tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-359130832011-10-05T16:24:15.339+02:00Jesús Alonso Abad - Shouting in the voidJesús Alonsohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06107434007578782849noreply@blogger.comBlogger281100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35913083.post-30842998520540127712009-04-16T16:48:00.003+02:002009-04-16T16:55:14.243+02:00

Hi all! It's been ages since my last post (again). Can't tell much about my recent life though. Just wanted to share some experiments I've been doing with After Effects lately. I'll most likely post some more videos of my experiments in the future :)PS: This year is The Matrix's 10th anniversary. Are you planning something about it?

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This is something I've felt like writing for quite a long time. Here are some reflections that I've collected and assimilated during my whole life, that I wouldn't like to be lost accidentally someday just for my own laziness. I'm writing them here so they can become buried in the net and hopefully helping others reach their own conclusions.If you're someone definitely not interested in

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First, excuse me for the long time without posting here. Life is taking all my time and I'm becoming really busy.Me and two other friends have got accepted a city generator project proposal, and things are coming along quite nice (a bit time-shifted from the estimated timing, but quite nice after all). Here's a shot of our (to be rejected later) prototype for you all to enjoy :PWhat you see there

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I guess it's time to make this public. Along the first half of 2007 I was working on a personal project, a psychological thriller game entitled Lullaby.I took it really seriously, but due to the incredible workload for a one-man-army-like development team, had to indefinitely halt the project. As I guess it's more useful for other people being public, I've decided to open the blog I was using to

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So at last they came! My vacation are here, and we are going to a countyside lodge to spend the whole week there.We have several plans to spend the time there. The one I'm most excited with is to gaze the shooting stars shower on the night of Aug 13th (I'll have to miss the peak one today, 12th). Also some live roleplaying at the midst of the week, and loads of fun watching funny videos and

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So, many of you are guessing what I'm spending my time after the exams period (which, by the way, went pretty fine, with the exception of a subject...).Besides unleashing a lot of ideas I had in mind for pictures, I've got back to the Caelum development. The shaders are under a complete overhaul, and so far they look pretty well. Still want to refactor many things, to make it more physically real

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I've lately suffered another art rage. Call me jealous if you want, but watching a couple of classmates draw was the trigger I needed to start again developing an unstoppable urge to draw and paint like never before!As a start, I had to do a painting I wanted to do for some time now, that is already uploaded to DeviantART, CGSociety, and PixelBrush. I'm reading like mad again the [pb] forums and

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I've had the chance to watch some videos at the PETA website. To be honest, I couldn't think people can be so cruel, but it's amazing how some... "beasts" treat the poor living beings. I honestly can't understand...Just a sample: (don't watch if you're an extremely sensible to cruelty person)Fatal fashion: Fur, leather, and wool.And we call ourselves "civilizated" and "rational"... Pah!!

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I don't know if I've already told some of you about Indievelopment.The idea is that the Gamespot crew is releasing a series of videos (most of them home-made) with the tribulations of Echelon, an independent game development studio. This is something like a video-journal, where you can see and hear what indie development is about.Pure coolness :) I'm loving these series!!PS: Requires free

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Probably many of you have been guessing what's sucking all my spare time lately. I can't tell you any details on the project I'm working on, though you'll eventually get all the info available.However, to keep the masses calmed (well, the small group that actually spends some time reading this :-/), I'll tell you a bit of what you can see in these screens:Well, first of all, sorry for the crappy

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Inland empire. The name of the latest of David Lynch masterpieces.Been waiting for this movie for quite some time. After it finally got a distributor for my country, I have been able to watch it. Though I've had to do a little trip to Valladolid (1 hour and a half by car from here) to watch it, but I'm satisfied with what I've got.People has said everything about this movie, and few good. In my

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One year ago, by this time, I had already presented my graduation project, and thus "unofficially" getting my bachelor's degree on computer science...Since then, probably one of the best years of my life has passed.I started, left, and restarted a personal game project I'm very thrilled about.Also learned a lot of new and interesting things, after joining computer science a second time, this one,

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Just wanted you to know I'm pretty busy at this moment (that's why I'm not posting often here).I finished my exams, and have some good expectations about them, but I'll wait until I've got the final qualifications to let you know.However, I'm busier than before, because I've took back an old project I really want to see finished. Started it from zero this time, just to start developing it as a

