Hey guys I've been wanting to create some custom tunes for a while now but I don't know which program to use. I like garageband but that's for macs only, is there anything similar to garageband that is compatible with windows?

Thanks in advance!

Well I think people who truly wanted to join the military would've done so already. The keyword here is would

But nontheless if I did want to join the military my reason would be that I probably could've got into a better shape...

Yeah well it depends on what you mean by ALL Caucasians...Imigrants from other countries who came here recently are not so intact with an american history so I don't think they have the "white guilt" syndrome.
I think some people don't really think too deeply about how they act or what they say which I think doesn't make them racist because they have no agenda of being racist, they just do what they feel is right not hesistating to ponder about all this " if I refer to african americans as black people I am a racist" mumbo jumbo.
So I sort of agree with what you are saying, other races don't take the accusation of being racist as serious as white people do. Of course it doesn't mean that every white person acts that way but there are quite a few.

Oh my God this is so true. These people seriously need to do something meaningfull with their lives than to make some ridiculous claims. I mean for example who cares if Wal Mart has a sign that says "Merry Christmas" instead of "Happy Holidays". Christmas IS one of the major reasons why we do have these winter holidays and I don't think anyone sane would be offended by a simple gesture.
I'm sure someone else hangs up a banner saying "Happy Hannukah or Happy Kwanza" and I wouldn't be offened if I saw those, people are just expressing their own view of the holidays and why shouldn't they? This country is the land of the free, isn't it?After all no one is forcing their ideas on anyone else so I don't see what the big deal is.

Flash: Mediocre noob i guess
Photoshop: Intermediate (PS is not that hard to learn, I don't know why people think its hard just go to some tut sites like ,good tutorials )
Fireworks: Never used yet
Dreamweaver: About to take some small courses on it
Paint: Never really found a use for it

It took me about 2 months average to get the hang of Flash and Photoshop since I first got them. I just searched google for any tuts i could find and that's probably how most people do it

No sorry...looks too forced and unprofessional. Make it more creative and use a better font maybe

At 11/30/05 11:49 PM, BroKenbLaDe wrote: What kind of flash style do you like better FBF or Motion Tween, and why do you like it better? Is there some big difference between these that makes a big change on flashes? All I have done so far in my little pratice flashes is motion tweening, ive been thinking of trying fbf, I just dont know if there is much of a difference in the flash.

Well FBF means frame by frame so you literally adjust every frame instead of just motion tweening. As far as I know FBF looks way better then motion tweening, because when you animate frame by frame you have total control over the actions in your animation so you can make it look more realistic rather then you just tweening the bits and pieces. A lot of pro cartoon developers use FBF method. But if your a newbie you might just practice with motion tweening for now because it takes a very long time to complete an FBF animation.
Hell, one episode of Family Guy, for example, is taking like 9 months make!

At 11/30/05 11:41 PM, reality_check7 wrote: i learned AS through online tutorials and...READING! (gasp!)

but if reading REALLY isn't your thing, check out www.cartoonsmart.com because i hear they have some good video tutorials.

still, i reccommend checking out AS: Main or some other tuts on newgrounds

Oooh! i've heard of that place before somewhere. I might just go and check it out, thanks m8

Well you can make the stage bigger by going to the Properties panel and adjusting the default size...im not sure if that's what you mean

I recently wanted to make a flash game but i don't know a lick of actionscript(except for a few basic concepts). And learning about it by reading seems like a huge burden. I don't know maybe Im just really lazy but I cant go on for 20 minutes reading through actionscript manuals without zoning out. Its just kind of overwhelming...So how did you guys learn it? Video tutorials? Action script for dummies or something... Please let me know cause I really want to find the most comfrotable approach.

Ha how did people ever made anything in those days ?lol And according to this John guy (from marcomedia) I read that flash was originally developed by like 3 or 6 people and than they sold it to marcomedia which made it into a beatiful monster it is today...

