Windows to the soul
Recently while playing around with “vanilla” (unaltered) Arena, I noticed that the windows turn on an off for day and night. I believe this is based on the window color being pure white. In quite a few of the SET files, I had made the windows yellow breaking the on/off effect. It’s an easy fix though.
The most exciting screenshot EVER!
Borked Windows
Caveat: I’m a hopeless tech nerd.
I like trying out software and technology. Things like text-to-speech, software debugging, emulators, etc. are like candy to me. Why is this on an art blog….err i mean…collegiate journal? Because sometimes I mess stuff up. This time I was trying to get a Windows XP/7 program that doesn’t like Windows 10 to install on my computer. In doing so, I borked my login so that it wouldn’t accept my password. From that point started a chain of events (all my own doing) to fix it that made the situation worse and worse. Finally, I couldn’t even boot my machine. Seriously, I’m pretty good with tech but on this day I rolled a “1”.
Long story short, I recently had to wipe my boot drive (no important files were on there but the OS) and install a clean Windows 10. I tried to cold turkey eliminate using GIMP since I already have Photoshop. That didn’t work too well. Photoshop is different enough that some very common things I was used to doing all the time in GIMP didn’t work. I’ll probably start watching some intro videos to see how Photoshop works before I try that again.
All in all, not my proudest tech week (or two).
MIF
I did some research into the MAP files for Arena. However, I want to compile it in a cohesive manner so that post will wait till I feel it is ready enough. My hope is that the information that I have uncovered might help others if they decide to “crack” the format.
Martin
Hah, fun week. GIMP is the opposite for me — coming from a long time in Photoshop, due to differences in common procedures, I haven’t ever fully switched to it. Looking forward to the MAP file info! Cracking that sounds like a fun challenge.
Hi, i’m Tyler, I wanted to talk to you about Arena modding. I will send you a private message on nexus.
This is awesome, I can’t wait. 😀 When do you think it will be finished?
I’m working as time permits. I hope to release beta by summer or sooner. After the doors I have a few other floor textures then it’ll be ready for Beta 1.
– Martin