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Sunday, May 20, 2007

The curse of Irrlicht


Finally, Blogger fixed its layout, everything looks nice again, what's more with an auto-draft saver! Cool, just like Livejournal.com

Streets of London by Ralph McTell is a pretty good song to hum yourself to death with. There's this constantly fingering of guitar strings in the background, and with a voice that sounds really echo-ey to accompany it, and the whole thing is like a folksy song.

I'd started humming it while walking outside, 15 minutes later, i still found myself humming the same verse. It's like never-ending, cause the song seems to keep looping by itself, if you aren't taking note the short 5 seconds or so that actually signals the end of the song and well, ends it.

Anyway, Irrlicht is VERY screwed up regarding texture handling. Images needs to be in the power of two. 32, 64, 1024, 256, etc. Sure, it might look okay when one just loads a texture and paste it onto an object. But if you try to modify the pixels of the texture, it gets screwed up. Weird botches here and there.

'course, I'm sure the solution is to ask people to make their images in sizes of power two... That's just unreasonable. I'm gonna try filling up the image to sizes power two by putting in transparent spaces. Darn it.... This is gonna wreck havoc on my opacity fading code...


Gash is on crack.
Konjiki no Gash Bell rocks!! Don't say it ain't.


1. Konjiki no Gash Bell OP3 [Mienai Tsubasa] - Tanimoto Takayashi
2. Bad Day - David Powter
3. Bleach OP1 [Asterisk] - Orange Range

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