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Title: Weather Competition 2015
Post by: combatking0 on April 01, 2015
:sunny:Weather Competition 2015:sunny:

:sunny:Get your barometers ready!:sunny:
The second of this year's quaterly contests, here is our Weather Comp 2015!


There's tons of this stuff out there to be inspired by. (http://lmgtfy.com/?q=weather)



So, time to get inspired and start making your entry, and have fun!

Note: If you are too old to code (;D), put a video camera into a snow storm, be creative!



:sunny:Here are the rules!:sunny:



Here are the prizes!

  • 1st Place  - 20 Karma
  • 2nd Place - 15 Karma
  • 3rd Place  - 10 Karma
  • All entries get 1 Karma

Good Luck!
Title: Re: Weather Competition 2015
Post by: Kirl on April 01, 2015
Awesome!  :||
Title: Re: Weather Competition 2015
Post by: Gore Motel on April 01, 2015
Great, I hope I'll be able to come up with something.
Title: Re: Weather Competition 2015
Post by: combatking0 on April 01, 2015
Weather or not you win, I want you all to have fun taking part ;)

Also, please can one of the admins make this topic sticky and unsticky the existing sticky topics? Thanks in advance.
Title: Re: Weather Competition 2015
Post by: Yaloopy on April 01, 2015
Quote from: combatking0 on April 01, 2015
Weather or not you win, I want you all to have fun taking part ;)

...have sun taking part, surely?

I've got buckets of work to do but hopefully if my workload clears I'll be able to chute in an entry.
Title: Re: Weather Competition 2015
Post by: emook on April 02, 2015
Coolio!
Title: Re: Weather Competition 2015
Post by: spitfire on April 02, 2015
Yay! I swear I swear this time I will just submit something and not allow my ambition to paralyze me.

Quote from: combatking0 on April 01, 2015
Weather or not you win, I want you all to have fun taking part ;)

Haha good one.
Title: Re: Weather Competition 2015
Post by: ninogenio on April 04, 2015
oh, excellent!!! i have a cool idea for a webgl entry!
Title: Re: Weather Competition 2015
Post by: nikin on April 05, 2015
 :bfuck2: awesome  :diablo:
count me in  :stirrer:
Title: Re: Weather Competition 2015
Post by: Rbz on April 05, 2015
I'll certainly try to do something!


Quote from: nikin on April 05, 2015
:bfuck2: awesome  :diablo:
count me in  :stirrer:
Oh, I'm feeling that an apocalyptic weather is coming  :diablo:
Title: Re: Weather Competition 2015
Post by: combatking0 on April 05, 2015
It can rain fire...
Title: Re: Weather Competition 2015
Post by: flightcrank on April 05, 2015
Quote from: combatking0 on April 01, 2015
  • You can use any platform that is compatible with windows XP, Vista, Win7 or Win8.

horrible, no love for linux. what a shame.
Title: Re: Weather Competition 2015
Post by: combatking0 on April 05, 2015
There's a loophole - code it for Linux and if you have the ability to record footage of it, submit it as a wild demo video.
Title: Re: Weather Competition 2015
Post by: nikin on April 06, 2015
Quote from: flightcrank on April 05, 2015
horrible, no love for linux. what a shame.

If you do something on Linux, i would be glad to test it.
Running 64bit Arch linux, on i3/GMA4000
Title: Re: Weather Competition 2015
Post by: nikin on April 06, 2015
 :diablo: Work has been started :diablo:
Title: Re: Weather Competition 2015
Post by: tronkko on April 06, 2015
Has anybody played Proteus?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWs_RKXkyu0

It is a strange little game with lots of weather effects, if anybody needs ideas for the comp :)

Title: Re: Weather Competition 2015
Post by: Kirl on April 07, 2015
Looking good nikkin!

And awesome link tronkko, thanks for sharing.
Title: Re: Weather Competition 2015
Post by: Knurz on April 08, 2015
Quote from: nikin on April 06, 2015
Quote from: flightcrank on April 05, 2015
horrible, no love for linux. what a shame.

If you do something on Linux, i would be glad to test it.
Running 64bit Arch linux, on i3/GMA4000

Would be nice if you'd like to test my little framework for Linux...

I've attached the executable to my post, if you'd like to have the src itself, just contact me.

The binary should ask you if you would like to run fullscreen, just display the FPS and play a wotw XM as bonus :P, XM player is not done by myself.
It's compiled as 64bit binary with Ubuntu 14.10 and you shouldn't have to install any extra libraries like SDL.

