Ups and Downs
All projects have ups
and downs and in the last few weeks Jade members have been hit by work, examns
and all sort of boring "Real Life" (TM) things. To be honest, our
development pace on summer was totally crazy, with Reed and Jader writting code
faster than any of us would have dreamt. Jade 2 advanced a lot during those
months and now it seems we are going to move at a more normal development
speed.
And what am I doing now? After
"finishing" the VFS (it lacks things here and there) I have moved to
complete input adding mouse movement. Half of it is finished now and the other
half will be when I start using it in the InputTransform class to handle transformations using mouse input. gonzo is also working on
that area for a little app he is doing so I suppose this will be finished
pretty soon (I'm aiming for 1 week).
After that I will
probably start reviewing Jade 2 internals to try to understand the engine architecture
and why things are done like they are. While I have worked mostly in AI and
Utility code until now with Jader and Reed designing Core and
Graphics, finally I'll have to study the inner workings of the engine. I
would have loved to continue working in non-graphics code but it seems you can
avoid your destiny only for so long :)
And to finish something
totally unrelated to Jade or coding: some pictures of my trip to Japan, an amazing place to visit
(100% recommended).
Akihabara in Tokyo, the "Electric Town", full of gadgets and other things geeks love.
Mount Fuji from the Fuji Go Ko (Fuji Five Lakes). The small mountain below Fuji is a parasite volcano (do not remember the exact name).
A garden in Nikko (japanese gardens are truly breath-taking sights).
A Pagoda in Kyoto, the second highest in Japan if I remember right. A pitty we couldn't see the inside.
This is probably a "classic" pic if you go to Nara: one of their "lovely" deers (you should see what happens if you have deer-food and you don't give it to them).
A wooden statue in Nara also. The picture doesn't make them justice at all, they are amazing!
I hope you enjoyed the pics!