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Made some much needed updates to the QueueLoader SVN. Fixed all the minor issues and bugs for QueueLoader as well as added QueueLoaderLite to the SVN. For some reason I can’t upload a source download. So here it is:

So here I am at 9:30 in the morning on Thursday getting ready to head back to New York. I’m a bit sad to report I’m not hung over from attending the Nye’s closing party. I think the combination of exhaustion, the tornado watch, and the need to decompress and write a little code from all the inspiration took precedence over last nights events. Hopefully I’ll see a few familiar faces on the way to the airport today.

Spending time with the likes of Jeremy Thorp, Phil Van Allen, Jared Tarbell, Mark Anders, Andre Michelle, Josh Hirsch, Seb Lee-Delisle, Lisa Larson-Kelly, Mario Klingemann, Nico and Frank, and of course running around with Moses, Jud, and Alan, really made the trip an amazing experience. It was also great meeting the attendees and the many new faces. I think that’s what’s so special about FlashBelt and sets it apart from other conferences. It’s really one big group of people here to chat about what they love to do. Once again I have to thank Moses for letting me be a part of his presentation and enjoy the presenter experience here. It was truly awesome and I hope I get a chance to do it again. I know there’s a few people I didn’t get a chance to meet and connect up with. Big thanks to Dave for hosting the event!

So I hope to take in all this information and inspiration and have some stuff to show soon. There was definitely an artistic and playful undertone to the conference, something I love and hope to spend more time doing. Eric, Jared, and Roger’s work is brilliant and inspiring and you should definitely check out their work if you haven’t in a while.

Getting ready to leave for MN and I’m very excited to be a part of Moses’ presentation at Flashbelt 2008! I will be providing a brief introduction to HydroTween. HydroTween is a multi-purpose tweening parser that runs on top of the Go framework. If you are familiar with ZigoEngine, Fuse, or Tweener, then using HydroTween should be a seamless transition. In this post, you will find the examples shown during the presentation. I’ve also put together an online version of what I will be showing. I was hoping to also include a demonstration of the Making Things controller running a tween on a servo, but my laptop isn’t being cooperative. I will provide a separate post with an update on that as well as a library I am working on for controlling modules.

Back to the subject at hand, here are the 3 examples that I will be showing. The first is an example of generic tweening with most of the basic properties, filters, and image/hsb tweening. The second is a Fuse type example using navigation with multiple tweening properties running at once. The last is a Papervision3D example that is tweening a number of properties including brightness. Thanks to Andy Zupko’s heroic efforts of merging the GreatWhite and Effects branches of Papervision together, we have alpha and the other none-positioning properties at our tweening disposal for 3D objects!

Here is the link to the presentation along with the examples. - Click into the SWF, then use the forward and back arrows to navigate.

I also urge you to check out my previous post that has useful information and source examples, along with changes and important features that have been added. HydroTween will call you renderer for automatic updating of your Papervision scene by registering with HydroTween using the init3D() method. One important new addition is the ability to pass a DisplayObject3D target into this init method for automatic use of the lookAt() method.

Here is the link to the previous post with more information about using HydroTween.

If you’d like to go directly to the examples:
Generic HydroTween
Fuse Style Tweening
Papervision3D - Clicking on an image will bring it up.

Looking forward to seeing everyone there!

And of course, the source! I have included everything in the examples, including the presentation!