Setup and ready to do more blogging

Yay, after all this time I’ve managed to pull myself together again and create another blogger for myself. Having already gotten a blogspot page I might aswell do a wordpress, and well who knows I might eventually grow more fond of wordpress to use it more than blogspot.

Well thats just a short intro. There will be alot of changes soon.

Randomness Again

Here’s my usual random stuff I gather up in the week. I usually do this at the end of the week but I want to get my mind off work for the moment so I got some random stuff.

Firstly if you guys use GIMP here’s a really neat plug-in that allows you to scale and resize an image without loosing image details and keeps the image from distoring.
Video <- click here to see it. The plug-in for GIMP can be download from their main page http://liquidrescale.wikidot.com/. Really would recommend checking it out.

Okay so I checked my mail yesterday and one of my friends sent me this vid. I thought waahey she’s showing me a video of herself and quoted on the e-mail title. After checking the link and opening up a video, I thought well that girl on the video is hot but I’ve not seen her before. Then she starts talking and then eventually shows a picture with me in it and I pretty much stunned. Anyways to cut it short it was a cool prank to setup, but if you’re a she bitch and would like to prank on your helpless male friend then go to this page http://www.pepsi.co.uk/tattoo/.

Here’s another one to look into if you’d like to soft-mod your original Xbox to an awesome media center with good YouTube support. Getting the other stuff is cheap and hassle free. Anyways check here.

And finally some nice machinima made by Soosdon. Its just awesome.

You might need to download a plug-in to run the vid. If you get it running double-click to set to fullscreen.

Cya peops

[[RonEnix]]: Something other than work!

[[RonEnix]]: Something other than work!

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Something other than work!

Well I guess I can kinda brag about it but I’m happy that I got my Madcatz Halo3 faceplate + Skin Bundle Pack. It kinda gives some certain important look to the my X360 as you stare at it.

This is the faceplate I got. Look really nice. Had a hard time getting the sticky side skins on though but its worth it. Plus I needed a new replace for my front faceplate since the USB cover just does not work what so ever. Will probably put up some pic, but meh, if I can be bothered to do it. ^_^

Image below if site doesn’t open.

Cya peops.

It’s been a while.

Well I’m back to blogging from now, due mainly to the fact that I’m starting my L3 Project this year and hope to be making progress on it and jotting down on this blog my progress through the whole project.

Also throughout this year I’ll be maintaining info on the end year engine that our module is currently working us to.
Just to start off firstly the engine itself. The engine at the moment only has one system for rendering. The whole point of the module is ti basically work and program other systems that collate together to make the engine, such as the physics and networking. Now all these don’t need to be programmed from scratch as there are alot of middleware available which can be used towards a nice engine at the end.
First purely focusing on the engine architecture/design and implementing the rendering engine. The rendering system that must be used is OGRE 3D. Will be keeping some up-to-date info on that as I progress through development.

As for the final year project, I’m basing my acedemic project in AI for games (of course). Since I’ve been working with alot of FSMs (Finate State Machines) I’d love a different approach to AI and therefore I’m be researching more into 2 methods: Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic, and creating a hybrid AI system of the two for Neuro-Fuzzy.

As for the implementation I wish to create a simple group versus group AI interactions using the hybrid system for a typical fantasy/role-playing environment where each of the members in the group will have a different role towards winning a group battle and their actions depends on their class and what they are capable of doing. Just to note that there is alot of MMO game influence that’s affected this and as many of you know, I used to play World Of Worldcraft, and everyone who’s played an MMO must have heard of the game, and also HALO 3. Yes! that game! Has semi-inspired me to see how hording AIs work together to make a fun and impressive AI.

So in theory think of battles of say 5 versus 5, AI vs AI or Players vs AI where there different characters with different class and playing style. This is where I want to focus this hybrid neuro-fuzzy system to implement into individual npcs that interact with one another and help each other to win battles.

So far this is just theory and in my own opinion the scope of this project or the size might be too big in a span of less than a years work for the project. I have still yet to talk for support on my idea and of course the project proposal is due in the week beginning the 8th of this month so I’m cutting time almost to the last minute. Will be posting more info on that.

As for the blog site itself, I will do my very best to get all info up and update it regularly. Also I’ll be putting up all the work I have done in the past. I’ve decided I’ll bother with a proper website domain after I’ve graduated as I dont wanna focus much on making the site, even though I have already created my template and design of the site, I just don’t want any hassle at the momemt.

Cya peops and you just got hit by a block of text.