Previous Post:http://d.hatena.ne.jp/caelk/20160223/1456219054So right now with what we've gone over, we have the general idea of how a cover system can be set up. Now, I could've gone over basic edge detection for a general (though incompl…
Previous Post:Simplistic Cover in Unreal Engine (1): The Cover Slide and Cover Point Selection - Memories of Melon PanNow that we got our basic cover point selection out of the way, we have to make the player move towards it. While we're a…
Previous Post:Simplistic Cover in Unreal Engine (0): Introduction - Memories of Melon PanWhen we think about cover systems, there's really only one way to activate it as far as the player goes - press the dang button - but when you program…
Last year, Epic Games released their Unreal Engine out for free. Anyone can download it! It just takes heaps of gigs.I hit up a few tutorials and was putting together some really basic stuff in my spare time. After enough fiddling around, …
So, I've had this written down for a while, but never bothered to post it. Probably because I'm not too good of a cook, and probably because I'm also lazy. Meh.My short ventures in cooking started when a restaurant I went to for one specif…
You know, I should've blogged about the Idolm@ster 10th Live, but I left for Japan touring a few days after, so I never got around to it.But well... Comiket 88 is done and over! I got most of everything I wanted, except for one guy who sol…
While I'm busy blogging, maybe I can write about a few things I did a long time ago.Last month, the stock buttons on my Mad Catz Fightstick broke. It was the really old standard edition of the Street Fighter 4 stick, so the parts weren't t…
So, it's been a while... a long while, since AWA 2014 but I need to post up them pics sometime. They're mainly cosplay pics, and there aren't too many.https://caelk.shutterfly.com/pictures/1278At first I thought I'd post them up with the p…
I should be looking at my pics from AWA 2014 and the trip to Japan I made last October, but there are a lot of pictures to go through. I should stop taking as many as I do.Instead, I'll show you all what I've made recently. Koufuku Graffit…
Ya know, I've known about this for a while, but maybe it's time to share.http://kouhi.me/idol/It's called Idol Sorter, and just like the name goes, it pits idols against your sense of moe and sorts them based on how much they make that sen…
Oooooh, man. Today's special. I made some really good Japanese curry today - the best I've ever made. Mind you, I'm not that great a cook, but this stuff still tasted great to me.Normally when I make curry, I use those curry cubes you get …
While I'm talking about figures, I went and picked up my newest figure yesterday: Kazuki Ferrari from Galilei Donna! It's a 1:8 scale figure by Griffon Enterprises, sculpted by TEAM GENESIS (all caps). This was more of an impulse buy, righ…
I never wrote about this, but I got the Mio Honda figure last... October when she came out. It's a really nice figure, and just like Uzuki and Rin before her, it's based on her New Generations card.There's not too much in the way of gimmic…
I keep thinking my next post will be about AWA 2014 or my Japan trip, but I'm way too lazy to go through my pictures. But I feel like posting something now.Very rarely, I'll decide to pick up a really old game and play it. One time it was …
A few weeks ago, I got back from another trip to Japan, and no less than two typhoons ripped through the country during my wonderful vacation. Thankfully I had a friend who lives in Japan, so I could use his place to keep my stuff.... Such…
Well, my imitation DFM didn't turn out the way I thought it would, but I was still able to figure out why my original idea didn't work and why. And once I did, all it took was a bit of a spin on the concept and I was mostly able to use it …
My final stab at this all was taking the spring forces I used earlier, but using them differently. Before, I used them to tweak the position of the ship, then fudged its heading to make things look right... but this made my plane behave so…
The next thing I tried to do to make one plane follow another was to base its movement off the same sort of movement a chase camera does. It didn't turn out as expected, though.Previous Post:Basic Dogfight Mode (1): Basic Yaw/Pitch Adjustm…
The simplest way you can do DFM is... honestly not that difficult, as long as you know some basic vector math.Previous Post:Basic Dogfight Mode (0): Overview - Memories of Melon PanIn Assault Horizon, there was that circle in your HUD, and…
If any of you have played Ace Combat: Assault Horizon, you'll know that you're forced into this thing called Dogfight Mode (DFM) every so often to take out enemy aces and such. I'm not gonna get into whether or not it was good for the seri…
So, it looks like the MIQ concert at AWA is happening at the same time as the Idolm@ster panel. Dang it, now I gotta choose, but... well, sorry guys, I'm leaning towards the concert.On the other hand, I have three or four costumes to take …
Ever had one of those moments where you puzzle over something hard, then let sit for a while because you can't figure it out, then eventually forget about it?Around nine months ago, I started on a singable translation of Uzuki Shimamura's …
After a good nine months of these lyrics being complete but for two lines, I finally had a bolt of inspiration for them today. There are some places that I feel could be improved, but I feel good about the lyrics as a whole. I'll save why …
Uuuuuuugh...So like, the Suzumiya Haruhi series is being taken off Crunchyroll in... 17 hours, so I felt the need to watch the second season since I have yet to do it. But how's it been going?Bamboo Leaf Rhapsody: Interesting enough.Endles…
Oh, my little con has grown up to be a real con.Some of my friends were banking on AWA this year to be a real con again, and reserved hotel rooms early. I'm glad I decided to get in on it too, since now we've got real guests. For a long ti…
Previous Post:Imitating the Canvas Engine (12): Applying the Shadow Fill Effect - Memories of Melon PanGeez, so that was a lot of stuff I wrote about shader programming. What all did we go over? Depth blur, using a Gaussian blur Nonphotore…
Previous Post:Imitating the Canvas Engine (11): Directional and Gaussian Blur - Memories of Melon PanWe're down to the last and final step!Right now, our rendered scene has a canvas texture on it, it's framed like it was drawn in a sketchb…
Previous Post:Imitating the Canvas Engine (10): Light Direction Transformations - Memories of Melon PanUltimately, our scene shadow mask will tell us where to put shadows and how much. Since we want to have the shadows bleed off the edges …
Previous Post:Imitating the Canvas Engine (9): Transforming the Shadow Map to Screen Space - Memories of Melon PanThe shadow bleed effect makes use of some simple blurs, but before we get into them, let's start thinking about what we want …
