Jim Crafton

Got more uv/texture work done on the Enterprise. Stuff like the various registry decals on the nacelles, saucer, saucer rim, hull got applied. Various bits of clean up in the mesh got done. Most of the core textures now applied. From 3D 2009-2010 From 3D 2009-2010 From 3D 2009-2010 From 3D 2009-2010 From 3D 2009-2010 From 3D 2009-2010 ... (more)

Hard surface articles for ZBrush

A very large thanks to Kerwin for some realy interesting article on hard surface sculpting in ZBrush: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 Part 9 Part 10 Part 11 Again very cool stuff! ... (more)

More on Syntax Highlighting

Last month we discussed the use of Swing's Document model to create a syntax-highlighting Document model that we could just plug into JTextPane and use. This month we'll continue with that and add complete support for comments, strings and numbers. We'll also cover how easy it is to actually use the model we've developed, and test things out as we go along. To start things out let's try an... (more)

Reflecting a Bean onto a Table

Originally I planned to continue with the syntax-highlighting CodeDocument component, but I decided to switch gears and discuss some neat uses for the JTable component that comes with Swing (my apologies go out to all those weeping in the aisles, anxiously awaiting more syntax-highlighting code...oh, just a second, let's dab the tears away before continuing). One of the cool features of th... (more)

Components, and Creating a Custom Property Editor

This column discusses property editors and how to implement one for Java -specifically, how to make one work for our CodeDocument class. When last we talked, we saw how to build a CodeDocument class, but it wasn't something we could work with in a visual designer like JBuilder, say, or Visual Cafe. In this column we'll build a special case of the JTextArea component and add some specialt... (more)