director 3d tutorials
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- drzoom
anyone know any good ones (online)?
- JazX0
ok so I check the obvious and you probably should have as well before posting this. GOOGLE: http://www.macromedia.com/suppor…http://www.director-3d.com/http://www.google.com/search?hl=…
- JazX0
- unfittoprint0
nice ones J. That's a field I'm now currently studying/entering...
- JazX0
does that help? :)
- JazX0
unfit seriously? Me too, in fact I am using Bryce 5. It has movie exporting options. You can tween things really well. Nice control the movietimeline has in it. Anyway I wasn't trying to be a jerk with that Google stuff, but you know the DB in Google is a just a bit stronger than our knowledge here for some stuff ;)
- unfittoprint0
As u know my field works with a lot of 3D. I've been using 3D Studio since the MS-DOS days [:-p], and recently I wanted to develop a 3D walkthrough of a project I'm developing. There's a plugin called plasma that automatically exports 3d [dynamics/collision included] from 3D Studio:
http://www.discreet.com/products…
- JazX0
yeah discreet is a nice company. As in discrete mathematics for software engineering, but they played on it with spelling. So you've been using it for 3D renderings of architecture and what not is it?
- unfittoprint0
architecture only. But I do the modelling in AutoCad because it's much more precise...
- drzoom0
thanks jazx ... all I want to be able to do (for now) is to apply dynamically uploaded images as textures to 3d models...and I'm fairly new to 3d in general.
- drzoom0
PS: and yes, I have of course done the GOOGLE thing
...but I was hoping someone knows any other good ones...
- JazX0
ohh, hmmm, not sure about that, but generally Macromedia themselves have good things, you might be able to expand from that. uhh uh :)
- drzoom0
yep, I'm currently looking at http://www.macromedia.com/suppor… which sort of is what I want to do (apart from the dynamic uploading bit - but I'm hoping to do that with PHP or something) ...but the documentation is not all that great :(
- JazX0
ahh I see so something like using Director with PHP and MySQL and XML?
- unfittoprint0
interesting, interesting.
- JazX0
well you might not need the XML but there's that option to parse data.
- drzoom0
" ahh I see so something like using Director with PHP and MySQL and XML? "
that's the plan ... using loads of things I haven't got the slightest idea of howto do it, but anyway
- JazX0
hehee well me neither to an extent, but I see how it's done and there is a lot of open-source shit out there since it's PHP and MySQL so go with that maybe. :)
- drzoom0
don't know xml ... is that difficult to learn (at the same time as learning sw3d and php)? and what are the advanteges of xml?
- unfittoprint0
Information retrieved form a MySQL db with the use of PHP can be organized in an XML format format. Why? Because it's becoming a standard to organize content/information, that can be read by many software/scripting languages.
A good example are RSS news feeds and blogs.
- drzoom0
...well as we are now talking about everything else, here is the project idea (it's an academic proj for my MA course):
the idea is to create a website interface for a furniture company, which uses E Ink coated furniture (http://www.eink.com). which makes them customizable and changable, practically at anytime. One option is that you can upload your own images to use as patterns e.g. on your wallpaper. this is where all this sw3d and php etc. comes in.
ok, i guess they're going to lock me up in a padded cell after all this (or before?)