This tutorial covers ways to create a terrain and control a flow of particle moving on the terrain in Virtools. Textured dunes: download at http://www.tinkering.net/sciviz/terraindune.cmo The landscape is created With Dune color, for texture and with Dune black-and-white, for displacement map. Please note that the pictures can be created in Photoshop or from a digital […]

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This tutorial explains how to export a Maya scene including animated objects with simple keyframes. It uses the Virtools plug-in directly loaded in Maya. The Scene in Maya Load the “mountains.ma” scene in the tutorial’s “scenes” file into Maya. To do so, place “mountains.ma” directly in your Maya “/scenes” directory. Then place the 4 textures […]

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When creating animations, you should be very careful what you do with the FloorRef. When walking or running, the character should stay at a constant height from the FloorRef object. When jumping, the Character should increase it’s distance from the FloorRef object to give the appearance of translation away from the floor. Characters should ALSO […]

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When the first edition of Hacking Exposed was released, everyone was pouring into the latest dot-com and preparing for their inevitable IPO. Times were good, and new technologies were being developed at a torrid pace. Well, as we all know, those days of starting a dot-com and taking a private company public in 12 months […]

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This article shows how a network analyzer, historically used for network troubleshooting, can also be used to defend against the security threats. Certain features of a network analyzer can be set to monitor for virus and attack signatures and offer quick ways of isolating infected systems. For those organizations that are looking to invest in […]

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The Federal Aviation Administration was hacked and unpublished information on airport passenger screening activities was downloaded.The group known as “The Deceptive Duo” also publicly defaced the FAA site used by the Civil Aviation Security organization.They also used information extracted from the database to post the name of the FAA inspector, screener ID number, number of […]

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When the concept of a network without wires was first suggested more than two decades ago, it sparked the imagination of scientists, product vendors, and users around the globe eager for the convenience and flexibility of a free roaming conection. Unfortunately, as the variety of wireless solutions began to emerge, anticipation turned to disappointment.The first […]

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If you are new to programming in the Java TM language, have some experience with other languages, and are familiar with things like displaying text or graphics or performing simple calculations, this tutorial could be for you. It walks through how to use the Java® 2 Platform software to create and run three common types […]

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