MT34901

2011-01-31T18:45:00.001-05:00

Start of Online class MT34901

Yay! My original blogger account still exists so ill just use this for now.

Weekly hw 12 (part 1)

2007-12-21T15:15:00.001-05:00

I did a horrible attempt at adding a beard to poor john's face. i took 3 screenshots with different angles on each one and it doesnt look bad...if it wasnt such a bad looking beard lol

Weekly hw 12 (part 2)

2007-12-21T14:10:00.000-05:00

these are the screen shots i took using facegen. i added a few emotions and made him say ahhhhhhhhh lol i also change his eyebrows a tiny bit and made him squint

Weekly hw 9 (part 2)

2007-12-21T13:45:00.000-05:00

The IBM Game Report was very interesting. The sense that Massively Multi player Online Role Playing Games are helping to share the next generation of great leaders feels very accurate to me. I may not be one of the best leaders but i have had my share of running a "Guild" in such MMORPGs. Running this guild helped me to get a sense of how to lead one group of people to achieve greater things withing the confines of the video game itself.
I would have to agree with IBM that video games are indeed a good way to decipher what one particular individual will be good at in a particular business setting. Terms such as "Tanker" or "Full Support" can be translated to what i think of as a Tanker or i would like to call them leaders of a smaller project within a larger scale. To me a Full Support can be equivalent to a person who is well versed with multi tasking as often times in games a Full Support class has to watch everyone's backs and make sure everyone is up to speed with all they need.
I was very surprised at the survey they performed. The statistics were quite startling to me as i haven't see the same statistics within the MMOs that i play. Such as the fact that the average gamer age is 27 which is quite a high number...and that is the average age...which means that there are plenty of people who are much older than 27 who play games heavily. Overall, the statistics during their study startled me quite a bit. To think that those statistics are from a year, two years ago. Who knows how the growth of all this will turn out in the next decade.
The fact that games create great leaders sounds very wonderful to me because of the fact that my parents used to tell me that playing games would get me no where, but now i feel as though playing games have actually slightly prepared me for the future ahead instead of hindering my progress in life. There have actually been a few times in my life where games have helped me through a test or to answer a question that came up. Those times may not be many but they have happened on a few occasions.
I hope in the near future that this research into games and business will continue with more support. Who knows? maybe companies will start to require some sort of gaming experience to work for a business. That sounds like a long shot but it does help to improve relationships between individuals. We will not know until many many years from now but with the current generation of people being brought up into the world it may just be a possible scenario for the future.

Weekly hw 10

2007-12-21T13:20:00.000-05:00

Wonderland is completely unable to run for me...when i put in the values that the website told me to put in wonderland says connecting... and then it just suddenly closes and i have no idea why ive looked for a solution but i havent found anything yet so at this moment im unable to provide screen shots of wonderland

Wonderland doesnt seem to have any other problem besides being unable to connect to the public wonderland server...if anything changes ill be sure to put something about it but i highly doubt it will just magically fix itself lol but yeah ill stay positive.

Weekly hw 9 (part 1)

2007-12-21T12:39:00.000-05:00

I didnt get to run LOTRO nor WOW but i do play other mmo's so ill post a few of the screen shots i took from those respective mmo's....the First one is a game called Flyff and the second one is a game called Drift City...its just some random times in game that i had and some event screen shots from the games.
So yeah these are just a few in game screen shots and etc...

Weekly hw 8

2007-12-21T12:28:00.000-05:00

Here are some pictures of working with Maya...I just did those assignments and took a few screen shots of random parts i was on...Maya seems like tons of fun lol but it also seems like a very difficult and indepth program to use...when i was moving objects around i would often times put it in the wrong areas or it would be hard to size an object correctly and etc etc... but all in all it seems like it runs very smoothly without any problems whatsoever

Weekly hw 7

2007-12-19T21:41:00.001-05:00

Here are a few pictures of me being a rabbit in Croquet....i couldnt get croquet to connect to another peer at all so i wasnt able to obtain any screen shots of interacting with eachother.

Weekly hw 4,5,6

2007-12-19T21:25:00.000-05:00

The above screen shots are for the weekly hw assignments 4 5 and 6. They contain pictures of the class talking about building....our solo assignment that we needed to publish and other various things withing second life. They also contain pictures in which i was creating/building posters....wallpapers...grass...and an attempt to create a fence.

2007-11-25T18:18:00.000-05:00

I went onto toys for tots (totstv.org) and played some of the games available there and i recieved a score of 1490 on the hamtaro bouncing game

Croquet connecting

2007-11-04T19:19:00.000-05:00

we had some issues with connecting with one another in p2p and the prog. would freeze with certain templates such as "sailing" or "simpledemo" this caused some frustration because we tried multiple times and different ways to connect....trying to find a solution but we couldnt get it connected.

