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#21

General Discussion / Luthiers?

Tue 22/05/2007 09:12:21

I know there are a lot of musicians/people who play a musical instrument here, but I was wondering if any of you have experience in building instruments, namely guitars.

I brought home a bunch of really nice white maple from my workplace, and I was thinking of trying my hand at building a guitar or two with some of it. I even managed to sneak out some wenge veneer for the fretboards (shhh... don't tell my boss...)

Anyway, the only wood that I don't have, that I can't get from work, is some bubinga. The guitar design I have in mind is a neck-through construction, so I plan on using some bubinga to reinforce the neck.

I've looked around the web at quite a bit to find a company that sells it, but most of the sites I've found only sell:
1. rough cut, or
2. mass quantities.

I'm trying not to be picky, but I'd prefer it if the wood is planed at the very least (because I don't own a planer). I'd also like the dimensions to be roughly around 3' 6"H x 3 1/4"W x 1"T (~1067mmL x 83mmW x 26mmT).

I was referred to one site, Lagae, but I don't speak that language.

So, anyway, are there any luthiers here who wouldn't mind sharing the secrets of where they get their wood?

#22

Beginners' Technical Questions / SetTalkSpeed?

Mon 02/04/2007 17:55:41

I could have swore that I saw, in an earlier version of AGS, that there was some kind of scripting command that allowed you to set the speed of the character's talking animation (I think that's what it was for, anyway...).

I've been looking through the manual, but I can't seem to find it again. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?

#23

Adventure Related Talk & Chat / 5 Days A Stranger 3D?

Sat 20/01/2007 09:47:59

I found this: http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=433216

Why would anybody want to take a classic game like that and crap it all up with 3D?

Also, with this talk of "commercial potential", and it "being longer" just somehow didn't settle in my stomach quite right. Does Yahtzee know about all this?

Just thought I'd throw this out there.

#24

General Discussion / Javascript help.

Sun 26/11/2006 10:32:09

I'm in the process of teaching myself Javascript. The only thing is, this first script I've written all on my own just plain old isn't working... at all. I've been sitting here for hours, going over my script again and again. I've even been using W3Schools as a reference for everything, just to make sure I coded it all properly. But, alas... I just can't get the script to do what I want it to do.

Here's the HTML for the page:

Code: ags


<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">

<html>
<head>
	<title>Please enter your username and password...</title>
	
	<style type="text/css">
	  body {position:absolute; text-align:center}
	</style>
	
	<script type="text/javascript">
	function grantAccess() {
	  var username = document.getElementById("userName").value
	  var password = document.getElementById("passWord").value
	  var theusername = "John Doe"
	  var thepassword = "Enter"
	  var x = document.getElementById("accessForm")
	  submitOK = "true"
	  
*	 if (getElementById("userName").length==0) {
	    alert("Please enter a valid username.")
		submitOK = "false"
	  }
	  else if (getElementById("passWord").length==0) {
	    alert("Please enter a valid password.")
	    submitOK = "false"
	  }
	  else if (username != theusername || password != thepassword) {
	    alert("Invalid username.")
	    submitOK = "false"
	  }
	  else if (username == theusername && password == thepassword) {
	    alert("Welcome, " + username + ".")
		x.action="http://webpages.charter.net/thelostnumber/home.html"
	  }			
	  if (submitOK="false") {
	  return false
	  }
	}
	</script>
</head>

<body>

<form id="accessForm" action="" onsubmit="return grantAccess()">
Please enter your username and password.
<br />
<br />
Username: <input type="text" id="userName" size="20" /> 
<br />
Password: <input type="password" id="passWord" value="" size="20" />
<br />
<br />
<input type="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>

</body>
</html>

It's supposed to be my first attempt at a simple username and password login.

Here's the page, itself, if you want to try it out to see how it isn't working.
The username is "John Doe", and the password is "Enter".

The asterisk in the code is the line where I get an error while testing the page in 1st Page 2000 (after I click the submit button).

The error is as follows:
An error has occured in the script on this page.
Line: 20
Char: 4
Error: Object expected
Code: 0
URL: (... I don't think the rest of it is important, as I'm sure you're familiar with the routine...)
I haven't the foggiest idea what sort of object it's expecting there...

I really have no clue why it isn't working. AFAIK, it should work just fine, right? If someone could help me out, I'd appreciate it.

#25

General Discussion / Salvage mission: my hard drive.

Mon 09/10/2006 08:40:55

Okey-dokey. Here's the skinny: A few nights ago, during a very dramatic and theatrical thunderstorm, my computer got hit.

I tinkered with it, and finally decided that the ancient, Frankenstein-of-a-beast was toast. So, I took out the hard-drive, and threw the rest of the PC in the dumpster.