Code: [Select]
linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007fffd99f8000)
libGL.so.1 => /usr/lib/nvidia-331/libGL.so.1 (0x00007f9ec29f7000)
libasound.so.2 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libasound.so.2 (0x00007f9ec2706000)
libGLU.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLU.so.1 (0x00007f9ec2497000)
libXrandr.so.2 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXrandr.so.2 (0x00007f9ec228d000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6 (0x00007f9ec1f54000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f9ec1c4d000)
librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007f9ec1a45000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f9ec1827000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f9ec1462000)
libnvidia-tls.so.331.113 => /usr/lib/nvidia-331/tls/libnvidia-tls.so.331.113 (0x00007f9ec125f000)
libnvidia-glcore.so.331.113 => /usr/lib/nvidia-331/libnvidia-glcore.so.331.113 (0x00007f9ebea50000)
libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXext.so.6 (0x00007f9ebe83d000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f9ebe639000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f9ec2d4c000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f9ebe32a000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f9ebe112000)
libXrender.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXrender.so.1 (0x00007f9ebdf08000)
libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb.so.1 (0x00007f9ebdce9000)
libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXau.so.6 (0x00007f9ebdae4000)
libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXdmcp.so.6 (0x00007f9ebd8de000)

Thanks in advance!
Title: Re: Weather Competition 2015
Post by: nikin on April 10, 2015
Quote from: Knurz on April 08, 2015

Would be nice if you'd like to test my little framework for Linux...

I've attached the executable to my post, if you'd like to have the src itself, just contact me.

The binary should ask you if you would like to run fullscreen, just display the FPS and play a wotw XM as bonus :P, XM player is not done by myself.
It's compiled as 64bit binary with Ubuntu 14.10 and you shouldn't have to install any extra libraries like SDL.

Thanks in advance!

Hi. did it, sent pm. We can continue there if you want.
Title: Re: Weather Competition 2015
Post by: combatking0 on April 11, 2015
I've got a fairly good idea for my entry now. Time to see how many 3D points I can plot on screen in JavaScript without slowdown.
Title: Re: Weather Competition 2015
Post by: benny! on April 17, 2015
Great stuff. I am quite busy atm - but looking forward to see the results.
Title: Re: Weather Competition 2015
Post by: combatking0 on April 22, 2015
My entry is finished, but I'll submit it tonight when I've had a chance to upload it to my website.
Title: Re: Weather Competition 2015
Post by: jace_stknights on May 13, 2015
Humm seems I was too busy too...
 :crutches:
Title: Re: Weather Competition 2015
Post by: combatking0 on May 13, 2015
Still a couple of days left ;)
Title: Re: Weather Competition 2015
Post by: Yaloopy on May 14, 2015
The closing date is midnight of May 15th.

Is that 00:00 on the 15th or the 16th of May?
Title: Re: Weather Competition 2015
Post by: combatking0 on May 14, 2015
00:00 on the 15th of May.
Title: Re: Weather Competition 2015
Post by: ferris on May 15, 2015
well I officially just missed the deadline :D

For those who are curious:

I decided in the last few hours to try to contribute, with a simple "tiny snowflakes fall down and accumulate at the bottom of the screen" effect, and also use the entry as an excuse to learn the Pebble SDK (https://getpebble.com/) and see what it's like to use Rust (http://www.rust-lang.org) on embedded devices!

Needless to say, using Rust like this is quite a pain atm; at least when you can't pull in the standard lib. Or perhaps I just don't know how to do that properly :) . Probably should've skipped the Rust part and made the app in C first... would've been much easier :D

On the bright side, I did manage to get a nice little starting point (https://github.com/yupferris/RustyPebble) working for anyone else who wants to play with the Pebble from Rust (unfortunately it's not available on Windows, but it might be useful anyways).

The full attempt is on Github (https://github.com/yupferris/flaky) if you wanna check it out; I'll probably finish it one of these days. Or perhaps not, as it was all in all a VERY frustrating experience :D

Good luck to everyone else who entered; this turned into quite the interesting afternoon :D
Title: Re: Weather Competition 2015
Post by: Kirl on May 15, 2015
Too bad ferris, but you did get something good out of it. Frustratingly i've been working on and off on various things but they led nowhere. :(

Good luck everybody!  :cheers:
Title: Re: Weather Competition 2015
Post by: Optimus on May 15, 2015
So, was it yesterday or today the deadline? When it says midnight of 15, what GMT and is it yesterday Midnight?
Anyway, I think I am too late.
I decided to start coding something, but then I ended up reading Spelunky tips and wanting to play Spelunky :P
Title: Re: Weather Competition 2015
Post by: combatking0 on May 15, 2015
Well done to everyone who entered, and my apologies to everyone who started but missed the deadline - I'll choose a time other than midnight next time to avoid confusion.

I'll compile the list of entries this weekend and open the voting by Monday.
Title: Re: Weather Competition 2015
Post by: spitfire on May 15, 2015
I don't understand, midnight of the 15th has yet to arrive even in GMT.
Title: Re: Weather Competition 2015
Post by: combatking0 on May 16, 2015
I thought 0000 was the beginning of the day. I could be wrong.
Title: Re: Weather Competition 2015
Post by: combatking0 on May 31, 2015
It took me long enough, but the trophies have now been added to everyone's signatures :D