Planet SoC

I unfortunately need to be brief this weekly report; Companies coming saturday and our house needs much tidying and chores, many of which I am responsible for :(. This week was another one of those “feel good” weeks that happens when a lot of things go right very quickly. The last such time like this was getting the ruleset playing. This time its map imports. I was astonished at how quickly the pieces fell into place. At last weeks close I had just gotten support for TinyXML integrated, having already spent a lot of time planning and thinking. Once all that was finished things just happened; I went from no map import to full map import in less than 48 hours, leaving me a little bewildered.
After pumping out so much so fast I still have a lot of questions about the quality of the map import. Much will need to be tested, and things will need to be adjusted to fit just right. Luckily enough TinyXML has been very easy to work with and any adjustments should be more “boilerplate” than anything (and error checking too :P). For the very reason of “so much, so fast” I decided to step back from map imports for last 2 days, and start thinking more seriously about my screencasts. I don’t think I got as much done in regards to screencasts as I wanted. I had wanted to get recording some audio for JLP’s video, but I somehow couldn’t start.
Next week will see me putting up preliminary instructions for map building, as well as working on screencasts and tidying up map imports. Wish me luck, I’m going to have more family around in the next 2 weeks than I think I’d care for