Geiodo

Yesterday I was looking around for hacks for a game called Shell Shock Live. I, sadly, did not find any

However… I did come across an idea to create an overlay “Ruler” for Shell Shock Live, and, taking that idea to heart, I started taking measurements of the game. For those of you who want those measurements for their OWN ruler systems, here they are:

Speed: always power/100*26. Exact calculation depending upon angle into both axis goes like this: Create point at (power/100*26, 0) and rotate by angle. EXACT formula is like this:

X velocity:  speed * Cos((PI/180) * angle)

Y velocity:  speed * Sin((PI/180) * angle)

speed being power/100*26

angle being in degrees.

Then, every tick, 0.7 is subtracted from the y velocity, inducing gravity. This IS 0.7, 0.75 causes over gravity. I fine tuned it and did very precise measurements! Same goes with 26 as the max speed rather than 25.

Finally, wind… Still working on it, BUT, the game adds about wind/15*0.14 each frame.

THen, you need only do a for loop, and each iteration of the for loop counts both as a frame, and a point to plot. Here is a video of the end result in a game:

[Insert Demo Here] (Must upload it)

Please note, however, that this was designed specifically for my machine. I have special settings changed that allow me to take widgets out of the dashboard. If I get enough comments requesting this (Like, maybe, ten?) I’ll see what I can do about making a PC/mac compatible version that runs on default systems. However, the controls are still pretty cantankerous!

Sorry I haven’t posted in a few days… Going to fix that soon!

Anyways, in the mean time, here is the first release of Sunday Spam…  What is sunday Spam? It is where I rack up all the spam since the last sunday, and give to you the best of the best through an awards system Don’t worry, anything obscene or inappropriate will be disqualified.

The awards are:

• Most links in a spam comment
• Longest spam comment
• Shortest spam comment
• Most generic spam comment
• Least fitting spam comment
• Nicest spam comment
• Meanest spam comment
• Spam comment with worst grammar
• Spam comment with best grammar

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So, I’ve been looking through the visitor logs, and, for the first time, someone found me through google! They were searching for how to get the battery level IOs I believe… However, all they found was my post complaining about the OSX docs, NOT how to USE the OSX docs…

I’d like to change that Soo… I think I’m going to be giving little tutorials now and then on semi-to-fully-popular topics relating to the programming world

I just noticed the “Just Another Word press site” tagline… *awkward, default settings*

I kind of like it, lol, way better than my old tagline, that’s for sure…

Words cannot describe this:

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The NSProgressIndicator is one of those white glossy bars with diagonal blue stripes moving horizontally. My god, these things are tedious.

I am attempting to give BetterBattery a way to display when charging. I decided to go with a good old progress indicator. HTe idea was to make it transparent over the main status indicator. My plan failed miserably…

In order to start these things spinning, you have to start a coroutine by calling StartAnimating on them. Simple enough. But wait! Doing that overrides transparency… That means it can either be transparent, or spin.

Luckily, it does have a method called Animate. That just causes the bar to move by one step. Simple enough ,great even. It worked like a charm, I just started my own coroutine and animated it there, all the while setting the transparency to be correct. Well… Guess what? Animate is deprecated! I can’t rely on deprecated code, and there is no alternative. That one went out the window, and it even worked!

In desperation, I decided to go with a somewhat complicated approach: Surround the indicator with an NSView, animate the indicator, and apply transparency to the NSView. Now the damn thing won’t even spin! (Spin = move. It’s based on those spinny things outside old barber shops)

Sometimes Cocoa really gets on my nerves…

Right around the time of the whole Geiodo going down thing, I was thinking about how to get this blog seen. It occured to me that someone had once “stumbled” this webpage in the past, and that made me start thinking: Maybe I should check out StumbleUpon and re-stubmle my page. To my immediate amazement, Stumble Upon dragged me into a world of amazement… Uhh. Yeah. Sort of an infinite loop, just kept getting better. Appearantly, StumbleUpon is designed to bring the best of the web to YOU. And BOY did it.. I’ve been having real fun stumbling around, it’s really a gem.

Anyways, if you haven’t tried or even heard of StumbleUpon, do yourself a favor, and check it out. BE SURE TO LIKE GEIODO IF/WHEN YOU SEE IT! !

Woo! Yay! Several days it took, but, but! Geiodo is back up, and ready for action. Now you can actually comment! No wonder all those spam bots had stopped spamming me… lol

The permalinks to my posts aren’t working

Hi, I am editing this post rather than posting anew. I posted this because… Permalinks were broken, making commenting, and individual post viewing impossible.

I suspected started ages ago, and in ever noticed it, on one of my bouts of WP core messing. I tried to fix it this morning completely breaking my WP installation.

I had long been using multiblog on 2.9.2 (VERY outdated), and, the combination of unstable technology and old version number has really held me back. I am finally in a space where I understand enough about WP to begin managing it myself. (Dad did the managing in the past) With all the above stated… It is time to drop multi-blog and finally upgrade.

Due to the nature of the break, I have to COMPLETELY delete my blog’s internal systems and reinstall them, and hope to god that my backups work. That is what I did here, minus the deleting part. I installed wordpress on this domain and restored my posts from a backup. It’s worked great! That means I can move on to do the real deal.

GREEN:
Completed

YELLOW:
On hold or in progress

RED:
Incomplete

completed (And update this post as I complete more)

• First off, test the concept in a separate domain
• Next, go back to the old domain, and organize the MESS that I have on the main directory into two groups: Old WP files, and, miscellaneous stuff.
• Next, create a new database for the new system. (Will keep old one around just in case)
• After that… I will need to reinstall wordpress on the old domain. NORMAL wordpress this time
• Finally, I will need to carefully, CAREFULLY, install my backups. I’ve decided to copy over form this site, so, comments will be restored.
• Move all the plugin and theme files form the old WP files to the new installation.
• Last, but not least, restore the categories, which, sadly will not be taken into the backup. I suspect them as a possible source, and they need to be redone.

Further down the road:

After I have accomplished this, I will go back to work on BetterBattery for a while. I really need it ,and just today I came across the issue which it was meant to fix.

Once I get BetterBattery finished and published, it will be time to take a look at space.geiodo.com, which will still be running multiblog. I will do the same project, though, THAT installation is a lot cleaner, so no organizations, 404 redirects, etc. In fact, I don’t even want any of the old content. (Though, a lot of it is concept material which I want to keep for game conceptualization purposes, so I will likely be doing a backup anyhow)

Anyways, that’s the plan. Off to work!

Geiodo (say “GEE-OH-DOH!”) is a place about what I find fun and interesting.  You can also find me at www.thegreatmischiefexchange.com – but I like Geiodo.