So, I finally posted AS3DMD 4.17. See it up on the AS3DMD website. It supports xml, tar data files, and milkshape models. Bla bla bla. This is short because I haven't posted on JF for a month and I'm just trying to build enough courage to post again. The main problem is starting. Once I've stopped doing JF even one night, I can't start. Night after night I find anything else to do and it's not cool. Talking about not cool, I just looked at my bank account balance. There's not enough to pay my tuition even with my parent's generous contribution. This is to become a lesson in economics: I have two resources credit and debit. A person can pay for anything, but specifically any debts, rent, and phone with debit. A person can purchase items and pay for tuition with credit. By jumping through a few hoops, a person can get a cash advance on credit and put it in debit at a high rate of interest. My credit balance is $1,000. My debit balance is $2,400. I need to pay for $1,994 tuition, $340 rent, and $80 groceries. No problem, right? Wrong. Stupidly, I paid for rent and groceries with debit. That takes me down to $1980 in debit and $1,000 in credit. How do I pay my tuition? Uh oh! Cash advance from credit. I transferred $1,000 from credit to debit. Cash advance takes 7-10 days plus 3 days transit plus one day bank time. My tuition is due in 4 days. I have $0 in credit, $1980 in debit. I am screwed. But wait! Can I call one one of my smaller reserves? I only counted the $1,000 on my high limit card. Maybe I have a $500 limit card that can grant me $100 to pay tuition which I can pay back... Uh huh. Knowledge of credit cards and economics saved the day.
Whatd'ya know? Another Making of JF not posted. I'm going for a record of pages written and never published.
Update: AS3D Collision Works works! I spent eight hours today trying to find the problem. I finally found that the inBox wasn't working. Wtf? I messed with it and I did this:
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It's been a week or two since I posted a Making Of JF. I'm not slacking, no. I just registered AltSci3D Manga Director, the software that I wrote to create Javantea's Fate Web Comic. Sourceforge gave me a free website, CVS, shell, FTP, and distrobution site, so I'm up and running. It's up at http://as3dmd.sourceforge.net/ . It's a pretty big step for me. Starting with just getting Linux running, then compiling a hello world program. The next thing I knew I had a full featured 3D editor. And now it's open source.
