brianin3d demos, and stuff, yo

To Cell or Not to Cell

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:35:56 -0400

= To Cell or Not to Cell =

Quickie animation: inkscape + blender + png2swf

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:31:01 -0400

Quickie animation: inkscape + blender + png2swf

Came across a really fast way to do silly animations like this:

Chrome Sphere in Flash via Haxe

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:58:52 -0400

Chrome Sphere in Flash via Haxe

Kinda got some chrome on the brain lately, so been looking at a few tips and tricks.

Dude has a nice tutorial which I wanted to try, but I wanted to code it, not point-and-click it.

Bookmarklet to Relink Google Images

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Bookmarklet to Relink Google Images

Since time immemorial, Google has been doing dumb stuff to try to keep their annoying usage pattern for their image search in tact.

Good little commies should do a search, open each link see the original dumb page you don't want, then click on the real link for the image.

Of course, that sucks. Sometimes it's fun just to cruise images and putting up extra bullmess is really dumb.

My First Walk Cycle Animation in Inkscape

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400

My First Walk Cycle Animation in Inkscape

I've been trying to get more into writing games lately, and the sprite availability is starting to become a nuisance.

There are a number of spots where you can ask spriters to help you out, but this has a number of problems:

turn around time: asking strangers for favors makes it hard to set deadlines

graphic homogeneity: making sure all the sprites look like they go together

GlassifiedButton

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:57:05 -0400

GlassifriedButton

The GlassifriedButton is a nifty button, check it out:

A* Path Finding

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:45:02 -0400

A* Path Finding

My new game is coming along pretty ok... considering how little time I have to work on it.

The automated maze generation is working a treat so it seemed like the next logical step was to add some interactability.

Textured Walls

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 23:57:33 -0400

Textured Walls

I'm working on a tile based RPG. I had had some success using Dude's algoritm for random dungeons and of course a second implementation is always cleaner.

Once the digger was working, the initial result was pretty fugly:

Seamless Tiles ala Voronoi

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Seamless Tiles ala Voronoi

The first time I saw a Voronoi Diagram it was oddly compelling even though I had no idea what it represented or how it was created.

Generating XSL from HTML

Fri, 29 May 2009 17:33:06 -0400

Generating XSL from HTML

Since I decided to do this site with XML and XSL, I have had to translate a lot of junk like:

Color of my balls: image processing madness

Thu, 28 May 2009 22:20:22 -0400

A picture is worth...

I got some complaints that the hint mechanism in my Ball Busting Puzzle Game was sometimes suggesting stupid junk like:

worse... I suspect this means that certain illegal moves would be allowed >.<

Arg! Of course I want to be able to debug the problem, but all I had was my dumb screenshot...

Generating Javascript from HTML

Wed, 27 May 2009 13:46:36 -0400

Generating Javascript from HTML

If you spend time making UI's in javascript, you can inevitably end up writing a lot of "appendChild" and "createElement" mess by hand...

What you want to spew is something like:

Quickstart: chrome for ubuntu

Wed, 27 May 2009 10:51:06 -0400

Add these lines to /etc/apt/sources.list

Ball Busting Puzzle Game

Sun, 24 May 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Puzzle Game #1

Well... it took a while, but this game is finally to the point where I am ready to call it version 1.

Shuffling Shell Scripts!

Wed, 20 May 2009 13:35:28 -0400

Bash (and Dash for that matter) has the neato ability to manipulate arrays and you can junk around!

One sort of trick you might like is to randomize the contents of the array.

Array refresher

I won't go too much into syntax, cuz the man page is pretty good, but here is a quick refresher:

assign the output of a command to and array: my_cool_array=( $( ls /tmp ) )

get the number of elements in an array: echo ${#my_cool_array[*]}

spit out the 7th entry in an array: echo ${my_cool_array[6]}

CSS Sprites

Tue, 19 May 2009 00:00:00 -0400

CSS Sprites

I won't go into too much detail about CSS Sprites .

Basicly, you

set the size of the div (for example) to the size of each sprite, eg: 32x32

set the background to be your images, eg:

change the x/y offset in CSS to show the appropriate frame, eg: background: transparent url( skl1.PNG ) -32px 0px;

XPath All Text Nodes in Javascript

Sun, 10 May 2009 22:32:37 -0400

This is something I want to do a lot... cuz... I'm goofy...

I want to grab all the nodes in a document that have text and do something sinister to them...

var matches = document.evaluate( "//text()", document, null, XPathResult.ORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE, null); 
for ( var i = 0 ; i < matches.snapshotLength ; i++ ) { 
	var match = matches.snapshotItem( i ); 
	match.parentNode.style.background = 'black'; 
	match.parentNode.style.color = 'white'; 
}

JSF comes to Google... almost

Tue, 05 May 2009 16:41:05 -0400

I jacked all of apple-pie/war/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml ...

% mkdir -p src/main/resources/META-INF

http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/datastore/usingjpa.html for persistence.xml

http://www.datanucleus.org/products/accessplatform/enhancer.html#maven2

javax.transaction

Lawd! I hope Oracle changes the policy on this non-redistributale nonsense!

missing 1) javax.transaction:transaction-api:jar:1.1

JTA http://java.sun.com/javaee/technologies/jta/index.jsp

A javaee5 Maven Archetype that works?!

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:40:28 -0400

A javaee5 Maven Archetype at last?

javaee5-maven-archetype is a project by Piotr Soróbka. I had tried some other JSF+JPA+SEAM archetypes with not much luck. I think this was mostly because the technology has been moving so fast.

This archetype has some issues, and it lacks some JPA hooks (easy enuff to add), but it is javax.faces / vendor agnostic which is a test most of the other archetypes fail.

Haxe Archetype

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:02:37 -0400

n/a

XNA QuickStart

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 17:50:20 -0400

n/a

Triangle Islands : opengl + haxe

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:09:32 -0400

n/a

My Crappy Oracle Notes

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:32:02 -0400

Sup?

This is just some scraping of bits and pieces I find useful for those occasions when you do have to futz with oracle ....

Probably you will not find them useful. If you want some good info, check out sqlzoo instead.

Oracle 11g Notez

installing 11g on ibex

Wiki Text with XSL

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:45:47 -0400

Wiki Text A-go-go

When I started blogging, I thought it was neato because I could just jam out some bit of bologna real quickly and move on... But over time, the limitations of blogspot and free wordpress hosting started to annoy me.

What irked me more than anything was having to write html long hand...

blogspot

is a lot more of a drag to right than

[http://blogspot.com blogspot]

When Sprites Attack!

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:13:09 -0400

Dynamicly Loading Character Sprites

This demo shows off the sprite class I developed a while back. It uses a flash.display.Loader under the cover to load the individual images which make up the character sprite, for example:

defo: offset constraint demo

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:53:16 -0400

n/a

dizzy: offset constraint demo

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:49:19 -0400

n/a

angularia: angular constraint demo

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:29:41 -0400

n/a

Abusing Terrain To Show a Map

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:03:45 -0500

n/a

Terrain: heightmap action

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:02:56 -0500

n/a