Labs Jaap Kooiker AKA Flashcoders - Flash, Flex, AIR, IPhone

Last Wednesday our Senior Rich Internet Consultant aka Joost Nuijten has presented the Tactive platform (see my previous post) at the Adobe Usergroup Netherlands.
You can watch it here : Tactive presentation (Dutch)

Sorry to say that FlickrBabes.com is still off the air

So, it’s been a while…
To make it up to you I asked myself the following question:
What is interesting for them and me.

Obvious AIR is something interesting to play with, and (maybe you know it) www.flickrbabes.com is interesting to. Seems to be a perfect match! Therefore I created an AIR application which shows you your daily dosis of FlickrBabes. And to make sure you don’t forget it, it has the option to start at login!

It will probably have some issues (hope not) and because it seems to be a trend to release everything in BETA, I will do it to. Here’s Flickrbabes in the AIR app BETA :P

In the sidebar there’s an automated installer ! While FB is offline I decided to remove it.

This is one of the many products I’ve been working on in my spare -> spare -> spare time. It’s done totally free because it’s a local drumband wich can’t afford my hourly rate at the time (oh yeah, and my mother and sister are members of the band :) ).
Anyway this site is in Dutch and has no translation at the time. But the main idea will get clear when you see it.

Because this is a site with no hard deadline or cost target, I could spend my time learning new stuff and try something (almost) new (for me).
I have used 3d max to make a 3D environment and render the whole. Oh my god…I didn’t remember it was so complicated after the last - and only - time I used it four years ago.
Oh well… after a decade (it seemed like it) of tutorials and reading I started to make some 3D models and maps. The basic idea was to create some kind of an old hangar in wich the band does it’s practicing. I do realize I’m no expert (and maybe never will be) but I think the end result is pretty good.
After creating the hangar and stuff inside I went and created some camera’s and started to aminate the cam trough the hangar. This resulted in a flying cam from a fixed spot to the top of a specific bin and open the contents.
Making the camera go back after clicking home gives it some extra interactive feeling. One thing I intend to improve is when a bin is clicked and a book is showing, it needs to use all the screen width. This way (in case of large enough resolution) scrolling is not needed.

The final contents are not set yet… Let me know what you think of this beta release…

Edit:
Final Version : http://totallosameland.nl

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