AlaskaLinuxUser's Scratchpad

Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established. - Proverbs 16:3

Ship, Captain, and Crew: Give it a spin!

Well, I suppose "roll" would be a more popular dice game term, but spin is actually more accurate in this case! I'm actually rotating the dice in a spin maneuver, and having them fall on the table, rather than rolling them across it from an angle or the side.

diceroll

The …

Ship, Captain, and Crew: Sounds Good...

music

Well, one of those things every game needs is sounds. Not just sound effects, but also background music. It's a really easy way to enhance the game experience without actually changing any part of the game mechanics. The only problem was, I didn't know how to do it in Godot …

Which 3D engine to use?

Well, it's time to pick which engine/sdk I am going to use to make my dice game.

Now the big question is what game engine to use. There may be many to choose from, but from a mobile app perspective, there seem to be only 3 that I would …

Dice, anyone?

LowPolyDice

Now that I've completed the low poly course from Udemy, I'm ready to start using my fledgling, but newfound skills in some form of application. That said, the most fun and easiest way that I can imagine using 3D models is in some kind of game. The question is, what …

Tesla: Star Wars or Tron?

tesla_light

At work the other day, I got the opportunity to teach a class on inductance and resonance in relation to electronic circuits. So of course, I thought a tesla coil would be the most fun visual instrument to instruct with.

tesla_floresent

Of course, the inexpensive kit I bought off of Amazon …

Convert Still Photos to a GIF or Video

smallWalk

Really just a technical note for myself. I thought I had written this down somewhere here, but I couldn't find it, so, here it is.

Converting png to a video in Linux:

ffmpeg -framerate 24 -pattern_type glob -i '*.png' -c:v libx264 -r 30 -pix_fmt yuv420p out.mp4

Setting the …

Low Poly Course: A walk in the park?

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While deeply investing my time in the study of servers for the upcoming Server+ beta test, I took a few hours to relax and made this fun low poly man walking in the park. If you are interested, you can see the video I made of it here:

https://youtu …