A new challenger approaches!

Not actually a challenger. Gat (a good friend of mine own self) has a blog at http://pletcy.blogspot.com/ which you should look at. So far it's entertaining, and he's only 1 post in! Now that's talent.

Also, ColourFire will in future use the latest IDE version, so the load times will be faster and the runtimes will be slightly less slow but we'll have to work out a bunch of glitches! YAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

Elizabeth Maxwell=awesome

Or I could be nerdy and say
if (Elizabeth_Maxwell==awesome){
blog_post();}
but I'm not go-... oh, too late. Well.

Anyway, here's her blog.
So! In celebration of her coolness, I got her a platinum upgrade for her Something Awful Forums account for x-mas. In return, she offered to draw me anything I wanted! Whoah!
I took a while to figure out what to ask for (sorry :<) but long story short here's the image:
Sweet! Baltarstar Galactica meets Team Fortress 2. :D

CF version .9h is out. Also, I'm going to rant now.

Ranting is what people do in weblogs, right? Time I had a proper one. Or something.

I find rude people funny. Not just people who are kind of jerks, but full-on scumbag types. The kind whose redeeming values just aren't enough to offset their overbearing wretchedness. Now, I don't like to be around them for very long. I prefer the company of people who are at least reasonably polite toward me. Every once in a while, however, I like to see someone who is outright nasty, for no good reason. It's such a great contrast! I don't mean like, "they make everyone else look better." That would be kind of pretentious. It's more like "haha, how did that get there?" Condescension optional, depending on the desired irony of this reading.
Anyway, I've only met a few people like that. They were awfully refreshing. Humans are so funny.

ColourFire version .89y

Online highscores have been working for a while now and I forgot to make a post, not that anyone reads this anyway. As it's the end of the week, I reset the list so GO GET SOME HIGH SCORES! http://nerium.org/other-stuff/CFWeekly.txt is the link for weekly scores list. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1467119/Weekly%20Archive.txt will take you to the archive of the scores lists at the ends of previous weeks.

CF website, once again, is http://colourfire.dnsalias.org/

Global score tracking for ColourFire is a go

Listening to: Oxygene 8 - Jean-Michel Jarre

Some hours ago I had the idea that it would not be obscenely complicated to get some simple server correspondence going with ColourFire. The program just has to write to a file on a server. This turned out to involve PHP and a DLL and some nonsense but if you'll download the latest version of CF then you can see for yourself that it works (the file that it writes to is at http://nerium.org/other-stuff/CFLog.txt)!

Things to work on:
-It only submits scores when you get a personal high score; I'll do... something... about that.
-If it tries to connect and you have no internet connection... I don't know what happens. It probably crashes. I'm sure it's something bad anyway.
-I want a weekly scoreboard too. I'll use a separate PHP file and a separate .txt file.
-the thing that detects if you cheated might be a little wonky. We'll see.
-there's a small matter of security localized to the .txt file (seriously, the worst thing that could happen isn't really consequential, but I want to eliminate it anyway because it would be a nuisance.)

Toribash

http://toastline.on.toribash.com

Click that link to give me ingame money. I'm not shelling out REAL money for it...
Also it's a fun game and you should play it!

*Cough* ColourFire Object Fabricator

listening to: Kero ⑨ Destiny - Silver Forest


I almost named the program "Mr. Fab," but no.
(download link is at bottom of this post)


What this allows one to do is to create the look of an object for ColourFire! Or random abstractness. It's good for that, too. What I was doing before was designing stuff on paper, then figuring out the polar coordinates I'd need for each vertex, and then figuring out which vertices needed to have triangles drawn between them... and it was a pain. This program provides a graphical interface so that I don't have to do that. Creating the Sentries' appearance took several minutes the old way. I replicated it in COF and it took less than one minute.

Todo:
polar grid (why not)
"rectangle from side" tool
"rectangle from corner" tool
"scale on axis" tool

I know, those last 3 appear in the screenshot up there. But while you can select them in the program, they don't work right now. I don't intend to add more tools after them, but it could happen.

CF website can currently be reached at http://colourfire.dnsalias.org/ (redirects to dropbox because Nerium is NOT FAST ENOUGH FOR MY MADNESS)
COF download is at http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1467119/COF.exe