school time

bah I just lost the long droningly boring post I had because blogger is so damn buggy. Anyway to summarize what I typed:

If anyone knows a place where I can host 1-10GB worth of txt and music, place comment or something. I really need it one day. I need to do…stuff. Now with all the boring work out of the way, I can finally get myself some fun…a bit too late don’t you think =/

It’s 4am now, and school starts at 9am…time to sleep I guess…

BWAHAHA 3rd post of the day

Wow third post of the day. I must be really free now lol.

Everyone have been asking good ole Gerald.

“Gerald, where have you been?”
“Gerald, what do you do at home?”
“Gerald, are you working?”
“Gerald, where are you?”
“Gerald, where are you for the whole holiday?”
“Gerald, you are busy? Busy with what? Work?”
“Gerald, Gerlad, Gerrad, Grld, grld”

And if these thoughts are in your mind for this term break, my friends , the following reasons are probably the case:
1) I rarely, if not, NEVER log on to MSN
2) Even though I log on, I never reply to message…if any, rarely
3) I am always on skype…but I never reply to messages anyway
4) I never replied to almost every handphone messages
5) Hell, the only way you can reach me is through phone
6) So…gerald, are you a Yawa?

technically speaking I am not a yawa because I never ever set myself to ‘away’ mode (the no entry sign is better than the clock sign for msn). I would have set myself to ‘busy’ mode but I’m too lazy so I chose to ignore those messages. Okay okay, fine I will try to set myself to busy mode more often…besides, I don’t go on MSN much anyway do I?

“So Gerald, what have you been doing?”
As you have read my previous posts, I was a bit sick during the middle of this week. I still go to Bugis runs every Saturday, maybe more if I have nothing to do on that day. No I haven’t been training on DOA4 so far. Mostly I’m playing games, sleeping or work. Well, what work have I done…hmm…since I’m so free I think I can afford some screenshot so FEAST YOUR EYES ON THE GREAT ASSIGNMENTS TEH DREADED DET HAS GIVEN ME::::::

Here a very very quick run through of our game dev. project. As some may already know, my team is working on some wrapped 3D pong project with special abilities and stuff liek that.

>>> Here’s the main menu. Beautiful isn’t it? I drew it myself. Our game has no mouse input, so everything is by keyboard. If your eyes are sharp, you’ll notice that the first box is bigger than the other. That’s the selected box. Well anyway, as you can very well see there is this big “BG HERE” at the background which means “background here”. Ugly? You bet. This is basically what you see in all your computer games if they all do not have any graphic designers. I call this the ’skeleton’ of the game. Too bad…most gamers only appreciate what designers do more than us programmers. Wait, we’re not gonna be programmers. We are gonna be DEVELOPERS. Muahahaha!
Here’s the main game. cool huh. The smiling faces are the hp bar of some sort. Apparently Heber wanted some ‘DOOM’ style kind of HP but I think I have to raise the fact that even DOOM has number representations for HP. Every other stat is not drawn yet, but already implemented at the background. Btw I drew the faces. Cool right?

So yeah…I guess that’s all I can show for my GDT assignment. It’s based on OpenGL, aka you know Playstation, Nvidia and stuff.

So on to my ACG (advanced com graphics) assignment! I have to make a DirectX .obj loader! Okay lemme summarize: basically I have to turn this babies (note the scrollbar lolol):

Into this:
Yeah it’s suppose to be a street lamp, but my cleverly designed pink-blue texture has masked it perfectly. Why pink? Because pink is ghey and ghey = Gerald, true story. It’s suppose to have words saying “Gerald is God” though…it didn’t map as I liked it to be, but meh whatever.

On the serious note, some may ask what is the difference between DX and OpenGL?

1) DX is by Microsoft, I can’t remember where OGL is from.
2) DX’s structure is more…well…’professional’. OGL’s is dependent on the person
3) DX do not have godly transformation tools unlike OGL. Instead you make your own ‘higher-than-godly’ transformation tools.
4) I THINK OGL is free to distribute and work on, DX isn’t. Microsoft wants money you see
5) DX has this…holy…godly tool for rendering graphics. Bascially you just throw all the points and coordinates and *poof* it became koko…I think you get my meaning. OGL? You have to poke the points manually
6) As far as what I am concerned, I think DX is much more efficient and godly than OGL.
7) DX has all these…godly functions…like java…just so godly are these functions.
Microsoft is taking over the world…in other words, DX is taking over the world.
9) Sony is going to die, that means…OpenGL is going to die…unless Nintendo is using OpenGL…but then again…Nintendo uses ATI cards, does that means they use DX too? Ahh…so this is what comment boxes are for. For those who know please tell me.
10) DX functions are so damn irritating to type I mean compare DX’s “LPDIRECT3DDEVICE9″ to OGL’s “glTranslatef();”

Yep, these are 10 differences between them. Of course not all may be true =p

Back to default

Okay back to default…I hope you are happy that my blog isn’t all about KH and driving you away from it. Hmph. Well, how do you like it now? Plain, simple and fugly…*looks at blog*…actually, it is kinda ugly…it looked good on the template viewing section…

wait, what? Tagboards? go away tagboarders. Comments are the MOST I can go.

One week of hols…gone…just like that…*poof*

Why is it that everytime I finally have tons of free time stupid things like flu get into my body and mess up my already weak body system. Now why doesn’t that kind shit happen to me during school days?

gxl thingy is already going on for all games except for DOA4, PGR and WE9. Not that I’m not interested to win, but chances of me winning DOA is very slim. My experience with 3D fighting games as a whole is limited to DOA3, John, MC2 booth and a few runs with Sage from US. Others? Well, Tetra’s experience in 3D fighters date all the way back to VF and he claims to have played almost all Tekkens, DOAs, VFs and SCs. Well, that’s about ALL the 3D fighters there are huh, not to mention that I’m pretty sure that 80% of the players from DOA GXL have an Xbox 360 at home and probably 60% of them have had Xbox Live! experience. Heh, just watch me lose 0-5 as I try to apply 2D fighter tactics into DOA4. I promise to send a screenie.

