My Work

A little progress in the editor tool, networks tutorial about the IIIt's network. Played quake with spiter bot, warcraft vs normal(orcs) lost and then realized that ive' got to attack without break which lead me towinning again :). Finally had a bath after 2 days..?? nah.. dont' remember...created presentation for networks tutorial. Should work on editor..!!! reading mails is taking much of my time. Check out this website.. this guy did an awsome job with zbrush and maya http://www.3dadam.com/resume.php found it from 3dtotal.com its' a wonderful site for getting hold of new work by many artists and ofcourse many cg movies as well. Sech gave me a wonderful advice rather few words of wisdom regarding my mad love for creating games by foregoing the work im' supposed to do.. so im' kinda more stable than before :) by the way.. the words go like.. "GREAT.. I TOO WANT TO DO A LOT OF MATH AND READ A LOT OF PAPERS WITHOUT HAVING TO DEAL WITH THE OCR BUT THEN THIS ...

It was like a whole gaming day today.played all quake for about 1.30hrs early in the evening... and then Tiger calls me up and says that he is on campus and invited me to play WC i accepted the invitation.. i was very eager to play warcraft. So we started off with the boring games against the computers. Then i proposed that we play 1v1.. tiger and i played against each other.. and he defeated me badly.. i did not know what i was doing.. i was wasting time in the game and all that.. any way the fun part was when we began playing the 2v2 :) me + tiger vs 2 more.. those games rocked one tower rush, one normal army rush, and then finally against sham and mouli i went and destroyed his farms :)) it was really fun to play. And finally when i was about the leave to hostel i wanted to give one last try to that py2exe thing and why the hell does it have to bug me so much. So came to cvit and started working on it. Guess what.. could not do anything about it :( still the same problem. Then all...

Journel of Graphics tools is my next target :) have to write a journel paper explaining the tool ive' developed. The most frustrating part is that i have to change the code again for supporting other file formats like povray, point to point correspondence etc. Still have to get started with my thesis work, did not work much on that yet. Lessons learnt from pyweek... features of game engine are not important.. only the game play is important. The code need not be generic, it has to be playable. the only things that matter are looks and fun of the game. Will have to forget about pyweek soon and start concentrating on my work. It's not like i was the least in the lot... :) at least im' in the top 10 entries.. :) there were about 120 or so entries at the beginning of the contest.. then finally it was 25 teams which actually could submit something.... 7th position out of 25 is not that bad :)

The result from pyweek is out finally. It is kinda funny way of judging.. the games... its' ok that peer entrants will be rating the game.. infact this is a very good idea.. but then.. there is no compulsory rule that every entrant should rate all the others i think that really effects the outcome of the results... any way i lost in this game programming competetion... funny coz.. i thought we did the most we could do .... used python to its limits.. actually python is not meant to be used for fps games and all but we did all kinds' of damn' optimizations and got a reasonable fps....seems like python users dont' like fps games. I know people might think that im' writing such remarks just because i did not manage to get any position in the competetion.. well they are right. I don't think i will be participating in any of the game designing competetions any more.. its' kinda painful to see my games going down to some silly lame ass 2D games. Life just isnt...

Today was the most exiting day. Completed coding for pyweek1 a game designing contest. Created a FPS in python using pygame and pyOpenGL :)) it was very alarming to me at first, but then.. python proved to be faster than i thought it actually is. We could actually get around 120fps in the game. The ncc paper deadline is 5th sep and im' not even ready with the final 5 pages :( i dont' know what to put in the refs and not sure what to do.. just editing what ever prof told me. Hope ill' send my first paper. Swamy adviced me to make a website for my games and send prof a mail telling him about my latest advances. Im' really not sure if my prof would like this. But iv'e decided ill' do it, after ive' got nothing to loose in it. Just showing him what i have been doing besides thesis work.