Outcast.cz

I started to seriously work my eshop. The shop is based on Zen-Cart but making it work the way I want is quiet a lot of work. I haven't seen php in ages so the first day of staring into php code was a torture. At the end of the day I figured out how GET works and could start working on what I needed ^_^. Double face palm wouldn't help during the that night. But when I woke up in the morning and looked at some random php code I started to remember how it works.

Making changes in Zen-Cart can be tricky. If you want to change something you need to find all the files that have a certain code and definitions in them and change them accordingly and you can't forget about the configuration database either.

For the time being the changes I made are following.

• I changed the layout, styles, translated what I needed etc. CSS knowledge is enough for this...
  
• changed the layout to grid keeping row layout for singles(cPath variable solved my issue)
  
• added extra fields to my products table
  
• listed extra fields on category listing page (see image above) and on the single product listing page (after I told the configuration table about all the changes I made it started to work, a problem arose though. It inserted breaks in the column code and I can't get rid of them right now)
  
• created a search that can filter singles by color, type, edition and rarity. (it does not work well jet as I have problem with javascript that removes the initial string - for some reason I can't get it to work O_O. This is step one though as the search engine should be based on multiple choice checkboxes and I have no idea how zencart works with that. Gotta figure that out later)

There is still a lot of work to do and when I will launch the shop much more work will be upon my head. I have bunch of other scripts that help me with the administration of the web. I later got Apsona Shop Admin and I have to admit that it is good and powerful tool. I no longer need to use the administration in Zen-Cart.

Anyway by trying all this and browsing many files I came to understand how some things work in Zen-Cart.

The shop can be found at http://outcast.cz but is still in showcase mode.

Unity Project Website

So well now I present you the website that should be showing my Unity project.

Note that the project is not yet finished. There are many things that need to be fixed and that need to be done. (some materials got messed up after conversion, collisions are not really working the best they could..I did not even start working on light/shadow maps)

Here is the link. Enjoy.

Unity Project

Invitation to my and Pavel Belan's Final Show

Final Show - Videos and Animations site

I prepared videos and animations site for the final show.

3dsmax continuing...

So well...I have problems with collisions in the Unity game engine. I spent two days figuring out which model is making the game crash. I found it out but I did not really know what to do with that. Anyway I set it to convex collisions and now it more or less works. It's slow around 12-30 fps which is not what I should be getting. There has to be another problem somewhere.

Anyway everything gets converted and compressed and sometimes it generates errors on the textures for some unknown reason (at least to me).

So here you van have a look on what I have so far....not sure if I'm going to continue working on another rooms. I haven't even done the lightmaps/shadowmaps yet and this is going to take ages.

3dsmax - the work is continuing

Maybe it starts to be looking as 'something'...

3dsmax - Continueing with more objects

I created the floor plan of the first room (walked around and measured everything). Then I made the floor plan in Adobe Illustrator and imported it in 3dsmax. I encountered a weird error but saving the ai file as Adobe Illustrator 8 solved the problem.

So here's my work in progress...