Playing with Technology

Icecrown and UI refinement

Jon — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:21:35 +0000

Bloodforged has been working on Ice Crown Citadel for a number of weeks now (at least 5 since the armory says I have 5 Saurfang kills). Everything in the Lower Spire is on farm status and we are able to knock out those four bosses in an hours with AFKs and such. What has us stumped right now are Festergut and Rotface. Our first Festergut attempts showed that some people were not putting out the kind of DPS they should be for their gear. So, for the past two weeks, we have been attempting Rotface. We seem to be able to consistently get him to around 40% before things just fall apart. It seems to be just general confusion about where to go and dealing with the increasing rate of Mutated Infection. It would be nice to get it before the zone-wide buff, but I doubt that we will.

It is also looking like Rowellend (a person from my wife’s guild) will be getting an invitation to the guild. He did ICC 25 with us this week and had better situational awareness than a number of our regular members. This is in spite of the fact that he hasn’t done any of the fights before and is just starting to use raid frames for healing.

I’ve also been refining my UI. I’m very much inspired by Kripparrian’s UI and am trying to adapt it to the mods I like and my style of play. I’m not 100% happy with it, but I think it is getting close.

Glory of the Ulduar Raider (10 man)

Jon — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:14:19 +0000

A while ago I wrote that we needed four hard modes in Ulduar to get Glory of the Ulduar Raider and that we were working on Yogg-Saron on 25 man. Well, we have accomplished both tasks. Bloodforged defeated Yogg-Saron (25 man) on November 22 (the day after the guild’s fourth birthday). We defeated Knock, Knock, Knock on Wood on October 26, Firefighter on November 30, and One Light in the Darkness on December 7. It seems I have been remiss to post these achievements. Seven of us managed to get our Glory of the Ulduar Raider (10 man) with last nights kill. Aenora, Guran, and Kressara each need at least one achievement to get their [Reins of the Rusted Proto-Drake]. I am extremely proud of Bloodforged for being the sixth guild on the server to accomplish this difficult achievement and one of the 14.58% of guilds in the world to accomplish this.

Rusted Proto Drake Pictures

Rusted Proto Drake in flight

Raiding and UI update

Jon — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 16:00:38 +0000

Bloodforged has been kind of quite lately. We managed to clear ToC the first week all the bosses were available on both 10 and 25. We have not started working on Heroic ToC 10 or 25. We’re still working on Yogg on Ulduar 25, in fact it is the same Raid ID from when we became able to extend IDs. We’re also still working on Sartharion with three drakes in 25 man. Some of our members are down to needing four hard mode kills on Ulduar 10 for the [Reins of the Rusted Proto-Drake]. Of course this includes Firefighter, One Light in the Darkness and Knock, Knock, Knock on Wood.

In other news I updated my UI again. I modeled it after DegausserUI and have been generally happy with it. In watching the movie, I think I can get rid of the scrolling incoming and outgoing damage. I also think I need to move my spell timer further to the left.

Cauchy’s UI

Jon — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:16:22 +0000

Here is a recent video of Cauchy’s UI. It is a little small but you can get an idea of how things are arranged.

Pitbull3 unit frames
AzCastBars
ForteWarlock (cooldowns and spelltimer in upper right)
FaceShooter (spell icon above my head that gives shot priority)
PowerAura Classic (icons that appear around me indicating procs I am under)
Parrot(the combat text)
Fontifier (custom UI fonts)
Skada (damage and threat)
Chatter
Elkano’s Buff Bars (my buffs left and procs above me)
Skinner (viewport)
kgPanels (for styling bottom panels)
OmniCC (cooldown times on bars)
Sexymap
CooldownTimers2 (showing actual times on left)
ButtonBin
Outfitter

Timeline 3D, why haven’t I heard of this before?

Jon — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:30:31 +0000

Actually, I feel stupid for not thinking that there might be faculty that want to create timeline presentations. You can see some examples at Bee Docs’ Web site. I can totally see art history, history, or any presentations where the timing of events is important for understanding the overall story finding a use for software like this. Check it out and see what you think.

Test of WP-ExtremeVideo

Jon — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 02:25:53 +0000

I wanted to test this plugin to see if it will work with the Profcast file format. I am happy to say it works very well. Note that if you view it in full screen you get the chapter marks to navigate.

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