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Just launched a redesign of http://www.thearmyexperience.com/careers/. We were able to use much of the old code and turned the 3D helix into a 3D Wall instead. I worked on converting the 3D helix into the 3D wall and another designer/developer animated the wall.

I also worked on adding interactivity to the Watch Soldier Profiles section. The last 16 or so videos are interactive with 2 info windows per video. A button pops up at a certain time period during the video allowing the user to click on it to open an info window. This capability was also added into the Locate Global Bases which uses Google Earth (Fort Benning, Georgia and Fort Hood, Texas are the only 2 that have this currently. You can check it out by clicking on the Lifestyle button after clicking on the base).

Forgot to mention there was an recent update to the Career Navigator for the Army Experience Center. I worked on making the Papervision 3D helix loop around and adding in the job titles on the planes and various other bug fixes and improvements.

Text in Papervision 3D - Clearing Things Up - This post by Andy Zupko helped with making the text a bit clearer on the planes (basically you need to use a larger textfield and change some settings) - check out his post and demo if your text is unclear on planes.

Jim Foley at Mad Vertices is having a Papervision 3D Contest. This should be a good project for anyone looking to learn Papervision3D. He also has some great tutorials on the site that I used and still use to learn Papervision3D. Hopefully I’ll have some time to enter this contest.

Here is the project I’ve been working on for Ignited that just pushed its next build live http://www.thearmyexperience.com. I mainly worked on the photo gallery, but I also helped fixed many other bugs through out the site. The only 3 major problems I had trouble figuring out was the OBJECT_CLICK event from the previous post, a good way to loop the gallery pictures, and this MOUSE_MOVE event with event.target and event.current target == stage that started popping up after I created the 3d gallery.

The Army Experience Center looks like a pretty awesome place to go if you are ever in the area.

I was working on a project for work when I came across this bug. The OBJECT_CLICK event stopped working when I set useOwnContainer = true for a plane because I wanted to use a drop shadow filter. Funny thing was that OBJECT_OVER and OBJECT_OUT was working just fine. So I came across this thread about the problem. I didn’t get it to work with their papervision source code using OBJECT_CLICK, but using OBJECT_PRESS instead of OBJECT_CLICK solved the problem.

A good thing that came out of this problem is discovering the PanoSalado project, a open source panorama player/viewer. Another thing added to my list of things to check out.