Jep, its gone and now I can make up to 60 push ups now (15 - 4 times).
I've also made some serious programming lately, I finaly made some progress in the moment of inertia calculation.
First I planed to get the projeced shape of the mesh through ray tracing, but then a nice guy from the XNA community told me that the CPU is not quite build for such kind of calculation, the GPU is more made for it. So I just thought "Well, so why don't make it on the GPU?"
In the beginning I thought that there would be somethimg like that in the SpaceWar starter kid of XNA, but I was misstaking, but something like that dose no break me down. I just looked in the internet for a way to get a screen shot from a game, took that code changed it a bit (camera position, projection matrix, and general purpose), and done.
What I actually do is taking a screen shoot from the model I want the moment of inertia from. I just place the camera so that it face the model from a special direction (like from above) and use a orthogonal matrix. Furthermore I use a black background (GraphicDevice.Clear(Color.Black)) and I also set some rendering effect so that the model is white. What I get (or should get, I stilll got some problems with the quat that should diplay the new screen) is a white silouet of the model on a black background, now I got that I just have to make the moment of inertia calculation for each white point in this pic.
Its not finished yet, nor tested, but it appears to work fine for the moment and to be a loot easyer then I expected moment of inertia calculation to be.
I'm proud of my self. *giving myself a pat on the back*
Good boy.
And I hope that I see here this evening ...
Greg the Mad
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Belly pain
That may sound like I just got a punsh into my abdomen, but its more because I tried to pull myself up on a tree ... only using my arms.
I know that ther is a special english word for that, but my internet is to slow today to look for it.
Anyway, this little pain can lead to big trouble if I'm not care full. I could stop making my nice little training units I've made the last weeks (you can't make situps with that pain), but I now have to stop it, or I will never get rid of that pain ... you can't imagen how often you use those muscles ...
What happended else the last few days ... right!
I made some little adjustments on my few new classes so they should work better, but I still have some probems with the Force.Draw method, so I'm little stuck at the moment as I need to know how the forces look, befor I can manipulate them. (I stoped the LS, ... mainly because after a full night of thinking for what I could use it, I came up with nothing, ... its a sign)
Well I still got that girl in my mind, but no I didn't saw her again last weekend, but I had a beautifull dream ... such dreams a rare. It was one of those were you fill so warm and fuzzy all around ... *dream* ... But with my luck I will see her again ...
... in two years.
Today I'm a little numb, because of my belly and that I sleeped again till noon ... 12 houres of sleep are too much, so that was it for the update. -.-
Greg the Mad
I know that ther is a special english word for that, but my internet is to slow today to look for it.
Anyway, this little pain can lead to big trouble if I'm not care full. I could stop making my nice little training units I've made the last weeks (you can't make situps with that pain), but I now have to stop it, or I will never get rid of that pain ... you can't imagen how often you use those muscles ...
What happended else the last few days ... right!
I made some little adjustments on my few new classes so they should work better, but I still have some probems with the Force.Draw method, so I'm little stuck at the moment as I need to know how the forces look, befor I can manipulate them. (I stoped the LS, ... mainly because after a full night of thinking for what I could use it, I came up with nothing, ... its a sign)
Well I still got that girl in my mind, but no I didn't saw her again last weekend, but I had a beautifull dream ... such dreams a rare. It was one of those were you fill so warm and fuzzy all around ... *dream* ... But with my luck I will see her again ...
... in two years.
Today I'm a little numb, because of my belly and that I sleeped again till noon ... 12 houres of sleep are too much, so that was it for the update. -.-
Greg the Mad
Friday, August 22, 2008
Ther you go.
There you want to write a Force Control System (FCS), but you end up with a Layer System (LS).
Well, what happened?
I got good experience with the DrawableGameComponents of XNA, so I use them everywher I can. As did I in the Programme where I wanted to create the FCS, but after a few hours of work, setting some new classes up (like a new grid class, or FPS class), a old problem crossed my path, that sometimes it can happen that models get drawn atop each other and not in a real 3D space.
So I finaly wrote a post about that on the XNA boards, and DING, a day later a know the source of the problem and know how to actually use that problem to create a LS.
It may will take a day till I realy got something I can show, but once it done ... it will be awsome!
And now about something complet different:
Well shes still hovering around in my mind, on a day like this, wher I got something to do, its not that hard, but who knows what will be tommorow? The day I might will see her again? ... ... *fingercrossing*
... Fingercrossing to realy see her and talk to her, or not to see her at all, everything in between would be ... dumb again ...
Greg the Mad
Well, what happened?
I got good experience with the DrawableGameComponents of XNA, so I use them everywher I can. As did I in the Programme where I wanted to create the FCS, but after a few hours of work, setting some new classes up (like a new grid class, or FPS class), a old problem crossed my path, that sometimes it can happen that models get drawn atop each other and not in a real 3D space.
So I finaly wrote a post about that on the XNA boards, and DING, a day later a know the source of the problem and know how to actually use that problem to create a LS.
It may will take a day till I realy got something I can show, but once it done ... it will be awsome!
And now about something complet different:
Well shes still hovering around in my mind, on a day like this, wher I got something to do, its not that hard, but who knows what will be tommorow? The day I might will see her again? ... ... *fingercrossing*
... Fingercrossing to realy see her and talk to her, or not to see her at all, everything in between would be ... dumb again ...
Greg the Mad
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
At least something
Its will take time till I forgot her, but only if I don't she her again.
The last time it took me a few years, I only saw her a few hours this time so I would estimate a few mothe this time.
Anyway, I did make some progress to day, no not about her, but about my game.
My next step would be to use the player input and change them into force.
Yes Forces.
In the real world everything gets moved though forces, why not too in the game world?
So the first thing I will creat is a system to calculat the forced for normal movements, like following a path or rotation. Later I will set some and think about how to do that if my forces can only be applyed in a certain way. So I could use that system for ships which got thier thrusters turned down, so that they can hover.
