http://www.infinitesuns.com - Yeah - crazy, isn't it - on the front page!

Over the next couple of weeks, I need to make significant progress on some contract work, so there will be little progress on IS. I'm doing a little bit of design work and getting up to speed with Blender and Photoshop (I may make some new planets) in the hour or two I probaby have available, but code, by it's nature, is hard for me to do in small time blocks. Ah well. All this other stuff needs to be done too, so it's not a total loss, but I sure would prefer to not have to work on the contract stuff.

Just a minor change to the site, to clean a couple things up. I'm not sure if I'm completely satisfied with the lighter background, and I may change it back to black. I'll see how it wears on me.

Just a quick update. I got trading between the ship and wherever the ship is docked with working. Prices aren't modified locally yet, so you can't really make any money, but you can buy stuff at one planet or station, and take it to another and sell it.

There's some more effort that needs to go into the UI (like the ability to choose to buy more than one unit at a time), but the basic functionality is there, and I can move on to some other things like making it possible to profit from a trade.

If you know me, you know that my personal art capability is pretty low (at least with anything visual), however, I'm pretty good at following directions. Just ask my wife who laughs at me when I follow the directions on the box of prepackaged noodles to the letter. Mine always turn out pretty much the same, hers, well, the quality varies.

In any case, here is my first planet, generated by following this tutorial. I think it's not bad for a first attempt, and it beats many of the planets that are in my game at the moment. All of them have to change, in any case, because the textures are too small, and at the moment, the funds don't exist to pay someone for really good art. I didn't actually completely finish the tutorial - haven't done the bumps yet.