Pictures of the home at Shore Edge Drive, Coos Bay, OR just before and as we moved into the house in November 2004.
Pictures of the home at Shore Edge Drive, Coos Bay, OR just before and as we moved into the house in November 2004.
Various albums of pictures along Cape Arago and other coastal locations of Oregon.
Various albums of pictures along Cape Arago and other coastal locations of Oregon.
Note: The old way to get to these photos no longer works. All the pictures are available in the Oregon South Coast Gallery on my photo site.
Cape Arago in October 2004
Cape Arago South Cove including pictures of tide pool life.
Coastal pictures including Bandon, Cape Arago Beaches, Light houses and Port Orford.
Light House Beach, Cape Arago.
Oregon Ocean and Beaches January 2005.
Visit to the New Carissa wreck.
Some early albums from Summer 2004 taken with Nikon D70. Pictures are from Sunnyvale and Santa Cruz California.
Here are some early albums of Nikon D70 pictures.
Machinima is the technique of using computer game engines to make cinema.
Follow this to an old page with some links and a very touching little movie.
Machinima is the technique of using computer game engines to make cinema.
Follow this to an old page with some links and a very touching little movie.
Sure would be nice to have this for UT2K4!!
Well someone made one since I built this page… But if you’re interested in nostalgia check out this old page:
Sure would be nice to have this for UT2K4!!
Well someone made one since I built this page… But if you’re interested in nostalgia check out this old page:
Ages ago I did some scenes based on the Warhammer series of games.
You can find them here:
It is possible to use Follow Path and Look At constraints with RTRE, but there is a trick you need to use to make it work.
It is possible to use Follow Path and Look At constraints with RTRE, but there is a trick you need to use to make it work.
This animation uses Follow Path, and LookAt to have the red cone follow the path while looking at the central sphere. The path has been duplicated and then rendered as a mesh so that it is visible. Also a second cone was linked to the first cone so that its orientation can be seen as it follows the path.
The moving rods and pistons show another use of LookAt. The horizontal rods are animated to move back and forth. The balls and pistons [just nested cyllinders] are linked to follow the rods. The wide part of the piston is looking at the the ball, and the inner piston is looking at the outer piston. In max, both sets of pistons behave the same, but in RTRE, the red piston fails to behave correctly. Note that it is not possible to have two objects look at each other, so another object, the ball, is required to complete the circuit.
To fix the blue piston in RTRE, it is quite simple. One merely has to add some dummy keyframes to cause RTRE to pickup the animation of the objects as they are transformed by max. To do this, add a position keyframe to the first and last frame. The look at constraints are rotational constraints, so this does not conflict with a position key. But the position keys cause RTRE to pickup the entire transform for the object, including the rotation, so the look at constraint is correctly animated by RTRE.
It is possible to do complex animated scenes in RTRE.
This animation uses a rotation script for the gears like this:
( eulerAngles 0 0 (360*currenttime/100) ) as quat
This can be customized by either changing the 360 to a larger number of degrees to speed up the animation, or by changing the 100 to match the number of frames in the animation. Balls are linked to the gears so that their rotation can be more easily followed. The gears were created by the Geodesic program available on this site.
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