I don't know how long it will take me to that point, as every second thought is about someone else, but with my new way of developmet (building it all up like Lego) I could make a line a week, but every line would be real progress.
Hopefully she will be ther next saturday ...
Greg the Mad
The last time it took me a few years, I only saw her a few hours this time so I would estimate a few mothe this time.
Anyway, I did make some progress to day, no not about her, but about my game.
My next step would be to use the player input and change them into force.
Yes Forces.
In the real world everything gets moved though forces, why not too in the game world?
So the first thing I will creat is a system to calculat the forced for normal movements, like following a path or rotation. Later I will set some and think about how to do that if my forces can only be applyed in a certain way. So I could use that system for ships which got thier thrusters turned down, so that they can hover.
I don't know how long it will take me to that point, as every second thought is about someone else, but with my new way of developmet (building it all up like Lego) I could make a line a week, but every line would be real progress.
Hopefully she will be ther next saturday ...
Greg the Mad
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Well after all ...
I'm still not over her.
Its quite interesting, if I would not have met her, last week, I probably would now be sitting, working on my hybrid ship, form my next game prototyp, maybe would have found a nother nice girl, and would be happy.
But I met her. So I'm sitting her writing a nother update for my blog, hoping that to write my thougths down would make it easyer.
In fact did I nothing else the whole last week then to stitte her and listen sad songs (most of the time).
I may have continued my work on my space ship (I'll post a pic once ints done), I may have get myslef finaly a belt, I may dicoverd that shaving every two days is more dangerouse then just once a week (I'll stay with the once a week timing). But the whole week I waited for yesterday.
... Sucks, as ther was nothing yesterday.
I drove to my favorite club, ... which was closed that night. Well.
Lets hope for next weekend. If I meet her again next saturday, I'll try it.
I'll try to talk to her, even if she revuse to talke to me, that would be much better, as I would know how she thinks about me. If I don't meet her, ... well then I got at least some other kind of answer too. She knows where I'm at the weekend.
Last thursday I was out too, and while I was walking through the crowed of people I saw once of her friends. Once she noticed me she suddenly steped asaid, letting me pass, I'm not sure, but ther was something in her look, something like 'He's here!' and I may could have imagen that but I think that she reached for her cell as I passed. But I didn't saw HER that night.
I'm writing with out any connection to the last paragraph, dose I?
Greg the Mad
Its quite interesting, if I would not have met her, last week, I probably would now be sitting, working on my hybrid ship, form my next game prototyp, maybe would have found a nother nice girl, and would be happy.
But I met her. So I'm sitting her writing a nother update for my blog, hoping that to write my thougths down would make it easyer.
In fact did I nothing else the whole last week then to stitte her and listen sad songs (most of the time).
I may have continued my work on my space ship (I'll post a pic once ints done), I may have get myslef finaly a belt, I may dicoverd that shaving every two days is more dangerouse then just once a week (I'll stay with the once a week timing). But the whole week I waited for yesterday.
... Sucks, as ther was nothing yesterday.
I drove to my favorite club, ... which was closed that night. Well.
Lets hope for next weekend. If I meet her again next saturday, I'll try it.
I'll try to talk to her, even if she revuse to talke to me, that would be much better, as I would know how she thinks about me. If I don't meet her, ... well then I got at least some other kind of answer too. She knows where I'm at the weekend.
Last thursday I was out too, and while I was walking through the crowed of people I saw once of her friends. Once she noticed me she suddenly steped asaid, letting me pass, I'm not sure, but ther was something in her look, something like 'He's here!' and I may could have imagen that but I think that she reached for her cell as I passed. But I didn't saw HER that night.
I'm writing with out any connection to the last paragraph, dose I?
Greg the Mad
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Quite Personal Update
Screwed me.
Any girl.
If any girl would have gretted me last saturday, I would be fine to day, I may even would be happy, thinking about what to some next time I enter the location. But even if ther would have been no girl last weekend, I still would do better then I do now.
Lieing in bed at night, reviewing what happened last weekend, wondering what will happen next, IF there is anything to happen. Sitting infront to a WoW Beta, guessing what I could do wrong if somethings happens. Wondering about those legs.
You don't know what I'm taking about? Well lets start at the begining.
As I was still young, fresh and in the 5th grad.
Well, I always was that outsider typ guy, standing in the corner, with some other guy I called friends, normaly far away from the ... 'cool' lot.
But a part of that lot was a girl. That that was special about that girl was not that she didn't hate me like the others did, but she also laught about my jokes, despite the fackt that the most of those jokes where about her and how short she is growing.
So the years passed, and I made a lot of jokes about her, in the 8th grad I started to believe that she hates me for those jokes (~4 years of jokes about her, she must have hated me at that time).
After the 8th grad we all walked different way. The 'cool' lot started to get them self some jobs, or little more school education. I was one of the few to actually make a heigher education, so did she, just a different school in a different city.
So you may can imagen how often we have seen. But never the les, those few sights were enougth that I started to realize that I like her. Realy liked her. Thought about her even if I didn't had seen her for month. Holding a picure of her in my mind.
Slowly time passed and I started to forget about her. I never saw her anymore, and started thinking about other girls I've mett over time. Getting other pictures.
To be pricise about it, I completly forgot her, don't even bothing about how she would be thies days.
I was lifing happiely, was thinking about a lot of other girl, but mainly thinking on how I could become a great Game Designer one day. Girls only were a asset to that dream. Happy feeling where striped to songs, and no picutes on my mind anymore.
Till last weekent.
It was my second time in that location. After a few shy tries I started to make some moves on the dance floor, and as I realized that no one cares about me making those wired movements, I realy freaked out and started dancing (I actually think that I'm a good dancer, but I'm not in the position to judge this now).
Two eys.
A short glance.
First I thought 'Hey, I know that face', and then 'Hey, thats that girl I once used to make jokes about', 'Whats her name?', 'She turned out to be a good looking girl', '... those legs ...'
... And I hade some other thoughts ...
'... Did she just looked to me?!?'
