Today the a mechanic teacher returned the test we've got monday.
And? AND? What dose the teacher say after he called my name? guess! I've got a C!
I stood up and just run through the class with a grin on my face ... man ... that is the kind of grin I only get at special moments :D
My test was so good that some other people out of my class wanted me to copie it so they can learn for the second try of that test next monday (we got 15 E, which means that we have to repeat the test). Later I walked up to the desk of the teacher and asked him why I only got 20 points on that 40 point task, "Hmmm ... ok you'll get 5 points more on that" So I finaly got a C with 75 points, preatty good, isn't it?
Better as you guess. Nearly the end of the lesson I became curious and raised my hand asking wich number of points is equal which mark "... 75 - B ..."
WHAT?!? *run* I GOT 75 POINTS NOW!
"... Ok ... you'll get a B"
WOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOO!
In right that moment a guy out of the second row asked my how I did that awsome mark and cool and focused as I was in that situation I just say: "Because I can!"
That was one of the best moments of thies day, it may was dulled a little bit by the 'Horny when Drunked' girl next to that guy, which was a little to close to crieing in that moment, because of her rather bad mark ... ... I can't stand crieing girls ... :(
A nother ... 'great' moment of today was at the busstop, when I ... 'good' looking girl looked at me. When I saw that she saw me seeing her, a reflex of mine moved my eyes away from her. ... A few second later I tried it again ... she still was looking at me! Unfortunatly the big WTF! in my head blocked any good looking movement, gesture or smille, till she walked by and I never saw here again ... D'OH!
Greg the Mad
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Monday, May 26, 2008
Tests Again
Today I made a great test.
No, 'great' is the wrong word for it, it was probably the awsomest test it the school history ever!
I've learned complet 2 hours for it, but my great understanding of mechanic and the rest of my awsome brain made me write a test, which probably will cause the teacher to shit in his pants and jerk off at the same time, it just was awsome!
Jep, that was today. I should got a little test tomorrow, but I will skip it because I got a little cold (fortunatly with out hankys, but with tea). So I got full 24 hours to learn for the test on wednesday that sould be at least a D, and the test on the day after that day, where I should get a C, ... after that all I have to do is finaly to make the stupid presentation (I already hate Stirling ... bad karma), and write some other positive test next week ... and then I may manage to pass this school year without any sommer studing for the repeat test in september ... would be awsome ...
And now about something different:
I fealt worst the whole day ... so I spend some hours just watching Scrubs. And while I was wondering about JD, and how similar he is to me ... I got day dreams too ... more or less the same kind ...
Anyway, ... I thought about my game project and what I'm actually still lacking for my demo. And if you write it down on a list it. dose. not. appear. that. much. ...
I could make it till 09 ...
... all I have to do is to spend only one realy productive houre each week on the whole thing and bingo!
It would be that easy, but you grow with the ... er ... yes ... so long
Greg the Mad
No, 'great' is the wrong word for it, it was probably the awsomest test it the school history ever!
I've learned complet 2 hours for it, but my great understanding of mechanic and the rest of my awsome brain made me write a test, which probably will cause the teacher to shit in his pants and jerk off at the same time, it just was awsome!
Jep, that was today. I should got a little test tomorrow, but I will skip it because I got a little cold (fortunatly with out hankys, but with tea). So I got full 24 hours to learn for the test on wednesday that sould be at least a D, and the test on the day after that day, where I should get a C, ... after that all I have to do is finaly to make the stupid presentation (I already hate Stirling ... bad karma), and write some other positive test next week ... and then I may manage to pass this school year without any sommer studing for the repeat test in september ... would be awsome ...
And now about something different:
I fealt worst the whole day ... so I spend some hours just watching Scrubs. And while I was wondering about JD, and how similar he is to me ... I got day dreams too ... more or less the same kind ...
Anyway, ... I thought about my game project and what I'm actually still lacking for my demo. And if you write it down on a list it. dose. not. appear. that. much. ...
I could make it till 09 ...
... all I have to do is to spend only one realy productive houre each week on the whole thing and bingo!
It would be that easy, but you grow with the ... er ... yes ... so long
Greg the Mad
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Tests, Tests and more Tests
OK, I only got two test next week, but that are such test I should at least get a C on, or I'll have to pervorme them next year again ... So I'm more or less detained for all the other stuff I want to do: Go drinking, meet girls, make sports ...
lol
Selfsarcasm is nothing good, is it?
Anyway, just yesterday I dicovered a interresting fack. I use my table pen more and more.
Its may because my Logitech mouse starts to get weak speacking about rechargable battery power, or because its awsome to control a PC with a pen ... I'm not sure yet.
Anyway ... ther ... is nothing else ... I can say about ... me ... yet ...
Greg the Mad
lol
Selfsarcasm is nothing good, is it?
Anyway, just yesterday I dicovered a interresting fack. I use my table pen more and more.
Its may because my Logitech mouse starts to get weak speacking about rechargable battery power, or because its awsome to control a PC with a pen ... I'm not sure yet.
Anyway ... ther ... is nothing else ... I can say about ... me ... yet ...
Greg the Mad
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Stirling Planet
Today sucks.
I got a presentation tomorrow about the Stirling engine, and I only got a few pages of my presentation yet, not to meantion the whole stuff I'll be forced to speack about the engine, not to mention the test I got 4 hours later and still haven't studied for ...
wAAAAAAAAAAAAArg ...
And the test on monday on which I have to get a C on ...
