Well it's been a long night, but many things accomplished...
The look of the plasma pistol is just about finished. The charge meter has been added and looks just dandy. But, the real treat is these shots that I worked on. I actually started and finished the standard shots for the plasma pistol in one day! And to sweeten the deal, I've posted a movie of nForcer testing them out, not to mention a new movie of the first person firing test. I'm still quite amazed at how well they turned out. The only things keeping the plasma pistol unfinished are the charged shots, the charged sound and a few physics tweaks.
As far as other good news goes, I posted the video of the flame thrower with the slightly improved LCD screen. One other great thing that happened tonight was the stomping of a very elusive and very annoying bug. The big involved the AR jerking up and down spasmatically when firing it. We thought the problem had been fixed a while back, but playing with a few physics showed that to be false. But, I managed to weed out the problem tonight and it works just grand.
Tomorrow I will (hopefully) start working on getting the site set up blog style which, nForcer tells me, will be pretty damn slick. Plenty o' new features and the like. I wish I knew wha they were. Guess I'll find out tomorrow.
But, for now, the birds have started chirping and daylight is rearing its ugly head. I'm off to bed.
Well friends, first I'd just like to say...I GOT MORE RAM! KICKASS! My computer is actually able to handle more than one app at a time!
And on a more project-related note...
I've almost started Halathon again. In fact I already did kinda. I actually did mess around with some Plasma Pistol and flame thrower frames today but deemed the work trashy. I'll have to use a different approach tomorrow when I have more time. Although, I did change the little LCD screen on the flame thrower so that it displays little meters that flare up when you fire. Better than random numbers and colors in my opinion.
I'll be getting some new, higher quality videos up since I have more space to work with as soon as I finish something worth showing. Hopefully that'll be farely soon (sometime this week). But it'll be hard to say what I can get done this week with finals approaching and nForcer helping me transform my site into a blog for easy updating. That's it for now. Time to catch a wink.
Did I mention I got more RAM? :D
HEY guess what! Mr. nForcer (my partner in Halathon crime) has been nice enough to give me some space on his ISP's server. That means I'm moving from Angelfire and am now located at:
http://www.nextforcesw.com/marathon
And the greatest thing of all? 120 megs of space. I can finally get all the stuff I want to up here at the same time!
Also, today just happens to be the day that my final project for Dreamweaver class is due. What's my project you ask? Well you're looking at it. After today the site will in no way be tailored to earning a grade (not that it did much in the first place). So that will give me a little more freedom which will be good!
On a sadder note, I was browsing my old Halathon Junk folder yesterday and discovered that I had lost my latest shapes file, the one with the needler. So all the horrendous work I poured into it is for naught. But oh well. I still have the plasma rifle to look forward too, assuming I start working on it again. But, only time will tell that tale.
Well I got most of the old stuff back up, and in my humble opinion it looks better. I'm still kind of low on space due to Angelfire's 20 meg limit. Also, if I ever manage to make a little more progress on Halathon I'll get some of the early stage files up for download.
Say hello to the new site design and layout. It's been awhile since the site's been updated due to a slight loss of interest. You can blame Halo for that. I'm sure my fans are all devestated, all 2 of them. I just might pick up the Halathon project again. I mean, the possibility exists...doesn't it? :D