'Woops, I think she remembers me too.'
'Hm? Where did she went? ... And who trys to grap my shoulder at my left ...'
"Hi, long time not seen..." she said.
It was a short dialog, not longer then a minute and strongly muffeled by the background sounds that was the dance music. We talked about what we're making at the moment and what we have done to get ther.
In the middle of that she was forced by her following girls to go with them to the restroom. A minute is not much time to share information, but it can have a great impact on other things.
Later our eyes crossed each other once in a while, ... probably because I was danceing just two meter away from her, ... with my back to her, as I tried to focus on some other potential girl.
But steping on a foot that belongs to a friend of her, made me turn once, and the other time I set down to relax a few minutes (I probably was the only dancer in that club that didn't got some alcohole, nor other stuff in his blood, and so I needed a rest once in a while), she and her girls stand next to me, with their back to me giving a perfect view of her legs, as they watched other people dance. Again with some movements of people, causeing us to see each other.
She did smile. I'm sure about that. I didn't imagen that.
Anyway, she leaft a hour before I did, she didn't sayed goodby.
Any girl.
Any girl that I would have tracked with my eyes that night, ... I could have walked up to her and talk to her, or even dance with her.
But she ... we got a history. I know her and she knows me (at least she knows my past, and I'm not proud of my 'stupid' past). I can't just go to her and start talking ... not without a couse ... not without seeing her.
Well and that why I'm sitting here, infront of my PC, wondering if I actually will see her again, were that might be, or if she dose like me too.
Not to mention how hard it is to get those legs out of your mind.
Greg the Mad
Any girl.
If any girl would have gretted me last saturday, I would be fine to day, I may even would be happy, thinking about what to some next time I enter the location. But even if ther would have been no girl last weekend, I still would do better then I do now.
Lieing in bed at night, reviewing what happened last weekend, wondering what will happen next, IF there is anything to happen. Sitting infront to a WoW Beta, guessing what I could do wrong if somethings happens. Wondering about those legs.
You don't know what I'm taking about? Well lets start at the begining.
As I was still young, fresh and in the 5th grad.
Well, I always was that outsider typ guy, standing in the corner, with some other guy I called friends, normaly far away from the ... 'cool' lot.
But a part of that lot was a girl. That that was special about that girl was not that she didn't hate me like the others did, but she also laught about my jokes, despite the fackt that the most of those jokes where about her and how short she is growing.
So the years passed, and I made a lot of jokes about her, in the 8th grad I started to believe that she hates me for those jokes (~4 years of jokes about her, she must have hated me at that time).
After the 8th grad we all walked different way. The 'cool' lot started to get them self some jobs, or little more school education. I was one of the few to actually make a heigher education, so did she, just a different school in a different city.
So you may can imagen how often we have seen. But never the les, those few sights were enougth that I started to realize that I like her. Realy liked her. Thought about her even if I didn't had seen her for month. Holding a picure of her in my mind.
Slowly time passed and I started to forget about her. I never saw her anymore, and started thinking about other girls I've mett over time. Getting other pictures.
To be pricise about it, I completly forgot her, don't even bothing about how she would be thies days.
I was lifing happiely, was thinking about a lot of other girl, but mainly thinking on how I could become a great Game Designer one day. Girls only were a asset to that dream. Happy feeling where striped to songs, and no picutes on my mind anymore.
Till last weekent.
It was my second time in that location. After a few shy tries I started to make some moves on the dance floor, and as I realized that no one cares about me making those wired movements, I realy freaked out and started dancing (I actually think that I'm a good dancer, but I'm not in the position to judge this now).
Two eys.
A short glance.
First I thought 'Hey, I know that face', and then 'Hey, thats that girl I once used to make jokes about', 'Whats her name?', 'She turned out to be a good looking girl', '... those legs ...'
... And I hade some other thoughts ...
'... Did she just looked to me?!?'
'Woops, I think she remembers me too.'
'Hm? Where did she went? ... And who trys to grap my shoulder at my left ...'
"Hi, long time not seen..." she said.
It was a short dialog, not longer then a minute and strongly muffeled by the background sounds that was the dance music. We talked about what we're making at the moment and what we have done to get ther.
In the middle of that she was forced by her following girls to go with them to the restroom. A minute is not much time to share information, but it can have a great impact on other things.
Later our eyes crossed each other once in a while, ... probably because I was danceing just two meter away from her, ... with my back to her, as I tried to focus on some other potential girl.
But steping on a foot that belongs to a friend of her, made me turn once, and the other time I set down to relax a few minutes (I probably was the only dancer in that club that didn't got some alcohole, nor other stuff in his blood, and so I needed a rest once in a while), she and her girls stand next to me, with their back to me giving a perfect view of her legs, as they watched other people dance. Again with some movements of people, causeing us to see each other.
She did smile. I'm sure about that. I didn't imagen that.
Anyway, she leaft a hour before I did, she didn't sayed goodby.
Any girl.
Any girl that I would have tracked with my eyes that night, ... I could have walked up to her and talk to her, or even dance with her.
But she ... we got a history. I know her and she knows me (at least she knows my past, and I'm not proud of my 'stupid' past). I can't just go to her and start talking ... not without a couse ... not without seeing her.
Well and that why I'm sitting here, infront of my PC, wondering if I actually will see her again, were that might be, or if she dose like me too.
Not to mention how hard it is to get those legs out of your mind.
Greg the Mad
Friday, August 8, 2008
Lazy me.
Ok, what I have done the last few days ...
I played my WoW charakter to the level 68 in order to load it over to the test server.
I downloaded the Beta Client of the Lich King, took me 6 hours in which I was able to do nothing else then to what some more episodes of Battlestar Galactica (I'm currently at Season 2 Episode 5).
And I played a little around with the Deathnight.
... Nothing more ... Oh ... Yes, my guitar playing gets better and better, even if I only can play one and a half song at the moment :)
Anyway, I decided that this playing around with the tools I'm writing dose not get me anywere. So once I find enought time to write some code again, I will continue to work on the actuall game and stop my tool playing for the moment.
