So I could finally an object to cover the whole path. And that too along the shortest way possible :)
I made a small video of it, I apologize for the quality.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZdQxQzliH4
I made a small video of it, I apologize for the quality.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZdQxQzliH4
So am thinking of making a game, using WebGL, I call it 'Cool the globe'.
It is about global warming, how to stop it The means the game will be adopting is tree plantation. Dah....
So the game focuses on a boy, who thinks of stopping global warming by planting trees. But it is not easy. There are obstacles. He(You, ofcourse) has to chose the best way possible to do it.
The player will be provided with a plot of land with nearly 24(for now) pieces of land. In each piece, it is possible to plant a tree. Each plant will grow, if watered, to become a tree going through 4 stages of its life, and finally will give fruits. These fruits will have to be sold to make money. Initially there will be 6 trees, so thats initial investment. Once we get the money we can buy new seeds and the final aim is as the timer ends, the global warming meter should be below half its level.
Now its not easy to grow trees. There are always the inevitable bad guys. Random people will come and cut down the trees. So we can avoid them by either bribing them(Time saving, money spending) or convinve them to not cut the trees(Money saving, time spending). The choice is yours.
The number of trees is inversely proportional to the amount of global warming the meter shows.
So the game is all about managing, time and money to achieve a balance in global warming :)
Cheers
It is about global warming, how to stop it The means the game will be adopting is tree plantation. Dah....
So the game focuses on a boy, who thinks of stopping global warming by planting trees. But it is not easy. There are obstacles. He(You, ofcourse) has to chose the best way possible to do it.
The player will be provided with a plot of land with nearly 24(for now) pieces of land. In each piece, it is possible to plant a tree. Each plant will grow, if watered, to become a tree going through 4 stages of its life, and finally will give fruits. These fruits will have to be sold to make money. Initially there will be 6 trees, so thats initial investment. Once we get the money we can buy new seeds and the final aim is as the timer ends, the global warming meter should be below half its level.
Now its not easy to grow trees. There are always the inevitable bad guys. Random people will come and cut down the trees. So we can avoid them by either bribing them(Time saving, money spending) or convinve them to not cut the trees(Money saving, time spending). The choice is yours.
The number of trees is inversely proportional to the amount of global warming the meter shows.
So the game is all about managing, time and money to achieve a balance in global warming :)
Cheers
26/9/2011
Finally was able to get the proper light setting and effects we wanted. Modelled a light source, and got a spot light on the screen. Here is a sample image
The current setting is without the use of a lens. Not sure whether the physics involved in refraction is already added in GLGE, otherwise will have to add it. Excited!!!!
6/9/2011
So finally was able to test the support for GLGE’s collada import support.
This is what we did-
- Downloaded GLGE from the official website - http://www.glge.org/
- When unzipped it contained a folder named samples.
- It had many sample GLGE projects that was a very good point to start our capability testing.
- At the moment we are concerned about the support for import of 3d models.
- To test it we-
o Created a sample web project in NetBeans IDE.
o Copied the whole GLGE folder into the \Web folder in the projects folder.
o In the NetBeans IDE projects pane, browsed for the samples\collada folder and ran the index.html file.
o Wallah!!!
Some observations
· If the whole GLGE folder was not copied, it would not work because in the folder there are many necessary files without which the collada import would not have worked.
· The index.html has to be run on a server, I used ‘glassfish’. We are using the server because the html file is using external ‘.dae’ files.
· Tested on both firefox 5 and chorme 13.
· Currently there is a small lag expecially during loading.
The virtual labs are going to provide a 3D physics lab environment where any user can perform experiments.
The technology to be used is WebGL and the library used is GLGE. GLGE allows the use of collada import. So inorder to model the apparatus and the room, it is sufficient to model it in a 3D modelling tool like blender or 3ds max and export as collada. Then GLGE provides the functionality of importing collada.
Check this out
http://amrita.vlab.co.in/?sub=1
We are trying to replicate some of the experiments in this, but the difference would be that we provide 3D. ;)
So i guess we can start off :)
The technology to be used is WebGL and the library used is GLGE. GLGE allows the use of collada import. So inorder to model the apparatus and the room, it is sufficient to model it in a 3D modelling tool like blender or 3ds max and export as collada. Then GLGE provides the functionality of importing collada.
Check this out
http://amrita.vlab.co.in/?sub=1
We are trying to replicate some of the experiments in this, but the difference would be that we provide 3D. ;)
So i guess we can start off :)
THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE IS SUBJECT TO MENTAL RISKS, PLEASE PRAY WELL BEFORE READING!!!