:(
... On the other hand I finaly made something again on my game. On of the big features will be that you can land on planets, so I need detailed planets and a system to change the Level of Details (LOD) on the fly, as you don't need millions of tree models when you orbit a planet, but you'll need water effects, and those have to differnt when you orbit the planet, than when you just hover a few meters above the surface.
So I started a little contetn project project yesterday. I'll start with a sphere and later use a height map for the elevation of each vertex.
Once I got this I'll write a system that only creates those faces of the planet which the player can see and also change the LOD at the same moment. Maybe I'll also use the same system to ganerate a billboard of the planet if your too fare away from it, and if your too far way from it all you can see it another start on the background ...
... I'd started the project yesterday, and I'll probalbe will continou it in a few weeks ... :(
Greg the Mad
I got a presentation tomorrow about the Stirling engine, and I only got a few pages of my presentation yet, not to meantion the whole stuff I'll be forced to speack about the engine, not to mention the test I got 4 hours later and still haven't studied for ...
wAAAAAAAAAAAAArg ...
And the test on monday on which I have to get a C on ...
:(
... On the other hand I finaly made something again on my game. On of the big features will be that you can land on planets, so I need detailed planets and a system to change the Level of Details (LOD) on the fly, as you don't need millions of tree models when you orbit a planet, but you'll need water effects, and those have to differnt when you orbit the planet, than when you just hover a few meters above the surface.
So I started a little contetn project project yesterday. I'll start with a sphere and later use a height map for the elevation of each vertex.
Once I got this I'll write a system that only creates those faces of the planet which the player can see and also change the LOD at the same moment. Maybe I'll also use the same system to ganerate a billboard of the planet if your too fare away from it, and if your too far way from it all you can see it another start on the background ...
... I'd started the project yesterday, and I'll probalbe will continou it in a few weeks ... :(
Greg the Mad
Monday, May 19, 2008
Hang Over
Some how, I realy don't know how it happened, I did nothing about my game the last few day.
Its may because I now got some test in school that I should get some good grates on, or that I go a presentatin next frieday (about Stirling engines), 0r may because I still got MP3 to finish, not to mention that I didn't played GTA IV for two weeks now (my 36o is in the lifing room of my parents) ...
Or it may be becaus that the work that is waiting for me is more or less game designe pure ... seaching for that one fucking line that makes it all crash ... rewriting stuff the x'th time ...
But it may be also a little healthy. I may didn't spend every second on the game the last 6 month, but for a non programmer I did a great pille of work, so shuting my programming mind down a few days should not work, as long as it stays just a few days. The last hard test is next wednesday, I hope that I can relaxe after that and restart fresh and succesfull.
And about something complet different:
As you may now, I don't drink alkohol *hide*
But I'm still human enougth to got away with some friends and enjoy our selfs. As mentioned it that last post, I was in a bar with my class last week, and in that night I dicovered a new skill of mine:
Around zero o clock the horny girle (I've told you about in the last post) come over to me and suddenly started touching me. First I wondered 'WTF?' ... 'I like here, She looks good, but I'm not drunk!' ... 'What dose she want from me?'
Fortunatly I was releaved when you she put a little camera in my hand saying: "Its the camera from Karl (the guy she later started kissing), and I don't think that he is able to get it home save, but I know that you are. So please take it and keep it save." She walked away. Drunken but still cleare minded (what ever that means).
There I was standing: Holding a camera, surrounded by drunk people, and a mission.
... Mine are the best photos of that party.
Dancing teachers, Dancing students (on tables, bars, etc), stipping students (I'm not pround about those, but that moments had to be captured), teachers dancing with students, drunken girl kissing drunken guy.
Just to name a few. I have to admit that I did miss some great shoots, like the teacher watching students strip, and I missed the police capturing those 3 guys and the girl just for few seconds, drunken guy painted in bed, drunken guy in bed (it may don't sound that impressive but you should have seen it), drunken guy somewhere between toilet and shower (naked ...), and some more.
But Some of them already mentioned that we may make that a second time this semester, ... if, we mke it ... I'll get my self a camera, some SD-cards, and accept that mission:
Don't Make Photos, Make Memories.
BAM! Long post! So long.
Greg the Mad
Its may because I now got some test in school that I should get some good grates on, or that I go a presentatin next frieday (about Stirling engines), 0r may because I still got MP3 to finish, not to mention that I didn't played GTA IV for two weeks now (my 36o is in the lifing room of my parents) ...
Or it may be becaus that the work that is waiting for me is more or less game designe pure ... seaching for that one fucking line that makes it all crash ... rewriting stuff the x'th time ...
But it may be also a little healthy. I may didn't spend every second on the game the last 6 month, but for a non programmer I did a great pille of work, so shuting my programming mind down a few days should not work, as long as it stays just a few days. The last hard test is next wednesday, I hope that I can relaxe after that and restart fresh and succesfull.
And about something complet different:
As you may now, I don't drink alkohol *hide*
But I'm still human enougth to got away with some friends and enjoy our selfs. As mentioned it that last post, I was in a bar with my class last week, and in that night I dicovered a new skill of mine:
Around zero o clock the horny girle (I've told you about in the last post) come over to me and suddenly started touching me. First I wondered 'WTF?' ... 'I like here, She looks good, but I'm not drunk!' ... 'What dose she want from me?'
Fortunatly I was releaved when you she put a little camera in my hand saying: "Its the camera from Karl (the guy she later started kissing), and I don't think that he is able to get it home save, but I know that you are. So please take it and keep it save." She walked away. Drunken but still cleare minded (what ever that means).
