Jeff Billimek’s Journal

Since I have a lot of unit test scenarios to run through, I was planning on going into work early this morning. As things played out, I didn’t get in until about 8am, which was about an hour and a half later than I planned. It turns out that I saved myself a lot of frustration.

According to Alex (who got in at 6:30am), we have been having “clearcase”:http://www.rational.com/products/clearcase/index.jsp issues all morning. We can see the vob and the files in the vob, but whenever we attempt to view a checked-in clearcase element, we get an NFS error. At 8am, our clearcase admin requested everyone to end their views so he can restart the vob server at 9am. 9am came and went and we didn’t hear anything. Finally around 10am, we were told that the issue was still being looked at. 11am rolled around and now we were being told that they need to reboot the entire server. When I got back from lunch the server had been rebooted, but the vob wasn’t mounted. Finally at 2:30pm everything was working again. All day long until 2:30pm we had 15 or so developers just on our team sitting around not able to work. What a waste!

I managed to get some work done today but I admit it wasn’t nearly as much as I would have hoped. We’re still getting a core dump when depopulating the coupon objects. I’m planning on looking at that tonight when I get home.

After work I played “Asheron’s Call 2″:http://microsoftgamesinsider.com/ac2/default.htm for a little while. Just for the hell of it, I decided to try to solo a ‘group mob’ near Whitebay. I found a lone 12,000hp Steppe Armoredillo and prepared my spells. I lead the attack with my spear to get my beetle to attack. While the mob was coming towards me, I switched to my axe and initiated the attack with a soft underbelly and visceral melody (shield-bash) combo. They both landed. I hit with a stolen youth to replenish vigor. The battle was going quite well. I had him down to half-health when the stun wore off and he started to attack me at a faster rate. I cycled between stolen youth and hunger (health drain) for the rest of the fight and won! I had no expectation to take on one of those solo and I was ecstatic! Of course the feeling is bittersweet since that’s all going to be taken away in a week or so when they propagate the new patch completely destroying my class.

I also played with the graphics settings, enabling pixel shaders. This made the water look really cool.

After playing AC2, I logged into work and did some debugging on core dump for my engine. It looks like we are performing a bad operation when deleting a container from our special internal container object. I know we delete from this in other instances so there must be a simple solution to the problem.