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Gui explanation

Here are a labled gui to help explain how to set Plexus up. Check the full image by clicking on the thumbnail.

Latest DF Map Importer version

Here are a few screens of how the latest version looks.

Ramps get created now, unfortunately they only face one direction.

Took 20 mins to generate

Here’s a little messed up vid : Messed up screencap, heh

To Do: (minor)

Get ramps facing right directions

Get stairs to work.

Map more textures, models

To Do: (major)

Octree - ogz importing (this will allow for very fast imports out of sauer)

Real time importing (see if I can work something out with the livis crew/code)

What’s Going On?

During the week of the TEAM CTHULHU summit (Fur came to Zot’s house for a week) and the week after, we have been hard at work “turd polishing,” getting Plexus ready for the first “extended beta” release.  We’re VERY excited about that, but more on that when it’s ready :).  If you want to be more up-to-date, tune in to our repository log and you can check out our rapidly changing todo list/project plan, which is in our repository wiki.  We use TiddlyWiki for our project wiki.  Jeremy Ruston wrote it and he’s awesome.  The wiki lives in our project repository in a single web page, so you can see it change with the versions :).  There are some items that seem appropriate to me to put in our repository wiki, rather than on plubble for one reason or another, so I’ll just put a pointer to them here.

Here is a post about our new implementation of mobile code, which allows you to attach Groovy scripts and libraries to your maps.  It’s more than that though.  Check it out if you are interested in leveraging the potential of peer-to-peer networking…

And here is a post of our old philosophy document from the p2pmud project.  This is here because Plexus continues with the same philosophy.  P2PMud was our 2D, dynamic HTML, peer-to-peer MUD.  It was a neat MUD — it lived in a single web page (using some code from tiddlywiki) and used AJAX to communicate with other peoples’ MUDS in their browsers.  Anyway, Plexus is more-or-less an extension of that, which was an extension of other projects, leading back to the first MUD we wrote in September of 1988.

If you want to comment on these two, please put your comments here, even though the posts are in the repository wiki!

September of 1988?  Oops, did I just let the cat out of the bag?  This release will indeed be TEAM CTHULHU’s 20th anniversary release!

Happy 20th anniversary TEAM CTHULHU!

New wicked cool GUI!

Major props to zot for pulling off our new GUI. Check out the snazzy new look and feel. Now getting this all working, especially the translucent shadow behind the window was a real pain in the you-know-what!

Our mascot Cthulhu stands guard over the the application, and clicking him will close it down. Grab his mighty tentacles below to use his awesome powers to resize the window to your liking.

Kudos also to a few elite Java hackers James Williams and Dmitry Bondarenko and Anthony Petrov without whose web pages we never would have gotten it all to work properly!

DF Mapimporter - Now with textures!

Grass, and barren stone.. Hopefully we can get the ramps sorted out, then we can move on to further aestheic improvements.

Mmmmm

TEAM CTHULHU

In preparation for our 20th anniversary release this month, we got some TEAM CTHULHU jumpsuits.  We are so dead sexy in these bad boys, we now even wear them outside of the house!

furroy pimping it above.

zot pimpin it above.

and our supa-sexay logo on the back!

anyone else with balls big enough to be seen in public dressed like this, just let us know!

Randolph Carter Update

Randolph got a make over too last night after a lot more hardwork on Theo’s part! Please note, the goofy texture on his clothes and missing hands is just me screwing around since the real one isn’t ready yet. Just wanted to test his UV and normal maps, which are looking excellent!

Yith update

Well I figured out a couple issues with my Yith model, so I thought I’d show him off again! I got the normal maps and his first animation imported! He looks SO CREEPY! It’s awesome. Now I need to go back and finish up his UV mapping and make some real animations for him.

Map Importer Update

Semi-new screen of the map importer. Floors are working perfectly, thanks to Roy, and the importer now ignores un-importable lines. All we need to do now is get the texturing sorted out, get the code to spawn map models, figure out how to make ramps, and how to apply heightmaps to the tiles.