right, so i started my day by waking up again, aching all over, its raining, and cold.
i'm modding mount and blade just for the hell of it, and created a few costumes.
but all of a sudden, the SMD exporter doesn't work anymore.
i had installed my old version of max 7, just to make it work, and it did.... for a while.
but then, after i had added some more vertices to the collar to give the mesh a better look,
and exported the mesh, it just exploded in my face. literally. vertices everywhere, nothing skinned right.. it was just terrible.
i tried figuring out whats wrong, deleting the skin modifier, attaching the model to a mesh, and then deleting and reapplying the skin modifier and reskinning every vertex, restarting my computer, googling "corrupt smd 3ds max 8" "smd export not working" smd problems. etc.
finally i decide maybe there's a problem with the BRF editor that i use to create files and such, since its a pretty amateurishly put together program.
so i decide to find a program that will load and display SMD files.
i google SMD model viewer. no useful results. just a bunch of forum posts and nonsense.
after a few more blind alleys, i give up on that project, and instead get the brilliant idea to try and export files from softimage XSI.
so i try to start up my install of XSI.. which takes about 2 minutes before the window shows up,
telling me my 30 day trial is over.
good start. i uninstall XSI, and start googling XSI SMD, but all i get up is references to something called "mod tool".
i've actually downloaded that program before, but its a year ago, and i forgot all about it.
so i google mod tool, xsi, and after a bit of sorting through the trash, i find a download link, download it and install.
while its installing i discover there's a newer version of mod tool. i'm installing version 6, while the newest is 7.5.
ay fuck it all to hell.
i start up mod tool 6.01, and fight the interface for a bit, discovering that you hold S to turn the camera.
then i fight the import interface, have to put the files i want to open into C:/ since XSI can't open the desktop folder.
finally import some .obj files, but i can't import SMD.
so off to google again to see if there's some SMD importer for mod tool (wasn't that supposed to be included? gah.)
so i guess i need to install the valve SDK or something, i dunno,
fuck that shit, i want to make my own modeling program.
by this point that would probably be faster than trying to figure out how other peoples programs work anyways. i spend some time googling fucking programmers, fucking vista, fucking
computers, etc.
so i start reading that book i borrowed from the library on using managed directX 9,
that i intended to read weeks ago.
after some reading, i try to compile some of the examples from the CD, because the book is very unclear and my managed directX skills are somewhat lacking.. i've basically managed to create a few forms applications that crash whenever there is no text in the fields, and i had a motherload of a day trying to figure that shit out before i gave up.
i knew it had to be something about don't run code if the damn fields return undefined, but how to put that into code... meh.

anyways, managed directX. its going down the shitter.
i'm again googling. this time i come upon the Zbuffer, explaining that the code from the book i'm reading is old, and won't compile with the newest version of visual studio.
no shit sherlock..
i download the new files, and figuring from how the day has been going so far, i'm very unsurprised when the new examples doesn't compile either.
doesn't really make me want to strangle my computer screen less though.
but anyways, the book is talking about devices, and i have no fucking idea where to put them, to make it work. i tried all of the files, and every time visual studio is mocking me, with an "ERRT, wrong, try again!"
well, some spots worked, but then it crashed when it ran.
great stuff. so off to google again, query "managed directX tutorial, visual studio 2008"
after digging through all the visual studio 2005 tutorials which won't work, i come upon a visual studio 2008 tutorial.
fine, do the tutorial, exactly as its written.
compile... crash.
double check everything, then triple check everything... no errors.
great. fuck.

i check the comments section of the tutorial, and someone had problems compiling as well.
it was throwing an exception, something about images, and i had the same exception.
the solution is to force it to compile for 32 bit, using an advanced compiler function only available
for the commercial version of visual studio, because apparently there's a bunch of problems with trying to compile code for 64 bits or something.
basically: after 6-7 hours of trying to compile code, i find out its impossible to do it with visual studio express.
so the solution to my visual studio conundrum is to buy visual studio 2008.
fuck you microsoft. fuck you autodesk. fuck you everyone, i hate you all.
you want my fucking money so badly, i'll just fucking give it to you, and jump off a cliff.
fucking assholes.
anyways, i'm off to the training studio, where a bunch of chav fucks will be oogling me as i do my best to lose all these excess kgs i've been gaining as i've been sitting on my ass creating models, and trying to figure out why my computer doesn't work.

Ok, maybe I can be arsed, sounds like you need to tackle one problem at a time, you started the day having trouble modding mount and blade so you decide to try programming?

If you fall off a bike, don't decide to teach yourself violin, get back on the damned bike!

Originally Posted by Justin_Meisse

narf

*EDIT*
thanks for not being an ass after all.

Then I suggest you mosey on over to live journal tough guy

LOL...

