Hynds|Studio » Experimental http://www.bchynds.com 3d computer animation, open source technology, software application development, IT network security, and random awesomeness! Sun, 07 Aug 2011 00:34:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Compiled BWToolkit, Mac OSX 10.5 for PowerPC http://www.bchynds.com/2010/06/04/compiled-bwtoolkit-mac-osx-10-5-for-powerpc/ http://www.bchynds.com/2010/06/04/compiled-bwtoolkit-mac-osx-10-5-for-powerpc/#comments Fri, 04 Jun 2010 11:21:21 +0000 BrianH http://www.bchynds.com/?p=441 So, I’ve been working on getting back into developing on Mac OS X again (I really want to start developing for the iPad/iPhone), and I’ve been poking at some frameworks here and there to finally get something decently designed for some silly application ideas I have floating around on pen and paper.  Until I can fork out the money to get an Intel Mac Mini (since I can’t play with the iPhone SDK on PowerPC) along with the $99 Apple Developer Fee, I’m slowly learning the ropes on Xcode and Objective-C with my Power Mac G5.  I think learning how to develop on my existing Mac will give me a better advantage of learning how to develop for the iPhone/iPad when the time comes.  I’ve walked through some basic HelloWorld.app tutorials in the past, but never really taken the time to finish a somewhat serious project.  Until now.

The BWToolkit is a great framework to alleviate some stress on designing a great looking user interface.  It’s functionality and ease of use has made it really worth the effort to get compiled on my PowerPC.  The developer (Brandon Walkin) provides an i386 version of BWToolkit.ibplugin 1.2.5 on his website (http://brandonwalkin.com/bwtoolkit/), but I’ve taken the time to compile a working PowerPC version on Mac OS X 10.5.  The following file (BWToolkit.ibplugin) was compiled, tested, and working on my Dual 2.7 GHz PowerMac G5.  Enjoy!

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Game Menu Explained from BrianH on Vimeo.

And the .blend file:

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If you have any questions or comments, feel free to leave a comment below.  Thanks.

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Note: This library is popularly known as “BrianH’s Blender FurLib”.  If you found a broken link to this library, feel free to post a comment on where you found it and I’ll try my best to fix them.  Thank you.

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Here’s a really neat trick to play around with. The particle system has been around for quite some time now and has seen some major improvements. One of it’s great features is collision detection. In this .blend setup, I’ve added 2 planes, a Suzanne object and a camera for rendering. One plane acts as the emitter and the other as the collision surface. The Suzanne is setup to be used for the particle visualization. 1000 particles are emitted over a 30 frame time period (1-30). There is some randomness setting set in the particle system, but it can be improved a lot. Feel free to check out the .blend file and experiment for yourself.

Naturally there are some problems with this setup. The particles don’t always bounce off the surface and sometimes collision isn’t detected until the particle is further into the plane then it should be. I don’t know why this happens, so if you have any ideas feel free to leave a comment.

Note: For further experimentation, you can adjust the collision surface’s damping settings, and/or even add another collision object.

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