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TecMotiv - Military Automotive Supply

November 19th, 2008 | posted by: Thom | posted in Web Design, Work In Progress | No Comments »

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9421768 Automotive Supply
Military Parts Supply
Military Parts Number
Military Automotive Combat and non Combat Supply
Military Automotive Supply

Flash buttons link in external text file

October 28th, 2008 | posted by: Thom | posted in Flash, HTML/CSS, Web Design | 1 Comment »

Let’s say you have 3 buttons inside of flash that link to different web sites and you want to be able to update those links without having to open the .fla file to decompile and then upload the .swf file. With the action script below you can easily open the .txt file and edit the links without ever having to open flash.

//put this script on a frame where all your 3 buttons are located…

textFile = new LoadVars()
textFile.onLoad = function(){
buttonlink1 = this.link1;
buttonlink2 = this.link2;
buttonlink3 = this.link3;
}
textFile.load(”mylink.txt”); // mylink.txt is your external text file

//—actionscript for buttons
//—make sure you have all your buttons instance name added. btn1, btn2 and btn3.

btn1.onRelease = function(){
getURL(buttonlink1, “_self”);
};

btn2.onRelease = function(){
getURL(buttonlink2, “_self”);
};

btn3.onRelease = function(){
getURL(buttonlink3, “_self”);
};
Then this is what you put inside mylink.txt
&link1=http://www.yahoo.com
&link2=http://www.google.com
&link3=http://www.w3schools.com

That’s it..

Thanks to Jungoy!

Back up wordpress SQL database

October 24th, 2008 | posted by: Thom | posted in Personal, Wordpress | 2 Comments »

I always find myself needing to back up my database from time to time and this is a great tutorial. Here

I have tried using other plugins to back up my database before but I find some errors when I restore the database. From now on I have to go straight to myphpadmin and do it manually.

New Workstation

August 20th, 2008 | posted by: Thom | posted in Personal | No Comments »

I’m thinking of buying a new computer, I’ll probably buy one real soon. I have been using my current computer for the past 4-5 years (P4 2.8 GHz with 2GB ram, western digital 36GB 10 000rpm and a nVIDIA Quadro FX 3400 APG Video Card. The video card which was brought early this year, but never really use it with 3D Max.

I’m looking at getting a real workstation system this time. A HP XW8400 3GHz Dual Core Xeon, 2GB ram ,160GB RAID, FX3500 PCI-E and there is an empty spot for another cpu for later upgrade. My current system can pretty much handle most of my web design projects, didn’t really have any trouble with Photoshop and Dreamweaver or Flash, but anyone can use a faster workstation when you’re working with 3D.

So, I’m looking forward for more 3D updates in the coming future :) …and hopefully I’ll finish working on Mean Machine…and wow my first post in almost 2 years. What can I say, it felt like someone lock me up all these years…

I’ll give a review on the new workstation after I have it…

New Character - Mean Machine Update 4

November 26th, 2006 | posted by: Thom | posted in 3D, Work In Progress | No Comments »

3D Character Modeling Update - WIP 3D Character Modeling Update - Work In Progress Mean Machine 3D Modeling WIP 3D Character Modeling Update - WIP2  
Still have to finish off the arm and thats about it for modeling. After that I want to rig his body and face. Also skinning and of course texturing him. Zbrush will be the next stage for adding more finer details. I already have another character on the drawing board for my next character. :)