I actually planed today to clean my lines up. Clean all that stuff I don't need anymore, pimp the documentation and all that suff, ... but then I couldn't resist.
I changed some stuff about the moon.
Yep, Luna, that gray thing at sky when it is dark.
What I can change there? It just cycles the earth?
Yes, you're right. It still cycles earth, but I changed all that code that lets it cycle.
When I started I knew that this prototyp never will have more than one moon (earth is the only planet, of the first 4, that got a real moon), so he always was its own model, got its own values, etc.
But think about jupiter, or saturn! They got up to 64 moons! It would be madness to creat its own model for each of them.
So I came up with a idea.
I earlyer placed all the planets in a so called 'List', and now I did the same with the moon.
Each Planet now got a list of all the planets that cycle him.
And that means a list that got a list. ...
It was hard to initialize that, especialy because I've never have done that before, ... it took me nasty 10 minutes!
And the first time I pressed that F5 button it did work that great that I decided to give Mercury and Venus some moons.
Venus 3 and Mercury 5. Each Moon with its own randomized position ...
I was realy suprised when I've seen that ...
... They could be the biggest eyes ever seen ... or ... the biggest a** ever seen
http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa59/Greg453V/Ass.jpg
(I post the link, because I was not impressed by the quality of my last pic)
Greg the Mad
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Matrix!
Hey, its me again :)
Even if I didn't post the last few days, it dose not mean I did nothing.
I've made some minor changes on my game, minor bat with great impact!
Do you know the cry engnine and its editor? No? Ok than I will explain a little bit before I tell you what I've made.
In the CryEngine Editor you can build the whole world, place AI guys, mission stuff and all that crap, but that what makes it special is that you can press a butten at any given time and just play the game like you've just build it.
Somehow I've copied that idea. Somehow ...
While you can press the button in the editor to play the game in the Cry Egnine Editor, you can press F1 in my game at any given time to swich in a Dev-view (Hey, nice name, ... from now on I will call it that way !Deview! )
In that view every game thing gets frezzed, and you can hover around like in matrix! And I also scripted it so that all they BoundingSpheres and boxes will appear when I hit that button, as the Devtext will.
That view don't got any great point yet (like the whole game ^.^), but I got great plans with it.
Imagen you play a game and see a something happen, ... that should not happen, for example a AI ship flying against a wall.
And now imgane you just hit that F1 button, hover over to that ship, click it and you can have a look at all its values.
What is it trying to do?
Why is it trying to do that?
Name it.
And the idea is that you also can pic that ship, replace it and than only let the ship fly around.
Will it fly again in that wall?
At the same place of the wall?
Maybe its his target. Maybe its a station or a enemy, that somehow fliped behind that wall ...
etc.
The next step I plan actually would be to display all the infos about that ship, and maybe get a working line code, so that I could display where it it going, etc.
... I've seen a interesting topic about that at the XNA boards.
And here the other stuff that I've made:
I fixed all planets:
Now I got 4 little orbs hovering around with their nice textures and the not great but better spectral reflection. One of the problems I still got with them is their orbit code. It works with the game time value, so it I press f1 again and leaf the Deview, the planets will be at a complet different position, but on the other hand: that shows that my gravity for the astroids works.
I can shoot!
I build a little bullet model and had a look at some older code that I've writen, and it only took me a half hour to let the bullets fly around. And that better than before! And I also programmed them to destroi astroids, when they meet one, but those bastards are fast. ... the only problem I got with those bullets it that they fly tail forward ...
I changed the sice of the SkySphere:
At the start I used a skysphere, placed in the center of the world, big enought to contain every model I've made. Now I changed that sphere so that it is sticked on the camera position and only half so big.
You may guess not: "Hey, don't that mean that it don't contain ever model anymore?"
Yes, that actually was the whole point of it.
The solarsystem is so big that you can't see from one end to the other, but its inpossible (for me) to rebuild sol in that scale. But in that scaled down vision you can see from one end to the other. So I shrinked the sphere down, add black fog (so that the planets can fade out in the black space), and gotcha!
I also plan that the planets and stuff scale down when they leaf view, just to increas that effect.
