PIXEL

Its my 1st attempt at pixeling. What do you reckon?…. Its the avatar of the player in my upcoming game "Tribal". Steal it and witness my wraith noobling.

GMFI

As i guess some of you already know, i recently released GMFI in the dll forum on the GMC. Its a wrapper of about 60 functions of the awesome opensource FreeImage Dll…. FreeImage can convert between 28 different image formats, and also do some snazzy pixel manipulation stuff (contrast,channel swapping,etc)…. should be useful in games aswell as GM paint programs.

I made it because i've decided to include Perpixel bumpmapping (see previous blog) in my game and, inorder to save space, i needed a way of extracting the 5 neccessary greyscale bumpmaps from the usual single normal map. Its not practical to do this in GM because the greyscaling method is based of the hue of the image whereas i need it to work linearly…. ie i need: color = (r+g+b)/3, the hue algorithm is way more complex.

At the moment im writing a function interpretter for it…. so you can write a simple pixel shader, have it compiled, then let it loose on images. Should be way faster than doing it through GM…. although it is truly a bitch ironing out the bugs and making the "language" linient enough. User friendliness… HA, screw that. Yea, who would have thought, im a programmer at heart.

LIFE

Just finished my last exam for the semester, so i've got a month of procrastination ahead of me. The exams were pretty easy…. except for Physics where they throw 6 really obsure problems at you and you have 3 hours to solve them. Apparently, last year, 6 out of about 200 people passed the Physics exam…. obviously they have to scale people back up, but still it was a complete bitch.

TRIBAL

Been toying with the concept of having a randomly generated world, especially since im way better programmer than i am level designer. Would probably be alot of work, but still way cool if it worked.

EDIT: Almost forgot, here's the kind of noob i like (the ass kissing variety):

I also find it funny that he just assumed i came from America, you know its not like 90% of humans arent American…. out wait yes it is.

Cheers,