01.20.06
Snow Again
I’m setting two year long goals for myself right now (these are not like New Year’s Resolutions, as I plan to keep mine this year and I don’t mind if I break these:
1) Produce a semi-decent 2-3 minute animation using trueSpace 5 and its facial animator. I already have an idea in mind, which should be good I think. I just need to find the time to work on this. Tomorrow will hopefully produce a 30 second animation (perhaps a recreation of the spinning blue-red ring with fancy camera tricks). I should use a few of the tutorials…
2) Have a workable alpha version of Kaladea by the end of the year. This means I need a building system and a few other things (such as combat). Luckily I have room’s set up right now, and all seems well. Fleshing them out shouldn’t be difficult.
Pretty average day today. High school was boring as ever, but thats nothing new. I must say Demoss is fantastic and I think I’m really going to like Eastern Civ. The only downside to it all is I have oodles of reading to do just for those two classes.
Highlight of my day today was definitely CS II. O’Kane got done explaining a bunch of code, but no one understood it (and we have three or four Physics majors)! I told him he could do it much easier and he went and looked at my code (explained in the two previous posts) and then all was clear. So, in short, my code was more concise and understandable (but used slightly more overhead) and enabled the Physics majors to have a clue!
Right, so over the course of two hours we built up two inches of snow and I had to clean off my previously clear truck. The trip home took ten minutes longer than it should have, as I got stuck through an entire light and repeatedly slipped past turns I planned on taking. I do believe driving that one time was worse than all of the winter. Oh, to top it off, they made the turn-in to my housing area smaller when they rebuilt it and I nearly smashed into two cars (though going 6 miles an hour i doubt anyone would be hurt and the damage would not have been more than scratch). Wouldn’t that have been oh so great? Luckily I was able to turn away, but in doing so I nearly went off the road (because of the damn fish-tailing nature of trucks).
On another note, it is the most beautiful snow I have -EVER- seen in my life. Slow, thick, heavy and nicely spaced. It was amazing. It is also the best packing snow I’ve seen (I threw a few snowballs at my house).
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I reread this post and fixed a bunch of dumb errors. Should make more sense now.