Just like everyone else said, it looks like your dimensions are set to standard '550x400'. Change them and see how it turns out.

At 8/30/09 07:33 PM, clienn wrote: Scenario:

1. Create 50 dynamic objects on runtime
2. Let every created object know if they are hit by any of the created objects.

Thanks

This is one possible way of doing:

1. Create a loop that creates the objects and push every object into an array.
2. Make it that every object access this array and run a collision detection procedure.

At 8/30/09 11:13 AM, michelinman wrote: Hey guys, keep your eyes open for shit like this. I just got this nice little pm. FAIL PHISH IS FAIL. I thought it was legit for like a half a second and then i was like OIC wut u did thar.

What kind of uninformed user would actually fall for something like that? The sad part is that there are people who do...

Sorry guys for not posting for a long time but I've been extremely busy with university classes...next week are mid-terms.
I recently uploaded my latest game and wondered what the good fellows at the Barrack would think of it.
Here it is:

Helios: The Defender, by Calipe Type: Game Rating: Everyone

P.S. Switched back from Linux to my Windows PC because the support for Flash is rudimentary at the Linux side...I was testing Linux and that is another reason for my absence from Newgrounds

At 7/28/09 12:02 AM, TheThing wrote: So, anyone got anything besides spam to talk about? My life is kind of boring right now, besides the fact that it's a complete mess.

I got a philosophical question for you all, what came first? The chicken or the egg?...I'm being serious.

At 7/24/09 05:31 PM, KidneyThief wrote: All in all it was quite fun, it was the perfect setting for a horror flick with the stormy weather and dark silent buildings. The emergency power went out too and we would have had to move all the residents, but fortunately the power came back around 130am while I was doing rounds.

That must have been quite an experience. Was the girl hot? If she was then it would have been that much more perfect for a horror movie. How long did the blackout last?

At 7/24/09 01:49 AM, KidneyThief wrote: I have nothing to do right now because classes do not start until the very end of August, but my RA training starts the 15th, and I'm going to Martha's Vineyard the week before. I'm not sure how active my semester will be but I am expecting it to be pretty intense since I am starting Maya in my animation course, and I have a bunch of studio courses. Plus I am an RA and I will most likely be working in the Res Life office and hopefully off campus as well. Ironically because I will have so much to do I think it will structure my life and I will actually animate more! I look forward to it all though.

That sounds like a lot of things to do for the upcoming semester. As for my part, I just started my first semester in computer science and I'm loving it. I'm excited because from there I will be able to branch out to any field of interest that has to do with computers, and now-a-days everything has to do with them. This means that I will have a wide field of action.
A dream job for me would be to work in the video game industry as a game developer or head of the programming department.

At 7/23/09 05:01 PM, Lizzardis wrote:

I contacted a mod and asked her to delete those comments because they are like 350 and to delete them all manually would take a long time.

May I ask which mod you asked? Only because if it happens again to myself or any other user I would like to redirect them to her because it looks like the comments were deleted.

Well actually, I deleted them all by myself even though it took a couple of days to do it; it was quite enervating. Now I know better than to leave my posts open to "real-time comments." Those spammers really need to get a life.

At 7/23/09 01:39 PM, KidneyThief wrote: However we are currently writing the script for an animation we are going to submit as a series here on NG which I hope will be a huge success. Meanwhile I'm working on some smaller animations, I'l be sure to keep you guys updated!

That sounds great, I'm looking forward to your work. Have you been busy with university or is this semester relaxed?

At 7/23/09 01:50 AM, KidneyThief wrote:

At 7/22/09 06:39 PM, SlntCobra1 wrote: So Kidney, what's your major? From what I've read in your news posts, I'm guessing animation. If so, how do you plan on making a career out of that? Web design or something?

Yup! I'm an animation major. I would like to work somewhere like Pixar and work on animated feature films but I would be just as happy working for a game company. Anywhere is good as long as enjoy my job. I do want to learn web design as well so I can make extra money. I hope to start my career in Boston at a local animation studio and then move up from there. How about you Slnt? Are you in college?

Animation is a great career as long as you enjoy it and do it well. My friend's brother graduated as an animator and landed a job at Blue Sky Studios; he worked on the Ice Age movies.
Like I said, if you enjoy what you do, you will do it well. Hope it all goes according to plan and that you become a successful and recognized animator within the industry.

