Another long due update

I’ve been working on a cloaking script  for JIAM(JokerIce Admin Mod) together with Robbis which hides the player from the server. I’m the one doing the clientside effects(which are oh so necessary amirite), while Robbis works on the serverside part. Although this cloaking script doesn’t really affect any of the JokerIce community members as it’s more or less an admin utility(thus why clientside effects are oh so very necessary, right?).

Older effect

I’ve also perfected how the Jetpack SENT looks, with a little help from the Player Appearance Customer by CapsAdmin, and Kookas who was also kind enough to give it a model, thanks!

And here’s a useless video of me, Robbis and BomBom messing about on the new server. Not too much to see unless you’re a part of JokerIce, not much too see even if you are.

A Long Due Update

I probably owe some people an update on the roleplay gamemode, seeing as there was quite a few people interested in it.

It isn’t going anywhere at the moment, with both Robbis and me(mainly Robbis) being busy with life stuff there hasn’t really been a whole lot of time to work on it.
Not to mention that I’m so insanely bored of Lua by now, just thinking about writing even the tiniest script makes me squirm in agony. But oh well, I suppose that’s how it goes when you sit with something 24/7 for years.

I’m mainly focusing on extending my knowledge of C++ at the moment. With help from the oh so awesome Robbis I’ve managed to do more with C++ than I ever thought I’d be able to do.  So far I can’t say C++ has been particularly challenging, but then again I’ve got several years of experience with other C like languages to aid me.

I’ve mainly been playing around with the Haaf’s Game Engine, which has been great so far. It’s low level enough to feel like I’m actually achieving something at the same time as it’s not low level enough to make me crap my pants.
Although it’s not much, and it’s very much WIP, here’s the project I’ve been working on:

Thinking about scrapping it and starting over though, code-wise it didn’t turn out quite the way I want it.

Stereo Mix/What u hear in Windows Live Messenger 9/MSN

Kudos goes to http://sites.google.com/site/gencoreoperative/index/articles-and-hacks/wlm-9-stereo-mix-voiceclip, reposting it here to help spread this excellent knowledge and to clarify a few steps.

I was pretty excited over Windows Live Messenger 9 when it came out, but was greatly disappointed when I saw that Stereo Mix was gone. Apparently streaming ten second low quality clips counts as copyright infringement.
Most of the times I resorted to downloading an earlier version which still allowed Stereo Mix, but doing so sacrificed the new design and features.

After installing Windows 7 I figured I couldn’t be the only one missing stereo mix. After googling around for roughly thirty minutes I finally found the guide I linked to earlier in this post. The reason I’m rewriting it is because it’s not all that descriptive on some steps. Anyway here it is, as a simple step-by-step guide:

1. 1. Open the registry editor
   ( Start -> Run -> regedit OR windows button + R -> regedit )
2. 2. Navigate the registry editor to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\UCCPlatform\WindowsLiveMessenger
3. 3. Minimize the registry editor and open your sound properties and go to the Recording tab
   ( Control Panel -> Hardware and Sound -> Sound OR right click the speaker icon in your systray -> Recording devices )
4. 4. Double click ( OR right click -> Properties ) Stereo Mix or What u hear
   Take note of the name in the editable text box, as well the text under Controller Information
   

   Stereo Mix Properties

5. 5. Go back to the registry editor, right click the AudioCapture node -> New -> Key, name it as such: <Sound input name> (<Controller Information>)
   For example in my case I’d name the key “Stereo Mix (Realtek High Definition Audio)”, check the image above and you’ll most likely get it.
   REMEMBER the name you just set it to, we’ll use it later
6. 6. Select the newly created node and where the (Default) key is right click the white area -> New -> DWORD(32-bit) Value, name it DefaultVolume
   

   Regedit showing the newly created node

7. 7. Double click the newly created key and change the value to ffff and click OK
8. 8. Click the WindowsLiveMessenger node. Then double click the PrefAudioCapture key. Remember the AudioCapture node name? (Check step.5) Set the value to that.
   (If the PrefAudioCapture key doesn’t exist then open Windows Live Messenger -> Tools -> Audio and Video setup and click Finish, then go back to reg edit and hit F5 to refresh)

9. 

   Regedit showing the PrefAudioCapture key

10. 9. Restart Windows Live Messenger
11. 10. From the main Windows Live Messenger window, press alt to bring down the menu -> Tools -> Audio and Video setup
12. 11. Close the window by pressing the X button, don’t press Next or Finish It wont show Stereo Mix anywhere in the audio and video setup, but that’s normal.

And done! Now you should be able to record clips from your Stereo Mix/What u hear input.

Still Progressing, Just Slower.

Just posting to let you know the project isn’t dead yet.
It’s mostly Robbis working on the gamemode at the moment since I’ve been feeling rather shitty lately, and he only just got home from vacation so not much has been done since the last post.
But it’s slowly getting back on track and hopefully I’ll get better so I can find strength to help.

I’ve at least done a little bit of modeling, albeit simple

We’re Making Progress.. Slowly

We haven’t gotten very far yet, but at least we’ve got some progress

VGUI Concept image provided by the oh so awesome Noxy:

WIP In-Game VGUI:

Character creation screen, also WIP

Now let’s just hope it wont go and get abandoned

Stuff

Finished writing a small indexing script that can be found in use here:
http://stuff.deruu.com/ (It’s a file dump, don’t expect anything spectacular here. Contains what some people might call mature content)

Current features:

• Detects index.html/php in subfolders and properly links to them(optional)
• Filetype icon array(Structure: “png” => “image.png”)
• Root blacklist and a global blacklist which prevents certain files from being indexed
• Recursive folder browsing

Planned:

• Proper image viewing(with thumbnails)
• Locked/hidden folders
• Numerical sorting for numerical folders(for example dates, currently only sorting alphabetically)

Role…p-play?

Robbis and I have been writing a concept for a roleplaying gamemode that would be exclusive to JokerIce. Even though we’re not sure if it’s something we’re actually going to be doing(lazy) yet

The idea is this: Deus Ex, System Shock 2, Eve Online(very little) and Face of Mankind inspired sci-fi themed roleplaying game mode.

Seeing as we are pretty damn lazy I doubt it’ll happen, but we’ll see.