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Have an idea for this...

Maybe Mouth for war should go ahead an pick one, because it looks like Creamy is handcuffed to a bed somewhere.

I made it to practice clouds, water, and mountains.

The Baron in the book is not so over the top, but far more perverse. The actor still managed to bring some of this into his performance.

Got it.

Nah.

Nyet.

No.

Nein.

Non.

He's a fine Lynch Paul Atreides (that is, within the confines of Lynch's take), though perhaps, as noted countless times since 1984, not so much a fine Herbert Paul Atreides.

The Baron is the best example of this I think, quite different from the one in the book. In these cases they still manage to capture the essence of the character. In the case of Paul, the MacLaughlin/Lynch character brings something new, a kind of enthusiasm. Like the Mentat mantra, these are just things I like, so I don't really mind having them in the film. Especially not when there is the miniseries, which is a lot more true to the books in most respects.

That said, the book is much better than the film.

No.

Westworld?

Is anyone else getting sick of this template for trailers they seem to have been using for the last decade or so:

I don't watch a lot of trailers but this one was totally asinine. So bad that you must assume the film would be better. The music particularly, and then the lead actor, make it seem like a Bieber film cooked up in the dungeons of hollywood.

And Snarky, I reject the idea that MacLachlan was anything but excellent in the Lynch version:

The Lynch version made several changes and added some things of his own, but in my opinion it managed to bring across the most important elements of Dune. I don't know if Patrick Stewart not working for Gurney was because the casting really didn't work or because he'll always be Picard to me, but how can you speak ill of a film that showed Gurney going to war with a pug in his jacket? The litany of the (twisted) mentat, or a medical device that involves a mouse strapped to a hairless cat? It's magnificent. This weird and deep film got me into the Dune universe.

Sorry but, modern hollywood is practically incapable of living up to its predecessor. More likely it will turn into this:

Yeah, casting is way off. They cast the actor that should have played Duncan as the duke Leto, the rest just seems wrong, most notably Paul. I get that he's 15 in the book, and there may be a teen actor that could be believable, but this kid most likely isn't it.

They seem to have made some effort to stick to the story at least, but it's already at a disadvantage compared to the Lynch film, which nailed the casting for key characters. Most notably the lady Jessica, followed by Paul, Piter, The Baron. They had Sting, FFS.

The trailer doesn't suit the tone of the work, but lots of films have stupid trailers. I won't complain about the worm because they managed a rendering of the thousands of teeth, even though I prefer the design in other adaptations.

room_RepExec() is called every non-blocked frame, so in there you would move the viewport along in small increments with SetViewport.

Something like:

Code: ags

  int horizontalPosition = GetViewportX();
  if (horizontalPosition > 0)
  {
    SetViewport(horizontalPosition - 1, 0);
  }

This will decrease the vertical position by one pixel each frame. You can add more stuff to delay the starting of the scroll, like a bool to signal when it should scroll and not.

To move right, you would increase the horizontal position, and the if would look like:

Code: ags

if (horizontalPosition < Room.Width - System.ScreenWidth)

You should make the player move a non-blocking action so the rest of the script functions can run while it is moving, or handle the scrolling in the room's repeatedly_execute_always.