Greg the Mad
Even if I didn't post the last few days, it dose not mean I did nothing.
I've made some minor changes on my game, minor bat with great impact!
Do you know the cry engnine and its editor? No? Ok than I will explain a little bit before I tell you what I've made.
In the CryEngine Editor you can build the whole world, place AI guys, mission stuff and all that crap, but that what makes it special is that you can press a butten at any given time and just play the game like you've just build it.
Somehow I've copied that idea. Somehow ...
While you can press the button in the editor to play the game in the Cry Egnine Editor, you can press F1 in my game at any given time to swich in a Dev-view (Hey, nice name, ... from now on I will call it that way !Deview! )
In that view every game thing gets frezzed, and you can hover around like in matrix! And I also scripted it so that all they BoundingSpheres and boxes will appear when I hit that button, as the Devtext will.
That view don't got any great point yet (like the whole game ^.^), but I got great plans with it.
Imagen you play a game and see a something happen, ... that should not happen, for example a AI ship flying against a wall.
And now imgane you just hit that F1 button, hover over to that ship, click it and you can have a look at all its values.
What is it trying to do?
Why is it trying to do that?
Name it.
And the idea is that you also can pic that ship, replace it and than only let the ship fly around.
Will it fly again in that wall?
At the same place of the wall?
Maybe its his target. Maybe its a station or a enemy, that somehow fliped behind that wall ...
etc.
The next step I plan actually would be to display all the infos about that ship, and maybe get a working line code, so that I could display where it it going, etc.
... I've seen a interesting topic about that at the XNA boards.
And here the other stuff that I've made:
I fixed all planets:
Now I got 4 little orbs hovering around with their nice textures and the not great but better spectral reflection. One of the problems I still got with them is their orbit code. It works with the game time value, so it I press f1 again and leaf the Deview, the planets will be at a complet different position, but on the other hand: that shows that my gravity for the astroids works.
I can shoot!
I build a little bullet model and had a look at some older code that I've writen, and it only took me a half hour to let the bullets fly around. And that better than before! And I also programmed them to destroi astroids, when they meet one, but those bastards are fast. ... the only problem I got with those bullets it that they fly tail forward ...
I changed the sice of the SkySphere:
At the start I used a skysphere, placed in the center of the world, big enought to contain every model I've made. Now I changed that sphere so that it is sticked on the camera position and only half so big.
You may guess not: "Hey, don't that mean that it don't contain ever model anymore?"
Yes, that actually was the whole point of it.
The solarsystem is so big that you can't see from one end to the other, but its inpossible (for me) to rebuild sol in that scale. But in that scaled down vision you can see from one end to the other. So I shrinked the sphere down, add black fog (so that the planets can fade out in the black space), and gotcha!
I also plan that the planets and stuff scale down when they leaf view, just to increas that effect.
Greg the Mad
Monday, January 21, 2008
Pic[ture]
Here is the first pic of my game:
Its noting special, just my test ship, the collored orbs that are supposed to be panets, but you can see at thier scale and the scale of the spheres around them that not everthing works yet. And of course: earth. The only planet which don't make me bother :-)
The othres little spheres all around are the 40 astroids crashing down on the planets. (they get movement into the slow moving planets)
The 'T' or three arm stars hovering around my ship are part of s easy (cheated ^.^) WireBox, ... just for fun. (I don't use the normal line way how pro's make it, I just made a special mesh which looks like a this box and displayed it in the WireFrame way ^.^ )
And last but not least you can see my 'developer text' on the top left hand side of the pic. Its very useful if you can display text and values very easy and quick, they help you to find coding problems like the angle problem I've got with my ship turning matrix.
Hey, and mars is back! He was hidden behind a PlanetList Problem. I got 4 planets, but I've only renderd 3 of them, tricky little list figures. (You can't see him on that pic :-) )
All I acctualy would need more for a real ... 'easy' demo of my aimed game, would be a mission (fly from point A to B) and a enemy to attack you. ... Maybe more stuff like mining astroids and cargo to transport. But that all is only minor, compared with the mission.
... No game without Mission/Quest/Stuff to do/ etc. ...
Greg the Mad
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Faster than the police alows
My last post here is already a few days back, and I have to admit that there is not much I could talk about.
