2008

I'm writing my first essay in 15 years...

Not since the HSC in 1992 have I had to write 800 words on something in essay format, you know - ...

EUO's 5th birthday is on April 3

“5th Birthday” as in - 5 years live. It will be 10 years in August since I started it...

V & T

rock on

killing time, something you shouldn't be...

2 hrs to kill at COFA - 1 hr and 15 min to go. I’m in the computer lab, and not only forced to...

tumblr's days are numbered ...

now that I figured out that the best bit about it was written by someone else:...

since Feb 26th ...

euo threat based targeting - ie mobs preferencing their atacks towards the most dangerous players...

gotta post here too

just spent all nite writing on the forum about bugs fixed and also updating the euo manual Latest...

fov again

About 5 hours encoding the numbers in FOV packets into chars and converting the flags into bits and...

blogging

so much to do … can’t concentrate on anything … stinky webdev taking up too much...

probably have to do webdev all day...

Maybe a good idea to give EUO a rest for a day or two anyway, I’ve been going so flat out on...

finished network optimisation (mostly)

All day today and yesterday continuing to trim down FOV and other network traffic. Pleased with...

network optimisation (or something)

Yesterday I redid packet encryption to be a little less bulky and a little less injectable (keeping...

euo all day

Spent hours and hours perfecting shared xp. Next cab of the rank is optimised FOV as discussed with...

3ds max 9

Spent all day grinding tutes out of a book and it was fine. When it came to doing a skull / skeleton...

working on euo

finally did some work. Knuckled down and figured out a formula for diminishing returns on stats so I...

just finished Snow Crash and now I'm...

Maybe I’ll also finish Lord Jim this year *roll eyes* …

totally unproductive

not depressed or anything, just very sluggish. Barely cleaned up downloads directory. Only good...

testing strategy games

ie: stealing ideas, seeing how the other guy does it …

night

Spent all arvo webdevving (can’t post link as it is TOP SECRET) for a guy who is really good...

morning

Am now automatically archiving all my tumblr posts into my own database - see the archive....

need to give 3d a rest for a couple of...

Today I finished a first draft of a gremlin. Figured out why qtip exporter wasn’t working....

got a working md2 importer for moagl

Using a md2 exporter for 3ds max from a game called UFO:Alien Invasion, and using this tute+src code...

worked all day and got NOWHERE

Wanted to fix 2 problems: models in 3ds format have wrong translation (ie not centered at...

first animated critter for euo3d

I wanted to do a proof of concept 3d monster, with only 4 frames of animation, just like the 2d...

frustrating day

The only good work done was a bit of the 3d gazer, but I did finish enough euo-mail back end (ie...

virtual mail

Must put a mail system into EUO as a precursor to adamantium coins. Database is designed, and that...

more 3d euo

Got thinking again about converting moagl/euo entirely to 3d - ie 3d players, mobs and items. Wasted...

reading Snow Crash has made me start dicking around in Second Life again … though problems...

afternoon

webdev (2hrs) and housework

morning

time consuming admin (ringing tax office, aapt, unsw) worked on euo server install document got...

Finished php xml tumblr passer, you’re seeing the results of this work now. Doesn’t do...

8-9am

Started writing a xml parser for tumblr … realised that my javascript embedded miniblog in...

updated moagl to 0.12

completed shaded lighting optimisations - not drawing walls inside walls for example, but this...

wordpress is a bloated buggy piece of...

I’m sick of updating it so I ganked it off.

Spent the morning getting tumblr embedded into home page. Still need to make it work with pics,...

euo / moa

worked on moagl lighting got tyler using euo dev server to work on Maeondir thought about what game...

things done today other than euo

looked for micro blogging sites read some Snow Crash forgot UNSW unipass twanged with CH

moagl update 0.11

spent most of the day debugging / improving moagl + posted patch

moagl released