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After posting about CGTrader.com, I did more digging, and dug up this awesome site… sketchfab.com! Some superb content here – but more awesomely than that – a full on 3D viewer! This means my intended ‘view our models’ issue (the… Read More »
This week I have been (largely) working on improving the autopilot course plotting, notably to improve the visuals when docking/undocking for both the player and NPC’s. I got fed up of flying through the station geometry, and being taken on… Read More »
Very little on the development front this week – other than a handful of new concerns to be concerned by. I’ve been considering upgrading the desktop dev environment for a while, and this week has seen two major updates… 1)… Read More »
This past week has been spent chasing down a really weird bug I have with node instancing in the scene for docking. For a video, I wanted to get vessels to at least align to the docking bay floors correctly,… Read More »
Well, it’s been an interesting week… My main site (maksw.com) got hacked by some (supposedly) Japanese son-of-a-b*tch, who injected 20,000+ files containing total crap relating to Adidas, Nike, and god knows what else products, filling up my web storage space… Read More »
Phew! It’s been a big week for development in Dominium, so bear with me… Firstly, Insurmountable Odds is now back from it’s guaranteed-honest-guv last proof read. Wendy has spotted more minor errors which I’ll now clean up. I’ve also done… Read More »
I admit I have derailed myself somewhat from the NPC work of getting them to dock en masse, but trust me it’s worthy and with the best intentions at heart 😉 It’s all aligned to getting back to the NPC’s… Read More »
… well, they are on the way at least 😉 So the past week or so has been about the Non-player Character behaviours. The NPC’s are controlled by Finite State Machines at present, with basic state controllers which will grow… Read More »
… yes indeedy. Apologies to anyone champing for dev updates – but right now I’m committed to finaling the book ready to get it into the epub phase. I’ve chopped it up, all my annotations have been remedied, and the… Read More »
Ok, so it probably won’t look quite so ‘awesome’ when you view the video I’m afraid – but it’s helped me out no end already 🙂 I bring you… Buttons! There’s also a brief glimpse of one of the internal… Read More »





















