http://thecoho.net Swimming upstream since 1978 Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:24:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en EXAMPLE : AS3, blitting A.L.I., the grant funded department at UNT where I work, missed a grant cycle, which basically means we were shutting down. Things a went a little crazy, people freaked, the boss man left,meanwhile I made this with no supervision or direction. The edugame centers around the idea making ... http://thecoho.net/2010/06/24/733/ Thought I'd post the beta version of a project I've been working on, mostly because it makes me chuckle. It also, for represents a major shift in thinking and ability. I've been able to make things quirky, fun and actually have a sense of style for a while now, but I've ... http://thecoho.net/2010/06/23/same-idea-6-months-later/ Hey, wouldn't be nice if you could make sensors easily in quickbox2d (which is already fantastic and easy). Well, you can, and here's how, really easily. I'd post the source code, but if you haven't figured it out by yourself, you  might need the practice tinkering (besides Zevan will add ... http://thecoho.net/2010/06/14/simple-quickbox2d-sensors/ Had some down time at the new job. It's been so long since I've done any animation I wanted to see how rusty I was, So I busted out the cartoon smart tutorials and found a great laser tutorial HERE. Our department's name is CLEAR, and this is a ... http://thecoho.net/2010/05/28/cheesy-laser-blast-and-cartoon-smart-fire/ This page contains updates of assets as I create for the PILLAGE project. Feel free to download anything and use it at your leisure. CLICK THE IMAGES TO SEE A WEB DEMO 12-30-2009 ROCK, OKTOKING DEATH 2d contraints turns out the unity packager isnt getting all of the associated assets - ... http://thecoho.net/2009/12/29/pillage-assets-page/ again for PILLAGE! catapult game. this package parses an xml file to create object on the screen relative to the "castleHolder" position. import the package. create a ground plane (a big one) at (0,0,0) and then drag the "castleHolder" prefab onto the world view. it's y should 0 but X ... http://thecoho.net/2009/12/27/unity3d-xml-level-parser/ A small group of friends and I are making a Unity3d based catapult game. It needs a level editor, which i plan to do in Unity itself, but I'm still much faster in flash and AS3. So I spend a few hours and through together this flash based level editor for ... http://thecoho.net/2009/12/27/box2d-quickbox2d-based-level-editor/ In an effort to use wordpress as a back end and flash as the front end for my portfolio, I did a bunch of reading and testing. XMLRPC test. PHP ones. Then I just started using the built in RSS2.0 feed. Couldn't be simpler, and you can drill down to ... http://thecoho.net/2009/12/07/flash-front-end-part-1/ [stextbox id="custom" caption="Some Caption"]Highlighted text and/or short code(s)[/stextbox] http://thecoho.net/2009/11/29/drop-down-test/ There's a wonderful 3d drawing application called RHONDA (probably made in openframeworks go there NOW!) that recently came out.It's pretty cool, and I read several requests on their board asking for a web viewer. Well, with flash not dealing so well with 10k+ data sets, I made a Rhonda file ... http://thecoho.net/2009/11/02/rhonda-unity-based-webviewer/