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Since threads seem to get deleted  if not updated in the last 9 months, is there a way to turn that off for the Technical Archive forum: otherwise the pearls of wisdom will be lost!

I know  EXACTLY what you mean. If I wanted to die so often, I'd play Counterstrike.

RPGMAker suxo000000rs

Yay! let's all ressurect lots of ancient threads and trick people!

I don't know what all the fuss is about. CJ is obviously Quetzalcoatl: hence the "Aztec Man's friend" subtitle.

He also has an avatar, which makes him Vishnu...

My cat used to do that too! But it doesn't anymore....

becasue now  it does its business in the garden instead, she runs through the garden at top speed following her bowel movement.

Well, I think what I really want is:

SetObjectXScale( int objnum, int width);

Where you can set the scaling of an object's X dimension. Probably a similar function for Y (or a combined one) would be implemented along with it.

Basically, there's a room with the side walls closing in, and the perspective needs to be maintained correctly.

Here's my idea for a game:

Elementals

Deep in the highlands of Scotland a young girl, Aille, lives in a castle with her parents. Her father is the ruler of the area. Aille loves horses and loves to go for long walks. One day she finds some wild horses while walking by the loch. She finds them friendly and gets up on one to ride. As it gallops along, she feels like she is flying. Then she realises, she is flying. The horse has wings and is flying through the sky. Frightened, she screams, but the horse talks to her as a voice in her head, reassuring her that he will not let her fall. He is the Air Elemental, lord of the skies.

He has made contact with her because she has been seen to be a good person (TM). He tells her of awful events unfolding: fires set and people destroying the natural balance of the elements. He takes her to meet the Earth elemental: the unicorn. He tells that he has not been able to find the Fire and Water elementals for a council and suspects that the fires being set are the work of the Fire elemental who may have captive the Water elemental, who is the one who can stop the fires most easily. Aille asks why she is chosen. The elementals tell her that not all can see them: only thos eehwo truly believe in magical things. Aille has wnated all her life to see unicorns and dragons and is glad to help.

She returns to her father's castle, her mind whirling, and thinking about what has happened. But no sooner has she stepped outside agian than some evil witches, working for the bad Elemental, kidnap her and take her off to a foul-smelling pool high in the mountains, ready to sacrifice her to....

So, Aille discovers what is going on and saves the area from the evil. Sea monsters, dragons, magic and conspiracy. Aille not just saves her village, but the whole world ecosystem... woot!!!!  

Sources of inspiration:
I have written a few chapters of a novella for some of this story
Fantasy creatures, witches, etc. from LOTR, Anne McCaffrey, Tanith Lee, etc. Also, some tie-ins with the Loch Ness legends.

I don't know if this is possible as a plugin, but if one of those marvellous people with a C or Delphi compiler want to make it for me, I'd be very grateful (or even CJ do it native, but I've already asked for that)

I'd need a function like

DisplayScaledSprite(int sprite_slot, int x, int y, int width, int height);

Actually, I only need to scale the x dimension, so I'd enter height as the sprite's true height always, but I'm looking at general applicability here. It can be done as an overlay or however you like but transparent bits need to remain transparent. Ideally, it would have a baseline and things could be in front, but that's work-aroundable.

Many thanks if someone wants to do it!

Robot wars bored me from the first episode. However, at the Esat Young Sciencist Exhibition last year they had an actual Live robot war event, featuring robots that had been on the show. It was amazing. They are a lot bigger and a lot more powerful in rea life. When they smash together, it's not just the harmless little "pock!" that you see on TV, but in fact a whole bunch of force and armour - piercing weaponry. They're also three times the size they look on TV.

I think that the 2nd-5th series were the best. Since then it has gone downhill, as everyone has seen what makes a good robot and its really now just how well people can construct them and drive them. The design element has gone, which was always what interested me. But there was nothing quite like that first show in which Hypnodisc destroyed threee other robots. And I mean destroyed.

Scrapheap also appeals to me, although it too is now at the point where they've run out of ideas.

As for Craig... he was the voice of Asterix for a few of the animated movies (Asterix and Obelix) wasn't he? I remember thinking how shittily cast he'd been. He may kick ass, but Asterix?! What the hell were they smegging thinking!?

Craig Charles ahs only ever been good in one thing: Red Dwarf. Everything else I have seen him in, he has been rubbish.

"My stupid rhymes give people blisters and sores, I'm the worst thing about Robot Wars"
* kiss two fingers and raise them in a cool-but-not-really salute to audience

Mer: that's easy: just use a paint program with anti-aliasing  

Seriously, though, I think that this can be done easily already with another view for your object/character, so it would be a bit of  a waste of CJ's time to do. However, font editing is much more difficult, so the font outlining is worthwhile.

CJ tends to concentrate on the things that people can't do any other way for new features. Also, having lots of people  harass him about a particular feature until he gives in and implements it helps to get things implemented (e.g. 32-bit colour) So I'm starting my campaign:

CJ, I will never use AGS again unless you implement  a way to scale a sprite independently in the x and y dimensions of a sprite!

that chris character's face kinda reminds me of the character from SSH's games, and by that i don't mean crap btw  

Oy! Cheeky young whippersnapper.

Same grin as Akhenaten, maybe

Firstly, I agree that hacking someone's game page should not be tolerated. If it happened to me, I'd be pretty angry (especially given the nature of my games)

EDIT:
given foz's lack of remorse apparent below, I've cut off what I had here before

Look at forgiveness this way:

If someone has upset you, their actions are making you feel a certain way
Why should their actions dominate any part of your life? Why should you let them make you feel bad or angry?
You are actually letting them control a part of your life by holding that grudge.
So forgiveness is actually freeing yourself and is done for your own sake, not theirs

foz probably isn't going to feel any better if you forgive him, so he gets no gain, but you, Vel, would gain respect in the eyes of some others and may well feel better about things yourself. Prove you are the better man!

or perhaps you did it so that vel would post that foz did it to make somebody say that vel did it himself to frame foz just so that you could picture vel dressed as emma peel

You foudn me out...

Or maybe foz did it so it would look like Vel did it to get foz in trouble ?

Or maybe Vel did it so that it looked like foz did it so it would look like Vel did it to get foz in trouble ?

Or....


And Vel, you just gave me an image of yourself dressed as Emma Peel.... eeewwww!

This is from a very old adventure, before we had thing like pixels... (pretty obvious, really):

AFAIK from colleagues who've gone to work for various companies in America: to get your H1B visa (which they're reducing the numbe rof now, too) you need:

a) A company who are offering you a job to sponsor the visa
b) A degree

The password to Recess is now "foz", btw

Maybe CJ could have a quick run through the passwords and see how many people have obvious ones and then PM them!

Vel really should have picked a less-guessable password for his games page. I wonder if I can guess it too...