Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Minecraft Video and PlumeriaSC 2 Update

 
Since I am a huge Minecraft fan I created this video to show off a cool little trick I found to create a faster way to get around. I call it a water rail and it uses pressure plates, torches, stone, water, and a boat. This video was made in peaceful mode and not creative so whatever mode you are in should work.
Also I have updated PlumeriaSC 2 to version 1.1.5. PlumeriaSC has been put through some rigorous tests including prime number factorization and a comon core problem. I have not found any new bugs in the past month so the main bugs are gone.

Monday, August 4, 2014

PlumeriaSC 2 v1.1 Released

PlumeriaSC 2 v1.1 has been released. All code was specifically written for the iPad from the ground up. New features include a faster simulator, a streamlined file system, multiple touches, 3D touch, 3D dragging, new tutorials that explain all the menus, and an updated Stunt Kite game tutorial.  Also we have updated this website and our YouTube movie so you can actually see PlumeriaSC 2 in action. Finally this is the tenth anniversary of Solar Fusion Software and we have been celebrating by releasing our flagship product PlumeriaSC 2. So Happy Anniversary from us! Note that the new version (v1.1) for PlumeriaSC 2 costs $9.99USD.

Thursday, March 6, 2014

Sale on PlumeriaSC 2

We have just lowered the price of Plumeria Smart Charts 2 to $2.99USD. Also, PlumeriaSC 2 has an Apple educator's discount of 50% off the $2.99USD price. More updates for PlumeriaSC 2 will be coming soon.

Monday, February 24, 2014

PlumeriaSC 2 v1.0 Released

The much anticipated release of Plumeria Smart Charts 2 has come. For a list of features and to watch the release video go to the Solar Fusion Software website. The video includes pictures of the chalkboard flow charts and a Stunt Kite game created on the iPad. One of the really cool features is that the tutorials in PlumeriaSC 2 teach you to create your very own Stunt Kite game entirely on an iPad. You can buy and download PlumeriaSC 2 from iTunes.

Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Tutorials and VBAs

We are still working hard to get PlumeriaSC 2 ready as soon as possible. The latest thing I have been working on is the tutorials. I have programmed PlumeriaSC 2 to follow my selections and then use an artificial intelligence to generate comments based on the selections. So why automate it? I loathe writing tutorials and in PlumeriaSC 2 the tutorial lessons usually take a week to create. With the AI I can walk it through my selections in thirty minutes and use another thirty to give it the human touch. In my last post I wrote about VBAs (Vertex Buffer Array). The only problem is that they are really named VAO (Vertex Array Object). In my opinion the main difference with a VBA is that it owns its contents in memory (a buffer) just like a VBO (Vertex Buffer Object) and a VAO does not. A VAO only points to the VBOs that are already in memory.