Not because I finaly was discoverd by a game studio and got a NDA not forbitting me to tell you anything, but ... ok, there never will be any studio that will 'discover' me, but ... anyway. :D
I just have not done that much the last few days.
I may have changed some more speed controles of my ship, have added something like a camerar movements when the ship accelorates (or something like that ...) ... ja ... that and I also made the WireFarme render code, I've talked last time.
... I must wait ...
I have to wait till the muse kiss my ass and a great idea stricks my in its violence back to the PC to realise it.
Till then.
Greg the Mad
Not because I finaly was discoverd by a game studio and got a NDA not forbitting me to tell you anything, but ... ok, there never will be any studio that will 'discover' me, but ... anyway. :D
I just have not done that much the last few days.
I may have changed some more speed controles of my ship, have added something like a camerar movements when the ship accelorates (or something like that ...) ... ja ... that and I also made the WireFarme render code, I've talked last time.
... I must wait ...
I have to wait till the muse kiss my ass and a great idea stricks my in its violence back to the PC to realise it.
Till then.
Greg the Mad
Monday, January 14, 2008
Bastard Pacman
Hey, to get the pints working was much easyer than I thought!
I ealyer tryed to get the point relevant values into a seperat .cs file to have more overview over all that new code. That. Was. Wrong.
No matter how usefull it is to have stuff in its own file (you just could copy the file and use it at any other game, with out rewriting all the stuff), stuff like those draw routines should be in the main game class, just to keep it simple. But on the other side of the medal are the two points, that I'm drawing, too much for my PC and the frame rate goes down ...
But on the medal holding hand of that hard work I was facing yesterday I finaly found a easy why of rendering models in the 'WireFrame' style.
A little line, part of the point drawing code, was telling it to draw it in 'Solid' style, so I was wonder what would happen if I would swich that in to 'WireFrame' and bingo, I got a whole wired world.
It should be easy now to draw stuff like a grid or even some useful stuff, I'll have a look into it.
Wish me luck.
Greg the Mad
I ealyer tryed to get the point relevant values into a seperat .cs file to have more overview over all that new code. That. Was. Wrong.
No matter how usefull it is to have stuff in its own file (you just could copy the file and use it at any other game, with out rewriting all the stuff), stuff like those draw routines should be in the main game class, just to keep it simple. But on the other side of the medal are the two points, that I'm drawing, too much for my PC and the frame rate goes down ...
But on the medal holding hand of that hard work I was facing yesterday I finaly found a easy why of rendering models in the 'WireFrame' style.
A little line, part of the point drawing code, was telling it to draw it in 'Solid' style, so I was wonder what would happen if I would swich that in to 'WireFrame' and bingo, I got a whole wired world.
It should be easy now to draw stuff like a grid or even some useful stuff, I'll have a look into it.
Wish me luck.
Greg the Mad
Sunday, January 13, 2008
Some people got stones on their way ...
... I start to get better and better in climbing mountains.
No, Mars still is lost in space, but I managed to create a better controle system for my little ship.
But the actually point of the post is not that what I managed to do, but that what I din't managed to do. (Sorry, but that are my astrians genes comming through :-) )
What do you think is the easyerst thing to display in a game? No, not a point.
I've just spend this last dear afternoon of that weekend in creating a point on the screne, ... I failed ...
Ok, ... I allways make stuff more complex than it could be. Instead of a complet new prototyp, I tryed to implent the code sample into my old prototyp with the ships and planets.
I planed to draw the axis of my ship (The axis of the ship are not necessary the same as X/Y/Z are), but the space stays empty.
At least so I guess so, but the game don't want to run itself since I've implent the new code pieces.
(I hate those errors, that never introduce themself and come, uninvited, to my partys)
Anyway, there also was a update on creators.xna.com , and ther now is a sample about WinForms and content loading, ... which actually reminded my of my old idea of making a XNA Editor all by my self (If there is no official ...).
I could use all the code I've created in my space prototyp there and finaly start to creat some content for a demo (or even a compete full featured little game ...), which I plan to use as Port Folio.
