Beta Milestone

Hello everyone,

Well. Today was the first day of working on our Beta Milestone. I got a little bit of work done today. I implemented player collision to the camera planes, that way when we get multiplayer up and going, the players wont be able to leave the screen.

I also started working on my next problem – Making the bugs stop chasing the player when the player is out of line of sight, but it’s weird. They’re stopping when the player presses up against the wall.

I had like 20 ants charging at me, I press against the wall, they all stop.

So I played an amusing little game of Red Light Green Light. lol.

The red circles are where the ants ‘eyes’ are, and the red sphere under the player is where the player is. I draw a straight line between the eyes of the ant and the player, and unless a wall intersects the line, the ant SHOULD be able to see the player. But for some reason when I press against the wall, they can’t see him. Not sure what’s going on with that yet.

It’s weird. But yea. That’s what’s on my plate tomorrow.

Anne Hathaway is so beautiful. There’s some sort of movie of hers coming out lately and so she’s being advertised on TV a lot. And damn. She is just… beautiful.

I hate that I am so weak against dark haired dark eyed beauties.

She distracts me from this entry!

One of my team mates had me laughing so much today.

While we were troubleshooting the Ant Line of Sight (LOS) issue, he grabbed a piece of paper, folded it in half to represent the Ant’s view frustum, and said “Now pretend there’s a wall here” and then he went to put his hand in front of the folded paper, but when his hand touched the paper he goes “Ack! Paper cut!” LOL. I died laughing.

THEN

Later, he goes “What is this? What?” and pulls out a busted tube of super glue out of his pants pocket and says “Ohhhhh… it busted in my pocket.” to which, I had to LOL. Because seriously? Who carries super glue in their pockets?

Followed by “Aaaaaghhh, it’s so sticky and it’s all over me” to which I had to say “That’s what she said” LOL.

Ohhh man… It was just too much. He was a mess today.

Damn you, Anne Hathaway, just show me your boobs and then get off my TV! =

Thanksgiving is coming and everybody is starting to head out of town for vacation… which makes me nervous because we still have Beta milestone to accomplish this month, and the holiday time counts as work time… so we have to make sure we make up all this time we’re slacking for.

That’s why I’ve sadly been working at home too.

Either way, today was a good day. I look forward to more days like this.

~Bruce