Speaking of 2D fighters, for some reason the GGXX pros are back in Bugis. God won’t they go away so that I can train against not-so-pro people. I haven’t touched MB for a long long time, but anyways, for those who have tons of 50c (like me) and wants to pay school fees to learn MB, now’s your chance, the pros are back too (at least, the 2 I recognize). I can say that both of them have vastly improved. They are so waaaaaaaaaaaay out of my league. It’s as if they played MB at home for all the days they have been absent or something.

And of course, on the CVS2 side. Clappy Hands came back…I mistook him for another guy who was about…say…a couple of levels ahead of me (Clappy Hands was waaaaaaaay outta my league too). They both looked alike. The best way to differentiate them is that Clappy Hands has a girlfriend sticking to him like glue unlike the other (who has none btw). So after losing like…6 games…I wasn’t really happy at myself because that day I was kinda slow in reaction, but god…6 wins and all those wins he plainly used just an A-Sak to kill all my characters. I didn’t believe it so I went for another 4 until I beat him. Wait…heh I actually beat him. But what bothered me was this incredibly loud clapping loud from the other side every game we concluded. When he beat me for the last time, I checked and sure enough…it’s Mr Clappy Hands. God I can’t believe I actually let myself insert that 50c all because I mistook him to some other guy. And no, Clappy Hands hasn’t gotten sloppy, at all. Well, maybe a bit…he’s shoshosho wasn’t as good as last time, but he’s still a monster.

Overall, I’m pretty happy with my Hibiki and Kyo…not my Rock tho…I have gotten really sloppy with him. Anyway, Sagat is so lame…espacially R2-Sagat. It’s like…with Sagat you can change the tide of a battle so easily. He’s that lame. Esp. C-Sagat. Roll+Super is scrubby I know but for some reason I’m hitting people with ‘roll+super’ shits with Sagat. A lot of times. Like 7 out of 10 times. Sagat is that incredible.

Anyway, that was when the sickness tided. Before that I actually missed Han Yeong’s birthday. shit. Had a horrible, horrible flu (which inevitably lead to fever of course). In case anyone is wondering, yes I am not fit internally. Look at john’s or yz’s medical history. I mean I get sick once everyday 3 months or 6 months if I’m lucky. I’m pretty sure they don’t. Bah I need to have a better diet…maybe I ate WAAAAY too much carbo. I’m still staying away from veggies though. Nothing but NS will probably convince me to eat them.

Of course, before I conclude this crap post I’d like to wish Han Yeong (is it spelt this way? jinguo spelt it was ‘Yong’) happy birthday and apologize once again that I couldn’t attend the fun. You are probably the funniest guy I have ever met (kenny is another one), and hanging out with you was never boring!

HAPPY BURFDAY FAG!!!
*steals photo from jinguo’s blog @ http://www.jinsiasway.blogspot.com *

And due to popular demand (only one guy actually), I shall switch to teh default blogskin so that gay people can post their pay comments which I’m probably not gonna read anyway (well, maybe just a little bit).

I need to get a life. Badly. Why is life preventing me from getting itself? =/

Break time, literally

Yes finally the long awaited term break is here. Finally I can spend all my time staying at home doing stuff instead of school taking up all my time and preventing me from handing up my assignments. That doesn’t mean I’m not going to have any fun though, it just means that I can easily complete my work without thinking of when to sleep and have all the fun I want the rest of the day.

Within this week, you can expect a change to blogskin depending on whether I think comment boxes are needed or not. I’d rather not have anyone comment on the crap I said…then again my blog is probably too boring to have anything worth commenting at. But then AGAIN maybe because it’s too boring…too much ‘my life crap’ that perhaps people will go around commenting things like “o ur blog iz liek so boring lol no1 cares about wat you do blog on something else fag lol”. Actually that wouldn’t happen much because I don’t blog about whatever shit stuff I ate everyday and what bus number plate I took home from school etc…do I?

DX is becoming a bitch to setup…now I have to go back to friggin’ school just because the SDK I downloaded from reliable ole’ MS is not friggin’ working. *sigh*

YH managed to persuade me to trade in my DS for a DS Lite. I personally like the DS Lite better…I mean…I know it looks like a handbook, I like it that way instead of that ugly…well I don’t know what to describe that design as. Anyway with the DS Lite I also bought MegaMan Battle Network Dual Team DS and Brain Age. Well, Brain Age is only $35…and I think it’s worth every cent. MegaMan is fun too though.

Speaking of games, I finally have 3rd Strike on my PS2. 3rd strike a hella boring to watch people play though. Guilty Gear is officially my most favourite fighting game to watch. It’s almost like watching…anime battles. I hope I can play with those guys in Bugis soon , my 3rd Strike is already more or less there.

DOTA GXL started quite long ago. It’s always fun watching Hy play. His trashtalking is among the funniest in the world. Even when he’s playing a serious match, he can be a total fag at times, fag in a good funny way.

How’s my OpenGL project? Right now I’m just cleaning things up…that’s all I can do…adding features and stuff, nothing too tough. Heber’s the one teaching me everything really. At least, his codes does. I’m trying to enjoy the ‘break’ now and I bet you that Heber is too (he’s probably meditating in some holy mountain in the himalayas now).

Now all I wish is a nice PC game…my joypad needs to rest.