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Bigger screens are awesome, though.

That's what I thought. Might give in today, I feel like owning a niece new toy 

Jeeze Ghost, you're going to buy it for your niece and claim it for yourself? How rude.

I like having that Google location thing, but just out of curiosity and OCD issues, is it possible to have it not show when there is no location set for that person?

Looking forward to see what are your favorite games on that system.

On the SNES? I'd have to say Final Fantasy 3. I bought it off eBay many years ago and still haven't gotten around to playing it on the console. I've only played it with an emulator.

BTW, does the server work? http://agscraft.agsarchives.com/ tells AGSCraft is offline...

Yeah, that's what I was getting at with the "Did she blow up?" lol

It's been down for a couple days for me.

Did she blow up?

According to this site you can have a "safe creeper" with Bukkit. I vote for that.

http://dev.bukkit.org/server-mods/safe-creeper/

Excellent touch. I like this.

[AGS Script has advantages for those who would like to keep it simple.]

It seems that Lua has advantages for some complex scenarios and AGS Script has advantages for those who would like to keep it simple.

In my opinion, this statement is completely wrong.

AGS Script is as "simple" as a TV with only a knob for controlling channels. Having to get up to turn the dial instead of what is normally efficient and easy by just using the TV remote. I found with AGS Script I had to wrap myself around a telephone pole 6 times before I could do something beyond its scope.

As Calin said, AngelScript or something similar to C (or Java - Monkey loves Java!), has nearly the exact same syntax as you're familiar with in AGS Script. It just has more capabilities. This is why I'm so confused why someone as intelligent as Monkey keeps saying all we need is AGS Script, because he enjoys 20 workarounds to do something ordinarily simple.

I'm assuming this goes here..
Could you kindly add an extra comment inside the description for the signature to include a max height. To put an image in there I had to check the page's CSS source, which turns out to be a 60px max-height. Thanks!

There's one such thing in Lua that annoys me: not being able to do "value++", instead you have to do "value = value + 1".

There isn't even "value += 1" ? Odd.

Why isn't Lua included with AGS? I haven't used AGS in awhile, but if I were to use it, the only thing holding me back from using Lua is laziness. lol

The night of, the weather went to shit and hydro was flickering nonstop, but not actually going out. It *almost* made me wonder.

Thanks guys. I am pretty proud of my first serious attempt. Maya really is an incredible tool.

Anian, yes, with the few searches I did, I actually heard that color doesn't matter with the reflecting object. I kept making the metal white/gray until I bumped into one of the sites that mentioned to use black. But as you can see, I still couldn't get it to look shiny like the real thing. Perhaps I just needed more white light bouncing against the walls for a better reflection.

I also believe I downloaded Blender once before. I wanted to learn how to animate 3D characters but I never did manage to figure it out. Unfortunately it never once occurred to me then to look for youtube videos. It's unbelievable how one can simply learn almost anything they want by just a few Google searches nowadays. The internet is powerful indeed - and to think, all I used it for when I was younger was chatting and porn.

Also Anian, the few times I've checked that site out it seems down because of spam.

As for the realism, I never did intend to learn how to make anything look realistic. Since the stuff I needed to learn Maya for are small cartoony objects. But once I started making the stapler, that's when I decided I may as well put this time to good use by actually trying to make something look realistic.. of course though I half failed. The HDRI map is a brilliant idea. I was also tempted to make one of those bump map textures (no idea what they're called) that help make scratches and such look real. Where it allows the light to bounce off depending on the gradient of the bump map.. or some such magic.

nice! Now make a model of everything else around you and post it in the show your desktop thread!

Funny thing is, I actually thought about it while I started making this stapler. But once all the work was done, I laughed at the idea and figured making my 3D game sprites would be a better idea.

Yup. And he also ate the:

Spoiler

"Sundaes"

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Bad riddle indeed. And even worse that they both don't speak English. Meh.

Logic dictates that the Ensign in question would perish....

[A lone soldier finds himself stranded in a barren desert with no rations. His only possession: a calendar. When search and rescue finds him twelve months later, he's in perfect health. Why didn't he starve to death?]

Who was the president?  What was the coin?  What was the plea?

The worst thing about this riddle, and most riddles, is it's a play on words.

For some reason it reminds me of that riddle Neelix told Tuvok in Star Trek Voyager. Which actually angered me, not only because it was stupid, but because Neelix is some random alien in the Delta quadrant and Tuvok is Vulcan.. both likely to not know English except for their "translators", but that doesn't allow them to have riddles that play on words in a language neither likely speak. Argh, badly written TV.

Anyway, the riddle went like this (modifying it to fit in today's world; cutting out the Starfleet and space travel bit):

A lone soldier finds himself stranded in a barren desert with no rations. His only possession: a calendar.
When search and rescue finds him twelve months later, he's in perfect health. Why didn't he starve to death?

