http://www.nzboards.com/forums/nzblogs/ New Zealand Boards is a community for kiwis and people from outside new zealand to meet, chat, play arcade games and more. A fun free online New Zealand (Kiwi) Community. en Tue, 13 May 2008 03:25:29 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.nzboards.com/forums/images/lustrous/misc/rss.jpg http://www.nzboards.com/forums/nzblogs/ http://www.nzboards.com/forums/nzblogs/sparklechick/78-okeys.html Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:54:49 GMT Not attempted a blog before so here goes.

Am sitting at my desk eating an apple and typing this ... I'm a girl so can multi task you see. Our receptionist is away so I'm doing her crap work.

It's freezing in our office so everyone is complaining to me.

Erm. External email is taking approx 5 hours to get to us at the moment. Very slack.

Just finished my apple so will finish this too

:woohoo: ]]> Sparklechick http://www.nzboards.com/forums/nzblogs/sparklechick/78-okeys.html http://www.nzboards.com/forums/nzblogs/kall/75-woop-paid-my-loan.html Mon, 27 Nov 2006 07:51:20 GMT So I got a letter from the IRD today.

Unusually, it was not them asking for money!

It all began 2 weeks ago.... *swirly effect*

I was sitting at my desk at work thinking 'Man! I have been paying off that Student Loan for ages!', so I called IRD to ask.

After about 10 minutes of trying to navigate InfoExpress (never use this. It is far from express.), I managed to get a human being, who, after asking me various questions about my Study History, advised my loan was paid, and that I was entitled to a refund.

This would be paid to my bank account within a week or so. Yay!

Now, I get the letter showing the balance.. it was substantial.

At the bottom of the page was a statement: 'IMPORTANT - An interest rate of 6.90% will apply to Student Loan balances.'

After calling the IRD to enquire why my interest was only $0.01CR, I was advised that this only applied to DEBIT loan balances.

Hmm.. doesn't say that anywhere... and why was it that I had to chase them to find out if I had paid my loan off and when to stop deductions?

You haven't heard the last of this. ;) ]]> kall http://www.nzboards.com/forums/nzblogs/kall/75-woop-paid-my-loan.html http://www.nzboards.com/forums/nzblogs/kall/74-thank-god-whatever-painkiller-i-just-took.html Tue, 29 Aug 2006 10:41:17 GMT I think it was Voltaren.. I have a very sore neck, probably related to the 2 hours I spent in a dental chair yesterday. First dentist said I needed urgent work done. His receptionist took my $72 for X-rays and told me my urgent work could be done in 2 weeks. I walked out with the xrays and found another dentist, one who could do the work then and there. Hurrah! Now, pain is blissfully receeding. I think it was Voltaren..

I have a very sore neck, probably related to the 2 hours I spent in a dental chair yesterday.

First dentist said I needed urgent work done. His receptionist took my $72 for X-rays and told me my urgent work could be done in 2 weeks.

I walked out with the xrays and found another dentist, one who could do the work then and there.

Hurrah!

Now, pain is blissfully receeding. ]]> kall http://www.nzboards.com/forums/nzblogs/kall/74-thank-god-whatever-painkiller-i-just-took.html http://www.nzboards.com/forums/nzblogs/kall/73-just-test.html Mon, 02 Jan 2006 11:16:18 GMT I do like this new style.. I do like this new style.. ]]> kall http://www.nzboards.com/forums/nzblogs/kall/73-just-test.html http://www.nzboards.com/forums/nzblogs/jkob/72-all-my-lonesome.html Wed, 21 Sep 2005 09:42:32 GMT I've been single for over six months now and that was from a relationship that only lasted a couple of weeks. I seem to have long breaks in between girlfriends. I have a confidence issue where I find it hard to ask girls out. I'm not sure why.

I sometimes wish that I could just find the person i'm ment to be with. I see all my friends with thier girlfriends and when they talk about them it's kinda depressing. I sometimes think that if i'm to die alone i'd rather die now. I've been thinking of moving to the US where I can get a fresh start and get to know people who don't know me or have heard of me.

I don't know... ]]> JKoB http://www.nzboards.com/forums/nzblogs/jkob/72-all-my-lonesome.html http://www.nzboards.com/forums/nzblogs/ice/70-my-dad.html Thu, 12 May 2005 12:27:04 GMT My Dad was taken to hospital on Saturday morning because he fell on a site on Friday, but couldn't move his legs on Saturday.

He was in traction since Saturday.

I just spoke to my Mom and she's informed me that my Dad will be operated on, tonight.

The specialist he saw gave him two choices, an operation or a wheelchair......

I've always heard if you have an op on your back you are buggered for life........

]]> ICE http://www.nzboards.com/forums/nzblogs/ice/70-my-dad.html http://www.nzboards.com/forums/nzblogs/bella/69-just-test.html Thu, 12 May 2005 11:43:58 GMT Is this working now? Is this working now? ]]> bella http://www.nzboards.com/forums/nzblogs/bella/69-just-test.html http://www.nzboards.com/forums/nzblogs/kall/68-isnt-funny-how.html Wed, 04 May 2005 03:51:27 GMT Blunt razors are the ones that tend to slice your face open as if you had used a cheese grater? Image: http://www.nzboards.com/images/neck.jpg Blunt razors are the ones that tend to slice your face open as if you had used a cheese grater?

