@innermike @voidforce Learn Japanese in an RPG.

At 1/16/14 12:30 PM, egg82 wrote: I probably read the example given incorrectly because again I've never imported SWF files, but I know DisplayObjects can (and in the case of artists, often do) have children. You're sure there's stuff on the stage?

DisplayObjects do not have numChildren get property, getChildAt method and all other interface to interact with the children, so even if they have children, there is no way to find that out in ActionScript.
And I did put two symbols on the stage, one named s1, the other s2, both are exported to linkages "Symbol 1" and "Symbol 2" and both are Movie clips. I cannot access any of them from loader.content. It is impossible.

Here's (an easier-to-understand copy of) the page (which I wish I had read before posting the first time) for the "objects on stage" thing for all those interested, I figure it'd probably come in handy at some point because trying to get that Sprite to sit exactly where you want it to in code is a pain in the ass.

That example does not demonstrate how to access symbols inside the SWF. You can position the whole SWF, but not symbols inside it. AVM1Movie extends DisplayObject and cannot be typecast into DisplayObjectContainer. DisplayObject is not a dynamic class. End of story.

At 1/16/14 01:17 PM, kkots wrote: And I did put two symbols on the stage, one named s1, the other s2, both are exported to linkages "Symbol 1" and "Symbol 2" and both are Movie clips. I cannot access any of them from loader.content. It is impossible.

try assetStage.s1 and assetsStage.s2 (the instance names), because AS2 doesn't work like AS3.

At 1/16/14 02:17 PM, egg82 wrote:

At 1/16/14 01:17 PM, kkots wrote: And I did put two symbols on the stage, one named s1, the other s2, both are exported to linkages "Symbol 1" and "Symbol 2" and both are Movie clips. I cannot access any of them from loader.content. It is impossible.

try assetStage.s1 and assetsStage.s2 (the instance names), because AS2 doesn't work like AS3.

ReferenceError: Error #1069: Property s1 not found on Reg_ASSETS and there is no default value.
I went into debug, tried to look for a list of children or s1,s2 everywhere but I can't find it.

Try:

In other news, got into my course! Bachelor of Science in Information Technology here I come (my first 1.5 years will be somewhat of waste since I already know the majority of the course)

At 1/16/14 08:48 PM, slugrail wrote: In other news, got into my course! Bachelor of Science in Information Technology here I come (my first 1.5 years will be somewhat of waste since I already know the majority of the course)

Nice! What kind of courses are you hoping to take? I took a CS minor to get into game ai or machine learning or something similar. Gotta get through the boring stuff first, though.

For screenshot... Thursday?

I also made this out of boredom. I'll probably actually do something with it, it took quite a large amount of time to import the literally hundreds of asset files which allow you to customize the character.

That's only the female character(s), too...

Iunno, I'm making TCP/UDP client/server classes in the same project. Think I might have some fun with it.

At 1/16/14 09:29 PM, MSGhero wrote:

At 1/16/14 08:48 PM, slugrail wrote: In other news, got into my course! Bachelor of Science in Information Technology here I come (my first 1.5 years will be somewhat of waste since I already know the majority of the course)

Nice! What kind of courses are you hoping to take? I took a CS minor to get into game ai or machine learning or something similar. Gotta get through the boring stuff first, though.

I'm doing a double degree with Bach. of Business, at the moment majoring in Sci. IT is my goal but then networking and enterprise software development are the only two catchy things I can think of. Bach. of Game Development here is a 91 ATAR course meaning it's right up there with Medical Science and I missed out by less than 2 points. The uni admission here works much differently compared to the US, Canada, UK, Germany, etc.

This is what I have planned out for my first year:

IT: (48 cred points written next to it)
-Introduction to Information Systems (6 points)
-Web Systems (6 points)

Business:
-Introduction to human resources (6 points)
-Economic features of business (6 points)

I don't know that much about the inners of how unis work but game development sounds much more interesting and I'd rather change my course to that if I could.

At 1/17/14 05:49 AM, slugrail wrote: I don't know that much about the inners of how unis work but game development sounds much more interesting and I'd rather change my course to that if I could.