So I downloaded Maya a couple days ago (shhh, don't tell anyone). I got it because I need a few 3D textures for a game I'm working on and I may as well do it myself rather than pay someone. But when I started it up the other day I had no idea where to start! It took me like 5 minutes to make my first cube. So I jumped online and watched dozens of youtube vids.

I've worked with 3D a little before, making Duke Nukem or Half-life levels when I was younger, but this was my first attempt at making something 3D in several years. I started it Tuesday evening and this was the result. I was also going to texture the floor with wood but decided a glossy gray floor was better than watching another tutorial video - for now.

I had a hard time getting the metal shiny and realistic.. Does anyone know any ways of doing it? Hopefully without having to download any surfaces.

I also found lighting was one of the hardest parts of the process. I placed and adjusted my lights so many times until I said screw it. Does anyone know of any good Maya lighting techniques?

(Oh, and why a stapler you ask? It was sitting on my desk and it had the perfect shape and intricacies inside to learn how to model with Maya. I actually made almost everything on the inside, things you can't even see in this photo. Just for practice. Everything but the spring that pushes the staples.)

Hey.

I keep trying to render an image of something I've modeled in Maya 2013 but it keeps rendering in polygon instead of the smooth surfaces (NURBS? or whatever it's called). Is there a setting I'm missing?

Edit: Bah! I'm an idiot. I didn't realize pressing 3 was any different from Mesh > Smooth. But it worries me there's no turning back once you've smoothed it..

Oh, Moving Thread... I've discovered how hard nowadays it is to buy a good wireless mouse that is perfect for me

Lately I've started dabbling in Maya to generate some 3D objects for a game I'm working on. I needed to learn from scratch and don't have much 3D modeling experience. It took me almost a day to discover that the middle mouse button is a very important button in Maya, which kinda sucks for my current mouse.

I currently have a mouse that I bought no longer than a few months ago. I love it. It's a Microsoft mouse with amazing sensitivity and the perfect small size for easier management (I really dislike large mice, which is like most of the Logitech mice). I find I can easily control a small mouse and it feels like it's more a part of my own hand rather than my hand feeling like it's a part of the mouse.

Anyway, I discovered since my current mouse seems to be more geared towards websurfing; the scroll wheel doesn't click as it spins and to click down on the middle mouse button is pretty hard. Not very comfortable with Maya at all. Makes it slow and tedious whenever I need to middle button click, which is like every 2 seconds or so it seems.

So I'm looking for a new mouse yet again. But I find it's a terrible challenge! Why do a lot of the mice nowadays seem to not have a back or forward button? Do people not use them? I find I often use the back button, but not so much the forward button.

Then it leads me to the other question... WHY do mice have sideways scrolling (4-way scrolling)? Does anyone actually use it? lol I've used, but never owned, quite a few mice that were much too easy to press for sideways scrolling. It's annoying and I can't figure out why a mouse has it at all. My current mouse actually does have sideways scrolling but it's not an easy thing to press so I didn't mind it having it.

So moving thread, I'm still on the hunt for a perfect mouse. Small, wireless, back button, click scrolling with an easy to press scroll wheel for middle mouse button. It also needs a micro wireless transceiver and needs to accept AA batteries not AAA (much more expensive, that was my previous mouse and it was bluetooth.. batteries lasted only 2-3 weeks). It's a hard hunt, but I'll eventually find the perfect little plastic baby to accept as a replacement.

What if people can choose somebody who gets to live and everyone with zero votes has to die?

That wouldn't really work. For instance, you know you want your family to survive, so each of you vote for each other. Everyone lives. But technically all you really need is someone to vouch for you, and for you to vouch for them.

To make it complicated would be to give you a life vote and a death vote. Where you had to choose someone you want to live and someone you want to die (and any single person could receive duplicate death votes from many people around the world). One life vote and one death vote cancels each other out to zero votes. Worst case with the death vote is a person would simply choose someone who was infamously a prick. So perhaps it has to be someone you know in person. But that still wouldn't have favorable results. Your best bet is likely just a random vote - hopefully depending on IQ and education. I wouldn't feel comfortable knowing the town's drunken liar got randomly selected to live while I didn't.

Programming is one of those things you can't really learn to understand without doing a few examples firsthand. Or at least that's how it was with me. I had to learn at a crawling pace in the beginning. Not that I had a book or anything to learn from though. The first programming language I actually learned was Turbo Pascal and my only guide was the help menu. That took quite a bit of time.

I was wondering why there was plywood there. Sounds like you built her in a garage and didn't think about the ground being out of level. Not sure if that would've occurred to me or not, as I've never really built much with wood (and I'm a little spoiled having a brand spankin' new house that my brother built). But now that you've mentioned it, I would definitely think of having a level surface before going build crazy (but probably only because you mentioned it).

Do you have drawers and/or cupboards on the other side?