But I still got around 2 and a half year till I'll need one, so: "no stess, keep it slow, and make it better", and if I look back at the progress that I've made just in the last monthe, then I can look into a bright futur.
... I see a beatiful sunrice on the side of a steep mountain ... a mountain to climb ...
Here fits my new most beloved phrase:
"Yippee-I-Yay, Motherfucker"
Greg the Mad
No, Mars still is lost in space, but I managed to create a better controle system for my little ship.
But the actually point of the post is not that what I managed to do, but that what I din't managed to do. (Sorry, but that are my astrians genes comming through :-) )
What do you think is the easyerst thing to display in a game? No, not a point.
I've just spend this last dear afternoon of that weekend in creating a point on the screne, ... I failed ...
Ok, ... I allways make stuff more complex than it could be. Instead of a complet new prototyp, I tryed to implent the code sample into my old prototyp with the ships and planets.
I planed to draw the axis of my ship (The axis of the ship are not necessary the same as X/Y/Z are), but the space stays empty.
At least so I guess so, but the game don't want to run itself since I've implent the new code pieces.
(I hate those errors, that never introduce themself and come, uninvited, to my partys)
Anyway, there also was a update on creators.xna.com , and ther now is a sample about WinForms and content loading, ... which actually reminded my of my old idea of making a XNA Editor all by my self (If there is no official ...).
I could use all the code I've created in my space prototyp there and finaly start to creat some content for a demo (or even a compete full featured little game ...), which I plan to use as Port Folio.
But I still got around 2 and a half year till I'll need one, so: "no stess, keep it slow, and make it better", and if I look back at the progress that I've made just in the last monthe, then I can look into a bright futur.
... I see a beatiful sunrice on the side of a steep mountain ... a mountain to climb ...
Here fits my new most beloved phrase:
"Yippee-I-Yay, Motherfucker"
Greg the Mad
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Astroids and brocken Mars
Its amazing which great animation some gravity can produce.
If managed to make some astroids and also I reminded my self of the great infention of the List. A list is actually like one Astroid, just with more than just one position, rotation, velocity and what ever you want. All you need to know a spezific value is the list name and the number of the astroid.
Which is a great asset if you have to handle all the 40 astroids I've used in my last build.
But 40 astroids alown are not that spectecular like they may sound. It all gain a lot more if you add newton.
I started with my good old Motion.Straight code, which creates a vector pointing exactly ther where you want it to point to, great if you want the let something chase something else (as long as ther is not wall, or any other barrier). I just took that code and put the gravity there where the speed is supposed to be and, bingo, ther perfect acceloration for a astroid!
But to which place do you send such a astroid?
I don't know where you would send a astroid, but my target was clear, earth!
I spend a whole afternoon whaching 20 astroids crashing down on the blue jewel. And it gets much better is you treat acceloration like acceloration and not just like speen, and if you add all the others planets.
I've already have got Mercury, Venus, Earth, Luna (the Moon) and Mars hanging around with my test ship. But now that I've added the astroids, they suddley got a point. Seeing how Luna accerlorates a astroi, it orbits earth a moment, Luna gets it out of that orbit and sends it on his long way to venus (around 0.5 sec aways from earth).
But I don't know why, but Mars don't want to play with the other children, ... maybe its because he's not there.
Somehow I managed to get rid of the red planet (Mercury acctualy is more red, at least on the pics I've seen), it somewhere was lost on the road to the PlanetList I've made to make the grafity thing easyer. (You have to circle up to 40 astroids through 3 planet- and one moon-grafitations till you get the final acceloration from all of them)
The next step would be to spend more work on the Orbit-Tool I plan, which would let them orbit a planet, physicaly correct, but with out disturbing stuff like grafitation.
I'm lovin' it. :)
Greg the Mad
If managed to make some astroids and also I reminded my self of the great infention of the List. A list is actually like one Astroid, just with more than just one position, rotation, velocity and what ever you want. All you need to know a spezific value is the list name and the number of the astroid.
Which is a great asset if you have to handle all the 40 astroids I've used in my last build.
But 40 astroids alown are not that spectecular like they may sound. It all gain a lot more if you add newton.
