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I'm there, which means, I'm pretty much out of the danger zone... internet access is 5 bucks an hour though so I wont be on much... just wanted to let you know life is better for me and in a week or so i will be back home in the good ol' USA...

Wooo for surviving!

Prince Alynn in a Can

Search and you shall receive

http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=16584.0

Hi, i was just wondering if alpha blended sprites are actually anti-aliased against the background in AGS.

I've heard several people mention that this is possible, however in the help file it says that there is no anti-aliasing.

thank you

You must be in the highest color setting though, you can't do it in 256 or 16bit just wanted to clarify

Well it pretty much every comparison I've done since I started looking at the X800, it blows the new GeForce card out of the water... so I've already found the 8x AGP X800 XT but the best prices (478) are sold out, so once I get back from Iraq I'll start parusing all the comp stores in my area....

But thanks guys for the suggestions

Oh And Boyd, I never have more than one item per power cable, besides, it will take the power cable from my current card so its all good, right now the cooling I have is overkill for what I have, it should handle it well enough, and if it shortens the life of the card, well I will put it this way, I change computers about once every 4 years, with an upgrade after 2... so if it lasts 2 years, it will suffice Thanks though

As far as the GeForce cards go, in every comparison, I've found the X800 was better... so I'm sticking with ATI....


Moo out

EDIT: Ok... well I know what chipset I want... now... do I go with  ASUS, MSI, Sapphire, ATI,PowerColor, and all the other companies making cards for this chip...

Anything any of you know about these different manufacturers? Other than price, everything looks to be basically the same...

Ok guys... As a gift to myself for being in Iraq for a year, I am upgrading my computer, I've already bought the 512 stick (bringing me to my max of 1gig memory for this motherboard), The new HDD, the wireless keyboard and mouse, last thing to purchase is the Video card...

To start, I decided if I'm going to upgrade, I'm going to upgrade big, so I'm going with a 256MB card. Since I'm not much on keeping up with hardware I've been doing some research, looking at comparisions on the web and what not...and the ATI 9800 Series cards look to be the overall best (on all those fun comparisoins I've been looking through)

The TX is the best out of the 9800 a bit better than the Pro, which is better than the 128...

I plan on going for the Pro, being that its about a hundred dollards (or a bit more) cheaper than the TX (TX runs about 500+ dollars) the Pro is about 375-425 (that I've found)....

Anyway if you want look up these cards and let me know if you know of any other 256 cards out there of comparable (or cheaper) with the same abilities....

Thanks y'all

Ok... sorry for the Kudos... but Damn... I go to Iraq for awhile and Puma gets all OO on me... not that I mind... now if I switch from Java to AGS (which I do often, I get bored with one code snip, then switch to another)...

I have a tendoncy to not be able to pull my brain out of OO mode heh...

But good stuff Chris, I may wait to start back work on STR to use all the goodies in here (sure it means recoding... but hey... who has never done a little recoding in their lives)

MUAHAHHAAHHAH

Thanks again... you made my life livable again.... Not that it wasn't before.... I just wanted to give you a warm feeling inside.

[DDR]

DDR meets Pole Position meets Metal Gear meets Mortal Combat

Call it

Dance Pole Gear Combat

You hide in the shadows, and when your prey least expects it, you jump out and run him over with your car, then when you are swarmed by enemy you break out with dancing that is so contagious they all dance with you, then you do the lean and they all die, then some dude yells Fatality!

Rock on!

When all else fails... call your isp

Check your braces... thats all I can say without seeing some code.

hmmm....sounds good. Just a little problem though, when the bullet's sprite (though most is transparent) comes into contact with an enemy sprite, even though only the transparent sprites touch, the game will still run the interaction for AreCharactersColliding(BULLET, ENEMY)==1 but to th player, it will look like the bullet missed but still hit the enemy. Also, I am unaware of how to set the coordinates of BULLET so that it will be at the same place that MAIN is.

