At 10/22/09 02:00 AM, BoMToons wrote: Anyone seen this?

http://www.stumbleupon.com/s/#1SfJoO/www .trevorvanmeter.com/flyguy/flyGuy.swf/

This takes me back.

Back to those days when I used to go on Ebaum's world and think it was cool. :(

Very interesting, that's not something you see everyday. I liked the music especially.

We're flying halloween themed at the office today.

At 10/22/09 12:18 PM, jmtb02 wrote: We're flying halloween themed at the office today.

Useful

At 10/22/09 12:18 PM, jmtb02 wrote: We're flying halloween themed at the office today.

Is that FlashDevelop? If so, please send :D

It's sometimes quite hard to get graphics looking realistic when working in Flash MX 2001 and being crap at graphic design.

How does this crate look?

Nice crate, but the edges need toned down. They're too sharp. In real life even metal is rarely that sharp. Round off the squares just a tiny bit and you'll be set. Good job on it, looks really cool.

At 10/22/09 02:05 PM, knugen wrote:

At 10/22/09 12:18 PM, jmtb02 wrote: We're flying halloween themed at the office today.

Is that FlashDevelop? If so, please send :D

No, sadly not. I'm flying Mac at the office. But I do suggest the font Andale Mono for programming, it's a very nice font.

At 10/22/09 03:06 PM, JKR wrote: Nice crate, but the edges need toned down. They're too sharp. In real life even metal is rarely that sharp. Round off the squares just a tiny bit and you'll be set.

Will do...

Good job on it, looks really cool.

...and thanks.

I just saw 'Up' (in a theater packed with kids and parents, I felt a bit out of place with my mates and bottle of beer). Anyway, it was great, first real film I've seen that's in 3D too, which was much better than I though it would be. It really adds to the experience in a subtle way. I thought it would be really intrusive and lead to those forced situations as seen in the final destination trailer... but it didn't! Hurray!

Now back to coding...

I still need to see Up. I heard it was sad. I don't like sad movies...

Otherwise there's always Toy Story 3!

Up looks good but all my mates don't want to go and see a 'kids' film.

Also does this look better.

Pixar movies are great because they aren't just for "kids" or "adults" but have something for everyone. Besides, a lot of awesome stuff is technically for kids. It's still awesome. :P

And that crate looks identical to the other crate. Sorry, I don't see a difference. Did you post the same file twice?

At 10/22/09 04:44 PM, Deadclever23 wrote: Up looks good but all my mates don't want to go and see a 'kids' film.

Smack your mates for me. And yes, it's a sad film at times, the intro is pretty heartbreaking. But it's good fun most of the time, it also has scores of jokes kids won't understand.

Also does this look better.

Looks better but I'd take away a few more chips of metal, and make a few of those straight lines crooked&curved. You'd be amazed what a small amount of things that are composed of other things have actual straight lines. If that made any sense.

sorry if it didn't.

At 10/22/09 04:52 PM, JKR wrote: And that crate looks identical to the other crate. Sorry, I don't see a difference. Did you post the same file twice?

I put 6 smoothing on the edges. I'll try 10 smoothing.

At 10/22/09 04:53 PM, Xeptic wrote: Looks better but I'd take away a few more chips of metal, and make a few of those straight lines crooked&curved. You'd be amazed what a small amount of things that are composed of other things have actual straight lines. If that made any sense.

sorry if it didn't.

Kk, gonna pack up for tonight and continue tomorrow.

At 10/22/09 04:44 PM, Deadclever23 wrote: Up looks good but all my mates don't want to go and see a 'kids' film.

that is so lame. i really don't have too much respect for people who think they're too mature to watch a certain show or do a certain thing because they think it's only for kids. I don't think you should care about what other people think and just go do whatever you think is fun. Don't base what you do off of your age (unless it's like age restricted stuff).

Obviously there is a line for this kind of thing but me and my friends still watch spongebob. that is one badass show.

At 10/22/09 05:23 PM, fluffkomix wrote:

At 10/22/09 04:44 PM, Deadclever23 wrote: Up looks good but all my mates don't want to go and see a 'kids' film.

that is so lame. i really don't have too much respect for people who think they're too mature to watch a certain show or do a certain thing because they think it's only for kids. I don't think you should care about what other people think and just go do whatever you think is fun. Don't base what you do off of your age (unless it's like age restricted stuff).

Obviously there is a line for this kind of thing but me and my friends still watch spongebob. that is one badass show.

Yeah, my wife and I visit our younger cousins once a week and use them as an excuse to watch the Disney Channel and Cartoon Network sometimes. :)

Not really as an excuse, since I flip them on when I'm at home too. Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends is one of my favorite shows these days. Good stuff.

At 10/22/09 05:23 PM, fluffkomix wrote: Obviously there is a line for this kind of thing but me and my friends still watch spongebob. that is one badass show.

finally, someone else too! I <3 spongebob, friggin funny

At 10/22/09 05:39 PM, JKR wrote: Not really as an excuse, since I flip them on when I'm at home too. Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends is one of my favorite shows these days. Good stuff.

it got canceled :'(

but anyway.....

