After weeks of tuning, the final release of gametools 1.0 is now available. The biggest difference with the release candidate is the addition of a UI layout editor. I’d like to thank particularly Michael Deforge for his work (icons, design).
More info about the projects, and download links on this page
1 week of honeymoon under the sun… Fuerteventura (Canary Islands) is definitely a nice place to be:-)
Here below are few news:
muryel-regard.com is now live! There will probably be improvements in a near futur, but you should take a look to this talented photographer who also happens to be my cousin. The development of this website was also the occasion for me to remove the dust from LCS, the generic lighweight backoffice I developed about a year ago. It is getting quite better now, so I’ll try to post more about it soon. Just for you to know, the idea of this tool is to let you create your website model, and then to insert LCS calls to get dynamic content.
XCross is getting popular, and the sales are not bad despite the fact it is already gone from the “latest entries” section. The trailer is now on both Youtube and Dailymotion, and was already included in several other pages. Picross-Star, our partner is also advertising for us, and several other websites already reviewed it (emuboards.com, gaygamers.net…) Only good comments so far. If you are reviewer and plan to review XCross, don’t hesitate to ask me for marketplace tokens. You’re also welcome if you already did this review.
More infos soon.
SpriteMapper is a very simple tool to produce spritemaps from a sequence of images. This is particularly useful for animated sprites from 3D softwares like 3D Studio. (render as a sequence of image, and then create the spritemap for your animation to be simple to use programmatically)
The interface
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It’s still a beta version, and all the features are not implemented yet. Actually, I only released this version because we’re in hurry for DBP2009. Don’t hesitate to report what was wrong, or what you’d like to see in the final version.
EDIT: Version Updated. It should be much more usable now.
Download Here (requires the .net framework 3.0 to be installed
Lots of projects now use http to communicate with other modules, and it is not very convenient to test without a sniffer (and even so, when using https, you’ll unlikely get anything usable).
So I started to write several test pages. So if you want to make sure your app is accessing/sending/receiving what you expect, Those test pages may be handy. I’ll try to update this post from my needs, but feel free to suggest me some more tests.
| HTTP Infos | |
| Generic User infos : | Dumps everything from the request : user IP, HTTP headers, cookies, POST & GET data |
| Delayed display : | Wait before responding the page. The timeout can be passed as a get parameter. |
| POSTData reflect : | this page just displays what was sent as POST Data. |
| Redirection | |
| PHP Redirection (301 Code) : | Redirection from the return code (301), and the Location header |
| HTTP Redirection (meta refresh) : | Redirection from the refresh meta tag |
| Javascript Redirection : | Redirection from a client script |
| htaccess / htpassword | |
| Password protected directory : | Basic HTTP Authentication. user = password = test |
| SSL & Certificates | |
| Simple page over SSL | One way SSL (server authenticated) |
| 2 Ways SSL | Soon |
I didn’t have much time recently. However, I could re-build GXView, and make it XNA 3.0 compliant. You can download this new version here.