Getting one's rear end into gear

[Tom B]

Having been busy most of these holidays I decided to fire up vi this morning to do a little coding.

This *is* just part of an afternoon's work, so very much WIP at present.

I'm also trying to get some animated pointwork to work, which should look pretty cool when it's done *kicks machine*

 

[class 313]

looks good cant wait

 

[Nitro]

Yep looks terrrific

 

[The Snap]

Wow, looks ace! Animated pointwork? I guess that was what you were asking people to test about a month ago then? That, if possible, would be a HUGE break through in BVE!

 

[Tom B]

No, it wasn't actually. The idea came to me a couple of nights ago at about half ten, I spent a couple of hours on it but just can't seem to get it to work correctly...... it's actually a really dead simple trick.

 

[Beaker]

Did not know there was a BVE 6

 

[Tom B]

BVE6?

 

[Derek Kaye]

animate pointwork.. sweet.. does this involve use of the .sigf command? could it be translated accross for use on crossings/flashing sigs?

 

[Tom B]

Indeed it does! Crossings yes - though I don't know how good it would look, as you only realistically get 2 frames. With points, it's not too bad as they generally throw very quickly, but it would be nigh-on impossible to do crossings with multi-frame animation. Again as you only really get two frames, flashing sigs wouldn't be possible / easy.

 

[Tom B]

A little addition

Not bad for an afternoon's work considering I've not touched BVE for a couple of months. Now off to try this wonderful Maybank again !

 

[Beaker]

if you were talking about bve 4 it is iv you said vi which is 6


This may not be what you meant though

 

[andrewmay]

Looking very nice. Keep up the good work.

 

[Tom B]

if you were talking about bve 4 it is iv you said vi which is 6


This may not be what you meant though

Nonono, I said "I opened up vi" as in vi the editor (much better than emacs!).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi

 

[Coxster]

Not bad Tom!

 

[The Snap]

I thought that. I thought that you could use two object files, and make them switch between each other klike a signal feather would do. Very simply I supose, but effective. Keep trying Tom!

 

[LondonBVE]

Nice work Tom keep up the good work!

 

[Jim]

Loving it *goes to play the latest version*