Now check this out.

Oh, and that Color Picker turned out to be real easy to separate (though it's still XNA, so it's still dependent on that) so it's available as source by itself now! Sure, it was already available as part of Jemgine - but now it's also available by itself! Neat!

Now, how do I make people aware of it without being accused of 'advertising'?

Yeah, so, I've sort of been updating every day for the last couple days. I'm bouncing back and forth between two projects, working on them every other day. So I'll likely be posting much more frequently for a while.

Here's a simple model for simple level editors. Especially if you're working on some kind of grid, say of tiles. All operations are abstracted as 'brushes'. The brush interface has a single apply function, which takes the position to apply it, and the level to apply it to. Add a toolbar to select the brush, and a property grid to set brush properties (Actually sort of overkill, but oh so simple to implement) and you instantly have an awesome level editor. Enjoy.

So there's two splats. Notice that the edges are transparent. In the Jemgine map editor, I can create these splats, and scale them, and rotate them, and even tint them. By lining up the transparent edges, they blend together into a solid mass.

For a great example of what this can do, given a good artist, go play Braid.

I also have this article over at Sgt Conker on the scripting system used by Jemgine. I'll be copying it over to here at some point soon, too.

This is where I started.

The labels are big and obtrusive. The nodes themselves are lost in the clutter. The terminals move to face whatever they are connected to which, when I first implemented it, I thought was a great idea.

So the first thing I did was reposition the terminals. Labels still behave the same way, I just turned them off.

And then I made the terminal connections into splines. The script itself hasn't changed at all in this process, though I'm moving things around. At this point, you can tell how things are connected, but you still don't have a clue what's going on.

So I put the labels inside the nodes. I also spread the nodes out more for this shot. The gold nodes are multi-selected.

Finally, I anti-aliased the lines (using a dirt cheap trick : it doesn't draw a line; it draws a textured triangle strip. The texture has an alpha-blended edge.) and color coded them based on their origin. That purplish node is selected - and a selected node shows labels hanging off it's terminals. I also laid the script out in a neater way. I've still got to fit the nodes to their names properly.

I still need to work the icon into it somehow, maybe so node names can be turned off. Or because the names get kind of small when you zoom out. And the nodes should be big enough to contain their label. But, there it is. Much more usable now, don't you think?

First, I made this awesome hexagonal grid subdivision library. It's on Codeplex. Right here. It does some interesting things. Specifically, this awesome hexagonal grid subdivision library subdivides hexagonal grids.

I also built these book shelves. They are paper-back sized and fit nicely under my chalkboard! That's every star wars novel post A New Hope published as of 2005 on that shelf. And then some crap by Card, Niven, and some classic scifi. Does that make me a loser? Probably!

I don't think I posted this one here.

I've got conversations working in the game now. So who knows, maybe soon I can actually build something to PLAY. Maybe not so soon, since I am currently distracted. As always, the project is hosted on CodePlex. You know. Over there. On Codeplex.

And something unrelated. This came together quick because I used Antioch as a base, but it's not running on Jemgine.

Hint : I'm not controlling any of the little ships on the left.