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Interpolation Success!

I’m VERY HAPPY to say, especially after this weekend’s problems that I seem to be getting the hang of this basic Interpolator class stuff.

It’s working like a charm for the logo and splash pages and really makes a big difference in the presentation. I never did have the intro screens working quite right and now things are looking pretty sharp.

It’s too late here to keep moving forward tonight so I’m off to bed, but hopefully tomorrow I’ll be able to finish up the screen interpolations and hopefully start diving into the timer upgrade throughout the rest of the game.

On a minor note, I’ve also been chipping away at the new game art and UI.

Much Calmer Now

Ok, after saying “To heck with it!”, and '”it” being Visual Studio 2008, 2010, and any kind of converter, and any way to create a new project…I gave creating a new project one last shot which resulted in the same apparent lock up as all the other attempts before. The difference is, this time I was so frustrated I left it ‘locked up’ and walked away to do something else on another computer.

Wouldn’t you know 3 minutes later Visual Studio 2008 decided it had thought long enough about creating a new project and…did. So I saved out that new project as a timer and interpolator test project to play around with and got back to important stuff…like playing Starcraft II.

So I had plenty of time to cool down after the 2 hours or so of completely wasted time earlier today, and I was able to go through Nick G’s tutorial in a breeze.

I’m pretty sure that system is the better way to go so the next step is to go back and try implementing it again in “Deep Blue”.

The bad news is the real possibility that I could be in serious trouble if I HAVE to upgrade “Deep Blue” to a Visual Studio 2010 project…since still, only one file successfully converted.

Hopefully I can finish it before the Visual Studio 2010 project becomes a requirement.

Full Circle

Super. The good news I guess is that I didn’t lose any code for Deep Blue in all that conversion/backup nonsense. The bad news is that I’ve now come full circle and am now where I was a few hours ago. VS 2008 opens and runs Deep Blue, and I’m unable to create a new project.

Awesome. 

I think I’m done for a while. Enough wasted time.

Upgrade Fail

After installing Visual Studio Express 2010 I tried to open “Deep Blue’s” project which instantly starts the “project update” import function.

I’m annoyed to report that apparently only one file in the entire project successfully converted.

The good news: I found an installer still on my hard drive for Visual Studio 2008 and I’m reinstalling that again to see if I can open the project and hopefully create a new project after that test.

It couldn’t be easy could it.

Studio Express Update Day

Well, a little unexpected, but it looks like today is Visual Studio Express Upgrade day. In attempting to follow Nick G’s tutorial on using the timer and interpolator class I’ve suddenly come to discover that my version of Visual Studio Express (2008 version for the record), has rebeled and refuses to create a new project.

Cute.

I tried the ‘repair’ feature in Windows…and that hasn’t helped. Sooooo, I’m currently downloading and installing Visual Studio 2010 and crossing my fingers that there aren’t major upgrade difficulties with existing projects.

Don’t let the fact that I started “Deep Blue” with Visual Studio 2005 give the illusion that the dev time has taken longer than it actually has. Granted….it’s take much longer than I’d originally thought…but not 5 years.