I also hate when people say you are too old for something.

Like animation, people are always like,"cartoons are for kids." tell that to hayoa miazaki(if that's how you spell it) I couldn't live without his movies.

also I was playing back to the cubeture and my mom walked in and looked for a second and said, "what are you? two?" I told cuboy it was alright, poor guy...

It annoys me as well when everyone is like animation is childish. i bet everyone really has their own secret childish pleasures though.

OOOOOOOOOOW

Have you ever broke a blister and thought 'hmm, better make sure it doesn't get infected' especcialy with it being on your foot? Well guess what! DON'T USE HAND SANATISER lawl. It's the only thing i have that remotely resembles something that will prevent infection, given that it's 62% pure alcohol and kills bacteria for a living in seconds. Well you know what? IT HURTS ALOT ON RAW FLESH OWWWW

lol.

University

In other news, i've started uni </end because i can't be arsed to write anything>

At 10/22/09 06:27 PM, turtleco wrote:

At 10/22/09 05:39 PM, JKR wrote: Not really as an excuse, since I flip them on when I'm at home too. Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends is one of my favorite shows these days. Good stuff.

it got canceled :'(

Boo. Well, at least it was awesome while it was on, and no one can take that away... I think shows shouldn't go on forever anyway, because they get stale.

At 10/22/09 04:37 PM, JKR wrote: I still need to see Up. I heard it was sad. I don't like sad movies...

I saw it yesterday, it's great but there were a few moments where I was trying to hold back a tear or two. It's not an out and out sad film, but it does get emotional.

Also, Partly Cloudy (the cartoon shown before Up) was ace too.

At 10/22/09 07:55 PM, dELtaluca wrote: It's the only thing i have that remotely resembles something that will prevent infection, given that it's 62% pure alcohol and kills bacteria for a living in seconds. Well you know what? IT HURTS ALOT ON RAW FLESH OWWWW

buy a $0.25 bottle of hydrogen peroxide. One bottle lasts about a year.

Ok, I finished the box and now I'm working on a turret. Problem is the turret does not look that great.

How can i improve this turret then?

At 10/23/09 05:23 AM, Deadclever23 wrote: How can i improve this turret then?

By making it look less like a box.

To be fair, it'll look perfectly fine when shrunk down to a much smaller size, but at this kind of resolution it just looks a bit underwhelming - not least of all because it looks ridiculously off balance (gattling guns, when mounted, are mounted from the center of the barrels, or have a much lower center of gravity for thier stands, a quick google search suggests).

Even without photo reference, the gun still needs to look like it *could* work. It needs an interface for a gunner to hold onto and trigger the firing mechanism, it needs an ammo feed, it needs a place to deposit (or at least eject) dead shells, and an access point to fix jams and the mechanism. Depending on how permenant an installation it is, it needs some kind of blast shield to protect in case the entire gattling gun explodes when it structurually fails, or telescoping for the tripod so that it can be quickly repositioned. And it definately needs some iconography so you can tell who it belongs to.

Personally, I'd stick two mickey mouse style ears on the back (rotary drums. Forget it being practical, it looks cool), and drop the back entirely to give the gunner somewhere to stand. If the turret's AI controlled, at least give it a computer terminal so that an engineer can turn it off and on. And generally, just make the thing look more like an instrument of death than a lego box on stilts.

And add some texture to it if you really want to go for that realistic look. The thing I'm working on right now is using a couple of textures as well: What I do is I download some photo's from Google, some grass, forest, metal, old paper etc. I copy the layer that has the graphics, paste it, replace the fills with bitmaps. Convert the bitmap layer to a symbol, and lower the alpha. It's a pretty work intensive method but you can make some pretty neat things with it. The benefit of lowering the alpha instead of having just one layer with all different textures is that you can reuse the texture for other materials, you can fade it out more, you can change the color of the fill-layer to achieve totally different effects.

Again if I'm not making any sense... well... I tried.

At 10/23/09 05:41 AM, KaynSlamdyke wrote: And generally, just make the thing look more like an instrument of death than a lego box on stilts.

That was a impressive response length for the internet. My general advice here is to look at a few different pictures of the real life object you're trying to draw, make note of a few outstanding properties, and emphasize them in your representation, which is pretty much, 'draw it like it.' Try doing a google image search for gatling gun and looking through those. Your picture is pretty much the bear minimum of getting the point across that it's a gatling gun.

At 10/23/09 06:09 AM, Xeptic wrote: And add some texture to it if you really want to go for that realistic look. The thing I'm working on right now is using a couple of textures as well: What I do is I download some photo's from Google

This site is a nice free directory of textures. LINKKINL

Eh, I had some free time.

http://www.swfcabin.com/open/1256305590

At 10/23/09 10:31 AM, Kevin wrote: Eh, I had some free time.

http://www.swfcabin.com/open/1256305590

lol cool