Eek’s World

This days i had a lot of problems with the hosting of this blog and site (The blog was down 2 and a half days)… I don’t really know what happend but the Mysql database has became somehow corrupted… I lost all the tags, all the comments and even the user table in witch my account / password / email and other stuff has held, so i couldn’t log either… So what i have done was to reinstall the blog and manually repost every post… A pain in the arse i might say

Anyhow… While the blog was down and my hosting didn’t worked, i started working on my website for http://eek.ro, and after a loot of work… Especially saturday (i spent around 11 hours working) i finally managed to finish the website, so if you wanna see how it camed out you can check it out at http://eek.ro, i didn’t really finished all the work at it, i have some things left to do… The main page is the first thing So it should be done in aprox 2 or 3 days…

Ar least after this Mysql drop-down i didn’t lost the registrations from our Game in Progress (Worlds) so… We still have all the data… If anyone else wants to register from this date it can do it here… http://worlds.eek.ro/register/

Promised a post about StarCraft 2 & some Diablo 3… I will make a preview of both games this days Soo stay tooned

This days, i’ve been a little busy working at the game’s login and registration system… We have finished the registration system of the game… And you can check it HERE, and you can even make your account already. The bad part is that you won’t be able to log anywhere with it because we’re still working at our login system and making some first steps in the game play mechanism. But if you make an account now, it will be a valid account when the game will be playable! So it’s an advantage if you make it now, because you will be able to “reserv” you nickname!

Hope you like the design and functionallity of the registration system (at the moment we don’t have a good looking submit button because we’re waiting for our sleppy “designer” to wake up, eat his launch and start doing a button ), yeah… He was at a party last night so, we didn’t put any design on the submit button, it’s just a dark area you can click.

Besides the registration system we have implemented a news box at the first page of the game (HERE) , that will provide users with the latest news, changes and implements regarding the game. Hope you like it!

I’m waiting your comments with ideeas, suggestion or reproaches

Some of you asked me how i’v realized that effect in Flash. Well.. It’s maybe one of the simplest to do if you know a little actionscript 2…

The animation you’ve seen with Eek (The Eek Logo) it’s made quite simple. You open a new project in Flash and there you draw a form (in my case, those 3D cubes…), after that you select your form, press F8 and convert it to Movie clip… Here you go to the timeline and insert another 2 keyframes.

In the first keyframe you add this code:
x00 = _x;
y00 = _y;
DIAM = 1000;

The important thing you need to know here is that DIAM is the diametre in which the “shapes” can run away from you

In the second keyframe there’s a little more actionscripting:

x0 = _x;
y0 = _y;
x = _root._xmouse;
y = _root._ymouse;
a = x - x0;
b = y - y0;
r = Math.sqrt(a * a + b * b);
a_x = this._x - a / r * DIAM/ r;
a_y = this._y - b / r * DIAM/ r;
b_voltar_x = (x00 - x0) / 2;
b_voltar_y = (y00 - y0) / 2;
this._x = a_x + b_x;
this._y = a_y + b_y;


And that’s almost everything… In the last (third) keyframe you add the code gotoAndPlay(2); so that the script will aways run.

Then you go back into the Main Scene and draw everything you want by inserting the shapes into the stage and copy-paste them and making the form you desire out of them

That’s all regarding to that flash…

I think i’ll gonna do something related to that on the first page (http://eek.ro)… But a lot more visual atractive, i experimented a little more with my logo by replacing those 3D cubes with tiny circles… Then added around 300 in my scene to draw a better looking Eek But after i exported i realised there were too many and the animation was working like SH*T Eh… I think i’ll gonna remain at some photoshop

Hope you like the new design of my blog… Added to it what i done yestarday in photoshop, and besides that i added a favicon… Not a very good looking one that’s a little nice

Heh!

I’ll gonna start working on Eek.ro and rowl.eek.ro