Hopefully I'll find some more time to write a nother update here before the week is over, So Long.
Greg the Mad
I played my WoW charakter to the level 68 in order to load it over to the test server.
I downloaded the Beta Client of the Lich King, took me 6 hours in which I was able to do nothing else then to what some more episodes of Battlestar Galactica (I'm currently at Season 2 Episode 5).
And I played a little around with the Deathnight.
... Nothing more ... Oh ... Yes, my guitar playing gets better and better, even if I only can play one and a half song at the moment :)
Anyway, I decided that this playing around with the tools I'm writing dose not get me anywere. So once I find enought time to write some code again, I will continue to work on the actuall game and stop my tool playing for the moment.
Hopefully I'll find some more time to write a nother update here before the week is over, So Long.
Greg the Mad
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Two Front War!
*Exitment*
Right in the moment where I write this, I'm sitting in my room and I'm right in a two front war.
Yes, in front of my I got my regular PC where I will start to install the WoW Addon The Wrath of the Lich King BETA (WooT! I' a chosen one!) and to my left I got my new outdoor Laptop (when I read 'outdoor' in the advertisement I knew that that would be mine!) wher I'm working to get it on the standard I knew from my normal PC.
And to make things worst I got my brothers Guitar at the right of me, and sometimes I can't resist to take the pick and play a few nots.
*Exitment*
Greg the Mad
Right in the moment where I write this, I'm sitting in my room and I'm right in a two front war.
Yes, in front of my I got my regular PC where I will start to install the WoW Addon The Wrath of the Lich King BETA (WooT! I' a chosen one!) and to my left I got my new outdoor Laptop (when I read 'outdoor' in the advertisement I knew that that would be mine!) wher I'm working to get it on the standard I knew from my normal PC.
And to make things worst I got my brothers Guitar at the right of me, and sometimes I can't resist to take the pick and play a few nots.
*Exitment*
Greg the Mad
Saturday, August 2, 2008
1 Month of Misterys
This month gone get interesting.
First I will have to perform the drive safty lessons for motorcycle and car this month. They will cost a lot and bring less, .. but I must do them -.-
Second will I try the 'FH Technikum Wien' acceptance test. If I fail I still can try it next year, and if I fail then I will got a new chance in two years.
Third did I get into contact with a guy who wants to open his own game studio somewhen next year, and I may got a chance to write some tools for him and his team. That will be interesting.
Fourth did I apply for a Beta test of the coming game Sacred 2. If they take me I got one more game one my Beta Test game list ... which contains Halo3 ... thats all :(
And fithly will I get today the guitar of my brother and start learning to play it. Finaly some more music in my life, MP3 are not enougth.
And last but not least will that be the last free month before I start into the last year at school, which will end with a major big test called 'Matura', for which I will learn full six month ...
BUT FIRST! *raise my left index finger* ... I'll take a shower :)
Greg the Mad
First I will have to perform the drive safty lessons for motorcycle and car this month. They will cost a lot and bring less, .. but I must do them -.-
Second will I try the 'FH Technikum Wien' acceptance test. If I fail I still can try it next year, and if I fail then I will got a new chance in two years.
Third did I get into contact with a guy who wants to open his own game studio somewhen next year, and I may got a chance to write some tools for him and his team. That will be interesting.
Fourth did I apply for a Beta test of the coming game Sacred 2. If they take me I got one more game one my Beta Test game list ... which contains Halo3 ... thats all :(
And fithly will I get today the guitar of my brother and start learning to play it. Finaly some more music in my life, MP3 are not enougth.
And last but not least will that be the last free month before I start into the last year at school, which will end with a major big test called 'Matura', for which I will learn full six month ...
BUT FIRST! *raise my left index finger* ... I'll take a shower :)
Greg the Mad
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
31 July
I can't wait till that day ...
First this is the day that my actuall vacation will start, WHOOT!
Second will that be the day the Ziggyware contest judging periot will end, and every following day could contain the answer on who was better than me and who was not.
Anyway, thats still in the futur.
What have I done in the past ...
Yesterday I made a little but importent step towards my game engine. I redefined the Mad-Ed programm, put some thoughts into how it will work, I've drawn the classes, what they will contain and to what the will be connected, etc.
Its not finished yet, I mainly have focused on the backgraund structure and how you come from the saved .mad file to the 3D level (or now 'Screen' called) and back. Also did I spend some time into the question how to control in the 3D window, and I came up with the idea to use the 360 controler for this, so I got a complet free mouse to do the manipulation. OK, its not tested yet, and I don't know if it will stand the praxis tests, but I think that it is a nice idea at least, and will be there at least for fun. :D
Greg the Mad
First this is the day that my actuall vacation will start, WHOOT!
Second will that be the day the Ziggyware contest judging periot will end, and every following day could contain the answer on who was better than me and who was not.
Anyway, thats still in the futur.
What have I done in the past ...
Yesterday I made a little but importent step towards my game engine. I redefined the Mad-Ed programm, put some thoughts into how it will work, I've drawn the classes, what they will contain and to what the will be connected, etc.
Its not finished yet, I mainly have focused on the backgraund structure and how you come from the saved .mad file to the 3D level (or now 'Screen' called) and back. Also did I spend some time into the question how to control in the 3D window, and I came up with the idea to use the 360 controler for this, so I got a complet free mouse to do the manipulation. OK, its not tested yet, and I don't know if it will stand the praxis tests, but I think that it is a nice idea at least, and will be there at least for fun. :D
Greg the Mad
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Physic, Laptop and my room
So what happened ...
My force article and sample finaly is up on ziggyware.com and also did the judging periode start. Till 31 july you can send ziggy a mail telling him how great my article is and that you've learned so much from it.
Also did he anouced that ther will be a nother contest soon. I don't know yet what kind of contest it will be, or what it will be about, but if it will be one like that current, then I already have a loot of ideas for new stuff.