Hey, this is kind of random but... i was just thinking about how Flash 1.0 version looked and operated. Anyone else out there still have it? Lol if you do I suggest you hang on to it cause its almost like an antique now. But anyway does anyone have any interesting info about it?

Go to Color Mixer Panel then choose a color fill up an object with it and then play around with "Alpha" settings. You can also do go to "Advanced color settings" or something like that, but thats only when you converted your object into a symbol.

Mmm..I guess filters are pretty usefull but I don't know, 200$ for that... I guess Flash 8 is more of like a big patch for Flash MX. I'll have to think about this some more. But anyways thanks for the comments guys

Well I've been thinking of getting my hands on Flash 8 for a little while now but is it worth it? Cause right now I have Flash MX '04. Is there any real differences between the two? I heard Flash 8 has more designing capabilities and such but is there anything else I should know about?

ok great you made a spam post now its time to quite down

Oh yeah i got it now... I tried to put a looped movieclip before the preloader and it just kept skipping over it, thats why

Hey guys I got a quick question here... How do I insert a little piece of animation before the preloader appears and starts loading the movie. So the intro animation can play out and then jumps straight to the preloader. Any thoughts?

Got it, thanks guys!

This may sound like a noobish question but how do you loop a MovieClip? I need to know asap so please help me out here

Oh and how do you make a looping background? Is it done the same way as a typical MovieClip?

Its easy animating in imageready... Go to the frames panel, on the right hand corner you will see a "triangle" button. Click it and then choose insert frame. Then obviously put different effects on each frames and that's it.

You can also use frame tweening to make the animation smoother

No you make sigs by using a program called Photoshop (duh). its at www.adobe.com if you want to check it out...But it will cost ya about $700 :)

I can redo the name for you on the sig but are you sure its okay with the guy you are "copying" it from?

Okay for those of you who like playing around with Photoshop...I have collected pretty decent looking renders from all over the good ol' internet. Go here and check em out

The password is "asdf" btw

At 10/21/05 10:43 PM, Evildwarf wrote: I think downloading software is really bad and should be punished severely. But this time I'll make an exception, cause I wanna help someone I know.

So, let's say I have a friend that wants flash for free, cause he is poor and cant afford it. I heard theres some places over the almighty Internet where you can download software for free. Is it true?

It's for my friend who is poor, don't think it's for me cause it might look like I'm the one asking for warez links, but THINK OF THE POOR!

If you give me some links for my friend maybe God will take it as a good action and send u too heaven when u die, so think about it!

come on it's not for me its for a poor dude

I almost actually beleived for a second there...but then you said "its for my friend" phrase like 20 times and that just threw you way off. Go and download free trial version at their website and stop acting like a moron and asking people " can you show me where to download illegal stuff?" Do you think someone will actually tell you that? ...'tard

a lil weed now and then is alright... I don't see how people have anything against it, I mean it mellows you out and lets you see some pretty wicked colors plus it's pretty much harmless, at least when compared to some of the harder stuff like meth....

That is unless you puff it like every god damn day annually...then you become one of those "stoner/surfer" kind of people which i am not

I have fought at least a dozen times before...Mainly in middle school (I went to a ghetto one). And I say if he is really bigger than you and he will most likely beat your ass then forget all the stuff they taught you "te kwon hoe" and get a good blunt object ( not too heavy) and pound in the middle of the chest. He will probably loose his breath and get startled. Now if he is a fat guy then you got an advantage cause fat people are not very maneuvarable so just keep your head protected and try an land some uppercuts. Then you can just finish off by kicking him in the nads which i personally don't find very honorable but I'd do it in extreme situations.

I used to like green day and really hate SOAD but in a couple years I kind of came around and now SOAD is one of my fav bands. Green Day is too... "punkish" for me now

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At 10/3/05 08:19 PM, GreenSkullKid wrote: Im Using Flash though.

...yea i know...On one frame type one letter, on the other frame type another one and etc. Or you can use the masking layer thing

you can do that just via animation...