At 7/18/09 02:08 PM, Idiot-Finder wrote:

At 7/18/09 12:30 PM, Calipe wrote: Ughh, my web logs were hit again by some spammers. I contacted a mod and asked her to delete those comments because they are like 350 and to delete them all manually would take a long time. Do you guys know who do I need to contact to prevent such events from happening?

The Ghost Busters?

Contact Wade.

Thanks Idiot-Finder. So they have a name huh? Has anyone else had this problem before?

Ughh, my web logs were hit again by some spammers. I contacted a mod and asked her to delete those comments because they are like 350 and to delete them all manually would take a long time. Do you guys know who do I need to contact to prevent such events from happening?

Happy birthday SIntCobra. So now you are 19 huh? That is cool, how does it feel to be a day older than yesterday?

At 7/12/09 01:57 PM, Rustygames wrote: We don't all just use AS3 to code some shitty maze game, if you actualy starting building a large project you'll very quickly see that you're writing less lines in AS3 than you would be in AS2, not that it matters either way, it's the maintainability, reusability and of course speed of execution that are the most important factors.

In summary, ActionScript 3.0 is all about Object Oriented Programming. Like Rustygames said, maintainability is where OOP languages shine on, not to mention that most modern programming languages are designed with OOP in mind.
If you learn AS3, you will open the doors to other languages such as Java and C++..

At 7/11/09 05:44 PM, kcnh wrote:

At 7/11/09 05:26 PM, Nicholas-Deary wrote: one thing to note is that NG ads makes you more money than Mochiads.

Howcome NG pay's more than Mochiads, and how do you know this?

If Newgrounds pays more than MochiAds is probably because the average CPM is worth a lot more due to the demographics. For example, viewers from Europe and North America are a lot more valuable in CPM terms than viewers from Asia and since most Newgrounds visitors are from the US and Europe this means a higher CPM.

At 7/12/09 01:15 PM, Lizzardis wrote:

At 7/12/09 01:08 PM, Ismael92 wrote: Oh that's bad, I've got burned several times in the past. But there should be some kind of ointment for you to use, so the burns go away. And of course, stay out of the Sun as you said.

Yeah I got some moisturiser to stop it from drying out and going sore. Its great stuff.

I too got sun burned the day before yesterday. I'm naturally pale so I wanted to get a tan, the problem was that I overdid it and instead of getting a nice dark color, I became red like a tomato.
This kind of sucks because unless I keep on getting sun exposure, my skin will start peeling off.

At 7/11/09 03:48 PM, blank0000 wrote: where do you go to find the AD's that you put in? I just set up a mailing address, I don't know how to actually make money off it :P

Newgrounds offers in-game ads for movies and games; all you have to do is download their API (Application Programming Interface) and modify it to link to your account.
MochiAds is the other service that many developers/artists implement in their work.

To tell you the truth, ad revenue from Flash games is minimal at best. You should try to get a sponsorship or find another way to monetize your work.
Like everyone else has already stated, the CPM (Cost per mille) oscillates anywhere from $0.1 to $1, with $0.3 being the average for a good submission.
This means that you will get 30 cents per one-thousand impressions of your work regardless of clicks; in order to make $100 you will need to secure 100,000 impressions.
In summary, to make money from ads your game/movie has to be exceptionally good. Don't let this discourage you however, as this should serve as an incentive to improve and get better.

At 7/11/09 11:34 AM, Porkchop wrote:

At 7/11/09 11:16 AM, Calipe wrote:

At 7/11/09 10:49 AM, Porkchop wrote: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/50 3001
Stolen from

http://www.nitroplayer.com/car-game-66.p hp

Judging from his past submission, I wouldn't want to flag that submission as it may come from its legitimate owner. It's better to let it pass, than to risk unjustifiably flagging a submission.

You're probably right, I guess I didnt look too far into the user's history. Well, I asked a mod to delete the post, so nobody else will risk it. Sorry about that!

It happens to all of us. Next time make sure that you investigate further into the submission so that you don't end up flagging a legitimate flash.
You know, this makes me wonder about the difficulty of gaining or losing whistle ranks. It seems that is a lot easier to lose your rank than to gain it. In my case, I've been in Bronze for a long time even though I have been flagging abusive reviews and submission.

