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Hello Everyone I want to thank everyone for yet another successful sprint last round.  Whoa we got a bit a code done that has pushed us to to the point where we can see the light at the end of the tunnel for the GUI.

So let hit again everyone that has requested to join this sprint now has an agenda or is sharing an agenda with another team member.  Please review your agenda's and let me know is their anything you can see that is stopping you from completing this task this week?

@2d Art You will be working with the lead designer and my self James to figure out a design pattern for the GUI background layout for these pages and we will carry this design concept to the end of the GUI layout.  So we need to between all of us first decide what we will have the design look like and what will be on these pages that needs to be included per page.

@Programming Two of you have made it to the point where we would like to get you into Team Foundation Server.  Please PM me the email address you want attached to our team TFS account.  If its just your profile email address let me know its on your profile.

@Audio Our screen need background music we have one already made we need more to run through each screen keep in mind the victory screen vs loss screen details so and so forth.  I would like one musical song per page using the flow chart on the GDD wiki to finish these.  We may need to break these up into more sprints if we can not complete this in a week.  Please let me know now so I can divide it up and how many you think we can do in a week.

Thanks,
James Fleming

Hi James,

Thanks for the new task this week! I've downloaded the build via the console menu however I'm having difficulty navigating the folders to find how to run the game itself. Do I need a specific program to run it? I assumed what I'd be looking for would be in the Windows-Direct3D11 folder.

Thanks a bunch!

Zachary Cliff

Ignore this comment. 

@Anthony I still need your email address for your agenda.

@Zach Don't install Paradox we want the compiled application to run stand alone.  There should be an exe in their called "Application.Windows.exe".  Please download the newest one I have just uploaded into the Build and Notes section.

Thanks,
James Fleming

Is it possible to upload assets in a compressed folder with multiple files in it?

@James

I tried setting up the TFS, but it says i am not authorized to access it.

@James can please you move 1010, 1009, 1007, and 991 into the pending queue?

@Nick Done

Thanks,
James Fleming

@Robert I will make an adjustment to make it possible

@Etienne & Anthony You should have access to TFS now.

Thanks,
James Fleming

Thanks James. I am at work tonight, I get off pretty late, but I will check everything out in the morning and let you know

@ James: Thanks man!

@Robert Try it now

Thanks,
James Fleming

@James: It is still a "No go". I will just upload future files one by one. Just thought I'd ask to make things easier in the future.

@Robert it should be working are you doing ZIP files or RAR?

Let me enable RAR too I will roll that out in a few minutes.

Thanks,
James Fleming

@Robert Oh wait I just found the notes on this the reason is so when they go into source control they are one asset so it gets added into TFS so it is ready to use for the programmer and he or she does not have to un-zip it and look it up for the correct naming conversion.

Thanks,
James Fleming

Ah, that makes sense.

Visual Studio says my user account does not have access to the team foundation server.

@Team Changes to the sprint kick off to automate I was working on might of sent a kick off email too you just ignore it I'm working to get the sprints to start by themselves so I can focus on other stuff.

Thanks,
James Fleming

@James; I'm having trouble uploading a .Wav file. Same format as the others. Let me know when I am clear to upload!

@Robert Go a head and try it again.

 7:34 cst was the last build time was that around the time you where uploading?

Thanks,
James Fleming

@Anthony Did you get an email saying anything about TFS?

@Etienne Are you having any issue getting into TFS?

Thanks,
James Fleming

@James  It's still not going through.

I did not actually see oneone. Not even in my junk email box

@Robert Is it giving and error?

@Anthony Is the email address you gave me registered with Microsoft visual studio online?

 @Zachary Did you still need to upload any screen shots?

Thanks,
James Fleming

@Etienne I sent back 1007. The code was really good, but there are a couple buttons, I think I may have left off the agenda, that still needs to be added to one of the screens and a duplicate method that should be removed. Otherwise everything else was really good.

@James This is what it says on the top of the screen; 

An error has taken place adding the asset Menu03. Please contact the administrator to resolve this issue.

@James

For me it works fine.

@Nick

Ok. I'll correct this later. Sorry for the inconvenience.

@Robert Would you have time for a meeting today so we can use Team Viewer to figure out what is going on?

@Everyone Is anyone else having this issue that Robert has?

Thanks,
James Fleming

Yes. The email address I gave you is registered with visual Studio online,  and also the one currently logged in on my visual Studio itself

@Anthony Sorry I typo your email please try again.