WHAT IF that apple had not fallen on Sir Issac Newton’s head? WHAT IF instead it was a jackfruit? WHAT IF Hitler had not killed himself that day on the battle field? WHAT IF Osama Bin Laden was never born? WHAT IF Sreeshanth had dropped the catch during the 20-20 world cup final in 2007? What if the spider had not bitten Peter Parker? Would our lives still be the same? I doubt it.
Everyday we experience new things, bear witness to new events, drab to exhilarant and bereaved to blithe, but there are some events we wished, we hoped, would have turned out to be different. Citing examples would always goad me to dip my hand into the huge carafe of thoughts. I pick the shallowest one and here it is. My sister is writing her Medical PG exam for the Manipal University, India. She finishes her exam, results, 2nd rank. “Oh my god , my dream come true !“ she exclaimed “I can study in one of the best institutes and that too with scholarship” But wait, “you get 21 lakhs scholarship if you come 1st or else, empty your wallet” refuted the college management. How unfortunate, WHAT IF she had got a question right? I always wonder, how such a minuscule event can beget such drastic differences in upshots.
I sometimes feel this is very unfair, god should not be so hard on us. A light breeze can collapse a 100 storey house of cards. I mean how is this possible? Does this have something to do with the butterfly effect wherein it is said that, a butterfly flapping its wings on one side of the earth can cause a hurricane on the other side some time later . All these actually does make sense and scientist have formluated some theories to explain these effects. But do we care about all those? We just hope no bullet ant(extremely innocent looking and small, yet very deadly) would come and sting us. Another thing I noticed was the less platonic and less scientific aspect named luck. It is strange, we say we are lucky to escape the imminent danger, but what is the actual probability of being lucky? Doesn’t this have a direct relationship with our own ‘WHAT IF’ clause? It does. Now lets try to put these 2 in the same basket. As I mentioned before, ‘WHAT IF’ that apple had fallen on Hancock? We(except the students) and above that, Newton was lucky. He became the person who solved the biggest conundrum of the force that pulls you down. A daily commuters crosses the road and reaches the office safely. Wasn’t he lucky to be safe? WHAT IF he was hit by a speeding car? Romans used to deify ‘luck’ and worship her, but some say it’s a property of a person or thing. You may feel I am digressing here from the title, but actually I am not, I am just exploring.
My intention here is merely to make you aware of the effects of the butterfly’s flapping in your life. Every thing in the would would have been effected by this peculiar feature of life, and just think how different things would have been otherwise. All the effects are linear in nature, What if you were not born? What if your parents never got married? What if they were not born. So everything happens for a reason. All these are really strange phenomena, yet interesting.
On November 14 2010, I took a session at the Bar camp 9 which was held at the Amrita school of engineering, kollam. It was a wonderful experience for me as it was the first time I was speaking to a bunch of geeks who were experts in their areas of interests. Bar camp basically is a gathering of people who wish to share their works with others who are ready to learn from it. The attendees may not be inclined to the same core, yet they were completely focused on understanding what the world is doing.
I got to meet a lot of people including a person whom I have heard of a lot from my professors, Praseed Pai. He is a genius, I found it rather puzzling, how a person can have such a wide ken of knowledge. The talks were on the projects that the speakers have been working on, mine being on a script that I had submitted to Blender 3D, namely the drop to ground script. The wiki page of my add-on can be found here, http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Extensions:2.5/Py/Scripts/Object/Drop_to_ground.
I started my session by showing a trailer of an open movie that was developed by the Blender Foundation, Sintel. My aim was to show how powerful a software of such minuscule size can get. Then I moved on to give a brief introduction on Blender 3D and the different areas where a contribution is possible. I had been working in the add-ons section, so my expertise was more on Python and the blender scripts. Then I went on to describe how the code worked and also answered some doubts on a particular feature, Ray-casting, that I implemented to achieve the upshot. The script basically allows you to drop some objects onto a certain ground along the z-axis, with or without aligning it to the ground. Then during the climactic sections of the sessions I took the opportunity to explain how one can start development in blender 3D.
Once the session ended I talked to the attendees and was given a good review coupled with advice on how my skills can be improved. Overall I had a wonderful experience which I will cherish forever.
Drop to ground script
I have compiled an add-on for blender 2.5x
The wiki page can be found : http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Extensions:2.5/Py/Scripts/Object/Drop_to_ground
And a small tutorial on how to use the script can be found :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRXsznUxpRg
I have compiled an add-on for blender 2.5x
The wiki page can be found : http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Extensions:2.5/Py/Scripts/Object/Drop_to_ground
And a small tutorial on how to use the script can be found :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRXsznUxpRg
This is a video that i did in Blender 3D and edited in Sony Vegas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3VE41p1Hyg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3VE41p1Hyg
