Pixel Dragon

This is just to say I’m still alive and have been well aware that the site desperately needs an update, I have some major work planned for this website. The reason I haven’t shown much activity is because I’ve been busy finishing my degree in 3D. Now it’s finished I have lots of housekeeping to catch up on, then I can finally get around to overhauling this site, I have quite a few interesting things planned.

For this weekend, I’m relaxing after a rather failed attempt to gain interest at the design show at my university. Been playing a lot of EVE Online as well.

If you’re interested in keeping up to date with my work, then check out my Twitter feed and I tend to keep my Flickr feed up to date these days

Recent updates to twitter broke Dean Robinson’s Twitt-twoo plugin and considering he hadn’t answered his support forum I thought I’d fix it as usual. Simple fix, seems twitter removed a server.

/wp-content/plugins/redo-twitt-twoo/redo-twitt-twoo.php

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$url = "http://8.7.217.31/statuses/user_timeline.json?count=1";

To:

79

$url = "http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.json?count=1";

Okay, so the story starts with my mentioning that the new Guild Wars expansion Eye of the North is out and I suddenly figure on a game we can play together as we haven’t done so in a while. Getting to the installing and downloading patches and I of course want my extra musics I paid for some time ago from the genius at soundtracks Jeremy Soule. Continue reading ‘More reasons why DRM is dead’

Way too easy…

Eh, I can be silly sometimes. But interesting tool, especially to see the hidden digits behind those pokemon you’ve been working hard on or just recieved.

Just for shits and giggles I ended up saving the change

In my hunt for new stuff to watch on the ol’ TV Series department, I came across a name… beetleborgs, this rang a bell, unfortunately it wasn’t the series I was looking for but I quickly found it, Insektors. One of the many great shows I enjoyed as a kid, and one which helped my fascination with 3D Animation. And thinking back, it was simple, but effective.

Only now, with the power of the internet I can learn the secrets behind this series, like how it was originally french, and the UK version was completely re-written and all the characters had new names and dialogue, but the american version stayed true to the original french version. (What the hell? My world is turned upside down. Isn’t it normally the other way around?)

Of course there were other shows I enjoyed as a kid included ReBoot (anyone see a pattern here?) but also classic animations such as Danger Mouse, Bananaman and Freakazoid. Then there was Animaniacs which was in a class of it’s own. And thanks to the internet we have the power to learn about these great peices of entertainment which used to be so rare, but now thanks to downloads we can watch at will.

Well mostly, some of these series are VERY rare and finding copies to download of Insektors is nigh impossible. ReBoot came out on super-limited edition DVD. Animaniacs DVDs are out there, but downloadable they are not, at least not all of them. But no releases for Freakazoid. Strangely though, Bananaman is readily availible.

So for now, they are still just magical memories, mostly. The only last resort is youtube, but who wants to bet how long they’ll stay on there for, even private videos get taken down for non-compliance. Youtube has come, and gone now and the community has sharded into many different sites. But if you know of places to see these awesome little animations which fascinated probably not only my childhood, but many others, then please let me know =)

Youtube has stuff (For how long is the question).
Youtube: Insektors – Frogbucket – Part 1 (UK Version)
Youtube: Insektors – Frogbucket – Part 2 (UK Version)

One of the first places I noticed when I entered SL was this strange looking island, little did I know it was a recreation of 2 of the more popular ages from Uru, the online sequel to Myst.

It took a little research, but I managed to find the sim again, but not before it was too late, the day after the sim was taken down, but with notice, so I decided to get snap happy and at least keep a record of this sim before it dissapeared into cyberspace.

One of the problems was that the sim had been brought out by the company that now owns uru and whores it out. So there was signage all over the place that just got in the way, like these:

But I did my best to snap away in ways that would leave these out. I also took “scrapes” in which I just took shots of the scenery, this was in fact for Ina Centaur who wanted to use the island at a later date, but now couldn’t. Continue reading ‘Uru in SL – No more’

Originally Pixel Dragons was designed not just for myself, but for my now ex-girlfriend, but I keep thinking whether I should buy up pixel-dragon.com instead. Just that moving everything over again, including MSN probably will just be a huge pain in the butt.

But I suppose like tanyoko.nu, I can redirect for a short while before it expires.

I don’t know, should I afford it or should I stick witht he plural version. This site seems primarily for myself now.

That is of University, I finished in june sometime after completing the end of year project, such a project managed to leave my room in bits

Although admittedly my floor looks just as bad right now. But the result of this was thankfully a merit/distinction achieving piece of work. It was a happy results day.

5 distinctions, 5 merits and 4 passes! Continue reading ‘The end of the first year’

I can only apologise for the lack of updates, life has been rather busy (all that procastinating!), I’ve had some stuff to blog about for some time, but first, new theme to sort out and bugs to squash, stuff to set up and work to do on top of that. But over the next week or two I plan on super-specially awesome blog posts, so watch out.

Seems I’m intent on working more on the back-end of my site than posting something. Oh well, I’ve developed an GeSHi LSL highlighter using the official colours from the internal SL code editor, so I can do stuff like insert code like this:

default
{
    touch_start(integer total_number)
    {
        if(llSameGroup(llDetectedKey(0))) {
            integer items = llGetInventoryNumber(INVENTORY_ALL);
            list itemlist;
            string nametemp;
            integer i = 0;
            for(i=0;i < items;i++) {
                nametemp = llGetInventoryName(INVENTORY_ALL, i);
                if(nametemp != llGetScriptName()) itemlist += [nametemp];
            }
            llGiveInventoryList(llDetectedKey(0), llGetObjectName(), itemlist);
        }
    }
}

I’ve had to add a CSS rule in the k2 stylesheets to make the background match the editor’s which is kind of annoying and not as good as you can see.

If you’re interested in nabbing this highlighter, throw some comments, I might post it up if there’s enough demand.