Lin Evans Posted February 4, 2012 Report Posted February 4, 2012 Hi folks,An email discussion led me to create a little demo and a tutorial for those who would like to play with the concept of a transparent cube. A transparent cube, in and of itself, would be invisible, however, if we use a border around the transparent sides, it can be seen. We can easily add PNG transparency objects to each side of this cube and outside of these objects, we can see completely through the "cube" to whatever lies beneath. That could be a background, slide, video or whatever. One might ask "why would we want to create a transparent cube?" Good question. My answer is "because we can." Besides, it's fun to play with new ideas and some of you may find a useful animation where such a construct might be entertaining. To that end, I've posted a new tutorial "#32 in the PTE Made Easy" series. Also I've included a "Cube Template" and the transparent side which can be used in your construct.http://www.lin-evans.org/sample/transparentcubedemo.zip (about 18 meg zipped pc exe file)Lin
Lin Evans Posted February 5, 2012 Author Report Posted February 5, 2012 Hey Tom,LOL - Yep - those things look like lots of fun! I can imagine turning one loose in a large mall where you could stand on one of the upper floors and control it and freak out people on lower levels - HA!Lin
Ken Cox Posted February 5, 2012 Report Posted February 5, 2012 HELLO LIN, STEVEN CALLINGI NEED YOUR HAT AND JACKET SIZES - MAILING TICKETSSEE YOU IN THE 'WOOD ))))))))))GREAT DEMO AS USUAL - IGOR SHOULD HAVE IT ON HIS DEMO PAGE INSTED OF SOME OTHERS TO SHOW WHAT CAN BE DONEKEN
Lin Evans Posted February 5, 2012 Author Report Posted February 5, 2012 Hi Ken,Thanks! Just a fun little experiment - not very difficult to do, but different I think. I have to keep my old brain active or undoubtedly will suffer the consequences. Today - I get to listen to the Superbowl on the radio. I dropped my television subscription - too expensive - and only get a few channels now on "rabbit ears" for an antenna so no coverage of major sports, etc. - PTE keeps me busy trying new things for fun, so nothing "serious" gets done, just play. My pups think I'm a bit strange when I "could" be out playing in the 15 inches of fresh snow with them, but hey - I will just reflect on when I was 10 years old and playing in the snow was "fun" LOL. These days making little PTE demos is fun and playing in the snow is just "cold." Maybe someone will find something useful with this construction - or not - it's still fun to play.....Best regards,Lin
Lin Evans Posted February 7, 2012 Author Report Posted February 7, 2012 LOL - what a project that would be! I made a little sample for you to play with:http://www.lin-evans...sample/trio.zipLin
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