There I was standing: Holding a camera, surrounded by drunk people, and a mission.
... Mine are the best photos of that party.
Dancing teachers, Dancing students (on tables, bars, etc), stipping students (I'm not pround about those, but that moments had to be captured), teachers dancing with students, drunken girl kissing drunken guy.
Just to name a few. I have to admit that I did miss some great shoots, like the teacher watching students strip, and I missed the police capturing those 3 guys and the girl just for few seconds, drunken guy painted in bed, drunken guy in bed (it may don't sound that impressive but you should have seen it), drunken guy somewhere between toilet and shower (naked ...), and some more.
But Some of them already mentioned that we may make that a second time this semester, ... if, we mke it ... I'll get my self a camera, some SD-cards, and accept that mission:
Don't Make Photos, Make Memories.
BAM! Long post! So long.
Greg the Mad
Friday, May 16, 2008
3 Tage Wach!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAtnN9I8cxA ("3 days awake")
No thats not me, but I somehow feel like that now.
We first drove away withe plan to visit some great facilitys and stuff (BWM, VöstAlpine, Siemens, ÖBB Powerstation), but the nights we went off are the only thing I realy remember ...
Ther first night we only were 10 people in a little round drinking till 12 ...
Ther second night ... :D ... we were 30 people, 1 drunken guy to get carried home, the only girl of the trip together with 5 other (no, just dancing ... kissing), 4 cached by police (including the girl), a body painted guy (not with airbrush ...) and one angry teacher :D
AND I WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO DRUNK NO ALCOHOL!!!!
Thats probabyl why I'm the only one to tell about it. And in my funktion as home carrier I spend the whole night in getting the others save and alive (its not that easy), and unfucked (sorry) into bed. ... So ... I more or less only sleeped 8 hours the last tree days (sleeping in the bus not counted).
... And still feel great! (must be because of the lack of sleep)
PS: The most wired thing I was confronted with was the one girl that acted like that behavior would be common to her ... WTF? ... MAN! ... dancing (and I mean D-A-N-C-I-N-G) and kissing with 5 guys in one night? ...
... What happend to todays children?!?
Ok, thats all for now, I'll get my self a show now ... a round MP3 and then ... ... a bed?
Greg the Mad
No thats not me, but I somehow feel like that now.
We first drove away withe plan to visit some great facilitys and stuff (BWM, VöstAlpine, Siemens, ÖBB Powerstation), but the nights we went off are the only thing I realy remember ...
Ther first night we only were 10 people in a little round drinking till 12 ...
Ther second night ... :D ... we were 30 people, 1 drunken guy to get carried home, the only girl of the trip together with 5 other (no, just dancing ... kissing), 4 cached by police (including the girl), a body painted guy (not with airbrush ...) and one angry teacher :D
AND I WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO DRUNK NO ALCOHOL!!!!
Thats probabyl why I'm the only one to tell about it. And in my funktion as home carrier I spend the whole night in getting the others save and alive (its not that easy), and unfucked (sorry) into bed. ... So ... I more or less only sleeped 8 hours the last tree days (sleeping in the bus not counted).
... And still feel great! (must be because of the lack of sleep)
PS: The most wired thing I was confronted with was the one girl that acted like that behavior would be common to her ... WTF? ... MAN! ... dancing (and I mean D-A-N-C-I-N-G) and kissing with 5 guys in one night? ...
... What happend to todays children?!?
Ok, thats all for now, I'll get my self a show now ... a round MP3 and then ... ... a bed?
Greg the Mad
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Up, Up and Away!
I'll go on a little trip with my class tomorrow. A little road trippin' through austria, visiting facilitys, manaufatoris, etc.
Because of that I drove to the next shoping center to puchase into a new DS game for entertaimend over those tree days (ZELDA PHG), and as I was lougthing over some PC game I found a nice little game called Metroid Prime 3 Corruption, which was perfect for me, as I frustrated shut my PC down just a few hours ago.
Yes ... I finaly found out that all my Orbit code from the prototype sucks and has to be rewrite, not only to fit with the new system but also because it just sucks ...
I have to think more about reusable stuff, than just about solutions for the moment ...
And it realy should work ... good ...
So that probaly will take more than a few days, even if you can use some of the old code, and realy just have to rewrite it, and not to rethink it ...
OK, I have to keep this short now, I still have to take a shower, shave and pack all my stuff ... and my mom just called me to take a pice form a cake ... cake! ... sliver ....
So Long
Greg the Mad
Because of that I drove to the next shoping center to puchase into a new DS game for entertaimend over those tree days (ZELDA PHG), and as I was lougthing over some PC game I found a nice little game called Metroid Prime 3 Corruption, which was perfect for me, as I frustrated shut my PC down just a few hours ago.
Yes ... I finaly found out that all my Orbit code from the prototype sucks and has to be rewrite, not only to fit with the new system but also because it just sucks ...
I have to think more about reusable stuff, than just about solutions for the moment ...
And it realy should work ... good ...
So that probaly will take more than a few days, even if you can use some of the old code, and realy just have to rewrite it, and not to rethink it ...
OK, I have to keep this short now, I still have to take a shower, shave and pack all my stuff ... and my mom just called me to take a pice form a cake ... cake! ... sliver ....
So Long
Greg the Mad
Monday, May 12, 2008
Flare
I guess that I'm not that great programmer like all thos non programmer always tell me.
