Game Images: 120 As I was porting the old version 4 menu to version 5. 119 The new menu being used to restart the game. 118 This is what happens when I forget the game and leave it running for 12 hours (look at the sensor). The wandering aliens have taken over large areas of the screen. 117 A new 'wandering' alien lays down a field of fire, until it got bored with me, anyway. (Currently, this AI only targets things getting closer to it.) 116 An alien's gunning run, followed by ramming. 115 114 More aliens on the attack, now with collision warning lines. 113 112 Attack of the mutant killer aliens, complete with engine effects and burst-fire cannons. 111 110 109 Using a long life particle system to observe various orbits. The sensor, scanner and direction ring are new. 108 107 106 Development of the star's appearance. 105 Asteriods landing on the star. I turned on the control points for fun. These are bezier-based asteriods. 104 103 New background star streaking. 102 101 100 Early development of roids, version 5. 098 097 096 095 094 093 As I learned how to use textures. 092 I have the asteriods flashing red when they get a network update. 089 An asteriod I made with povray. 088 As one would expect, larger asteriods end up generally slower than small ones after collisions have been at work. 087 A little networking bug. The lag made it hard to pause. 085 A 3D asteriod I did for my graphics class. 073 072 More networked asteriods, working well. 071 My first networked asteriod! It just drifted by as I was sitting around waiting to see if I'd segfault. I didn't segfault, by the way. This is also probably the first "action" shot of the networking code. 068 Upp FF in a low-detail world. Helps framerate quite a bit in software. 066 Messing with the collisions (no reason for grayscale). Upp CC. 064 Messing with the collisions. Upp CC. 063 062 Upp CC, looking at collisions. Asteriod masses are more creative now. 060 Big shot, Upp DD. 059 Blue oval shield, Upp DD. This is about when I decided a blue shield would stand for asorb-only, red would be deflector-only, and green would be both. 058 Upp FF. 057 Upp FF, early stage of system bars. 055 Server connect screen. Yippie! 054 Real early Upp FF. Looks round. Also the first pic with the new graphics-level-effected starfield. 053 New lettering for the info boxes, with Theoian FF in all its triangular glory. 052 051 Got the message system going. 050 049 048 047 046 The Theoian super-simple status bars breaking into new turf. 045 044 043 042 041 040 039 038 037 036 035 034 033 032 031 030 029 028 027 026 Fun with splines and asteriods. 025 024 023 022 021 Collisions. 020 019 018 Sectors (part of collision detection). 017 016 Rocket visual effect. 015 014 013 012 Early shots after leaving the ship-centric universe. 011 010 009 008 007 006 005 004 003 002 001 Really old stuff. Work Images: OSX-desktop-1 OSX-desktop-2 First screenshots I've posted showing how things are going in OSX. I've tried to take more, but in OSX 10.1 the results were very poor and even now... as you can see the screenshot mechanism takes it's data over a period of time. It does make for interesting images. desktop04 I switched my window manager back to blackbox (that was the longest time I've ever used KDE/Gnome). I brought the serverUpdate.cpp file to the front to show some of the hilighting tweaks I've done in NEdit. NEdit is good. I've just barely scratched the surface of its functionality. 075 074 What's even more fun than segfault's? Errors with no messages! Right about here in each picture, the main thread went into a silent loop, the recv threads and send thread all went silent but used little or no CPU time, and the main networking thread continued working (for a while). desktop02 Find the error. The segfault message is on the right pale-yellow term. Mmmmm, debugging. 070 Once, the client's send thread mysteriously and silently died right about here. Haven't found out why yet. The other threads kept on running, of course, and so all of the packetdatatype's piled up in the outnet list and the other threads went into waiting loops. desktop01 Back when I had just started the networking code. To the main roids page.