At 1/13/08 08:45 PM, As-Soul wrote: I know this isint the place for it, but, here is a screenie from my next animation.

That looks sweet, is it actually animated or is that just gonna be a still shot?

At 1/13/08 08:59 PM, Buzzwerd wrote:

At 1/13/08 08:45 PM, As-Soul wrote: I know this isint the place for it, but, here is a screenie from my next animation.

That looks sweet, is it actually animated or is that just gonna be a still shot?

it is part fbf part tween, thats not a still shot, its just part of a shore fbf sequence.

At 1/13/08 08:58 PM, Swirling-Venom wrote: V6 2.9 turbo charged. The cylinders have been bored out and bigger pistons were put in. High flow exhaust manifolds and a cherry bomb on the rear (reducing back pressure).

Pretty nice, I still like my 2000 Dodge Stratus better.

Good gas mileage and pretty good power. 4 cylinder 2.4.

Once it officially becomes mine I'm doing a complete overhaul on the fucking thing. Right now its the parents car.

I've never understood the need for so much power in a car, when no one ever actually accelerates to the cars limit.

At 1/13/08 08:58 PM, Luis wrote: Awesome Movie

So this movie has gotten rave reviews and daily first out of it... is it cool for people to turn in other peoples work? i didnt get that memo.

I guess you can't blow the whistle on stuff anymore eh?

At 1/13/08 09:06 PM, Buzzwerd wrote: I've never understood the need for so much power in a car, when no one ever actually accelerates to the cars limit.

Back roads of NY State. Gotten my stratus to redline at 125 XD.

At 1/13/08 09:05 PM, Swirling-Venom wrote:
V10 6.2L Diesel, High Intake and exhaust manifolds, turbo charged, hemi.

It;ll just barely fit under the hood, but oh boy will it fly.

A buddy of mine is trying to put a a Straight-6 5.9L Cummins into his Jeep.

Can't really have a nice car around here without having a winter car too. Damn heavily salted roads.

At 1/13/08 08:58 PM, Luis wrote: Awesome Movie

So this movie has gotten rave reviews and daily first out of it... is it cool for people to turn in other peoples work? i didnt get that memo.

I feel sorry for the other daily winners, sure, when the thing gets deleted everyones trophy will bump up one but they're going to miss out on a lot of the attention that yesterdays daily first gets. Cheaters spoil it for everyone.

At 1/13/08 08:54 PM, Radioactive24 wrote:

At 1/13/08 08:16 PM, Mogly wrote:

Remember, Luis doesn't IM people. People always IM him. He's too cool so he always has people talk to him.

Correction.. 'Too cool on the internet so blah blah blah'..

Correction..'He's got too huge a penis so blah blah blah'..

Correction..'He's to cool (on the internet) to talk to annoying 10 year olds who are obsessed with giant penises so blah blah blah"..

At 1/13/08 08:02 PM, Luis wrote: yeah, i rarely msg anyone... also that poser im'ed me the other day i didnt bother answering him and blocked him. Some people are so pathetic that they have go find other people to vicariously live through in an attempt to give their pathetic life a half penny's worth.

Posing as someone else can be fun in the right situation... ask frostedmuffins about his future self incident.

At 1/13/08 05:21 PM, Masterswordman wrote: Remember, Luis doesn't IM people. People always IM him. He's too cool so he always has people talk to him.

he messages me all the time. we chat constantly. you must just suck.

At 1/13/08 08:58 PM, Luis wrote: So this movie has gotten rave reviews and daily first out of it... is it cool for people to turn in other peoples work? i didnt get that memo.

I don't quite get it either, I think it's really not fair. Someone under that account may get the cash money for the month's work, since it'll definitely win a monthly award. Just hopefully, it gets blammed or something, or ineligible to win a monthly cash prize. But that's besides the point, I don't think anyone should be able to "share" or release someone else's work... It's just..wrong.

This Just In...
mogly likes the penis

in his anus.

The Orange Discovery.
First 08' submission.

Cheers!

xeptic well if you meant the !.:/'., well i don't know why but even in Hebrew i don't use them when i write...and yes my posts do have a valid point =]
and about what you said about 2 and 3 well the animation challenges can't be bumped cause they need to be run by someone even if the first few could be the same what would we do after a while ?
and the freestyle challenges the previous ones had to many pages and weren't organized so it would die really fast two...
jmtb02
well that sounds great about the fish
hobbies
well breakdance and teacher slaying breakdance sorry i have no pictures and teacher slaying well there is a lot of pictures but you know i can' really just give away evidence =]
Israel
wow El presidente where in Israel are you going to stay how long would you be here and great i hope that i would get to meet you talk to me on aim =]
unknownfury
wow that's really high that' like 3 skates...
bomtoons
that's awesome my neighbor had one two...
as soul
that looks great
Rudy
ha ha ha Rudy that was really great =]
wow my post started to get long how sad the bolds are just to get organized..

