At 7/13/14 04:26 PM, Diki wrote: Flash is great for design/animation, but it's worth repeating that it is horrible for game development. Developing games in the Flash IDE is equivalent to making animated GIFs in Photoshop: it's possible, but it's not a good idea.

Thanks so much as well! Would you guys recommend another IDE besides FlashDevelop? Not against it, just doesn't support OSX as far as I know…

At 7/13/14 04:38 PM, ThatGreenAlien wrote: Thanks a bunch! So basically, a .SWF is still the way to go? I'm not against using FD either way, as long as I still can animate in Flash itself.

For NG, yes unless you want your game to be played on all mobile devices.

At 7/13/14 04:38 PM, ThatGreenAlien wrote: as long as I still can animate in Flash itself.

You can do that. Just need to export the animations and then import them as external assets, which is the best way of managing art for SWF-based games.

At 7/13/14 04:43 PM, ThatGreenAlien wrote: Thanks so much as well! Would you guys recommend another IDE besides FlashDevelop? Not against it, just doesn't support OSX as far as I know…

You might be able to get Flash Develop to work using this method. I haven't used OSX for over ten years, and even then my experience was very limited, so I can't say with any certainty that you can get FD to work on OSX.

If that doesn't work you could try the FDT Eclipse plugin. I've never used it before, but Eclipse is a solid IDE so it's probably good.

At 7/13/14 05:00 PM, Diki wrote: You might be able to get Flash Develop to work using this method. I haven't used OSX for over ten years, and even then my experience was very limited, so I can't say with any certainty that you can get FD to work on OSX.

If that doesn't work you could try the FDT Eclipse plugin. I've never used it before, but Eclipse is a solid IDE so it's probably good.

Thanks so much both of you, I'll look into this for sure! I'm just happy Flash is still alive and well!

Turns out it's actually very difficult to code with a broken hand in a cast and sling D:

Seriously, though, my WPM is like 10

At 7/14/14 04:18 PM, egg82 wrote: Turns out it's actually very difficult to code with a broken hand in a cast and sling D:

Seriously, though, my WPM is like 10

did you enable sticky keys?

At 7/14/14 04:35 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: did you enable sticky keys?

Nope, I find it extremely annoying as a gamer and always keep it off, along with the dialog.

At 7/14/14 05:23 PM, egg82 wrote: Nope, I find it extremely annoying as a gamer and always keep it off, along with the dialog.

If Windows weren't so poorly designed those dialogs wouldn't steal focus and would make them far less annoying, but that ain't the case.

How did you break your hand, anyway?

At 7/14/14 05:58 PM, Diki wrote: How did you break your hand, anyway?

got into a fight with a hunk of metal, the metal won :P
isn't moving furniture fun?

Can someone go to a random html5 game and see if they can find where "NewgroundsAPI_UserName" and stuff are located in the page source? With flash, they are listed under "FlashVars" and are added to root.loaderInfo.parameters. No newgrounds html5 stuff is loading in chrome and it's kinda annoying.

Encryption process

@.@ good grief

At 7/16/14 02:43 AM, MSGhero wrote: Encryption process

Actually looks interesting. Also makes sense.
Serializing objects causes a long string, and encrypting that causes an even longer string.
(I personally like LZW for string compression because of its simplicity and effectiveness)

At 7/16/14 03:31 AM, egg82 wrote: Actually looks interesting. Also makes sense.
Serializing objects causes a long string, and encrypting that causes an even longer string.
(I personally like LZW for string compression because of its simplicity and effectiveness)

Sounds like you want to write that portion of the haxe API. I started to, but there's no native RC4 and the only BaseN algo is for powers of 2 (can't follow NG's demo). The output I got is a mess of random non-letters, but it wasn't a very long string. Makes me think the string is in base 256 or something when it should be hex.

help

Freaking fantastic vocals O.o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHue-HaXXzg

Does anyone speak Russian?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5KedtfhMMw

At 7/17/14 06:10 PM, GeoKureli wrote: Does anyone speak Russian?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5KedtfhMMw

Wat. I feel like flappy bird should have it's own rule 34.

In other news, I'm a sorcerer. I crafted a variable that didn't already exist at compile time using haxe macros. It gets the source code of a class, creates a static variable, and stores the text into that variable. Inspired by the last bit here. Meta programming.

At 7/17/14 07:21 PM, MSGhero wrote:

At 7/17/14 06:10 PM, GeoKureli wrote: Does anyone speak Russian?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5KedtfhMMw

Wat. I feel like flappy bird should have it's own rule 34.

I went to the site and this was the (google translated... badly... I hope) synopsis

"Our main hero - English singer once popular music under the dancing, performing their songs cool baritone voice that can not be confused with anyone in the early '80s. He began his career as a drummer and vocalist concert finished. But his main problem in a creative career was the fact that no one ever took seriously, but rather as a puppet in the hands of producers who have tried it to make more money for themselves. Today he wants to somehow stand again and decides to repeat the record of fluttering birds fleppi berdz very unusual way - through farting. Since man has no wings, but want to fly, you can use the gas it will try to fly between the pipes. As before, he never did, here he needs your help more than ever. Help the guy to break the record and fluttering birds fly as far as possible.

If you do not have a very fast internet, please wait until the game "Farting Flippy Rick Astley" boot: depending on its size it could happen as soon as a few minutes. You wait for good reason, because you'll get a lot of fun, a lot of positive emotions and good mood just by its passage."

They went way deeper then I ever planned it to be.

