Tutorials

Create Texture Maps in Blender for Papervision3D Models

Creating texture maps for your 3D models can be difficult. Worse, using features such as dynamic lighting can also significantly reduce the performance of your real-time models. One easy way to create some decent textures is to pre-render them complete with lighting, shadows, and calculated surfaces in Blender, then simply map them to your models.

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Submitted by bgoines78 on Sun, 07/17/2011 - 21:50

Installing Liferay 6.x on Tomcat 6.x bundled with Ubuntu

If you are attempting to install LifeRay on Tomcat 6.x under Ubuntu and are receiving the following as the only error when starting your new context, follow this guide to fix it. Note: this guide assumes and covers using a local MySQL backend database.

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Submitted by bgoines78 on Sun, 01/23/2011 - 08:13

Hosting a drupal instance from a sub-directory (using Apache mod_rewrite)

If you are like me, you are probably adverse to committing any portal or CMS solution to your root directory. You never know when you may want to completely swap to another solution and have that hosted at your root domain.

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Submitted by bgoines78 on Tue, 08/17/2010 - 01:06

RocketFish/Broadcom Bluetooth Adapter on Linux(Ubuntu)

If you purchased a RocketFish USB Bluetooth adapter, you are probably suffering from the same problem that many other users have, namely, the RocketFish USB Bluetooth adapter appears to be configured by the HID module with no apparent Bluetooth support.

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Submitted by bgoines78 on Tue, 08/11/2009 - 21:31

Using JavaScript and JQuery to create round block boxes with shadows

There are a plethora of methods available on the Internet for creating boxes with rounded corners. There are quite a few more that explain how to create shadows. This tutorial will show you how to do both using JavaScript, Jquery, and a little bit of CSS. Please note: This tutorial uses PNG images with alpha transparency to create the drop shadows. This effect is incompatible with Internet Explorer prior to version 6. The method for creating round block boxes should be compatible with most modern browsers.

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Submitted by bgoines78 on Tue, 07/21/2009 - 21:46

Depth of Field effect (aka Focal Blur)

Focal blur can add a significant amount of realism to any scene. With Blender's support of compositing, creating a focal blur effect can be extremely simple. This video will demonstrate the following steps to create the focal blur effect.

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Create a camera focal point

Sometimes it may be difficult to position the camera just right to capture a scene the way you want. This tutorial shows you a simple way to force the camera to track an arbitrary object.

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DupliVert demonstration

DupliVerts can be an effective way to duplicate recurring objects in a scene and may serve as the basis for many interesting effects such as creating raindrops. This tutorial will demonstrate the use of DupliVerts in Blender.

Enabling DupliVerts on an object essentially copies any child objects at each vector on the parent object. This tutorial uses a grid as the parent, but other objects may be used as well such as UVSpheres.

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Use Apache mod_rewrite to redirect image requests through ImageCache

Imagecache is an extremely useful Drupal module. It is especially useful when you want to ensure that images on your site do not wreak havoc on your customized themes and layouts. Fortunately, Apache's mod_rewrite module comes to the rescue.

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