WCAG2.0
Again, can someone remind me why I bother using Flash when these exist? Technically every bit of content on this site breaks these by not providing text alternative content for every SWF on the site...

As much as I know these are "guidelines", there are just times where you have to ignore them for the site to work. But then, what'd be the purpose of them if you could just ignore them? Paradox...

Gesture Recognition...
Someone asked about this last week on the forum. Yeah, I was bored. And it's almost working, but completely unlabled and glitchy as sin

Still. If you can spell the entire alphabet, all the numerals and the pentagram I'll be impressed and semi vindicated
* Click to draw.
* Use long, definate strokes
* Draw all glyphs with a single motion
* to start off... A is drawn from the bottom left to the top, to the bottom right... /\
* E is drawn by going left, then down, then right...
* O is a clockwise circle

viruses and stuff
nod32
spybot search and destroy
ad aware
those seem to get the job done..

At 12/22/08 07:22 AM, KaynSlamdyke wrote: Gesture Recognition...
Someone asked about this last week on the forum. Yeah, I was bored. And it's almost working, but completely unlabled and glitchy as sin

Still. If you can spell the entire alphabet, all the numerals and the pentagram I'll be impressed and semi vindicated
* Click to draw.
* Use long, definate strokes
* Draw all glyphs with a single motion
* to start off... A is drawn from the bottom left to the top, to the bottom right... /\
* E is drawn by going left, then down, then right...
* O is a clockwise circle

That's really cool, actually.
I was trying to make the letter G, but i got a lot of 6's, some C's, a 9, and even a Q.
But all in all, pretty neat.

As for me, for the past week or so i've been working on
this little engine for a game i'm working on.
I think it's going to turn out pretty well for how much progress
i've gotten on it so far.

That little demo is a bit glitchy, but,
drag around the tiles into separate orders.
I've done a lot more than it looks on the interior of the AS,
but hopefully things go well with this game. :]
Tell me how it looks :3

Oh, and i did it all in AS3. I'm very glad i made the transition. :]

Actionscript (3) question!
I didn't want to make a whole new topic for this because I figured some of you guys would solve my problem in under 5 minutes, right? Guys?

Here goes:
I'm making a shooter game and during a certain event I want the soundeffects to decrease in volume. I can transform the soundchannel so all current sounds are changed but new soundeffects that are added to the soundchannel will play with their original volume (100%), not the updated volume. Is there a way to set the volume for all sounds including the to be added sounds?

I hope that made sense.

At 12/22/08 01:31 PM, Xeptic wrote: Actionscript (3) question!
I didn't want to make a whole new topic for this because I figured some of you guys would solve my problem in under 5 minutes, right? Guys?

Here goes:
I'm making a shooter game and during a certain event I want the soundeffects to decrease in volume. I can transform the soundchannel so all current sounds are changed but new soundeffects that are added to the soundchannel will play with their original volume (100%), not the updated volume. Is there a way to set the volume for all sounds including the to be added sounds?

Makes sense to me, i think this might work...
I haven't worked with sounds a lot, so what i'm saying is possibly
completely and totally wrong, but here's what i think you can do...

All the sound properties in AS3 are in the SoundTransform class,
And the sounds themselves are in the Sound class.

When you set your sounds in the AS, set them all
to the same SoundTransform, and
if you want to make them all the same, lower volume,
just edit that one SoundTransform.

Know what i mean?
Hope this helps/works, lol.

I can set all the sounds individually, it's just that I have a good 10 different sounds starting at different times, meaning I have to add the soundTransform line 10 tines. I was hoping there was a more elegant solution, it works thoug, so thanks :)

At 12/22/08 08:35 PM, SpamBurger wrote: Luis

That's amazing.. I want one from him but I don't wanna get one and not send one, and I'm totally unsure about posting anything abroad.. anyway, Luis, you're the man :)

I wish my parents wouldn't be suspicious if some mexican named Luis sent me a card for christmas :'(.

At 12/22/08 10:38 PM, ImpendingRiot wrote: He's not Mexican, he's a turk.

I always thought he was Brazilian. Since he looks so food deprived.

