Well the weekend went 'okay', Mark St.Jean of ShoeStringGames was very productive in his help on project2,

thanks to him we've completed all of the base area maps for the first island.

however since I had to teach him how to use the system it whittled down the time I had to work on the topic menu and the inventory menu.

Couple that with the fact I had some real trouble trying to get my UI projection matrix working properly, and you have a recipe for disaster.

Since sundays are ususaly pretty filled for me lately, friday night and all day staturday is for power-coding.

When all was said and done I managed to get the background image on-screen for the topic menu (which is considerably harder to do in 3D than in 2D =/) pretty lame =/

so I definetly need to pick up the pace =/