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Temple scene with Maya Fluids, Particle Dynamics and Realflow Meshes
Here is a brief demonstration of Maya fluids, particle dynamics and Nurbs combined together to create an early morning Temple scene effect. The light source is being animated with soft body particle...
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Alsa Driver for JDKMidi with RtMidi on Linux using C++0x Futures
One of the questions that I come across developers asking frequently is "what is the best C++ MIDI library". It often goes unanswered unequivocally. The reason being, despite the presence of numerous...
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Getting started with Cross-platform development
They say if you do not eat, drink, sleep C/C++ - then the chances are you are not a real developer. Is it? May be, may be not. But certainly if you have not done cross-platform development or design,...
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Cross-platform Development Part 1: Few tools and libraries to get started with
Continuing from Getting started , here we will see some of the basic tools and libraries that one should be acquainted with to make the cross platform development fun and easy (while respecting the...
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Never Even number for Multi-Monitor Bezel Correction
With latest NVidia Surround Vision and AMD Eyefinity advances combined with PCI-Express SLI and CrossFire facilities, multi-monitor setups at home and small firms have become a breeze (Couple of videos...
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Dealing with Qt out-of-order focusoutevent bug
Some call it as feature, others treat it as bug - be what it may, you still have to address this if your application depends on the order of events in Qt.Consider the case where you have a QLineEdit...
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Building ZeroMQ for R (rzmq) with Visual Studio (Express/Full)
rzmq (ZeroMQ for R) is available only in source form on CRAN for Windows platform. So its upto you to build and install it as a binary package. Here are few steps to help achieve that with Visual...
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Make Vectorize your friend in R
Old habits die hard. For someone coming from linear programming models such as C++ or Java, it takes quite a bit of effort before a fully-compliant R functions can be developed. The major pit-fall is,...
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Convert igraph R objects to Gexf GePhi format
GePhi has interesting visualization capabilities built around graphs - and igraph is one of the widely used graph processing libraries for R. But there is no straightway to combine these two at present...
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Correcting Sector build errors
If you are building Sector on Ubuntu or Mint, you might encounter three kinds of errors: One about ::close() in tcpTransport.cpp at line 157, next about usleep, and the other about SSL.SSL related...
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How to create and manipulate Terabyte size Arrays with Win32API
If you are looking for a way of creating and accessing very large arrays, arrays that can handle content in the order of Tera Bytes, then probably you might find the File Mapping techniques useful for...
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Having trouble with PoserFusion Shelf in Maya?
If you are encountering errors with Poser Fusion shelf buttons in Maya such as "Error: No Selection, or the Currently Selected object is not linked to a Poser file", then try the below steps and see if...
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Tracking C++ variable state changes
Tracking class variables' state changes can be tricky, especially if we are using too many asynchronous constructs. This is especially true for game and graphic application scenarios where hundreds and...
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How to find the Shading Groups for a Shape node in Maya API?
Given the DagPath for any Mesh object, listing the Shading Groups connected to it is easy. The MFnMesh::getConnectedSetsAndMembers() will do the trick as shown below: MStatus ListShadingGroups(const...
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Displaying the currently selected components with MSelectionList
The MGlobal::getActiveSelectionList() offers a convenient way of accessing the currently selected objects in the view. However, if you wish to find the selected components then you need to use the...
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Listing the codecs intalled on the machine
Often an application requires to list all the Audio/Video compressors installed on the machine. We can achieve this easily with the ICreateDevEnum interface available from DirectShow. ICreateDevEnum...
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How to make my water surface animate in Vue?
When a Water object is added to the Vue scene, it will be in a staic form without any animation applied to its surface. If you would like to have the water surface animated, then we have to enable its...
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How to make QT SDK work with VisualStudio (Express/Complete)
You can use the following steps to make QT SDK work with your Visual Studio (either express version or commercial version). Download the QT SDK from http://qt.nokia.com/downloads/sdk-windows-cpp If you...
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Maya 2010 to include Compositing and Camera Tracking Tools
Autodesk, as usual, announced its next version of Maya at Siggraph. The interesting part, however, is the range of tools planned to be shipped as part of it: Maya Composite high dynamic range...
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Fixing JDKMidi to auto sort MIDI Events
After reviewing many existing C/C++ MIDI libraries, it appears JDKMidi seems to be the one having the features required by many midddlware libraries. However, JDKMIDI library (as of Revision 560)...
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