Author: Vidya Saras
Creating a third-person character controller involves more than just moving an object around a 3D scene. Realistic movement, grounded physics, responsive jumping, and animation blending are essential for a polished feel. This article explores how these elements can be assembled â not through traditional manual coding, but via AI-assisted development using Bolt.new, a browser-based AI-assisted development tool that generates web code from natural language prompts, backed by Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude 3.5 Sonnet LLMs. It provides a lightweight environment where developers can focus on describing functionality rather than writing boilerplate. For this character controller, Bolt handled tasks like setting up physics, integrating…
Image showing the current location of Pluto, Neptune, and 2017 OF201.Jiaxuan Li and Sihao Cheng It was hiding in plain sight, lurking deep inside terabytes of publicly available data, some of which are more than a decade old. But this particular needle in a haystack â the first new dwarf planet in the outer solar system to be found in more than a decade â took months of computational work to ferret out from the mass of background stars and noise. The newfound object, which for now bears the unwieldy name of 2017 OF201, is approximately 700 kilometers (400 miles)…
Exeter’s England winger Claudia MacDonald has signed a new contract for the 2025-26 Premiership Women’s Rugby season.The 29-year-old, who has won 35 England caps, joined the club in 2022 and has scored 25 tries in 29 games during a spell that has been hampered by a serious neck injury. MacDonald earned an England recall during this year’s Six Nations and is aiming to be part of the squad for the upcoming World Cup.She was part of the side that made the last World Cup final in New Zealand in 2021, coming on as a second-half replacement in the final. “Claudia…
Rachel Hagan & Jessica ParkerBBC News, in London and BerlinAnadolu via Getty ImagesGermany’s new chancellor (R) greeted Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky to Berlin on WednesdayGermany’s new chancellor, Friedrich Merz, has told Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky that Berlin will help Kyiv produce long-range missiles to defend itself from Russian attack.”We want to talk about production and we will not publicly discuss details,” he said, when asked by reporters in Berlin if Germany would supply Kyiv with its Taurus missiles.Merz took office earlier this month, promising to beef up German support for Ukraine, and said this week that there were “no longer” any range…
Chase Chrisley is expressing his gratitude after his parents, Todd and Julie Chrisley, were pardoned by President Donald Trump. âI am grateful to God and extremely grateful to President Trump and his entire administration,â Chase, 28, said in a Tuesday, May 27, statement to Us Weekly. âIâm beyond thankful to finally have my parents back home and my family together again!â Chase also shared similar sentiments in an Instagram post on Tuesday. Sharing a picture of Todd, 56, and Julie, 52, before their imprisonment, he captioned the snap, âGod is so good! Our rocks are back!! Thank you to Mr.…
From South Africa to Europe, the movement is absolutely obsessed with foreign countries
Mon Abrea, Harvard-trained tax expert and Chief Tax Advisor of the Asian Consulting Group (ACG), is calling on the newly elected Philippine lawmakers to expedite critical economic reforms that will not only attract foreign investors but also protect and support Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs). Mr. Abrea emphasizes that MSMEs, which comprise over 99% of Philippine businesses, are the backbone of the economy. However, they often face disproportionate tax compliance burdens that hinder their growth and competitiveness. To address these challenges, Mr. Abrea advocates for the following reforms: Revised MSME Classification: Increase the income and asset threshold for micro…
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Outgoing US Commodity Futures Trading Commission commissioner Christy Goldsmith Romero says the exodus of the agencyâs top brass is ânot a great situationâ for crypto regulations.The CFTC could be headed by just one commissioner once the other four depart later this year, which Goldsmith Romero said in a May 27 interview at the Brookings Institution will make creating regulations harder because it leaves a less diverse pool of opinions. âI think itâs not a great situation if you have one person whoâs determining what the rules should be; you lose the benefit of this back-and-forth, this push-and-pull as to whatâs the…
What Devcon is all about Now that weâre well into the new year, our Devcon team wanted to share some of our thinking on whatâs to come for Devcon this year. With new goals driving this yearâs effort, weâve learned from successes and challenges in recent years, and weâll provide some early details on whatâs ahead. For those that are new to the Ethereum family, Devcon is the only annual gathering held by the Ethereum Foundation, and it dates back to a small meetup in Berlin (ĂÎVcon-0) about a year prior to the launch of the network. For some members…