Thoughts on games, technology, photography, and food.
In an effort to save myself (and anyone else) some time in case I need to set this up again later, I’ve compiled some notes on how to get a really quick development setup working on Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6)
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I figured this information may benefit a few people, as well as allow me to get my thoughts out, I’ll be documenting the process to building a finite state machine (FSM). My main use out of this project will allow me to assign an object a FSM, assign that object specific states, and allow the object to make weighted decisions through a transition table. I plan on using this decision-system to aid in both creating a foundation for the AI of my games, as well as aid in the animation systems that I concoct.
Continue reading ‘Basic AI: Building a Finite State Machine (FSM) in C#’
Here’s yet another tip for Visual Studio 2005/2008 users. If your company enforces any sort of line limit, and you want to make yourself visually aware of when you may be approaching or dealing with that limit, add this key to your registry:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\Text Editor]
(New String Value) "Guides"="RGB(192,192,192) 110"
110 Being your line limit, and 9.0 being the version of your VS. (2005 users should find 8.0)
Restart VS and you’re good to go.
I recently took the time to upgrade from Visual Studio 2005 to 2008 at work, and in doing so, came across an issue immediately after starting the program for the first time. (Hopefully not a bad omen! 
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A dialog popped up, saying:
Package Load Failure
Package ‘Microsoft.VisualStudio.Xaml’ has failed to load properly ( GUID = {E58C2A8B-BCC4-4559-AD59-D62EB6D58A22} ). Please contact package vendor for assistance. Application restart is recommended, due to possible environment corruption. Would you like to disable loading this package in the future? You may use ‘devenv /resetskippkgs’ to re-enable package loading.
It turns out that this seems to be a common issue for users who had Visual Studio 2008 Express installed on their system, and then they installed Visual Studio 2008 afterwards.
Thankfully, the fix is easy. Just reinstall the VS 2008 SP1.
While there is some contention for whether or not counting the lines of code your project has, it is definitely interesting to watch the growth of your code, and note your comment-to-code ratio.
Doing a quick search on the ‘net lead me to “SourceMonitor”, a free tool which does a pretty good job at doing a search on your code files and gives you some basic information about your code.
Get it here.
