What are you working on?

Moving to The Lounge.

I'm working on an open source video game library otherwise know as OVGL. The library should allow a developer the ability to write a full fledged 3D game of any type for windows mac or linux with only a handful of easy to understand commands. Right now there are 3 major mile stones that need to be over come before it's official public release.

First I need to change out some platform dependent APIs which I'm in the process of doing now and should be done polishing it up by sometime next week. Second I need to get character animations working. Lastly I need to get NPC path finding working. After that I will write some tutorials and example projects. I'm pretty confident it will eventually go into wide spread use but nothing is guaranteed.

For more information check out the link in my signature.

I always love showing off.


I'm currently adding a few new features to the particle system, and plugging it into the new event driven graphics system thingy I'm using for the game. I've been in the trenches working on real simple, but important of the system. Which can be quite annoying, since there really instant any easy way to see my efforts without finishing a big majority of the system.

also i just noticed the IOTD seems to be up and running... hopefully we'll start seeing some exciting inspirations soon.

Real nice work, FreeWorld.
I made a similar particle system before, i might just add in some cell-shading to make it look more mario-ish
I am currently trying to do all the advanced techniques in the DX SDK. I just finished Pixel Motion Blurs and heading for HDR lighting and Cube Mapping.

I'm working on the 0.5 version of my project (FAR Colony), especially concerning the infrastructures and production system.

Cool video freeworld

I've been crunching numbers all day. Not fun.
Tomorrow I will have to write a letter to a lawyer. Not fun.

Been working on my water shader, trying to get as realistic as possible. Got a long way to go but its been fun

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A couple projects here. First one is my 2d surreal futuristic puzzle adventure for XNA supported platforms (PC, 360, WP7)

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Screenshots are about a month dated. Trying to crunch on a demo. Project includes 2 editors as well as the game itself..

My secondary side project is my Windows PC Game engine

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I'm actually not working on any games right now. My current project is a solar-powered water desalinization system. I have an idea for how to build paraboloid mirrors and sun-tracking systems very cheaply, so I will be trying it out pretty soon (i.e. as soon as I get my first pay check at my new job so I can buy supplies).

I'm actually not working on any games right now. My current project is a solar-powered water desalinization system. I have an idea for how to build paraboloid mirrors and sun-tracking systems very cheaply, so I will be trying it out pretty soon (i.e. as soon as I get my first pay check at my new job so I can buy supplies).

Cool! Besides that, are you still pushing the BAR thing?

A network distributed path tracer. For updates check this: http://blog.0x3a.com/

Basically aiming for a cross platform version, at the moment the server syncs with all the clients and has control over them. There's a hardcoded max of 256 clients but that can be expanded of course. I Do need to find the goldy lock zone for synchronization and network lag.

I'm hacking away at my Barnyard game. You basically have to run around picking up animals and putting them in the "bins" for their animal type. Last week I added the ability to make things that block the camera go transparent. I can tag items that will do this, the rest will cause the camera to do what it normally does, reposition itself to maintain a clear view. There's before and after videos of this transparency business on my site at http://www.nightshadegames.com/ . Here's the "after" one:

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You can briefly see some of the little critters in the video. My modeling skills are...lacking.

I'm working on adding some detail to the terrain now.

I'm working on a manual for my CNC file editor, and I'm planning to continue my paper modeler program.

I'm working on a manual for my CNC file editor, and I'm planning to continue my paper modeler program.

And adding a new set of features to the CNC editor. Hopefully I'll be done with it in 8-10 horus.

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I'm actually not working on any games right now. My current project is a solar-powered water desalinization system. I have an idea for how to build paraboloid mirrors and sun-tracking systems very cheaply, so I will be trying it out pretty soon (i.e. as soon as I get my first pay check at my new job so I can buy supplies).

Cool! Besides that, are you still pushing the BAR thing?
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Yeah, I'm still brewing, I'm still learning more about the food industry, I just can't do it until I have more funds and a proper partner. Turns out my friend who said he wanted to sell me his bar was full of shit. I knew he was lazy, but I didn't realize he just straight up bullshits all the time. Apparently, he had just been telling people he wanted to sell to drum up interest in the place. I don't really know why he thought attracting potential investors would attract new customers, but he's has a lot of strange ideas anyway. Anyway, at least I didn't learn the hard way that he'd make a bad business partner.

