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Day Twenty: Four Hours Later

Selkcip — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 23:40:48 +0000

I went to bed at four and was woken up at eight on the dot by screaming children outside my room. The dining room is the next door over. After giving up on going back to sleep. I got up and went to breakfast. I made the mistake of saying I wanted tea. I don’t like tea. Then I noticed the orange juice. My mom said she’d be back later and we’d go to the camera obscura that overlooks the Avon Gorge, but that didn’t happen. I played TFTwo until Trung went to sleep. Then sat around for a while before looking for a towel so that I cold take a shower. I got in the shower and tried to close the door, but it decided to fall off its rail so I tried to put it back on, but it didn’t work. I ended up closing it and hoping it would fall on me. Then I sat around some more. Eventually, I went looking for my mom, who decided to come looking for me as well. We went to lunch at a cafe. I got a tuna melt and a ginger beer. Again, ginger ale is nothing like ginger beer. I came back to the hotel and started working on a model that I’ll likely never finish. Around six my mom came back we set out to meet my dad somewhere for dinner. That’s what I thought. Turns out we were meeting him at a reception after his conference. This put me in a foul mood because I didn’t want to stand around and wait for him; I had been working. We eventually got dinner at a posh restaurant called The Shed. The burger was meh, but the chips were good. Still pissed, we walked along the harbor to find some ships my mom wanted to see. We eventually found them. They weren’t all that exciting. Though the replica sailing ship was tooling around the harbor with people on it. On the way to catch the bus back a group of teenagers passed us. One of them attempted to engage me by saying he liked my glasses. Maybe that’s some English insult, maybe they were just stupid. I ignored them. I found out that Fringe is back, but to watch it on Huku I had to install an automatic proxy finder cause it’s only available in the US and the proxies I tried didn’t work. That’s something to look forward to.

More Cubes

Selkcip — Thu, 29 May 2008 19:55:03 +0000

I got bored with my old wallpaper, so I rendered a new one.

Meet the Scout

Selkcip — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 21:26:48 +0000

This is definitely the best “Meet the…” so far.

It’ll Never Leave Me

Selkcip — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 07:36:53 +0000

My Companion Cube will never leave me…right? Yesterday I found this [can't find it] picture which inspired me. Anyway, I was up late into the night making my on Companion Cube model (cg not physical). Unfortunately, today when I was almost finished with it, I realized that a while back I had made a huge mistake. Thankfully, I save incrementally so if I fuck up (like I did) I can go back to and fix it. It actually turned out to be a good thing because the model worked better the second time. Here’s the final product:

The Deep Sleep and Lol Portalz

Selkcip — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 22:39:11 +0000

The other day I decided that I was going to defrag my hard drive. Unfortunately I didn’t have enough space on my hard drive, so I had to delete a bunch of crap (including a large restore file that I probably shouldn’t have tampered with). After defragging, which was completely pointless as far as I can tell because loading shit hasn’t gotten any faster, I discovered that the Google Desktop gadget that I use to put my lappy into hibernation was broken. I tried removing it and re-adding it to no avail, I uninstalled it and tried reinstalling it, but nothing happened. The GUI showed up, but the buttons did nothing. Now, this wouldn’t be a problem on most computers, but mine is special and by special I mean a piece of shit (sort of). It has never liked to go into hibernation, the button in the shutdown dialog does nothing, setting the power button setting to hibernation does nothing, in fact until I found this gadget, the only way it went into hibernation was sometimes if I closed the lid when it was running on battery, this is not always helpful. Why do I need my computer to hibernate so badly, you ask? Well how would you like to have to wait 15 minutes every time you want to do some computing? I’m not sure if it’s that I have a lot of crap installed (which I do) or whether it’s actually important shit loading, but startup takes forever. So without hibernation, my laptop isn’t very fun.

You may have seen in a previous post (who am I kidding, no one’s reading this) that I got the Orange Box, but could not play it because my computers suck. Well, today my father and I went up to his office to test it out on his computer, it’s significantly newer that both our compies and we thought why not. He suggested that if it worked we could bring it home for break, of course he forgot that it was locked to his desk…I checked his hardware info and was encouraged by the fact that his graphics card appeared to be a card and not integrated (integrated is such bullshit). So, I installed Steam, installed Portal, updated Porta, ran the game, started a new game, it loaded (it looked a little rough, but beautiful and shiny), the first portal opened, hoped, walked through it, and…IT WORKED!!! I had to go back through it a couple times to make sure. It worked quite nicely in fact shiny, reflective, a bit aliased, and a little jerky, but definitely playable, I think that bloom may have even been supported. I got to play for about half an hour and enjoyed myself thoroughly. I really need to get myself that new computer.

So…Yeah

Selkcip — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 02:15:04 +0000

I haven’t really had much to write about lately, well there is one thing, but I going to wait on that. The last few days (read nights) I’ve been working on a multi-player game-like thing. It’s not really a game as of yet. It’s hard to describe, but pretty much you control this hover block that you can move around in a 3D world and sortof interact with other people. I built in a really quick chat system that works through the console. The console, at the moment, is really the only way of doing stuff other than moving or changing the camera angle and view. I’ve built in a bunch of functions that do stuff like change the player’s name, color, or alpha. So, you can personalize your “Helio” (as I’m calling it, yeah I know the name rips off the phone, but it really fits, cause the model looks like a little helicopter) to a degree. Also, I put in a few secret things that I though would be fun to use when showing it off to people. Eventually, the plan is to make a capture the flag game. I wonder if it works over the interwebs, I’m unsure because I haven’t had a chance to try it, the only testing has been on my local network. One problem is that because of .swf security issues, the networking only works in an executable form, though there may be a workaround, which would be nice.

Spinny and Colorful!

Selkcip — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 02:35:22 +0000

This is almost the same as the version from yesterday, but it’s got some new stuff which makes it look a little cooler…at least I think it does.

Colorful Rings

Spinny

Selkcip — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 06:30:40 +0000

This is what I did today…

Colorful Rings

It does more if you click it…

Selkcip — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 03:17:23 +0000

My asteroids game was going really slow. I thought it was because of all of the particles and projectiles not being trashed by memory garbage collection. Turns out I was sorta right. What was really happening is that I had an event that was firing every frame for every object, even dead ones, and that was piling up in the background. So, I put in a line that killed the call when the object dies. Lo and behold, it worked…then I added a bunch more crap and slowed it down again. Here it is: Asteroids. I added tracking so there are targets over each asteroid. Unfortunately it doesn’t work correctly when the screen size changes from 800×600 to something else the HUD doesn’t draw correctly so the tracking and the site get fucked up. Another addition is that when you destroy one of the smallest asteroids, a big one is created in the distance. In this way it starts of easy and the gets ever so slightly harder as you go. Also, there’s now a score count at the top.

More Space Rocks

Selkcip — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 00:37:51 +0000

I’ve been working on my asteroids game. It’s pretty cool. Unfortunately, after a while it starts to slow down, because there are tons of objects that get destroyed and stop doing anything, but they don’t go away completely. I still haven’t figure out a way to completely delete an object. So, fuck. Asteroids