Since I’ve been quite busy lately and haven’t done much with my VizToolkit library, I decided to spend some time this weekend polishing it. I made few changes to existing controls and added two new ones, which, I hope, you’ll find usefull. [ ... read more ]
Nice thing about viz3 scripting is that you can create some parts of code to be reusable. This means, when you construct them the proper way – it is easy to adopt them to new projects later on. In my experiance most often used is a button script. So in this short tutorial I’m going to show you how you can create simple button script that you can use at any time later on in interactive scenes. [ ... read more ]
In previous post I explained basic usage of Shared Memory Map in Viz|Artist 3.x. This time we’ll take deeper look into it and I’ll show you how to construct simple communication model to share data and raise events on among different scenes on different machines. [ ... read more ]
Viz 3.x introduced quite a number of improvements – starting with internal scripting, through new interface features and scene construction possibilities. One of my favourites is Shared Memory feature, so I’m going to talk for a while about that. [ ... read more ]
During 2009 elections to European Parliament TVN24 for the first time used virtual set to present audience with results. As I mentioned in previous post everything was done in short deadlines. Was the result acceptable? Well, in my opinion it was, but I’m going to let everyone decide for themselves. Below you can find short case study on what was done to make this all happen. [ ... read more ]
For the past few weeks I’ve been working with a group of people on special project. We were creating virtual set for elections to European Parliament for TVN24 news channel. Our goal was to create a place where a person who is inside is controlling everything what happens around him. See how we managed to reach that goal. [ ... read more ]
The Hunt For Gollum is a 40 minute independent film inspired by The Lord of the Rings. Crew spent just 3000 pounds on making it, but the final effect is breathtaking. [ ... read more ]
Found a link to this one on Daniel Moth’s blog and laughed to tears. Have a nice lecture :-).
What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered?
Most of you probably already know this but I think it’s worth mentioning. Sometimes it’s necessary to provide certain mechanism in VCP template that will inform template user that values he is inputting are wrong or out of range. Those mechanisms are quite easy to implement in basic form and will make your templates more “fool proof”. [ ... read more ]
I’ve created simple application using VizToolkit controls library. Project files are avaible for download in our Download section. I decided to share both Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008 projects. They are both included in a package. I hope this will help you to get started.