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I've just read some extra shader auto parameters have been added to Eihort. For those of you who doesn't know yet, Caelum will support Eihort (Ogre 1.4.x) from now on. Some of these parameters will be extra useful for Caelum (for instance, in the layered clouds support).Oh, now that I'm talking about layered clouds...I've just installed a screen movie capturer for Linux, xvidcap, and thought that

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Yeah, yeah, I know I told I would be away for some time, but yesterday found this while I was searching for additional reading for one of my exams. The page in question is agilegamedevelopment.com, a site maintained by Clinton Keith, chief technology officer and lead engine/tools programmer at High Moon studios. A very interesting read (don't miss his blog!)As an extra, found a link in his blog

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...or at least I wish it were the case.I'll be having exams over the next two weeks, so I will be online only from time to time until 7th or 8th of February.Be good while I'm not at home :P

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People often ask me about suggestions for good class design, so I'll write this with the hope more people will find this more easily.The concept of class comes from the social classes. Every society has always been stratified, so people is classified into one of those stratus. As such, every class has their responsibilities already defined: A hunter must hunt, a guardian must guard, a paparazzi..

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This is a video from Rigs of Rods, a game being developed using Ogre that recently adopted Caelum for the sky management.This fan video shows how the game looks with the new sky :)

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Ohayô! Today I'll tell you about my aikido family.I began practising aikido some months ago (about May of 2006), at the Ekilibrio dojo, in Burgos. Since then, a new vision of life was presented to me. A way of peace, care, and respect to every living thing. Though aikido is a martial art, its latest goal is to promote peace, and avoid every form of fight. More disuading the opponent than

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Yeeepes! I finally got my stylus tablet to run under Ubuntu :)Yeah, I know it's not much, but I'm happy enough, hehehe :PBy the way, on a completely different topic, I've finally updated my css style to the new Blogger templates version ^__^

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Listen. Here in Spain, the government plans to unprofessionalize, removing the professional status of the Computer Engineering. This means we will no longer be treated as professionals, but as mere experienced users. And that's only for the lucky ones with a masters degree on the career, consequences still unknown for those with a bachelor degree.In Spain, Computer Engineers are the second most

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Today we visited Códice Software, the team behind PlasticSCM, and had the chance to take a look to how they work. They are currently being evaluated fot the L2 CMMI certification.We went to Valladolid (Spain), to the Technologic Park of Boecillo. I must say that first of all, it's a dreamlike place to work in a software development company. Calm, quiet and surrounded by a beautiful nature

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Yeah!I'm working hard on this, but unfortunately most of it has been in the inside, so few of it can be shown.The good news are that the tasks I first defined are advancing pretty well, and I'm moving faster than I estimated, which is good. At this pace, a new release should be out by end of this year!Meanwhile, some more Ember shots with Caelum; this time, layered clouds added :)Now I must go

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Today is a cloudy day... in the world of Caelum!Its development is kinda boosted recently. I've been working on it almost all day long, and this is the result:Some nice detailed "dynamic" altocumulus clouds during a sunset! The blur is because of the bloom filter. Anyways, the bad part is that it's not fully integrated yet, and the performance keeps quite low... :-/ I need to take a look into it

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This seems to be a good week for Caelum. It's development is much better by using some tools like task management and the patch tracker. The "stabilisation" task has gone into beta phase, and I've got it to finally run under my Ubuntu distro.I've had a lot of issues with the nVidia drivers and the kernel headers, but it's finally working. Here is a screenshot I took some minutes ago of the

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Some of you might know I'm developing an Ogre3D plugin named Caelum. Caelum is the latin word for "Sky", and thus its main goal is to render various sky elements and managing them. You can see the project details at sourceforge.net. It's based on a method for sky colour rendering (you can read it in english or in spanish) I developed some time ago.The project is on hold indefinitely due to some

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Diane, it's 1:28 pm. It's a rainy, cold, autumn day here.I spent about four hours yesterday night trying to get Java to work on my Ubuntu x64 distro. A waste of time. Be it because of unsupported platforms, installation problems, or compatibility issues, I couldn't get JavaCC to work. I think I'll have to find a WinXP machine as soon as possible.And regarding java, last Sunday I found a place

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Probably the most used sentence in the programming world, and the very first that a programming language should say... What better to start this blog?So here I am. From time to time, I'll tell you about how my life's going, my thoughts, and maybe some fun, hehehe.Be welcome.

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