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my girlfriend thinks i'm a nerd for making adventure games, but she loves it

Does she have a sister?

.. or an abnormally attractive mother?

I don't buy that "stupid people can't be funny" bit.. there's a reason that this kind of thing has been consistently reliable. In American television, the Three Stooges and Gomer come to mind.

Maybe us Americans just love to feel smart and that's why the dumb characters are appealing. 

OpenOffice.org serves all of my adventures in the land of digital text.

For the second time, you can't rely on programs like Poser or MakeHuman for game models. They would work, but would be horribly slow (maybe not if you used only one on a 2d background, but the more there are the worse the performance gets). The deforms on their complicated bone structure combined with the sheer amount of polygons would be far too much for most computers.

Game models are very custom works, made balancing low-polygon-density with sufficient detail, and texture maps to match.

What you would be more likely to see is a square form with square arms and square legs from newbs.

Telling me that it's a bad idea because newbs will use it is.. I don't know. My comprehend doesn't that reasoning brain.

Be a honest, great, funny guy and they will come to you. Trust me. The ones you will love the most will find you.

No offense, but 14 year-olds typically don't have a clue when it comes to to adolescent romance.Ã,  It's usually only when adults look back on their teenage years that they realize what they should've done differently.Ã,  We old folks have more insight into these things and more wisdom to impart than you young whippersnappers do.

Migs, WTF. Evil is a ladies man, and he can impart all the advice to me that he so desires.

Well, drawing with a pen onto paper is still alot easier and comes more naturally than dragging mouse around or use tablet. Some things are immortal.

That's not natural, they teach you to do it at such an early age that you just think of it as such. I've had a computer since I learned to write, and everything about it is just as natural to me as a pencil, including the mouse.

Nobody likes the fat dude though... I think. I've got some strange hints at school, but I couldn't gather the courage to ask "what do you mean" or anything. Bah, I'm moving to a new school this autumn. I'll probably never see her again ever... ever... ever... ever... ever... ever... ever...... *SIGH*

I have a friend who is a few years older than me, hott (with two t's) and she married a hugely fat guy. He's a swell guy, and she saw through all of the fat to see that, I can think of two other people like that.

The girls who wouldn't are people I wouldn't like anyway.

... then they'll try to fill it up.

A lesson in futility.

I guess the girls that do like the bad guys will only like them because they want a challenge. They all want to be the first girl to get underneath that dark boy's mysterious exterior and brag to their friends that they did it.

And when they find out it's hollow? 

P.S: To all the girls... Why do you allways preffer the bad guy who is definitelly not in love with you than to the lovely enamoured guy???

It's probably for the same reason guys like the stereotypical busty blonde chick with nothing in common. If you say, "but I'm a guy and that's not me!" well congratulations, you've just realized the flaw in stereotyping.Ã, 

I've known many beautiful women who went for the geek who had few friends in school.

Awesome. I'm glad everything worked out for you.

Good luck.

I'm still trying to figure Crystal Space out.. heh.. I'm making models for a showcase game (Crystal Core) on a team, but can't even figure out the damned engine.

An Xbox, eh? Hmm... Had I bought one, I would be awaiting this highly hyped up game called Fable. It's sort of like a The Sims meets Final Fantasy game in that it's an RPG where you have a lot of versatility in what you do. You can choose a good or evil character, and what you choose will affect how others think of you (ie. they might clap their hands if they see you coming or run away in fear).

Seems a lot like the "Black and White" concept, except with a hero character instead of a giant creature.

The graphics are very nice.

however...

It is my professional opinion that Reality Factor is ungood.

Dr. Frankenstein

I'd have to agree, looking at the features..

but..

It looks easier to use than most 3d engines I've seen, because they automated a lot of processes you'd normally need to script.

I strongly believe that Reality Factory is for indoor enviroments but please! Somebody prove me wrong!

This is a misconception.. there are no indoor or outdoor game engines. Sure, maybe the easier thing to do is indoor or outdoor, but if you can import a half-sphere and put a skymap on it, you can do outdoor scenes.. If you can do outdoor scenes, you can most certainly do indoor ones.

