Games, Sketches, and Thoughts

So what have I done on the last 3 weeks at home? Cooking, sketching, and of course, finishing my game prototype. It’s done but I need to adjust a lot of things to make it more fun. Another new thing is I learn Away3D.

After doing all tutorials (compiling, putting models on screen, rotating them, …), I really like Away3D. Flash 3D is not as I thought Maybe that because I’m already familiar with 3D programming.

Since I’ve done a lot of 3D modelings using Metaseq, I want Away3D to load Metaseq files (MQO). Away3D Lite supports MQO but not the Away3D. So I tried to use Blender to convert the model to obj or Colada, but somehow didn’t work. Almost everything I export from Blender didn’t work (as usual)

Then I found a very nice code at sleepydesign (thanks katopz ) but the code cannot compile on the new Away3D (version 2.4.0/3.4.0 Flash Player 10). It seems that there are some classes that already gone. So I modify the code a little bit and …. tada!

It’s Hiro from my demo game Tokusatsu Agent. Click the image to play the Flash file. Make sure you have Flash Player 10 installed

The code is still not finish. It only able to load embedded model, not from external file/url.  The model above uses 3 texture files and I am still working on the MaterialLibrary part so later I can change the materials after loading the model. Once finish, I will put it on the net

About 2 weeks ago, I saw a post on Kotaku that someone has finally cracked the PC version of Street Fighter 4. Since  then, many new character mods available on the Internet. One of them is a page from Japan, http://sf4mod.wikiwiki.jp/ (in Japanese).

Besides nude Cammy or Chun Li, you can found many other interesting character skins. Some of them are really polished and well made, as if as they’re official DLCs from Capcom. Check out Ninja Vega, Kratos Sagat, Boo Rufus, Doraemon, or even Mahatma Gandhi!

Very creative indeed

On my previous post (fixing a broken wacom pen), I accidentally glued the pen tip to the iron core. The glue was a mess; the iron core, the plastic part, and the pen tip, all sticked together

This causing the Wacom tablet couldn’t detect any pen pressure although the pen tip position is detected. The pen tip is not moveable, that’s why.

Since the eraser part was still working and I rarely use it, I decided to desolder the and move the eraser part to the pen tip.

my plan

Preparation

I bought a cheap solder iron (around 3 EUR), 10cm tin solder wire (less than 1 EUR, no need to buy one big roll), and if necessary, a solder sucker. I didn’t bought this last item.

If you haven’t done any soldering before, just ask your friend or someone to do it

Soldering Time

The idea is to desolder both pen’s coil wires and the eraser’s one, and exchange them (see my plan above).

First, I open the wacom pen. It’s easy since I have it opened before. Then desolder the pen tip part.

There are two parts you have to desolder: the part which connects the wires from the coil, and the other part which stick the plastic part to the PCB/component board. Once you desolder these parts, the pen component can be easily removed. Read more