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I've got a game I'm tidying up still in v.256d. I'm just gonna go with it in that version since the newer version seems so different. My prob is I have a room with a vulture that flys across the top of the screen when you enter. Works okay normally, but if you leave before it crosses the screen it starts up in weird places the next time you enter or just gets stuck in place. I can't wrap my head round it, so heres the little bit of code:

// room script file
int vcount;

// script for room: Player enters screen (after fadein)
//-----Vulture Movement--------------
if (vcount==0){
vcount++;
MoveCharacterDirect (V,46, 9);


}
else if (vcount==1){
Ã,  vcount++;
character [V].x=259;
character [V].y=26;Ã, 
MoveCharacterPath (V,163, 22);
MoveCharacterPath(V,143, 8);
MoveCharacterPath (V,167, 6);
MoveCharacterPath (V,49, 7);Ã, 


}
else if (vcount==2){
Ã,  vcount++;
Ã,  }

else if (vcount==3){
vcount=1;Ã,  Ã, 
character [V].x=86;
character [V].y=6;
MoveCharacterPath (V,219, 34);

MoveCharacterPath (V,167, 6);
MoveCharacterPath (V,281, 12);

}
//------------------------------------------------

Anubody have any ideas?

Heres my attempt at a character for a game (It has been a while since I've Done this) I don't really dig his pants, and was wondering if anybody had any idea. I'd like to keep it pinstriped, but I don't know how to make it better. His Boots aren't even touched because I suck at feet for some reason. Any tips on that would rock too....

I am open to any tips to make this guy look better, any help at all would rock.

Hi. It's been awhile since I've done anything with ags (at least a year, if not 2) and I was wondering what version I should use, and if there are any LEC templates available for it. I'd like to fool around with it some more....

Hey all, I've got a question for people that are good for this sort of thing.

I download anime (not porn) off the net and would like to put them on cd's to play on my dvd player....I thinkk they need to be converted to vcds or something like that so my question is, to all of you people that know how to do this sort of thing, can you school me real quick on how to do it and let me know what programs you use?

Thanks

[What's this about:]

What's this about:

# Participants will draw a comicstrip following the given theme and rules.
# You are allowed to use any technique in your drawing. But if you use computer you are not allowed to copy and paste ready pictures.
# Each competition will last 15 days.
# The starter of each competition will decide the winner.
# The winner will decide the theme for the next competition.

Mr.T or George Bush
All I ask is that you're comic includes either or Mr.T or George Bush. I can be anything else beyond that. Have fun.

Heres the first page of a web comic I was trying out, It's total story is about 9 pages I think.....This is just the first, I've got about another to inked waiting on colors....I still need to figure out the best way to put in talk bubbles and narrator boxes.....


I'm really dying to know what you guys think....

Hi, I posted a thread about how I want to create a web comic at some point in the general, and I asked for advice on how to go about it. I've got a few examples now that I went and bought a scanner, and I was hoping for some crits and advice.....
These guys are both prospective characters for my prospective comic....


The first one was, well the first on I tried. I drew it witha ball point pen, no pencil sketching....The second guy I started with a pencil, then inked with a fountain pen, then colored.....I think he turned out a lot better, but then again he took me about two hours total in comparison to the 20 minute guy up top....

I guess I'd just like some general critiques and I really need shading advice....Oh, and anyway to tidy up my lines would be good if anybody knows what I'm talking about....

I've been really fooling around with my sketch art lately, and I have a cool idea for a webcomic I've been messing with....I guess I need advice on buying a scanner (what type do I need?) and any tips into the whole webcomic thing cause I know there are those around here who know these things.....

I took some pictures to show what I've got going. I realize they are pretty rough, but thats one major reason I want to do a comic, so I can improve through constant work....





The comic is kind of a cyber-punk (shadowrun) influenced world. I'm still bouncing around
on the plot, but I'm pretty sure I have it down.....

Edit----another pic I felt like uploading.....

Hey all, I just noticed some of our games have been put up on a site that requires people to pay for the downloads (and it appears they just copied the review of fry 2 from the underdogs).....Thought it might be worth mentioning...It had rodekill and permanent daylight also....

http://free-game-downloads.mosw.com/abandonware/pc/adventure/games_p_r/pirate_fry_2_the_hand_of_anturus.html

No real point to this thread just to bitch and perhaps throw out  a warning to any folks doing on-line shopping. I had recently ordered up a bunch of stuff to beef up my computer, a spiffy new case, one gig of ram, and a mainboard/cpu combo (athlon 64 3000).

Oddly enough the case showed up in about 4 days, the ram in about 8 and the main board took about 14 days it seems. This main board is really the issue as everything else was fine. I ordered it from a place called Compu-Terra based out of cleavland Ohio, they had a nifty little website where  you could watch the status of your order....which was always "sent to warehouse" for like 10 days. They called me during that ten days and told me the board I had purchased was oem and they wanted another ten dollars to "upgrade" it to retail.

I couldn't understand the guys on the phone, they had an accent that I cannot place to this day. Ishould have just cancelled my order then and I would have been happy. So anyway, mainboard finally shows up, and.....it dosen't work, thats right. Got the new case all set up, hooked up all the little dealys, and no keyboard response (it would detect the keyboard for a split second when it first started, but it wouldn't ever let me get into the bios or anything).

I e-mail the guys, get no response for a few days, then I e-mail a little more forcefully and get a response (of course they didn't bother to edit out the old emails that get hooked on because of replying, and I could read their in house mail where thay stated I was being an Asshole)


I mail it back to them, pay another thirty bucks to do so ( I overnighted, because the return RMA number only lasts 14 days and knowing them I feared it would sit in a warehouse for a year, so according to the post office it arrived there last thursday at some point before noon. So this wednesday  I decided I would e-mail again, they jerk me around a day or so and essentially give me a link to a page that shows my status (same one that showed the warehouse status forever) and it shows that it was just recieved yesterday. Thats so much ass-crap I just can't handle it, because they got it a whole week  ago....