Oh and I'd like to get some boring job not related to games and make my own games as a hobby, in my free time. Who knows what load of crap will the job-giver have me do if I become a professional game developer?
I mean, I will have all resources, development environments, hardware to test on, but what if I simply disagree with the lead game designer or I just don't like the idea of the game that I'd be working on? How do I realize my own ideas?
I'd not trade my hobby for professional environment.

And by boring job I mean something related to information technologies, but I don't know what exactly, I'm just second grade for now.

At 1/17/14 06:04 AM, kkots wrote: Oh and I'd like to get some boring job not related to games and make my own games as a hobby, in my free time. Who knows what load of crap will the job-giver have me do if I become a professional game developer?
I mean, I will have all resources, development environments, hardware to test on, but what if I simply disagree with the lead game designer or I just don't like the idea of the game that I'd be working on? How do I realize my own ideas?
I'd not trade my hobby for professional environment.

And by boring job I mean something related to information technologies, but I don't know what exactly, I'm just second grade for now.

I guess you have a point, but I'd rather take on that course for the experience and just work on making games as a hobby as always. ATM my knowledge is "okay" when it comes to game development, it's not that I suck at creating the games or the back end (in fact this is one of the things that I excel in the most when it comes to programming) but I lack the knowledge and expertise to do things that are heavily maths bound for example. That course would be an immensely great source of knowledge seeing as I can talk directly to the professor and share my problems and thoughts, not to mention the lectures and help from other students. But if I did decide to drop into that course I'd have to extend the 4 years I'll be staying at uni to something around 7 or so years, also, my debt would take a decade longer before amount owing = $0.

At 1/17/14 03:35 AM, Innermike wrote:

Just saw this and wrote this huge post but to avoid starting the language lounge again I cut it down to this

While I think the sentiment is neat and all, why play educational games when you can study from real games in their native language? Japanese must honestly be one of the easiest languages ever, basic resources and raw content are more than enough and probably fastest.

On that note, @voidforce how's your progress going? I'm at about N3 level right now and I really want to get a kindle now that I can read raw manga. Aiming for light novels by July-ish.

For Japanese, next to non-existant at the moment >.>

For Korean, very lazily. I'm enrolling in a Korean class at the university I live near (but don't attend) which will start in mid-February so that'll hopefully give me more motivation to do things. It's not entirely motivation-based though, I've generally been really busy since early December and haven't had a massive amount of free time since.

That's sort of changing now though so I'm going to try and get back into the full swing of things within the next couple of weeks. I want to try and spend at least an hour every weekday practising Korean, particularly reading at the moment, because I can read all of the characters, but I'm still really slow at doing so.

Dear diary,
Today I made fun of Arabic writing and stole MSGHero's earlier post.

And he saw that it was good.

At 1/18/14 02:02 AM, egg82 wrote:

And he saw that it was good.

When did that happen?

At 1/18/14 02:02 AM, egg82 wrote:

And he saw that it was good.

Reminds me of Bible. I wonder how it will go on.

At 1/18/14 02:02 AM, egg82 wrote: Dear diary,
Today I made fun of Arabic writing and stole MSGHero's earlier post.

Yea... "Scribbles"... -_-

Anyway,

At 1/19/14 03:47 PM, TheNavigat wrote: "PHP"

i_am_a_syntax_convention_freak();

thisIsJava();

At 1/20/14 05:27 AM, Innermike wrote: Only thing I got from this is that it looks like you use Sublime Text.

More of you need to use Sublime Text, shit is rad yo.

That's Concerned Joe's new website (not released yet) code. More specifically, the account page. Just showing how many functions are there. P.S, now they're even more.

At 1/20/14 05:57 AM, slugrail wrote: i_am_a_syntax_convention_freak();

thisIsJava();

LOL, I started OOP with Objective-C. I got used to writing functions that way, makes everything quite simpler. I'm just not used to using underscores D:

At 1/20/14 09:43 AM, TheNavigat wrote: I'm just not used to using underscores D:

Underscores, huh? I never use them. IWriteAllVariablesLikeThisInstead.

At 1/20/14 11:10 AM, kkots wrote: IWriteAllVariablesLikeThisInstead.

You mean you use CamelCasing?
I used to use underscores for everything because PHP and AS2, but they tend to look ugly so I switched to CamelCasing instead.

