Comments for David E Jones a web developer with a passion for problem solving

Comment on setting page titles and meta tags in cakephp 1.3 by prahalad

prahalad — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 17:24:37 +0000

Setting meta descriptions and keywords in the controller are step by step explained in the questionfriends site: http://questionfriends.com/questions/4f9986b46a4f0/how-to-set-meta-keywords-and-description-in-cakephp-controller

Comment on add lighting to the minecraft character by davidejones

davidejones — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:56:31 +0000

you should be able to apply the vertexlightmaterial to any mesh so it should work with geospheres. Note that this blog post is using alternativa3d 7

Comment on add lighting to the minecraft character by Matt

Matt — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:16:27 +0000

Nice post. Do you know if the vertex light material can be applied to geospheres?

Comment on nivo slider hiding images before loading by ThePath

ThePath — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:19:09 +0000

Awesome but you know I put it to adifferent use.

I use the WP plugin version and I had set the slider to display with no theme. I noticed that it had no loading image and the images jumped about a bit on loading. Even when I added a loading gif to the css it may no difference. I used a modified version of your code above and it loads the first image and waits for all the others to load before starting the slideshow.

Thanks, this really was a big help

Comment on MovieMaterial with alternativa3d 8 by Chris

Chris — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 02:16:43 +0000

Well if I have time today, I’ll try it with my engine.

Comment on MovieMaterial with alternativa3d 8 by davidejones

davidejones — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 02:09:55 +0000

It certainly sounds faster, i’m not sure if i’ll have much time to try it out but if i do i’ll probably make a new post with it.

Comment on MovieMaterial with alternativa3d 8 by Chris

Chris — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 01:28:34 +0000

I forgot to ask something though…
Do you think it would be faster if you had a bigger texture?

You could use a 2048×2048 (or less…) sized texture that could contain 64 256×256 images.
If you needed more than 64 frames you would use a different texture containing the rest of the images.
Then just move the UV data around.
Correct?

I just wonder if setting a texture the size of 2048×2048 would be faster than just constantly uploading bitmapData.

Think you could test that out for me?

Comment on MovieMaterial with alternativa3d 8 by Chris

Chris — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 01:05:52 +0000

Nice.
It’s always awesome to see an animated texture.

Comment on clearing your dns cache by davidejones

davidejones — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:28:45 +0000

Hey i’m sorry but i haven’t had much experience doing those things so i don’t think i can really help there. I’m sure you can find the resources online and use my snippet above with it.

Comment on add cakephp .ctp files to notepad++ by irishbloke

irishbloke — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 12:00:41 +0000

been looking how to do this for ages, thanks