Most database management systems provide easier and faster ways of extracting information from their tables. The common denominator of these methods is SQL, the Structured Query Language built into these systems. SQL is a full-service language for maintaining information in a database and worthy of study in its own right. However, we'll pick and choose the features as we need them rather than...
With nCloth, Maya users finally have a simple method for handling falling leaves. One can also easily attach leaves to branches and have the attachments broken by windforces by using nCloth constraints with glue strength. The basic workflow is very simple. Make a paint effects tree, convert it to poly, select the leaves and make nCloth. What follows is a more detailed tutorial.
There are just a couple more things that we should do with our AddressBook class.
One of the problems that beginners face when entering the world of adobe illustrator is proper positioning of the vector control points.
The first edition of this book both introduced the C language to the world and set a standard for clear language tutorials with a consistant style of presentation. The second edition accounted for changes in C introduced by the ANSI C standard. However, as with any short work, these books provide little advice about structuring large programs or other software engineering issues, and the C style...
A ten-year-old working at home without help should be writing programs in Pascal, using FPC (Free Pascal) after applying him or herself to the following... if I've done it right! For those of you who are NOT new to programming, may I ask you to skim through the "Level One" material anyway? There are some things you might find useful. I'm working on a Windows 98 machine. Windows 95 or the...
Greetings everyone. So I've had a number of people approach me here at school about a method I've been using to break my Miss_fast_skin_maya subsurface shader into render layers so I have near absolute control of it in compositing, so I though I'd write up a tutorial here to share.
If you quit from the Python interpreter and enter it again, the definitions you have made (functions and variables) are lost. Therefore, if you want to write a somewhat longer program, you are better off using a text editor to prepare the input for the interpreter and running it with that file as input instead. This is known as creating a script. As your program gets longer, you may want to split...
This tutorial will show you how to make an similar photo. We will work with these tools: Layers and layer styles, masking and brushes. You don't need to be an expert in Photoshop, but some basic knowledge in how too use layers and masks would be nice.
In this tutorial you will learn how to create a watch from scratch in Adobe Photoshop. I will guide you step by step until it is complete.
We all know that you really shouldn't try to run Windows XP on anything less that about a Pentium 3 of some sort if you are out for speedy operations and amazing reaction times, but for those of us with the good old Pentium 2's who want to see just how well we can run XP, we have to tweak as much as we can where-ever we can. A real killer to the system's performance is Windows Media Player
In this tutorial you will learn step by step how to create raindrop text over a picture you choose.
Pick a cell, any cell. Ostensibly, this tutorial is about using code to select a cell of a string grid at run time. Along the way, some more generally important material arises concerning using references to Delphi created objects, e.g. the object in "sender" arising from Delphi created event handlers.
he process for counting visitors to a Web site is problematic. The difficulty is in deciding just Who is a visitor? or What is a visitor? or When is a visitor? On the surface it might sound easy. Simply tally a visitor whenever the person accesses a page at your site. However, this doesn't work because you end up over-counting the person who wanders from page to page.
The following tutorial describes various common methods for reading and writing files and directories on a Unix system. Part of the information is common C knowledge, and is repeated here for completeness. Other information is Unix-specific, although DOS programmers will find some of it similar to what they saw in various DOS compilers. If you are a proficient C programmer, and know everything...