At 7/11/09 10:49 AM, Porkchop wrote: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/50 3001
Stolen from

http://www.nitroplayer.com/car-game-66.p hp

Judging from his past submission, I wouldn't want to flag that submission as it may come from its legitimate owner. It's better to let it pass, than to risk unjustifiably flagging a submission.

At 7/9/09 09:52 PM, SlntCobra1 wrote: ****MALICIOUS FLASH ALERT****

Re-submitted:
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/50 2806
Already balmmed:
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/50 2774

Thanks SlntCobra1 for the heads up. I see you have been picking up on your whistling as of late...As always, good job catching the spammers.

Sorry guys for not posting as much as I would like to but I have been quite busy developing my game and starting my own hosting company.
I'm also preparing to start the university on the 20th so I have been reviewing and such.
I see that the forums have picked up a lot on activity and the conversations are quite interesting. I always like seeing the barracks in action.

Last game I developed I made some money off it with a non-exclusive sponsorship. This time around I'm hoping to secure an exclusive one and make more.
There are lots of differences this time around as I am really trying my best to make a fun and interesting game; the previous games were mere tests to make something useful from my knowledge. I'm also using good OOP and creating a game framework for future development. I feel I have improved very much since the last game I created.
Although I'm not done with it, I predict I will be in about a week.

Here are some screenshots of my gameas of today:

At 7/7/09 07:35 PM, SlntCobra1 wrote: If I have to get new glasses and new prescription because of all this hell you're putting on my eyes, I'm suing your ass.

lmao

I found out last week that I do need glasses... I have slight myopia and astigmatism, nothing big but definitely noticeable.

At 7/6/09 07:40 PM, SlntCobra1 wrote: Man where the hell is everyone? The portal is slow as hell. I've been downloading fonts and if anyone is interested, if you're a big AC/DC fan, check this.

My internet connection was down today due to some repairs or some new installations the company was making on the street. I couldn't connect all day due to this...It was a pain in the ass.
I heard tomorrow there will be a day-long memorial on the states commemorating Michael Jackson. Some tickets for his funeral were selling for around $10,000! Who would pay that much to go to a funeral?

Why complicate the guys life with Design Patterns? Even though it is good practice to always reference to the interface rather than the implementation, you would be making things overly-complicated to the task at hand. I doubt, the guy is interested in creating a framework. He only wants to know how to reference properties of one class inside another class.
Sometimes software engineers run the risk of becoming dogmatic in their practices, and this creates major delays on simple projects...

You are actually seeing only a the right-down corner of the movie clip. The X scale and Y scale are way too big in my opinion; they are actually set to increase the movie clip's size by 1300%!!!
No wonder it is not displaying on the right position.

Please put the block code inside the enterFrame listener, else your code will not work.

At 7/4/09 03:02 PM, carbonanimation wrote: I have a small dilema. I am trying to make a game, and in the game, i want the character to walk up a slant, or a hill, but, all he does is walk straight through it. Can someone give me the code to make him walk up the slant instead of going through it? I would greatly appreciate it.

Here is the tutorial for walking up and down on slopes:

http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/2936 53

For any other tutorials on AS2 go here: AS2: Main

For AS3: AS3: Main

At 7/4/09 01:37 PM, super-sense wrote: K, I've got an actionscript question. I followed this tutorial and now have health set at 100 which goes down by 5 each time I press a button. Joy!

However, I've now added another code to try and move the flash along once the health is below or equal to 0. Here's the code for the frame:

stop();

health = 100

if (health == 0 or health < 0) {
gotoAndPlay(2);
}

The thing is it isn't moving to the second frame. Even when the health goes below 0 it remstays at the same frame and doesn't prgress the flash. Any help?

The reason why that is happening is because you are using the wrong method for what you want to do. You should be using gotoAndStop(2) instead of gotoAndPlay(2).
The frame actually goes to the second one, but as soon as it gets to it, on the next ENTER_FRAME event it will go back to the first frame, and since you have the stop() method on the top, it will stop.
This is the revised code:

: stop();
: 
: health = 100
: 
: if (health == 0 or health < 0) {
: gotoAndStop(2);
: }

At 7/4/09 01:57 PM, Lizzardis wrote: Just....Came to report....I lost my Deity! Its down to gold....I don't know how though.

'(

After all that effort to get to Deity? Ughh....
Like everyone else said, you should be on the border so getting it back should not be that much of a problem.
I thought you were going to take a break from flagging and whistling. What happened?