I started a few days ago to take the GameStateManager sample appard, but somehow I ended up just copind it and passing the whole thing into my new project file ...
OK, it works and I can change the stuff later, but I hoped that I can rewrite the stuff all by my self from scrach ...
But the whole thing is so connected and everything got a cause to be there and in that form ... pro-programmer sucks ... their code is too good :(
At the moment I more or less got the whole GameStateManager thing working just with my background (the start-skysphere I use for the game) and a bug that some how don't let me display my models in the gameplay screen ...
... writing a game in a project and later implant it into a different project aint that easy as it sounds ...
Greg the Mad
I started a few days ago to take the GameStateManager sample appard, but somehow I ended up just copind it and passing the whole thing into my new project file ...
OK, it works and I can change the stuff later, but I hoped that I can rewrite the stuff all by my self from scrach ...
But the whole thing is so connected and everything got a cause to be there and in that form ... pro-programmer sucks ... their code is too good :(
At the moment I more or less got the whole GameStateManager thing working just with my background (the start-skysphere I use for the game) and a bug that some how don't let me display my models in the gameplay screen ...
... writing a game in a project and later implant it into a different project aint that easy as it sounds ...
Greg the Mad
Friday, May 9, 2008
Orbit
I somehow start to like the WIP name of my game 'Orbit'.
It more or less holds all that the game is about.
Its about the realistic traveling throug space, the landing on planets and everthing in between. Perfect!
Why I like it more then ever? Because now that my control system is done (at the moment), I start the next thing: Screen Management.
Ever usual game starts with the studio emblem and intro and the main menu. Till now mine starts with you hovering directly infront earth ... Not the best intro ...
So I took the sample form xna.com and started coping, changing, deleting etc to make it fit for my game.
At the moment I only got a cornflowerblue screen with a 'Orbit' string in the center, but I plane to get the whole menu/game thing working till next week (I got 4 days holiday!). Once that thing is done I'll work again on the control system (I'll need a menu system to toggle stuff on/off), and then ... I probable have to face the content processor for my planets ...
It should not be that hard to creat a planet based on a few values and a heigth map, but ... the scale ... the camera should stay at least 1.5 units away from the surface ... and what if you land on a planed and want to look up? ... Changing the scale on the fly? ...
Ther will be a lot of question I'll have to answer then ...
So Long
Greg the Mad
It more or less holds all that the game is about.
Its about the realistic traveling throug space, the landing on planets and everthing in between. Perfect!
Why I like it more then ever? Because now that my control system is done (at the moment), I start the next thing: Screen Management.
Ever usual game starts with the studio emblem and intro and the main menu. Till now mine starts with you hovering directly infront earth ... Not the best intro ...
So I took the sample form xna.com and started coping, changing, deleting etc to make it fit for my game.
At the moment I only got a cornflowerblue screen with a 'Orbit' string in the center, but I plane to get the whole menu/game thing working till next week (I got 4 days holiday!). Once that thing is done I'll work again on the control system (I'll need a menu system to toggle stuff on/off), and then ... I probable have to face the content processor for my planets ...
It should not be that hard to creat a planet based on a few values and a heigth map, but ... the scale ... the camera should stay at least 1.5 units away from the surface ... and what if you land on a planed and want to look up? ... Changing the scale on the fly? ...
Ther will be a lot of question I'll have to answer then ...
So Long
Greg the Mad
Monday, May 5, 2008
private bool Passion;
You know, I never realy was sure about the game developer thing.
Yes, I like to programm, to have ideas, to make those ideas real, to work with other people, etc. But there is also something I wasn't that sure if I got it till now.
As a game developer you not only have to spend the whole day sitting on your ass, but also sometimes the whole night. As you might already guess, I'm talking about such kind of passion, that lets you know no differnt time border but the deadline.
And as I mostly only spend around 3 hours a day on programming, etc. I actually wasn't sure about if I was able to spend the 'day' (8-9 hours) working on a game, or what ever.
But all that thougth suddenly disappeared when my brother called me a few days ago that he needs me and my godlike CAD skills to draw a gearbox for him, which he needs till monday (today). So we meet yesterday, eat lunch and started.
He spend the most time rethinking all the calculations, which weren't finished as I started drawing the gears.
I already had all gears (4 to give a figure) and a bunch of other stuff when he was done with the calculation.
And then I just drew.
Finaly a 22:00 my brother called me to tell me that I got school next day and that I must not wait the whole night with it as its probably pointless anyway. ... So I actually spend around 10 hours on a project that don't affects my live in anyway, and the only reward is a free entry card for the Iron Man movie (~7€). ... Some people may diffine passion differnt, but it works for me :)
And now guess what I would be capable of when there is a deadline infront of me and a angry boss in my neck! I could plan, build, populate and burn rom in just one day!!!!!!
Passion = true;
Greg the Mad
Yes, I like to programm, to have ideas, to make those ideas real, to work with other people, etc. But there is also something I wasn't that sure if I got it till now.
As a game developer you not only have to spend the whole day sitting on your ass, but also sometimes the whole night. As you might already guess, I'm talking about such kind of passion, that lets you know no differnt time border but the deadline.
And as I mostly only spend around 3 hours a day on programming, etc. I actually wasn't sure about if I was able to spend the 'day' (8-9 hours) working on a game, or what ever.
But all that thougth suddenly disappeared when my brother called me a few days ago that he needs me and my godlike CAD skills to draw a gearbox for him, which he needs till monday (today). So we meet yesterday, eat lunch and started.