You can find my article here http://www.ziggyware.com/readarticle.php?article_id=199
My calligraphy language, ... well. I didn't managed to get that 3D tool for a win app working again, but I have to admit that I didn't worked much on it yet.
Also am I not sure if I will have time for it today. My room need to be tidied up as soon as possible, the exercises gets harder every day ...
And now about my work ... well, now I'm already trusted to work on complet standards ... Only one week left, YES!!
I may miss it in the next month, as it is something constant in my life (I like to have something constant around me, like a swiss army knife I can count on, but if you forget about it, it will slice some shirts when you mom trys to wash you pants ... ).
Anyway, I'm happy abou it for the moment, and thats enougth.
That what woun't be enougth will be the money I'll get, to purchas in a lapetop. Thos I want (like the ASUS Eee PC, or the ACER ASPIRE ONE) got too less power, or (like the ACER Traver Mate C210) are too expensive. Ther will be laptops that I can effort, and those are able to do that what I want them to do, but ... they are all so big (look at the Eee PC/Aspire One I want that sice!) and ugly (again Eee PC and Aspire One). But they are better then non ...
... And in a year there may be laptops with the features of the Travel Mate C210, and the sice of the Eee PC out, till then I will be able to work with one that don't fits to me that great ...
So Long,
Greg the Madß
My force article and sample finaly is up on ziggyware.com and also did the judging periode start. Till 31 july you can send ziggy a mail telling him how great my article is and that you've learned so much from it.
Also did he anouced that ther will be a nother contest soon. I don't know yet what kind of contest it will be, or what it will be about, but if it will be one like that current, then I already have a loot of ideas for new stuff.
You can find my article here http://www.ziggyware.com/readarticle.php?article_id=199
My calligraphy language, ... well. I didn't managed to get that 3D tool for a win app working again, but I have to admit that I didn't worked much on it yet.
Also am I not sure if I will have time for it today. My room need to be tidied up as soon as possible, the exercises gets harder every day ...
And now about my work ... well, now I'm already trusted to work on complet standards ... Only one week left, YES!!
I may miss it in the next month, as it is something constant in my life (I like to have something constant around me, like a swiss army knife I can count on, but if you forget about it, it will slice some shirts when you mom trys to wash you pants ... ).
Anyway, I'm happy abou it for the moment, and thats enougth.
That what woun't be enougth will be the money I'll get, to purchas in a lapetop. Thos I want (like the ASUS Eee PC, or the ACER ASPIRE ONE) got too less power, or (like the ACER Traver Mate C210) are too expensive. Ther will be laptops that I can effort, and those are able to do that what I want them to do, but ... they are all so big (look at the Eee PC/Aspire One I want that sice!) and ugly (again Eee PC and Aspire One). But they are better then non ...
... And in a year there may be laptops with the features of the Travel Mate C210, and the sice of the Eee PC out, till then I will be able to work with one that don't fits to me that great ...
So Long,
Greg the Madß
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
A nother week has passed
Ok, it was less then a week, but it did pass.
I didn't get any great thing farther with my engine. I may have complet the main 'Independent' part of the camera engine, but suddenly, a few seconds later, I stoped it and changed over to a different project.
Calligraphy is it working name. What it is? A graphic skripting language.
Yes, I know that this is something that nomaly done by guys who actually have studied programming, but why not? Its not the skript I'm faling ... its the Windows forms tool that should be the background system of it on which I'm faling ...
I already have worked with the Windows forms sample from XNA, I even already got a application with it ... but I can't recall how I did it ...
It already was hard the last time, so I thought that I may will now make it to create something I can put into my libary before I start to figure out how to make the skripting, which should be the easy part. ... :D
About that wher I should get my dayly bread, work:
I get more and more work. Now that they know that I'm not only able to draw with CAD programms (and others), I'm able to speak english (stop laughing) and that my work normaly is delivered in high quality they give me more and more complex jobs. ... I hope they don't figure my other tallents out till next week, which will be my last week. ^-^
I take others with me!
Today I talked with the guy sitting next to me that work about game development, and that hes dream job would be to artist, but I never will be reach it.
... "Hey, its not that hard, just look that this job page of a well known game studio, its would not be that hard to reach thier requiraments, time consuming, but not hard."
A few minutes later he was sure that he can become a artist and already looked for the right place for his education in the internet.
Man I'm good.
Greg el Loco
I didn't get any great thing farther with my engine. I may have complet the main 'Independent' part of the camera engine, but suddenly, a few seconds later, I stoped it and changed over to a different project.
Calligraphy is it working name. What it is? A graphic skripting language.
Yes, I know that this is something that nomaly done by guys who actually have studied programming, but why not? Its not the skript I'm faling ... its the Windows forms tool that should be the background system of it on which I'm faling ...
I already have worked with the Windows forms sample from XNA, I even already got a application with it ... but I can't recall how I did it ...
It already was hard the last time, so I thought that I may will now make it to create something I can put into my libary before I start to figure out how to make the skripting, which should be the easy part. ... :D
About that wher I should get my dayly bread, work:
I get more and more work. Now that they know that I'm not only able to draw with CAD programms (and others), I'm able to speak english (stop laughing) and that my work normaly is delivered in high quality they give me more and more complex jobs. ... I hope they don't figure my other tallents out till next week, which will be my last week. ^-^
I take others with me!
Today I talked with the guy sitting next to me that work about game development, and that hes dream job would be to artist, but I never will be reach it.
... "Hey, its not that hard, just look that this job page of a well known game studio, its would not be that hard to reach thier requiraments, time consuming, but not hard."
A few minutes later he was sure that he can become a artist and already looked for the right place for his education in the internet.
Man I'm good.
Greg el Loco
Friday, July 18, 2008
I'm at work
Right now at the moment I sit infront of my new working station (I had to change, to a other one last week, as the last dose not have AutoCAd installed), wondering how I can spend the last one and half hours not working ...
Yes, I said: "Not, working"
It would be bad if any of my future employers would read this, but I got my cause.
