So I finally started working on this project more often than once every two months.
And stuff is getting done, after ~1 week working every other day we already have a basic — yet good enough for now — inventory system. Not complete, only object pick up is working for now. With object thumbnails and all.
Now the bad side of things, thanks to Cruz, who finally erased his whiteboard a couple months ago and doing so erased the little work we had already done as far as names, we had the name of the game, the name of the town where the game takes place, couple other names I can’t recall and a little start on the game…hmmm, what should I call it?…mythology?
The best part? None of us wrote that stuff on paper, since during the brainstorm we used the whiteboard we didn’t even think about copying it to paper.
What a great Dev. Team…aren’t we?
Only started working on the programming side because I felt frustrated with how bad I am at 3D modelling, lack of ideas and lack of reference pictures/photos. Sure, the internet is filled with pictures of every thing you can imagine, but I have very specific ideas that pretty much require me to pick my camera, go around searching and if found photograph stuff.
From those requirements, two problems arise:
Going outside and roam around searching for stuff –> It’s winter for fuck sake…unless I can photograph shit from inside my car, winter is a big problem, mostly because of rain, rain + me + camera…you get the idea.
Photographing stuff –> It could be only that I’m terrible at photography (and I am), but the biggest problem in this case is that my old crappy camera (and I mean crappy, it’s a Benq DC-C40) is not working very well since it eats batteries pretty quickly and even if I had the brilliant idea of using my cell phone to photograph things (well, I don’t really need lots of detail) the damned thing is getting crazy, since it sometimes says the battery is empty when it is in fact full or pretty close to full, tested with a multimeter and it sometimes claims it’s empty even when the voltage is at ~3.9v, sometimes higher.