He spend the most time rethinking all the calculations, which weren't finished as I started drawing the gears.
I already had all gears (4 to give a figure) and a bunch of other stuff when he was done with the calculation.
And then I just drew.
Finaly a 22:00 my brother called me to tell me that I got school next day and that I must not wait the whole night with it as its probably pointless anyway. ... So I actually spend around 10 hours on a project that don't affects my live in anyway, and the only reward is a free entry card for the Iron Man movie (~7€). ... Some people may diffine passion differnt, but it works for me :)
And now guess what I would be capable of when there is a deadline infront of me and a angry boss in my neck! I could plan, build, populate and burn rom in just one day!!!!!!
Passion = true;
Greg the Mad
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Feature!
Stop the production!
Stop the coding! The drawing! The desinging!
You can stop every game production on the world, we don't need any new games anymore!
No matter what they are working on, no matter how bit it will be!
They can't beat the best feature of GTA IV!
When you drive around with the Icecream vehicle you can hear a ich ginggle, (and now it comes) as faster you drive as fast the ginggle playes, and if you drive reverse you can hear the song reverse!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WOOOOOOOOOOT!!!!!!!!!
Ther'll never be a nother game that will be greater than that!!!!!!!!!!
Fuck Fable2! Fuck Spore! Fuck Force Unleashed!
GTA IV ROCKStars!
Greg the Mad
Stop the coding! The drawing! The desinging!
You can stop every game production on the world, we don't need any new games anymore!
No matter what they are working on, no matter how bit it will be!
They can't beat the best feature of GTA IV!
When you drive around with the Icecream vehicle you can hear a ich ginggle, (and now it comes) as faster you drive as fast the ginggle playes, and if you drive reverse you can hear the song reverse!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WOOOOOOOOOOT!!!!!!!!!
Ther'll never be a nother game that will be greater than that!!!!!!!!!!
Fuck Fable2! Fuck Spore! Fuck Force Unleashed!
GTA IV ROCKStars!
Greg the Mad
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Green light when on.
Hey, I got money!
Even so much money that I was able to by GTA IV today, AND a 360 controler for my PC, AND enougth for my first 'perfection drive' tomorrow (that got something to do with the austrian driving licent stuff ...).
And that is not enought! ... I'll probable another bunch of money on May the first (I'll meet all my other related).
About GTA IV:
I just had played 2 hours, because my mom wanted her HDTV back, but I have to say that I probalby one of the realistic games I've ever have player, I can't say if it is the best game ever, but at least a great game.
Endorphin ROCKS!!!!!!!
About 360 Controler:
I only spend around 30mins with it yet, but I alread applayed the first stuff like throttle and sensitive waepon controls (as harder you press the trigger, as faster you shoot), but as long I don't stumble over GTA IV, the internet, or something different, I'll spend more time with it tomorrow.
About my Pants:
Slowly ... S L O W L Y ... the sommer is comming, and I'm one of the first people who took their short pants and shirst out of the locked and stared wearing them. ... I like the fresh feeling, and fortunatyl I got the legs to wear such clothes, but they also remind me that I don't got the skin typ that gets that easy tan ... :(
... its the 'Geek' skin typ. Not as white as the 'Nerd' skin typ, but also no 'Normal' skin tone.
So Long, and I even wear them when its reaning :P
Greg the Mad
Even so much money that I was able to by GTA IV today, AND a 360 controler for my PC, AND enougth for my first 'perfection drive' tomorrow (that got something to do with the austrian driving licent stuff ...).
And that is not enought! ... I'll probable another bunch of money on May the first (I'll meet all my other related).
About GTA IV:
I just had played 2 hours, because my mom wanted her HDTV back, but I have to say that I probalby one of the realistic games I've ever have player, I can't say if it is the best game ever, but at least a great game.
Endorphin ROCKS!!!!!!!
About 360 Controler:
I only spend around 30mins with it yet, but I alread applayed the first stuff like throttle and sensitive waepon controls (as harder you press the trigger, as faster you shoot), but as long I don't stumble over GTA IV, the internet, or something different, I'll spend more time with it tomorrow.
About my Pants:
Slowly ... S L O W L Y ... the sommer is comming, and I'm one of the first people who took their short pants and shirst out of the locked and stared wearing them. ... I like the fresh feeling, and fortunatyl I got the legs to wear such clothes, but they also remind me that I don't got the skin typ that gets that easy tan ... :(
... its the 'Geek' skin typ. Not as white as the 'Nerd' skin typ, but also no 'Normal' skin tone.
So Long, and I even wear them when its reaning :P
Greg the Mad
Sunday, April 27, 2008
19!
Today is my 19th birthday! Woot!
I never was that guy that celabreated such days with all my friends, alkohol, partys, etc
Probalby because I don't got enought friends to fill a room, and that is because I don't drink any alkohol (never), even if I got to a party/pub/disco which happens around 2 times is a year.
Woot 1 year closer to death!
But even if I'm one of those broing, not drinking, driver geeks, I still wanted to do at least something yesterday night. But the friend that wanted to go with me into a disco, and probably also wanted to force my to drink a beer, suddenly feared that I could be the only one he knew in that disco and so he stayed home ...
I feard too that I could be the only one I knew in that disco, so I too stayed at home.
... But I'm not supriced about that, he always stays at home when I want to go away ... capullo!
(yes, I searched some spanish cuss words in my online dictionary ;) )
And now about something happy :D
I did not write the force from absolut to relative code, that I need for my physics, as I was entertaimed the last few days:
SMA test, VKM test, Engish presentation (I got a +B, because I've spoken too fast, one even sayed that I speack like a english man! Woot!)
