Mario: Source and Binary (v1.0.0)
Here are the download links for Mario. One contains the prebuilt binary, the other the source. As I've said, this is still in the development stage, and I'll probably change a lot of it. If you plan to build it yourself, you'll need the FreeImage library.
Download Source: Mario v1.0.0 (Source)
Download Binary: Mario v1.0.0 (Binary)
Mario: Image to Texture Converter
As I said a couple of days ago, I began to write a program to convert my images into a binary texture format that I can just load up in my game.
At the moment it doesn't support mipmaps (the code is in there but there have been a few problems), textures are forced to be power of 2, and textures are converted to be in the format of 32bit RGBA.
I decided to call it Mario, after the Super Nintendo game Mario Paint I use to play as a child. I'll upload the source and a binary when I've got it to a condition I think is stable.
Snow, and More Snow
Last night after watching Freakazoid with Scream-o-Vision, I decided I wanted some Haribo, so I went outside ot find out it had actually snowed, although there was only a little of it, I was quite content. Returning home and awaking the next morning to find out it had snowed a lot more.
The trip to work was a tricky one, with a lot of the times me nearly falling over on top of my laptop, the road was a safer place than the path since less people/cars had been there to squish the snow into layers of ice.
I did almost fall over on the way to lunch though, nearly taking my friend Dave with me as my arms flew about looking for something/someone to balance onto.
It was a shame it didn't last any longer than a couple of days, there were some great snowmen though, my favourite being the one ontop of the ticket machine which I like to think of as our Frosty God. I didn't get to build an igloo this year,
and apparently the Pavillian Gardens looked like something out of a fairy tale, but I forgot to go there.
I did however get lots of pictures, as well as some pictures of house around here that would be good to convert into models for my game. I've upload them all here but it could take a while. I need some kind of plugin for wordpress for photo gallerys I can associate my blogs to.
There are a few random pictures though I may not included, like in the snow I wrote "Abe for mod '09", an inside joke for those two goto geek++ in the early hours of the morning.