I started with my good old Motion.Straight code, which creates a vector pointing exactly ther where you want it to point to, great if you want the let something chase something else (as long as ther is not wall, or any other barrier). I just took that code and put the gravity there where the speed is supposed to be and, bingo, ther perfect acceloration for a astroid!
But to which place do you send such a astroid?
I don't know where you would send a astroid, but my target was clear, earth!
I spend a whole afternoon whaching 20 astroids crashing down on the blue jewel. And it gets much better is you treat acceloration like acceloration and not just like speen, and if you add all the others planets.
I've already have got Mercury, Venus, Earth, Luna (the Moon) and Mars hanging around with my test ship. But now that I've added the astroids, they suddley got a point. Seeing how Luna accerlorates a astroi, it orbits earth a moment, Luna gets it out of that orbit and sends it on his long way to venus (around 0.5 sec aways from earth).
But I don't know why, but Mars don't want to play with the other children, ... maybe its because he's not there.
Somehow I managed to get rid of the red planet (Mercury acctualy is more red, at least on the pics I've seen), it somewhere was lost on the road to the PlanetList I've made to make the grafity thing easyer. (You have to circle up to 40 astroids through 3 planet- and one moon-grafitations till you get the final acceloration from all of them)
The next step would be to spend more work on the Orbit-Tool I plan, which would let them orbit a planet, physicaly correct, but with out disturbing stuff like grafitation.
I'm lovin' it. :)
Greg the Mad
Saturday, January 5, 2008
WooHoo!
I got a flying ship! I got a flying ship! Nanananah Nahnah!
... ok, ... it flys like a jaw of dirt, and got unbelieveble antigravity shields, ... but it flys ...
I also made some improvments in my camera movement subroutine. It finaly can give a real angel back, that you could use to turn something, a ship for example.
And I also made a desiction: FPS and TPS are not that similar.
You may can use the same knowleg here and there, but still ...
At FPS, you only have to move the camera, at TPS, on the other hand, you have to move the ship, and THAN the camera. ... thats complet differnt ...
Now I gona fokus on the speed of the ship. That dose not mean that I think about the max speed, but about how to control the speed. Inertia? Jet force? Gravity? Ship weight?
Fortunatly there is a XNA 2 sample about that, but that dose not mean that I will be easy.
I also plan the play a little around with gravity, now that means, that I will place some astroids here and ther (random) and make that become affected my close planets, and that also includes a orbit tool. ... thats music in my ears! *headbangle*
Greg the Mad
... ok, ... it flys like a jaw of dirt, and got unbelieveble antigravity shields, ... but it flys ...
I also made some improvments in my camera movement subroutine. It finaly can give a real angel back, that you could use to turn something, a ship for example.
And I also made a desiction: FPS and TPS are not that similar.
You may can use the same knowleg here and there, but still ...
At FPS, you only have to move the camera, at TPS, on the other hand, you have to move the ship, and THAN the camera. ... thats complet differnt ...
Now I gona fokus on the speed of the ship. That dose not mean that I think about the max speed, but about how to control the speed. Inertia? Jet force? Gravity? Ship weight?
Fortunatly there is a XNA 2 sample about that, but that dose not mean that I will be easy.
I also plan the play a little around with gravity, now that means, that I will place some astroids here and ther (random) and make that become affected my close planets, and that also includes a orbit tool. ... thats music in my ears! *headbangle*
Greg the Mad
Thursday, December 27, 2007
And it dose work!
Yep, its done ... I got a (more or less) working camera subroutine which I can applay wherever and whenever I want. Once I got some little bugs here and there gone, changed the scale of the solarsystem, I can start to make the first skrips for the ship control!
I'm so excited!
And once I got that done, I can start to think about some basic physics and what content I'll add, I mean stuff like planets, moons, astroids, trojan and stuff like that ...
er ... and by the way: Marry Christmas and a happy new year (late, but better than never ^.^)
Greg the Mad
I'm so excited!
