Still Learning Second Life Script

I'm still learning a lot about Second Life scripting even though I've been through a couple of rounds of what I would call significant digging. The latest learning as you might know from this blog was a Tic-Tac-Toe game I built. I've been working on another game, still in the rough draft phase trying to discern what might be possible and found a page of examples on the lsl wiki.

http://www.lslwiki.net/lslwiki/wakka.php?wakka=examples

I was digging through these and found a full example of building a Tic-Tac-Toe game. Had I known this existed, I probably wouldn't have read it before hand anyways because I sometimes like to figure stuff out then compare to how others solve the same problems.

http://www.lslwiki.net/lslwiki/wakka.php?wakka=ExampleTicTacToe

As I expected, we went about it in different ways, but I do think that both solutions are fairly equal. I did force people to sit at the table and after I was done thought it would be better to have people simply click to choose sides. He did the later and it is a lot easier to setup than the code I did to watch for people that sit down. Good learning experience though.

One of the best parts of this example is the discussion on Version Control. (http://www.lslwiki.net/lslwiki/wakka.php?wakka=ExampleTicTacToeVersionControl) This is something I struggled with early on and he has a very elegant solution to keep all the scripts in the root prim and copy them out to the child prims when you type "/1 listen" into chat. I spent a lot of time reading this section of the example and will probably be implementing something similar for a future game. A full example isn't given and it glosses over some of the aspects that make this a general use solution so this is definitely going to be home grown.

I haven't really gotten past that page yet and I'll have to spend some time to finish it. Very worthwhile reading.

My Web Comic Turned 50

A little over a year since I first turned over my daily Farside calendar and started drawing my own webcomic (in about 30 seconds as the drawing is very simple), I've reached 50 posts and decided to take a break. It was fun and I still have some more I could post, but it doesn't feel healthy to put my mind in such a negative light and keep producing these. I recently read C.S. Lewis' Screwtape Letters and his prologue mention his unwillingness to continue writing more letters (even given high reader/publisher demand) because of the negative attitude this produced within himself. This hit home. Not to compare myself to C.S. Lewis as he is a huge figure, it just reminded me of my own feelings on the subject of writing in a negative light. Hopefully I'll be inspired to write a more positive webcomic, but then I'll probably have an even smaller audience than I've garnered with this one. Of course the final webcomic is one that mocks myself so it seemed an appropriate place to take a break.

http://facebigelow.blogspot.com