{"id":518,"date":"2007-06-05T23:21:41","date_gmt":"2007-06-06T06:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/?p=518"},"modified":"2009-02-02T23:25:22","modified_gmt":"2009-02-03T04:25:22","slug":"software-tools-what-a-hoot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/2007\/06\/software-tools-what-a-hoot\/","title":{"rendered":"SOFTWARE &#038; TOOLS: What a Hoot!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-750\" title=\"060507st\" src=\"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/060507st.jpg\" alt=\"060507st\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/060507st.jpg 480w, https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/060507st-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"drop\">I<\/span>n my first attempt at assigning motion to a character, I did the right procedure&#8211;it&#8217;s easy enough&#8211;but didn&#8217;t really know what the actions (and distances) would do.\u00a0 I have the Mad Scientist entering the garden area (that&#8217;s him on the right) and upon seeing Socrates (by the tree), he&#8217;d shake his head left, then right, then focus on Socrates.<\/p>\n<p>Well, his head jerked off to the left, zipped to the right, then flew forward and landed on the ground beside Socrates! Notice the lump laying at his feet.<\/p>\n<p>What I should have done, of course, is <em>rotate<\/em> his head&#8211;not move it! This is a case of learning the language. I&#8217;m done laughing and am getting serious now.\u00a0 What do you think the philosophical Socrates would have to say at this point in the story?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">I<\/span>n my first attempt at assigning motion to a character, I did the right procedure&#8211;it&#8217;s easy enough&#8211;but didn&#8217;t really know what the actions (and distances) would do.\u00a0 I have the Mad Scientist entering the garden area (that&#8217;s him on the right) and upon seeing Socrates (by the tree), he&#8217;d shake his head left, then right, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":751,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions\/751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}