Flash crashes for me a bit. Thankfully I've learned to break big projects up before the final version when everything's done and is slapped together then touched up and uploaded.

Crashing sucks especially when you've spent an hour plus working on something important to you.

Still no reply from addictinggames but I have e-mailed flashgamelicence now.

Back to homework, we get to use the XNA framework to make some game of our choosing. I'm trying to convince the guys in my group that we don't have the time to make a huge awesome cool game right off the bat lol. A mario zombie mix with multiplier abilities should be fine. lol

At 9/23/09 08:15 PM, hashbrown wrote:

I actually was off hookers for a while, then more recently my brother got the new and updated version cs4 with silicon breasts so i installed that baby on my new "laptop" (if you know what i mean) and realised that the insides are what im used to and i have no idea how to adjust the alpha of a symbol or something else basic like that, so im going to probably install my old cs3 (first flash i bought legally yay :D) on here. i probably would have everything i need in mx 2004 so im not really expecting to upgrade anytime soon.

I use CS4 now, once you get used to it its really alright. I have a few issues with it, like getting rid of the option for "motion tween" and ONLY having "classic tween"

also with alpha, once you change your alpha and select a new colour from the toolbar, it keeps the alpha from before, which i suppose is handy when you colouring everything a certain colour, except i always reset my alpha to max by choosing a new colour on toolbar, which makes it odd for me :P

Other than that, i have absolutely no problems with the updates they made to CS4, just change the display setup to "classic mode" and its pretty much the same old layout we know and love :)

Okay so basically at the end of every one of my animation classes whoever wants to gets a chance to show off an animation they found on the internet.

i'm pretty much teh only one who's been volunteering so far, and i've been showing the class NG flashes, and they love them.

anyone wanna recommend a few for me to show the class?

At 9/24/09 11:16 AM, fluffkomix wrote: anyone wanna recommend a few for me to show the class?

If you want to impress them, chlauds stuff is perfect of course.. HappyHarrys stuff is also good for animation + comedy. For something different, Mindchambers madness animation ("with my minds madness") is fucking awesome.

At 9/24/09 11:37 AM, liaaaam wrote:

At 9/24/09 11:16 AM, fluffkomix wrote: anyone wanna recommend a few for me to show the class?

If you want to impress them, chlauds stuff is perfect of course.. HappyHarrys stuff is also good for animation + comedy. For something different, Mindchambers madness animation ("with my minds madness") is fucking awesome.

how the hell did i forget about chulaid?

i did show them happyharry's stuff, and i might show them with my mind's madness but i'm not too sure.

At 9/23/09 07:07 PM, TheCriminalDuder wrote: Crashing sucks especially when you've spent an hour plus working on something important to you.

Do you have your action history set to a large number? I think that is a big part of why it crashes, I set mine down to 20 or something and it reduced my crashing a lot.

I managed to replicate this glitch now...

http://www.glaielgames.com/glitch.fla

if you have cs4 download that, build it, and run it.
It should throw a runtime error.

I know how to replicate that glitch, and I can't quite tell if that's "expected behavior" or not. What do you think?

At 9/24/09 06:48 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: if you have cs4 download that, build it, and run it.
It should throw a runtime error.

I know how to replicate that glitch, and I can't quite tell if that's "expected behavior" or not. What do you think?

Downloading now.

As me and glaiel have discussed.

The glitch is due to having the two clips being named the same
Flash will compile the class for the clip, as having a variable of the first type it encounters under that name, and ignore anything having the same name, assuming that it is the same object/of the same type without giving an error or anything
Thus when it attempts to cast the second object to the type of the variable, you get the runtime error.

At 9/24/09 07:14 PM, dELtaluca wrote: As me and glaiel have discussed.

The glitch is due to having the two clips being named the same
Flash will compile the class for the clip, as having a variable of the first type it encounters under that name, and ignore anything having the same name, assuming that it is the same object/of the same type without giving an error or anything
Thus when it attempts to cast the second object to the type of the variable, you get the runtime error.

Adobe should issue an error in the case of casting to different classes like this, and a warning in the case of casting to the same class (i.e. both clip1 or both movieclip)

and they should also have custom classes in the "treat as" drop down menu when placing a clip on the stage so I can make them all movieclips instead of linkage "clip1"/"clip2" classes

At 9/24/09 12:21 PM, fluffkomix wrote:

If you want to impress them, chlauds stuff is perfect of course..

how the hell did i forget about chulaid?

LOL! The name of the game is "who can misspell "Chluiad" 's the most!

Show them tarboy! Its a phenominal combination of a unique art style, awesome music and a storyline thats pretty awesome, i think your class would love it.

