Re: Director Programmer Position

2003-08-19 Thread Nmuta Jones
That pay is insulting. It's an entry level salary, especially considering that it's part time. Maybe OK for the Carolinas but not for California. // contact us for your next web project: http://www.wisewebnet.com From: Luiz Gustavo Castelan Póvoas <[EMAIL

OT: Havok site

2003-08-19 Thread Nmuta Jones
Is Havok down? _ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi

Re: help - emergency flash sound problem

2003-08-18 Thread Nmuta Jones
I've had that problem before in other ways These may be too roundabout, but, 1. Maybe code the sound in Flash inside of a movie clip that's set to stream. So when the movie is paused the sound stops. I don't know by which method you are making the Flash movie static, but just sending a command

still no go 3ds max Shockwave axes

2003-04-04 Thread Nmuta Jones
It's still not working. I did exactly what you said, in terms of the hierarchy tab and hitting reset. The temporary workaround I'm using is: on exitFrame me global doorflag global garage garage = member("3dworld").model("doors") if doorflag = false then if (garage<>void) then

Re: 3ds max Shockwave exporter

2003-04-03 Thread Nmuta Jones
To my question about 3ds models exporting with "z axis" vertical thus creating sideways models in Director, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote Hi, you can rotate the mesh before exporting Nmuta's reply: I tried that, but in 3DS MAX I had several models all animating, and when I rotated them, of course

3ds max Shockwave exporter

2003-04-03 Thread Nmuta Jones
I am using 3ds max 5. I just downloaded the 3ds max 4 exporter, (which is said to work with max 5). It works fine, textures and all, but the z axis orientation is messed up due to Max's z axis being "up and down". So all models come out on their side. I'm sure this is a common problem; what is

test

2002-06-18 Thread Nmuta Jones
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script error -- deleted objects?

2002-06-12 Thread Nmuta Jones
My project has 5 3d worlds, all of them are about 5 frames each, lined up one after another, all on sprite 1. I have several parent/child scripts and a few timeout objects running that basically control the navigation through the worlds, creation of primitives, etc. which is basically the same

Re: Fake QTVR in Shockwave

2002-06-12 Thread Nmuta Jones
s on your source images. Are you using a 3D modeling package to create the 3d world, or are you stitching together photographs? -Nmuta Jones Message: 16 Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 16:16:52 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Randal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Fake QTVR in Shockwave Reply-T

re: best 3d software within budget

2002-06-06 Thread Nmuta Jones
Yeah I just found out that the ART version of Cinema 4D does support W3D export for director. (Art version is about $595 or something close to that). But, as mentioned before, no Havok export. contact info: Nicole Bats Account Manager Maxon Computer 2640 Lavery Court ste A Newbury Park, CA

Re: 3D Modeling Software

2002-06-05 Thread Nmuta Jones
At one of my gigs I have Cinema 4D and it works well with Director. In fact, learning Max got to be a little too much for me with my time restraints now, and I found C4D to be extrememly intuitive. I mean even today I kind of stumbled upon how to create splines form bitmap images and extrude

Re: Question about Operating Systems?

2002-06-05 Thread Nmuta Jones
I am no expert about operating systems, but from what I have heard, XP is not much of a significant improvement from 2000/NT in terms of performance. I upgraded from ME which was very much needed, because, as even Microsoft admits now, ME was garbage. XP runs on that same 2000/NT platform and

Simple alpha channels question for 3d textures

2002-06-04 Thread Nmuta Jones
Hello everyone again I have a tif image ( a soap bubble) with a transparent background that I created in Fireworks. Fireworks allows for alpha channels to export when you export in tif32 format. (you have to use a transparent matte). So I exported as tif32 and imported for use as a texture for

regarding clonemodelfromcastmember woes

2002-06-02 Thread Nmuta Jones
pointed me to this command in the first place. but i think he's busy no response. >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Nmuta Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: clonemodelfromcastmember woes >Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 09:37:50 -0500 (CDT) > > >Honestly I've p

