Visual Entertainment And Technologies LLC

September 2024 Update

Added 2024-09-03 15:35:13 +0000 UTC

Greetings Everyone,

FBS Fund Raising

We raised $592.38 this month, $546.87 from Patreon and $45.51 from PayPal. This puts us at $2316.14 toward our $2500 goal. When we reach this goal, we will get a $1000 bonus from Milestone #2's failure, and I will also be putting an additional $20 from a semi-finished bounty. As a reminder, I will temporarily pause FBS fundraising once we reach the Milestone #5 goals.

I have updated the fund tallies on the website but I have not processed points yet. I want to focus what little time I have on programming this week.

GearCity: 2nd Gear

Milestone #4 was released last month. Over the holiday weekend, we got several bug submissions, so I will be working on v2.4.0.1 a little earlier than I anticipated.

AeroMogul

I was able to put a decent week into AeroMogul. I put some finishing touches on the AI aircraft selection code. And I implemented a server-side save game format to view what the AI is doing externally. This save game format is temporary, as I am unsure what final format I want to use. Right now, the system uses JSON. We also have engine support for Protobufs, which are more efficient, but a binary format that requires some work if anyone wants to make a save game editor. And then finally, SQLite from GearCity is also an option. That one is much more developer and debugging-friendly. Choices choice.

In any case, because of the poor code quality in GearCity: 2nd Gear, I've had to jump yet again back to GC. But after I finish FBS Milestone #5, I will clear my schedule to work on AM solely until we get Phase 1 testing out, at least.