I gotta start voting again.

If you want to learn to draw, you need to draw every day for the rest of your life. Get a sketchbook and fill at least one page every day.

Drawing outlines is bad advice. Start by drawing the forms and then gradually add details later. Things don't have lines, they have volumes. They exist in a 3-dimensional space.

Draw from life. Go outside and draw cows, dogs, people, whatever. Go sit in a cafeteria and draw people eating, conversing, etc. Take figure drawing classes.

You will suck for a year or two, but if you need motivation, just look at what you did a month ago.

You have to save it as a CS3 document, load it into Flash CS3, and then save it as a Flash 8 file.

I made it to Comic Con this year! The Newgrounds booth was swamped, so I didn't hang out around there too much. I'm also noticing a disturbing trend: when I don't go, I have money to spend at Comic Con. When I do go, I don't have money to spend at Comic Con.

I think Twin Shot 2 deserved a higher score than what it got, considering it was unfairly down-voted for it's use of MochiCoins. You don't even have to pay for the first 50 levels, which are treated as their own game.

Game developers have to eat too, and while revenue from ads are nice, $200-400 gained over the course of half a year isn't all that much of a help. It's not like they're asking much for the other 50 levels, either - $3.75. You pay more for crappier games on the X-Box Live Community Games portal.

So, to get "scouted," do you have to wait for somebody who is already scouted to randomly happen across the art section of your user page, view something, and then click whatever magical scouting button they see?

At 6/7/09 01:15 PM, Skybolt-DX wrote: And before you ask yes...I dunno how to turn off adblock 3=

You right click the stop sign that has ABP in it and select "Disable on newgrounds.com"
It should turn green after that.

Or you can click the icon and add a new filter "@@|*.newgrounds.com"
The "@@|" makes the filter an exception.
You might need to add "@@|*.ngads.com" too.

At 6/6/09 08:56 PM, TheWolfe wrote: I'm guessing fixel is just a convenient add on for people who already have flash, and in no way helps the non flash user to contribute something to the portal?
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Just the opposite - Flash isn't required to compile Flixel Actionscript 3 games.

Because calling people communists, queers, and a variety of other insults is much better and way more effective than to explain to them that AdBlock prevents Newgrounds from getting the funding it needs to run and that it no longer has the invasive pop-ups and noisy flash ads that spread spyware, one of the main reasons people started using AdBlock here in the first place.

I hope you guys feel real proud of yourselves as you watch that TV show or movie you recorded on Tivo or downloaded from a torrent. :)

So are the adblock ads designed to convince people to turn off adblocker, or to piss them off so that they just add those to their adblock filters?

I'm pretty sure this can be done by sending post variables from the Flash to a php page that interfaces with a MySQL database. This really isn't a simple thing, and requires a good knowledge of how to code in those things. I'd suggest starting small, and adding things as you learn more. I started learning PHP and how to use it with a database through the PHP site's API and the tutorials at W3Schools.com

I'm not going to tell you how to program every little thing, look stuff up on your own.

At 3/23/09 07:26 PM, Ruyuk wrote: Anyone got any other program for the begging flash game maker who is to lazy to read tutorials?

You could try seeing if there are any local self-help programs to overcome laziness.

Fun fact: If you draw often, you will get better at drawing!

Well, that didn't work...

Nihongo wa, nannen-gurai hanashite iru?

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The AS2 command to load a page is getURL, right? I'd suggest looking that up in the help file and figuring out what you want to set the arguments to. You'll end up with something like this:

emailAddress = "here@there.com";
getURL("./yourpage.php?email="+emailAddress);

The getURL command will tell the browser to load "./yourpage.php?email=here@there.com"
The php file will be able to reference the email variable in the URL with $phpvariable = $_GET['email'];

The command for sending email through PHP:

$subject =  "email subject text";
	$message =  "email message text";
	$headers = "From:Name<user@domain.com>";
	$result = mail('someguy@someplace.com', $subject, $message,$headers);

I started with Flash 5 on the high school computer labs. I also remember absolutely hating the layout change from 5 to 6/MX, and then got used to it. My first copy for my own use was the educational edition of MX 2004 Professional. Then I got a used copy of MX off eBay, bought the upgrade to Flash 8, and then got the upgrade to CS4.

Also, there is supposed to be a bug fix out for Flash CS4 soon, according to Adam Phillips, who is on the beta for it.

You could also pick up a sketchbook and get better at drawing while saving up for Flash. It will help you find out if you really want to make this kind of an investment, and if/when you do get it, you'll be a a step ahead of a lot of other Flash users.

As for what to draw, I would suggest taking your sketchbook with you wherever you go and draw people doing stuff. Don't try to be all stylized, just draw basic forms and volumes, and then add in more details on the second or third passes.

Declare a language and a character set ISO through the HTML itself. To get the actual characters in there, you will need either a special keyboard or figure out if you can use the "Text Services and Input Languages" panel in "Regional and Language Options" of the Control Panel, if you're using Windows.

Also, Hindi is written in Devanagari, a form of Sanskrit.

You could try using folders to organize your library.

AS2 is easier because you can write bad code and have it work. This is not a good thing to practice.

Depending on their connection, they can just turn off their internet router and turn it back on and have a different IP address. I use image authentication for my website, and haven't had a problem with spam bots so far.

If you just have shapes and no symbols or text objects (graphics highlighted with lots of dots instead of a blue box outlining it), then there's nothing to break apart. I just use CTRL+B to break things apart rather than use the menu command.

At 3/14/09 08:31 PM, naronic wrote: whats it called?
i need to know
the new tweening is shit the old is gold :)

It's the third one - the "Classic Tween." The new one's pretty powerful if you know how to use it.

Is somebody confusing movie clips with graphics symbols? Or are they using graphics symbols and have the properties set for "single frame" rather than "loop" or "play once"?

I mean, you can also draw some stuff, press F7, draw some more, press F7, repeat for a while, and you have frame-by-frame stuff. I don't know what's going on here. CS4 works the same as the older versions, just with a new kind of motion tween that really confuses people at first. The old motion tween's still there, just called something different now.

Shouldn't it be this.removeMovieClip();? Or am I thinking of a different function? It's been a while since I've used AS2.

If you plan on learning ActionScript, any version with ActionScript 3 would be best, which is CS3 and CS4. As for learning it, I learned AS2 through a few tutorials and using Flash's help documents to look up commands to figure out how to get them to work. AS3 could be done the same way, but if your school offers any programming courses, take them (especially if they are for the Java language, since AS3 is based off that). If there are any community colleges nearby, check out their class catalogs. Most allow high school students to take courses with the proper paperwork, and it's way cheaper than going to a bigger college or university.

"Alpha" is the transparency of a color. It is the fourth slider on the color panel, or (on a symbol) on the properties panel under Color Effect or Style.