ok yall jokes over get a life and move on.

At 11/28/06 12:23 PM, Paranoia wrote: How many of you guys can code 3D engines in Flash? I'm trying to teach myself but rotations are getting me a little confused.

I can just about code a 2D engine that likes to pretend it's 3D. Does that count?

Yep. Refined the faux 3D engine I posted a month ago. Now it uses tiles and OOP.
I'm naming it the Read Every Tile And RenDer 3D Engine...

Will need to credit Tonypa and Sham Bhangal and everyone in AS Main for the help with this. Although it draws the 3D blocks by code I had to slave away at, I needed the help from Tonypa's Tile Based Game tutorial to give me a starting point for drawing tiles and learning OOP, and Sham's VCAM.

At 11/28/06 01:13 PM, KaynSlamdyke wrote: I can just about code a 2D engine that likes to pretend it's 3D. Does that count?

Yep. Refined the faux 3D engine I posted a month ago. Now it uses tiles and OOP.
I'm naming it the Read Every Tile And RenDer 3D Engine...

What is that purple (or some other color I'm colorblind, could be pink or something) diagonal line coming down from the topleft for?

and luis, we haven't been talking because I was home for Thanksgiving break ;) We can still share the <3

At 11/28/06 01:34 PM, orb wrote: What is that purple (or some other color I'm colorblind, could be pink or something) diagonal line coming down from the topleft for?

It is pink.

How bad;s your colour blindness?

It just points to the center of the V-CAM from the top left corner. Meant I could line a ruler up to the boxes to check they were being drawn properly

At 11/28/06 01:46 PM, KaynSlamdyke wrote: It just points to the center of the V-CAM from the top left corner. Meant I could line a ruler up to the boxes to check they were being drawn properly

Nice pseudo 3D Engine. Allot of them have errors or seem to detach after a long scroll, yours seems to stay perfectly in proportion, it's cool.

I don't know why, but it reminds me of a puzzle game I've seen done in shock wave, i can't remember the name though, lol. Are you going to use it in a game?

At 11/28/06 02:20 PM, Depredation wrote: Nice pseudo 3D Engine. Allot of them have errors or seem to detach after a long scroll, yours seems to stay perfectly in proportion, it's cool.

I'll be wrting a guide on making that engine up for FOSS (if it's still going). But the basic guide for creating your own is as follows

First it pretty much totally rips Tonypas' tile drawing tutorials method of doing this (hence why I'll be writing a tute up for it. Always give back to the community as much as you take out... Used to be the one from Jailbitch as well methinks). That's available on a quick google search, but if you want to make your own it creates a blank "tile" movie clip and defines a game object. Then it reads through a 2D array, putting appropriate tiles in place along the stage (attachMovie from the library, make the frame equal to its defined value in the tile's class). It also defines them as "tile" objects inside the game object with thier own walkable flags.

Add a VCAM with some code to follow whatever you tell it to follow (or just give it movement itself), and you have yourself a scrolling crossword puzzle.

It doesn't detach because it reads the distance from the center of the VCAM, to the corner points of each non-walkable tile. Then it scales that distance, and draws a roof at those coordinates in a created roof movieclip, who's depth is lower than the tiles.

Drawing the walls is a bit wierd. It checks to see where the center of the VCAM is in relation to the tile who's roof has just been drawn (so it calls the function from the roof drawing function for every non-walkable tile), and only draws the walls that are closest to it by drawing along the bottom of the tile, and to the recently drawn roof. Those are put in a movie clip between the tiles and the roof.

Refresh that Roof drawing function 100 times a second using an interval, and we have a damn smooth engine.

Thank you everyone who's ever made a Drawing API tutorial for AS Main. I love you all.
I'm going to try and work out how to make it draw more interesting walls than solid colours. Will be fun trying to get complex designs to scale properly (although not being able to draw textures in 3D without either scanlining (eek!) or using some excessively complex custom class I don't want to steal is going to be impossible... Solid colours and possibly gradients only at the moment.)

At 11/28/06 02:20 PM, Depredation wrote: Are you going to use it in a game?

If Blaze and Wonchop get thier animations to me fast enough, I'll be using it in two very different games for AG's Christmas Contest. Expect Gauntlet and Metroid from me.

Keep pestering me to work on them up until the deadline. I've just got Guitar Hero II, and the only reason I'm working on these kinds of things is because my PS2's in the repair shop still.

At 11/28/06 01:34 PM, orb wrote:
I'm colorblind

I'd just like to point out the humor in you making the "5 shades of..." collabs. Was it just five shades of greyish color collabs for you or...how bad is your color blindness?

Anyone wanting to participate in that flash reg gift swap let me know this week via PM, we need to get that rolling next week if we expect it to arrive pre-xmas.

The people who already sent me messages, I got em dont worry.

-L

Luis, why do you refuse to make any reference to Tom in your sig, when you never previously have?

At 11/28/06 01:13 PM, KaynSlamdyke wrote: I can just about code a 2D engine that likes to pretend it's 3D. Does that count?

Man, do you really have to go showing EVERYONE in the world the engine you're making for our game? ¬_¬ Now where is the "secrecy" in all that.

At 11/28/06 01:13 PM, KaynSlamdyke wrote: I can just about code a 2D engine that likes to pretend it's 3D. Does that count?

Its a bit jerky sometimes. Like, if you keep tapping the key repeatedly it sorta jerks.

At 11/28/06 06:41 PM, Masterswordman wrote: Luis, why do you refuse to make any reference to Tom in your sig, when you never previously have?