I got me some bacon.

You are all hungry now

hungry for wooorrms?

At 9/25/09 06:06 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: You are all hungry now

I've just had a curry, so I'm good.
However, that is one nice looking burger.

At 9/25/09 05:51 PM, Duchednier wrote:

At 9/24/09 12:21 PM, fluffkomix wrote:

chlauds

chulaid?

Chluiad

chluaid

At 9/25/09 07:13 PM, zrb wrote: you actually just grossed me out,
bacon smells terrible and makes me nauseous

Bacon is okay, but that burger is just sick.

At 9/25/09 06:06 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: You are all hungry now

Wow... now I really effing want one.

I'm investing in a george foremean grill

I might be charged 5000$ or fired from teh theater!

:O

I work at a movie theater as most of you know, every thursday i'll come in and piece together the movies that come out friday, then i'd take apart the movies that we no longer show.

Well anyways, i found out tonight that one of the movies i broke down yesterday went to another cheap-seats theater, and it was "unuseable" and therefor the head office place is super pissed at our theater, "their projectionist" or "me" in other words.

I was just using the equipment that they provided for the record, it wasn't an outside job :P In my opinion this should be like blatantly saying "the film fucks up every time i break down, get us better shit to work with!" but no, our company is so cheap they wont even send someone to fix a broken projector for 3 months. (Which would be counter productive really)

Anyways thats my story, i'll keep you posted, and whether i get fired or w/e...not a big deal really, the job's quite shitty.

I gotta get makin them flash games like jimp does, and where the hell is Liaaaaam?

At 9/26/09 02:00 AM, hashbrown wrote: were you taking it apart for fun or is that part of your job?

lol i explained in my rant that its part of my job, why would i take it apart for fun :P It would be counter-productive haha

At 9/26/09 02:11 AM, ImpendingRiot wrote:

At 9/26/09 01:37 AM, Duchednier wrote: I might be charged 5000$ or fired from teh theater!

If you work as a projectionist you better be splicing single frames of pornography in to the movies.

Hey! You know the term splicing lol! I thought was theater exclusive...you work at a theater? :P

So when the snooty cat and the courageous
dog with the celebrity voices first meet,

that's when you'll catch a flash
of Tyler's contribution to the film.

but... but my names jordan!

Also no i havent put porn in there, BUT i have totally put single frames of other movies in there just for teh lols. its kinda risky business though, apparently that kinda thing is frowned upon :P

At 9/26/09 02:11 AM, ImpendingRiot wrote: of Tyler's contribution to the film.

what did I do now?

At 9/26/09 02:24 AM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote:

At 9/26/09 02:11 AM, ImpendingRiot wrote: of Tyler's contribution to the film.

what did I do now?

you bastard! You put porn in between splices in movies and didn't let me know! . . . i like boobies!

Did you know that churches are open on sundays too?
(took this picture myself when i was in PEI for that skills competition.

For the programmers out there, does anyone have a better 'get name from hitTest' method than mine?
I've been wondering about the best way to do it for some time now, and the largest problem with mine is that it doesn't work well with moving objects.

And yes, I know how to use a goddamn loop

At 9/26/09 06:11 AM, Doomsday-One wrote: than mine?

How do you link to a position in a page like this? >_>

Magic

Or you look through the page source for the post (search for text from it or the poster's name or something), look slightly higher for where it says 'bbspost[number]_heading', and then make the URL that of the original page plus '#bbspost[number]_heading' (remember the #).

At 9/26/09 12:20 PM, citricsquid wrote:

At 9/26/09 11:58 AM, Doomsday-One wrote: Magic

I made a tool for it a few months back, but it's offline now :( The easiest way is to hit the "reply & quote" button, then take the post ID:

Oh awesome.
I had a feeling that there would be an easier way to get the post ID, but I never realised that! Thanks!

By the way, I'm getting this really strange sense of Deja-vu for some reason

At 9/26/09 11:30 AM, zrb wrote: I tend to get tired of typing flash's built in functions sometimes cause they're longer to type and i'm lazy, so i made myself a class which is basically a set of the same functions but less typing.

Example: getNextHighestDepth();
Fuck that ! That one is the worst.
attachMovie() not as bad but i switched it to newClip.

Anyone else do something like that ?

no cause I switched to AS3 2 years ago so I wouldn't have to deal with that crap anymore

At 9/26/09 03:14 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: no cause I switched to AS3 2 years ago so I wouldn't have to deal with that crap anymore

My mild dyslexia misread this as
"no cause I switched to AS2 3 years ago..."

haaaaaaaaha!

does depth swapping cause objects cached as bitmap to redraw and recache?