I finally released the project, since I freed some of my mental bandwith after finishing Garden. It runs on UploadTool.
UploadTool allows it to display videos and upload videos. You can give them name, description, and visibility (for now does nothing).
There’s nothing special about it, but I needed it because I ran out of Discord Nitro so I can’t upload videos that have large size.
Finally released!
Application consists of field and side menu. In the side menu, user chooses a vegetable/fruit to plant. Each plant has an image and name associated with them. Polish and English being the supported languages. Once planted, field recalculates an area trying to find if plants around like it.
Application contains plant database. App allows resizing, saving and loading plant fields
Insanely low, anyone with potato PC can run it. There’s a caveat though: it only runs under Windows due to WinAPI being the only system-level API.
This is the work so far. I am quite satisfied with this vegetable sheet, given I don’t have drawing skills (except for maps).
I’m hoping to finish this before March. Not going to lie, this app gives me Windows 3.1 feel due to GDI. And I kind of like it.
While image rendering might not be the most perfect thing in the world, it’s better than nothing.
Finally made WinAPI display a bitmap.
I’ve decided this will be Garden’s application icon
This is the best I can do lol.
So, next thing I have to do is make actual button rendering, embed Lua and I guess that’s it for now? I also have to find some good resources on vegetable neighborhood. That’s crucial.
Check out this clip I made back on 31/12/2020 11:01 AM
I had to compress it from 8MB to ~1.5MB
I’ve been coding this for a while, but as I said, I didn’t have much free time for these things. Now it’s changed.
This project is primarily for my mom. She wanted an easy way to manage creation of her garden. Mainly with regards to “what vegetables can be next to XYZ”. I’m thinking of using Lua for scripting in the vegetable types and their neighborhoods.
So far I created event system and basic field concept. They’ll have images on them and will flare up with particular color (red for bad neighborhood, orange for so-so, green for ok).
I’m not so much in a rush, but I want to finish this thing. Check it out on it’s repo.
I pretty much finished everything I had to (that wasn’t related to my personal projects). As a result, I now have a lot of time and a lot of mental energy.
I thought I could finally start being more productive. And finally pouring that productivity into my applications I wanted to finish. Such as Garden, Chess, or that Garry’s Mod game mode about jumping.
I’ve set up some artificial deadlines for them.
I’ll also start streaming soon and make the Discord server more ‘inclusive’ / generic.
Wish me luck!
I was thinking of making some video upload utility. Reasoning: I am an admin on a Garry’s Mod server. Once I run out of nitro, I’ll have to rely on third-party video sites to show evidence, in case it’s needed.
The name is a bit funny. I thought of UploadTool. That would run a subdomain or some subdirectory/service called KumorTube on my website. I thought of shortening the name to KumTube. I know what you’re thinking, but it’s really not THAT. I just happen to have a funny second name.
But I’d have to go through all these procedures I have when starting a new project and it’s tiring. I’ll think about this idea later.
Why is everything so hard?
