Page 3

Page 3 is up, or rather will be up on the http://www.wychwolf.com site, as soon as ComicPress makes it so, which should be midnight, very appropriately, the wyching hour.

Anyway, our page three is a little more boney than you'd like, but heralds the end of the prologue, and the start of the story proper on page 4.

Dom has a page of inking to get done ASAP, I have a full inbox, and limited time this week, but I still want to get a bank holiday special page done for Wychwolf, and maybe finish off a page of Ninjasaurs vs Pirobots for this blog.

Whiteboard Chess

Finally finished coding the IWB common file format file... tricky thing is there are no tools available to write IWB yet, so it's a case of hand coding.. which should be very simple, as the code is basic svg with a couple of other elements chucked in. However the viewer app is a bit picky, and kept refusing the file... in the end I realised I'd got an underscore in a file name instead of a hyphen.

It was a strange feeling finally getting the file to work, and reminded me of the joy of proper coding, where you sit there pulling at your hair, and finally get that great sense of satisfaction when the code works.

I'll post the code up on the sourceforge site, so when we release the viewer there's another sample file to go with the rest.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/iwbcff/

Harder than it looks

Blinkin' flip.. it's been a while since I've done any coding, and even simple image positioning and referencing is making my brain hurt.

I coloured up the chessmen, and started putting them into the file, but realised I need to make them a little more uniform in size... and smaller if they are going to fit into the 800x600 viewbox area.. bum...

Another late night ahead...

Content is King

I'm working on the Becta Interactive Whiteboard common file format

at the minute, the standard is set, and we have a viewer application and some sample files underway... unfortunately the samples don't look exciting, so I thought I'd try and run off a few files... which is harder than it sounds... hand coding xml is something I haven't done in a number of years.

So I thought I'd start simple and make a chess set and board.

I sort of copied the Lewis Chessmen, but I think they have a Kate Beaton feel to them (http://harkavagrant.com/) I'll colour them tomorrow and split them into individual pieces.