Monthly Archives: April 2008

Palma Giovane Masterpiece Painting Antique Bought by Mark Lawrence for £350

Mark Lawrence, an amateur antiques collector from Tilehurst, paid £350 for the small artwork. When he purchased the piece at an antiques shop in Windsor, it was thought that it was the work of Italian painter Palma Vecchio, as that is what it said on the frame. St Jerome in the Wilderness, Jacopo Palma Il [...]

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Zbrush Interface and Optimization Essentials Tutorial Page 1

>> Create a New Folder called “Zbrush_work”. >> Open Zbrush 2. It is advisable to close other applications to get the best performance out of Zbrush. Zbrush has a unique and very flexible interface. >> Hover the cursor over the Standard button on the main interface, to the top-right edge of the Zbrush window. A [...]

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Peter Doig Painting Exhibition Tours London, Paris and Frankfurt.

  Peter Doig (born 1959) is a Scottish-born British artist with international fame in the art world of painting. His style is representative and thus somewhat realistic on initial appearance, in fact there is also an impressionistic quality to some of his work. Peter Doig – Red Boat There is an interesting range of locations [...]

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Original Super Mario Bros World 1-1 Demo Level made in Adobe Director

The original Super Mario Bros World 1-1 was used in this free playable game level (below). I’m using a wide variety of graphics to test out a multi-scrolling platform game engine I’m developing in Adobe Director. This is a work in progress. New and different versions of the game will be posted when they are [...]

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Freely Playable Scrolling Platform Game with Experimental Mouseclick Control

Here you can play the latest version of an experimental free scrolling platform game I’m developing in Adobe Director. The simple platforms are just place holders to test out collisions and scrolling. Screen-shot of this playable prototype demo level from the scrolling platform game project

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Saving user data with SetPref() and GetPref(). File location saved with Lingo in Adobe Director 11

If you are using Adobe Director to create applications or games, or anything at all that has a need for the user to save and load data, you are most likely going to want to use the SetPref() and GetPref() commands. These commands don’t need a separate plugin and they are also Shockwave safe. There [...]

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