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Komodo Plugin Update

Work on code completion proceeds, fun rendering of a TorqueScript Abstract Syntax Tree, and other goodies

Author Thomas "elfprince13" Dickerson Date 02/06/2012 (6:15 pm) Comment 21 comments

Komodo Edit TorqueScript Plugin (Mac/PC/Linux)

Edit TorqueScript more conveniently on OS X (and any other platform that has Komodo Edit or Komodo IDE)

Author Thomas "elfprince13" Dickerson Date 02/01/2012 (11:57 am) Comment 7 comments

FreeBuild Progress

What's this you say? Buildable vehicles and characters? Interoperability with popular Lego CAD software? Tell me more!

Author Thomas "elfprince13" Dickerson Date 01/26/2012 (3:17 pm) Comment 9 comments

Gideon+Minifig == Skeletal Shenanigans

T3D's Gideon has very different proportions from a LEGO minifig. Also, the nodes in his skeleton need to be rotated a bit. Shenanigans ensue

Author Thomas "elfprince13" Dickerson Date 08/01/2011 (9:40 am) Comment 6 comments

Triumph at last

FreeBuild makes some progress after doing battle with the devil-code that is a flex/bison lexer/parser.

Author Thomas "elfprince13" Dickerson Date 02/11/2010 (10:22 pm) Comment 5 comments

FreeBuild Progresses, phpBB2 Integration Part 2

A followup to my blog on phpBB2 integration, and some fun screenshots showing the progression of FreeBuild's game development

Author Thomas "elfprince13" Dickerson Date 02/02/2010 (4:29 pm) Comment 22 comments

Happy New Years from the FreeBuild crew

After some discussion yesterday we're making our announcement here. There's some good news and some bad news Lets start with the bad news so you can all be grumpy for a couple seconds before you get to the good news.

Author Thomas "elfprince13" Dickerson Date 01/01/2010 (11:38 am) Comment 2 comments

Still Alive and Kicking

Just some pretty pictures and vague status updates. Mostly hoping for some feedback on the artwork. That's all for now folks.

Author Thomas "elfprince13" Dickerson Date 11/13/2009 (2:32 am) Comment 0 comments

Inventory System, Castles, Replication

Explanation of Freebuild's new inventory system, new gui controls, mapping progress, and some timing issues with replicator objects.

Author Thomas "elfprince13" Dickerson Date 11/03/2009 (1:09 am) Comment 3 comments

Fun new map, problems with fxFoliageReplicator

Began work on a Retro-Lego themed new map with 2 bases, designed for various team fighting game-modes.

Author Thomas "elfprince13" Dickerson Date 10/25/2009 (3:08 am) Comment 3 comments

Introduction: FreeBuild, phpBB2 integrations and SAX chat

Introductions, background and history on my current primary game development project, and the first installment of walk-through implementing a login system based around the a phpBB2 login database.

Author Thomas "elfprince13" Dickerson Date 10/21/2009 (5:14 pm) Comment 15 comments

Translating static dts meshes

The quest for understanding DTS files, and hopefully getting legacy artwork back into an editable format.

Author Thomas "elfprince13" Dickerson Date 10/18/2009 (4:12 am) Comment 5 comments