{"id":1556,"date":"2010-10-04T23:25:54","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T12:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/?p=1556"},"modified":"2014-01-14T20:47:08","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T10:47:08","slug":"sniping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/2010\/10\/04\/sniping\/","title":{"rendered":"Sniping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Unfair.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1557 alignleft\" title=\"Unfair\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Unfair-300x172.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Unfair-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Unfair-1024x590.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Unfair.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Here I am, standing on top of one of the posts of the fence around a graveyard, targeting and attacking a helpless monster that an AI developer is in the process of placing into the world. \u00a0(I obviously still haven&#8217;t added range limitations to these attacks)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been trying a few different general GUI approaches, and am kind of partial toward this one, where an exhausted power is drawn with a red outline, while ready ones are in blue. \u00a0As the power charges up, the power button turns blue again. \u00a0(While the power is unavailable, the text should probably also turn dark grey, or something like that)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve tried a few others, but they all came across as really garish. \u00a0In any case, I&#8217;m mostly trying to find reasonable colour balances; \u00a0these graphics aren&#8217;t at all final; \u00a0just basic stand-ins representing approximate shapes and colours.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, this week is looking like another &#8220;light development&#8221; week for me, with paying work taking up most of my time. \u00a0Maybe not as bad as last week, but I&#8217;d be surprised if I managed to squeeze in more than an hour or so per night for the next little while. \u00a0But I&#8217;ll do my best to post updates when I have them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here I am, standing on top of one of the posts of the fence around a graveyard, targeting and attacking a helpless monster that an AI developer is in the process of placing into the world. \u00a0(I obviously still haven&#8217;t added range limitations to these attacks) I&#8217;ve been trying a few different general GUI approaches,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[24,25],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/so9WK-sniping","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3040,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions\/3040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}