[Release] Tyrant's Virtual Mission Tools (VMT)
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@LorikEolmin Haha, yeah, text is a terrible medium for conveying tone. It was indeed intended as self-deprecating humor.
I have to admit as an occasional user of the form I did not find it at all obvious that “chat” = “PM”, so I appreciate the confirmation. I do write software for a living, and I am constantly amazed at the number of ways we as an industry can find to make things confusing. I’m sure VMT has more than its fair share of these issues, despite me thinking really hard about how the interface should work.
Of course it’s not limited to the virtual world - anyone that has ever pulled on a door that can only be opened by pushing has been fooled by the handle. There’s a great book called “The Design of Everyday Things” that goes into this kind of thing in the physical world.
And of course the Viper cockpit is actually a masterwork of interaction design - not perfect perhaps but man, if most software was laid out with that much attention to functionality I would use a lot less profanity.
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@Tyrant said in [Release] Tyrant's Virtual Mission Tools (VMT):
@LorikEolmin Haha, yeah, text is a terrible medium for conveying tone. It was indeed intended as self-deprecating humor.
I have to admit as an occasional user of the form I did not find it at all obvious that “chat” = “PM”, so I appreciate the confirmation. I do write software for a living, and I am constantly amazed at the number of ways we as an industry can find to make things confusing. I’m sure VMT has more than its fair share of these issues, despite me thinking really hard about how the interface should work.
Of course it’s not limited to the virtual world - anyone that has ever pulled on a door that can only be opened by pushing has been fooled by the handle. There’s a great book called “The Design of Everyday Things” that goes into this kind of thing in the physical world.
And of course the Viper cockpit is actually a masterwork of interaction design - not perfect perhaps but man, if most software was laid out with that much attention to functionality I would use a lot less profanity.
Especially the external lights panel.
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Hi Tyrant,
Just to ask if VMT is Ok now for 4.36.3
I miss it a lot!!
A big Hug,
Gundam
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@gundam Hi Tyrant, Just to let you know that together with 4.37 in my heart there is even VMT tool.
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Hi @Tyrant, any update on the status of VMT?
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Hi guys. Sorry for the lack of update. Started coaching my daughter’s robotics team, and that has taken up a huge amount of my time (but is also very fun).
That said, I think the real reason that I haven’t worked on it is that I am totally burned out on it. I did get some help from someone with the file formats - which was super awesome - but it’s still incredibly tedious and every time I went to go work on it I just felt like I wanted to be doing anything else.
I feel terrible about this, but I think the reality is that I’m going to stop supporting VMT. It has just become actively unpleasant for me to work on, and much as I want to provide it for y’all, it has gotten to the point where it just doesn’t make sense for me to spend my spare time this way.
Apologies again, and also for not coming to this realization sooner and letting you know.
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@Tyrant That’s great man. I was with my son at a robotics tournament yesterday.
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@Tyrant Hi that’s a shame, but it happens - was a software dev for many years, and now it just makes me feel nauseous just seeing curly braces.
Have you thought of open-sourcing it on GitHub or handing it over to someone else? I know there’s been a couple of people asking about anything they can do for the good of Falcon BMS.
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@Tyrant Hi Tyrant.
Understood. Spare time is like gold
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@Tyrant
Understood.