Streets Of Boston Software

11 Responses

1. Ryan Heaton says:

   February 23, 2009 at 20:34

   Thank you for making Gube! It runs GREAT! It is loads of fun and I’m glad to have when the physical cube isn’t around or just wouldn’t look right to be solving (church?).

   I have been thinking of a few suggestions for the product, if you don’t mind. Here are two “easy” ones to define:

   - Custom skins for the squares.
   - 4×4 + sized cubes. (Not that I know how to do those, but I could learn.)

   The other suggestion I have is much more complicated to type in a short note. It has to do with building an option to “lock” the cube position at a top-front view (60-ish degree?) and then have a fixed rotation only on the axes. (Still starting the rotation process from the top or bottom portions of the screen like it is now.)

   If you are interested in my suggestion, I would be happy to more clearly define it for you. If you are already working on something or just don’t need the info, that’s fine too.

   Thanks again for a fun app!

   Ryan
2. Streets says:

   February 23, 2009 at 21:18

   Hi Ryan,

   I’m happy you like The Gube and I want to thank you for your suggestions.

   I’ve already been thinking about locking the Gube in some position to ease the turning of the layers. I’m still thinking about the specifics for this. But any suggestion is welcome.

   About the 4×4x4 cube: The main problem, for cubes that are more than 3×3x3 in dimension, is the sizes of the little faces on the screen. The smaller they get, the harder it is to turn the layers. They are already smallish for the 3×3x3. For now, i’m not going to do this. But maybe in the future, you never know

   Custom Skins: Good suggestion!
   Picking 6 pics from your phone or the internet, maybe crop them to a square and assign each of them to one face.

   But, aren’t you supposed to pay attention in church…?
3. Lajos Kelemen says:

   April 2, 2009 at 08:59

   Hi,

   I bought Gube from Handango. It seems that it doesn’t save the state of the cube after a while.
   Is there any update of the game? It doesn’t seem to check for updates although it is said on its Handango page:
   “Checks automatically for Gube updates”

   thanks
   Lajos
4. Streets says:

   April 2, 2009 at 09:20

   Hi Lajos,

   You should be able to go to Handango and get your *free* upgrade (latest version is 1.0.3).

   Let me know if this works out for you. If not, I’ll make sure you get the latest version.

   Thanks for contacting me.
   – Anton
5. David Barr says:

   May 7, 2009 at 16:02

   Thanks for developing the nice Rubik’s Cube program. I’ve got two suggestions.

   I think the cube rotation interface is more complicated than necessary. I don’t think that you need to do the Z axis rotation when we drag horizontally in the upper half of the screen. I’d rather have the upper half work exactly like the lower half.

   Also, I get tired of waiting for the cube to scramble. Either make the layer rotation speed increase about tenfold while scrambling or don’t animate the scramble at all.

   Thanks,

   David
6. Streets says:

   May 7, 2009 at 21:47

   Thanks for commenting, David.

   I may be able to make it optional, the Z-rotation when you touch the top-part of the screen.

   About the scramble speed: Go to the Menu and then the layer settings. Increase the layer turning speed to maximum. Scrambling now goes a LOT faster
7. Zu-Yon Han says:

   August 6, 2009 at 10:17

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8. Sure says:

   October 21, 2009 at 00:08

   Hi Lajos,

   I found here from the Google Android Developers Group.

   I’ve a question about your “gluUnProject” methed which you shared on the site.
   Regarding the argument “float winz”, could give me some help of how to get this value correctly?

   Thank you very much indeed!

   Regards
   Sure Zhang
9. Streets says:

   October 21, 2009 at 12:35

   About the winz paramater of gluUnproject:
   The value of ‘winz’ is either 0 or 1 when trying to obtain a 3D coordinate of your 2D touch-point on the screen.

   You have to call gluUnproject twice, once with winz=0 for the near-plane, the other time with winz=1 for the far-plane. Then you have a line in your 3D model, perpendicular to your screen (near-plane) to the far-plane.

   After that you have to calculate the nearest intersection-point of this line with one of your opengl objects.
10. Sure says:

    October 22, 2009 at 00:36

    
    Thank you very much for your help!
    Now I’m on the correct way!

    Sure
11. anfernee says:

    December 13, 2009 at 03:27

    i want to know that the viewport in gluUnProject

    i use gl.glGetIntegerv(GL11.GL_VIEWPORT,viewport,0);
    to get the viewport values,but it always return 0;

    could give me some help of getting the viewport?

    Thank you very much indeed!

    Regards
    Anfernee Cheung