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I'm sure you've seen them. A little java or flash applet that let's you view 3d model in your browser, rotate and zoom it. Nothing else. If you've played WoW, you've seen alot of those on various wiki-like pages.

Thing is, I cannot find any. Google results in horrid, undecipherable mess that has mix of sickly expensive "solutions" and some coded-in-a-basement versions that do much more than I need. But I only need a simple little window on my webpage in which you can look at models. And it has to be compatible with something every casual user has installed, flash or java. Or in latter case, at least download needed scripts automatically or even secretly without frightening the end user.

What I don't want at all are solutions which ask for additional add-on or plugin to be installed, such as VRML or O3D.
O3D simple scene viewer looks perfect, but... install something additional for this? Nah.
Papervision3D... their page looks like someone ate a chinese dictionary and barfed it directly into html. I cannot navigate this.

Embed 3D in PDF is last fallback, it works and everyone and their grandmother has acrobat installed, but it doesn't look neither good or quick.

Surely someone has made a simple, user friendly thing by 2011?

Can anyone help?

Haha, no. I'm too tied up with Blackwell Deception.
But you can click links in my sig and learn yourself.

If you want to mix both styles -- soft brushes in pixellish universe -- I suggest... my own
http://www.indrek.org/pass/

You're mixing absolutely incompatible things here.
Unnaturally straight tree & boring, uniform geometry vs. handpaint'ish blurry coloring. Reminds me very much early Ben Jordan games which did same mistake.
I suggest to pick a path and stay on it. If you want artsy, hand-painted look, disregard straight lines and go crazy. If otherwise, lose the blur and be precise in coloring and shading too. That means drawing every stone in cobblestone road and every grass patch, instead of just dropping blurry patches of color.

I personally thing that clean, uniform style would work better with character. In which case, you don't need so much different shades of color on everything aswell.

Also, greens don't mix well, but I quite like the tones on wall and red brick.

And I suppose that would be Team America? Let's ignore the many Europeans that have died because it's all about America.

But who else? Would you like China to police the world? Europe? Russian Federation? No thanks, been there already.

China is a bunch of crazy Communists. Russia, no explanation needed. And Europe - either has no balls or when does, causes horror. British Empire (see India, Northern Africa)? Belgium in Africa (See Rwanda, Congo)?

Also, Team America still CAN take casualties. Other European countries, not so much. It's well reflected in your quote.

With every armed conflict there's a number of caskets to be brought home and most of Western world really cannot accept this. But how the hell do you fight a war if you don't even realize the concept of war? (people shoot at each other and die) It's not medieval times where good swordsman can beat barbarian wielding a club. 7.62mm bullets kill every time, no matter if they're shot by child with AK, desert dweller or well-trained solider.

Why did Vietnam war fail? Caskets. People didn't realize that soldiers will die and went apeshit when it happened. So it all fell apart. Iraq got same bad rap... didn't everyone hate Bush? That's why American government keeps on making up HUUUGE reasons they have to fight this and that and why devil images are created. Osama was one of those. Helps public to digest those casualties. Maybe world police is the same PR? It's not like US really does give two shits about democracy and freedom in some remote desert village... it's all about protecting own interests.

Also I think Western world wielding guns is increasingly needed image in the future. Due our comfortable life and increasing life expectancy, the will to fight decreases every day. Reminds me of sci-fi stories where people in the future are so peaceful that a man with a stick can dominate whole nation. That's the road we've taken, I think... but that's no way to be most aggressive and dangerous species of our galaxy!

Ladder of democracy, my view:

Gods/Stonemasons/UFOs/New world order/jews/fate --
Gigantic corporations and banks -- control all...
World leaders -- who are in power thanks to...
Medium/local corporations -- which buy power to elect...
Leading parties -- who rose from...
Parties -- who try to get step above by making agreements with....
Smaller corporations -- who pick between (and buy a little of power by this)...
New parties -- which are created by more active...
Normal people -- who realize there's nobody to pick really
Naive people -- who just vote someone hope their pick does any good
Idiots -- who fanatically pick a party disregarding bad things about the party

Now, chances are, you are somewhere among last three... No party can get into power without votes AND monetary support and while votes come from being "good", monetary support from corporations is probably more related to the evil side: the more you promise to bend the laws, make tax exemptions, etc , the better your chances are.

But due populism, all votes usually go the most popular party and parties get popular thanks to PR, which uses money gained due having lots of bad side.

But no voting method can get unpopular (thus not so evil) party into office. There's simply too much idiots.

Make a dot. Gray, let's say (RGB 128,128,128), 1 to 4 pixels.

During 5 frames, fade it to black (or 10% opacity if you're going to add stuff behind window) and moving down a bit. 5-10 pixels.

Now copy different animation states of same dot to the whole window area and animate them.
What you'll end up is rain hitting window, sliding down and disappearing. Not 100% realistic maybe, but I think it'll look awesome. Only tedious part is making the animation, but 5 frames is not very much work.

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Went procedural: animated a single raindrop, then used Game Maker to make a little program that makes random drops over windows area and spits out PNG frames for animation. With proper tinkering, I think it could do whatever you like.

Looking back, this edit has 440 animated raindrops, so it would be crazy to animate all this by hand.