Have you seen Tom's signature? It should clear stuff up for you.

At 11/28/06 09:29 AM, Paranoia wrote: Now I have the 4,500th post!

n00b!

At 11/28/06 08:57 PM, Inglor wrote:

At 11/28/06 09:29 AM, Paranoia wrote: Now I have the 4,500th post!

n00b!

ZOMG IT'S INGLOR

At 11/28/06 10:44 PM, DarkMana wrote: His greatness has caressed yet another page of our humble thread. Surely this blessing will allow our crops to grow through the winter. Oh, great Inglor!

...

Don't start bowing to him.

At 11/29/06 12:04 AM, DarkMana wrote: I just came.

For anybody who's seen IE7's font antialiasing (ClearType), it's awesome. Makes all of the font antialiased and overall very smooth.
I realized it can be enabled over all of Windows XP. This is fucking sweet.

first of all....YAh!!!

second of all....FUCK THAT!!!!

ok, it sound good and all, but my IE7 is totally fucked over. Are you not having problems with it at all? None of my favorites show up, and i cant actually type anything in and go there. I cant go to a different page unless its a link of some kind.

At 11/29/06 12:30 AM, DarkMana wrote: Silly, I don't use Internet Explorer...
Right-click desktop >> Appearance >> Effects >> ClearType (dropdown).

I did that and it seemed to go more blurry, so much for being clearer.

I could never part with my Firefox2.0 :)

Haven't gotten Firefox 2.0 yet but FireFox is so much better then IE and it also doesn't have the ActiveX problem that the newer versions of IE have.

At 11/29/06 12:45 AM, PaperBagMask wrote:

At 11/29/06 12:30 AM, DarkMana wrote: Silly, I don't use Internet Explorer...
Right-click desktop >> Appearance >> Effects >> ClearType (dropdown).

I did that and it seemed to go more blurry, so much for being clearer.

it made every bit of text look a lot better. supposedly, it works best on LCD screens, but i have a CRT and it looks amazing!

what features of firefox 2 make it better than the...'old' firefox?

'scuse my double-post plzkthx.

i'm working on a flash presentation for a music appreciation project. i chose to do my project on Pink Floyd (ftw), and this is what i have so far. comments please? i know it isn't much. i just need to know how the animation is and all that. >_>

At 11/28/06 02:37 PM, Coaly wrote:

At 11/28/06 01:34 PM, orb wrote:
I'm colorblind

I'd just like to point out the humor in you making the "5 shades of..." collabs. Was it just five shades of greyish color collabs for you or...how bad is your color blindness?

Yeah, it's pretty funny. When people accused me of using pink in the 5sogreen collab, I seriously had to check my file and the values to make sure it wasn't pink (the contrast made it look pink on the flowers).

It's not that bad. I don't know of anyone that actually just sees grey instead of colors... I don't know if that exists at all. What happens is that red and green, when at the same value (brightness), and small or far away (since then it's projecting onto a smaller portion of my retina and has a lower amount of cones it's hitting) they look the same. So roses in a rosebush sometimes look green, or a green dot amidst other red dots will just look red.

However, it also affects any colors with red in them... so I have trouble distinguishing purple from blue (and every once in a while pink) and stuff like that.

I'm just waiting for the day that I get a job somewhere and they find out I'm colorblind and they're just like "What the fuck are you doing in an art field when you're colorblind?"

:(

Orb.. you have hope.

When I was doing aluminum anodizing, one of the people I learned from was red/green colorblind... in an industry where color mixing is important and you only get ONE shot to get something right or else you lose $1500.00 and have to try again.

He just made sure everything was labled correctly.

He also said that he was able to see very, very fine differences in shades of colors.

Just thought i'd post a plain green square.

At 11/29/06 03:01 AM, Cybex wrote: Just thought i'd post a plain green square.

Not going to lie... I seriously just LoL'd

At 11/29/06 03:17 AM, Johnny wrote:

At 11/29/06 03:01 AM, Cybex wrote: Just thought i'd post a plain green square.

Not going to lie... I seriously just LoL'd

Me too... We're horrible :)

At 11/29/06 03:17 AM, Johnny wrote: Not going to lie... I seriously just LoL'd

Seconded, but it does feel a bit mean.
To my knowledge there is several types of colour blindness and none of them make you see shades of grey, they make you not being able to see a certain colour.
We have a poster at school that shows what a colourful picture would look like to someone who is colour blind.

I hate things that autotype/autosuggest!!! I feel like im in a grocery store browsing around and i have some employee following me around offering me shit.

-L

At 11/29/06 03:01 AM, Cybex wrote: Just thought i'd post a plain green square.

That's seriously the funniest post I've seen in ages :P

I think we've found a way to make an update on the 'No RBC forum' in our own thread :D

At 11/29/06 08:45 AM, Luis wrote: I hate things that autotype/autosuggest!!! I feel like im in a grocery store browsing around and i have some employee following me around offering me shit.

-L

Exactly, plus I tipe faster than I click

I need advice...

What do you guys think of ADM Hosting, and what tips can you give for someone starting a website mainly for Flash stuff from next to no website experience whatsoever?

And do you have any good links for getting started at .php, e.t.c?

At 11/29/06 11:44 AM, Paranoia wrote: I need advice...

What do you guys think of ADM Hosting, and what tips can you give for someone starting a website mainly for Flash stuff from next to no website experience whatsoever?

ADM is good. Use it. I use dreamweaver to create webpages, it works well. And i cant remember what site taught me php.