["The Zone" Blog 04: A Bridge Over Troubled Waters]

Excellent work. I'd like to know more about the dirt roads and how you made them.

[Picking up speed]

I've used Luabind myself, didn't have any problems with it at the time (was a couple of years ago). I liked it anyway, seemed easy enough.

[Vegetation nation]

I'm really pumped by Michael offering his vegetation for sale and the coming veg system update.

 

What's been the performance increase using this scene? And how long does this take to load? It does look rather dense and lush.

 

One another comment, I don't know if it's just the visual language of video games or my personal tastes but real foliage in sunlight is almost radiant, bright greens, yet it looks much better when using darker tones.

[OnLive Lives?]

I think that's brilliant. The social aspect is mind boggling. Games are the only medium which deny you content if you're not good enough. This would allow anyone to see all the cool stuff you never get to see.

 

Compressing a frame in 1ms, fantastic. Never need to upgrade or spend half a grand every two years to play new games. To say I can see the appeal is an understatement. Buy shares now.

[12-14-2009]

what does this update include? just the single-state lua? new lua examples thats documented/commented? updated existing lua scripts for single state? a lua framewerk? a 2D feature in lua that works with editor and external language? a list of all exposed engine commands in lua and their syntax?

 

If you want a list of exposed commands, use Tylers Debug LIbrary in the downloads section. And in your code use the "LogGlobals" command at the top of a script which dumps all ... well Globals. Functions and constants alike. Cut and paste the output into something like Notepad++ which can sort text into alphabetical order (select all > TextFX_Tools > Sort_Lines ). And you have an alphabetised list of (a lot of constants but also) functions. Doesn't give detail on parameters but it's enough to confirm the existance of a command. Easy to spot the omissions.

[Why Apple Fails]

Well, hardware and aesthetics aside, pricing is complex issue that goes beyond what you see is what you buy. Apple has always been about asthetics. I've worked in high-end publishing (books, advertising) where Apple dominates in the same way as their 'rivals' dominate the domestic market. They know their audience and it's strengths. It's a different world.

 

Nothing to do with brain-cells or lack-of. Just business. I'd love a new mac-book for doing that sort of thing, it's the computing equiv of a low emissions car.