This is a simple explosion. Only particle system and some lines of code. The ball has been scatter in several pieces and then instance all pieces to the initial particles.

A incandescence as been added through a ramp shader.

Inside of the particleCoudShader I put the Diffuse Coefficient to 0, and even with this option turned off, the render took me about 15min each frame with mental ray.

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The nucleus solver is tool that can handle pouring liquids results. To these example I tried to recreate a rain system, with some tweaks and tests I found easy way to attract the particles to some object.

A plane has been setup to emit particles, the rain particles will die when they collide with the sphere “lifespanPP =0″, that event will create one particle without any speed. That second particle will create event witch will produce more 20 particles.

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In this scene I tried to recreate a underwater ambient 100% procedural, all done in maya. I used nParticles with the new solver Nucleus for the school of fish and for the plants. Each fish contain forces and field to push and pull other fishs and plants close to them.

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Today I had a small problem with java, and I leave here my solution to help others who are in the same situation.

Here I give you a small trick to replace backslash special caracter to another caracter in Java. If you are doing some project, and you need to replace a backslash “\” with the forward slash “/”, you will notice you can´t do this in the normal way.

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This tutorial introduces you to GWT. You can do develop GWT apps without any IDE, but it is really helpful if you use one. I choose Eclipse with Cypal Studio for GWT (which was earlier known as Googlipse) to walk thru this tutorial.

Requirements:

• You need the latest GWT. You can download it at here. Make sure you download the latest version.
• Download and install Eclipse 3.4 with WTP 2.0. You can get it here.
• You need a Java 1.5 VM to run Eclipse. You can get it here.
• Download Cypal Studio for GWT from here and extract it to your eclipse directory.

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#!/bin/bash

wget http://google-web-toolkit.googlecode.com/files/gwt-linux-1.5.3.tar.bz2 -P /tmp
tar xjf /tmp/gwt-linux-1.5.3.tar.bz2 -C /tmp
sudo mv /tmp/gwt-linux-1.5.3 /opt/gwt-linux

Some of my good friends from the university have recently to setup upcoming event calendar on Drupal 6.x. I spent some time trying to help them and I had a hard time finding instructions…..so here’s my experience…

I used this modules:

• Date
• Calendar
• Views
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