Glossiness

Posted on March 25, 2012 by Steven Halls

Today I’m starting to learn about “glossiness”. I thought that “specularity” was sufficient, but I guess I was wrong. I’m learning that I’ll need to control BOTH glossiness and specularity to achieve wet looking teeth, tongue, lips and eyes. Here are a few notes that I’ve found on these topics.
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Magnifying Glass mode

Posted on March 24, 2012 by Steven Halls

Here’s a fresh idea, but not sure if its a good idea, or a bad idea. Let me jot it down here, and think about it. This Moose model has a lot of details in it, including some currently-ugly eyelashes. (which we will fix.) But suppose there was an option in the control panel, to show a magnifying glass over top of the moose, and let it be moveable somehow, to show different parts, mouth or eyes for instance. That might be a way to let users get a closer look.

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Lighting and shadow

Posted on March 24, 2012 by Steven Halls

Today I experimented with lights, by moving the light sources around and playing with their brightness. But it was tricky to judge the true effects, because my 2 monitors had different brightness and contrast. So I’ve saved 3 versions of lighting settings, and will test them on a variety of monitors, before deciding which seems best.

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Dimple

Posted on March 12, 2012 by Steven Halls

April 29 update. We’ve been having trouble getting the dimple to move, without distorting the dimple, or, without distorting the skin around it.

We’re planning to add more mesh, with curved “edgeflow” contours similar to the curves around the lateral corner of the mouth,
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iPad talking moose

Posted on March 10, 2012 by Steven Halls

Apple’s announcement of a new iPad with its “Retina Display” with resolution of 2048 x 1536 pixels, has finally convinced me. A big display that is big enough to host the Talking Moose. So I’m convinced. After a PC version gets into better shape, I’ll start hiring iOS coders and get my product aimed for iPad as well. ( And I want a few of these iPads for myself. )

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Hat and Beard

Posted on March 8, 2012 by Steven Halls

The hat and the beard have now been modeled in 3D, and will be used to prove the feasiliby of having multiple add-on things, that can be separately added to the Moose’s head.

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PortableApps.com

Posted on March 8, 2012 by Steven Halls

I definately want the new Talking Moose to be usable from a USB drive, and not require running “an installer”. I need this feature because I’m intending for people to be able to use the Moose at work, regardless of any strict policy that locks down a workers PC, to prevent them from installing malicious software. The Moose won’t be malicious. This post reminds me therefore, to check out PortableApps.com.
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Eyelashes get higher resolution

Posted on March 6, 2012 by Steven Halls

April 12 update. Now made the eyelashes a little thicker.

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More History of the Talking Moose.

Posted on March 4, 2012 by Steven Halls

Before I had this wordpress blog about the development of the new Talking Moose, I had collected a few articles and webpages about the old Moose, on my other website www.halls.md. Here are links to those pages, the document some of the history.
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Original Talking Moose

Posted on March 2, 2012 by Steven Halls

Someone recently asked me if the original talking moose was available somewhere, the one from way way back in the late 1980s. So I asked around, and here it is, thanks to Aaron Lambert. I received these files from Aaron, in a “moose31.sit” file. ( .sit was a file-compression format on the old Macs, “stuffit” format.) But I also had to put that into a .zip archive, in order to upload it into this wordpress blog. So, with my apologies for the
extra trouble you’ll need to undergo, here is the file for original talking moose. Happy theoretical downloading, (but see below for an easier way).

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