Come on, someone must know. It's AS3 by the way.

Yet another question from the dimwit ;P. Basically, for my next game, the user needs to be able to use their own songs. I have tried getting these straight from their pc, bypassing any uploading or waiting. But this doesn't work in the browser, so is there another way i can do this without paying money for a server to upload files onto.

Thanks in advance :).

At 8/20/08 10:55 AM, SpamBurger wrote: WHO'S WITH ME?

I would be, but i have no 360. I don't see why they don't release on PC, that's where the whole behemoth thing kicked off, and that's why tom sleeps on a pile of money every night :(.

At 8/19/08 12:48 PM, Arby wrote: *spolier alert*

Wait, claxor lost, but i saw no flaming horsemen ;P.

At 8/19/08 05:23 AM, GustTheASGuy wrote: You should use 3d, it looks like an Audiosurf ripoff anyway.

That's the sequel, i've got an engine in the works. Is there no other way? It would cost a hell of a lot to get a server than can handle 100s of uploads a day.

At 8/19/08 12:09 AM, Jarts wrote: Maybe it only doesn't work on your browser, you should post a sample and see if other people can load audio. I'm just guessing here.

Here you go.

http://spamtheweb.com/ul/upload/180808/7 9404_engine_v5_testmusic.php

To simplify my question, i can load a user file in flash player standalone, but not in the browser, why?

Anyone?

Sorry for the bump.

At 8/18/08 12:37 AM, Luis wrote: On this date, many years ago Mogly exited his mothers womb.

Haven't we all. Anyway, have some of my now traditional e-cake.

Happy birthday. Have some of my traditional home backed e-cake.

Yet another easily solvable question that i can't solve. I'm making a game, where the user needs to load a song from their own pc and play it through in flash.

The code i've written works perfectly on an actual pc, but not in the browser. If anyone can work out how i can isolate the problem or if they know the answer, i'd be very grateful.

stop();

t.addEventListener("change", output);
btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, playSound);

var snd:Sound = new Sound();
var error:Boolean = false;

function output(_):void
{
	trace(t.text.split("\\").join("/"));
}

function playSound(song:String):void{
	
	snd.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, onIOError, false, 0, true);
	
	var context:SoundLoaderContext = new SoundLoaderContext(5000, false);
	snd.load(new URLRequest(t.text), context);
	
	if(error == false){
		snd.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onLoaded, false, 0, true);
	}

}

function onLoaded(evt:Event):void{
	play();
	yesno.text = "yes"
}

function onIOError(evt:IOErrorEvent):void{
	var error:Boolean = true;
	trace("Could not load song, check the file path.");
	yesno.text = "no"
}

At 8/18/08 08:34 AM, Toast wrote: Make every day your productivity day, make most of the days your locked reg lounge day, and you will have a much better life.

The wisdom of toast never ceases to amaze me :D. I try to be creative, but then i realize i have coursework to do, and all the creativity is just sucked right out of me. Anywho, whilst i'm in a creative mood, here's another pic of my fiji map. Now with a waterfall and vegetation.

I've got pretty much every track ever made since the 1970s on here. If i like it, i'll go out and buy the album :P. Over 170gbs of music, so i don't think i'll post a list :D.

At 8/17/08 05:58 PM, Luis wrote: I dont think it should be locked forever.. i think people just need to exhibit more self control on their own behalf. Its nice to have it locked for a day cause you become motivated to work and show youre a productive member of society when the lounge reopens.

Looks epic, do you fight all the STDs.

Work

Nice to see the thread open again. I was working on this before, but i may aswell post it. It's an exactly 1:1 copy of an island off of Fiji. I made it in crysandbox2, just a quick sketch, no plants or AI so far.

I'll give this a shot, but i'm not promising to finish anything :P.

At 8/16/08 03:23 PM, zrb wrote: Thats kinda harsh, this collab is made only for platformers, your tutorial collabs have alot of other aspects and they are not focused on any particular subjects.

Alright, i misread, sorry.

Can a mod please lock this? It's almost exactly the same as my tutorial collab, both 06, and 08. We don't need an identical tutorial, and i wasn't asked.

Goodbye sweet reg lounge :(.

Anywho, this tells me that i am an religous animator, so it's exactly the opposite of what i am. Interesting test though, it seems to work for the majority of people.

At 8/15/08 07:25 PM, BoMToons wrote: Maybe it would be more beneficial to the flash forum as a whole if this dump were shut down.

Ban the blasphemer! I know what you're talking about, but i don't think the reg lounge is stopping people. If nothing, i know of more good flash artists because of it.

At 8/15/08 05:53 PM, crushy wrote: I'd say for animation, my inspiration varies a lot, however it tends to be music most often. When I hear music, ideas immediately spring to mind, usually corresponding to the genre of the song. With music, you can define an entire animation or sequential storyline due to the fact that there are so many characteristics. For example; you can get the speed/tempo, mood and drama all from a part of a song.