I thought you'd had a second kid or something. Didn't read what actually went wrong.

Originally Posted by Justin_Meisse

Ok, maybe I can be arsed, sounds like you need to tackle one problem at a time, you started the day having trouble modding mount and blade so you decide to try programming?

If you fall off a bike, don't decide to teach yourself violin, get back on the damned bike!

thanks.
usually when i can't work a problem i'll let it rest for a while, while trying to figure out another problem i've been having.
the SMD problem is something i've been having for several days, first trying to make it work for max 8, then max 9, and then finally got it working in max 7, before there too, it exploded in my face.

I think I know your problem.

<- You have an Octopus on your head.

Hard to understand your wall of text there.

Managed DirectX is dead and buried. It's been replaced with XNA.

3DS Max 9 SMD didn't return anything useful? It got 11,000 results for me. A lot of them were about people posting their SMD import/exporters.

Wow dude, get some REAL problems or something, what the fuck is this shit?!?!?!

How old are you?

Originally Posted by Daaark

I think I know your problem.

<- You have an Octopus on your head.

thats my face, i eat babies with it.

Originally Posted by Daaark

Managed DirectX is dead and buried. It's been replaced with XNA.

good riddance. i'll dig into XNA then.

Originally Posted by Daaark

3DS Max 9 SMD didn't return anything useful? It got 11,000 results for me. A lot of them were about people posting their SMD import/exporters.

yes, i downloaded one of the exporters, and it didn't work.
which is why i tried the max 7 exporter, whcih worked, so i went by with that, until it stopped working too.
btw, where can i buy max 9? i've been looking all over, but autodesk doesn't stock it anymore it seems.

That's the worst day of your life?

How lucky are you!?

Originally Posted by Vig

That's the worst day of your life?

How lucky are you!?

i guess there's a reason you're all assholes, hehe.

Originally Posted by kwakkie

Wow dude, get some REAL problems or something, what the fuck is this shit?!?!?!

How old are you?

feel free to post your worst day.

You had a bad day? Here's a website full of bad days.

http://mydeathspace.com/

Originally Posted by Slum

You had a bad day? Here's a website full of bad days.

http://mydeathspace.com/

nothing compares to being tortured by your computer.

Maybe you should post your story on http://www.fmylife.com/ ^________^

Originally Posted by dejawolf

feel free to post your worst day.

lets see, several loved ones dying over the years, divorce, major surgery ON MY BALLS,
losing a job in a bad economic situation and having to file bankrupcy, wisdom teeth removed day before thanksgiving so i could not eat. girlfriends cheating on me. multiple car wrecks. did i mention major surgery? ON MY BALLS?

pick one of those champ.

wisdom teeth removed day before thanksgiving so i could not eat

damn, thats just cruel.

Originally Posted by Rhinokey

pick one of those champ.

It kind of depends on if the operation to your balls was cosmetical or medical...

Just kidding dude, sounds nasty, respect!

its all compounded by the fact i haven't had sex for 7 years, and that time it was my first, with a fat ugly african hooker. oh, and i'm dangerously obese, i got hypothyroidism, and arthritis,
and i'm 24.
and for the last 6 years, i've been living in an area so small, it would make a jailcell roomy by comparison.
oh, and every day i wake up, my balls hurt. so that surgery is probably coming up.
you're lucky to have had a girlfriend, or a loved one to grieve for.

Why did you go to a hooker when you were just 17? PS: not too smart to post this online dude!

Originally Posted by dejawolf

its all compounded by the fact i haven't had sex for 7 years, and that time it was my first, with a fat ugly african hooker. oh, and i'm dangerously obese, i got hypothyroidism, and arthritis,
and i'm 24.
and for the last 6 years, i've been living in an area so small, it would make a jailcell roomy by comparison.
oh, and every day i wake up, my balls hurt. so that surgery is probably coming up.
you're lucky to have had a girlfriend, or a loved one to grieve for.

Thanks for clearing this up dejawolf =/

Maybe it's time to get out and do some exercises? Get some friends and hang out with chicks and shit?

Worst thread ever.

Dejawolf: Seriously, I'd like to help you, but it seems like you have a chip on your shoulder.

Originally Posted by Minotaur0

Thanks for clearing this up dejawolf =/

Maybe it's time to get out and do some exercises? Get some friends and hang out with some chicks and shit?

been exercising for the last week, 40 minutes a day. gonna see if i can make that 70 minutes eventually.
but when you're fat, chicks only stay as long as you douse them with money and gifts,
and they never, ever put out.

actually it's self confidence chicks like, I'm not saying I have any but I know a bunch of people who are self proclamed "fat pieces of crap" who don't have any trouble with the ladies.

Sometimes I get bummed out about my bad legs but at least I can walk and they don't hurt unless I'm on my feet too long.