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Prepping Rubygame 2.1.0

over 4 years ago by John Croisant on blog.jacius.info.
I’m looking over everything and making sure it’s ready to release as Rubygame 2.1.0. Here’s a quick look at the major changes: Added...

Culling Projects

over 4 years ago by John Croisant on blog.jacius.info.
I have a personal tendency to accumulate projects. Lots of projects. So many projects that I could never find the time work on them all. So, older projects...

When RGB is Not Enough, Redux

over 4 years ago by John Croisant on blog.jacius.info.
Here’s a simple example of when the RGB color model fails to accurately model real life interaction of light and color. If you drive through any...

When RGB is Not Enough

over 4 years ago by John Croisant on blog.jacius.info.
Over a year ago, my color studies class visited the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Illinois, for a guest lecture/demo on theatre...

Out-of-Tuning

over 4 years ago by John Croisant on blog.jacius.info.
Quick thought: A game where the music gets more out of tune and broken as you tumble towards defeat. Meteos did this, sort of. It would shift between different...

Tip: pydrivers.py

over 4 years ago by John Croisant on blog.jacius.info.
Here’s a great tip from the BlenderWiki: If you create a text in Blender called pydrivers.py, any functions or variables you define there will be...

Bake Scripted Drivers

over 4 years ago by John Croisant on blog.jacius.info.
I wish I could ‘bake’ IPO channels that are being driven by a python script, so that I could see them visually and tweak them by hand. Barring...

Arbitrary Attributes in Blender

over 4 years ago by John Croisant on blog.jacius.info.
I wish I could add new, arbitrary attributes to things in Blender, then associate an IPO curve with them. That’s something I really miss from Maya...

Defaults and Constraints

almost 5 years ago by John Croisant on blog.jacius.info.
I read an article in Scientific American Mind, “When Words Decide” by Barry Schwartz, about how the phrasing of a question or proposal can dramatically...

Bought a GP2X

almost 5 years ago by John Croisant on blog.jacius.info.
I splurged on a GP2X (the open-source handheld game/entertainment console) the other day, and it arrived today in the mail. I also went ahead and bought...