Taylor Wiebe’s Blog

Well I have been back home for a few days now and I must say it has been great! The trip was awesome but It’s good to be home. I may put up some pictures from my trip on here but I don’t have any to post right now.

Right now I have decided our tutorials have been down for too long on Faintmedia. Ever since we lost all of our data for the forums our tutorials were down. So I have decided that I will put them back up! Right now I have started to add some tutorials to the blender section. Once all of the tutorials are up I will redirect the old tutorial pages to the new ones!

- Taylor

Before I head off the the “Big Apple” I just wanted to say that the new MacBooks are now out and they look awesome!

Also at Faintmedia we have some big things coming soon, so keep checking our site!

- Taylor

Well I have been working on Lockdown and I just can’t get some of the things I really want working to work. First off when I change what the sky looks like it either does not change/work or it changes and I save and when I want to re-open it the game engine gives me an error.

Now I am making buildings to put in the game, and it’s always nice for buildings that have interiors to have windows, transparent ones. Well transparent windows are really aggravating me, they just will not work, I have tried many approaches and small, simple tests but still nothing works.

Right now I am done working for a bit, I need a break, I hopefully will get some help on the Garage Games forums, and then I can get working on more stuff.

- Taylor

Today the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was started up, and I am quite excited for the what the future will bring with this. For the people who who don’t know the Large Hadron Collider is a giant particle accelerator which will get protons moving at a speed close to the speed of light. They then plan on colliding the protons.

Some people believe that this could cause the end of the world and they are trying to get this stopped. I am not really much of a science guy but I am quite curious to see the results that come from their work.

-Taylor

I have started to work on making some destructible objects for Lockdown, I haven’t figured out the code for it yet but I am really hoping that I will be able to get it to work. I was thinking of having destructible buildings (walls and such) but I am not convinced that is a good idea (It boils down to how the file types are set up, its complex and I don’t feel like explaining). That being said I still want to have some parts of buildings and smaller objects to be able to be destroyed by the users. For now I will be searching around for some code I can use as a reference to accomplish this.

Well after being down for quite some time after we had that database mess up at Faintmedia I have decided to install my blog again. Since I am a lazy guy I just downloaded a theme but I may make one in the future for this site.

With my blog I am going to post about different things that are happening with myself and with Faintmedia. I will try and post pictures of the games we are working on and keep giving updates on progress.

I will try and keep this up to date with everything going on and hopefully get some pictures up here from the vacation I took a few weeks back!

-Taylor