suber cool tools nobody has heard of huh?

Liek nobody uses trace bitmap right? I think it will save so much time on lazy animators from now on.

window > common libraries.

there are a bunch of premade button graphics, classes, and already made quiz or whatever games made for you to learn from or use.

At 10/25/09 07:03 PM, fluffkomix wrote: window > common libraries.

there are a bunch of premade button graphics, classes, and already made quiz or whatever games made for you to learn from or use.

I just recently learned about flash components. I'm not sure if everyone knows about them
window > components

Not really a feature but on CS3, go help>about and then click on the second (C) sign (just after 'Flash'), and a bunch of pictures of the developers appear :D

+ when you're running the swf, press Cntrl+B (or view>bandwidth profiler), it brings up a nice graph, which shows how big filesize-wise each frame is.

Webcomic?

Recently I've been considering creating a webcomicy website, so to start myself off I've scanned in a couple of pages from my sketchbook. If you guys could give some feedback I'd be really happy.

Bear in mind all of these are just raw scans from paper, no photoshop touch ups, so they would look nicer if I was going to do it more seriously and make final drawings from them, at the moment they look very biro-y.

At 10/25/09 09:36 PM, trig1 wrote: Not really a feature but on CS3, go help>about and then click on the second (C) sign (just after 'Flash'), and a bunch of pictures of the developers appear :D

Neat :) Apparently the (c) signs can be used to control the scroll speed of the "credits" in CS4, instead you click the 4 in "CS4" to see the developer images.

At 10/25/09 10:15 PM, zrb wrote: Although none of them ressemble a comic, unless I'm missing something, I like your style and think you could pull it off.
Start now :)

Yeah, I was using the term webcomic very loosely, more of a selection of doodles.

But thanks :D I'm gunna try to get it all sorted within a month.

Speaking of webcomics, I love XKCD.

I got a wacom intuos 4 Large for my birthday.

this thing is epic. and surprisingly huge. the thing is like a foot by a foot and a half and is around 1.8kg

At 10/26/09 10:00 AM, fluffkomix wrote: I got a wacom intuos 4 Large for my birthday.

this thing is epic. and surprisingly huge. the thing is like a foot by a foot and a half and is around 1.8kg

must've cost a fortune!

and since we're talking about web comics

for some reason I've been liking cyanide and happiness a lot lately.

At 10/26/09 08:34 AM, Kirk-Cocaine wrote: Speaking of webcomics, I love XKCD.

http://www.legorobotcomics.com/

:)

has anyone ever seen this before? this is the first time I have ever seen this on newgrounds.

At 10/26/09 06:56 PM, turtleco wrote: has anyone ever seen this before? this is the first time I have ever seen this on newgrounds.

Yea, they're on all of tom's reviews

At 10/26/09 06:56 PM, turtleco wrote: has anyone ever seen this before? this is the first time I have ever seen this on newgrounds.

Only time I've ever seen it is April Fulp's review of NG Voice Mail, hah.

Anyone else pick up Borderlands? This is going to kill what little productivity I had lately.

At 10/26/09 07:45 PM, NegativeONE wrote: Anyone else pick up Borderlands? This is going to kill what little productivity I had lately.

BmK and I played this past weekend (PS3).

He protects me and I still fail! :'( ...lol

I know 36Holla and Captain-Ben have it too.

At 10/26/09 07:45 PM, NegativeONE wrote: Anyone else pick up Borderlands? This is going to kill what little productivity I had lately.

Yeah, and the lack of sleep is killing me. The game completely tore me away from all the other things I normally do to dodge my responsibilities.

At 10/26/09 06:56 PM, turtleco wrote: has anyone ever seen this before? this is the first time I have ever seen this on newgrounds.

http://warpzone.newgrounds.com/reviews/f lash/3

scroll down to his review on aether

probably one of the greatest reviews I've ever got

At 10/26/09 10:53 PM, zrb wrote: University/College

Have any of you payed it all by yourselves or are going to pay it all yourselves ?

I'm hoping to pay for half at least.

I paid all of it by myself.

I'm now 80k in debt and realize I'd still rather be doing my lifelong trade (carpentry) than my Major (Game Software Development) to put food on the table.

Think long and hard about what you really, really love, and don't be disillusioned by the greener grass on the other side, or the dollar signs.

I traded 14 hours a day of rat race and pressure for 8 stress free hours a day. It was a -30k/year decision that cost me 80k to learn.

As a frame of reference, I'll be paying that back for 30 years. I'll be 60 and probably retired before it's paid off.

Not trying to talk anyone out of college, but I feel my generation and the one directly after it (most of you) have been horribly pressured and duped into the assumed wealth and glory that college instantly creates just by graduating.

Edit: I'm a jaded old fuck, I know.

At 10/26/09 11:15 PM, Johnny wrote: Edit: I'm a jaded old fuck, I know.

You are in good company. I still am clamouring for a refund from my alma mater, that I'll never get. At this stage in the game, it's babysitting. Ease of research is the most convenient it has ever been in human history, yet sadly, so few even bother. i'd cry if I still had a heart. :|

Lmao, I just noticed I got banned for calling a retard retarded. The guy made a thread asking for help with his code to make a ball bounce, 40 replies later of people explaining the solution in extreme detail he was still ignoring everyone and say "come on pls help me". Additionally, he was being a huge douche in other threads, so I called him a retard in one of my posts and sure enough, the little brat went ahead and PM'd the mods.

