Tech oriented commentary and personal projects
About half an hour after my last post, I realized that I was exporting the triangles as vertex1, vertex2, vertex2 instead of vertex1, vertex2, vertex3. Amazing what a one character typo can do… I feel awesome.
Edit: Looks like the I got the texture coordinates right - I was able to add the texture without any trouble!
Last night I took a big step in my reversing of the Guitar Hero mesh format. For a while now I have been trying to decode the meshes so that I can import them into StepMania for a Guitar Hero-ized version. I have all the vertices, their normals, their colors and their texture locations decoded. The triangles look decoded correctly for the most part but it looks like it is missing a few. The only left is the correct interpretation of the normals - right now MilkShape doesn’t want to display a solid of the mesh, just the wireframe. I’ll post more on the development as I continue. Once I get the decoder in working order, I’ll release the source code.
Sufjan Stevens, I like his music but I’m not so peachy about the titles that he picks for his songs. Come on, is “The Black Hawk War, or, How to Demolish an Entire Civilization and Still Feel Good About Yourself in the Morning, or, We Apologize for the Inconvenience but You’re Going to Have to Leave Now, or…” really necessary? That title is 197 characters long, for those counting! When you combine that title with my naming scheme of Artist (Album) - Title, you run into problems. It wreaks havoc on my computer; I couldn’t move the file without getting an error! If I started a band, I would respect the reserved characters of various file systems (\/:*?”<>| for NTFS) and their file name length limits (255 characters). That will never happen though, so don’t worry.
Ágætis byrjun is Icelandic for “an alright start”. It is also an album by Sigur Rós, an Icelandic band and one of my favorite bands. I’d call this posting an alright start, if I say so myself. This blog will be place for my random ramblings, usually about ideas and projects that are on my mind at the time. I vow to not let this blog die a slow death due to stagnation, as so many other blogs do. Of course, I won’t be at a lack of material to write about, with school starting in less than two weeks. Lets hope for the best this year.