O, ho ho. You thought I was going to give you some more bar charts, right? Wrong! I'm going to try to get a relevant Making Of JF page every night for a while. This one wasn't entirely done tonight, but the hair was. What is it made of? A sphere. Not a geosphere or bezier patches, nothing special. I deleted part of the sphere and what was left I molded around the head to become the hair. The rest of the body and head are slightly cool. The body is the new number 44 body type. The body, head, and hair weigh in at a very frugal 246 triangles. Some frugal pants and arms would make it a decent low-poly model. I'm not sure about how it'll animate, but we'll see soon, won't we? The skin is very simple. In fact, it's so simple, it's missing eyebrows. I'll throw them in when I add shirt and pants textures. I was thinking of using a 512x512 texture, but then I went with a 256x256 for now just arbitrarily. I don't want to have prejudices for or against this model and skin just because I decide to try a higher resolution texture. I messed with a 512x512 with the Jav model and I didn't like it very much. It's not very important since everything is scaled down anyway, but I always hope for better. If you don't understand the lesson of that, you should definately get thicker goggles.
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Good evening. I just looked at this tonight and I was amazed. Perhaps you are amazed also. Or perhaps you aren't, since you're here, aren't you? This picture says that people are actually reading this in large numbers. Looking at a few tables one click away from this image, it says that Google really likes my website. In fact, I'm so popular with google that they have swarmed my keenspace website with hits. The largest user for three months in a row have been Google bots. Three hundred hits in a month is excessive, but I don't mind. They have sent me 1 viewer in April, 8 viewers in May, and 2 viewers in July. What were they looking for? In July, someone was looking for "stegging". You remember stegging, right? In April, they were looking for "plugin cel-shading". Of course, I do a lot of cel-shading here. But I don't make plugins, sorry. In May, I had a doozy of misinfo out there: "directx8 draw sprite", "anarchy online account", "lith unwrap", "medium-poly resolution", "nuclear robot" (hahahaha), "onidzuka 85", and "pink fur bitmap". Oh man, that's funny as I can think. The draw sprite thing can be found at GameDev.net. Anarchy-Online account cannot be bought or sold here. Lith Unwrap has been converted into Ultimate Unwrap. Medium-poly models at high resolution can be found here from time to time. I don't do any nuclear robots, but I did write a rant about nuclear weaponry vs. giant robots. I have read a few Great Teacher Onidzuka and I wrote about them in the same rant as the nuclear robots, but not 85. The last one is a small mention that I gave to a pink fur bunny that is the marvel of modern pixel shaders. The wolfman, however, is a marvel of modern uselessness. I saw a really good vertex shadered grass the other day. It was very fast and looked fairly good. I think it'll be used in a game soon. Perhaps it already has. It's got a lot of really good uses (racecar driving, rpgs in suburbia or forests (kiddie games), lawnmowing sims). What it did was simply move the texture coordinates to right so that right underneath you was grass moving outward in every direction.
If you found this watch on your mousepad and not only was it functioning, but it told the correct time, you would wonder where the owner was without his/her watch, right? You wouldn't assume that the computer mouse suddenly collected dust in such a way to create a watch, right? This is another version of the watchmaker argument for the existence of God. Since life is such a perfect example of a machine, we can say that it is naive to assume that it was created from random occurance. In fact, science has this rule that if something is rediculously improbable, we can assume that it didn't happen. Aethiests are making the rediculously improbable claim that our computer mouse has gathered dust to make this watch (and made it tell time correctly to within a minute). It makes me wonder who they're trying to fool. But it's an interesting question since its very unanswered existence means that science lacks a lot of knowledge. That's good news for us scientists, because we want to find it out.
