#adots program

two new modules:

math test, drone is to complete a generated short basic math exam. Currently, it is limited to simple addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division with a two minute max time. drones need a score of above 80% to pass. if not, another math test is queued. In the future, it may expand this to have some harder math as well, but that seems unlikely to actually happen.

countdown, where drone counts out loud from 100 to 0. sometimes that's all, sometimes it is instructed to say some mantra after each number.

and a new themed session: computer!

it has been planning on building this one for a while. focusing on number and memory related tasks, as well as tasks involving verbal programming mantras. now that math test and countdown are done, there are finally enough modules for the theme.

known bugs (that this drone can't seem to figure out):

sometimes the reward/penalty lack of choice module doesnt work when it is at the end of the session. it's happened twice now, but isolated this drone hasn't been able to replicate the problem.

the 'begin another session' button at the end just... no longer works. it's unsure when this happened, because neither the ending nor resetting functions have been touched since they were added. this drone suspects it has something to do with changes to the array builder, but more testing is needed. in the meantime, if a drone feels the need to do another session, just refresh the page.

upcoming implementations:

still need to do light bondage, but that will likely need a revamp to some of the gear (specifically how wrist and ankle restraints are handled) so that's why it has been putting that off. still recovering from all that.

it would like to flesh out the website some. probably this is what it would count as the "official" 1.0 release (not like any of that matters). but it's thinking about documentation of the different modules, links to suggested programming audio sources, links to other fun programs and projects, and maybe like an faq? or a "request a module" and "report a bug" form of some kind (though it doesn't exactly have a server it can use for that...)

stuck on spiral mode. gifs are too small and too clunky. a rotating animation of a still spiral image, even if it could get it working (right now, the text on the page spins, the spiral stays still. the fuck.), would require this drone to be waaaay better at css (optimization for different screen resolutions mostly) than it is. it's looked into a canvas type thing? but that's a whole other mess. so. stuck on that.

It was a long road of trial and error to get spiral mode working. There were two big issues.

First: it needed to find or generate a spiral. And second: it needed to learn enough css to animate it in such a way that the rotation can be toggled on and off.

Drawing the spiral itself using an html canvas was not the way, as was its most recent plan--those looked ugly and blurry, and weren't worth the effort. So, it went back to the initial plan: find a way to get a good png and make it spin. An animated gif was rejected due to very very very bad quality.

So other than learning how to use digital art tools like krita, the next step was finding a good spiral image. Screenshotting the zyntaks spiral generator (hey this is such a useful tool btws) was its first stop. The generator makes some of the smoothest shapes and has a very intuitive (and flexible) ui, but downside was the color picker. It was looking for an exact hex code for the css color scheme to look the way it wants, but there is no way to do it that.

So it tried the nimja visuals (also so useful, especially now that randomizations have been implemented) (this drone loves randomization in case that wasnt evident), and the basic custom spiral took hex codes! Great. So it plugged in the color code for a dark greyish green and messed around with it until it got a spiral it liked.

As said, the plan was to take a screenshot, and then make it spin. But--luck: it right-clicked and there was a "save image as png" button. Oh nice, won't have to deal with potential file dimensions issues. But even better: the image saved was of just the green spiral as a transparent png! Basically, this is ideal. With a screenshot, the image itself would be a big rectangle, meaning it would need to enlarge it to make sure that when the image was spun 90 degrees it wouldn't leave blank space to the sides of the spiral (ick). With the png, this drone had a circular, large shape that it could center and spin with no worries of that.

After several evenings of messing around and learning how css works, it had it looking the way it wanted it to look (and a fun fuzzy drop shadow border).

The animations took a few tries, and it is mostly satisfied with them. This drone really likes the fade in and out, and it is proud of the math it had to learn (bezier curves???) to get the slow speed up to happen smoothly, but it was unable to make a smooth slow down afterwards. Alas. Plus, the slow speed up only happens the very first time spiral mode is activated and not any subsequent times, but the chance of it starting, stopping, and then starting again is quite low, so this drone decided that's a later later later project.

Then it was just a matter of getting the javascript functions set up (pretty simple at this point) and remembering how the settings verifications happen so that spiral settings can get set up.

There are three options in the settings. First is the default (spiral doesnt start on, but the toggle function can occur). Second is to completely disable the spiral, for those drones who do not process motion well in that way. Third is for those drones who looooove it, which turns on spiral mode and keeps it on the entire time.

It's debating having a chance that with the default, the spiral occasionally starts on, but eh that's a project for another time.

So yes, the first dev update in several months on AdOTS, and spiral mode (which has been an idea since nearly the start) is working!

This drone is hoping to spend more time on AdOTS again going forward, working toward a "full launch." it's got a list of goals and everything. Lots of bugs to work out, several more features to add, some streamlining of the code (since it now knows waaaay more about coding that it did when the project began), more web infrastructure, those things.

mindlessly yours,

So many days of work and troubleshooting and probably, it thinks, like, around 1000 more lines of code later, drone x1320 is proud to announce that gear customization is up and running!

Now, it's basically guaranteed that there are bugs. but, those will be fixed as they happen.

To list the changes, there are now three gear options: flexible (the default, which has a few loose options so a drone can fill in the gaps with what it has), custom (which has toggleable options for every gear thing), and no gear at all (just like the old option, shunts out all gear tasks. Plus, for custom gear, options have been split between full body, tops only, and bottoms only. Now, a drone will get a full body thing, or some combination of a top and bottom (or nothing, for any of those). All combos are checked against a feasibility list to prevent totally scene-breaking stupid combos. This change caused a bunch of issues and is where the bulk of the work went.

Finally, tasks that use gear, namely the pup versions of the gear changes and the butt stuff task, have been updated accordingly. Each gear item has an associated "puppy" value, which if true means that it can be used in the pup gear task. The butt stuff task now could no longer just check for total nudity to tell the drone to strip before pluggin that thang up, since sometimes the drone will be wearing separates. So it checks full body or separates and whether or not there's nothing there before instructing either removal of the full body garment OR removal of just the bottoms. then, of course, the replacement of those afterwards.

If there are items of gear that this drone forgot that should be on there, please please let it know. It's mostly stuff that it has, so it's sure there are items and kinks that it doesn't immediately think to include. An upside of the reworking is that it only needs to add gear in one place to change the lists, instead of, like, five, so it's easy to add things.

One other little change, unrelated, is a note in the final task to also clean up all gear used during the course of the task (and two other things that may be cluttering the drone's living space. hey. a drone should be neat, why not seize the opportunity. AdOTS was all about brainwashing AND self-improvement in the first place).

It can finally move on to new projects:

the light bondage module

mathematics module! Drones are computers, right? computers do math. ahahahahaha

three new themed sessions: humiliation (with lots of inconveniences), computer (heheheh), and storage mode (bigger, like puppy mode. will always end with some form of light bondage and spending some amount of time in the dark/blindfolded/with eyes closed in storage just being programmed).

some thoughts about expanding the pushups module, or adding some more to make a fitness themed session of some kind?

it's exciting times over here in the AdOTS development lab (x1320's apartment). give the program a try! Let it know what you think!