I've got a lot of important stuff on the hard drive (our finances, our bank account activity, not to mention, all of my art and stuff).

I'd like to know if anyone can tell me a way to salvage all of that information? Would it be possible to hook it up to my new computer, and copy everything onto the new PC's hard disk?

#26

General Discussion / e-Bay - Advice?

Tue 01/08/2006 20:36:25

I won my first auction on e-Bay. I bid on a Wacom Graphire3 4x5, and for $54.00, I won it. After shipping, I ended up charging about $65.00 to my credit card.

The thing is, the auction said exactly this:
"This Graphire 3 is brand new. It was opened after it was bought, but was never used. Graphire 3 includes 2 CD's a drawing tablet, wireless mouse, and drawing pen."

I got the thing today in the mail, and I was a little less than satisfied with it. It had clearly been used... a little bit more than gently, I might add. There was sweat, hand-crud, and scratches all over the tablet, and the mouse.

The ad also said it came with the driver disk, but I noticed later down near the bottom, the seller had added a comment saying it only came with one disc (in small black print). I guess that wasn't really a big deal, because I got the drivers from Wacom's site,

It came on time, but the box it came in was jerry-rigged; a bunch of smaller boxes all taped together to make a bigger box. And I noticed on the postage, that I got overcharged for the shipping.

I took some pictures of everything, I'll have to upload those after I get home from work.

So, I feel like I've been a little bit ripped off. I didn't pay (more than half of what I could have bought it for brand new) for a crusty, beat up Wacom. I sent the guy a message, and I may have to leave him some bad feedback.

But, do I really have any reason to bitch? (Would you?) As far as I can tell, the tablet works just fine. I haven't really had a chance to use it yet, because I need to leave for work soon. Plus I've never used a tablet before, so I have no reason for comparison.

I'd like some advice for future reference when buying items through e-Bay. Things to look out for? Things to remember when bidding on or buying new or used items?

*Remember: I'm completely new to all of this e-Bay stuff, so keep that in mind before you flame me, or call me nasty names and throw stuff at me*

#27

Critics' Lounge / Working on walkcycles.

Sun 23/07/2006 15:34:02

I've been working on some walkcycles. This is my very first finished set.
Original size:

4x:,

Any suggestions? Sorry about the colors, you'll have that with .gifs.

#28

Advanced Technical Forum / Error: Size of identifier does not match prototype (SOLVED)

Wed 19/07/2006 12:58:24

Time for another one of my stupid questions... I wrote this simple struct in the very top of the global script. The asterisk is the line where I get the error.

Code: ags


struct Attributes {
  int health;
  int mana;
  int fatigue;
}

Attributes character[1];

Attributes enemy[10];

// main global script file...
...
...
...
... // called when the game starts, before the first room is loaded
character[EGO].health = 100;
character[EGO].mana = 100;
character[EGO].fatigue = 0;
...

This whole script was just for a small RPG-type game.

I'll be perfectly honest, I don't know what the hell I'm doing.

An hour ago, I didn't even know what structs and arrays were. I read up on them in the manual, and they seemed to make sense, but I don't understand why I'm getting this error.

If somebody could explain to me what exactly I'm doing, or rather what I should be doing, I'll kiss your feet and call you master.

#29

General Discussion / CSS editors.

Mon 19/06/2006 09:19:16

I've been trying out several different stylesheet editors, and I'm not really finding any that I like too much. I guess it could be because I really don't know a whole lot about CSS quite yet...

Right now I'm trying one called Cascade DTP V4. It seems close to what I'm looking for, but it also seems kind of... limited. I mean, it will only let me set the page width to 1000px. (What the crap?... I have my screen resolution set to 1024 x 768, and I can't create a page that will fit my screen? That's kind of lame). That, of course, is only one of the complaints I have about it.

I downloaded the HTML editor, 1st Page 2000, and I liked it. I thought I had read somewhere in there about CSS, but it turns out it only had a CSS reference. 1st Page 2006 has CSS capabilities, but it out of my price range right now.

So, can anyone recommend a CSS editor? I'd prefer if it was freeware (yeah, I'm cheap... so shoot me).

EDIT: Oh yeah, I'm ONLY looking for a program that will allow me to create and edit external stylesheets. I realize I can incorporate my stylesheets directly into my HTML source, but I'd like to save time (if I'd suddenly like to change the entire layout of the whole site).

#30

General Discussion / C++: Where do I start?

Sat 15/04/2006 00:24:41

I used to think that coding was easy, because the only programming language that I know is AGS code. I'm finding out now that C++ is not quite as simple. I look at it, and I don't even know where to start. I don't even quite understand what half of these commands do.