So, I get the fated call today, where they tell me nothing is wrong withthe board and my options are paying another thirty bucks and return shipping to get back my faulty mainboard/cpu combo and live with it. I don't know what my response will be cause I told the guy he better check it out some more.
He will assuredly be calling me soon to give me the good news I'm sure.

so thats 10+30+30+whatever other postage I have to pay to get it back, so atleast $70 more than I intended to spend on this so far. Kinda sucks....


But there is more if you care to read on:

I looked up the betterbuisness burea on this guy in cleavland, which showed he had ran another buisness that was shutdown for conning people and running little bait and switch scams, but now he's opened up this new buisness with all the same phone numbers and stuff, so essentially the same business just a new name. Of course this new buisness was in bad standing with the bbb also. I looked up his site on pricewatch.com and read the negative and there were many complaints similair to mine.....

So basically, I should have done all this looking first, because I'm sure I just wasted about $300 on these bastards....Okay, I'm done....

Ummm.... I'm think ing the rules for this week should be:

Make up a sprite of you're favorite comic or cartoon character, in your style.

250x250 max res
256 color limit

Forgive me if this is lame, I just thought it would be fun...

I'm looking at upgrading with a board/cpu combo, not really too interested in which board I pick, but I'm confused on the cpu's.....

My choices are :

an athlon 64 3000 or a pentium 4 3.0 ghz prescott.....the athlon is clocked much lower than the pentium, but I'm getting told that it cycles much faster or something ( I truthfully don't know mush as I'd like about this) and its 64 as apposed to the standard 32....Any help or advice?

I was just thinking about peoples weird little things they do when thay are nervous or stressed out....I've seen a lot of different little nervous habits and I was just wondering about any you guys might have, just for the hell of it.....

I have the worst I think, when I get nervous my eyes get red and watery....serious, which dosen't really help when your stressed out in the first place...I also rub the side of my nose, because that seems to help with the whole eye watery thing.....

Anbody got any others?

Yes, I am bored....

Thank you, really.... Good job on being thankworthy...

I saw a picture by accident on an ORIC site and tryed making a two color bg.....any advice?

I know this is nothing great, but I'm just trying out this different style. I think it is obvious that it needs more definition and some other stuff. Just so you know my process is this:

Sketch with thin black pixel line
Flood Fill with one color for each section
Blur/Smudge the black lines i
Burn/Dodge to create shadow and what not.....

I like where this is going and I've been trying this style for a while but I can't seem to get any better.

Thanks to anybody and everybody who can give me some tips...

To all the countless people I promised help to, and all the people who have helped me with my projects signifigantly and seen no feedback from me...

I really do want to do all those things I've said, but I've just kinda hit a brick wall with things...Might be the kid on the way, might be the promotion at the job, who knows...All I know is I still have time, and I still come to these boards to read...but the love, the inspiration is gone, consumed by other things....

I think I just need a break, and I really just posted all this so that all the guys I've left empty handed will at least know where I'm at....

Okay, I'm done...

I've got an lec styled gui, programmed to play a sound (13) when you change user modes, which works good. Then I have the inventory box arrows programmed to play a different sound (14) which works good....but...after I've played the inv sound (14) and I click on the user modes I get it playing both sounds at once...what am I missing here?


if (interface == MAINGUI) {
   if (button == 0){
PlaySound (13);
SetMode("give");
 }
   if (button == 1){
PlaySound (13);  
SetMode("pick up");
}
   if (button == 2) {
PlaySound (13);
SetMode("use");
}
   if (button == 3) {
PlaySound (13);
SetMode("open");
}
   if (button == 4) {
PlaySound (13);
SetMode("talk to");
}
   if (button == 5) {
PlaySound (13);
SetMode("push");
}
   if (button == 6) {
PlaySound (13);
SetMode("close");
}
   if (button == 7) {
PlaySound (13);
SetMode("look at");
}
   if (button == 8) {
PlaySound (13);
SetMode("pull");
}
/**/    if ((button == 10) && (game.top_inv_item < game.num_inv_items - (game.num_inv_displayed-1)))
/**/      game.top_inv_item = game.top_inv_item + (game.num_inv_displayed/2);
/**/    PlaySound (14);
/**/   if ((button == 9) && (game.top_inv_item > 0))
/**/      game.top_inv_item = game.top_inv_item - (game.num_inv_displayed/2);
/**/    PlaySound (14);
/**/       }

For me, It was Larry Vales. I then remember playing a bunch of games I can't remember, but Larry Vales is the one that sticks with me and probably the one I tried to imitate at first...

So, I pose this question for you, what was your first ever ags game (that you played) and how do you think it has affected your game creation (if at all)?

[News]

News

Thats right, I've been entrusted with Sylphers "A" ags news site while he takes a break, and I'm at the point where I think we may need some more writers to keep the content coming in.....

So, let me know if you are interested in writing a few articles, reviews, or interviews a month and like to make out with your boss....er...

Reply here and I will contact you with further top secret crappolla...

Need advice?
Then contact Unillin and he'll set you straight. He cured my obesity and my horrible desire to chew old toenails!
Throw an email at him at:
advice@sylpher.com

Good times for all....

And be sure to check out all the other good crap at :

http://www.sylpher.com/a/index.php

"A" needs storys

Sylpher set us up a while ago to take short fiction. So, if you have any good "Short" fiction and want it posted on the "A",  send it to squinkyproductions@yahoo.com and I'll get back to you. Please no novels though...