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Another Unity Test

admin — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 11:59:09 +0000

In which we try a second method of showing Unity work on a wordpress blog. This one wasn’t hard at all.

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This version is using ShadowBox.js as a method of showing the unity piece. So no embedding, it’s just linking to another page. It’s actually the exported page from a unity web build. Well I changed the background to black and got rid of the text. But apart from that it’s untouched.

So without further ado the pendulum (click the image) when you’re done click the x in the bottom right.

Unity Test

admin — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 04:28:29 +0000

In which I test the uploading of a Unity Scene. How hard can it be?

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Please view the full post to see the Unity content.

Getting this working took 4 hours. Not the scene. Just the posting to the web part. I’m not getting that time back.

But for all who come after, know this. thequietvoid is hosted through godaddy.com and at current they do not support the .unity3d file type as a known file. So after following the instructions from the Unity site. Installing the WP_UnityObject plugin. Making the changes to the functions.php that would allow .unity3d file uploads. Still nothing worked. The advice I found was to change the web.config file so that .unity3d is an allowed mim type on the server.

But web.config in the root has been hijacked by wordpress, so everytime I changed the xml the site stopped working. Sigh.

So how does it work at the moment you may ask ? Well, and don’t try this at home kids. I renamed the .unity3d file to .jpg. Made the change to src tag in WP_UnityObject and viola, the HACK IS ALIVE.

But it’s not right and I’m sure it’s going to break things if the scene try’s to access the browser. So now I have to go through the process of getting this fixed.

Bugger.

UPDATE: later that night

Ok, now it works. I had a nap. Thought on it. Fixed it. The trick is I just had to add a unique web.config file into the wordpress upload folder allowing the webserver to serve out the file. There now it works correctly. Before I forget this is the secret ingredient. Adding this to a file called web.config in the wordpress upload directory fixes the last of the problems.

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version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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Code Test

admin — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:04:29 +0000

In which I post some code as a test of the new site.

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void runThusAndExit(){

for(int i = 0; i < 2010; i++){

print("In case you missed it, this is a test.");

}

exitYeFoulBeast();

}

Quite.

Here world, try your hand at buildings.

admin — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:15:50 +0000

You can now use Google Building Maker to model buildings in Google Earth.

Well you model by aligning blocks over the top of satellite photos and having those textures projection mapped onto the blocks. But there is something really smart about the user interface that’s shown off in the video.

Youtube video experiment

admin — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 11:20:10 +0000

this is a test. lets see if it breaks everything.

things learnt from the test.

1. youtube doesn’t seam to work under IE 7.

2. youtube didn’t put a keyframe in the first frame. but that is probably my fault

3. the video is too wide for the site layout.

interesting. I’ll work on 2 and 3. number 1 isn’t my problem.

but if you want to view the test at youtube. go to this link