I used Borland C++ Builder 5, and I made a small text editor from a tutorial. But my primary interest is, obviously, making games. Preferably 2D, I just don't have the capacity to take on learning 3D and C++ at the same time... and 3D is over rated, anyway.

I looked on Amazon.com for some books for beginners... ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS. According to most of the reviews for most of the books on the site, there aren't too many books that are for people who know next to nothing about coding. Can anybody recommend a book? Something that doesn't assume I already have a background in C++, or that I'm a friggin' math whiz.

#31

General Discussion / Setting default programs.

Mon 03/04/2006 07:48:22

I recently installed Paintshop Pro on my computer, then I recently uninstalled it. All bitmap files were set to automatically open with PSP (not by my choice) when I first installed it. Now that PSP is gone, when I try to open a BMP file, the computer still tries to open it in PSP.

What I would like to do is set the default image editing program as MS Paint.

I've searched google, and didn't find anything helpful. I've tried to use some of it's advice to changing keys in the directory, but I don't really know a whole lot about the directory. Most of the advice I found was for Windows XP, my system is Windows 98 (SE?).

So, how do I go about doing this?

#32

General Discussion / What is my junk worth?

Mon 20/03/2006 07:23:52

I went to my mom's house tonight, and I dug out a bunch of my old toys. I dug out all of my old games (Sega Genesis, NES, & SNES), my comic books, and my comic cards.

I started wondering, "I wonder how much I could get for this stuff on E-bay?" I'm in a bit of a crunch right now, my car has been acting up, and I've been missing a lot of work lately because of it.

But, I don't just wanna put all of this stuff up for sale on e-bay for a couple bucks, and then, later on, come to find out I could have gotten more for it. To me, this isn't just junk, I grew up with this stuff. I'm willing to part with it, but I want to know if any of it's worth anything. I know all of the stuff is really nothing special, but to me it's got sentimental value.

I was wondering if anyone knows of an appraisal resource of some type for these kinds of things? I could go and buy a copy of Wizard and find out how much the comics and the cards are worth, but I don't have the $10 to shell out for it (I'm not even sure if they put the price guides in the magazine anymore).

The thing is, I've got the full 1995 Fleer Ultra X-Men set, with all of the chase cards (except one). It's got to be worth something. The whole set is in pretty good condition, I've taken good care of it, and the set is over 10 years old. I've even got an unnumbered card that's not on the checklist for that set. I found the card I need to fully complete the set on E-bay for $2, I'm more than likely going to buy it.

As for the video games, I don't even know what to ask for them.

I've already searched google quite a bit, but I can't seem to find a price guide, or any type of appraisal site. Any tips?

#33

General Discussion / Spreadsheet Formulas

Fri 17/02/2006 01:34:30

Can somebody give me some help on an MS Works spreadsheet?

I have an array of numbers, and I'm trying to figure out a formula that will count how many cells in a range of cells contain a specific number.

The functions included in MS Works are pretty limited, so I'm trying to combine them to get the desired effect I'm looking for. Such as this:
=COUNT(=IF(A1:E5,1,0)=1)

But the formulas I've come up with either don't work the way I want them to, or aren't valid formulas (they contain errors, apparently).

Can anyone offer some help?

#34

Critics' Lounge / Tar Man

Sat 31/12/2005 02:44:33

I've been trying to make a sprite of the "Tar Man" zombie from Return Of The Living Dead. But, I'm having a little trouble. I've been working on his head for about 2 hours now, and I can't quite seem to get it to look right (at least to me, anyway). It's a little difficult to get it to look right because the sprite, so far, is very small.

So, I thought I'd ask for some of your help...

These are the heads.

Here's a little blow-up for you:

...And here is my reference image:

EDIT: Sorry about that...

Any suggestions? Do I already have a head that looks just fine? I know it's a dumb question, but it's really bugging the crap out of me.

#35

General Discussion / Pixel Joint

Fri 30/12/2005 22:00:40

I just started an account on Pixel Joint. But I was wondering if anyone else from here has an account there? So far, I've found Helm, Big Brother, and Darth Mandarb.

#36

General Discussion / I'm going to be a father.

Mon 19/12/2005 13:49:57

For the last couple weeks, my girlfriend had been showing signs of moodiness, fatigue, and extreme cravings. She was also 2 weeks late.

So, she took a home pregnancy test tonight. It came out positive.

Needless to say, when we saw the little "plus" sign on the stick, we both just about shit our pants. She started crying, I started shaking and freaking out. An hour or so later, we both had calmed down, and started joking about it as if it was no big deal (talking about funny baby names, and who's going to get up in the middle of the night).

I'm so not ready for something like this... We don't have the money to raise a child. She and I still have a lot of growing up to do. She and I have only been dating since September 7, so we haven't been dating long.

All I can think about right now is diapers, bottles, sleepless nights, and placenta.

