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Sandboxing

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6°C.light grey.
Sandbox turns out to be a very capable and relatively easy to use game editor. The interface is remarkably 3dsMax-like. Here is a basic landscape and begun texturing it so far. Heightmap editor has excellent tools to work with rather like Sitni-sati Dreamscape 2. The height brush is especially neat- since it works in the perspective viewport (which incidentally is fully textured with an animated saea surface). Beat that!
It’s built in programming language is LUA– which I’m reliably told -is easy and light.
Make sure, if you get into this that youhave the most recent sandbox manual- the one supplied in the box is terrible.
In short- it’s a fully fledged 3d app, sold as a level editor but cost me only £5.99. It would be good enough to use at school, in some kind of after-school club except for  one thing: the game is rather violent.

Sandbox

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6°C

Removed Far Cry to make space for Brothers In arms on the PC yesterday. Unfortunately, my first impressions of BIA is not overwealming. It’s all a bit boxy- and resstrictions in movment are quite frustrating. You can jump but not over a low gate, there are ladders but you can’t climb them.
Cryek hae released a much better manual for the Sandbox editor– it’s the level editor for Far Cry which makes the possibility of making my own level more "do-able". So it looks like I’ll be re-installing Far Cry – even though I have actually overplayed the game somewhat. Perhaps, with a bit of luck, if the plugins are available, I can make my own objects to insert into the game.
 
I dunno.

Firefox fine

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2 to 9°.

Firefox: the more I use this the better it seems. Obviously ( odpheusly) the tabbed pages are an improvement, but the download manager is much more controllable.
relevant? I’m downloading Far Cry missions for playtime later. They are big files- not the 50Kb of a Il-2 mission. Some over 60Mb!
Cycling: maybe tomorrow! My limbs want to stretch a lot right now, so they want to go, I want to go , but has the virus gone? Batteries on charge.

Crymods

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2°C, sun & rain

Nearly there. Cheerfulness has returned, feeling cold all gone, but I still need a lot of sleep- over 7 hours!
 
Far Cry: some interesting sites for "modding" the game.
There is a free exporter for 3ds Max, so it’s possible to make models for the game.
Crysource: mostly in German, but that’s not too much of a problem.
I don’t know if I will follow this up or not. Who knows?
Far Cry maps.com: page of downloads to play in Far Cry.

Linseed: working on a page of rough sketches, which is more trying out ideas and a warm-up than any planned finished piece. Warm-up is os important in drawing & painting- it gets you rmind into the right mood and loosens up the muscles for good co-ordination.

66 miles

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2°C, windy & some rain
Cycling: started late after the time it takes to fit a new cassette. Even with new gears it doesn’t change gear that well. Sometimes it needs a double-click. Shimano gears have never worked well for me, not like Campagnolo which are always excellent.

Flash: testing Curious Labs Poser to see what swf files look like exported from there. It’s come out quite small at 210Kb. Even this seems to need a pre-loader; so if it seems to stick after you’ve pressed play- then just reload the page, it should be ok then. There must be some way of using templates to generate new Flash projects, that could include a standard preloader as well as credits at the end.

I’m very tired now, so it can have a preloader added tomorrow. It’s a nice kind of tiredness though, brought on by cycling up steep hills with icy cold air in my face.

Far Cry – finished

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2°C, Snow.

Far Cry: finished it. I supppose if I’d bought this game ( it was a loan) then it would be good value for money. I’ve played it for nearly two months now, (installed on 2nd January 2006) so cost per hour is very good. I’m trying out previous routes because it’s a game with many alternative ways of completing levels.

Pacific Fighters: the new patch has fixed problems that were putting me off loading it up at all. Now it’s quite usable again.

Pro Desktop tutorial

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3°C, cold wind
Busy again in the world of the interweb. Uploaded a new CAD tutorial made at school, but I posted a copy on my site. Pro Desktop is a free CAD program which is quite popular in schools , made by the same people who do Pro Engineer.
Here is the tutorial: Pro Desktop Hinge
I usually upload my tutorials for proof-reading, it seems easier to spot errors when on line (don’t know why).

Flashing again…

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4°C,
Flash: another update to my Flash movie file. You can see it here:
The preloader isn’t quite ready yet, if it seems stuck, you may find a button called End, press that then choose Start. that should fix it untill I finish the into.
Let me know if it works properly. It’s tricky testing from here, because the file is already loaded into my temporary cache, so it runs properly every time (apart from the first).

Here is another useful link to excellent Actionscript tutorials, and other good Flash methods. OPEN ( SHIFT click)