Here's code if you want, you need at least Game Maker 8 to peek (it's free!). Code well commented, and there's not much of it really.
For some reason, output looks better if you don't use very first frame.

http://www.indrek.org/i/critshelp/rain.rar

Single frames for this particular edit are inside archive too; but using program generates random drops every time.

Suspicious part is why he wasn't captured alive and why do it with choppers, SEALS and guns.

It's not like we haven't figured out how to use gas or something. Pick a right wind, evacuate building next door and let sucker have it.
Or simply drop a bomb/rocket where needed. If they needed body to show to the rest of the world, where is it?

I don't think it'll make much change in anything;
Man like him has been probably readied for his sudden death or capture for past 30 years, back from the days he fought against russians in Afghanistan so his death wouldn't change much in organization and there's probably a successor available. After being martyred, there shouldn't be lack of candidates, neither.

Let's hope retaliation (which is pretty much guaranteed I think) won't succeed.

That's a nice way to screw up a thread. Ever head of mspaint?

Be up 64 hours. It's extremely hard to do in a row, so you might have 2-3 30-minute naps during period.

Lucid dream guaranteed. Infact, you won't even be sleeping, but dream is overlayed onto your reality. I had mine with eyes open (first at long being-up period, second when flying to US. I saw the plane and everything yet dreamt at the same time). Being awake for 40+ hours is very stressful for your brain though, you have no clue what time or date it is and general perception of time will be totally messed up (4 hours = 5 minutes, etc). Also, you might develop rapid acne and extremely reactive mood, like bursting into laughter one second and tears another. I bet long-distance truck drivers or pilots can confirm what I said.

What also sometimes works is getting up in the morning, moving around (toothbrush maybe) and THEN taking extra 2 minutes nap. You have to break free from previous sleeping state first, so about 3-4 minutes you should move and do something, not stare angrily at alam clock.

[Windows Update!!!]

Bought new machine a while ago. State-of-technology thing, with Intel i7 950, SSD, loads of RAM, etc.
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit included. And for some time it was nice.

Then, basically out of nowhere, I started getting those BSODs... I do something, and suddenly screen goes blue, dumps 12 GB of ram onto disk and says

IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
Error 3b.

And restarts. After restart, everything is frozen. Or won't restart at all. Or restarts, works fine for about 2 minutes, and BSODs again. I turn machine off for 5 minutes, and I gain extra minutes before it BSODs again when I turn it on.
Not wanting guarantee repair to relieve me of my machine for weeks or poke around on my hard drives, I tried everything I could to fix it by myself. Googled much, fiddled with BIOS, ran memory tests.
For this particular error, there's no knowledge out there. Best I could find (including microsoft's page) was probable causes: faulty memory, faulty drivers, overheating, IDE conflict, bad jumper settings on some drive

But none seemed to be the cause! Also, it wouldn't explain machine going haywire where none of such things were present.

So I reinstalled Windows. Specifically avoided those thrashy disks computer came with (motherboard drivers, suspicious looking "quick resume" software, etc), because they look quite horrible and unstable to be honest.
A month or so, everything worked fine again.
Until a week ago, I get the BSOD loop again. I am damn sure I haven't installed anything, have no viruses, there should be no reason whatsoever for machine to simply start BSODing like Windows ME. But it did.

And then it finally caught me... while making 140th restart or so, I noticed that before restarting, "applying update 1438 of 7534" flickered on the screen.

Windows Update!!!

After some testing in safe mode, I can confirm that there's something about windows update that trashes machine. It applied updates fine, and for one particular "update", everything crashes. I always knew that going 64-bit means more problems, but never that they would come directly from Microsoft itself.

I turned windows update off. Everything works. No BSODs for 4 days so far. So it crashed because it tried to update and since it crashed, it had to try again and again and again... while I was scratching my head why the hell machine crashes while nothing is going on...

Now, as I mentioned, there's no such story on the internet (as far as google tells) and the only reason for this one to exist is to help whoever falls to the same pit. I doubt it would be many AGSers, but google robots go over AGS too. Because only god knows how much hair I lost trying to solve this one.

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In Icey's offense, I did not misspell bleak, Icey did.

and FaceAGSbook  still sucks.
Icey Games, how about making an app to play AGS games instead of trolling on the forums?  Take a game of yours and try to convert to FB App or something? Done correctly, this could lead to something great!

I don't use Facebook

HERESY!

FB "app" looks bleak though. There's no point to it.

Choose from these.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World's_most_livable_cities

Not considering taxation and COST of living they're not

I googled The dos emu for wii and still got nothing on ags.

But it's a cool because I will check today on my wii what works and what doesn't.

Exactly how is DOS = AGS?
And why should DosBox developer write anything about AGS?
Are you using MS-DOS right now? Do you even comprehend what DOS means?
what kind of loser owns a wii anyway unless it's for 6-year old kid

On a side note,

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=wii+dos+emulator

But I think It'll work with ancient, DOS-era AGS games only.

I'm with mods here. Cafepress is bloated, overpopulated, low-quality and has quite low popularity due this.
As for business side of it, I think taking a marker and few white tees and making custom shirts on a nice saturday at the park would give you considerably more profit than something hanging in cafepress for a year.

Icey games still fails at every communication standard.

as for older AGS games, they don't work all that well in DOSbox, lot's of sound problems. Going windows was best thing ever happened to AGS IMO.

This test doesn't make a good thread I think. Who cares to read other's percentages? Maybe if you post only lowest and highest result it'll work?