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New Anime Website For Fans

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:54:17 +0000

Website: http://www.otakuconnect.com

Well, for the last 6 months 2Shea and I have been working on a website (OtakuConnect) that we just recently released into beta. The site still has a lot of work to be done on it but we're at a point where it's pretty stable. I'm not sure if some people here remember our first "Test" website, animeREVO, although we've learned a lot and improved on our design for our new website.

So if you're an anime/manga fan we'd love to have you help us build our community. We're not MAL (MyAnimeList) as we have more of a focus on the community, and we're not Facebook as our focus is strictly on anime and manga.

Any contributions you make are appreciated and please bring your friends as it makes the experience even better!

Enjoy!

Website: http://www.otakuconnect.com

SoulReaper Update screenshot

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:34:05 +0000

Well, man it's been a long time since I've made a post about my SoulReaper Engine, although I'm still working on it constantly. For those that aren't aware of what SoulReaper is, it's a game engine I'm building using the BYOND DM language. Currently SoulReaper is being used to power the DBOII (Dragonball Online II) game, although in the future I wish to be able to use it for other games as well, (a good RPG would be nice). Recently I've been working hard on the GUI code and I've completed most of it. Here is a screenshot:

GUI In Action

The reason for all the radio buttons is because the GUI supports two types, vertical and horizontal layouts. I should note that the gui isn't a browser window or anything, it's using the map to render it's graphics. Also, it's using pixel coordinates and can be of any dimension. The GUI isn't completed yet, there's still more I wish to add, but it's getting close to a final version. My inspiration this entire time too has been Acheron's Awakening gui system, it looks amazing and for those who haven't seen it you should really check it out here: Acheron's Awakening

I also thought I'd provide some code to show you how simple it is to make GUI windows using the SoulReaper engine. (Sorry if my code looks weird...)

/**
 *      This class is a Test window with GUI elements.
 *
 *      @author:        Victor Holt
 *      @date:          3/05/2009
*/

SoulReaper/Object/GUI/Template/TestWindow
        var/SoulReaper/Object/GUI/Element/Window/wnd = null
        var/SoulReaper/Object/GUI/Element/Window/Button/closeBtn = null
        var/SoulReaper/Object/GUI/Element/Window/Edit/strEditBox = null
        var/SoulReaper/Object/GUI/Element/Static/strText = null
        var/SoulReaper/Object/GUI/Element/Static/spinnerText = null
        var/SoulReaper/Object/GUI/Element/Static/imageText = null
        var/SoulReaper/Object/GUI/Element/Image/testImage = null
        var/SoulReaper/Object/GUI/Element/Window/CheckBox/testCb = null
        var/SoulReaper/Object/GUI/Element/Window/CheckBox/testCb2 = null
        var/SoulReaper/Object/GUI/Element/RadioGroup/rG = null
        var/SoulReaper/Object/GUI/Element/RadioGroup/rG2 = null
        var/SoulReaper/Object/GUI/Element/Spinner/spinner = null

        /**
        * The constructor.
        */
        New()
                wnd = new()
                closeBtn = new()
                strText = new()
                spinnerText = new()
                imageText = new()
                strEditBox = new()
                
                ...
                
                wnd.create( CHARACTER_VIEW, "GUI Test", 250, 300 )
                closeBtn.create( 2, "Close", 80, 30, null, wnd )                
                strText.create( 3, "Strength:", 5, 260, null, wnd )     
                
                ...

                rG.create( 6, GUI_VERT_STYLE, wnd )
                rG2.create( 7, GUI_HORIZONTAL_STYLE, wnd )
                spinner.create( 8, 20, 30, wnd )
                
                rG.addOption( "Male" )
                rG.addOption( "Female" )
                
                rG2.addOption( "One" )
                rG2.addOption( "Two" )
                rG2.addOption( "Three" )
                
                ...
                
                GUIServices.register( wnd )
                ..()
        /**
        * The destructor
        */
        Del()
                GUIServices.unregister( CHARACTER_VIEW )
                ...

                ..()
        /**
        * This method renders the gui template.
        */
        render()
                GUIServices.render( CHARACTER_VIEW )
        /**
        * This method does a listen event.
        */
        onListen( var/userGuid )

                ...             

