Badboll

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• pengi_Aug 7, 2006
  Thanks Well... to make it roll correct isn't that easy right now, maybe I fix it some late night but to the next version: a cubemapped texture I've already written the code for cubemapping, but I doesn't have a texture yet / pengi - one of the two authors of this widget.
• JobeAug 7, 2006
  Haha, ta for the feedback guys. And greetings to everyone attending Asm'06. Back home again, a bit tired but with a feeling of another great party. And as for the badboll. Well. It turned out better than we thought. I might even make it render on a canvas later on to make it a bit faster. : ) And Chaals, if you read this. I actually had a whack at deforming the ball on bounce. It was a mess. Really, you don't want to know. Sorry : ) EDIT: Oh, and for the few to none of you that care, what was not very clear at Asm was that the widget is written by two people, pengi being the other contributor. He wrote the core ball-code some weeks ago which we built upon. I wrote the "physics" and did the widgetizing of the old script. After that it was a matter of optimizing the rendering, cleaning code and making a few more skins. So pengi is the go-to guy for all things math, he sais things like "rotation matrix" and "cube mapping" and "you have to normalize that vector dude" which makes me all sleepy. I do other things, like bounces, interface/input etc. There you have it. ; )
• Steve HaneyAug 10, 2006
  Very nice! Is there a way to make it smaller? I'm using a 1280 x 1024 screen and it's a bit overwhelming. Steve Haney
• pengi_Aug 10, 2006
  Answer to Steve. well... not right now... maybe a good Idea for a new setting... Another news: I've just mapped a worldmap to the ball and the balls now have different transparency (for example the 8-ball looks much more realistic now), I just have to wait until Jobe is online to release it stay tuned I've also tried to get a more realistic rotation, but due to a low float-presicion my first try failed.
• SocrarrinchaAug 11, 2006
  That's freaking crazy and fun as hell. Good job.
• paduleAug 17, 2006
  too bad it doesnt resize correctly
• cemkalyoncuAug 18, 2006
  Well done. For sure it will be better in higher resolution.
• pengi_Aug 19, 2006
  Soon we will release a new version with a couple of nice features: - a cube mapped worldmap (bounce with earth) and other textures - alpha channel in the textures, so all of the textures aren't semi-transparent anymore - totally rewritten rotation. It actually rolls on the bottom of the screen now (solved with quaternions) - checking for upgrades. (and a couple of things with the structure of the sourcecode) so check out for upgrades within the next days (I hope...)
• JobeAug 19, 2006
  And here it is. Credits go to Pengi for hard work. Myself I've been out up north in the swedish mountains. Walking and living in a tent. T'was lovely. Almost on the border to Operas home country ; ) I have also noticed I need to set gravity to about 20 and mouse power to 10-12 as not to get an heart attack of this thing. I am no longer working on this one, I have new projects. But as far as I care, feel free to bug Pengi with everything you want ; D Cheers J
• l!nkSep 30, 2006
  It's me or the browser in the image is not opera?
• KilferOct 30, 2006
  I thought it interesting, a bit, not-so-pixelated, and it seemed as though it was either hitting a side of the screen and bouncing in a direction, or it thought that it hit the screen, because when I put the "mouse power" to full, it would appear going in a direction, but never make contact with that particular side of the screen before bouncing off to another. Fun though, entertaining, I like the different skins.
• nightaudiplut0Nov 12, 2006
  Pretty fun, but you should make it smaller so that it doesn't look as pixelated.
• pengi_Dec 11, 2006
  maybe time to install opera again and make an upgrade soon then... :P Almost forgot this :$
• DragonistApr 7, 2007
  This is super fun & addicting. Whenever I don't feeling like doing anything, I do this. Also see if you can resize the pixels so the image is clearer. Good Job.
• merrickalJun 20, 2007
  yay! ball! ... can't.. stop.. playing.. thanks for the brilliant toy! something to mess about whilst downloading ^~^
• xSWCxNekoMay 22, 2008
  Nice one, though. id like it)) ^^'
• frogbrainsJul 27, 2008
  Yay! I loved it! It doesn't run properly in Linux version of Opera, but when I was still using windows it ran fine and was brilliant. I know there's no marks out of ten thing but it gets 9/10 from me. Lopped one point of for the Linux problem, but that's probably just me. Otherwise, great!
• Chas4Dec 7, 2008
  it gives me the message that a new version is available
• pengi_Apr 22, 2011
  Oh... I almost forgot this old widget. Interesting that it still is on page 8 of highest rated so many years later. The new version-notice downloads a tag from somewhere I don't think I have control over anymore, and I don't have any contact with jobe, which is the guy that uploaded the widget (though both me and Jobe wrote it), so I can't change the notice or upgrade the widget at all..
• pengi_Apr 22, 2011
  Oh. I still have access to where the download-tag is, which is on files.opera.com, but opera changed the way they handle files, so the script gets not the tag, but a page that says that you only should download files you trust...