I'm trying to focus a lot more on small, obtainable projects these days. The solar-death-ray-cum-water-purifier is something were there are no original parts, just an original combination. I have a second project that is super-secret (I can say that it's a music toy, I'm trying to get this one patented), I have all the parts to build it, I've done some simple prototypes, I just need to put soldering iron to PCB. I recently posted about a Tetris game I wrote where two players competed against each other by arm wrestling, that was a fun build and a very good mix of 80% things I know and 20% new things to learn, instead of more like 50/50 on previous projects. Seems to be working out well.

I'm actually not working on any games right now. My current project is a solar-powered water desalinization system. I have an idea for how to build paraboloid mirrors and sun-tracking systems very cheaply, so I will be trying it out pretty soon (i.e. as soon as I get my first pay check at my new job so I can buy supplies).

Desalinization by evaporation and condensing? What methods are you using for condensation collection? And is this an open project, or are you doing this as a start up venture?

Now I need to dig up the pages of math I did back in high school for fixed mirror with moving heat collector for such a system. Offered the chance of having far fewer things go wrong, and a system that was easier to operate in fully manual mode. I just can't remember if I ever got the numbers to work out or not. (I know I put it aside for a reason, I just don't remember what that reason was.)

Creating a generalized state machine for Unity3D, with visual editor for states/links. Should help with rapid prototyping, and for teaching my classes.

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I'm actually not working on any games right now. My current project is a solar-powered water desalinization system. I have an idea for how to build paraboloid mirrors and sun-tracking systems very cheaply, so I will be trying it out pretty soon (i.e. as soon as I get my first pay check at my new job so I can buy supplies).

Desalinization by evaporation and condensing? What methods are you using for condensation collection? And is this an open project, or are you doing this as a start up venture?

Now I need to dig up the pages of math I did back in high school for fixed mirror with moving heat collector for such a system. Offered the chance of having far fewer things go wrong, and a system that was easier to operate in fully manual mode. I just can't remember if I ever got the numbers to work out or not. (I know I put it aside for a reason, I just don't remember what that reason was.)
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Yes, using the parabolic mirror, similar to what you would find in a large reflector telescope, to boil a container of water and some sort of fractionating column to condense the water separate from other liquids that might be in the water (i.e. certain hydrocarbons). I haven't gotten to the condensing part yet, I reckon I can figure that out after I get a pot of water boiling. I haven't decided if this will be an open project or not, so for now it is not (though I haven't built anything to worry about yet). I have a friend who has done some varied experimentation with Fresnel lenses (scavenged from rear projection TVs), Fresnel mirrors (hand made), and parabolic trough mirrors (i.e. parabolic in one axis, linear in the other; also hand made), so we're working together to try to figure out ways to build full parabolic mirrors. I have two ideas for techniques that should make a "good enough" mirror, since I won't be using it for imaging.

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[quote name='capn_midnight' timestamp='1304913284' post='4808365']
I'm actually not working on any games right now. My current project is a solar-powered water desalinization system. I have an idea for how to build paraboloid mirrors and sun-tracking systems very cheaply, so I will be trying it out pretty soon (i.e. as soon as I get my first pay check at my new job so I can buy supplies).

Cool! Besides that, are you still pushing the BAR thing?
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Yeah, I'm still brewing, I'm still learning more about the food industry, I just can't do it until I have more funds and a proper partner. Turns out my friend who said he wanted to sell me his bar was full of shit. I knew he was lazy, but I didn't realize he just straight up bullshits all the time. Apparently, he had just been telling people he wanted to sell to drum up interest in the place. I don't really know why he thought attracting potential investors would attract new customers, but he's has a lot of strange ideas anyway. Anyway, at least I didn't learn the hard way that he'd make a bad business partner.

I'm trying to focus a lot more on small, obtainable projects these days. The solar-death-ray-cum-water-purifier is something were there are no original parts, just an original combination. I have a second project that is super-secret (I can say that it's a music toy, I'm trying to get this one patented), I have all the parts to build it, I've done some simple prototypes, I just need to put soldering iron to PCB. I recently posted about a Tetris game I wrote where two players competed against each other by arm wrestling, that was a fun build and a very good mix of 80% things I know and 20% new things to learn, instead of more like 50/50 on previous projects. Seems to be working out well.
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Yeah. The initial investment is the hardest part of opening such a business. For the water purifier are you going to use one of these?