Does anyone out there throw together rough tools to solve eccentric problems that drive you nuts?
I run into problems with point data occasionally and it's hard to find a solution for using the data, when I can only view the problem in messy code format.
This sometimes leaves me wondering if the function I'm writing is even working correctly or not.
The example below is a rough tool I made to visualize and edit the Array format of points I usually work with. Over time I have transformed, gutted, and replace its code for different tests I needed it for. (The insides are not pretty.)
Yep it looks like a drawing tool, just not intended for that. I've only added certain "drawing" features I needed to make it easy to visualize the data I'm working on.
I played some Half-Life 2 today, there's a lot of creativity that went into this game. As I played it again today it gave me a few laughs.
If you played the first installment of Half-Life 2, you may remember the NPC characters frequently shouting "Follow Freeman".
As the NPC characters stood around idle, they would make comments that sound as if they where on Twitter. LOL
Way back when the original Half-Life game came out and I played it on my ancient 3Dfx Voodoo card, the graphics blew me away. I've been loving the whole Half Life series and wait in anticipation for the next episode.
I was disappointed that there was not much news of Half-Life 2 Episode 3 this year, so lately I been going back into time to enjoy the beginning of Half Life 2. I thought Half-Life 1 set the bar.
This game set the bar again, the experience is so well done, that the replay value is good even for single player mode. I have lots PC games, once I finish one, I uninstall it. This is one of the few games I have worthy of staying installed for years.
Looking at my previous post I felt the isBehindLine function served it's purpose, but if I get a more complicated problem similar to a raycasting test with imaginary ray of arbitrary width I would need to know more information where a Point is relevant to a Segment.
The "whereAboutSegment" function will return a String this time, with more detailed info of the Point's where-a-abouts instead of just knowing if its behind a line.
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