19 Mar 07

I've added functionality to the custom scrollbar feature so that it accepts input from a scrollwheel mouse. Give it a whirl!

 

Click and drag panning using the middle mousebutton is not supported. Also, IE seems to ignore some of my CSS settings (even though it fully supports them) which means that the margin for this textbox is wrong on IE (something I'll have to look into). But the scrolling deffinitely works. 

19 Mar 07

I've turned on another feature on this site. A list of links to various outside resources and websites that I frequent regularily. You can get to them from the "links" item on the menu. I also turned on "Search Engine Optimization" (SEO) in Joomla! which makes the addresses of any given page a bit more legible:

 

Previously a URL might look like:

    http://www.anthonymclin.com/index.php?option=com_weblinks&catid=2&Itemid=6

 

Now would look like:

    http://www.anthonymclin.com/component/option,com_weblinks/catid,2/Itemid,6/

 

While to the visitor, it may seem no more comprehensible, it actually is much simpler for search engines to parse, meaning that its more likely that search engines will be able to navigate and index the pages. It also lays the groundwork to be able to later switch out for even easier to understand urls. For example, with some code modification and additional components installed, I could have the URL look like this:

    http://www.anthonymclin.com/weblinks/WebComics.html

 

While I'm not quite to this level of SEO yet, this example should show how much more optimized and user-friendly the result will be. 

19 Mar 07

I just finished moving over one of my other 3DSMax scripts to the download system. This script replaces the default Light Lister tool in 3DStudio Max to add support for VRay light types. This script also had over a thousand downloads while it was listed on ScriptSpot.

19 Mar 07

I'm proud to announce that I have the first of several new features in place on this site. I have implemented remository, a file management system, so that I can offer downloads of the various tools, utilities, and scripts that I've developed. There is still some styling to account for, but the basic functionality is in place.

 

The first thing I'm making available is my NetRender Low Priority script that I created for 3DStudio Max. This is the first script I ever created for Max and fundametally it is quite simple. It just runs a check when Max is started to see if it is running in Server mode or not. If it is in Server mode, then it sets Max to run as a low priority system task, which means the user of the computer can easily work on other things while Max is rendering. It's a very usefull script that is deployed across all the 3D workstations at my office. It's had several thousand downloads at scriptspot before their revamp. 

19 Mar 07

When network rendering - 3DSMax defaults to 'normal' priority unless you set it otherwise. This script tells max to run in low priority (so that the system doesn't completely lockup) but ONLY when network rendering. If Max is launched normally by a user - it wont be affected.

18 Mar 07

I've built in a custom scrollbar. This was preventing me from implementing more features on this site since I don't want content to extend outside of this grey box. The custom scrollbar lets me start turning on features now.

 

I also turned on the first of the menu items, a link to a list of the 'articles' in the news section.