Chasing the Elusive Euloran Quality
NDkxMjM0MTk2NDZ8NDUuNTguMTIxLjI1MA==Quality of items in Eulora is a big thing - it brings in more money for whoever can deliver it and it also gives one better dings. Or at least better chances at...
View ArticleEulora's Own CR50
NDkxMjM0MTk2NDZ8NDUuNTguMTIxLjI1MA==Possibly similar to the CR50 item Stanislav has been torturing recently, a green "Microchip" of unknown internals and dubious usefulness has finally been teased out...
View ArticleInconsiderate Considerations or a Tiny Euloran Dataset on Blueprints
NDMxMzQ0MDEwMDl8NDUuNTguMTIxLjI1MA== Blueprints in Eulora are currently the product of expensive clicks: millions go in to pay only for the most inconsequential of tokens, thousands come out and few of...
View ArticleEulora's Client Core - Basic Docs
NjcxMzcxMDgyNDZ8NDUuNTguMTIxLjI1MA== As I'm doing anyway the work required for a saner Eulora client, I'm stuck as well with writing a minimal documentation for it, since on one hand there's no one...
View ArticleEulora's Client Core: The Dedicated Requester
NjkxMzk3OTMwOTF8NDUuNTguMTIxLjI1MA== A crucial requirement of Eulora's new client is to actively request from the server ANY data that it may find itself missing at any point in time. At first glance,...
View ArticleEulora Client Hierarchy of Data Draft
NzAxNDA2MDMyNjF8NDUuNTguMTIxLjI1MA== This is a very first draft to help with the current work on enabling Eulora's GUI client to make use of new information as it becomes available from the server...
View ArticleNotes on Graphics for Eulora
NDQxNDMyODQ5NDF8NDUuNTguMTIxLjI1MA== Eulora's client uses the CrystalSpace (CS) engine for all its graphics needs and CS in turn uses the Cal3D library for animated objects in the world1. Some two...
View ArticleThe Rocky Moon (Notes on Graphics for Eulora, II)
NDQxNDMyODQ5NDF8NDUuNTguMTIxLjI1MA== My client-side Eulora task set last week is completed and as a result, the Testy character gets now to see something more than just fog in his...
View ArticleThe Mirror Land (Notes on Graphics for Eulora, III)
MzIxNDMzNzE3OTF8NDUuNTguMTIxLjI1MA== Getting some actual landscape as in getting the height right turns out to be only half (the reasonably well-working half) of the terrain task: once I had in place...
View ArticleNaked Models (Notes on Graphics in Eulora, IV)
NDgxNDM5Nzg1NjR8NDUuNTguMTIxLjI1MA== What's the first change you'd do to an empty-headed character such as Testy? Why, chop some bits off, change his sex and get him naked at least, even transparent at...
View ArticleThe Widgeting Paws of Pointerism (Notes on Graphics in Eulora, V)
ODQxNDUyNzgzMTF8NDUuNTguMTIxLjI1MA== It took indeed more than a week and I'm rather surprised it didn't actually take even longer than two weeks to get *anything visible* out of it. It's all one strand...
View ArticleA Summer's Summary and Next Steps in Eulora
NDMxNDc5NjM5Mzd8NDUuNTguMTIxLjI1MA== Coming back from any holidays, no matter how short, means that I spend initially a few days simply with the task of picking up again each and every bit of work that...
View ArticleEulora Client Data Hierarchy v2.0
NDgxNDg1Njk4NzZ8NDUuNTguMTIxLjI1MA== This replaces the previous draft and is based on the new knowledge of client entrails of all sorts as acquired during those past 2 months. It is however still a...
View ArticlePretty Petty Particles (Notes on Graphics in Eulora, VI)
MTgxNDk4Njc4NTN8NDUuNTguMTIxLjI1MA== As the latest client data hierarchy draft revealed a gaping hole regarding the exact use and requirements of "effects", I've spent those past days diving into the...
View ArticleBoxy and His Leaky Bottle
OTUxNjA4NDQxMDl8NDUuNTguMTIxLjI1MA== It looked like a pile of numbered cubes as it bobbed gently and flew over the landscape and under the sea. It was Boxy and it had not a worry in the world nor in...
View ArticleMaking My Eulorian Cake and Eating It
OTUxNjA4NDQxMDl8NDUuNTguMTIxLjI1MA== Once Boxy found his crafting purpose, he followed it all around the small land of Eulora and then some more. For he had nothing else to hang on to when the void...
View ArticleNames, Pains, Curiosity and Deliberately Bad Maths (The Barely Legible and...
OTUxNjA4NDQxMDl8NDUuNTguMTIxLjI1MA== Day 1 On Day 1 I came onto the shore as if born out of seafoam, all beauty and glow, as Aphrodite was my name – ha, ha, all diaries should better start out as a...
View ArticleWhen Cooking Is More Painful than Dying (The Barely Legible and Slightly...
OTUxNjA4NDQxMDl8NDUuNTguMTIxLjI1MA==Since Day 1 was over, I have to assume Day 2 has started. For the whole morning I explored Eulora with enthusiasm and bare hands, which always makes for a rather...
View ArticleGodly Yellow Lemonade, Loads of Flotsam and Horribly Bad Maths
OTUxNjA4NDQxMDl8NDUuNTguMTIxLjI1MA==(The Barely Legible and Slightly Bloody Diary of Foxy Foxster on Eulora - Days 3, 4 and 5 when only horrible things happened. Day 1 and Day 2 were pure bliss(ters)...
View ArticleSamovars, Boulders, Business and Teleportation - All in a Few Days' Work
OTUxNjA4NDQxMDl8NDUuNTguMTIxLjI1MA==(These are Days 6, 7 and 8 from The Barely Legible and Slightly Bloody Diary of Foxy Foxster on Eulora – you can find previous days with lemonade, flotsam and...
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