]]> kall http://www.nzboards.com/forums/nzblogs/kall/68-isnt-funny-how.html http://www.nzboards.com/forums/nzblogs/kall/67-good-lord-i-think-i-did.html Sun, 13 Feb 2005 23:15:21 GMT I have been wanting someone to code a 'Private Events' modification for vBulletin so as to enable us to have the ability to do the following when creating Events:

• Choose Users or Usergroups to be able to either see or not see the event on the Calendar display
• Make it so those restricted users/groups would be unable to directly enter the URL to the Event
• Make it so the Users would not see the Even if they went to the Day
• Make a thread automatically in a Special Forum, with same permissions as original
• Have a 'Roll Call' where people could indicate they wanted to attend

I have accomplished the first three.

I am most proud of myself. ]]> kall http://www.nzboards.com/forums/nzblogs/kall/67-good-lord-i-think-i-did.html http://www.nzboards.com/forums/nzblogs/nih/66-long-awaited-updated.html Thu, 10 Feb 2005 08:31:55 GMT Well, everything worked out fantastically. So well that I forgot to update this here journal for a while.

Feature after feature has been popping in. It hasn't been without it's agonisingly late nights, so I won't pretend it was easy. But it'd definitely be accurate to describe it as fantastic.

The demo runs much better as an EXE, so I'll place a download on the site and a link to it from here later. ]]> nih http://www.nzboards.com/forums/nzblogs/nih/66-long-awaited-updated.html http://www.nzboards.com/forums/nzblogs/nih/65-finally.html Tue, 01 Feb 2005 10:00:13 GMT When I said it'd be done when it was done? Well, it's done.

Here.

That is, the nasty fucking difficult bits are done. Ironically the solution was SO FREAKING SIMPLE, and worse: I TRIED IT EARLIER, but didn't quite get it right.

Once I had trees and their (very special - see if you can figure it out) shadows mapping onto the world, the rest was easy. For extra fun, try to find the sign. It's meant to start in the same place each time, but it doesn't. ]]> nih http://www.nzboards.com/forums/nzblogs/nih/65-finally.html http://www.nzboards.com/forums/nzblogs/kall/64-wheeeeeee-i-deleted-my-journal.html Mon, 31 Jan 2005 21:26:43 GMT I wonder if my Avatar will show up now.. I wonder if my Avatar will show up now.. ]]> kall http://www.nzboards.com/forums/nzblogs/kall/64-wheeeeeee-i-deleted-my-journal.html http://www.nzboards.com/forums/nzblogs/nih/63-progress.html Thu, 27 Jan 2005 01:02:25 GMT This development journal is really boring. Unless I can go "WOW NOW WE HAVE DRAGONS!!!!~~!!11!!one!@!~eleven!@!" every second entry or so, I don't see why I'd be keeping it.

Then I remembered I'm doing my best to develop self-centered psychopathic personal traits (the work-boots of corporate personality desirables) so not only do I synthetically not give a shit but I would carefully fake being confused if you weren't all checking my journal for up-to-the-minute updates.

Regardless, you insignificant worms probably want to bathe in my goodness again for a few moments. I can feed your hunger by letting you know that the fantastic thing you've come to know as my little project has been rewritten, although it doesn't quite spin the terrain again yet. I've been a little busy, but true to selected form I've told people I'll help them with things then worked on this instead. Other peoples lives are going to hell in a handbasket and I'm probably making a small profit; if not in a monetary sense then definitely in oneupsmanship. Not that there's any real competition mind you, but I've elected to be a competitive man and I like to see how far above you all I can simulate placing myself.

I fucking pseudo-rock. ]]> nih http://www.nzboards.com/forums/nzblogs/nih/63-progress.html http://www.nzboards.com/forums/nzblogs/nih/62-addenum.html Tue, 25 Jan 2005 22:48:47 GMT Just to close off the last entry a bit more roundly:

Taversn spawning drunks that contina all the code for their own behaviour and 3d objects drawing themselves means development is a lot more structured. I'm fairly new to flash objects so I'm pretty excited. While I've worked with PHP OOP for a year or so now, all my flash stuff has been of the ugly kind. This should be pretty darn neat (and can even scale for speed!) ]]> nih http://www.nzboards.com/forums/nzblogs/nih/62-addenum.html http://www.nzboards.com/forums/nzblogs/nih/61-tree-gets-some-friends.html Tue, 25 Jan 2005 22:44:52 GMT My problems are twofold:

Entire forest of trees are spawning, rotating and depth-sorting. But they're not moving. I tried a whole host of hacks and fixes but it's not quite the same as redesigning it again from the ground up.

Now that I've worked out objects and classes again, bringing the original shitty terrain hack into line will be nice and tidy. Rotation will break as well doing that, but the whole thing needs a good cleanup.

After the above is done I'm going to get it tiling mapsets (so I can reduce the size of the current terrain into manageable bits) and have it load them from the server as needed. Then it'll need a map format of some sort.

I think I'll keep most trees as randomly generated, but also allow for specific placement. This will save me time because I can just give it forest center, size and density.

After that we'll look at bounding maps and stuff. Trees shouldn't appear in rivers and players shouldn't be able to walk through crevasses. The easiest way will probably be to supply a 2-bit image for passable/unpassable and transform offscreen it with the terrain, then just get the pixel colour to test its state.

We can also do simple 3d models at some point. It'd be cute to do flat-shaded polygonal modelling. Polygons would be more flexible than scaled/rotated/skewed textures, but there are drawbacks to both.

Textures can have transparency, which will look great and help add a lot of detail to things.

Polygons are fast and can be a lot more complex.

Either way when all is said and done each object draws itself so there's no reason there can't be a mix of styles in the world, just not a mix per object.

This brings me to particle systems. Although 'thinking particles' are new to consumer-level modellers, they're pretty basic in programming. While you wouldn't want every tree spewing autumn leaves, having a tavern spawn drunks or a forest spawn birds isn't unreasonable. ]]> nih http://www.nzboards.com/forums/nzblogs/nih/61-tree-gets-some-friends.html