no one has ever been caught/brought to court by macromedia from discussions in online forums. It's unprofessional and would just give them a crappy reputation. There's enough honest people in the world that make it so macromedia doesn't have to worry about kids who steal flash. Plus they know if you want to use your flash prowess in the real world (for a company) the company will ALWAYS buy a license for their copy of flash. Flash grew from piracy, and nothing is being done to stop it from being given out for free.

and why you think getting caught stealing something just means paying for it i have no idea

At 8/28/03 04:16 AM, markkm wrote: for one thing im srry i posted them all over the place but i thought the old topiv would be deleted and sora isnt traced his feet were 2 hard 2 draw considering how the top flips over a lil and i could get the side ves of them and so will u help me out

you tarde, how could you know how the feet look if you aren't tracing??

christ, I've seen some morons in my day but you...

I'm making a clock game actually, one that wont disappoint

I just got this amazing idea one day for a new face in the clock world and a new game that you'll all love ;)

ps: please dont prejudge it based on the one thing in my profile :) Those graphics weren't mine and the coding is bugless but people rated it poorly and the game is terrible, It was just a poor concept

It's terrible and you probably traced it

Your proportions are perfect but you suck at drawing?? I dont buy it

TRACED!

At 7/27/03 07:01 PM, Idoru wrote: I am working with synj. He's going the art and I'm doing the actionscript. Recently he's been busy on his console game so I might as well buff up the engine as much as I can.

I know who you are on flashkit now...bwahah

your really different on there than you are here 0_o

Run as close to 24 fps as possible, all the flash books I have read tell me they've found, through testing, 24 fps is best

I started coding my latest game at 12 fps and it was really hard to get the fps up and still make it look good, always go with 20-24

hopefully, you didn't put import protection on it the last time you exported it, or you remember the import password

reinstall flash mx, and Import the .swf file and your on your way

and just a PSA since we're talking about crashes : Swift 3d crashes a LOT if you Ctrl + z more than 1-2 times, use ctrl + x to get rid of unwanted objects rather than ctrl + z, you could crash/corrupt your file

its not really going to be on dvd! LOL that was a joke

At 7/29/03 02:27 AM, Shatter_star wrote: i THought that you could only submit flash docs in NG portal? what all formats can you submit

swf only, you must convert all animations to swf

It isn't possible, not in PHP at least

And be prepared for other educated folks to tell you the same

the flash/php combo is only capable of doing turn based multiplayer games currently

www.ogreisland.com

thats done with flash/php, and i can safely say that game is slower than montgomery burn's genitals

At 7/28/03 11:54 PM, Cheesin wrote: hahaha thanks guys, any critiques or ideas besides the stick figures?

Try having a story :P

Or encorperating swift 3d somehow...since you seem to be good at animation

I saw a 6 frame lightwave animation go over half a megabyte

I'm sure 3ds max is just as bad - Looks good, but NG users don't have the greatest internet connections, so to reach a bigger audience, go with swift 3d

btw that orange is all out of proportion :P

3d Studios max is the best

although its SO much harder to learn

you can learn swift 3d in a day, but 3d studios max would probably take you a much longer time, Lets put it this way - Pixar uses lightwave, a program as hard to use as 3d studios max, to make full legnth 3d movies- 3d Studios max is definately not something you would get just to play around with every once in a while

FINALLY, someone who can make some sense posts on my topic

At 7/27/03 03:29 AM, SBCmilkshakeclock wrote: It DOES work on an automated system ( as far as P-Bots posts go). I'm sure it's not that much trouble. If you didn't know yet, P-Bot isn't a real user. It's an automated account that makes a post everyday with the top flash. Tom has nothing to do with it.

we're talking about the top of the frontpage...with the pictures and the content thats there for 1+ month

making the frontpage automated is no harder than having pbot post the daily winners, and it wouldn't cause any lag! statistics are updated everyday at 12 pm and I never notice any slowdown of the system and it has to do mass calculations for every submission

At 7/27/03 03:06 AM, rangi wrote: The daily feature is the movie with the highest score. What goes on the front page is Tom's personal choice.