I don't know how we are going to tell our families. My mom and stepdad will probably be ecstatic. Her dad is probably going to disembowel me.

She mentioned that her parents will want us to get married. Is that really necessary? The baby is going to be born whether we're married or not. It's not like the child will be disfigured or downtrod if we aren't.

I would never even think about abortion. I'm totally pro-choice, but I'm not even going to ponder on it. I have mentioned adoption... someone else could give the child a life that we can't offer, a better life. I don't know if she wholly agrees with that, if at all. I'm not afraid to step up and be a man, but I'm trying to explore other options (they seem very limited...).

My mom had my older sister when she was 18. Her mom had her when she was 16. I'm 23, and she's 19. Isn't it funny how history repeats itself?

I'm going to have her take another pregnancy test. They're only 99% accurate. That leaves room for a 1% margin of error. (who the fuck am I kidding? I'm screwed...)

I know it sounds really selfish, but I'm really regretting this. Right now, I want to scream at the top of my lungs, "It was an accident!!!! I didn't mean for this to happen!!!!". I didn't plan on children until later in life, when I knew it was something that I would be able to handle (money-wise and sanity-wise).

Thoughts?

EDIT: Here's a picture of us. She wonders if the child will be cute...?

#37

General Discussion / X-Men 3

Mon 05/12/2005 14:29:04

It looks like the second X-Men sequel is finally coming. Sometime in May of 2006.

I just found some newly released pics of the movie.

It looks like they've got Kelsey Grammer (Dr. Frasier Crane) playing the role of Beast. That's a perfect casting, if you ask me. Some years ago, a friend of mine and I tried to figure out who would play who if they ever made an X-Men movie, and I figured Grammer would be perfect fit for the Beast. I also said Gary Busey would be perfect for the role of Cable, but I have yet to see if that works...

Anyway, the Angel (not Archangel yet) is also making an appearance, played by actor Ben Foster ("Flash Forward", the pierced kid in "The Punisher"). You can see pictures of Beast and Angel here.

According to Movies Online, the story is supposed to go directly into the Dark Phoenix Saga. Some other characters who are rumored to be appearing are Gambit, Psylocke, Juggernaut, and the Sentinels. You can see a rough casting call on IMDB. Apparently, the entire original cast will be returning for this sequel.

I can't wait. Does anyone else have any other news on this movie, or any other comic based movies?

#38

General Discussion / Dear Santa...

Mon 28/11/2005 12:46:13

As everyone knows, the holidays can be somewhat unpleasant. "Is it New Year's yet?! Gawd, I need a friggin' drink..." Now that we've finally managed to squeeze out the defiant turd that is Thanksgiving, now we have to deal with the hemorrhoid that is Christmas.

Anyway, what does everyone hope to find underneath their tree this year?

Here's my wishlist:
- An I-Pod Nano
- A DZ501 5 megapixel digital camera
- A Marshall AVT150H full stack
- Socks and underwear (I just remembered, I actually NEED both of those)

#39

General Discussion / Floyd Rose Questions

Wed 23/11/2005 08:33:10

Some of you may have seen the pic of my new guitar. For those of you who haven't:

As you can see, it's equipped with a floyd rose bridge, and as with most floyd rose-equipped guitars, it's also got a locking nut on it.

I don't know too much about these kinds of bridges, and I don't want to mess anything up by monkeying with it. I've tried Google to find an answer to my problem, but I get a bunch of pages full of guitar-tech gobbledygook.

My problem is this:

As far as I know, floyd roses and locking nuts are supposed to help your guitar stay in tune better. When I brought the guitar home from the pawn shop, it was perfectly in tune. But over the past month since I've had it, the strings have been slowly falling out of tune. I've tightened the fine-tuners on the bridge to the point where I can't adjust them any farther. So I opened up the locking nut, and I tuned the strings, then put the nut back on. Why are the strings going out of tune? I do use the tremolo arm excessively, could that have something to do with it?

Also, when I tune the strings, some of the strings (for the most part, the low E string) won't stay perfectly in tune. The needle on my tuner indicates that the notel goes sharp, then goes flat, and then sharp again, and so on. It doesn't stay directly on the note.

Any suggestions?

#40

Critics' Lounge / Hand drawings - just want to know what you think

Wed 03/08/2005 09:49:39

These are some drawings I've done with those cro-magnon tools known as a pencil and paper. (Sorry about the notebook lines. $:-\$ For some reason, I just prefer and draw better on notebook paper.)

Some character portraits I was drawing for an RPG-type game:

A werewolf:

*I didn't actually draw this one all by myself, I saw it in a book, and then redrew it.

A tatoo I drew for a friend, and a random design:

Some zombies:

Just want to know what you think. Comments? Suggestions?

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