How to create an Away3D bitmap material than enables bitmap transformation and shading?

The result is:

In Away3D 2.4 you can get only Phong shading by using a CompositeMaterial with two layers, one being a TransformBitmapMaterial, and one a white or gray PhongColorMaterial for the shade. You can not get the faster flat shading, because WhiteShadingBitmapMaterial does not implement ILayerMaterial. In Away3D 2.3 you can get both Phong [...]

How to create some crazy materials with Away3D?

Away3D offers the CompositeMaterial class that allows to combine different material layers into one, using different compositing modes. (Note that this applies to Away3D 3.4; in version 2.4, the concept is split so that you have a class BitmapMaterialContainer additionally, which is only for cached materials, that is those that are not changed once applied.)

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On irresponsible parenthood

I think it’s irresponsible to be fond of children because they’re light-hearted and unburdened.

Yea really; if people feel the adult world as a burden, but don’t fix that world, instead glorify childhood until their children grow up and suffer from that same world.

What a poor surrogate: money

A paid day job makes me feel like a bee: they take away what I have been working for, and give me a cheap surrogate. They take the honey and give me money …

I mean, really: the most rewarding thing of work is to experience the personal, immediate benefit effectuated by the work done. [...]

Systems perspective on people

On persons as systems

What’s really interesting, and I am not aware of anybody who has researched into it, is how do people work as personalities from a systems perspective? Every person can be seen as a psychodynamic system; to maintain proper operation, motivation, enjoyment, relaxation etc. are needed and have to come from some [...]

How to use HBCI / FinTS within a Ruby on Rails application?

FinTS 3.0 is actually a remaining of HBCI 2.2, and is meant to be the successor of HBCI that way. The technical details do not deviate that much, so that it can be expected that HBCI open source implementations will integrate FinTS in the future.

For the best discussion about this that I found so [...]

What can be the reason if an Intel(R) PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI adapter does no longer work in Windows XP?

Symptoms: the Windows XP WLAN connection icon always shows “connecting”, and the router’s event log will show many events about “authorization failed”. Probably, using a WLAN connection without encryption is still possible (according to a forum report), but that has not been tested. Also, the “list available WLANs” function does not work on any call [...]

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