Anyway I decided to start the 2009 AS wars since no one else is doing it. I should probably have the game script done by tomorrow. It's gonna be a 600x600px arena and a 1v1 fight. For now I think that bots won't be able to heal, just shoot move and reload. We can make alternative fights later. I wrote it in AS2 so everyone can have a chance to join. Start thinking of ideas for your bots, I'm looking forward for a competitive battle this year. I hope to see some of the people who took part in the older battles.

send PM's to my other account if you have any questions or just to inform me that you're joining.

Not so frequently used tools of Flash

I wanna say the soften fill edges tool, its good for doing edge-blurs rather than blurring MC's with the filters bar.

At 10/26/09 10:53 PM, zrb wrote: University/College

Have any of you payed it all by yourselves or are going to pay it all yourselves ?

I'm hoping to pay for half at least.

My parents started some university fund for me when i was little, i'm actually quite grateful as now i don't have to pay for university like at all O.o i feel pretty bad so when i have to buy extra books for courses i don't tell them so they can't pay me back ;)

At 10/27/09 12:14 AM, Duchednier wrote: i feel pretty bad so when i have to buy extra books for courses i don't tell them so they can't pay me back ;)

Awww, dat's toot.

At 10/27/09 12:10 AM, BrotherToast wrote: Lmao, I just noticed I got banned for calling a retard retarded. The guy made a thread asking for help with his code to make a ball bounce, 40 replies later of people explaining the solution in extreme detail he was still ignoring everyone and say "come on pls help me". Additionally, he was being a huge douche in other threads, so I called him a retard in one of my posts and sure enough, the little brat went ahead and PM'd the mods.

You're a douche. You don't know offensive that is to someone who actually has learning disabilities. I mean he obviously doesn't understand and is probably trying his hardest to understand, so give him some slack.

At 10/27/09 04:32 AM, Deadclever23 wrote: You're a douche. You don't know offensive that is to someone who actually has learning disabilities. I mean he obviously doesn't understand and is probably trying his hardest to understand, so give him some slack.

There's only a certain amount of slack you can give. There are more idiots on the Internet than mentally disabled people, so assuming he is one of the people not willing to put any effort into learning isn't a huge jump.

Review

That's a fantastic review. I think i'll write less reviews now, but spend a while on the games i really feel deserve it.

Uni

I'm going to try and get some living money gathered with a gap year before uni, then i just have to worry about paying off the costs afterwards. To johnny, sorry to hear about your predicaments, that seems like a ginourmous amount of cash for a course.

L4D2 DEMO

Anyone getting it tonight (preorder)? If so add depredation06 to steam if you want to katana some zombies.

Deadcleaver
I don't know if you've seen the thread or not, but part of the reason why I called him a retard is because I was pretty sure he was just trying to "troll" us. His problem was simple as fuck and his only reply to every post trying to explain it was just "Well that didn't help at all ....", even to ThePeasant who wrote a fucking huge post that covered the solution in every slightest detail. Anyway I don't think it's necessary to have a long discussion about this. the guy is obviously a retard (and also acts like he knows shit, talking about raycasting in other threads when he cant even figure out ball bouncing), and maybe I'm a douche for treating him like that. I don't care.

L4D2
I pre-ordered the game already so I'm getting the demo today. I'm planning on playing all night and possibly recording some footage. I think I already have you two on steam? (occ and citricsquid?) if there's anyone else add me too

My Geocities is gone today. It was a high density cache of wonderful animated gifs.

At 10/27/09 12:10 AM, BrotherToast wrote: and sure enough, the little brat went ahead and PM'd the mods.

Actually, it was I who PM'ed 36Holla. I'm sorry that it caused you to get banned, but the thread was getting really out of hand and nothing good could come out of it after the first page. If it makes you feel any better I'm sure the OP got banned as well :P

At 10/27/09 10:22 AM, BrotherToast wrote: Deadcleaver
I don't know if you've seen the thread or not, but part of the reason why I called him a retard is because I was pretty sure he was just trying to "troll" us. His problem was simple as fuck and his only reply to every post trying to explain it was just "Well that didn't help at all ....", even to ThePeasant

I like ThePeasant he's a good guy.

who wrote a fucking huge post that covered the solution in every slightest detail. Anyway I don't think it's necessary to have a long discussion about this. the guy is obviously a retard (and also acts like he knows shit, talking about raycasting in other threads when he cant even figure out ball bouncing), and maybe I'm a douche for treating him like that. I don't care.

Just because he is one doesn't mean you have to call him it.
Also is this the guy with the "physics" problem.

I'm not going into names.

I really want to get Borderlands but I can't really afford it. Maybe after Christmas I'll pick it up, it does look kickass. Same with a lot of games at the moment to be frank, Uncharted 2 for example. Left 4 Dead 2 is also of a lot of interest to me because I did like the first, it's just I can't justify paying that amount of money for a small upgrade, so I plan to pick it up when Steam discounts it (which is inevitable within the next few months).. and try the demo when it's publicly available.

I'm ill, a lot of my friends have flu and there's warnings all over the uni that swine flu has "broke out" which is pretty inevitable when you think about it, but I'm not sure if I have it.. I haven't been vomiting or diarrhoea-y, mainly a sore throat and chest.. think it might be tonsillitis (I get it once a year or so). I shall live :P

At 10/27/09 01:04 PM, liaaaam wrote: I'm ill, a lot of my friends have flu and there's warnings all over the uni that swine flu has "broke out" which is pretty inevitable when you think about it, but I'm not sure if I have it.. I haven't been vomiting or diarrhoea-y, mainly a sore throat and chest.. think it might be tonsillitis (I get it once a year or so). I shall live :P

Been there don that. It's fine don't worry about it, just another flu. My sister brought it home from uni and the entire family caught it within a day. After some vomiting and normal flu symptoms it was fine. Just note that people catch it really easy.