Review for Second Life

2007-10-28T17:38:00.000-04:00

Full name:Henry Cheung
Virtual World tested: Second Life
Testing time period : 2007-09-30 to 2007-10-28
Computer make/model:Homemade AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+ 3.2GHz
Operating System:Windows XP
RAM:1gb
Video Card:256M GeForce 8600GT

:::::::::::: Stability and reliability ::::::::::::

This section contains my log file (which I updated each time I ran this
virtual world) that details:

1) How often I've run this virtual world program
2) How often it crashes/freezes or otherwise can't be used
3) How often I have other problems (if not #2 above) using the software

Below is my log file:

While running Second Life I haven’t experienced a crash from the game yet.

I’ve run Second Life about 20 times now.

The game does seem laggy at times and it takes a second or two for the lag to catch-up.

There was one incident where my character was glitched and appeared under the ground. It took a few moments before my character respawned back on a normal plane.

There was another incident where my character was glitched in flight and I could not land, this caused my character to move extremely slow unless I was in the “flying” action. It required me to restart Second Life and teleport to another area before I could fix this. It happened inside a building

A lot of video/audio in the game take a long time to load I don’t know if it is due to the fact second life is taking up a lot of bandwidth from my connection, but im assuming this might be one of the reasons for the slow loading.

The game has yet to crash completely but glitches seem to be common.

Clothing and other graphics often appear glitchy.

Taking screenshots with the Second Life program seem to use up a lot of my computers power but ever since IrfanView was introduced to me I haven’t had any problems with screenshots.

I haven’t encountered any problems with building as of yet, but not all areas allow building.

Often times when I build something it gets put into my inventory after im done, I don’t know if that’s supposed to happen but it does it all the time.

:::::::::::: Exposure to inappropriate content/avatars ::::::::::::

yes: Encountered an avatar who attempted to engage in inappropriate conversation
no: Viewed more or more avatars exhibiting sexually explicitly acts
no: Solicited by "prostitute avatars" offering services in exchange for money
yes: Entered areas containing nude or partially nude avatars
no: Entered areas containing sexually explicit photos or videos

building in second life

2007-10-28T17:28:00.000-04:00

i used youtube to search for a faq on building in second life and here is the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6XqQM9hgB0 alfred also found a sandbox for us to build inside of and he helped us out with building a few things.

weekly hw 3 (part 3)

2007-10-25T19:13:00.000-04:00

these are the various screen shots that i took and the various area's ive been exploring more and more. as ive tried to make new friends within the second life world ive noticed alot of different types of people. from the extremely friendly to the ones that ignore u constantly making friends withing second life isnt as easy as it sounds. i encountered a few problems this time where servers would fill up and not allow me to go to various places and sometimes the sheer number of people in one area just makes the prog run extremely slow. and sometimes the graphics would glitch and cause my avatar to do strange things. thats most of the information i can remember from this. ill post more as i continue on with this class. i also had to split this into 3 post due to the fact that blogger only allowed me to put 5 pictures per post and had a word limit to each post.

weekly hw 3 (part 2)

2007-10-25T19:11:00.001-04:00

weekly hw 3 (part 1)

2007-10-25T19:09:00.001-04:00

weekly HW 2

2007-10-25T19:07:00.001-04:00

i went back into second life and just walked around and explored most of it. i went to dl the Irfanview tool that the Prof suggested. it seems much better than trying to save the screen shot...and then paste it into adobe just to make a new picture everytime. Irfanview really saves alot of time and effort and im glad this was suggested to me. yet again nothing major has happened in second life as in...no problems of anysort.

weekly HW 1

2007-10-25T19:00:00.000-04:00

i took several pictures of myself in second life. i havent encountered any major difficulties and everything seems to be in order.

SL Experience

2007-09-30T19:10:00.000-04:00

Today's experience in Second Life allowed me to see a variety of different areas and "virtual spaces". I took a look at the "maybe" new design for orientation island and it seemed pretty cool...much better than the old one in my opinion. They explain a lot of the things that i didn't really know about before or atleast....not that well. Second Life seems pretty good as a program for virtual space in general but it still needs some work. I've played many other virtual reality games before but those are created with a lot of indepth work and have dedicated teams for everything. I'm sure as Second Life matures so will the stability of the program.
My biggest problem was the lag someone would experience when going into certain areas that have a lot of fog or detail. Other than that i haven't had any encounters with "crashes" not yet atleast. I hope that doesn't jinx me any time soon. Ive run the program a few times and havent had any issues yet.
Following is a screenshot of the class today.

