Nerdcore 4 Life

So I was supposed to get to work on the file handling stuff yesterday, but first I wanted to do a quick and easy physics simulation with a bunch of bouncing balls in a box. But I didn’t want to use the XZ plane or the XY plane as bound, I wanted to determine a collision between an arbitrary plane and a point.

Which apparently no one has ever had to do ever because there’s no simple procedure on the web describing it

By combining this method of getting a plane equation from three points with this formula for point-plane distance I should be able to do it. But it’s currently not correct and really hard to check a formula that you don’t understand :/

On another note, picked up The Force Unleashed last night. All the criticism, totally true. The targeting is wonky and your toughest opponent is the camera. But in spite of that I do love this game. It’s fast, it’s fun and it’s the fulfillment of every nerd fantasy that doesn’t involve a vagina(interestingly, not that many do).

Mainstream Stars Wars fans who pick this game up will love it. Those of us who played Jedi Outcast know that a better version of the same premis was made 8 years ago, but this game still has it’s place.