Thanks,
James Fleming

@Robert I just rolled a patch out from last night will you try to upload the Menu sound again sorry for the annoyance.

Thanks,
James Fleming

@James: I'll try again at 1700 PST.

If a meeting is still necessary, after1700 PST would work as well.

Alright I have access to TFS. Thanks James.

@Sound Can one of you tell me if any of the following application are free to use and something we can put in our application listing as a tool we recommend?

Audacity, Audio Hijack, SoundHack, Ableton Live 9, Digital Performer, all Native Instruments plugins, and SPEAR (Sinusoidal Partial Editing and Resynthesis)

Thanks,
James Fleming

@James;  The upload was successful! Thanks for the help! 

@Robert Sorry for the inconvenience it turned out to be an issue with the delete functionality that was created with this sprint to allow us to delete assets that are not needed or a waste of space on the server and backup.  we only have some much space before they charge Thou Curator more so trying to get it so we can easily manage it.

Thanks,
James Fleming

@ James: No problem, glad you figured it out.

As far as a free D.A.W. Audacity is free. I have never used it though. http://audacityteam.org/

Sound Hack does have some free bundles. http://www.soundhack.com/freeware/

There is also this: http://www.nch.com.au/software/audio.html I have used the file converter for this one.

Here is a free sampler that I have used a few times http://tx16wx.blogspot.com/

I rarely use these things because with purchased software you have much more control. Hope this helps.

And I hope others chime in as well.

@Anthony You have no time added to the TFS agenda you are a multi user of will you please add your time for this sprint?

@Yeri You have no time added to the Beta agenda you are a multi user of can you add time to it so we can close it.

@Programmer Do you guys have the project download and running?

Thanks,
James Fleming

Time should now be added to  the shared assignment

@Robert What paid software do you use?

Thanks,
James Fleming

@James; I currently use Cubase for my D.A.W.(Digital Audio Workstation) and Wavelab for edits. Usually if you buy a piece of hardware you can get a light version of certain DAW's, but if you want one that is free, without purchasing anything, The list below would work. I am kinda out of the loop  when it comes to free stuff.  

There is also middleware but the free versions have limitations, I also don't know how to go about linking it to paradox. I won't go into great detail about these as I am still learning them. (FMOD and Wwise) Great tools to work with though.

I hope Shayn and Sean will have better ideas. 

@Robert Great information thank you.  Shayn & Sean do you have any thing else to add to this?

Thanks,
James Fleming

@Nick

So I am still getting the problem with no errors showing in the IDE, but now I'm getting a warning. 

"Warning Unable to find package decription from path [C:\Users\Owner\Documents\Visual Studio 2013\Projects\Game The Last Stand\Application\Application.pdxpkg] Package.InterfaceManager"

As well as a bunch of warnings about the paradox components not being found and all in that location. Last sprint, I had a work around, and I believe you had a fix for the IDE and paradox wanting to find files in a default location. I will apply that and see if that doesn't cure the problem and then re-edit files.

Edit) Trying my work around, and your fix still isn't allowing me to see errors, or compile in paradox.

 Edit2) It's all working properly now. Will edit code and send it back to you.

@Anthony Is this in a pop up?

"Warning Unable to find package decription from path [C:\Users\Owner\Documents\Visual Studio 2013\Projects\Game The Last Stand\Application\Application.pdxpkg] Package.InterfaceManager"

@James I used to use Audacity which is freeware, but now I am using Cubase which came with the hardware that I bought.

Reaper is notable, but it is technically not free. They give you a 60 day testing period, but they let you test over that time period for an unlimited amount. After that, they kindly ask you to pay, but don't force you to. I think Reaper is a good introduction software for beginners or hobbyists, but once you start making money off of what you do, you should pay for the software

@Shayn Thank you for your input I will add this to our application for new comers along with Audacity.

Thanks,
James Fleming

@Everyone we still have a few agenda not set for review if you are finished with your agenda please submit it for review if it is not completed please let us know what is left to do to finish it.

Thanks,
James Fleming

@James Request review means that we are just waiting on someone to approve it, in other words, our job is done, right?

@Shayn Yes this so I know that the agenda is done or taken as far as you can at this time.  At that point I review it and your notes to see what our next steps are to keep moving forward.

Thanks,
James Fleming