It’s been what, a month now? Of seeing comments in my dA inbox and having a roulette of apathy, distrust, and fear make me back off of responding to any of them.
Maybe I’ll go blitz-reply to all of them right after I post this.
I’m fine and healthy, I think, just feeling meh.
Things I don’t want undone if I die tomorrow and have to reload my save game:
A: I have a scanner. It is right next to me and can be used to scan drawings. I will doodle and scan this months. Lotsa doodles. Because month. Except the first. day Because you know why.
B: Programming for robotics and SRNSOFTENG.
C: Bought headset to help with telecommuting in case of voice calls / screen sharing / etc. Should arrive in mail in two days.
Contrary to what it might seem from how much time I spend using computers, I am not great with the science that makes electric things not-kill-people.
Dropped my EP121 while it was plugged in. This bit of the power adapter bent at a weird angle and now that small open section right where the metal meets the white bit keeps sparking if I plug it in and doesn’t charge well at all. Is this something easy to fix, or do I need to buy a new one?
What this means for people who follow my stuff sorta-kinda:
1) Less art. At least very little of it will be done digitally. I didn’t bring my old Wacom Bamboo with me when I came back to residence halls. Probably won’t be too noticiable because I’ve been on an art downturn in general lately anyway.
2) More time in computer labs and libraries on weekdays. I’ll need access to a computer during my group meets and it’s not worth the trip back to my room just for that.
3) Less time on Skype and Steam at night: I won’t drag my desktop machine to bed to finish the conversation, sorry.
Help?
On Friday, I stayed up late writing a kinda-buggy maze-solving routine for a stripped down simulation of a bot, which I intend to record to run on a BOE Bot. It can be found here https://github.com/Retl/RevelMazebot It will often get stuck on a wall and confused as to how to properly move. That is because I am directly changing rigidbody.velocity during updates in a fashion that it is not supposed to, which makes movement inconsistant between frames.
On Saturday night, I started trying to write a very simple score attack game for Android devices where a bunny rams into stuff for points. As of current, all that one can do is jump by striking the Z or Left-Ctrl key on a keyboard or by tapping with two fingers and then releasing. You can also view a bit of info about how your touches are being tracked by your phone, so if your device can run it it could be roughly used as a diagnostic tool or something. I wouldn’t recommend it though. That can be found here: https://github.com/Retl/SuperBunnyBusterIITurboBounceCarrotEdition
Also, I learned the basics of using git from terminal in Ubuntu without the Github client, and figured out how to point Monodevelop at a git respository (but I’m currently not using it, since that appears that it would ignore my content content files? I’m uncertain. Maybe I’ll play with it more in the future.)
Today I intend to: Uh. Stuff. Maybe I should draw something. I’m still far more behind on Stable 45 than I’d like to be. And I’d like to give at least one birthday present. And I’ve been thinking about types of visual content I like that there isn’t a lot of. Like what this guy does at a house of ill repute.
I might be a little hard to reach come this Tuesday.
And if you reach me via Hangouts or Email, I might be a tad snippy. Apologies in advance.
It was a fun day. Got a bunch of coding done and learned some new tricks. Also met with adviser and passed in a revised resume. I’ll admit, I’m not pleased to learn I should customize it for each job applied for, but I’ll live.
Looked around at pics of Fluttershy and whatnot for about an hour and a half on Derpibooru. I think I kinda-sorta get the appeal of the character now, but I think I’m just biased after spending two hours drawing her being a silly filly. Still not my favorite pony, but one who contributes more to the group than I typically give them credit for.
Was fairly pleased with the day in general, even if I’m not sure why.
I swear I remember these blogs being more fun in the past.
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Minor tweaks to the physics in Burst Party on Stable45. Half-way wrote one of the stories but haven’t added it to the site yet.
Added status indicators to units in Resonance. Found out that Unity3D supports MessagePassing and Message Broadcasting, so I can reduce the level of forced coupling between classes if the code I need to communicate with is a gameObject component or a child-gameObject’s component. So instead of saying
public GameObject directReferenceToSomeGameObject; //You assign the object in particular via Unity3D's inspector. - Moore VerySpecificScriptType theScript = directReferenceToSomeGameObject.getComponent<VerySpecificScriptType>(); theScript.MethodIWantedToUse(someValue);
I was able to use
BroadcastMessage("MethodIWantedToUse", someValue, SendMessageOptions.DontRequireReceiver); //Not requiring a receiver is optional, but it silences some errors if you know you don't need a response. When trying to test, it's probably not going to help to disable the errors, though.
Which is nice. If for whatever reason a level designer tweaks the scene but doesn’t put in the status indicators or whatever other object that we expected to have VerySpecificScriptType, the code will still run without having to run for a coder to fix it. It also means if anyone wanted to have a different kind of gameObject handle MethodIWantedToUse(someValue), they just slap on another MonoBehavior that has the method name somewhere in there as a component for the announcing GameObject (for SendMessage) or as a component of a child (BroadcastMessage). Though I’m pretty sure there’s a performance hit for being less direct, and it can be a nightmare to troubleshoot if the message has a mistyped argument as the message will simply fail and not be responded to instead of claiming the method doesn’t exist / has wrong arguments.
And PnP was today. I showed up 2 hours late, arrived in a combat, and didn’t really have any productive role in combat, so occasional Get Bonus made some silly comments and stuff. It was alright. Spent a lot of that downtime playing SpiritStones on my Android smartphone in the background. Makes me want to try developing for Android a bit more.
Though apparently Get Bonus has a relative named Get Laid hanging out somewhere in New Unicornia’s House of Ill Repute (Which I had been misreading/writing as “respite” for two or three weeks now until I just looked it up on urban dictionary seconds ago. ) Whether or not they’re at all related to Get Lost is still up in the air.
Rewatched some of the season 1 episodes of MLPFiM. I don’t like it as much as I used to. Don’t know why.
I don’t know a practical way of implementing it, but what if all those Youtube Let’s Plays and whatnot of different video-games were bonus content that became available when a person buys a copy of the game featured inf the video?
Played around with Lua some more. Installed Lua 5.2 on Ubuntu. Wrote a short loop thingy that takes input until the user types ‘quit’. Meant to work it in Computercraft but never logged into Minecraft to try it there. I might make a text adventure or something, but I also sorta wanted to make a text-based combat game. If I wanna do that, I first need to figure out a way to implement timing in Lua. Briefly looked at a 2D game programming library for Lua https://love2d.org but did not install it.
Got no productive work done on TSHE, S45, or Resonance. Played some Awesomenauts. Still trying to adjust to the idea that PnP day is now on Tuesdays instead of Wednesdays.
Watched some Youtube. Played some Candy Crush. Candy Crush is frustrating.
Rendered this thing in Digital Multimedia on Tuesday. I did not make these textures.
Yesterday was that holiday with the green stuff. The cafeteria had SO MANY BALLOONS. THERE SO MANY. It was somewhere between awesome and scary and super distracting. Also, they were making reuben sandwiches and stuff and it was freaking tasty.
Oh and I worked on schoolstuff too at some point.
Saw the movie Goodfellas. Didn’t like it. Didn’t expect I would. Spent the bulk of it confused.
Two hours burned working on G2’s TSHE. Had to review how to work with delegates and events to try to decouple some classes. Didn’t plan out the design patterns very well.