Re: Kawa at JavaOne

[mikel evins <mevins@me.com>]

> On Oct 28, 2015, at 7:09 AM, Elías Alonso G.-Cornejo <eliasagc@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks, Per! The slides are very interesting. It would be nice to see
> the recording. Let's hope it ends up being available :)
> 
> Is there any public link or video about The Fabric?

Because I got some questions about it, I made a short recording of the current version of the Fabric client. I put 480p and 720p copies of it on my public DropBox. These are completely new; give DropBox a few minutes to sync before trying to download.

Here’s the 480p version (about 68MB):
  https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6638724/TheFabric-2015-10-29-480p.mov

Here’s the 720p (about 225.4MB):
  https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6638724/TheFabric-2015-10-29-720p.mov


The video is of me using the character creator to set up and name a player character, then switching to the game world and flying around near Jupiter and then near Sedna.

The huge green orbital structure near Jupiter is the foundation of Volvox City, a faction capitol. The red one near Sedna is Adlivun, a capitol of a rival faction.

Pauses and jerking that you see in the video occur when I turn to a second screen and type Scheme code at the repl. I did that to change scenes and to control the speed of the point-of-view character so that I could zoom close to the orbital structures quickly, then slow things down so I could float around looking at things without ripping past them. 

The structures in these scenes are very large, so it’s a little tricky to choose the right speed. Too fast and you can’t look at anything because you’re always tearing past it. Too slow and it takes forever to get anywhere.

I’m planning to take a break from work related to the Fabric for at least a week or so, but I’d be happy to answer questions. The obvious question is “where can I see the code?” and the answer is “you can’t, right now.” If people want access to the code, I’ll put it on github, but let me take a short break for about a week or so, and then go over the repo with fresh eyes before I make it available.

Ping me if you want to see it and it hasn’t shown up among my github repos in a week or two. For reference, my stuff is here:

https://github.com/mikelevins