Yesterday, my new supervisor (I also changed the department, now I'm in ... in ... call itStandardization) gave me some taff work. I have to make the drawings of a 60 page norm bi-langual ... I got the whole next week time for it ...
... I only got 7 drawings at the moment ... and that makes 24 pages ^.^
I guess I will walk up to my boss on tuesday and pressent him my work, ... 3 days before it should be done :D
... So what could I do? ... I could write the next whole one and a half hour on this post, but ... no ...
I could surfe around in the net, ... not that funny anymore ...
OK, I'll find something, this was just to show you how interesting my work is. Its not bad, the first week, where I hade to do nothing, was worst, but the work I got now ... is some how 'hard' but not real 'hard' ... its hard to discribe ...
Anyway, I'm happy :)
Greg the Mad
Yes, I said: "Not, working"
It would be bad if any of my future employers would read this, but I got my cause.
Yesterday, my new supervisor (I also changed the department, now I'm in ... in ... call itStandardization) gave me some taff work. I have to make the drawings of a 60 page norm bi-langual ... I got the whole next week time for it ...
... I only got 7 drawings at the moment ... and that makes 24 pages ^.^
I guess I will walk up to my boss on tuesday and pressent him my work, ... 3 days before it should be done :D
... So what could I do? ... I could write the next whole one and a half hour on this post, but ... no ...
I could surfe around in the net, ... not that funny anymore ...
OK, I'll find something, this was just to show you how interesting my work is. Its not bad, the first week, where I hade to do nothing, was worst, but the work I got now ... is some how 'hard' but not real 'hard' ... its hard to discribe ...
Anyway, I'm happy :)
Greg the Mad
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Serpentines
Wooops ...
Ther you write a update every second day for your blog, and *ding* ... you skip a week ... Its that easy.
OK, what happend ...
... I played a lot of WOW, but mainly skilled up some stuff and not made many levels.
On the weekend I work a little on my Camera Class, but somehow I don't remember how far I got ... damn you blizzard!
Anyway, I spend a few minutes at work (between some tasks) in reseaching curves. Yes I've decided to use the XNA Curve tool, but it dose not appear that great anymore, now I know some basics of spline interpolation. For example did I find yesterday a way to calculate the length of a curve ... XNA Curves don't got that ...
I don't know, I'll set down this weeked and have a closer look into that, because now with the Cubic Hermite Spline Interpolation and that way of getting the length ...
Now I only have to get the Hermit Interpolation and the length thing together, get that into a code format and ... I could publish a curve class that beats the XNA curve class ...
... Now that I just writen that I realized how great that single thing could be! ... Hmmm ... how to get the 1th derivation of the Cubic Hermite Spline Interpolation?
Ther you write a update every second day for your blog, and *ding* ... you skip a week ... Its that easy.
OK, what happend ...
... I played a lot of WOW, but mainly skilled up some stuff and not made many levels.
On the weekend I work a little on my Camera Class, but somehow I don't remember how far I got ... damn you blizzard!
Anyway, I spend a few minutes at work (between some tasks) in reseaching curves. Yes I've decided to use the XNA Curve tool, but it dose not appear that great anymore, now I know some basics of spline interpolation. For example did I find yesterday a way to calculate the length of a curve ... XNA Curves don't got that ...
I don't know, I'll set down this weeked and have a closer look into that, because now with the Cubic Hermite Spline Interpolation and that way of getting the length ...
Now I only have to get the Hermit Interpolation and the length thing together, get that into a code format and ... I could publish a curve class that beats the XNA curve class ...
... Now that I just writen that I realized how great that single thing could be! ... Hmmm ... how to get the 1th derivation of the Cubic Hermite Spline Interpolation?
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Demotivation ... :(
Somehow I'm demotivated today ...
Maybe its because of the dark weather, maybe because I steped into something, while I took the trash out, maybe because my internet connection is so damn slow on the weekend, maybe because my larynx hurts since two days every time I swallow, or maybe because I done know why I'm so down ...
Anyway, I will now start WoW again, because my mind is running without a gear in and playing with a alt ist the perfect thing for such a situation.
:(
Greg the Mad
Maybe its because of the dark weather, maybe because I steped into something, while I took the trash out, maybe because my internet connection is so damn slow on the weekend, maybe because my larynx hurts since two days every time I swallow, or maybe because I done know why I'm so down ...
Anyway, I will now start WoW again, because my mind is running without a gear in and playing with a alt ist the perfect thing for such a situation.
:(
Greg the Mad
Friday, July 11, 2008
CAD
I finaly got a real job at the company: Drawing CAD drawings.
I actually was a funny story: The guy I'm sharing the office with, needed a easy drawing of a tornister and some pipes. He gave me that paper wher he hade drewn it with his hands, and walked out to meet with someone. 5 minutes he returned and was supriced about that I was already done with the job, and that better then expected. 5 minutes later again, I got a phone call telling me that I have to got up to the 4th flore to get myself a new task: drawing.
As far as I can tell, they are actually impressed by my drawing skills, so I get one job after a nother. And I woun't mind if it would be some bigger jobs like those peenuts if drawn till now.
Its also some change in my daiely work as one of the twins works next to the office I get my jobs from, and so I got some chances to talk to her.
Anyway:
Today I start again with my programming weekend. The main thing I've done till now was to change the major build up of the camera class. Now you only have to call the Camera.Update() method and it runs, nothing else. Of course you still have to call the Camera.Initialize() method too before you get relevant results, but I don't know if ther actually is a easyer way of doing that.
PS: wow, my PC writing skills start to improve, I've writen the whole post without looking down to the keyboard, ... again something I've teached myself and that works out to be great :D
Greg the Mad
I actually was a funny story: The guy I'm sharing the office with, needed a easy drawing of a tornister and some pipes. He gave me that paper wher he hade drewn it with his hands, and walked out to meet with someone. 5 minutes he returned and was supriced about that I was already done with the job, and that better then expected. 5 minutes later again, I got a phone call telling me that I have to got up to the 4th flore to get myself a new task: drawing.
