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I'm Thomas Viktil. I like to play with all sorts of things. And this is where I write about the things I learn while playing.


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Skinning IK with modo

Having fiddled around with modo 401 and all its new features, I soon came to experiment with the animation features, including the new IK system. It works like a charm and when you're used to working with modo, it just feels natural. It was very easy to rig a mechanical ...


Eat PES!

Oh, how I love the sweet animations from PES! Beautifully made, and with lots and lots of charm. Just look at the stuff they used to make KaBoom!, and the witty RoofSex. And it must have been fun making the Human Skateboard. Be also sure to check out their store, which ...


totalTime and MetadataReceived from VideoDisplay object in Flex

Interesting (and more than a bit annoying) observation; neither the property totalTime or the event MetadataEvent.METADATA_RECEIVED will trigger unless the buffer is full.I just discovered this as I tried to dynamically set the bufferTime to be 30% of the total playtime (I calculate the bufferTime using totalBytes and bytesLoaded). But ...