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– Links are better than attachments. They’re easier and faster to forward and they’re more reliable. You never know if someone is going to be receiving that e-mail on their Blackberry or other mobile device, or low-bandwidth connection. – [Caveat] If you send a link, make sure your website is up and available. There’s nothing [ ]
Job Hunting Tips
As a former game dev lead and now as a studio head, I look at a lot of resumes. This is by no means a comprehensive guide, but if you re looking for a job here are a few quick tips I can share from my own perspective from the hiring side. These are some of [ ]
AC3D Plugin: Material by Crease Angle and Planar Map by Material
Two new plugins today! The first plugin, Set Material by Crease Angle, sets the materials of a model based on the crease angle of the mesh. For each selected area, the plugin creates a new color in the palette and flood-fills the area until the angle between the surfaces exceeds the crease angle of the [ ]
Tower Defense as a Thread Model
I keep having the strangest reoccurring dream. In my dream, I m playing a turret defense game. 1 However, it is no ordinary tower game. It s actually a thread process model. In the dream, each turret type represents a thread synchronization mechanism, generally some sort of atomic primitive. The units marching along the paths represent the [ ]
YouTube XL
YouTube just released a new game-console optimized version, YouTube XL. Somehow I was out-of-the-loop on that one, so the release caught me by surprise. I like to watch videos on the Wii sometimes. I don t use the Wii for web surfing regularly, but now and again the comfort of flopping down on the couch instead [ ]
memcpy_s
On Friday, an article ran on Slashdot making note that Microsoft is banning the C function memcpy in favor of the new memcpy_s. While memcpy_s has in truth been around for a while, the notion that it would now generate compiler warnings has created quite an uproar. Some people seem curious as to why so [ ]
Sculpted Prim Wine Glass
A wine glass is one of the first things most people make when they learn to use a 3D program. It s fun and it s easy. Making a sculpted prim wine glass for Second Life is equally fun. In fact, it s almost exactly the same except you need to UV map it before you upload it. [ ]
AC3D Plugin: Poser Export
This plugin exports AC3D models to Smith Micro s Poser PZ3 format. It also generates a WaveFront OBJ file that Poser will recognize as grouped surfaces. This allows you to create custom characters and props for use in your Poser scenes with AC3D, and reduces the amount of time spent in the Setup Room in Poser [ ]
How to Send Me a Newsletter
Like most people, I get waaaaaay too much e-mail. Between some crazy deadlines, out-of-town conferences and wiping out my primary desktop machine, I ve been offline for a couple of weeks and boy-oh-boy have the messages piled up. [If you re waiting for a reply from me on something, I promise I haven t forgotten you. 🙂 I m [ ]