Here is a piccy of the storm my original post was about:Ã, 
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http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/RaggitTstorm.jpg

I've actually only seen the sky like that a few times, it has to happen at just the right time during sunset. It makes the sky look like hell.

Awesome pic Raggit, do you have a higher res version?

Sorry to dig this topic up again, honest, but one of the features of Crystal Space escaped my notice:

3D triangle mesh sprites with frame animation. Convertors for Milkshape, Maya, Cal3d, 3DS, Quake MDL and Quake II MD2 formats to Crystal Space are included. Importers for 3DS, MDL, MD2, OBJ, POV, and ASE are also included. The meshes are actually progressive meshes allowing for dynamic LOD (level of detail) changes. There is also support for skeletal sprites.

So it will import your 3DS files. You'll probably need to find some help with scripting since you said you weren't apt with that, but this engine seems to suit your needs. I don't think I included a link last time, so here:

Features of Crystal Space
Screenshots (for this kind of look it is necessary to use bump maps)

I hope you haven't given up.. it's hard, but possible.

shbazjinkens: where do you live? I thinnk I'd like to vacation there.Ã,  I like a good storm,Ã,  I love a dangerous storm!

C.

Oklahoma.. you'd need to be here a while, it doesn't happen every week, and even when it does the storms are huge and there are a few different areas that are serious, usually many miles apart. I don't know how you'd plan something like that actually. There are storm chasers, maybe there's a way to get in with them? I've heard mostly they have dull times chasing rain though. You kind of need to live here to get the full effect, because then the storms come to you.

You can be here digitally though, I found this webpage: http://www2.okstorms.com:8080/

You can see what a wall cloud is, and why one might mistake it for a full-blown tornado.

Hehe.. great quote:

I was amazed at the drivers who dodged debris in the road, ignored the damaged structures and blown down highway signs and continued driving into the storm in front of them.

Then when it over took us, the clouds were churning and swirling (very similar to how you described it tonight) and then, no joke, right above us a tornado formed.Ã,  It was HUGE!!!Ã,  It started swirling and coming down and then it just 'poofed' out of existance.

That's a wall cloud.. Like I said, they're very common here. About 1 in 2 thunderstorms here will register as a tornado watch or warning and each one will produce about 2-3 wall clouds, and if it's a really severe one there will be more. If it touches down it is then that it becomes a tornado.

Also, you probably wouldn't have been killed. They destroy only what lies directly in their path, and had you went to an interior room with no windows or to a basement you would have a 90% chance of surviving or more.Ã, 

The biggest tornado ever recorded occured in Oklahoma City. I saw that devestation, asphault was ripped up from the streets and it went directly through the suburbs for miles.. 23 people were killed. Now, that's a lot of people, but imagine how many were in the area who weren't even injured. Your chances are pretty good as long as you know what to do and you aren't outside watching it or running away from it in your car (like I'm sure some of the dead were).

Sorry if I seem like an information bucket, but this crap is repeated to me on a weekly basis, and every time I turn on the weather to make sure there isn't a Tornado on my street.

Definately.Ã,  I believe that Oklahoma is the number one tornado spot in the U.S.

There are parts of Kansas and Northern Texas just as bad.. I just think you're not in it if that's an unusual storm, aren't you further to the northwest? I think the Tornado belt pretty closely follows the bible belt, hence this animation I made:



The vicious weather is an effect of northern winds meeting with the moist warm air from the Gulf of Mexico. Over Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas they meet and create fronts that turn into these storms. I don't know exactly why it happens here and rarely in other places, but I think it has to do with the excess moisture and huge difference in temperatures. Temperature can fluctuate here as quickly as 50 degrees (F) in an hour.

More than I can remember. I think my area is a little worse than yours, I've seen wall clouds rotating directly over my house dozens of times. Wouldn't be anything new here.

Last week there was baseball ball sized hail though, which is kinda unusual, happens only a few times a year in localized areas in Oklahoma, and it was only a couple of miles away. It left little craters in the ground and broke many windshields.

No, a drawing.. as in, they make a big pool of names and then they draw out the winner.

In my dictionary it is definition four: Players buy chances and prizes are distributed according to the drawing of lots.