At 1/20/14 05:57 AM, slugrail wrote: thisIsJava();

You know Java didn't invent camel case, right?

Does skype use a ton of resources for anyone else? After disabling some port option, I got it down to 136k under processes, but that's idling. Someone said that setting IE to the default browser reduces that by a lot, which is absolutely stupid if it's a microsoft ploy.

I need to clean my fan, but I think dota + skype is overheating my cores and BSODing.

At 1/20/14 03:00 PM, MSGhero wrote: I got it down to 136k under processes, but that's idling.

I need to clean my fan, but I think dota + skype is overheating my cores

This is the kind of problems that you can either guess a solution for, or you have to be some guru master hacker superman seeing through computer parts to logically find answers for them.

and BSODing.

Ha-ha! Nice verb!

At 1/20/14 03:00 PM, MSGhero wrote: Does skype use a ton of resources for anyone else?

Occasionally it'll use 20% of my six-core 3.5GHz on idle. Still have no idea why. Doesn't happen often and usually only lasts until a restart, but still annoying. No high memory usage as of yet.

I need to clean my fan, but I think dota + skype is overheating my cores and BSODing.

use programs that alert you to high temperature readings, helps a lot. If I don't start blowing a large amount of cold air on my computer while rendering videos it'll heat up to 65 Celsius in a matter of seconds. The fans that come with my processor (and are required unless I want to break the warranty) are not nearly good enough for the amount of heat this thing puts out.

At 1/20/14 03:43 PM, egg82 wrote: use programs that alert you to high temperature readings, helps a lot. If I don't start blowing a large amount of cold air on my computer while rendering videos it'll heat up to 65 Celsius in a matter of seconds. The fans that come with my processor (and are required unless I want to break the warranty) are not nearly good enough for the amount of heat this thing puts out.

I idle with this tab open in chrome at 65-70C, maxes at 86-89C when I just played dota. The ventilation in my room and near the fan intake isn't very good, and the cooling pad I have is USB and uses too much power (it shuts down the other USB ports when I turn it on).

At 1/20/14 04:06 PM, MSGhero wrote: I idle with this tab open in chrome at 65-70C, maxes at 86-89C when I just played dota.

62C should be max, 65C is dangerous and anything above shortens the life of the porcessor. 90-ishC will just melt things and shut down.

The ventilation in my room and near the fan intake isn't very good, and the cooling pad I have is USB and uses too much power (it shuts down the other USB ports when I turn it on).

You need better cooling and PSU.

At 1/20/14 04:13 PM, egg82 wrote: 62C should be max, 65C is dangerous and anything above shortens the life of the porcessor. 90-ishC will just melt things and shut down.

Porcessor listing says recommended tmax is 100C, so I'm on the right side of melting.

You need better cooling and PSU.

I've since turned off the option under USB hubs to turn off ports to converse power, so I tried it again. Idles at 55-65C favoring the lower temps.

There's a bios option to keep fans always on or not. I turned it to not, but they're always on anyway...

At 1/20/14 03:00 PM, MSGhero wrote: Does skype use a ton of resources for anyone else?

Yep. That's precisely why I uninstalled it and have no intention of ever using it again.

I guess I'll ask: does anyone have a recommended external cooling system for a laptop? I'm on newegg looking at some, but I don't need LEDs and crap on it.

Also those idle temps were when the intel gpu was active and high perf battery settings. Setting the AMD gpu increases the fan speed.

Concerned Joe launcher, now featuring the world's most indecisive progress bar!
http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/06eb43c3f88282d3d4a07378690cb6ab

And a gif of the full download at 25mbps down in case you're insane.
http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/b9bc2d3a2fec505dba69acd064d8b9a0

(actually, 4ur's porting the launcher from AS3 to Lua, so it probably won't be weird like that)

At 1/20/14 04:33 PM, Diki wrote: Yep. That's precisely why I uninstalled it and have no intention of ever using it again.

It's a bad piece of software but it's hard for me to get around not using it.

At 1/20/14 04:45 PM, egg82 wrote: (actually, 4ur's porting the launcher from AS3 to Lua, so it probably won't be weird like that)

Definitely needs to show the download speed, imo.