As far as I can tell, they are actually impressed by my drawing skills, so I get one job after a nother. And I woun't mind if it would be some bigger jobs like those peenuts if drawn till now.
Its also some change in my daiely work as one of the twins works next to the office I get my jobs from, and so I got some chances to talk to her.
Anyway:
Today I start again with my programming weekend. The main thing I've done till now was to change the major build up of the camera class. Now you only have to call the Camera.Update() method and it runs, nothing else. Of course you still have to call the Camera.Initialize() method too before you get relevant results, but I don't know if ther actually is a easyer way of doing that.
PS: wow, my PC writing skills start to improve, I've writen the whole post without looking down to the keyboard, ... again something I've teached myself and that works out to be great :D
Greg the Mad
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
I shuld not have eaten that fish ...
A few minutes ago, around 10 minute, I was over in the cantine and eat my lunch, together with the twins.
The twins are (surprice) two girls I sat myself to at lunch. I'm normaly not that guy who sats his self just to two girls (I'm shy), but in that case I got some support buy the girl that works with me in the same department. I followed her, she sat herself to the twins, and so did I, end of story.
Anyway, they are not that special about them, just to say that clear, they're just good looking, nice girls, and so I was proud of me today.
I sat my self to them, and? AND?! I talked to them! I started a conversation! You have to know that I'm in real life a quiert boy, who only starts talking if he knows someone, that makes that success even more valuable! Whoot!
But then my meal stricked me down.
I like fish, its always a good alternative to the normal flesh (And I think that fish is meat too *evillook*), and the other stuff on the menu didn't sound that good.
But as I was standing there ... seeing how the cantine guy gave me that fish ... the complet fish ...
I looked at the fish and it looked back ... *shiver*
First I thought "Hey, I eat that kind of fish before, I can do it again", but after I was finished with that place where his bellybutton should be ... I don't know ... I stoped feeling well ...
I eat everything, but not stuff where I can tell wher which organ was ... stuff that looks at me ... or even is still alive.
I just get mercy with that animals. Only having the flesh kills that feeling.
OK, don't get me wrong. I could hunt and slay a animal myself and eat its muscles, but only them and nothing else.
To get back to the twins again. They were ther around 10 minutes before I arrived and started eating, ... they stoped at the half of their meal, I stoped at the same moment at the bellybutton ...
Man I feel sick now ... its not that kind of feeling sick where you have to through up, ... its more like the head line sayed ...
Now I sit in the office and hope that the half liter of coce will kill that feeling and the boring time till my working day ends.
And now about something different:
Finaly I found a way to make spline interpolation without the xna curve tool!
I don't actually need it right now as using the curve tool is so much easyer, but I may need it next school semester for a project, and also dose it feel better to wrok with tools that you know how they (could) work.
It key is Hermit Spline Interpolation (wiki it).
Hermit probably was a guy who appearendly had the same problem as I did: Two points, two tangents and nothing inbetween.
He made a solution, I'll copy it. :D
I actually could make now my own curve class, but for what? All I do now is to keep that sheat of paper, wher I have write the !easy! formular (compared to the other solutions) down, near to a save place, where I woun't forget it. :)
Long post, So Long.
Greg the Mad
The twins are (surprice) two girls I sat myself to at lunch. I'm normaly not that guy who sats his self just to two girls (I'm shy), but in that case I got some support buy the girl that works with me in the same department. I followed her, she sat herself to the twins, and so did I, end of story.
Anyway, they are not that special about them, just to say that clear, they're just good looking, nice girls, and so I was proud of me today.
I sat my self to them, and? AND?! I talked to them! I started a conversation! You have to know that I'm in real life a quiert boy, who only starts talking if he knows someone, that makes that success even more valuable! Whoot!
But then my meal stricked me down.
I like fish, its always a good alternative to the normal flesh (And I think that fish is meat too *evillook*), and the other stuff on the menu didn't sound that good.
But as I was standing there ... seeing how the cantine guy gave me that fish ... the complet fish ...
I looked at the fish and it looked back ... *shiver*
First I thought "Hey, I eat that kind of fish before, I can do it again", but after I was finished with that place where his bellybutton should be ... I don't know ... I stoped feeling well ...
I eat everything, but not stuff where I can tell wher which organ was ... stuff that looks at me ... or even is still alive.
I just get mercy with that animals. Only having the flesh kills that feeling.
OK, don't get me wrong. I could hunt and slay a animal myself and eat its muscles, but only them and nothing else.
To get back to the twins again. They were ther around 10 minutes before I arrived and started eating, ... they stoped at the half of their meal, I stoped at the same moment at the bellybutton ...
Man I feel sick now ... its not that kind of feeling sick where you have to through up, ... its more like the head line sayed ...
Now I sit in the office and hope that the half liter of coce will kill that feeling and the boring time till my working day ends.
And now about something different:
Finaly I found a way to make spline interpolation without the xna curve tool!
I don't actually need it right now as using the curve tool is so much easyer, but I may need it next school semester for a project, and also dose it feel better to wrok with tools that you know how they (could) work.
It key is Hermit Spline Interpolation (wiki it).
Hermit probably was a guy who appearendly had the same problem as I did: Two points, two tangents and nothing inbetween.
He made a solution, I'll copy it. :D
I actually could make now my own curve class, but for what? All I do now is to keep that sheat of paper, wher I have write the !easy! formular (compared to the other solutions) down, near to a save place, where I woun't forget it. :)
Long post, So Long.
Greg the Mad
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Mahjong
Yesterday evening I got my first realy project ... Calculate the pressur los in a 70m long pipe ... it took me 4 hourse, 3 internetpages, 1 book, 5 pages of my mechnic stuff to calculate the pressur in two way.
Man was I proud of it. ... My supervisor took a look at it, sayed 'hmm ... ok" and walked away again ...
Anyway:
I the mean time I played my new favorit game: ....
