More With the JiglibFlash Terrain

by Devon O.· March 17, 2010· in Flash· 0 comments tags: jiglib, jiglibflash, terrain
Playing around a bit more with the animated JiglibFlash terrain idea from my last post, I wanted to see how it would work in conjunction with a webcam. So, needless to say, you’ll need a webcam to check out the results below. The trouble, I’ve found, is that when you create the JTerrain instance, you specify the number of horizontal and vertical segments to create (similar to instantiating a simple Plane object in Papervision3D). Unfortunately, my experience is that if you go over about 12 or 13 segments, the application begins to chew through memory like skittles. So, stuck with using only 12 horizontal/vertical segments, the results are fairly abstract (with 50 or more, you can see a clear definition of your face but, again, you can’t run it very long before it freezes up and eventually crashes). Still, even in an abstract way, the finished product is pretty cool and kind of spooky. With a little luck, the JiglibFlash guys will run across these posts and implement this animation feature in a more optimized way rather than my half assed hack job. We’ll see. Still working on a jiglib ragdoll idea…
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Some Windchimes and More from FOTB

by Devon O.· September 26, 2009· in Flash, Life· 4 comments tags: flash on the beach, fotb, jiglib, jiglibflash, papervision3d
So I got an idea into my head while at Flash on the Beach. This quick example I made pretty much has nothing to do with it, but it’s a first draft prototype of what I was thinking of. Anyway, check out these windchimes made with jiglibflash and pv3d. Use your mouse to orbit around a little and to see the chimes in action, blow into your microphone (okay, so you can talk, shout, or thump on the mic, if you’d like, but they’re windchimes – why ruin the illusion). One thing I noticed about jiglib is that it seems to register collisions (using the RigidBody.collisions array) even when there aren’t any. Need to look into that, and if anyone has better suggestions for collision detection with jiglib, post ’em here. And for those interested, here’s a few more videos and pictures from Flash on the Beach ’09. Maybe someday I’ll join the rest of the world and get a Flickr and/or Youtube account for stuff like this… Here’s a nice video of Joa Ebert demonstrating his Java to .swf compiler. Still blown away by this. After 9 minutes of typing (on a completely unmarked/black keyboard!) Joa hits the compile […]
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JiblibFlash + Augmented Reality (Take Three)

by Devon O.· May 26, 2009· in Actionscript, Flash· 13 comments tags: augmented reality, jiglib
Well here’s one more take. Now there’s two levels – you’ll bounce back and forth between them as you get through each maze. I made everything a bit smaller which improves cpu usage and also makes it easier to see. Also (hopefully) fixed it so that it will be viewable on Macs (Don’t know why Apple makes it so difficult to target the default webcam of a Mac, but man, what a pain). Once again, the marker can be found here. I’m still not happy with how the movement is accomplished. It takes a whole lot of mucking around to get a good movement based on the AR transformation system, but it works. Mostly… While not as clean as I normally like my code, it’s all posted below, if you’d like to try it out.. You’ll have to supply your own materials as well as flartoolkit, papervision3d, and jiglib libraries, but other than that, it’s all there. Enjoy The two maze levels and their interface: [crayon-6144ecb31d8a2135421237/] [crayon-6144ecb31d8ad281991837/] [crayon-6144ecb31d8b0431939091/] Not perfectly decoupled, but the FlarObject handles most of the AR stuff, while the MazeScene handles the PV3d and Jiglib stuff. [crayon-6144ecb31d8b3882099776/] [crayon-6144ecb31d8b5812688039/] And finally the Main class to tie it all […]
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Devon O. Wolfgang

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