Author: johnny

  • Flight Log 7: Just Parallel Lines.  Mostly.

    Flight Log 7: Just Parallel Lines. Mostly.

    Another flight above farm fields. Starting to think I live near an agriculture community. If you need footage of farms, I’m your man. Love the shot of parallel lines with some S-curves in there. Wonder what happened?

  • Flight Log 6: Contrails

    Flight Log 6: Contrails

    And just like that, I realized you can pivot the camera gimbal upward. Thank you Mr. Airplane Pilot. I see you. We are both men of the sky.

  • Flight Log 5: A Bridge Too Far

    Flight Log 5: A Bridge Too Far

    Lifted off from a bridge, when hundreds of menacing birds flew out from underneath it to attack my drone. I feared for its life. Never again. Beware the bridges. Especially this one, for it is a bridge too far.

  • Flight Log 4: Country Roads

    Flight Log 4: Country Roads

    Overcast day in late June near sunset. Flew around some corn, almond, and hay fields.

  • Flight Log 3: Car Wrecks

    Flight Log 3: Car Wrecks

    These cars were part of an exercise training for the local fire department.

  • Flight Log 2: High Winds

    Flight Log 2: High Winds

    On my second flight, I got a high wind warning. It said something like: unable to return to home you should descend and land immediately. Wow. I’m glad I wasn’t trying for long distance or over water. Good to know that can happen. That’s what these initial test flights are for. I really dont want…

  • Flight Log 1: Test Flight of a DJI Mini 3

    Flight Log 1: Test Flight of a DJI Mini 3

    Folks around here call this “The Pond”.

  • Notes on Doing Godot 2D Tutorial a Second Time

    A script’s functions can be found here: Interesting things in the Reference section of the documentation: The scene that runs when you press Play is called the “Main Scene”. It is colored blue here: You can change this by right-clicking -> Set as Main Scene

  • Think Like a Speedrunner

    In pondering how to learn video game programming, I just came up with this concept: Think Like a Speedrunner In short, learn a development task, and the repeat it. Keep repeating it so often you can do it very quickly. The first attempt may take a very long time. You’ll need to research it, there…

  • Godot Tutorial:  Camera 2D

    Godot Tutorial: Camera 2D

    More notes from doing tutorial of this video series. Assets from Game Endeavor… I finally got the game centered! That was driving me nuts. But this tutorial finally had the information I was missing. Arrow Keys to move, Spacebar to Attack Some notes of things I’d like to remember… Add a Camera 2D to the…