Texture on a Plane Image Credit: Kyle Horne In Maya you can integrate images found from the Web or your very own textures to use for 3D models, reference images and related projects. Select Window from the top menu bar, then select Rendering Editors then Hypershade. The Hypershade is Maya’s version of a material editor. […]
Image Credit: TimeStopper/Moment/GettyImages Computers are great when they’re working properly, but they can be maddening when they act up. Troubleshooting one isn’t terribly difficult if there’s something specific at fault, like a malfunctioning drive or a program that keeps crashing, but sometimes the problem is less obvious. If your computer can’t seem to keep the […]
A video in Media Player Classic. Image Credit: Image courtesy of the MPC-HC team Media Player Classic can rotate videos around three axes, even though it doesn’t have any options for rotating the video in its graphical user interface. Unlike Windows Media Player, Media Player Classic allows you to rotate your video around the X, […]
Wingdings is a symbolic font and is similar to Webdings. Microsoft Wingdings was released in 1992 and there are three versions of it: Wingdings, Wingdings 2 and Wingdings 3. The Wingdings fonts include small graphics of hand signals, arrows and check marks among others. To insert a Wingdings character in Excel, you must first format […]
Image Credit: Anchiy/iStock/Getty Images The Pi symbol expresses the mathematical ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter and is roughly equivalent to “3.1459” or twenty-two sevenths. The symbol is a special character, based off of the Greek alphabet, and is not standard on a Mac keyboard. However, the keyboards “Option” key will […]
Image Credit: StockRocket/iStock/Getty Images Use VideoLan’s VLC media player to stream and run IPTV, the IP-based television service, to view TV programs from around the world. Normally, IPTV is viewed with the media player on the IPTV website. However, using the newer versions of VLC, you can stream TV from IPTV through the VLC player […]
While there are many models of Sony Bravia HDTVs on the market, not all will support 1080P resolution. To view HD content you must have an HD source, such as an HD cable box and the source must be connected to the TV using an HDMI cable or component cables. The Sony Bravia will automatically […]
Image Credit: Thinkstock Images/Comstock/Getty Images WordPad is Microsoft’s rich-text editor and comes with the Windows operating system. Some people enjoy using WordPad for its distinct lack of features. For anyone interested in a full-featured word processor, WordPad is not the right choice. Those writers will be more interested in Microsoft Word, which is a word […]
If you have two computers and only one printer with a USB port, you can share the printer between the computers with a fast connection. No software or special modifications are required, although both computers will need to be loaded with the drivers for operating your particular printer. The drivers can be found on the […]
Image Credit: Ciaran Griffin/Lifesize/Getty Images Do you have plenty of logo files but none in jpeg format? You can easily remedy that situation by using design programs such as Adobe Illustrator or Adobe Photoshop. Converting your logo to the easily accessible and usable jpeg format does not have to induce a headache if you just […]
