Christine.

Almost finished this now.

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Matthew Leverton. What do I win?

Let me just say that is an epic avatar. Nice work.

ahah, I saw the "18+" button and I assumed the vape things would be covered in naked chicks or something. "Risky Click of the Day"

I forgot it was just because they're smoking paraphernalia.

I'm still trying to figure out what problem(s) they solve better than not.

Seriously?! What have you been doing for jobs for the last two decades?

- Anything with C# uses datatables.
- Data tables support databindings. That means they automatically update when the data changes, and your cursor selecting one entry can automatically change whatever actual data is.
- Note that the data VIEWED doesn't have to be in the same format as the DATA ITSELF. It could be across multiple tables.
- Databindings/tables can be SQL queries instead of raw data.

And now with invoices...

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There's definitely some math involved, but once you start to understand some basic concepts and finally find a use for the Pythagorean theorem your math teacher kept pushing on to you, it can be rewarding. It can also make your head explode. It's amazing how much more you have to do with just one extra dimension. It's also interesting just how slow even modern hardware still is when it does 3D. There is a lot the programmer has to do to cull out; a lot of extra polygons to minimize what the computer has to render in order to make the game reasonably fast. You have to cull out what is just off the edge of your view (frustum culling), you have to cull out the polygons which face away from the user which they do not see (backface culling), you have to take into account the polygons which cannot be seen because of some other object blocking them (occlusion culling), then there's LOD (level of detail) which you lower as things get farther away, including just flat images at a far distance that turn into more detailed objects as you get closer. If you do all of this, you may get a reasonable frame rate with a detailed scene. If we ever invent a fast system bus, that would solve a lot of our problems.

I just got done watching an interesting series of videos where the guy takes apart and recreates an old game called "Dangerous Dave". He goes over programming it from scratch, including how to extract the original graphics from the original executable. He decided to code it in C89, to stick with the same C they would have used back then, with Notepad++ to code with and a makefile to compile. All of the game code is in ONE large file. It was a really interesting series to follow and could give some people an idea on how to do such a game. He hasn't gotten many views yet which is too bad as much of the programming applies to any language. The fact that it is done in C means it should be easier for people to port to their favourite language. In any event, I liked it.

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. He done a great job on them, I was surprised to see the low view count. I tried to make it a point to like and comment on each video somehow.

Messing around with MakeHuman. It's a free, open source 3D program for creating 3D models of humans. There are plug-ins for Blender where you can import them into that, or save as other formats like Wavefront OBJs for use in your games etc. Neat stuff. I may use it to create a model for a 2D game, import it into Blender and further work on the animations then render them for the game.

You can grab it here...
http://www.makehumancommunity.org

There's also more clothing and such available that others have created you can grab for it...
http://www.makehumancommunity.org/clothesgallery.html

This is a quick render I done with it using default models and clothes...
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Here's a bunch of supreme posts by the progenitors :

https://www.allegro.cc/forums/thread/176841/177260#target

Yeah, it's pretty cool. I discovered it a week or so ago when we were about to be hit by an ex tropical cyclone. The wind and rain that day was crazy. We got off light here, but the area I'm moving to in a couple of weeks had lots of flooding and rivers springing up out of nowhere.

random update:

How's this for a LoC value:

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Fate smite.

^^