http://www.kelticgames.com Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:46:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Enemy Territory: Quake Wars Stat site has been updated to use unique numbered IDs instead of player names. This is probably due to the XBOX 360 and PS3 releases. I have updated the ET:QW widget to reflect this change. You can update your widget or just enter your profile ... http://www.kelticgames.com/index.php/2008/06/07/etqw-widget-v12/ The PortableApps Suite has just been upgraded to version 1.1. It contains many new features, such as a movable menu, an eject button which closes the menu and opens the Safely Remove hardware dialog, and a global keyboard shortcut for opening the menu. I used this platform daily and it's ... http://www.kelticgames.com/index.php/2008/05/22/portableapps-suite-v11/ When I started my current position, I decided that I wanted to establish a distinct separation between my work data and personal data. While I'd love to have a separate personal laptop, the ultra light models have been too expensive to justify the cost. This year looks to change that ... http://www.kelticgames.com/index.php/2008/05/15/usb-portable-applications/ When I started my first SL project, my wife grabbed a couple SL books from the library where she works. The first was Second Life For Dummies. This may seem surprising, but I have found many of the Dummies books to be humorous and informative introductions into new topics. This ... http://www.kelticgames.com/index.php/2008/05/13/second-life-a-guide-to-your-virtual-world/ The storage of persistent data appears to be quite a hot topic in the Second Life scripting community. I can certainly understand why. There are three options for storing data persistently in SL and each has a significant limitation. Object names and descriptions offer a location to read and write dynamic ... http://www.kelticgames.com/index.php/2008/05/13/sl-persistent-data-storage/ The lack of a sound teleport function in Second Life has become a major frustration. I wrote a basic teleport script using the llSitTarget() hack. This worked well for short range distances, say anything under about 50 meters. However, when I implemented this over longer ranges of about 100m, some ... http://www.kelticgames.com/index.php/2008/05/08/sl-teleport/ The lack of any type of error handling in Linden Scripting Language (lsl) is a bit frustrating. This could be addressed with the addition of a try/catch or an error event. Type checking would also be nice. This could either be done with individual functions, such as llIsInteger(), llIsVector(), etc. Or ... http://www.kelticgames.com/index.php/2008/05/06/sl-lsl-wish-list/ When I started scripting in Second Life, I quickly realized that I would have many dozens of objects that used the same script. This script would need to be updated in all of those objects repeatedly, not something I was looking forward to doing manually. While it would be ideal ... http://www.kelticgames.com/index.php/2008/05/06/sl-updating-scripts/ Yahoo has posted my ET:QW player stats widget in their widget gallery. You can view it here. I've also added a download button to the sidebar. http://www.kelticgames.com/index.php/2008/05/03/etqw-widget-in-yahoo-widget-gallery/ I recently completed the construction of a transportation system within an island of Second Life. This included a vehicle which needed to operate along a generally fixed but not exact path. Instead of putting the vehicle on some type of an rail, I placed the vehicle in the space, pointed ... http://www.kelticgames.com/index.php/2008/04/29/sl-rotations/