Caelis Alteris, the sequel to Caelis, is coming along nicely. The sound system is getting more and more robust, and I've started moving forward into texture generation. But sadly, I wrote a hundred or so lines without testing, only to discover you can't compare arguments directly. I don't remember that ever being an issue before, but it threw an error complaining about it, so now I have to dig through it all and compensate for that. Also, some sounds are really hard to approximate with math. Or in other words, guitars have weird harmonics. It's hard to get something that sounds natural. Once I have them though… Not sure how I'm gonna handle music. It's one thing to generate a bunch of tiny wav files, but rendering whole songs in GML? SLOOOOOW. So I think I'll have to "play" the song in realtime. But you can only pitch bend about 50% in either direction, so I'll need multiple copies of each instrument at different note ranges. That and if there's a framerate hiccup, the music will hiccup along with it. And more importantly… I don't really know how to write music, lol.

On an unrelated front, I signed up for a new-ish social networking site called Simler. It's kinda neat, and weirdly addicting. It's sorta like Twitter, except you post to tags, and you gather tags yourself so it can suggest people you actually have common interests with. Makes breaking the ice a lot easier. Go to http://www.simler.com/user/Tizabet/ for my profile there. But watch out. Once you start seeking out tags, it's hard to stop. :P