A new beginning...

I've started another blog. Again, I know. I'm hoping to talk mostly about Actionscript and web development on here, provided I find time to use either. I've been studying prety hard lately, trying to make it out of college with my GPA intact, so we'll see how that goes.

Lately, I've been using a class package called APE. It's an acronym for Actionscript Physics Engine. It provides 2 dimensional physics, and for what it does it does it nicely. However, I've found it lacking a specific ability I need.

See, the idea I had when I started messing with it was to create a game where a man is tethered to a weight, like an escapee prisoner. Thus he moves faster inside the constraints of the tether, but when he reaches the end of the tether he is slowed down by the weight. He was also going to be able to throw it, and all other sorts of fanciness.

The problem is that you need a sort of... rope constraint, of which APE has none programmed in. It has a spring constraint, which works amazing for what it does. Really, the features there I have no problem with. I only wish it had a rope constraint built in. I thought about adding one of my own, and even started looking over the APE source to brainstorm an expansion of the class. Now with classes in full swing though, I really don't have the time.