I KNOW THAT! I'm saying it should be fixed because it isn't fair

At 7/27/03 02:27 AM, SBCmilkshakeclock wrote: Hum... what the... the dayly feature is showcase (for 24 hours) on the frontpage P-Bot post, and all

The front page is 10x more exposure though

and thanks for the axem comment, put one of them in your sig they look great

At 7/27/03 02:29 AM, XUKE wrote: Why complain about newgrounds, your here now arent you? you obviously like it, so shut up

Thats pretty short sighted outlook on ANYTHING

A kid may play a sport for years after he decides he doesn't like just because the last year he played it, and the year before that he played it and so on...Just because he's playing it doesn't mean he actually enjoys it

And I'm not complaining, I'm meerly making a suggestion, - If the front page were on an automated system it would mean less work for Tom and Wade ; )

me saying the mankind game sucks is just my opinion - which currently has no effect on whether it's on the front page or not, neither does yours - or anyone who posts here but 2, count em 2, people

I think I will, thanks, they do a very good job of taking time out to answer every email at least

I had support within minutes last time I had a problem :)

Ok this has been bugging me for a while : Why does the daily feature not get to at least be on the front page for the day it is the daily feature??

I'm tired of seeing stuff with great scores get the daily feature and like <3000 hits and no front page, and I'm forced to see that horrible man-kind game every damn day

The daily feature should get a spot on the front page for at least 24 hours, if not, the front page should be determined by votes/how old the flash is

LATELY, it's been better than it was, But I think many agree with me that some great flash movies dont get the attention they deserve and some terrible stuff makes the front page - And I do understand the fact that they can't afford to put a 5 MB movie on the frontpage for bandwith reasons, but come on you know this is a problem

overhead hack and slash adventure :) It's damn good too, been working on it for a while - After this though, No more long games : (

BUT after this, I get to start attending a class centered around flash : ) so you never know, maybe I'll be assigned a project :P

the file size is tiny and It's made specifically for slower machines AND its an overhead hack and slash ( poison tipped arrows included : D )...I think It'll win me the daily feature, I'll just say that much

Herrreeee

At 7/25/03 05:48 PM, 2k_rammerizkool wrote: apparently, u need to learn how to read. i clearly said in my comments "the movie isnt finished!" did i not? and i know its not easy, no one in my family could beat it on the first, second, or third try! i doubt u could do better. at least im decent with flash! at least i can do animation, art, sound, and stuff without hurting ur eyes like some movies do!

decent? yeah right, flash is as easy to learn as ms paint until you have to learn actionscript. your movie only uses 1 object and 1 function (key object, gotoandplay function)

Why do you doubt anyone can do better than you?? What you did would take me an hour at most

And thats only because I'd have to put a blindfold on and draw those ugly things you call your graphics for 20 minutes

Vox's .fla i just reffered to expalined that to me Idoru...I was confused : ( and was new to duplicate . even star didn't know what to do (he kinda didn't know my whole problem really either though :P )

In conclusion, i am the idiot of the day

flash tagboards have been around for a long time

http://www.hairybullet.com/ for an example of one, sorry, thats not a new idea...plus that guy's has homer in it...HOMER

vox posted a very good revision of someones sourcode that has hittests and duplicated movieclips and works pretty well

www.flashkit.com

search for vox's name, im too lazy to find the link

I do too, I see so many places telling you what you can use dupelicatemovieclip (Method and function) for but none of them say exactly what they do and how to effectively use them in programs unless your trying to complete the specific task they give you =[

You dont take crticism well, therefore you will not improve if you dont listen to the advice your given

just becaues it's hard to beat doesn't make it good

Don't expect a good score/ Good comments if your only taking a day or so of your time to work on a project

theres supposedly a 6x-10x faster version (well, compiler) of flash coming

you may want to wait until you hear about it before releasing this becaues I have seen so many games that are good get low scores or miss out on the frontpage becaues they are hardly playable

go to we're here ( i forgot the url)..they have an article about it - And remember, you lose 4-5 fps running any flash through internet explorer...

....

Alls you need is

if (deathcheck==0)

{

// ALL YOUR ENEMIES CODE

}

if (_root.enemy.hittest(_root.gunbullet))

{
_root.enemy.gotoAndPlay(8)
deathcheck=1

}

the if statement will be false when the hittest is true, making him not move and playing his death animation