Dark Bit Factory & Gravity
GENERAL => General chat => Topic started by: Shockwave on February 07, 2009
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It's been rather quiet lately so there will soon be a new challenge :)
I will be launching it next week, it will be cool to see what entries we get, I'll send a mass mail out too to get some more people taking part hopefully :)
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This is quite well timed for me - my coding abilities won't be called upon for another 3 months, so this should keep me in shape.
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I've been working on rewriting a game I made some time ago, I've popped in and out every 3 or 4 hours as usual. ::)
If only I was a better coder I would be able to answer people's questions more. :-[
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If only I was a better coder I would be able to answer people's questions more. :-[
It's questions that we've been a bit short of mate.
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Ive noticed this alot lately too.
Not to step on anybodies toes. On this mass mail, perhaps people have forgotten their membership details, might be an idea to mention about it.
I have alot of ideas for posts / quite a few codey questions of my own. And no I dont make these up, they are genuine questions ( some unknown sent me an email once from an un replyable address ) which i've been holding back, as some people might be thinking "not him again".
Nice to see some freshness especially the new memberships; please dont be shy.
And looking forward to seeing the new challenge.
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Yup ... another challenge might be cool.
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I enjoy making demos because it allows me to shift gears from making games.
And now a poem to the forum:
I once rested upon my computer,
I sought and sought but found no tutor
I weary traveler of the binary was I,
When a certain forum did catch my eye
Twas the Great Shockwave and his merry kin,
That so kindly answered my questions then
I felt full of joy and decided to stay,
That even I would make a demo someday
With finger up nose and booger on key
I made a demo with a fine vector-ball tree.
Coding and hoping to win with superstition,
I think more people need try the competition.
Win or loose but please-do try
Or else Shockwave in his angst may just die.
This is a poem I wrote with word,
It is a peasant gem, a corn ridden turd.
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Not quite the right place for this - is there a generic topic for 3D graphics? I'd like to put together a simple model as a starting point for something more refined.
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Usually they're in the forum corresponding to the language you want to write the code in. We don't really have a 'how to build a model' - you can draw one using almost any 3d package, or work it out on graph paper - the hard bit is all the myriad of different ways you can import that in to your code and go about displaying it.
Jim
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Hehe, thanks for the poem Ryan :)
I was looking at your christmas tree demo the other day in fact :)
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lol .. nice poem. Good one, PO!
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Usually they're in the forum corresponding to the language you want to write the code in. We don't really have a 'how to build a model' - you can draw one using almost any 3d package, or work it out on graph paper - the hard bit is all the myriad of different ways you can import that in to your code and go about displaying it.
Excellent. I'll start a topic in the relevant area.
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lol good poem :)
I think people are just very busy this time of year so I wouldnt worry, I know I am.
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If anyone is wondering where I disappeared off to; my laptop power supply stopped working. :rip:
I then went out to buy a new one, fell over in the snow & injured my arm. :crutches:
But my computers working again & I'm back now. :clap:
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Glad that you are ok mate, sorry to hear about your fall.
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I hope your arm wasn't too badly hurt Matthew?
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Glad that you are ok mate, sorry to hear about your fall.
I hope your arm wasn't too badly hurt Matthew?
Don't worry, I didn't break it but it still hurts. It was my own stupid fault for going out a day after it had been snowing heavily, I decided to walk to the shop to get the new power supply for my laptop, when I really should have used the bus.
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It's been rather quiet lately
Maybe we should do some advertising and pr-work.
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It's been rather quiet lately
Maybe we should do some advertising and pr-work.
Sounds like a good idea.
I'll put together a mass mail tomorrow evening when I launch the new challenge because I think I will be finishing work a little bit earlier.
I did a shitload of SEO on this site last December and January so it definately gets more traffic, some PR work to get more new people would be great, any new ideas are really welcome.
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I'll be hosting a Flash developers' group at work soon, and I'll point the members this way if they wish to continue learing to program in other languages once the group disbands.
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Nice one :) Thank you.
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I have an idea for a layout for Tutorials that I think you should introduce soon as alot of people lead busier real lives and look up any new resources / code ideas, and thats to design it as a recipe card.
You have your ingredients broken up into usefull info for the learner. Which are things you will need to know, Will be learning, what tools/libraries/language you'll need to have.; Some of this content like music and sample graphics, links to the libs etc can be allready available.
Just a little idea, I had knocking about. Need something that is different from the norm, a bit more accessable, fun and interesting. Also include a jargon buster for terms that dont make a lot of sense to the learner / discoverer of Knowledge.
If you have you own visions, then fair play and dont mean to step on feet.
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I definately want to ad tutorials to the site Clyde, I've been meaning to make time to add some extra code to the portal to handle them.
It shouldn't even take that long to code, I just need to have some tutorials first but it's an excellent point and I'll write more on it on the weekend because I have something very specific in mind (your idea would fit into this just fine Clyde).
On another note, I forgot to link this;
http://www.dbfinteractive.com/forum/index.php/topic,3732.0.html (http://www.dbfinteractive.com/forum/index.php/topic,3732.0.html)
You'll find lots of stuff you can do to help promote this website in that topic, including a really nice flash banner that Benny made which can be added into sigs in other forums where their rules allow for it. :)
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Newsletter sent and this forum has been upgraded to SMF 1.8 with no problems encountered :) Thanks.
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Cheers for heads up dude. nice concept for the Challenge, nice one Benny dude.
btw, I have contacted the webmaster at the PureBasic site, to ask if it's possible to add a link to here someplace. No harm in asking. And some may of noticed my message on my facebook page, pointing fans this way.
I would encourage the regular gang of groupies we have daily, myself included, to tell others of our existance. In a casual conversation perhaps drop a name ;)
This place has and is doing very well, much better than the previous place. In General, I think people are leading busier and busier real lifes. And the hobbies have to suffer unfortuneatly.
Bit of a shame about the child forums not showing the post count other than 0.
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A link from PB would be nice :)
If you want to tell them that I'll link them in the portal on the scene links page in return, feel free.
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Great idea. Like the comp, too ! Very good, Shocky! Hope
a lot of ppl will join the competition and already looking forward
for some cool releases!
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btw, you guys havent updated the announcements box since you moved to a new server.
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The guys have updated it now ;)
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Hehehe, cool :)