Wait? What has told you that it is mahjong?
Shanghai Mahjong to be precise. That what makes is special to me is not that game itself, but more the ideas I get while I'm playing it.
How about a whole X-box live arcade game about it? With different modi, multiplayer, etc?
I already got some ideas for that stuff, ... but it will require something ... a 6D curve for the stone movements ...
I will have some more thought about it, maybe write some stuff down ... its just a easy game ... I could make it in a few weeks, if you ignore the fact that there wount be a great art behind it ... :)
So long.
Greg the Mad
Man was I proud of it. ... My supervisor took a look at it, sayed 'hmm ... ok" and walked away again ...
Anyway:
I the mean time I played my new favorit game: ....
Wait? What has told you that it is mahjong?
Shanghai Mahjong to be precise. That what makes is special to me is not that game itself, but more the ideas I get while I'm playing it.
How about a whole X-box live arcade game about it? With different modi, multiplayer, etc?
I already got some ideas for that stuff, ... but it will require something ... a 6D curve for the stone movements ...
I will have some more thought about it, maybe write some stuff down ... its just a easy game ... I could make it in a few weeks, if you ignore the fact that there wount be a great art behind it ... :)
So long.
Greg the Mad
Monday, July 7, 2008
Day 5.
Again I sit alone in my office, that guy I share it with is sick today ...
The same, appears, has happened to my work, still I sit here surfing the net waiting for the work that never will come ...
Spline:
To the supreice of everyone I did not play WOW at the weekend. On frieday I thougth, if I play the whole week WOW, than I have at least to work on the week end on my game/engine. Yes I just sayed the e word. I thought about it, took a look at some other engines and editors, and thought that I should be able to create at least a little engine.
Start: Cameras and Cinematic.
As easy as Cameras may appear, it stopes being easy if you consinder all the times of cameras you may could need for a game, going from static cameras to cinematic animated camera and everything in between.
And that is why I used the headline 'Spline' for that part of the post.
I spend the whole weekend working on my 'Path' class. Its a class that (will) take given keyframes and form it into 3D curves (actually a 4D curve considering time, but ... forget that). This may gets some simple parts with the curve system that xna provides, but it shows up some hard parts if you try to get a tangent or a normal of a specific part of the curve, and that is what I did not manage to get bug free yesterday and so have to take care of next week end. That and a few other things I got in my mind of the curve, like one single curve for complet control of a plane (yaw, pitch and roll), which will make a 4D curve (yaw and pitch controled with the tangents) and probably a 6D curve ...
... How I will display that will be funny :D
Greg the Mad
The same, appears, has happened to my work, still I sit here surfing the net waiting for the work that never will come ...
Spline:
To the supreice of everyone I did not play WOW at the weekend. On frieday I thougth, if I play the whole week WOW, than I have at least to work on the week end on my game/engine. Yes I just sayed the e word. I thought about it, took a look at some other engines and editors, and thought that I should be able to create at least a little engine.
Start: Cameras and Cinematic.
As easy as Cameras may appear, it stopes being easy if you consinder all the times of cameras you may could need for a game, going from static cameras to cinematic animated camera and everything in between.
And that is why I used the headline 'Spline' for that part of the post.
I spend the whole weekend working on my 'Path' class. Its a class that (will) take given keyframes and form it into 3D curves (actually a 4D curve considering time, but ... forget that). This may gets some simple parts with the curve system that xna provides, but it shows up some hard parts if you try to get a tangent or a normal of a specific part of the curve, and that is what I did not manage to get bug free yesterday and so have to take care of next week end. That and a few other things I got in my mind of the curve, like one single curve for complet control of a plane (yaw, pitch and roll), which will make a 4D curve (yaw and pitch controled with the tangents) and probably a 6D curve ...
... How I will display that will be funny :D
Greg the Mad
Friday, July 4, 2008
Day 4.
I could have stayed at home today I guess.
In the morning I went up to the guy I had to do a little job yesterday, and told him that I already finished it, after that I walked into my office and sat down.
Today that guy I normaly share the office with never appeared ... so I'm alone in the office ...
Fortunatly I know how to use the internet as radio reciever, it gives my company.
Also I bought some paper with me today. I planed to write some basics for my Camera Class down, ... it turned up to be a lot of basics I had in my mind.
If I realy make all that stuff I got on that one paper now, I could sell that Class for a few € á Licend. It got a lot of features which will be great for as one of the first real features of the Mad-Ed. Just to name one thing:
I changed the Camera kinds. Before I had only the one basic camera kind in mind for the basic movments, now I got 10+ different kinds, based on the use in the code and behaviour. For example the LookAt kind:
The Camera is fixed at a place and follows a object with its few.
Theres a lot more about that class, but I don't want to give to much way now ;)
And last, but not least:
Yesterday I bought the Burning Crusade for WoW ... just to mention it ...
I'll now spend some time there ... and probably not on my Camera Class.
Greg the Mad
In the morning I went up to the guy I had to do a little job yesterday, and told him that I already finished it, after that I walked into my office and sat down.
Today that guy I normaly share the office with never appeared ... so I'm alone in the office ...
Fortunatly I know how to use the internet as radio reciever, it gives my company.
Also I bought some paper with me today. I planed to write some basics for my Camera Class down, ... it turned up to be a lot of basics I had in my mind.
If I realy make all that stuff I got on that one paper now, I could sell that Class for a few € á Licend. It got a lot of features which will be great for as one of the first real features of the Mad-Ed. Just to name one thing:
I changed the Camera kinds. Before I had only the one basic camera kind in mind for the basic movments, now I got 10+ different kinds, based on the use in the code and behaviour. For example the LookAt kind:
The Camera is fixed at a place and follows a object with its few.
Theres a lot more about that class, but I don't want to give to much way now ;)
And last, but not least:
Yesterday I bought the Burning Crusade for WoW ... just to mention it ...
I'll now spend some time there ... and probably not on my Camera Class.
Greg the Mad
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