And I finaly don't to pay back anymore, and 200€ on my balance! ... - 60€ for GTA 4, - 50€ for a 360 controler for my PC (and the game development).
And the other 90€ ... I played with the thought to buy a instrument, and finlay start playing one (I wistle the whole day melodys, only because I can't play one), but I don't think that I'll get one for that much, so it will stay on my balance. :)
So Long
Gre the Mad
I never was that guy that celabreated such days with all my friends, alkohol, partys, etc
Probalby because I don't got enought friends to fill a room, and that is because I don't drink any alkohol (never), even if I got to a party/pub/disco which happens around 2 times is a year.
Woot 1 year closer to death!
But even if I'm one of those broing, not drinking, driver geeks, I still wanted to do at least something yesterday night. But the friend that wanted to go with me into a disco, and probably also wanted to force my to drink a beer, suddenly feared that I could be the only one he knew in that disco and so he stayed home ...
I feard too that I could be the only one I knew in that disco, so I too stayed at home.
... But I'm not supriced about that, he always stays at home when I want to go away ... capullo!
(yes, I searched some spanish cuss words in my online dictionary ;) )
And now about something happy :D
I did not write the force from absolut to relative code, that I need for my physics, as I was entertaimed the last few days:
SMA test, VKM test, Engish presentation (I got a +B, because I've spoken too fast, one even sayed that I speack like a english man! Woot!)
And I finaly don't to pay back anymore, and 200€ on my balance! ... - 60€ for GTA 4, - 50€ for a 360 controler for my PC (and the game development).
And the other 90€ ... I played with the thought to buy a instrument, and finlay start playing one (I wistle the whole day melodys, only because I can't play one), but I don't think that I'll get one for that much, so it will stay on my balance. :)
So Long
Gre the Mad
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Control
I just have writen a the second way of controling my space ship.
The first was the engine controls, accelorate, deccelorate forward.
And now the sceond way are the jets.
If you ever have seen a Star Wars movie or any other SciFi thing, you may have noticed that there are always little jets of gas when they land a space ship. I took that idea of little jets all around the ship and created so the 'Emergency Control Jets'!
The idea behind that is, that even if your ship is hit by a EMP bolt, you still got at least weak jets to turn and accelorate/deccelorate your ship, very usefull if you're hit while you try to land on a planet (see => Serenity). This is possible because the jets, or valves, a connected to the cockpit via several lines, and got tornister filled with enougth gas presure to lift the ship up for a few seconds with out any other energie.
As the presure tornistor get constantly refilled, if energie is avaliable, you also can use them for a perfect landing on a space station/planed. But keep in mind that, on planets, the forces, that the jets have to provide, are much heigher than in space, so even if you got a black hole reaktor in your ship, you might woun't got endless energy to hoverer longer than a few seconds.
Currently I control those jets with the Numberblock, but I already got some ideas how I can swich to those controls on a 360 controller. :)
The next thing would be the Mouse control unit, but once I got this thing done I'll focus on how to transfere a force from absolut (used for the acceloration) and relative (used to turn the ship) ... that'll get complicated ...
Gre the Mad
The first was the engine controls, accelorate, deccelorate forward.
And now the sceond way are the jets.
If you ever have seen a Star Wars movie or any other SciFi thing, you may have noticed that there are always little jets of gas when they land a space ship. I took that idea of little jets all around the ship and created so the 'Emergency Control Jets'!
The idea behind that is, that even if your ship is hit by a EMP bolt, you still got at least weak jets to turn and accelorate/deccelorate your ship, very usefull if you're hit while you try to land on a planet (see => Serenity). This is possible because the jets, or valves, a connected to the cockpit via several lines, and got tornister filled with enougth gas presure to lift the ship up for a few seconds with out any other energie.
As the presure tornistor get constantly refilled, if energie is avaliable, you also can use them for a perfect landing on a space station/planed. But keep in mind that, on planets, the forces, that the jets have to provide, are much heigher than in space, so even if you got a black hole reaktor in your ship, you might woun't got endless energy to hoverer longer than a few seconds.
Currently I control those jets with the Numberblock, but I already got some ideas how I can swich to those controls on a 360 controller. :)
The next thing would be the Mouse control unit, but once I got this thing done I'll focus on how to transfere a force from absolut (used for the acceloration) and relative (used to turn the ship) ... that'll get complicated ...
Gre the Mad
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Turn, Scale, Move ... Rebuild!
I had a few little confusing moments in the last days.
For example is the Vector3.Forward value equal (0,0,-1). Minus?!? Its called 'Forward' but actually points into the negative direction?!?
Ok, that would not the a problem, you can live with it.
But what next?
The Blender Y-axis is not equal the XNA Y-axin, but ther to are some ways you can live with.
I have to scale a Blender model with 0.001 to get it more or less right into XNA, but the exproter got 0.01 as the smallest scale value.
It appears that my force physics, somehow, work now. It may turns the ship into the wrong direktion, but after I spend two days (!) in changing the ship model (because of that the title), it still don't work yet.
Fortunatly I build the TPS camera with such a great code that I only had to change two values and it looked into the same direction like the ship.
But its still not finished. I still don't put any great deal of time into the absolut force into relative force thing. For example did I just a few minutes ago discover that the forces I used where something beyond absolut and relative ...
Not to mention that I also changed the relative axis with the whole ship changing thing, so it may take a few minutes till I cleanded the code up ...
