maya Pivot Point Basics
This will teach you all about pivot points and how they effect rotation and scale of animated objects. In .pdf format.
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| Domino Effect
This tutorial will discuss on several issues, how to setup the geometry and how to apply passive to active key switch among them.
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| Working With Photoshop Scripts
How to work with Photoshop Scripts, with links to free scripts.
Many people are not familiar with the power of Photoshop Scripts and aren't aware that there are many excellent sample scripts and learning guides included with Photoshop. This tutorial will show you where to find the Photoshop Scripting Guides, show you how to install Photoshop Scripts, and explain how to work with Photoshop Scripts.
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 For making our VB projects more attracitve we embed our flash made
Movies into our VB files. Lets make a simple example have simple
animations.
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| We're going to look at making a brick wall texture, complete with graffiti. It's a fairly simple effect that can be largely generated in Photoshop.
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| Time for another example of making unique-looking words. Here I'll show you how to make it look as if your letters are cut out of the surrounding area, complete with drop shadow and background.
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 In this tutorial, Bert Lee will show you how to make a continuously scrolling background, using repeated graphics, and motion tweens.
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| Crystals 2
Here you will be taught how to make those trendy crystals.
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| Bouncing Text Effect
Learn how to create an animated bouncing text effect in Flash.
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 Many people use external swfs these days, because they are a very good way to keep a site structured and manageable, and also because they keep the file size low. These swfs also divide a site into sections: each external swf stands for a section. These movies are dynamically loaded into the main movie when entering a section of the site. But a question that gets asked a lot lately is how to create smooth yet functional transitions between these external swfs? That’s what this tutorial will cover.
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| Creating VB database applications using ADO control
Data control is not a very flexible tool as it could work only with limited kinds of data and must work strictly in the Visual Basic environment. To overcome these limitations, we can use a much more powerful data control in VB known as ADO control.
In Lesson 19 and Lesson 20, we have learned to build VB database applications using data control. However, data control is not a very flexible tool as it could work only with limited kinds of data and must work strictly in the Visual Basic environment. To overcome these limitations, we can use a much more powerful data control in VB known as ADO control. ADO stands for ActiveX data objects. As ADO is ActiveX-based, it could work in different platforms (different computer systems) and different programming languages. Besides, it could access many different kinds of data such as data displayed in the Internet browsers, email text and even graphics other than the usual relational and non relational database information.
To be able to use ADO data control, you need to insert it into the toolbox. To do this, simply press Ctrl+T to open the components dialog box and select Microsoft ActiveX Data Control 6. After this, you can proceed to build your ADO-based VB database applications.
The following example will illustrate how to build a relatively powerful database application using ADO data control. First of all, name the new form as frmBookTitle and change its caption to Book Tiles- ADO Application. Secondly, insert the ADO data control and name it as adoBooks and change its caption to book. Next, insert the necessary labels, text boxes and command buttons. The runtime interface of this program is shown in the diagram below, it allows adding and deletion as well as updating and browsing of data.
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| PHP-Based Chat Room
This particular design of web-based chat uses variables posted from a form, processes them into HTML and writes them to a file. Put the form and the message file in a frameset and you have something that looks reasonably like a BeSeen chat room. Of course the advantage is, this chat room can be a little more clever than it's BeSeen cousin.
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| 3D Tenticles
Here you will be taught how to make those trendy tentacles.
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 We previously published a tutorial on how to create a simple portfolio in Flash that features a selection of thumbnails and an image display unit. This tutorial will teach you how to create an advanced portfolio that dynamically loads images and text from external sources. An example SWF movie could be seen below featuring images and texts which are being loaded at real time from external image and text files
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| How to be in the same shot Twice
You know those films that star the same person as two characters. Ever wondered how to film those scenes where the two characters meet?
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| Mouse-over effects are very popular these days and often very eye pleasing for the site visitors. In this tutorial I'm going to teach you step by step, how to use Macromedia Dreamweaver's Behaviors, to make multiple rollovers on your buttons and other images.
"Why use Dreamweaver, I'm ten times faster with notepad", you say? The fact is, you don't have to code all these complicated JavaScript's by hand, and therefore, save yourself a whole lot of precious time. Because with Dreamweaver it's both easy and time-saving.
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| Assigning Physics
Learn how to assign physics properties to objects.
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| The words in Action
This tutorial will show you how to apply some action at some text, word, picture... using Action Script. For this example I will apply some action at some words. When you drag your mouse over the words something happen!
