Dante The Inferno V. 2.0 Sales and Torque Game Engine

Hello again its been a while since my last post. Sorry but I have been so busy with college work lately taking a class about Modification and Level Design. Currently doing quite well with the software I am using, it is call Torque Game Engine. You can find more information about Torque Game Engine at link: http://www.torquepowered.com/ . With the software version of the SDK 1.5.2 of TGE, I have been learning how to create terrains and how to modified them in its height, textures, place static and movable objects and much more.

Other features TGE has is the Torque-Script which is use for game play mechanics, create and instantiate objects and programs its behaviors among other great features I have not been able to learn as of yet. For this week assignment I had to learn how to place textures appropriately with the seamless feature or repeated tiles and textures. This takes the user from the immersion of the video game and takes out the realism. Another objective in TGE I needed to learn was how to use the console window of the TGE to translate, rotate, and scale objects in the world editor.

Later I use the Torque-Script by using the software Torsion which is an editor for TGE for scripting purposes, please note this is not the only editor that could do this for TGE. In this editor I learn to program the executable to accept my script and execute them instead of calling the console itself and using the line command. However I have also learn how to do this through console window of TGE world editor. Other objectives I needed to complete was to include lighting features, items that could pick up, sounds or music, etc... I needed to only complete two task, however I have decided to include a simple feature which is weather.

Raining atmosphere with the texture of the terrain to be an icy roam which it since to the player that it is snowing hard. By increasing the fog tensity I have made a scary atmosphere as I have planned to do. By the end of this modification of this particular level I will hope to accomplish at least by the end of Modification and Level Design a Mod level based on a FPS (First Person Shooter) of a Zombies outbreak out in the snowy mountains of Alaska. Oh, I almost forgot to tell you about the history behind the mod. I guess I will leave that out for now until I have finish and later I will post on youtube a video sample of the mod.

In the other hand I have recently receive email from Apple Developer Center that Dante The Inferno V. 2.0 application for the iPhone and iPod Touch has been purchase. I would like a moment to thank all of you who have downloaded and hopefully enjoy Dante's poem about the Inferno. I do also hope the commentaries included in the beginning of each Cantos will help out in giving out the big picture of the particular Cantos the reader is about to read. We at Red Fox Software thank you all our clients and avid readers out there for their purchased and if you have any need of help with out software please drop us a line at julioykaly@hotmail.com.

Julio A. Cruz

First iPhone and iPod touch application.

It has been a while since I have written a post, however I am currently happy to announced the first iPhone application called: "Dante's The Inferno". Simply it is about the classic poem of Dante and its journey through the arrogance and ignorance of his era. Currently publish V. 1.0 and V. 2.0 where the first version does not include the loading and saving system while in the other hand the second version we have included it.

Laptop audio device working, wireless still sucks

A few days ago after I had finished downloading and installing Windows 7 Enterprise Version for IT Professional I had two problems still remainning to be solve with my Laptop with the Audio Device and Wireless Device. Today I went to the Sony web site and found the drivers for my laptop for Windows Vista Home Basic Edition. Technically I just went ahead and downloaded those drivers to my laptop, however, the Audio Driver works great, but the Wireless does not yet work properly because it simply connects my wireless network but does not receive internet for the moment. First thing to do is always to check the web site of the manufactore of the equipment and download the lastest drivers, in this case Windows Vista drivers work well with Windows 7. Talk to you later.

AC/DC

No I am not talking about the rock 'n roll band AC/DC thunder sign. I am talking about power cord supply for labtops when they get damage and you need to buy a new one. It is important to understand the Input and Output voltages which there is a difference between them two. Many people might ignore the fact that they simply see "oh, there is a input voltage about 120 v", however we must understand the electrical voltages needed to have the outlet at the wall jack. However the output voltage needs to be look upon and not ignore because that will give you a great idea what general power cord you might need to buy. In this case it is 19 voltage for output instead I ended up buying a 12 voltage power cord. Oh,well, this happens.

Windows 7 Student Edition Discount!

Today is a nice day for good news for those of you who are still in college and want to purchase Windows 7 Home Premium without giving away $119.00 dollars for the upgrade version. Yes people there is a Windows 7 Student Edition Discount which you can check it out at this link: http://www.microsoft.com/student/ . For $30.00 dollars you can have a copy of Windows 7 Home Premium. Being this Microsoft this is a little of a surprise, well, not much however being a new operating system that corrects a lot of mistakes from Windows Vista, I guess this edition will be for the better, however I do not complain if Microsoft lowering the price for Windows 7 Ultimate Edition which is about $350.00 that no one really have right now.

However if you are quite a bit weird out about the whole Windows 7 Edition, because Windows Vista was release about 3 years ago and you probably have updated your system to Windows Vista Second Service Pack. If you have done this I would recommend to stick with Windows Vista Second Service Pack because its correct many mistake. The link to Windows 7 Enterprise Edition for download could be found here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter . Please try it out if you can download it, you would need to qualified as a IT Professional, however you would need to back-up you files and clean-up or format your hard drive. Plus you need to activiate the software within 10 days of the trial version. Even though you will have it for three months, so if you can check it out and try it out for yourself. Talk to you later.

Resolved internet problem and Windows 7 no Wireless and Audio

After a while of trying to figure out the internet access problem my appointment of the technical support personal arrive. He tested the equipment of the computer including the modem and determine the modem was the main problem. I was figuring that the problem lay in the modem for the reason that it was not detecting the phone line therefore not connecting to the DSL line as a whole.

As I trouble shoot before the software side of the problem, I had determine the modem might be the one with the problem because I made sure the phone line in my room was working correctly. The modem was eventually replace and the surprising true the technical personal told me was that each two or three years the modem stop functioning correctly or they eventually stop working as a whole. I guess you learn something new everyday.

After the new modem connection I came upon another problem which prolong the setup of the network connection of my three computers to get internet access. The first problem lay on the network router which is a Linksys Router for connection up to four computer, the router in this case was setup incorrect. It seems there was a wireless interference with another wireless network with the same name "linksys" around my neighborhood. So we change the name and the ip address to assign the rest of the computers.

The first problem was solve. However we had determine another problem with my laptop which is a Sony Vaio VGN-FS920 which I recently downloaded the 90-day trial version of Windows 7. Currently it seems the wireless network card or adapter is working fine or at least that is what Windows 7 is saying, however, the wireless adapter of the laptop is not working properly right now. Another technical problem I been having with Windows 7 is the Audio adapter of my laptop which is not producing sound for the moment. I will check with Microsoft and Sony with this dilema and how do I go about in solving them. Wish me luck. Talk you later.

Yesterday no internet, today with no internet!

It was Friday when my internet access was acting up. I have found it strange because I recently have finish downloading the 90-days trial version of Windows 7 for IT Professionals. After the download of about 2.4 GB of hard drive space, the internet access that I have is a Bellsouth AT&T fast access internet which goes about 700 kbps, so it is very cheap in my opinion. Saturday I was at church I did not need the internet for that day because of church activities and on Sunday I had an appointment to hang out with a friend of mine so I have not been able to throughly diagnose that well the problem. However I must confess that I did give it a try on Sunday morning in the software level of trouble shooting the network problem.

I later call Bellsouth technical support and we went through the basic procedures to diagnose the internet access and we were unable to put the internet to work properly. After all that trouble I decided to make an appointment for a technical support personal would come a take a look into the DSL connection I have at home. For the moment I have been using a wireless internet connection in my neighborhood to post this blog for today. Later on I will continue posting other blogs about some technical aspect or reading that I have read.