Decided to play with Away3D again and flesh out a library I've been working on. Started building a simple project in FP12.

question: How is this enough to tank my framerate from 60 to 40? Seriously, I run a six-core processor with 10GB of RAM and a $250 dedi GPU. I can play Skyrim on high settings at 60 FPS, why is THAT too much for my PC?

/rant

At 7/18/14 01:40 AM, egg82 wrote: question: How is this enough to tank my framerate from 60 to 40?

Flash.

Not a huge fan of that..

Speaking of things I'm not a huge fan of, my cooling system. Every time I want to push my six-core I either need to carefully watch my temperature or risk frying my CPU and a full PC meltdown via a (safe-ish) power-off.
Noticed this with Handbrake (since AME doesn't accept the mkv file format)

I'm aware the cooling is completely inadequate, but AMD says if I don't use their pre-packaged fan I lose the warranty.
So I guess no liquid cooling for me :(

blah.

At 7/18/14 03:51 AM, egg82 wrote: Speaking of things I'm not a huge fan of, my cooling system. Every time I want to push my six-core I either need to carefully watch my temperature or risk frying my CPU and a full PC meltdown via a (safe-ish) power-off.
Noticed this with Handbrake (since AME doesn't accept the mkv file format)

I'm aware the cooling is completely inadequate, but AMD says if I don't use their pre-packaged fan I lose the warranty.
So I guess no liquid cooling for me :(

That sounds like something is defective. If you haven't overclocked the CPU then the stock cooling should be just fine, even if the processor is under 100% load (unless the quality of AMD's CPUs has gone down the shitter lately; I haven't used them for years so I wouldn't know).

At 7/18/14 11:43 AM, Diki wrote: That sounds like something is defective. If you haven't overclocked the CPU then the stock cooling should be just fine, even if the processor is under 100% load (unless the quality of AMD's CPUs has gone down the shitter lately; I haven't used them for years so I wouldn't know).

I don't believe it's been overclocked unless it's automatic from the motherboard's firmware.
Never seen this processor hit full 100%, anyway.

At 7/18/14 02:03 PM, egg82 wrote: I don't believe it's been overclocked unless it's automatic from the motherboard's firmware.
Never seen this processor hit full 100%, anyway.

How long have you had it? Do you perform maintenance like cleaning dust and reapplying thermal paste (if it's been that sort of length of time)?

Here, it's been very hot... at least for England, and my temps have risen a fair bit because my room is so warm in comparison to what it normally is like.

At 7/18/14 02:37 PM, Sam wrote: How long have you had it?

almost a year, now, I think.

Do you perform maintenance like cleaning dust and reapplying thermal paste (if it's been that sort of length of time)?

Nah, hasn't been nearly long enough to need to re-apply paste.
I do dust and check loose cables every so often, but it's been a little while since I've taken the heat sink off for a deep clean.

Here, it's been very hot... at least for England, and my temps have risen a fair bit because my room is so warm in comparison to what it normally is like.

Yeah, it's pretty hot here, too, but 27C-60C in about a minute isn't exactly "hot weather"

At 7/18/14 02:03 PM, egg82 wrote: I don't believe it's been overclocked unless it's automatic from the motherboard's firmware.

It wouldn't be. My guess is that your heatsink is defective.

At 7/18/14 03:19 PM, egg82 wrote: Yeah, it's pretty hot here, too, but 27C-60C in about a minute isn't exactly "hot weather"

60C isn't "hot"? How are you not dying of a heat stroke? Even 27C would have me sweating like a pig.

Where do you live that it gets up to 60C?

At 7/18/14 03:24 PM, Diki wrote: Where do you live that it gets up to 60C?

I think he's talking about his CPU going from 27C to 60C. My mum was in Spain last week and it was almost reaching 50C, apparently. Fuck. That.

I've had my fair share of AMD processors and their cooling units tend to be pretty good. To be honest, I usually replace them within a couple of months anyway because by that time I'm bored and want to overclock.

At 7/18/14 03:30 PM, Sam wrote: I think he's talking about his CPU going from 27C to 60C.

Yeah, can't blame hot weather for that.

I've had my fair share of AMD processors and their cooling units tend to be pretty good. To be honest, I usually replace them within a couple of months anyway because by that time I'm bored and want to overclock.

FX series doesn't need overclocking :P

At 7/18/14 03:30 PM, Sam wrote: I think he's talking about his CPU going from 27C to 60C.

Would make sense, but he mentioned weather, so I dunno. He could have been talking about Fahrenheit and typed out Celsius accidentally (I think he lives in a place that uses that goofy temperature scale). What say you, egg?

At 7/18/14 03:30 PM, Sam wrote: My mum was in Spain last week and it was almost reaching 50C, apparently. Fuck. That.

Agreed. It's only around 25C here and I'm even finding that hot.

At 7/18/14 03:30 PM, Sam wrote:

At 7/18/14 03:24 PM, Diki wrote: Where do you live that it gets up to 60C?

I think he's talking about his CPU going from 27C to 60C. My mum was in Spain last week and it was almost reaching 50C, apparently. Fuck. That.

60C = 140F wtf. My cores run at 95F when they're stressed out, but I don't have a dedicated cooling system I guess. Also pretty sure that was a typo.

At 7/18/14 03:39 PM, egg82 wrote: Yeah, can't blame hot weather for that.

Ah, that's what you meant. 60C is pretty normal for a CPU temperature that is under load (that's around where mine sits, but I don't pay attention to that so I don't really know for sure).