So long.
Greg the Mad
For example is the Vector3.Forward value equal (0,0,-1). Minus?!? Its called 'Forward' but actually points into the negative direction?!?
Ok, that would not the a problem, you can live with it.
But what next?
The Blender Y-axis is not equal the XNA Y-axin, but ther to are some ways you can live with.
I have to scale a Blender model with 0.001 to get it more or less right into XNA, but the exproter got 0.01 as the smallest scale value.
It appears that my force physics, somehow, work now. It may turns the ship into the wrong direktion, but after I spend two days (!) in changing the ship model (because of that the title), it still don't work yet.
Fortunatly I build the TPS camera with such a great code that I only had to change two values and it looked into the same direction like the ship.
But its still not finished. I still don't put any great deal of time into the absolut force into relative force thing. For example did I just a few minutes ago discover that the forces I used where something beyond absolut and relative ...
Not to mention that I also changed the relative axis with the whole ship changing thing, so it may take a few minutes till I cleanded the code up ...
So long.
Greg the Mad
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Publishing
There is a new page online http://www.xnawiki.com/index.php?title=Main_Page
Its XNA Wiki!!!
That what makes it a special awsome to me is that it freatures a code I put on.!
Woot!
Its my old camera movement class, that lets you hover the camera free through space to watch the awsomeness you're programming ;)
Else ther is noting new, yet.
I didn't found any time for the physics yet, because a friend of mine decided to come to my home and play Halo 3 with me.
So Long
Greg the Mad
Its XNA Wiki!!!
That what makes it a special awsome to me is that it freatures a code I put on.!
Woot!
Its my old camera movement class, that lets you hover the camera free through space to watch the awsomeness you're programming ;)
Else ther is noting new, yet.
I didn't found any time for the physics yet, because a friend of mine decided to come to my home and play Halo 3 with me.
So Long
Greg the Mad
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Progress?
As my ship started turning (spinning would probably be the right word) and moving based on the one force I apply at the rear, next to the planed exhaustfumes, I somehow feel good.
Good about where this is going. Just thing about how much stuff I'll be able to make once I got such basic physics?
Particles (good animated particles ;) ), ... objects that react physical correct, and ... a bunch of other stuff ...
.. Its just so basic to got a force and its effects ... *whiping a tear away* ... I'm so proud of my physic engine ... even if it dose not work right, even if I only use on force and no collition, but ... but ...
Anyway, no about something complet differnt:
I start to get scared. The end o thies years term comes closer, and I still got that subject where I'm in the red numbers, and if I don't start learning for test, that one I got tomorrow, ... Math, I don't got any problems with it, ... I programmed a own programm on my hand held calculator just to calculate the half of tomorrows test, so ...
... I'll have to start to lear, ... for those subject where I got bad grades, and the want to bee's ...
(In on subject I earned A, A, C, and now the teacher wants to tell me that I might get a E in the end WTF?)
So thats all for now. Its already later here, and I still want to go to bed, so long and thanks for reading.
Greg the Mad
Good about where this is going. Just thing about how much stuff I'll be able to make once I got such basic physics?
Particles (good animated particles ;) ), ... objects that react physical correct, and ... a bunch of other stuff ...
.. Its just so basic to got a force and its effects ... *whiping a tear away* ... I'm so proud of my physic engine ... even if it dose not work right, even if I only use on force and no collition, but ... but ...
Anyway, no about something complet differnt:
I start to get scared. The end o thies years term comes closer, and I still got that subject where I'm in the red numbers, and if I don't start learning for test, that one I got tomorrow, ... Math, I don't got any problems with it, ... I programmed a own programm on my hand held calculator just to calculate the half of tomorrows test, so ...
... I'll have to start to lear, ... for those subject where I got bad grades, and the want to bee's ...
(In on subject I earned A, A, C, and now the teacher wants to tell me that I might get a E in the end WTF?)
So thats all for now. Its already later here, and I still want to go to bed, so long and thanks for reading.
Greg the Mad
Monday, April 14, 2008
Physics? Ship Control? Baby?
Hmmm ...
I'm done with the basic structure of the physics I'll use to control my ship. ... ok ... I have to admit that it was a work of 5 minutes, I did in a short break at school, ... but its a structure.
And so that what wondered me was that it pretty looks like physics I also could use for other, not controled, objects ...
I may would have to make some changes here and there, but it apears solid to me ...
The only thing why I didn't applayed the new code yet is that I somehow fear to loos the old one ... I'll have to make a back up of it, even if its nothing special on it, to be honest ... I even would say that the whole code is crap, ... but its my baby :(
I even will have to add a lot of new values, like the float that tell the code of strong my shields are and so how strong the effects of the controls are, not to mention the pill of stuff I'll have to do to make the jet controls (that a little jet, like you know from real spacecrafts, which a supposed to work even if your hit by EMP, and will make fun when you got gravity to fight with :D )
So there may will pass some time till I got jing and jang in perfect flow for this task, but once I got it I can applay it to the editor and got something ... yeah ... I actually don't know why I did stop working on the editor and made that ... but it will be done soon ... ?
Greg the Mad
I'm done with the basic structure of the physics I'll use to control my ship. ... ok ... I have to admit that it was a work of 5 minutes, I did in a short break at school, ... but its a structure.
And so that what wondered me was that it pretty looks like physics I also could use for other, not controled, objects ...
I may would have to make some changes here and there, but it apears solid to me ...