Yeesh, I leave for months and people are still just talking about where Lu is from? He's Bolivian. End.
There, now pick a topic to drag out across all of 2009 :P

At 12/23/08 12:17 AM, NegativeONE wrote: Yeesh, I leave for months and people are still just talking about where Lu is from? He's Bolivian. End.
There, now pick a topic to drag out across all of 2009 :P

The definitive answer.

At 12/23/08 12:17 AM, NegativeONE wrote: Yeesh, I leave for months and people are still just talking about where Lu is from? He's Bolivian. End.
There, now pick a topic to drag out across all of 2009 :P

That's just a CIA coverup, for the truth go to "isluismexicanorsomeothertypeofnationali ty.com".

Present

That's a very nice present :). Did the gift exchange ever go down this year?

GTA IV for PC

Anyone else got it? If you have post your live account name and i'll add you for some citywide destruction and mayhem.

At 12/23/08 06:57 AM, 25272D wrote:

At 12/23/08 12:17 AM, NegativeONE wrote: Yeesh, I leave for months and people are still just talking about where Lu is from? He's Bolivian. End.
There, now pick a topic to drag out across all of 2009 :P

Fuck off, he's mexican >:(

Who are you? :D

At 12/23/08 12:17 AM, NegativeONE wrote: now pick a topic to drag out across all of 2009 :P

Er... Um...
I was watching this health show on BBC America the otherday, and
they had this whole family, all very overweight.

So, to give them an idea of how unhealthy they are,
they played a game called "Who's Poo," where
i guess each of them shit in a little Tupperware container
and the host opened them and they all had to guess
who's shit it was by looking at how everything was 'processed.'

Now let's discuss this for a whole year. :3

At 12/23/08 10:43 AM, K-Guare wrote: i guess each of them shit in a little Tupperware container
and the host opened them and they all had to guess
who's shit it was by looking at how everything was 'processed.'

Now let's discuss this for a whole year. :3

That's... That's a lie. Right? Right?!

At 12/23/08 10:43 AM, K-Guare wrote: So, to give them an idea of how unhealthy they are,
they played a game called "Who's Poo," where
i guess each of them shit in a little Tupperware container
and the host opened them and they all had to guess
who's shit it was by looking at how everything was 'processed.'

Sounds sexy, did you Sky+ it :P Aha

At 12/23/08 11:42 AM, Saza wrote: Sounds sexy, did you Sky+ it :P Aha

Oh yeah, i watch it in slow motion when i'm alone at home.
"Oh yeah, you guess who's poo that is. Oh YEAH! It's totally yours! YES MA'AM."

The show's called "You Are What You Eat,"
and i'm not sure if they do that in every episode, but,
it's was probably the most disturbing thing i've seen on television.

Luckily the poo's were censored out, lol.

At 12/23/08 11:50 AM, K-Guare wrote:

At 12/23/08 11:42 AM, Saza wrote: Sounds sexy, did you Sky+ it :P Aha

Oh yeah, i watch it in slow motion when i'm alone at home.
"Oh yeah, you guess who's poo that is. Oh YEAH! It's totally yours! YES MA'AM."

The show's called "You Are What You Eat,"
and i'm not sure if they do that in every episode, but,
it's was probably the most disturbing thing i've seen on television.

Luckily the poo's were censored out, lol.

Was it on before 9? (:

Yeah i've heard of the show - never bothered watching it though. Sounds sick so i dont think i'll be visiting it anytime soon :P

Year end fun

So, this is the end of the first year since I've started programming, and I decided to compile most of the stuff that is worth showing, in a .swf and post a link to it here (using STW of course). I thought it would be cool, for programmers and animators alike, to do the same. I mean, it's better than actually doing work before the holiday's right? ;D

Spriting Test

Does this look, I dunno, solid to you? It's the first bit of spriting I've ever done for a game. And I haven't done much character animation before either. There are a few glitches in the movement controls that I know of, but this is only to test the animation not the coding :). It's supposed to look a little rough and the black bars are there so you can see he's actually moving.