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| Managing INI files
How to create, read and write an INI file from Visual Basic 6
Hello y'all. It's a long time that in the italian VB newsgroups periodically appears a thread asking how we can write and read the INI files. I always post the same solution: two little functions of mine, that belong from a code I found somewhere in andreavb.com.
My answer is always the same - and often they give me the same grateful reply - but threads expire after some time in newsgroups, so I'm afraid one of these days I can't post anymore the bare tinyurl link to the thread I spoke into, and I have to write another explanation of the whole stuff.
So I decided to post this article here: to put my functions and explanations in a not-expiring place. If one day my previous threads will be lost, I will tinyurl the link to this page (and then, my italian friends would be better start speaking english, ehehehe).
So, in order to create, read and write an INI file, copy the two routines below in a module.
Things to know:
- INI files are made of sections, which names are enclosed in square brackets into the file (you could open one by the Notepad.exe to see how it is made), and several keys for each sections. Take note that there is no space before equal sign of the key, nor after it: the format is KeyName=Value. In the routines below you have to specify the section, and the name of the key to read/edit in that section.
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| This is a very simple tutorial demonstrating how to take 2D video footage and composite a 3D animated object in the scene. I'm not going to go into every specific MAX feature and option used, Instead I'll be concentrating more on the actual process and flow of work and files.
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| Photoshop Action and Batch to Resize Images
Create custom action and use batch command to process images to a certain size.
In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to create a custom action and use Photoshop’s batch command to process a group of images to a certain size. This is a fairly simple tutorial, but does require some Photoshop knowledge.
For this tutorial, we are going to create a group of thumbnail images for a website gallery. So we are going to convert all our images to small jpg’s. Here we go….
First off, we need to do a little prep work. And believe me, this prep work can save you a lot of problems in the long run.
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| Create Realistic Clouds
Create very realistic clouds using a very simple and straight forward technique.
Making Realistic Clouds
Tutorial submitted by Dev Dreams on 2006-03-07 | Tutorial views: 2187
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One of the challenges faced by graphic designers and more advanced users of Photoshop is reality. The task of making something look very realistic if not completely real can be quite difficult. In this tutorial however we avoid the difficulty by using a very simplified method to creating realistic and effective looking clouds. Creating clouds is fairly easy to do and this tutorial explains it step by step.
Creating Realistic Clouds
The first thing we need to do is create a new document in Adobe Photoshop. Im making mine 400px wide and 180pc high although you can make yours whatever you want. Click OK.
Now when you have your document open we should, although we dont actually need to set the colour of the background so it looks like the sky. Afterall we are creating clouds so it would be fairly odd if there wasnt a sky. Set your colour to #76B0F0 which is a light blue - you can however use any other colours you want. Select everything using the Marquee Tool (or press Ctrl + A) and select the fill tool from the tools window. Then simply click on on the white document within the bounds of the selected area.
Thats the sky sorted. Now lets move on to what your here for - the clouds.
Start off with creating a new layer by going to Layer >> New Layer. Call it Clouds and click OK. On the tools window select the Paintbrush tool and apply the following settings:
Brush: 18px
Mode: Normal
Opacity: 100%
Flow: 100%;
Then just paint on a 'blob' onto your document. This will be your cloud.
Thats it your finished. Realistic isnt it!
Just joking! We now need to move away from the 'blob' look and turn it more into the clouds look. This is done by using the Smudge tool which is on your tools window. Simply click and drag to smudge the edges of your clouds. You should use a variety of brush sizes when doing this so that it looks more natural and is spread out better. You should end up with something like:
Were almost done. Now by now it should look like clouds if not then simply do more smudging and try to get rid of all of the rough edges so it all looks very smooth. Also try to make sure that your cloud isnt just an oval or an exact shape - its not very often that you look up and see a perfect triangular cloud is it ;).
To make it that bit more effective however we need to change the opacity of the clouds layer. This lets some of the blue come through the clouds and fades them out a bit. To do this on the layer window, make sure that the Clouds layer is selected and just above you will see a percentage option for Opacity. Im using 45% although it all depends on what you think looks best. If you want some clouds to be more visible than others simply create them on a different layer and set the opacity to a slightly higher percentage. I dont recommend having it aove 90% though.
Heres what I came up with:
Have fun with your new skills!
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User Comments
Viper
now thats a realistic cloud! nice work
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