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Today I completed the final two chapters of the Babylon JS Getting Started guide. These chapters focused mostly on lighting and cameras, but also briefly touched on GUI. Today’s interesting items are Babylon JS has all the common 3D lighting types that I would expect. It has point, directional, spot, and hemispheric (ambient) lights. Hemispheric…
Today I covered chapters five and six of the Babylon JS Getting Started guide. These chapter gave me a quick tour around some of the environmental features of Babylon JS. Notable items include Ground planes/objects can be created with grayscale heightmaps. I’ve done this in Unity a few times. Nice to know this is available…
Today I worked through chapters three and four of the Babylon JS Getting Started guide. After working in Unity for a couple of years, most of these concepts are not new to me, just the way that Babylon JS implements them. Some things that stood out as interesting to me are MeshBuilder has a method…
Throughout the month of March, I’m going to learn everything I can about Babylon JS. Over the last year I’ve spent a bit of time with A-Frame, Three JS, and Babylon JS. I explained my reasoning for settling on Babylon JS in the most recent episodes of Project Update. I have a history of spending…
As of today, I’m giving up on my half-baked plans to make consumer software. I just took Retrospective Timelines off of the App Store and I don’t plan on renewing my Apple developer account. There are a number of reasons I’m making this decision. I’ll try to list a few here. While I enjoyed the…
I am beginning the planning process for Retrospective Timelines 2.0. Below I listed some of the areas that I want to focus on this summer. My hope is that the latest round of updates to SwiftUI, iOS 14, and iPadOS 14 will enable me to make significant improvements to the app. I have only just started to learn about the new features, so I do not know…
A new version of Retrospective Timelines is rolling out now. This version adds a handful of new features There is also a new bonus feature on the Event Detail screen. Now that the app supports multiple format types for dates and durations, I decided it would be awesome to switch between these with a simple…
Version 1.0 of Retrospective Timelines was written completely in SwiftUI and while I’m excited to keep working in SwiftUI, there were some issues and limitations that it imposed on my app. You can’t really talk about SwiftUI without someone pointing out that it’s not “ready” to be used in production yet. I mostly disagree with…
A new update is rolling out now with improvements to the data entry screens for Timelines and Events. These screens have been completely rewritten to support user interface features common to iOS apps.
One of the core features of Retrospective Timelines is the ability to share an Event as an image. I’m working in SwiftUI on this project so my first attempt was to see if I could render SwiftUI views as images. Last June Erica Sadun wrote a post about rendering SwiftUI on macOS Mojave that gave…
Retrospective Timelines version 1.0.2 is now available on the App Store. This update adds a new Filtering feature to the list of Events on your Timelines. Filter out End Date Records when working with date ranges, and also filter the list to only show Ongoing Events. This version also fixes a bug that could cause…
The first app update for Retrospective Timelines is hitting the App Store today. Features New color options when sharing an Event as an image. Small changes