Science Fair

Here's a picture of my science fair project this year. At my school they force all the honor students to enter it cause it's part of their grade. I decided to actually try this year (Last year I won 3rd for doing pretty much no work. I programmed some simple collision detections like circles and squares. The judges eat up any programming skills someone has.)

It's a pathfinding robot this year. I'm working with a friend, he's doing all the physical aspects of the project (building the robot, building the maze, doing the poster) and I'm doing the programming).

The robot has 6 circuit boards mounted on it, 2 motors, 2 wheels, 3 analog cables and 3 USB cords.

The large circuit board is the sensor control panel, the 2 ones in the middle are the motor control panels, and the 3 around the edge are IR reflective sensors (bought from phidgets.com).

It's an amazing little robot, we got it to rotate exactly 90° and move forward exactly 10'' through the computer, and the sensors work wonders. We haven't tested it in the maze yet, but I've run a virtual robot through a virtual maze using the commands for running the real robot through the real maze, and it works pretty well. It doesn't need to know what the maze looks like, but after it goes through it once it will have most of the maze stored in memory.

The coolest thing is that it's programmed through flash (in AS3). phidgets.com has an API for robot control in flash. You just need to be running their control interface on your computer, and it uses XML to communicate with it.

The total cost of it was $300, which the school repaid me.

Anyway if anyone here has excess income and a desire to make a robot, but doesn't want to learn C++ or java or assembly to program it, these little phidgets are amazing and easy to work with and I recommend them. I'll post a video once we get the robot working.

the science fair is at the end of February, _root for me!

Also, mandatory WOOT SNOWDAY post.

In other news, the Macworld Expo starts tomorrow, where Apple will be revealing their next set of improvements to their existing products, along with maybe unveiling something new. I plan to get a better laptop for college next year, and considering that it will also be my desktop, I'm shooting for something powerful. Whatever their fastest macbook pro is I'm buying (in April once they fix the bugs).

Keep an eye out for cool stuffs, I know you all love apple (well I love apple at least)

RE: Awesome Movie

It got removed today. Finally the system works if one yells loud enough.

At 1/14/08 09:18 AM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: I plan to get a better laptop for college next year, and considering that it will also be my desktop, I'm shooting for something powerful.

You need to shoot for something non-powerful so that you understand your audience better. The things you make nowadays are downright worthless and unusable to the average web visitor.

You are aiming for the .1% of snobby rich kids with fast computers for your stuff to look even close to what you had envisioned. Do you ever like stop to think about it from an average computer user point of view?

At 1/14/08 09:31 AM, Luis wrote: You need to shoot for something non-powerful so that you understand your audience better. The things you make nowadays are downright worthless and unusable to the average web visitor.

My iMac is pretty low in power (1.83 GHz, duo-core, 1 GB ram), it's what I make my games on. Flash player runs like lightning on the intel macs.

You are aiming for the .1% of snobby rich kids with fast computers for your stuff to look even close to what you had envisioned. Do you ever like stop to think about it from an average computer user point of view?

No, in college I'm not worrying about web games anymore, because I'll be worrying about programming 3D games and such, no target audience. I'll need a fast processor because in the beginning, it's hard to worry about optimizations when you're more worried about just getting things to work right in the first place.

My college laptop needs to be powerful. Power is more important when your learning because of all the possible processor intensive mistakes you can make when programming.

At 1/14/08 09:38 AM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: No, in college I'm not worrying about web games anymore

i doubt we heard the last of you my dear glaiel. We are like herpes we are with you till the end.

At 1/14/08 09:45 AM, Luis wrote:

At 1/14/08 09:38 AM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: No, in college I'm not worrying about web games anymore

i doubt we heard the last of you my dear glaiel. We are like herpes we are with you till the end.

I'll still make the occasional flash game just not as often.

At 1/14/08 09:47 AM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: I'll still make the occasional flash game just not as often.

you will make games as often as i say you will. the end. The board is so quiet today.

*noise*

Macworld
Rawr, I've been waiting ages for it to finally start. Seeing as they released the new MacPro without any form of public announcement last week I'm expecting some pretty cool new stuff. Hopefully a tablet pc/ the new Newton, I'm looking for something portable (although it'll most likely be too expensive).

At 1/13/08 09:19 PM, BoMToons wrote:

At 1/13/08 08:58 PM, Luis wrote: Awesome Movie

So this movie has gotten rave reviews and daily first out of it... is it cool for people to turn in other peoples work? i didnt get that memo.

I guess you can't blow the whistle on stuff anymore eh?

He doesn't want to take the risk that it might make him level up :P

At 1/14/08 09:31 AM, Luis wrote:

At 1/14/08 09:18 AM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: I plan to get a better laptop for college next year, and considering that it will also be my desktop, I'm shooting for something powerful.

You need to shoot for something non-powerful so that you understand your audience better. The things you make nowadays are downright worthless and unusable to the average web visitor.