Right arrow key > run to the right.
Down arrow key > duck/dive/slide.
Spacebar > shoot.
Enter > Toggle explosion/almost dead effect (not too sure about this yet).

Looks okay to you?

At 12/23/08 01:02 PM, Xeptic wrote: Looks okay to you?

I like it, nice work. :]
The only think i don't like though is the delay for when you want
to walk, or duck.
Bump up the framerate a bit, or just make the walk/duck animations faster.

And i think the Enter effect would be suitable for a death, or a game over.
I think more of a game over, because it'd get too repetitive if it were just for a death.
But overall good job. :]

I finished a game. >:( I'm on vacation and I got it done that's how dedicated I am.

• 

  Santa's Present Bounce

  by NextToNothing

  Take control of Santa and help save Christmas!

  Game

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  (Everyone)

p.s anyone know why modifying jack smack's code to this

onClipEvent(enterFrame){
urlStart = _url.indexOf( "://" )+3;
urlEnd = _url.indexOf( "/", urlStart );
domain = _url.substring( urlStart, urlEnd );
LastDot = domain.lastIndexOf( "." ) -1;
pfixEnd = domain.lastIndexOf( "." , LastDot ) +1;
domain = domain.substring( pfixEnd , domain.length);

if (domain == "newgrounds.com") {
this._alpha=100
} else {
this._alpha=0
}
}

will work with any url other than newgrounds.com? really frustrating I didn't want to have ad's here but I can't seem to get the mochiad's domain to register newgrouds.com either =(

At 12/23/08 01:39 PM, NextToNothing wrote: p.s anyone know why modifying jack smack's code to this
will work with any url other than newgrounds.com?

It probably has something to with the fact that games are stored on another domain than newgrounds.com, here is the url to your .swf: http://uploads.ungrounded.net/475000/475 274_ngversion.swf

Yeah, because freaking Adobe made the _url property the
url the SWF is hosted at, and not the domain that it's hosted on.

Because i had this idea that
i could make a separate .as file to go with a game,
i could restrict what sites can host my game by adding additional sites to that .as

Then if someone's trying to play my game from a site that isn't on
my little approved list, i could make it not work, and display a little error message. :]

But that dream's been long gone. :[

At 12/23/08 01:02 PM, Xeptic wrote: Spriting Test

Does this look, I dunno, solid to you?

Pretty nice. A bit slow, the animation and everything but nice. Also for the 'almost dead' effect, maybe add a blur of some description and distort sounds?

Merry Christmas!

If I'm not all wrong, most of you guys don't give presents and all that other stuff until Christmas day, but here we do most of the celebration on Christmas Eve and the local time is now 0.30 AM ^^ So, Merry Christmas guys! :)

At 12/23/08 06:30 PM, knugen wrote: Merry Christmas!

If I'm not all wrong, most of you guys don't give presents and all that other stuff until Christmas day, but here we do most of the celebration on Christmas Eve and the local time is now 0.30 AM ^^ So, Merry Christmas guys! :)

How comes you do all the celebrating on Christmas eve? What do you spend Christmas day doing? Its 23.50 here. 10minutes and it'll be Christmas eve.. Merry Christmas nonetheless.

At 12/23/08 06:50 PM, UnknownFury wrote: How comes you do all the celebrating on Christmas eve? What do you spend Christmas day doing? Its 23.50 here. 10minutes and it'll be Christmas eve.. Merry Christmas nonetheless.

I have no idea why, just tradition I guess. Christmas day is not really that special here, when I was little I mostly spend it playing with all my new toys, now it's more like a day for recovery after almost eating oneself to death the day before ;)

At 12/23/08 07:02 PM, knugen wrote: I have no idea why, just tradition I guess. Christmas day is not really that special here, when I was little I mostly spend it playing with all my new toys, now it's more like a day for recovery after almost eating oneself to death the day before ;)

Sounds reasonable :P
Is Christmas eve a holiday there then? 'cause over here 25th and 26th are holidays.

At 12/23/08 07:16 PM, UnknownFury wrote: Sounds reasonable :P
Is Christmas eve a holiday there then? 'cause over here 25th and 26th are holidays.

Yeah, all days 24-26th are holidays :)