Here's the first scene. It's missing some things, but I'm happy enough to put it up here officially as the first page of the first scene. Hooray!
So what's my rant going to be about? My laziness? Naw, I'll wait a few pages for that. I'm going to rant about my wonderful system. Yes, My wonderful system allows me to forgo all artistic ability and simply program an entire manga from the triangle level. Indeed, everything seen (and more) was touched by me at the triangle or pixel level. I had to build the characters vertex by vertex, face by face. The textures I drew at the square, triangle, and pixel level. The layout maker I built from scratch and I handled everything there at the pixel level. But all this extra work required allows me to not work at all on the comic. I simply do a bit of drag and drop and there's the next page. ^-^. In the next few paragraphs, I'll explain the system.
OMFG, I just deleted everything. A few hours of very late night work down the drain. shit. Well, it looks like you don't get a lesson. Or maybe the lesson is to look and don't ask for a lesson. JF Final Scene 1, Page 1 by Saturday, hooray. Nothing for Sunday, Page 2 on Monday, nothing on tuesday, etc for a few weeks, maybe for a full year (bs). You should be happy about that, huh?
This was written using Apache webserver running PHP. Hooray! I hereby confirm that both the IIS setup of PHP and the Apache setup of PHP work equally well on my computer. The XMLDOM works flawlessy, and the code is as stable or more so than the original ASP code.
PHP (with DOMXML) and IIS:
This is a modern art version of a project I'm working on. It's filed under "C:\altsci\flashinpan\ASNetwork". While it's in a backburners directory, I've been putting a bunch of time into it. It is about networks. You see, recently, I've had a few problems with networks. I love the internet and I think it's the greatest thing since sliced bread. But there comes a time when corporations get deep enough engrained into something that it has to be reinvented. ASNetwork is about reinventing the internet. It won't be a new program, a new p2p app, or a nice website. My current specifications say that it should be a network that is parallel and seperate from the internet. It will connect computers as the internet does. At the start, it will use phone lines and may even piggyback the internet. But in time, it will exceed the power of the internet and shove the internet into oblivion. Why do we need a new standard? I for one hate new standards. DirectX 9 is coming out soon after I learned DirectX 8. I can't stand it. But this is something more important, more basic. Right now, certain companies own most of the internet. That's right. They own it. Who? Quest and Verison are big ones. They own the phones, they own the cable, they own the net. If they want to shut down content, they will. If they want to charge outrageous prices, they will. Not just that they can, but they do. In the event of economic downfall which we are currently beginning, it is possible that both of these outright acts of aggression towards customers will be escalated to such a level that people will not be able to stand it. The 56k telephone-based BBS will be revived. Even the 2400 bps modem will be used. People will move into major cities so that they can get better content. CDs will become much more fashionable. LAN parties will be essential for the growth of the community. Hackers (those who produce content) will be far more prevalent than stalkers (those who consume content). So then there will need to be a backup plan that is not covered by the government and corporations. A medium that cannot be regulated, bought, or misused.