First part, Are characters colliding checks if the x,y position of the bottom middle pixel is the same, so actually unless the enemy sprite is really small, it will be closer than if you use a small sprite for the bullet, if you use a small bullet sprite you will have to hit near the feet of the enemy...

To set the bullet to the same coords as MAIN is 3 commands

character[BULLET].x = character[MAIN].x;
character[BULLET].y = character[MAIN].y;
character[BULLET].room = character[MAIN].room;

and there ya go...

I would make the bullet sprite the same width and height as the MAIN character sprite, with (of course) most of it transparent, put the bullet itself just behind the MAIN sprite's gun, then with a simple MoveCharacter() you can send the bullet moving... Thats just one way...

And the fact that you can have 300+ rooms, but any room bigger than 300 won't have their status saved (whatever this means, I never really understood that)...

What this basically means, all your object offs, room vars and things of that nature are stored and kept the same after you leave the room, however this isn't the case for rooms 300+, after you leave the room everything resets back to the defaults because its status isn't saved (which can be worked around with global ints of course)

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but thats how I understand it.

If 24 is old, and he had to leave here, and I'm 27... what the hell am I, and why am I allowed to stay?

I could just see it

Hero: Oh Mighty Thor! I bow before you.
Thor: Look, my name is Roth, some idiot mispelled it and it just stuck. All the other gods laugh at me about it.
Hero: Hit them with that mighty hammer.
Roth: Again, another misprint, I don't have a lightning hammer, I have a lightning fast Hummer.
Hero: Oh.
Roth: Yeah I'm not all that impressive in person am I.
Hero: ...
Hero: I like your pants.

lamers... I got 2 gigs... then again msn is my isp

I still have it too!

Actually I have a new avatar which stemmed from my now named Yellow Eyed Studio Logo.. have to upload it to a server when I get home...

Actually its been (or will be) 10 months... I came out 2 monts late with this unit...

WANDERLADY LOVES ME!

Its nice to be loved...  Anyway its fairly hot even this late in the year, but rainy season is on its way.. so its been rainy on a few days... Since Ramadan started we get hit by mortars daily to twice a day...

What I do for the army is fix hardware and software issues with the army supply software...

about how I feel about being here... that is a simple question with a highly complex answer...

I am here because I raised my hand, and swore to do as the officers appointed over me, and the president of the United States says to do... I am here because I made a concious choice to serve my country, and my country needs me here. For that I am indifferent...

I talk nearly daily to the local nationals (Iraqi private citizens) that work for us doing everything from the electrical work, the plumbing (which is funny cuz the plumbers look like Mario and Luigi, in fact thats what the answer too cuz their names are difficult for us to pronounce)... to cleaning the showers and the gardening... meeting these guys who are different than us... but at the same time just want to make ends meet and provide for their wives (yup many have more than one) and children... We pay them 5 bucks a day... which may seem like very little, but to give you an idea, the average electric bill per mponth for them is 1 dollar.... they get paid very well, and in fact many of them took on their first, second and third wife since they started working for us... they are the fat cats in the community, cuz they get paid well... I'm here for them, that just want a better life for them and their families, and that makes me feel liek I am making a difference...

However, I am away from everyoen I love and loves me, I miss my wife dearly and my new born son (good news is I will be home for his first christmas)... even though I serve to protect those that cant protect themselves, like my wife and kids... I miss them, and hate being away fromthem... that makes me sad...

So that gives you an idea... there is more to it, but nothing I can really write, words wont do it justice, and I dont belive the words for it exist... Its one of those things that only those that have been there can understand...

34 Days remaining ladies and gents... i can almost smell the rainy clean air of Washington State...... MMMM

No I didn't break my hand on purpose

And the tours out here in sandville are a year

some of you may remember me... some not... but never fear I have 50 days (or so) left in Iraq... which nmeans  skytower rescue shall be worked on again... that is for those of you that remember the little into I did nearly a year ago before i headed here...

Anyway just an update

Oh and I broke my hand

The program did it... and since it is omni-present... it did it quite easily