And once I got that done, I can start to think about some basic physics and what content I'll add, I mean stuff like planets, moons, astroids, trojan and stuff like that ...
er ... and by the way: Marry Christmas and a happy new year (late, but better than never ^.^)
Greg the Mad
Saturday, December 22, 2007
Back to the Roots
First day of the christmas holidays and ... ah ... peace ... I feel great ... finaly time for me and my little private projects:
My FPS hover camera still don't work but I just dicovered a possible couse:
I dicovered that the logic in my Motion.Straigh code is wrong. That logic is supposed to give a vector back that leads a thing to a other thing, sounds simple, but I made a little error, somwhere in that 100 line thing ... and it will take a few hours till I got it bug free ...
But on the other hand I've dicovered too that my skill must have improved in the last month, because I found many stuff that I changed here and ther, and a found a lack of documantari at the whole thing ... that sounds like a lot of fun ... can't wait till tomorrow to fix that :-)
Hey, and by the way, if youlive near vienna (austria), ... beware ... Ifinaly passed the roadtest and got my licence. ^.^
Greg the Mad
My FPS hover camera still don't work but I just dicovered a possible couse:
I dicovered that the logic in my Motion.Straigh code is wrong. That logic is supposed to give a vector back that leads a thing to a other thing, sounds simple, but I made a little error, somwhere in that 100 line thing ... and it will take a few hours till I got it bug free ...
But on the other hand I've dicovered too that my skill must have improved in the last month, because I found many stuff that I changed here and ther, and a found a lack of documantari at the whole thing ... that sounds like a lot of fun ... can't wait till tomorrow to fix that :-)
Hey, and by the way, if youlive near vienna (austria), ... beware ... Ifinaly passed the roadtest and got my licence. ^.^
Greg the Mad
Monday, December 17, 2007
Planet Madness
It works!
I've wrote a few lines just a few days ago, which are supposed to move a object around and other object, ... and ... it works! WHOOHOO!
So I now got a earth (cycled by a moon) and a venus cycleing the big thing in the center ... I'm so good ...
And now to the bad news:
After I've made the first few test with this new thingy, I stated to make few camera movement sub routines ... which was a bad idea ...
I hope that I can use the rest of the ... week to get it work like a want it to work, but ... if not ... I'm on the edge of failing ... anf failing is not that what I want with this project ... *fingercrossing*
Greg the Mad
I've wrote a few lines just a few days ago, which are supposed to move a object around and other object, ... and ... it works! WHOOHOO!
So I now got a earth (cycled by a moon) and a venus cycleing the big thing in the center ... I'm so good ...
And now to the bad news:
After I've made the first few test with this new thingy, I stated to make few camera movement sub routines ... which was a bad idea ...
I hope that I can use the rest of the ... week to get it work like a want it to work, but ... if not ... I'm on the edge of failing ... anf failing is not that what I want with this project ... *fingercrossing*
Greg the Mad
Saturday, December 8, 2007
Nothing New
It was a few weeks since my last post here, thats mainy because there happened anything to tell about.
OK, ... Mass Effect, game of the year 2007/2009/2010, and I spend every free second playing it, with great impact on my marks and my Nature of Random Project.
I plan to make a review about ME, but there is just so much to write about ... how do profis get all that infos into a few pages?
So thats all for now ... Lets go back to my X-Box 360 and save to univers ... again and again and again ...
Greg the Mad
OK, ... Mass Effect, game of the year 2007/2009/2010, and I spend every free second playing it, with great impact on my marks and my Nature of Random Project.
I plan to make a review about ME, but there is just so much to write about ... how do profis get all that infos into a few pages?
So thats all for now ... Lets go back to my X-Box 360 and save to univers ... again and again and again ...
Greg the Mad
Sunday, November 25, 2007
Nature of Random
I've only spend some mintutes on my new project, because I got problems with the height map prototyp, which would be an great part of the project.
First I try to make the lines (I've now, out of desperation, have copied out of the XNA sample) work and make some little edits on them.
For example I want to make the height map automaticle repead itself and write the first lines of, how I call it, 'nature of random', but I don't want to say anything more about this.
I acctualy was so desperate that I even thought of changing the engine, but XNA ... just look so good ...
And I'm afread that I woun't find any time in the next week to fixt that 'no entrypoint' problem, because I'll get Mass Effect this week and I'll play it ... all day long ... and then write a review and post it somewhere here or there.
