working on a web tutorial.
i tried copying and pasting a link, from the apple site the link was originally quoted and underlined, when i went to preview my post the link that i had copied appeared in quotes but not underlined. i have copied the web address above, for anyone interested in this tutorial, as a side question how do i display a link? i was told to just copy and paste. Don't know what i am doing wrong.
the tutorial goes through the steps of turning a rotating cube into a screen saver. I was able to produce a screen saver from the tutorial. I chose as my texture file a picture from my Pictures folder in my home directory. My question is would it be possible to have my computer, instead of using one picture from my pictures folder. Have my computer let's say every five minutes choose another picture, like a slide show, and display that picture on the face of the cube. from the tutorial:
"Published ports are available at the top level of a composition and, as youll see, provide easy access for manually changing their values. They become even more important as a way to programmatically control a composition."
i was able to publish the background color, and size of the rotating cube. i did things a little different than the tutorial, the tutorial published the clear color, and gamma value of the glow effect. i have published the clear color and the size of the rotating cube. now i have a rotating cube screen saver, so that i can change the background color and size of the cube in my screen saver. I thought i could publish what the tutorial calls the texture file, i chose a picture for my texture file. That way i could choose a different picture in the options area of my screen saver. But i wonder how i could, also have an option to have the computer choose a file from a certain file. Possibly a random slide show but i am unsure of how to go about doing this. any help, i.e. a good tutorial on graphics, quartz composer, python and graphics etc.
Making a Screen Saver
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http://developer.apple.com/documentation/GraphicsImaging/Conceptual/QuartzComposerUserGuide/qc_tutorial/chapter_5_section_2.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40005381-CH213-CJBGDDEIthe tutorial goes through the steps of turning a rotating cube into a screen saver. I was able to produce a screen saver from the tutorial. I chose as my texture file a picture from my Pictures folder in my home directory. My question is would it be possible to have my computer, instead of using one picture from my pictures folder. Have my computer let's say every five minutes choose another picture, like a slide show, and display that picture on the face of the cube. from the tutorial:
"Published ports are available at the top level of a composition and, as youll see, provide easy access for manually changing their values. They become even more important as a way to programmatically control a composition."
i was able to publish the background color, and size of the rotating cube. i did things a little different than the tutorial, the tutorial published the clear color, and gamma value of the glow effect. i have published the clear color and the size of the rotating cube. now i have a rotating cube screen saver, so that i can change the background color and size of the cube in my screen saver. I thought i could publish what the tutorial calls the texture file, i chose a picture for my texture file. That way i could choose a different picture in the options area of my screen saver. But i wonder how i could, also have an option to have the computer choose a file from a certain file. Possibly a random slide show but i am unsure of how to go about doing this. any help, i.e. a good tutorial on graphics, quartz composer, python and graphics etc.
Making a Screen Saver