Archive for the 'Personal' Category

Holyshit, it’s been a while! Last week I wanted to write a blog, but the final week of school kept me occupied. To make it up to you guys, I’m going to make this blog as interesting as possible. Anyway, let’s start with small stuff and end with the climax, shall we?

To start off, I installed a new theme for XP today and picked a new wallpaper.

Not bad, amiright? I can tell you it’s not easy to find such a wallpaper for a widescreen monitor. After trying Google Images, I almost gave up, but finally found this one on DeviantArt. Why New York? Well, cityscapes like these simply fascinate me. It makes your wallpaper come to life in my opinion.

iPhone OS 3.0

A week ago I bought iPhone OS 3.0 for my iPod Touch. Basically it adds copy/paste, peer-to-peer gaming, Safari improvements and a lot more stuff. I can tell you it is worth the 8 euros. The copy paste feature is really one of those features you can live without until you got it. I immediately jailbroke it again and reinstalled my theme. For those interested, I’m happily using the Monochrome theme. Here’s a screenshot of it:

Motion Kit

Last weekend I decided to start working on Motion Tracker again, the ingame movement recorder. Since I thought the name WebKit sounded awesome, I decided to rename it to Motion Kit. I worked my ass off to write the new recording and replaying code and to make it all work smooth. It’s still far from done, but here’s a video of the progress:

If you want to try it out and personally know me, ask me on Steam Friends to boot up a server and demonstrate it. I just don’t think it’s ready to be tested by the actual public yet.

CakePhysics

CakePhysics is what you could call “my life work”. I’m writing it for three main reasons:

• Getting to learn C++ and DirectX better
• Having a demonstration of my (C++) programming skills
• Creating a nice game to show off

Actually, in the last four days I’ve made a lot of progress. It isn’t limited to boxes anymore, it doesn’t use sprites anymore, it has a console now, it doesn’t crash randomly anymore and the first interactivity has been added. Here’s a nice little screenshot of its current state:

Oh and guess how easy it is to add anti-aliasing in DirectX?

d3dpp.MultiSampleType = D3DMULTISAMPLE_8_SAMPLES;

That easy! :3 Want to try it out? Download it here and have some fun with it! Let me know if anything goes wrong or of course if you just want to tell me what you think of it!

Yesterday was my birthday and it was awesome. Everyone on Steam Friends was congratulating me, but there’s probably no way around that since I tend to be such an attention whore at moments like those :3. I got the game Empire: Total War and the rest of the budget for buying games coming soon like Bioshock 2. I also went to the cinema to see Angels and Demons, which was truly epic. I really like those kind of movies!

Evolve

There’s not a lot to tell about Evolve right now, but I can assure you it’s going as good as I want so far. I’m looking forward to working on the GUI, but for now it’s simple getting all NewAdmin commands back. In the future the Evolve framework will very likely consist of the following ‘classes’:

• Plugin manager
• Settings class – Will save settings like whether to show playernames

CakePhysics

I also rediscovered the free, open source physics engine Box2D. It’s really easy to use, especially when you write a quick little wrapper class for it. Basically, a wrapper class simplifies things . Now, this is all I need to simulate a box falling to the ground:

#include "stdafx.h"
#include "Box2D.h"
#include 
#include "physics.h"

int main( )
{
	phys->createWorld( 640.0f, 480.0f, -9.81f, true );
	phys->createGround( 640.0f, 480.0f );
	b2Body* box = phys->createBox( 320.0f, 4.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f, 0.3f );

	for ( int i = 0; i < 60; i++ )
	{
		phys->simulateWorld( 1.0f / 60.0f, 8, 1 );

		b2Vec2 position = box->GetPosition( );
		float angle = box->GetAngle( );
		bool isSleeping = box->IsSleeping( );

		printf("%4.2f %4.2f %4.2f %s\n", position.x, position.y, angle, isSleeping ? "True" : "False");
	}

	getchar();
	return 0;
}

Finally, I want to make this into a small physics sandbox like Phun! I’m mainly making this as a demonstration project of my skill and for tuning my C++ skills.

Now the less awesome stuff you’ve been waiting for :V. If you’re a regular visitor of Facepunch, you know that Hezzy is all about the moderator team. Well, one of my fellow GMod.com admins, mm3guy, has just been promoted to Super Moderator to replace DaveP. Of course I envy him, but in my eyes he did deserve it the best of all moderators on gmod.com.

What annoys me more, however, is that Hezzy completely ignores me. Mahalis, the Lua forum moderator, recommended me to Hezzy a while ago to join him in moderating the Lua forum, but I had to do with a ‘no’. I just want to know why he hates me so much…

So, that’s my rant for today.