clonemodelfromcastmember woes

2002-06-02 Thread Nmuta Jones
clonemodelfromcastmember I have tried using this several times in various forms. I have always tried to preload the member I am cloning the model from. my latest try was on an exitframe handler: (here I am trying to clone a model named "platonic" from the member "platonic" into the member "

re: add to world and visibility

2002-05-25 Thread Nmuta Jones
Tom Thanks for your reply; it is very clear. cloneModelFromCastMember() is definately what I want for this. I am assuming that removing models from a world (instead of just setting visibility to #none) when they are not needed will free up some RAM. In terms of visibility, my set up is so tha

help! using addtoworld

2002-05-23 Thread Nmuta Jones
I have a 3d castmember with a few models in it. I have a model imported via w3d (made in 3dsmax) that I want to import into that 3d castmember that already exists. I want to add just one specific model from the imported castmember into that world. I thought that this code inside of my startmo

aligning camera with model

2002-05-21 Thread Nmuta Jones
hello all 2 questions: I have a simple room with several models in it created in 3ds max that I imported as a w3d file. The entire room and its contents are a little "tilted" in along the x axis I think and maybe a little also on the z axis so that the camera looks down on it in Director fr

the skybox

2002-05-03 Thread Nmuta Jones
The "skybox". http://www.theburrow.co.uk/d85/tuts/skybox01.htm Extremely cool. I suppose, after I render my 6 images from my 3D environments and plop them into this thing, I would have to finally take the plunge and really learn Director 3D in order to put "hotspots" into the environment. I

Re: QT communicating with director.

2002-05-02 Thread Nmuta Jones
Nik and Warren Thanks for your replys to my original post. Warren wrote: The second half of the question is rather vague. When the user does what, precisely? I assume you're talking about a QT file that's running on the Director Stage, yes? If you mean a QT file running in a player separate fr

QT communicating with Director

2002-05-01 Thread Nmuta Jones
Sorry if this has been discussed before. I'm sure it has ;) Is there any way for a quicktime movie, when it is done playing or when the user does something, to communicate with Director? I have a QT movie that is 4 min long inside of director. i need a way for it to trigger something in the

can't get QT VR to look right

2002-04-27 Thread Nmuta Jones
I'm not sure if this is more of a QuickTime question or a Bryce question. Everytime I create QuickTime VR movies with Bryce, the VR pan looks very unrealistic. I don't know how to describe it...it's almost like the image is printed on a big flat ribbon, and as I scroll to the left and right, t

good interactive media school

2002-04-24 Thread Nmuta Jones
What are the best programs in interactive media in the NYC, NJ, PA area. (Preferably Philadelphia)? OR a good distance learning program. I am specifically looking at game design. I went to an orientation at the Art Institute of Philadelphia a few years ago. They talked a little about Direc

I might need CD ROM consultant

2002-04-16 Thread Nmuta Jones
A client of mine (a university program) is shopping for a developer to do a CD ROM presenation. They have an in-house media production unit that is part of the university but they apparently are very expensive. I got a hint that they may be asking me soon about me doing it. I might place a bid

Re: flash tracks in quicktime

2002-04-12 Thread Nmuta Jones
Heidi I am on the digest, so I don't know whether or not your question has been answered. I made a Flash track and tried to pass variables into Director with on GetUrl handler but the variables did not pass, which seems to confirm what you have been told, at least thru THAT method. However, I

RE: How do I learn lingo scripting?

2002-04-10 Thread Nmuta Jones
I just started learning Lingo in December of last year, and thanks to a few good books, Warren Ockrassa, Grimmwerks, and several others on this list now feel pretty comfortable with it. I had a good deal of Flash actionscripting experience,though, and some Javascript. I guess a pertinent quest

QuickTime vs.Bitmap sequence in Director

2002-04-09 Thread Nmuta Jones
I have several 3D animation sequences that I can export either as a quicktime movie or as bitmap sequences. This is all being packed inside of a Director Projector. QT compression would be Sorensen 3 with a maximum 150 KB per second . Which would be faster-- 1. Bitmap sequences in Director 2.