Yeah, music helps me alot too. I can't remember who, but someone linked me to menomenas evil bee, that video had me inspired for ages. Good sound direction is all it takes to make or break a game, so listening to music is always good.

AS3

AS3 isn't too different from AS2 if you use it in the same ways. I'm not using document classes or anything yet, because i can be just as functional doing it in as3, but in the as2 way(in the doc). It's not as big a leap as most people believe.

Nostalgia

At 8/15/08 05:27 PM, Mogly wrote: Yeah.. I'm with Toast. It may be true that everyone has there own 'golden age' to reminicse about... and for me it was what Toast's calling 'The Inglor times'. This is when I was most into Newgrounds, or atleast this forum. That's when this place was a little community to me. I have drifted away over the past year or two. I feel part of the reason for me drifting away is getting busy, but also loosing the ability to sit and read. I found something interesting yesterday..

It was great with inglor and denvish about, they knew what they were doing and you could always rely on them. Not that anyone here is bad, but it's certainly different with out neg, inglor and denvish about :(. The old regs (not me) need to have a get together, online or otherwise, it would be a nostalgiafest ;P.

At 8/14/08 07:23 PM, Depredation wrote: Your not exactly an old reg,

Sorry, i take that back, i was just referring to your post count :(.

Dear god, i started a flame war. Lets all get along :P.

At 8/14/08 05:22 PM, Goonie wrote: Sadly. This is becoming true. Future generation users are changing the web dramatically. Sometimes, I feel it becomes worse as time goes by. I miss the old school newgrounds so much. :*(

Your not exactly an old reg, people come to newgrounds now and find flash more, rather than finding flash and coming to newgrounds. It's not a bad thing, it just means people aren't as in tune with old traditions.

At 8/13/08 11:35 PM, SpamBurger wrote: How many of you plan to have careers not related at all to programming or game design or anything like that? I plan to join the Marine Corps, and if I like it enough, then I will make a career out of it.

Game design for me, hopefully. It's not an easy profession to get into, but i like it, and i'm not bad at it. Plus i've got work experience at codemasters in a few weeks, so that's a step in the right direction.

Death

I don't have any particular wish to die, but once i'm dead, i'm not going to care am i :P?

Religion

On that subject, are any of you really religious? Eg. believe in afterlife etc. I've never figured anyone to be.

Where do you get your info luis? Do you have some enourmous reg database?

And happy birthday B-Man.

At 8/13/08 09:51 AM, Depredation wrote: That doesn't work, as paranoia said, flash recognises \\ as a single \, but not vice versa. Your script would not recognize single \, which is what i need to do. Thanks anyway though.

Forget that, it worked perfectly. I was just trying it with a string rather than a text box. Thanks :).

At 8/13/08 08:32 AM, hesselbom wrote: Textfields text value is already escaped...

That doesn't work, as paranoia said, flash recognises \\ as a single \, but not vice versa. Your script would not recognize single \, which is what i need to do. Thanks anyway though.

At 8/13/08 07:40 AM, hesselbom wrote: You always have to escape \ characters,

Well how would i do that if the player is entering the filepath?

At 8/13/08 07:31 AM, Neo-13 wrote: If you use '\', doesn't that split up a string? I remember something like that, so maybe something along those lines is causing a problem.

Yeah, so how would i put it in a string?

At 8/13/08 06:44 AM, hesselbom wrote: But if you're using AS3 I still suggest using the RegExp class. You can read it up on LiveDocs.

Sorry, AS3. I'll look that up, but your above method doesn't work.

var snd:Sound = new Sound();

function playSound(song:String):void{
	
	var filepath:String = song;
		filepath = filepath.split("\\").join("/");
		trace(filepath); // outputs: I hate when content has words like, 'darn' in it 
	
	snd.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, onIOError, false, 0, true);
	//snd.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onComplete, false, 0, true);
	
	var context:SoundLoaderContext = new SoundLoaderContext(5000, false);
	snd.load(new URLRequest(filepath), context);
	snd.play();
}

function onIOError(evt:IOErrorEvent):void{
	trace("Could not load song, check the file path.");
}

playSound("E:\MyDocs\Flash\Beat\Blur - woohoo_Song2.mp3");

If i just use one \ it doesn't enclose it in "" properly.

I'm working on a game at the moment which requires the user to use their own files. However, if you copy and paste a filepath/name from a file into flash and try and load that file, your get an IOError. However, if you replace the "\" in the filepath with "/", then it loads the file.

So, how would i go about replacing any instances of \ with / in a string?

Also, is it possible for a user to drag files in?

At 8/13/08 12:37 AM, DarkMana wrote: She and her family had gone to their cabin, but her husband had to return to work while they stayed out there (with the husband's mother), and Patricia went missing shortly after. I don't know if Huntington's has varying degrees of severity, but she could barely walk on her own. It's tragic.

Huntingtons basically erodes the brain neuron by neuron, so i'm guessing she didn't have to long anyway. Horrible disease.

Toronto

Was anybody killed? It was an enormous explosion, and the shockwave was gigantic, does anyone here live nearby?