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Westwood sucks! 

And now the lensflare:



I think we all learned something here!

I want the drugs you're on. 

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You're kidding, right?
LOTR wasn't an experience but Avatar was?

Yeah, I forgot to mention that: LOTR was an experience, but SO annoyingly greasy and elevated/lofty/solemn/declamatory* that it was a very bad experience. I couldn't watch any LOTR movie twice cause the continuous slow-motion, heroism and dramatic music just were too unbearable.

* these words are from leo.org, I don't know which the most appropriate one is. In german it would be "pathetic" (from "pathos"), in english it isn't.

I don't particularly like Avatar, but it was pleasant to the eyes without being too annoying. It was neither more nor less then what I expected and that's why I don't regret going to the cinema. But as I said I can't understand the hype at all.

I just got back from the watching Avatar in 3D.  With all the hype the movie received I walked in believing it was going to be INSANE and absolutely incredible... well honestly, it was!

This I can't comprehend! I still don't know why there was such a hype.

My top favourite movies happen to be Matrix, Fifth element, Back to the Future, Starship Troopers, and many others.  Most of those have a pretty decent storyline in my eyes

This neither!

I am concerned with having an interesting plot with well fleshed out characters, motivations and plot twists I don't see coming from a mile away.

Yeah, me too, but when do you get that in the theatre? I'm rarely watching movies in the cinema, once a year tops. I think the last ones have been Star Wars Ep. I, Lord of the Rings I, Sin City and Avatar. ALL of them sucked, but at least Avatar was some kind of "experience" like Ryan put it. The other's weren't.

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You forgot to set the speed parameter:

oFrame.Move(158, 161, 1, eBlock, eAnywhere);

http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=23646.20

It seems you want the GUI to scroll up from the bottom, not to pop up? In any case, this has been a question a few weeks ago:

http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=39938.0

The conclusion was: The Tween module is your friend:

http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=38015.0

I am unemployed. :

Me too, so I won't give you any 

[every]

I just experienced a sudden unexpected slowdown in my game and it seems to effect every room in the game, even those without animations, interactions etc. I tested a backup from last week and it worked fine.

The point is that I haven't changed a thing in the global script so I don't have the slightest idea why the game as a whole is suddenly slowing down.

I'll try to put all the changes of the newest version into the backup version and see if it works like it's supposed to but that'll take a while and I just want to know if there are things that can slow down the game as a whole.. without changing the global script that is. Any thoughts?

EDIT:

Wait, what? The problem was that I disabled music + sound via the winsetup. After enabling both again the frame rate was back to normal. Why is that?

@Mr Matti
Did it crash again or have already made some progress?

Yes, it did crash again after saving/loading right after the first arcade sequence. My laptop has a serious overheating problem (since quite a few month) and I haven't let it be repaired yet - that's why I can't play most games for too long.

Now I decided to play a little further before saving again but it crashed right after said sequence, without saving or doing anything else...  :'(

But since it's time to repair my laptop anyway I will play all the way through after it's done.

PS photo bucket seems to make my file a bit blurry when I enlarge it Sorry to make ya squint

Firefox makes images blurry.. unfortunately.

You can resize pictures by using codes

He did exactly that

I now think I know: Calin thinks that even though some of 'the wrong' people may be saved that's worth the effort because it will also save a lot of 'the right' people. And thus saving people (in general) is better than not to save them at all (if I've misrepresented Calin's opinion here he should correct me).

I think you do indeed. Calin said he would save the lives of the rapists rather then let them die, and I would generally do the same unless they want to die (which - unfortunately - is against the law).

thats a pretty unlikely situation but yes I'd rather save their lives than let them die.

It's like recycling.

Ha, that's what I was talking about. We're all getting recycled anyway cause nature doesn't waste anything. It's just that donating organs is a better way of recycling than just rotting in the ground.

Problem is: If I don't stop smoking and drinking so much at some point in my life, probably nobody would want any organs of mine anyway.

This means that some of the cells on my arm were probably, at one point, cells from someone's boob once.

phwoaaar!  

From now on, please refer to me as "Mister Boob-arm" 

Hehe. I don't think you can say that, but hell: everything cycles around, may it be the excreta of a beetle being absorbed by corn that ends in your meal.

I wouldn't really say it's a fear of being buried alive, but mostly just the idea of some organ that has been inside of me my whole life is now going to be living in another persons body.

They would anyway, just not in the traditional way

No matter disappears. If your body rots in the ground, trees, bacterias and insects will all get a piece of you and in the end every former part of you will be part of the global circulation and people will have parts of you in them, may they be proteins, carbon, oxygen or anything else inside you.

Don't want to start a religious debate either, Jim, but I think that's the most beautiful system one could ever imagine and that's why I find the idea of a life after death rather weird. You are being created from matter of all kind and when you're dead you're falling apart and go back to where you're coming from: everywhere.

Just a thought.

The animation is a little short but he seems to put more weight on his right leg and thus looks like he's limping a bit. Otherwise it's nice and smooth.

Or you could leave some of the brackets out   :

Code: ags

if ((cBartender.x - cEgo.x <= 10 && cBartender.x >= cEgo.x) || (cEgo.x - cBartender.x < 10 && cEgo.x > cBartender.x))

And then.. ?

Sorry..

A better way would be to make the book (or whatever it is) a GUI. Then you could just change the background image of the GUI depending on the page that is open. You could make the corner of the GUI/page a button to click on and make the page turn animation via changing the image.