Starting at Sand Harbor in the evening. The point, just above the boat being launched, is the destination four miles away. I hope to get there in an hour. The pictures were taken through a phone dry-bag so the quality is not quite great. The destination has been…
Continue readingI just got this great review of the Linkage software: “Too cool man, whoo, beautiful….” – Anonymous User
Continue readingMy daughter and I have played 7 Wonders Duel twice. That’s enough to give a basic review of the game. It is certainly not enough to describe a good strategy. 7 Wonders Duel is a two player version of the 7 Wonders game. This game seems to have…
Continue readingInteresting Beam Engine I threw together this beam engine with the Linkage program. It is interesting because the beam moves horizontally instead of having extra links for the steam cylinder connection.
Continue readingThere have been a few improvements made to the Lunar Lander 3D Unity game since my last post. The previous to-do list looked like this: Add a particle system to draw rocket flames. Add a landing pad and detect a successful landing. Add an explode-able version of the…
Continue readingIn the last few years, I would visit the B&N bookstore and look at the game programming books. I once had aspirations to build a highly detailed railroading game with more realistic train and car movements than any retail game of that sort. I even worked out some…
Continue readingThe new Linkage 3.5 is now available. It has connector settings to make a rotating input anchor oscillate between two angles (the first always being zero) with a settable starting position that also gets set automatically when pinning the mechanism. There is also a new start position setting…
Continue readingGet it here: http://blog.rectorsquid.com/download-linkage/ I just added an Oscillation Limit Angle to the connector properties. If set to something above zero, the input will oscillate back and forth to that number of degrees and back. This number is always positive so you must use the RPM value sign…
Continue readingLast week, I spent an evening fixing some bugs in the Linkage program. It’s a bit buggy since I added a bunch of complicated features like gears and fastening. Writing software is hard to do well but not hard to do badly. I once had to tell someone,…
Continue readingNo, it’s not titled “Thrown Together,” that’s just a description of how I started it. As you can see in the video, the base is the working-platform for a previous sculpture (now sitting on a sheet of acrylic) and the motor mounts are just wood bits. First Full…
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