ricardocabellov5.5

Had to do a quick-1hour cover for supersole's latest ambient EP last night.

Not sure about the type used, but what I remember from Iceland was a mix of Out-of-this-world landscapes + Weird mix of designs/styles.

Somebody has generously spent quite a bit of time uploading all my tunes to Last.fm.

http://www.last.fm/music/r08028/+albums

Thanks somebody! ;D

After so many "this weekend", "this weekend" promises, the guy that sits every day in front of me ;) at work has finished his new site. And I have to say that I'm well impressed. Specially with the RSS/XSL solution.

http://nuende.com/

Go Theo, go! o/

I was shocked the other day when I started to see on my stats, just one day after I posted the effect, people getting to the site with those queries on Google. That happened mainly with the international version of Google. Didn't work with the Spanish version.

Today, the "Happy 2008" moved down to #2, but "2008 Fireworks" is still #1.

Probably this has something to do.

Probably my last effect this year :(



Thanks for following my blog, and have a great 2008.
Have fun with the sources ;)

UPDATE
Some people were asking for the ColorUtils.as class, so, instead of sending the file by mail, I guess its better to update this post. But, if you want a quick challenge, try to recreate the file by yourself first.

"PHP reserves all function names starting with __ as magical. It is recommended that you do not use function names with __ in PHP unless you want some documented magic functionality."

http://tha.jp/
Maybe this is old news... anyways, simple and original as usual.

Now that we have some shading action with pv3d 2.0, I though it was time to revisit the real materials topic.

John already shown that Bump is now possible, so, testing a bit his code a I came up with something similar, but in this case I'm using Mars, and, guess what, you can change it's shape with a stupidly weird one (tho it's dynamic, yey!).



Next thing on the list was reflections. Not real time ones tho (yet), but Ralph also already shown an example with them. Here it's my version, mixing it with the previous code.



And you may well say, doh! seen it already... Fine... But, what about refraction? :D





Hehe.. it has been kind of fun... Source available from within the effect, (take a look at the top nav). But, apologies this time, there is a lot of stuff commented and unneeded stuff on them (I may clean them later).