clarification: prepare vs. enter frame

2002-04-05 Thread Nmuta Jones
dmn! ok i forgot to mention a detail in my last post. Prepare frame DOES work for that script. The problem comes in where I have a button that will jump you to the frame BEFORE the frame in question. After you have jumped there, and it encounters the on prepareframe handler, I get the error,

enterframe yes but prepareframe no

2002-04-05 Thread Nmuta Jones
hello all I have a script for a game. It's a board game, and it has a flash game board with movie clips for the game pieces. I use movie clips because it is very easy to move them back and forth using tell target according to their most recent promotion/demotion. Anyway, everytime a player visit

3Dgroove , Havok

2002-03-11 Thread Nmuta Jones
What's the deal with 3D groove? Do they only deal with people who are working on a "major game title"? I have phoned and emailed them about information regarding their product with no luck after more than a week. >From a bird's eye view I like what they have because it seems to run fairly fas

disregard last message--i got it

2002-03-08 Thread Nmuta Jones
i got it. fyi, this works: global gconverter gConverter= value ("#" & (ganimalname))--concatenates stuff put getprop(ginventorylist[gturn], gConverter)--extracts value that retrieves the value I want. sorry to bother. nj _ Ch

simple prop list question

2002-03-08 Thread Nmuta Jones
OK I have narrowed the problem down to its simplest form. where gturn is a variable for the turn of a current player, Director will recognize put ginventorylist[gturn].fish -- (fish is a property in the proplist) but it WONT do put ginventorylist[gturn].ganimal -- (ganimal is a variable that i

clarification: STRINGS don't need to be strings.

2002-03-07 Thread Nmuta Jones
sorry. accidentally sent the last message before it was through. well, essentially the issue was this: IN FLASH I DID: geturl(&dog&questions) this passes those two variables to Director which picks it up with this handler on the Flash: on getUrl me, theList global ganimalname the itemdeli

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2002-03-07 Thread Nmuta Jones
I was able to solve the problem one other way, but I am interested in your way also. But I should have clarified: the Flash file has 10 buttons. So the handler on Director could not have such specific instructions. Hence sending it all from Flash. What I used was this: in flash i did: ge

Sending variables from Flash

2002-03-06 Thread Nmuta Jones
I made a Flash button that sends the following command to Director: on (release) { getURL ("lingo: go to frame \"questions\""); } that works. but also, I need to set a global variable in the process. What's the syntax. tia nj >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To

Flash MX--less likely to slow Director projectors?

2002-03-05 Thread Nmuta Jones
I am wondering aloud if Flash MX will work better with Director in terms of animation speed. Having started with Flash, I must admit that it is easier for me to create animations in Flash and then import them into Director. One thing I like about Flash is how easy it is to create multiple "nest

Quick Time loading question

2002-02-25 Thread Nmuta Jones
After looking through the QuickTime section on Apple's site, I still have not figured out the loading process for a quicktime movie that loads off a CD. Everything there seems to speak to QuickTime loading off of a web site. (Progressive download, streaming, etc.) I am creating two or three Q

QuickTime and Projectors question

2002-02-21 Thread Nmuta Jones
I am considering creating a movie that uses QuickTime VR (Panoramic). The version to be used would be Quick Time 3, which is fairly common. Macromedia's Director support section says that bundling the Xtra with the movie can create problems for certain end users. Are there any disadvantages o

how do u concatenate vars inside repeat loop?

2002-02-10 Thread Nmuta Jones
Hello This is something that seems fairly simple...but I'm not doing it right. I am building a simple game where the user enters number of players which is stored as gnumPlayers. then a repeat loop is used to set up several things for each player, depending on how many players there are. ever

how do u concatenate vars inside repeat loop?

2002-02-10 Thread Nmuta Jones
Hello This is something that seems fairly simple...but I'm not doing it right. I am building a simple game where the user enters number of players which is stored as gnumPlayers. then a repeat loop is used to set up several things for each player, depending on how many players there are. ever