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70Papervision 3D programming tutorial - Depth of Field
In photography depth of field refers to the area that is in focus. You’ll see this effect a lot in landscape photographs where an object in the foreground (say a tree) is in focus while the background (like...
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66Papvervision 3D programming tutorial - Casting Shadows
Papervision doesn’t have native support for shadowing built in (yet), but the guys over at http://blog.zupko.info/?p=146 have present a neat little solution for displaying shadows onto a plane....
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68Papvervision 3D programming tutorial - Photo Cloud
In 3D applications mouse picking refers to the process of determining the object that lies directly underneath the mouse cursor. In a 2D environment this is a very simple task as the 2D coordinates of the...
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62Papervision 3D Programming Tutorial - Photo Slide
Building off the Photo Cloud sample is this 3D photo slide application. It utilises the mouse picking functionality provided by the PickableObject and PickableObjectManager classes to detect which of the...
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69Papervision 3D Programing Tutorial - 3D Spectrum Analyser
The SoundMixer.computeSpectrum function available in Flash allows developers to access the frequencies being played by the SWF file as a whole at any given point in time. This can be used to create a spectrum...
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63Specified port is unknown - Printer Error
When installing a USB printer for a client recently I found that the installation failed with a "specified port is unknown" error. After much mucking around I found that the cleanspl.exe program had been run...
2 comments68Synaptics touchpad Vista error
I recently had to work on two Vista laptops where the touchpad had stopped working. The laptops were from different manufacturers, but both used a Synaptics touchpad. The device manager showed a...
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