Greg the Mad
First I try to make the lines (I've now, out of desperation, have copied out of the XNA sample) work and make some little edits on them.
For example I want to make the height map automaticle repead itself and write the first lines of, how I call it, 'nature of random', but I don't want to say anything more about this.
I acctualy was so desperate that I even thought of changing the engine, but XNA ... just look so good ...
And I'm afread that I woun't find any time in the next week to fixt that 'no entrypoint' problem, because I'll get Mass Effect this week and I'll play it ... all day long ... and then write a review and post it somewhere here or there.
Greg the Mad
Monday, November 19, 2007
My New Project
Imagen a clear blue sky, birds fly around and the wind plam the green trees.
Now image the same landscape for 5 km above.
And now imagen you were sitting in a 6 wheeled ATV in the rear of a Ship, looking down the oppend rear hatch seeing the same landscape moveing pass below.
And now imagen a guy behind the ATV bushing the big slingshoot button, and 'zing' ... the ship accelerate, ... but you're not.
And you fall, facing the cruelty of the ground below.
And you got the basic idea of my next project.
Greg the Mad
Now image the same landscape for 5 km above.
And now imagen you were sitting in a 6 wheeled ATV in the rear of a Ship, looking down the oppend rear hatch seeing the same landscape moveing pass below.
And now imagen a guy behind the ATV bushing the big slingshoot button, and 'zing' ... the ship accelerate, ... but you're not.
And you fall, facing the cruelty of the ground below.
And you got the basic idea of my next project.
Greg the Mad
Friday, November 16, 2007
LEGO Mako Manual
Its done!
4 month! 2 weeks! and 5 days!
It took me that amount of time to make 77 pictures of build steps,
103 pictures of LEGO bricks,
and a 79 page long Manual, all about a little (~25cm) Mako Model.
It was ther first thing I ever made in that direction. And I was the best thing I allways will have done in that direction.
Its perfekt. :-)
http://www.filefactory.com/file/fd7a04/
You can download it here.
Have fun.
Greg the Mad
4 month! 2 weeks! and 5 days!
It took me that amount of time to make 77 pictures of build steps,
103 pictures of LEGO bricks,
and a 79 page long Manual, all about a little (~25cm) Mako Model.
It was ther first thing I ever made in that direction. And I was the best thing I allways will have done in that direction.
Its perfekt. :-)
http://www.filefactory.com/file/fd7a04/
You can download it here.
Have fun.
Greg the Mad
Nightmare before December
I've got a great game idea today.
Its easy: the city in in chaos because it did not stop snowing the last few days and now there are meters of snow at every drive and you're the only one who can make them passable.
You can run around and clean what a drives you want, but you may have to get to the doors first to make a deal before the drive is clean, else they may not pay you.
And if you save the money, instead of buying sweet bonus points with it, you can purchase in a bigger snow shovel or even in a snowblower!
The goal of the game is a to get enougth money for your own car!
You can use that game idea for your own games :-)
... And don't ask me how I came up with this ... yes ... the snow is back again. :D
Greg the Mad
Its easy: the city in in chaos because it did not stop snowing the last few days and now there are meters of snow at every drive and you're the only one who can make them passable.
You can run around and clean what a drives you want, but you may have to get to the doors first to make a deal before the drive is clean, else they may not pay you.
And if you save the money, instead of buying sweet bonus points with it, you can purchase in a bigger snow shovel or even in a snowblower!
The goal of the game is a to get enougth money for your own car!
You can use that game idea for your own games :-)
... And don't ask me how I came up with this ... yes ... the snow is back again. :D
Greg the Mad
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Its done!
After three month now its finaly done! The Lego Mako Manual is none!
I just finished that .zip file containing the manual .pdf, and list of all parts, and the right pictures of theis parts (if the name is not enought).
I want to release it tomorrow, but ther is still some stuff that I have to take care of. If the peopel who I've send a message respond faster it would go faster, but ... you know ... this can take time ... :-)
Greg the Mad
I just finished that .zip file containing the manual .pdf, and list of all parts, and the right pictures of theis parts (if the name is not enought).
