At 12/24/07 06:57 PM, dELtaluca wrote: well i decided to be a fag and get browser for wii :p man is it slow typing

Fortunately for you, they added USB keyboard support back in October. Hooray for faster typing! ;P

well really all this means is porn in my room ;p

Merry Christmas from the UK!

At 12/24/07 07:15 PM, Kirk-Cocaine wrote: Merry Christmas from the UK!

and a bloody fucking good one to you too!

Cheers Kirk & ShortMonkey. I'll use it with pride.

That was a weird video Delter, thanks :).

Re:Ho Ho Ho
Just think when reading stuff like that, 'what, how do they intend to keep that up? Stop all people saying Ho ho ho?', and then realise that its probably probablytaken out of context. Like somebody said the story probably stems from some silly little thing that happened and the papers wrote it up.

Merry Christmas FFRs. Oh look, it's Tuesday.

Merry Christmas to all you fags across the PM.

We still have about 2 hours in the US 'til it hits.

Merry xmas from the east coast

We're 6 mins in... happy holidays from the east side.. who we all know is the best side.

yes im starting an east coast west coast feud..

At 12/25/07 12:08 AM, Luis wrote: We're 6 mins in... happy holidays from the east side.. who we all know is the best side.

Merry xmas

I hate you. We still got 4 hours til xmas.

At 12/25/07 12:08 AM, Luis wrote: Merry xmas from the east coast

We're 6 mins in... happy holidays from the east side.. who we all know is the best side.

yes im starting an east coast west coast feud..

which won't involve me in any way.

Merry Christmas

Have a merry Christmas, everyone! :D

1 Hour and 11 Minutes into Christmas Eastern time people, merry christmas

*Laughs at those in mountain and pacific time*

Its finally Christmas in the west coast :D

At 12/24/07 07:03 PM, Kart-Man wrote:

At 12/24/07 06:57 PM, dELtaluca wrote: well i decided to be a fag and get browser for wii :p man is it slow typing

Fortunately for you, they added USB keyboard support back in October. Hooray for faster typing! ;P

Are you serious? Is it possible for me to hook it up? :O
Now I want too.

Christmas

Got to open 1 present on x-mas eve. It was Metroid Prime 3. Best first hour of any game i have ever played. So fun.

Anyway, happy holidays, blah blah blah.

Happy Tuesday

http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/8332 76

my new ray tracing library. the last sample image:

click

a fully refractive normal mapped cube inside of the earth sphere, with a fully reflective cube inside of it

^^

At 12/25/07 05:28 AM, 23450 wrote: Christmas

Got to open 1 present on x-mas eve. It was Metroid Prime 3. Best first hour of any game i have ever played. So fun.

Anyway, happy holidays, blah blah blah.

Oh really? I thought the first hour was the worst in the game...

I got a cable to hook my spare monitor up. 2 monitors gives me a lot more space.

And a 250 GB portable hard drive.

Going to go open more now.

The first hour of prime was nothing special i believe, but the boss battle with meta ridley was absolutely crazy. That was really fun. That MIGHT have been in the first hour, I have no recollection.

happy Xmas everybody hope you all get what you wanted...

ain't really impressed with the boy...okay he did tsukahara (double back flip were the first one is a back flip with twist but in my area a lot of people from capoira can do it can any of you do some flips ? (or you drink too much beer) i front flip over 4
people or 2 meters...and i can do back flip with twist...
oh and i jumped over a teacher's table after seeing a video of a guy jumping over
cars but i don't do this stuff around my friends anymore because they started calling me a ninga all the time which started to be annoying...
i would post a picture of me having a back flip next to the statue of librety but it is too big and i don't know how to lower the resolation without photoshop

Moving Christmas

Question:
I was considering making some sprites by build em all as png's and in photoshop.. very time consuming but im wondering if it would cause issues from a lag standpoint to do it that way... anyone know before i actually go through the trouble?

At 12/25/07 12:50 PM, Luis wrote: Question:
I was considering making some sprites by build em all as png's and in photoshop.. very time consuming but im wondering if it would cause issues from a lag standpoint to do it that way... anyone know before i actually go through the trouble?

it depends how complicated the sprites are and if there's alpha. Sometimes vector is better for simple shapes without much shading and lines and stuff. Post a picture of one sprite and I'll let you know.

At 12/25/07 12:50 PM, Luis wrote: Question:
I was considering making some sprites by build em all as png's and in photoshop.. very time consuming but im wondering if it would cause issues from a lag standpoint to do it that way... anyone know before i actually go through the trouble?

I am very looking forward to the answer of this question. It's something I've always wondered about myself.

At 12/25/07 12:50 PM, Luis wrote: Question:
I was considering making some sprites by build em all as png's and in photoshop.. very time consuming but im wondering if it would cause issues from a lag standpoint to do it that way... anyone know before i actually go through the trouble?

It's pretty rare that vectors perform better than bitmap sprites when it comes to lag, but filesize will be larger with bitmaps.

At 12/25/07 01:15 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: it depends how complicated the sprites are and if there's alpha. Sometimes vector is better for simple shapes without much shading and lines and stuff. Post a picture of one sprite and I'll let you know.

Well complex...I want to be able to burn and dodge each sprite and give it complex shadows. Flash kind of sucks for that.

You really shouldn't be using the burn and dodge tools for Shadows and Highlights mang. That's not how light works.

Also if that sprite there is any indication of what you're going for, it would probably be better to stick to .gifs. That image probably doesn't have over 256 colours and won't use varying degree's of transparency. Given your complex shadow comment though, I'm assuming it's not going to be pixel art.

Either way, image's will generally be less cpu intensive than vectors in pretty much any situation.

Also don't upscale pixel art with a bilinear filter like that. It looks horrible.

At 12/25/07 05:42 PM, MutedD wrote:
Also if that sprite there is any indication of what you're going for, it would probably be better to stick to .gifs. That image probably doesn't have over 256 colours and won't use varying degree's of transparency. Given your complex shadow comment though, I'm assuming it's not going to be pixel art.

it would be a series of png's

Either way, image's will generally be less cpu intensive than vectors in pretty much any situation.

Also don't upscale pixel art with a bilinear filter like that. It looks horrible.

yea im not using that exact sprite.. thats a blatant rip and not even my artwork. i just wanted an actionscripters take on wether it would even be worthwhile to go through all that.

PM poxpower, he's an expert on pixel art in games. It's extra work on the art and coding side, but extremely so on the art.

At 12/25/07 05:09 PM, Luis wrote: Well complex...I want to be able to burn and dodge each sprite and give it complex shadows. Flash kind of sucks for that.

Go with the pngs then. Bitmaps render fairly fast.

yea disregard that question im scrapping that. moving on to something else. I just wanted to get a general concensus .. doesnt seem worthwhile

going back to making animations

thanks for the feedbak