You are aiming for the .1% of snobby rich kids with fast computers for your stuff to look even close to what you had envisioned. Do you ever like stop to think about it from an average computer user point of view?

Actually, between constant replacement of computers and everything I find that the power of your CPU or whatwhat doesn't have much impact, at least when you view stuff in Firefox. Maybe that'll change if Adobe cut through some security red tape to get decent running and script-executing speeds, but that can only be good for everyone's performance.

Confession

Some of you probably don't remember me. I'm a has-been. But fuck it, i'm gonna put it out there anyway, maybe someone can offer me some valuable advice.

I'm pretty sharp with AS. I'm gonna tute my horn and say I'm on level with whoever the Top Dogs are around here (I only remember the old school guys like otacon and schorhr, and Inglor before he was hot stuff). Anyways, long story short I don't know how to make games. Honestly. I've got the coding down, and I can help anyone with their own game when they need it, but when the pressure is on me I shy away and leave people hanging. I'm thinking maybe it's some sort of psycological block against programming. The code is in my head but when I'm sitting in front of my PC and hit F9, suddenly whatever show is on TV is super interesting, or maybe I want to look up a keycode and i HAVE to use Yahoo! and I end up checking out the top news on the front page their. I end up so far from my original goal that by the time I'm ready to focus I'm bored and want to move on.

Not sure what you'd call this syndrome but yah, i thought I'd put it out there. I'm still a flash virgin... although the few submissions I made were fully coded they weren't worth the kb's they took up. This makes me sad :(

At 1/14/08 10:59 AM, Deathcon7 wrote: Not sure what you'd call this syndrome but yah, i thought I'd put it out there.

You are one of those weird Actionscript mutants who have learned the sport without a specific goal, and I think that could possibly be the reason you feel like you had a falling out with Flash or are hesitant to pick it back up. Perhaps it is because you didn't develop your sense of game programming while you were learning Flash, but whatever it is you have to find a reason to use Flash in order to put your talent to work. It's got to be more than a forced focus for you.

You know what makes me sad?

That trailer for Meet the Spartans. It's going to suck so bad, which makes me sad cause 300 and other ancient/medieval war movies could have been made into such a funny parody, along the lines of say spaceballs (one of my favorite movies of all time).

Why the hell do the producers of ____ movie have to fuck up all the good parody concepts with shitty references to everything that is remotely popular in society? If you're parodying 300, why the hell do you need to have brittany spears and sanjaya and deal or no deal and whatever else they have in there.

Seriously someone should slap those producers in the face. Spaceballs is the perfect example of how a parody should be done. It pokes fun at what it sets out to poke fun at without resorting to stupid exaggerations of obvious targets, it's only parodying one genre, and most of all it's actually funny. Everything about spaceballs is funny, all the jokes are great and every scene is a laugh, and somehow they are able to pull this off without forcing jokes down our throats. The subtle observations and tiny things are what make that movie so great. The Mr. Coffee and Mr. Radar scene for instance, if the ____ movie writers made that joke, they would have tried to make it last too long, maybe have it spurt dark helmet in the face, then make a fart joke. That's not humor. Part of humor is knowing when to stop, and Spaceballs handled that element perfectly. I laugh every time at the "Combing the beach" scene,, and pizza the hut, and the huge ship in the beginning, and everything.

Seriously, they need to make a 300 spoof that's actually funny. It has potential (South park did it quite well actually).

At 1/14/08 11:21 AM, BritishMoose wrote: It's something which happens to everyone and is not a problem singular to you. It happens to animators working on solo projects and coders working on games. I think the key is porbably to get as much done on a project at the onset so you can then resume it at a more lethargic pace.

To be honest i was tired of that game. Lol. I gave that guy all that I could to get it going but since he didn't know much about the internet i don't think he ever got it working. If you need me to finish it link me and i'll do that tonight.

At 1/14/08 11:21 AM, jmtb02 wrote: You are one of those weird Actionscript mutants who have learned the sport without a specific goal, and I think that could possibly be the reason you feel like you had a falling out with Flash or are hesitant to pick it back up. Perhaps it is because you didn't develop your sense of game programming while you were learning Flash, but whatever it is you have to find a reason to use Flash in order to put your talent to work. It's got to be more than a forced focus for you.

I guess so. I've got a project I'm really enthusiastic about I just gotten teach myself how to go through the steps to get it going. Plus, a lot of my issues come from gaps in my self teaching methods. Pretty much I feel that once I fill those gaps and consolidate my knowledge, I'll be a bit mroe apt to finishing a project. Thanks for the wisdom though!

Also, BM, I'm working on a project now. I've got most of the backstory figured out and I'm starting on the engine for it, figuring out what functions are going to be in the game and what assest i'm going to need. It's going to be animation intensive, etc, etc. If you're interested let me know and i'll fill you in on exactly what it is i'm going to do ;)

Guess who's birthday is coming up!