I want to release it tomorrow, but ther is still some stuff that I have to take care of. If the peopel who I've send a message respond faster it would go faster, but ... you know ... this can take time ... :-)
Greg the Mad
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
A little bit fortun would be nice.
My live sucks. :(
I never have won at any contest, good marks came like girls and what next?
My graficcard, the one I've send to repair, came back yesterday, I've build it in again and guess what ... :( it dose not work again.
My PC runs, I can work, but after a few minutes it suddenly stops and it restarts ... but this time vista claimse that the CPU and other stuff don't work ... man ... why dose fortuna hate me?
Why can't ther be anything in my live that went smooth?
Greg the unfortuned
I never have won at any contest, good marks came like girls and what next?
My graficcard, the one I've send to repair, came back yesterday, I've build it in again and guess what ... :( it dose not work again.
My PC runs, I can work, but after a few minutes it suddenly stops and it restarts ... but this time vista claimse that the CPU and other stuff don't work ... man ... why dose fortuna hate me?
Why can't ther be anything in my live that went smooth?
Greg the unfortuned
Monday, November 12, 2007
Feelings
Do you know that feeling? Snow is gone. The next test in school are comming like a big red guy carrieing a bag on his back. And and the all bad school brack gives you a call which tells you that you can get your graficcard back?
Yes! My own PC will work again!
For those who've missed it: My PC used to brack down sometimes. Just 2 month ago I figured out that ther was a little copper cooling device on the grafic card ... that was gone! So I tooked that card and brought it back to the shop. Ther they claimed that they may have to send it to Asus and that it could take up to 6 weeks till I get it back.
Now, 8 weeks late I can go to the shop and get the replacement. ... it took MS 3 days to replace my brocken X-Box 360 ... just to give you that feeling.
Ja, and do you know that feeling, that you got if you onyl got 48 steps left to make, but somehow you don't even find any stupid minute on that Lego crap that I can't see anymore? Bingo. I got this one with the Manula thing.
I should get time this Wednesday till Sunday to actualy finish it and find a way to publish it in the interrnet. ... man ... can wait till this one is out and I can start my next project ... the Lego Mako Dropminigame! WooHoo! :-)
Greg the Mad
Yes! My own PC will work again!
For those who've missed it: My PC used to brack down sometimes. Just 2 month ago I figured out that ther was a little copper cooling device on the grafic card ... that was gone! So I tooked that card and brought it back to the shop. Ther they claimed that they may have to send it to Asus and that it could take up to 6 weeks till I get it back.
Now, 8 weeks late I can go to the shop and get the replacement. ... it took MS 3 days to replace my brocken X-Box 360 ... just to give you that feeling.
Ja, and do you know that feeling, that you got if you onyl got 48 steps left to make, but somehow you don't even find any stupid minute on that Lego crap that I can't see anymore? Bingo. I got this one with the Manula thing.
I should get time this Wednesday till Sunday to actualy finish it and find a way to publish it in the interrnet. ... man ... can wait till this one is out and I can start my next project ... the Lego Mako Dropminigame! WooHoo! :-)
Greg the Mad
Sunday, November 11, 2007
Let it snow, Let it snow, Let it snow ...
And nother two days have passed without that I 've done anything on the Manual, and it will take a while till I got time again ... hopefully I'll get my graficcard back this week, so that I can spend more time on it again.
And hey! The first snow came this night! Yes the white stuff that can fokus all your thoughts on you face, if you got some of it in you face.
The fact that snow is fallen in the november is especialy interresting, because we've got no snow last year till january. If I got luck, we'll have 1m again and I can stay at home and play Mass Effect once its out.
By the Way, I've came up with a great idea of an other blog about games, where I test games and also share expierence. But I don't got anything to write ther yet so it will take a while till I open it.
Greg the Mad
And hey! The first snow came this night! Yes the white stuff that can fokus all your thoughts on you face, if you got some of it in you face.
The fact that snow is fallen in the november is especialy interresting, because we've got no snow last year till january. If I got luck, we'll have 1m again and I can stay at home and play Mass Effect once its out.
By the Way, I've came up with a great idea of an other blog about games, where I test games and also share expierence. But I don't got anything to write ther yet so it will take a while till I open it.
Greg the Mad
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