It’s that time in the degree where I have to find myself a second internship, but I never expected to earn an actual scholarship! Nothing better than funding to enhance existing projects!

Thanks to all who wished me the best! Just letting you know it’s you guys that will benefit first from my work :D

No IT admin this time! Simulators, dealing with trains and some computer systems and networking. Real projects, man!

So we designed the simulator, made the traffic move.

About time we took it for a test drive.

Some pictures of the world follow!

No lengthy discussion on collision detection or ambient occlusion, I promise.

Developing an intelligent vehicle system meant designing a vehicle simulator, which then meant we had to simulate the world as well, and in that world we need other cars.

Here’s a video of me testing some Traffic AI!

LOL what just happened?

Whilst working with robots this semester, I also worked on a vehicle simulator for another subject as part of a negotiated advanced assignment.

I felt the original project of using WinForms to mockup a vehicle using buttons and textboxes was way too boring, luckily everyone else in the team totally  agreed (but that was more likely due to the fact I was making that other simulator game).

So we went all out and designed a proper simulator system. And we were only 150 pages over the page limit!

I have to say working on this project was heaps fun. Sleeping overnight in the lab, the wonders of integration testing, deadlocks, livelocks, and best of all robot arms going wild and trying to kill our team members.

We eventually managed to tame the beast. And finally at 2AM on the due date we did a full run. It’s a bit long, so you might want to skip through.

Preliminary testing of our ICT Design project.

More about the team and project…

It’s been a few months since I started the making my own jet fighter game.

From buying joysticks, to testing missiles, realising sketches to designing jets, it has been pretty fun. So I guess a good old video has been long overdue…

I couldn’t sit around all day and use other people’s models for the flight game. So I set about learning how to make my own.

Here’s some pictures of the modelling process. Although Blender has a ridiculous learning curve and more shortcuts than every permutation of combinations a keyboard allows, once you get the hang of it, it just gets way too fun.