                ..()

Been a long time

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 02:18:46 +0000

Well, it's been a long time since I've posted anything as Chris-g1 noted to me today. I'm not very good at posting things..., as seen with DBOII's forum. Anyways, lately I've been trying to overcome my allergies, and these drugs I've taken have gotten me extremely drowsy... I think I'm going to skip taking Sudafed PE tomorrow and just deal with the allergies.

Russia at war... Edwards in an affair

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:34:36 +0000

So, Russia is saying they're at war with Georgia (a country once part of the Soviet Union I believe)... and John Edwards is now admitting to having an affair during his presidential bid. Man, what's up with our world?

I personally think this is a foolish move by Russia, especially since Georgia is one of our allies helping us in Iraq. This was coming though, ever since Russia stopped the oil flow to Georgia tensions were just getting really high. Let's just hope this doesn't spill over into other EU countries that we all know have bad blood with Russia.

Final Fantasy Date

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:32:41 +0000

If you like Final Fantasy and you're on a date, keep it to yourself, and for god's sake don't play the game on your date! ^_^

Link: http://www.g4tv.com/e32008/videos/27086/ Final_Fantasy_Date.html

G4 did a great job explaining that one!

DBOII... Work... Busy...

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:09:38 +0000

This summer has been pretty busy for me, with tons of work to do at home and at my job it seems like the summer is going by too fast.

DBO II Updates
----------------
Well, at this point the game has been up for a while and the team has been doing a lot of testing. We have some really good people on the team I think, and it's been fun working with everyone. Most of all, we've been doing good on the team meetings lately and making sure everyone is caught up on what's next to come. We've also completed the outline for the Earth map, which is a good thing. It's been bugging me that we've been using test maps up until now, so finally we're working with official maps in the game. This month will be a busy fix/testing month for DBO II.

Work Updates
----------------
My boss loves my work so much that he decided to give me a raise, which can only make me more productive right? Heh, work is fun as always, and being in charge makes work worth it even more. I have been working over 40+ hours though, but there's so much that I need to get done before the end of the summer. In October I'll be heading to Chicago for a conference my job offered to pay for, and if I'm lucky I'll be going to Tokyo for a conference! I wouldn't mind going there.

My mess of a work desk (Click to enlarge)

The Byond and Ubuntu Brawl

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:21:18 +0000

So I installed Wine on Ubuntu because I really want to use BYOND in Linux instead of loading up VirtualBox and running XP. The newest version of Wine, wine 0.9.58 allows for a smooth installation of BYOND and everything seems to work until you try to load up the DreamSeeker, then you run into problems. Instead you have to revert back to Wine 0.9.51 if you want to get BYOND working in Linux. Also, you'll need a list of dlls to be overwritten:

(Not sure if this list is accurate, but it worked for me)

msvcirt.dll
ole32.dll
oleaut32.dll
riched20.dll
riched32.dll
rpcrt4.dll
shlwapi.dll

Like I said, this gets BYOND working in Wine 0.9.51, not the newest version of Wine (0.9.58). If anyone has any information on how to get BYOND working in the newest version of Wine please let me know, I'm all ears. ^_^

Good luck to you Linux users!

New Layout... at last

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 01:30:12 +0000

Well, I had made this layout a while ago, but I finally got around to putting it up on BYOND. It's honestly not that fun and exciting editing the css for BYOND, but I guess I have to deal with it. I hope this layout works for everyone as I haven't don't huge tests with it yet.

Oh... yes I know, the "Add" comment box is grey. I left it like that because I kinda like it heh.

I'll try later on to test the members_info stuff, but for now I want to take a break.

Linux + XP = Great

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:07:55 +0000

So lately I've been doing a lot of web development, and being pretty much the Senior Programmer at my job, I've been having a lot of fun. What's even more fun is that I've finally taken off Vista from my pc and installed Ubuntu instead. Not only that, but I was able to get VirtualBox working and can now run XP and Linux together. The only bad part about installing XP on my laptop is that I have SATA drives... yea... Here's a screenshot:

A Tale of Funny Kids and Code Stealers

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 07:02:47 +0000

*Censored* (By will...)