The only thing why I didn't applayed the new code yet is that I somehow fear to loos the old one ... I'll have to make a back up of it, even if its nothing special on it, to be honest ... I even would say that the whole code is crap, ... but its my baby :(
I even will have to add a lot of new values, like the float that tell the code of strong my shields are and so how strong the effects of the controls are, not to mention the pill of stuff I'll have to do to make the jet controls (that a little jet, like you know from real spacecrafts, which a supposed to work even if your hit by EMP, and will make fun when you got gravity to fight with :D )
So there may will pass some time till I got jing and jang in perfect flow for this task, but once I got it I can applay it to the editor and got something ... yeah ... I actually don't know why I did stop working on the editor and made that ... but it will be done soon ... ?
Greg the Mad
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Forcing the ship to turn
Hey, it worked!
I now got a ship that turns in use of forces.
It might not be finished as I only turn the ship propably and not accelorate it with them ...
Hey ... while I was writing the last line I read the article on wikiperdia about torque (How the heck to pronounce that word?) and read there that a force dose accelorate a mass and rotates it if the force goes not straigt through the center of gravity ... GREAT!
All I need now is to get that some how into a system ... where I put the keys (AWSD) and the mouse position in and get the rotation out ... with pysics!!!
Now that I more or less got the basics, all I need it to draw a ground concept of it on paper, falt that paper, create a cigarett, smok it, use the ash as shampoo and I can create the control system for a space ship!!!
Why the fuck I want to make it with forces?
Easy! Not only that I so can make that shield stuff that I've talked of last post, but also that I'll get a realistic change in fly physics when I change the weigth and sice of the ship!
AWSOME!!!
Greg the Mad
I now got a ship that turns in use of forces.
It might not be finished as I only turn the ship propably and not accelorate it with them ...
Hey ... while I was writing the last line I read the article on wikiperdia about torque (How the heck to pronounce that word?) and read there that a force dose accelorate a mass and rotates it if the force goes not straigt through the center of gravity ... GREAT!
All I need now is to get that some how into a system ... where I put the keys (AWSD) and the mouse position in and get the rotation out ... with pysics!!!
Now that I more or less got the basics, all I need it to draw a ground concept of it on paper, falt that paper, create a cigarett, smok it, use the ash as shampoo and I can create the control system for a space ship!!!
Why the fuck I want to make it with forces?
Easy! Not only that I so can make that shield stuff that I've talked of last post, but also that I'll get a realistic change in fly physics when I change the weigth and sice of the ship!
AWSOME!!!
Greg the Mad
Thursday, April 10, 2008
... and it made damage
Well I actually spend 20 mintues on this new physics thing yesterday ...
I stoped it because it ended up with my ship shooting through my little solarsystem.
Ther problem was not that I don't got any control about the physics, but because I ended up without any control over the forces. It was like my first trys of 3D motion.
The problem is that I don't got those anti momentum shield yet, that I've spocken of. All that they would make is to applay a force that would affect the actuall velocity so that its always pointing into the direction the ship looks. No problem, applay a force that rotates the ship and deliveres enought acceloration that also turns the actuall velocity vector.
But how dose a Force realy turn a object like a ship?
F = m * a
M = F * l
M = J * 'alpha'
J = ?
'alpha' is that what I need, but how dose I got J?
My ships are normaly not a easy shape so I could use the basic shapes J's for that ...
One way would be to easy take every object as a sphere and use J=2/5 m*r^2 ...
But somehow I would never be quite happy with it, but for now it have to be enougth ...
Also how dose I know how much a force dose rotate a object and how much it accelorates it? I don't got an answer on this one yet ...
And I made a misstake.
Its a habbit I dislike, but which can be handy from time to time. ... Somehow I don't got fear ... OK, I got fear from ... I can't think of anything yet, but I got it ... sometimes, as long its nothing like to code physics. What I mean is that did not prepare for that yesterday. Ther was no line I've drawn on paper before I started, and that is not good. You easyly loos track if you work like that ... and I'll have to change this!
And I'll start now with it ... today ... soon!
And make some basice logic for the physics!
Greg the Mad
I stoped it because it ended up with my ship shooting through my little solarsystem.
Ther problem was not that I don't got any control about the physics, but because I ended up without any control over the forces. It was like my first trys of 3D motion.
The problem is that I don't got those anti momentum shield yet, that I've spocken of. All that they would make is to applay a force that would affect the actuall velocity so that its always pointing into the direction the ship looks. No problem, applay a force that rotates the ship and deliveres enought acceloration that also turns the actuall velocity vector.
But how dose a Force realy turn a object like a ship?
F = m * a
M = F * l
M = J * 'alpha'
J = ?
'alpha' is that what I need, but how dose I got J?
My ships are normaly not a easy shape so I could use the basic shapes J's for that ...
One way would be to easy take every object as a sphere and use J=2/5 m*r^2 ...
But somehow I would never be quite happy with it, but for now it have to be enougth ...
Also how dose I know how much a force dose rotate a object and how much it accelorates it? I don't got an answer on this one yet ...
And I made a misstake.
Its a habbit I dislike, but which can be handy from time to time. ... Somehow I don't got fear ... OK, I got fear from ... I can't think of anything yet, but I got it ... sometimes, as long its nothing like to code physics. What I mean is that did not prepare for that yesterday. Ther was no line I've drawn on paper before I started, and that is not good. You easyly loos track if you work like that ... and I'll have to change this!
And I'll start now with it ... today ... soon!
And make some basice logic for the physics!
Greg the Mad
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