How are things going?

I'm working on getting a job at Lowe's. That's most of my excitement lately.

Good luck on the job.

Things are going ok here... frustratingly slow.  I made some important engine decisions over spring break (in April) to finalize some "what will be and what won't be".  Meant to make a big post about it but wanted to finalize some things and shoot some video first.  Well, here we are so many weeks later and my weekends have not been my own.

On the other hand, I've been participating in an only "Music Weeklies" challenge... so I finally put a bunch of music up on SoundCloud.
https://soundcloud.com/paul-speed-124748777

How are things going?

I'm working on getting a job at Lowe's. That's most of my excitement lately.

Reworld seems interesting.

mythruna.game-host.org

is this game server still active!

I had to take it down some time back to steal a part.  I've since (finally!) put the part back but I haven't reconnected it to the network yet.

I hope to have it back online soon but I don't know what "soon" means exactly... and it's all relative.  Since someone has complained again maybe I will finally get to it this weekend.

Sorry for the trouble.

mythruna.game-host.org

is this game server still active!

when i want to connect to the server i got following error message:

Code:

Uncaught exception from thread:Thread[LWJGL Renderer Thread,5,main]
java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out: connect
at java.net.DualStackPlainSocketImpl.connect0(Native Method)
at java.net.DualStackPlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Unknown Source)
at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.doConnect(Unknown Source)
at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(Unknown Source)
at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)
at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Unknown Source)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Unknown Source)
at java.net.Socket.<init>(Unknown Source)
at java.net.Socket.<init>(Unknown Source)
at com.jme3.network.kernel.tcp.SocketConnector.<init>(SocketConnector.java:66)
at com.jme3.network.Network.connectToServer(Network.java:166)
at com.jme3.network.Network.connectToServer(Network.java:142)
at mythruna.client.net.LoginClient.<init>(LoginClient.java:57)
at mythruna.client.MainMenuState.connect(MainMenuState.java:194)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at de.lessvoid.nifty.NiftyMethodInvoker.callMethod(NiftyMethodInvoker.java:145)
at de.lessvoid.nifty.NiftyMethodInvoker.performInvoke(NiftyMethodInvoker.java:108)
at de.lessvoid.nifty.Nifty$DelayedMethodInvoke.perform(Nifty.java:1176)
at de.lessvoid.nifty.Nifty.invokeMethods(Nifty.java:1154)
at de.lessvoid.nifty.Nifty.handleDynamicElements(Nifty.java:312)
at de.lessvoid.nifty.Nifty.access$1500(Nifty.java:73)
at de.lessvoid.nifty.Nifty$NiftyInputConsumerImpl.processEvent(Nifty.java:1371)
at de.lessvoid.nifty.Nifty$NiftyInputConsumerImpl.processMouseEvent(Nifty.java:1329)
at com.jme3.niftygui.InputSystemJme.onMouseButtonEventQueued(InputSystemJme.java:161)
at com.jme3.niftygui.InputSystemJme.forwardEvents(InputSystemJme.java:236)
at de.lessvoid.nifty.Nifty.update(Nifty.java:248)
at com.jme3.niftygui.InputSystemJme.endInput(InputSystemJme.java:92)
at com.jme3.input.InputManager.processQueue(InputManager.java:787)
at com.jme3.input.InputManager.update(InputManager.java:851)
at com.jme3.app.Application.update(Application.java:605)
at com.jme3.app.SimpleApplication.update(SimpleApplication.java:233)
at com.jme3.system.lwjgl.LwjglAbstractDisplay.runLoop(LwjglAbstractDisplay.java:149)
at com.jme3.system.lwjgl.LwjglDisplay.runLoop(LwjglDisplay.java:182)
at com.jme3.system.lwjgl.LwjglAbstractDisplay.run(LwjglAbstractDisplay.java:223)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

Build version:20120627

Memory usage:
Working memory: 15% (23357584/154140672)  VM Max: 4% (23357584/477626368)

Rendering caps:
    FrameBuffer
    FrameBufferMRT
    FrameBufferMultisample
    TextureMultisample
    OpenGL20
    OpenGL21
    OpenGL30
    OpenGL31
    OpenGL32
    ARBprogram
    GLSL100
    GLSL110
    GLSL120
    GLSL130
    GLSL140
    GLSL150
    VertexTextureFetch
    TextureArray
    TextureBuffer
    FloatTexture
    FloatColorBuffer
    FloatDepthBuffer
    PackedFloatTexture
    SharedExponentTexture
    PackedFloatColorBuffer
    TextureCompressionLATC
    NonPowerOfTwoTextures
    MeshInstancing
    VertexBufferArray

Statistics:
  Vertices = 468
  Triangles = 234
  Uniforms = 110
  Objects = 58
  Shaders (S) = 15
  Shaders (F) = 6
  Shaders (M) = 6
  Textures (S) = 15
  Textures (F) = 12
  Textures (M) = 14
  FrameBuffers (S) = 5
  FrameBuffers (F) = 4
  FrameBuffers (M) = 4
Application settings:
DepthBits = 24
UseInput = true
FrameRate = -1
DisableJoysticks = true
AudioRenderer = LWJGL
VSync = true
Samples = 8
StencilBits = 0
Renderer = LWJGL-OpenGL2
Frequency = 75
Height = 1080
Fullscreen = true
BitsPerPixel = 32
Width = 1920

Display adapter information:
Adapter:C:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nvmii.inf_amd64_d0b3840b34bb018f\nvldumdx.dll,C:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nvmii.inf_amd64_d0b3840b34bb018f\nvldumdx.dll,C:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nvmii.inf_amd64_d0b3840b34bb018f\nvldumdx.dll,C:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nvmii.inf_amd64_d0b3840b34bb018f\nvldumdx.dll
Driver Version:null
Vendor:NVIDIA Corporation
Version:4.6.0 NVIDIA 417.22
Renderer:GeForce GTX 980M/PCIe/SSE2
GLSL Ver:4.60 NVIDIA

"This server could not prove that it is mythruna.com; its security certificate expired 122 days ago. This may be caused by a misconfiguration or an attacker intercepting your connection. "

I don't know if you've been getting this or not but this error has been happening lately. NBD, but thought you should know.

Yeah, someone else pointed it out also.  The cert has expired and I'm not in a position to renew it right now.

"This server could not prove that it is mythruna.com; its security certificate expired 122 days ago. This may be caused by a misconfiguration or an attacker intercepting your connection. "

I don't know if you've been getting this or not but this error has been happening lately. NBD, but thought you should know.

In honor of going a month without a single post, I suggest a dust mechanic that slowly makes abandoned buildings dusty as this train seat.

One of my very first software development jobs, a bunch of us worked in one relatively small room with no partitions or anything.  The guy who sat in the desk in the middle of the room was pretty funny sometimes.  Like, randomly just blurting out, "Hey guys, if I had my own office then I could sit here without any pants and no one would know."

Anyway, one day he was crawling out from under his desk after running some cables and smack the seat of his chair.  Puffs of dust came out as will happen with almost any chair.  He pointed and said, "Farts of Christmas past..."

I still chuckle about that sometimes.

Speaking of game mechanics, this video shows some pretty neat properties of fire, electricity and light that might make for some interesting interactions and features. Namely, the idea of using nonvisible light and electricity being able to 'spread' through fire, in a sense, due to the ionization of the air.

In honor of going a month without a single post, I suggest a dust mechanic that slowly makes abandoned buildings dusty as this train seat.