Q:What ever happened to that Desktop Playground thing you were working on?

mariobro123587

I still have it, but I ran into some problems with its reliability and felt it wasn’t stable enough for release. I want to revisit it eventually though.

On spring break I had a bunch of free time that probably should have been spent doing important things. Nope! But I did update the rollercoaster GMod addon with a bunch of new stuff and bugfixes.

Here’s the full changelog:
-Supports saving with garry’s saving scheme
-Persistence support
-Tires/chains now drawn as opaque
-Right clicking with the cart creator will place a train at that specific node
-Fixed screaming and moved code to use the net library
-Updating a node’s tracktype (and not roll) will not invalidate it
-Reload copies selected node settings
-Fixed error when spawning a cart with certain models
-Fixed not being able to undo trains
-Fixed supports for wood gen type not taking into account other tracks
-Fixed nodes suddenly becoming cans
-Set node transmit state to TRANSMIT_ALWAYS, should fix massive tracks only half-building
-Added coaster_autobuild (also available in perfomance panel) to toggle automatically building the mesh
-Added new Vekoma track type
-Added coroutines, no more track freezing!
-Added slider tothe perfomance panel to control how many steps to generate per frame via coroutines.
-Fixed minor performance issue when dragging a node
-Fixed error when trying to set the combobox to an invalid tracktype
-Fixed track list being unreliable in regards to owners/clicking
-Tried (?) making carts lag less.
-Connecting players should have their tracks refresh clientside in a proper hook now
-Minor bugfixes

Gravity Car

It’s not actually gravity car. I lied.

Although, I am working on an engine in C# (using OpenTK). I’m rather proud, as I’ve accomplished a lot (seriously like a frickload) more than previous attempts. Currently I have implemented Farseer physics, bass.net audio (and with that positional audio), shadowmapping, normal mapping, specularity (spec maps are on my todolist), and a basic entity system.

It’s evolved over the past few months, and I hope to see it evolve more.

First, just basic rendering of VBOs using openGL’s fixed pipeline

Then some physics, an entity system, and a basic .obj loader later:

Convert everything to stop using opengl’s fixed pipeline and sprinkle some lighting in between
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In the most unartistic manner possible, carefully sprinkle some specularity, normal maps, and shadow mapping.
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Tada! I’m still working on this. If you want to tell me how I’m doing everything wrong, all the code is here: https://github.com/Foohy/gravity_car

enjoy this wonderfully crafted short film, which shows how a simple cinema gamemode may help defeat the struggle in modern day society of watching videos with loved ones.

User Idle Process - Automate Starting a Process Upon System Idle

It’s a bit specific, but once the user goes idle for a certain amount of time, it starts a (user specified) list of programs with optional arguments. When the user comes back, those processes are (optionally) shut down.

Download: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1179448/omgexe/UserIdleProcess.exe

A little mini-gamemode me and Sunabouzu made in like 4 days because he really liked that one mario party minigame.

It’s available in GMod 13’s workshop here.

This thing took a while, but it’s finally out there (I should release things more often!)

All of the code is available here on github here: https://github.com/Foohy/gm-rollercoaster

I think they exaggerated some aspects a little too much.

I’m using the catmull-rom spline algorithm to plot the positions along the track which the cart rides. The physics is simply just increasing/decreasing velocity depending on the angle of the car.

Eventually I want to add more complex tracks, like banked turns and loopdy loops, as well as more structures like a “home station” (Where the cart stops to let people off/on) and a booster track (to accelerate the cart to hilariously fast speeds).

TL;DR: LOTS TO DO.

New Release: Window Manager

A friend of mine wanted a little utility to be able to remove the border from any window.

Main Window

He really liked it so I decided I’d post it here if anyone else wanted it: Clicky

And the source for those interested: Clicktastic (There are some nasty bits in there, I’m still probably going to be updating this program with more little tweaks later on)