CornFlex, Script by Q.

Unity3D Tron Legacy Disc Kinect Prototype

Quentin Lengelé — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 11:20:22 +0000

1 corridor, 6 boxes with colliders, no gravity, some blue lights and lazer wall textures, a homemade ThrowScript for Kinect Skeleton and a homemade Glow Shader for disc neon material and TrailRenderer.

Next steps:

Replace hit circles plane with a decal
Add sound effects
Do a complete game

Voxel Engines, The Future is volumetric!

Quentin Lengelé — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 10:11:08 +0000

I don’t need to tell you how many hours I lost to build stuff in the world of Notch… If you didn’t try yet, trust me, don’t install Minecraft

After breaking thousands of voxel blocks and creating voxels from OBJ and 3DS format, I was curious to know more about this technology and I found some interesting coming stuff:

Euclideon & Unlimited Detail

I don’t really like the way they present their software but it seems to run only on CPU and at least it’s a more accurate explaination than the video before.

Atomontage

For me, it is much better than Euclideon engine… there are animations, physics, … seems much more advanced.

C++ Kinect Experience

Quentin Lengelé — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 00:18:03 +0000

It’s 2 o’clock in the morning and I just finished a cool Cinder application.

After testing a C++ library using Microsoft Kinect SDK for some days, I got difficulties to match a Kinect skeleton on the camera image.

But now, I think it’s quiet good and I made a tool to calibrate the device in every type of room.

So…I built a simple particle emitter following the left hand of the kinect skeleton and put some gravity on it, with floor level.

Result is quiet funny

Next step: do the same and adapt for MSA Fluid

Shader in Google Street View

Quentin Lengelé — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 09:53:39 +0000

This is a real nice stuff done with Cinder and it can be really useful to generate skyboxes dynamically.
You can add your own shader script to do your own effect.

Check this:

http://notlion.github.com/streetview-stereographic/#o=-.074,.008,0,.997&z=1.8&mz=17&mt=hybrid&p=50.79590,4.41774

The Ultimate 3DS Max Plugins

Quentin Lengelé — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 11:18:13 +0000

For some weeks now, I’m learning techniques to get wonderful results with 3DSMax 2012.
I spent hours on Google to find the good plugin to do the right effect…
There is a list of the best and highly professional plugins I found:

Di-O-Matric Character Pack 1.5

This plugin helps you to build realistic rigged and textured heads with emotions and phonemes management.
It also can match a wav sound file to make your character talking.

http://www.di-o-matic.com/products/plugins/characterPack/

ThinkBox Frost MX & ThinkBox Krakatoa MX

Build wonderful particles effect by yourself better than Holiwood studios… it is possible now with ThinkBox softwares.

http://www.thinkboxsoftware.com/

RayFire 1.57

RayFire Tool gives you the ability to fragment, destroy, demolish, wreck, break down, wreak havoc, blow up, burst, detonate, explode and do other similar things you have always dreamed of to do in Max…

http://rayfirestudios.com/

V-Ray 2.0

V-Ray 2.0 for 3ds Max is a fast rendering solution, which combines the power of the distinguished V-Ray rendering engine with the flexibility and unprecedented speed of the interactive rendering system V-Ray RT, now running on GPUs.

http://www.chaosgroup.com/en/2/vray.html

Brazil Rio 2.0

Brazil r/s is the industry standard for high-end quality, flexibility, reliability, and artist-friendly workflow in 3ds Max.

http://www.splutterfish.com

Nvidia PhysX 2.7

The next-generation PhysX plug-in for Autodesk 3ds Max (Version 2.6) is currently in public beta. The beta release features:

Rigid bodies, constraints, and ragdolls and APEX Clothing.
First-class toolbar and menu for creating and controlling the simulation.
Modifier-based workflow.
Physical material system for sharing and adjusting physics properties on many objects at once.
Ragdolls that derive collision volumes from a skinned mesh.
Bake simulation results to keyframes for offline rendering.
Support for 3ds Max 2009, and 2010, and 2011 both 32-bit and 64-bit.

http://developer.nvidia.com/physx-dcc

Kinect in Unity3D with OpenNI in 4 Steps

Quentin Lengelé — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:21:49 +0000

After installing many different stuff to get it working, I can now explain the steps in a much more short way than all the blog posts I found on the subject.

First of all, you need to know directly all the softwares you will install must be in 32bit version.
It is possible to install OpenNI and PrimeSense in x64 but as Unity is running in x86 you will only just be able to run native OpenNI examples… But that’s not what we want.

Here are the steps:

1. Download OpenNI, NITE and UnityWrapper

Goto http://www.openni.org/Downloads/OpenNIModules.aspx

Take these files:

OpenNI Binaries > Unstable > OpenNI Unstable Build for #yourplatform#
OpenNI Compliant Middleware Binaries > Unstable > PrimeSense NITE Unstable Build for #yourplatform#
OpenNI Compliant Middleware Binaries > Unstable > PrimeSense Unity Wrapper Unstable Build

2. Download PrimeSense Driver

Clone a git repository at https://github.com/avin2/SensorKinect
Goto /Bin/ folder and choose an installer for your platform

3. Install software order (Important)

Install OpenNI
Install PrimeSense Driver
Install PrimeSense NITE

4. Unpack the OpenNI Unity Wrapper package in an empty Unity Project

Enjoy your development!