FINALS

2007-08-02T21:10:00.000-04:00

Final 1

Final 2

Final 3

Final 4

Final 5

Final 6

Final 6

2007-08-02T21:02:00.001-04:00

Express Yourself with Gizmoz Video Clips

Final 5

2007-08-02T20:24:00.001-04:00

I missed the class where we were supposed to do Final 5 but i went on Second life and took some screen shots with some of the menu's open....i also went and read up anything i missed during that class too hopefully this will atleast give me half credit?

Final 4

2007-08-02T20:09:00.000-04:00

https://wfs.bc.edu/cheungh/Untitled2.fxw?uniq=nlpihu
Just a screen shot of some work in Flux Studio

Final 3

2007-08-02T19:31:00.001-04:00

https://wfs.bc.edu/cheungh/Simple.wrl?uniq=nlpitv
Just a screen shot of the simple.wrl.... i changed the colors and moved them a little

Final 2

2007-08-02T19:04:00.000-04:00

Final number 2 and just some screen shots with people.

Final 1

2007-08-02T18:14:00.000-04:00

Just some screen shots of second life

doom

2007-07-26T20:28:00.001-04:00

one of the first 3d games in the world

tank 3d

2007-07-26T20:09:00.000-04:00

just a simple 3d game that i was playing

tots tv

2007-07-26T19:40:00.001-04:00

i got these screen shots from the video kiwi on totstv

pre rendered image

2007-07-26T19:24:00.001-04:00

this is not an example of real time 3d

Immersive Education

2007-07-19T20:55:00.001-04:00

shockwave game

2007-07-19T20:28:00.000-04:00

i played this game at the 3d shockwave game site

faneuil hall screenshot

2007-07-19T19:59:00.001-04:00

i found all of these pictures in faneuil hall

mediagrid

2007-07-19T19:45:00.001-04:00

news in new york

2007-07-19T19:02:00.000-04:00

just some news about New York

midterms submission

2007-07-19T18:44:00.000-04:00

my midterm post is here... and above are the screenies to prove it!

midterm 10

2007-07-17T19:16:00.001-04:00

just a screen shot of my work so for midterm 10

midterm 7

2007-07-17T17:41:00.000-04:00

here is the jpg of the midterm 7

Midterm 6

2007-07-17T16:51:00.000-04:00

its the animation with my name rotating and the penguin with the text over him

midterm 5

2007-07-17T16:45:00.001-04:00

the png interlaced and the jpg progressive images of the monster.jpg

midterm 4

2007-07-17T16:19:00.000-04:00

The greeting card that we have to do i took the screen shot of my monkey and just copy/paste the text onto the picture

the in class screen shot of avatar

2007-07-12T19:35:00.001-04:00

just the screenshot of a classmates avatar

Midterm9 in class work

2007-07-05T21:05:00.000-04:00

just a screen shot of my work so far i will submit the actual word document at a later time

image resizing

2007-07-05T20:06:00.000-04:00

used paint to resize the coffee cup and put it as eyes for the picture that i found for the actual thing i wont be using paint but photoshop/gimpshop instead so hopefully ill see better transparancy with the images

jpg ramps

2007-07-05T19:37:00.000-04:00

these are the two jpg ramps that seem to have some parts that dont look quite right looks like they threw out some of the data for no reason but the text in the white box looks better than any other part of the jpg's

gif ramps

2007-07-05T19:36:00.001-04:00

these are the two gif files that have seemingly lossless quality and look ok

in class red eye with paint

2007-07-05T19:00:00.000-04:00

just did the same thing as before in midterm 1 just inclass and i had to put my name on it using only paint

the balls are rolling in

2007-07-03T20:37:00.001-04:00

yep just had to save in 3 different formats after writing my name into the picture
jpg/gif/png nothing too difficult

the cat doesnt look so bad but it still is

2007-07-03T20:25:00.000-04:00

yep its just putting a caption into the picture still fairly simple and no problems encountered. and heres the pic

for dry red eye....try clear eye

2007-07-03T20:19:00.001-04:00

lol yeah its just the midterm 1 redeye reduction that we had to do it was fairly simple and i had no problems whatsoever throughout the entire thing.

cropping in class

2007-06-28T20:26:00.001-04:00

just did some basic cropping with paint and then we saved using jpg and gif file formats. the quality of the gif was much worse than the jpg.

my bitmap graphic

2007-06-28T19:42:00.000-04:00

yep its just the picture we edited in class today and it was fairly easy and i hope to move forward soon and get into photoshop/gimpshop asap

OMG ROFL

2007-06-28T18:52:00.000-04:00

omg wth? rofl lol! lmao?!

its a random post >.>

the first one in the blog infact....just a little edit here