| Today we had record heat in St. Louis, a high of 104 when it would normally be 87. The AC at work (damaged by hail from several weeks ago) had severe difficulty, apparently died altogether at one point, and it climbed into the upper 80's in the data center.
At 6:30 PM it was still 95 outside. At 7:45 PM, dusk advanced to the stage where it's just sort of a greyish light, it's still 92 with a heat index (which Jeff doesn't quite believe in) of 104.
St. Louis must have been the inspiration for DragonRealms' five seasons (in the original "bigtaco" design doc): Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer, and Hell.
 Trees work now, more or less. What a struggle! Five days ago I had no idea where to start. Three days ago I couldn't even load a tree into the engine without untraceable crashes. Two days ago, the engine ran but nothing visibly rendered. Yesterday, trunks were visible. Today, fronds and leaves. The leaves actually worked 95% right on the very first try, almost as if to make up for the rest of the trouble. They even rock gently with the wind despite no effort on my part to set that up yet. How cool is that?
Now that it works I have to make it right so they render efficiently, do all the LOD stuff and straighten out the lightning. This is the fun part! 3D graphics programming hurts most when you have no visual feedback. :)
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Dave @ 08/27/2003 08:39 AM CST wrote:
...and straighten out the LIGHTING. Not lightning, which should be kind of crooked. :)
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