At 6/4/09 07:06 PM, physicsman09 wrote: Willpower will go a long way.

I myself have a routine that I stick to because of sheer will power.
And of course the fact that my scholarship depends on it.

Regardless, the best way to keep yourself in shape is to set a schedule, for example.

What I do is the following, every other day I run about a 0.9 Km, It's not a lot I should run more.
But every night that I don't run I do my push ups and sit ups.

But start small first, don't expect to do 50 push ups in one sitting in your current state. Do as many as you can comfortably do, then rest for two days, then do a little bit more.

This will not get you instant results, but if you stick with it you will become fit eventually.

It's not hard and it's not time consuming, all it takes is a little effort.

Also, don't exercise the same muscles every day, the muscle tissue needs time to repair itself from the last workout.

ah, i see. so mabye if i alternated between say different muscle groups each day, that would be better than just working out everything, every day?

thanks for the insight, it really helps for a guy like me.

sorry for the double post, but just forgot to put this in

At 6/4/09 05:50 PM, HippityGopher wrote: If you are not fit and have no background in some sort of acrobatic art parkour will not work for you... unless you are passionate.

while i agree somewhat, i am quite determined; Surely to condemn one's target is a bit rash; hey, i'm not fit, and neither do i have a background in an acrobatic art, but its all about targets. the ability to practice parkour is ultimately what im aiming for, but in the meantime i'm just trying to get fit. i dont plan to start being ahead of the game and "OMG I WANT TO DO FREERUNNING NAO" .
i hope i can take things slow, build up to it...

At 6/4/09 06:11 PM, Jeffaro wrote: Doing push ups and chin ups is a good start.Be sure to throw in some cardiovascular activities into your routine.Walk a mile every other day, and slowly increase your pace/distance.Jumping jacks are great too.But be sure to do stretches and warm ups before you workout.

walking/jogging is another step i'm about to start up on hopefully. theres a park around the back of my house so i figure i could jog/walk around that, its about a mile return.

Proper dieting is a plus too.Try to avoid soda/energy drinks and drink water/juice instead.For repetitions, you should try doing a small amount of reps,allot of sets with a long rest time.

ah, yes. generally i avoid them for a rule, lest i seriously need the sugar :)

Example

Two push ups - 30 second rest: Four Sets

And if you're having 'allot' of trouble with push ups, you should try doing modified push ups instead.

cool, i'll definetly give this a go, thanks for the advice!

At 6/4/09 05:40 PM, mattloaf wrote: Heres how Matty started off :)

Start off doing Pushups.
Set yourselve a taget say 10.
Reach it.
Everyday build it up. eg. 11 , 12 , 13 , 16 Sometimes take gaps. Have fun

Happy posting Matt :)

what, so increase my target every day?
My problem is at the minute i can barely do two.

i'm not lazy, just mabye i cant will myself to do it...

At 6/4/09 05:34 PM, ASneakyRussian wrote: Piss off some stray dogs.

hmm. none in my area, unfortunetly. and i dont plan on travellingjust to get chased by a stray dog.

Hey, so i've been pretty much a nerd for a while. and proud. let's say i don't get out of the house as much as i'd like to, with my friends of few are either becoming goths, or staying indoors playing on whichever console from the multitude they own. (not that i disagree with gaming in general).

So it's come to my attention, or at least my conscience, that i should try and get fit, considering i'm 15 and i should be frolicing outside. In the summer, I at least want to be able to run around and enjoy the sparse sunlight we get in the uk.
So i thought i'd take up parkour. Just moving your body around in an urban space strikes me as fun, and a good way of introducing an outdoor sport in an uban environment. But, of course... this takes a certain degree of starting fitness that i seem to lack. i'm not fat, but having spend a grand deal of my life indoors i feel like what i had in muscle strength and endurance is wasting away.

This might strike you as a bit "newbie/another fat geek", but im dead serious, and determined to improve my fitness, to reach my goal of being able to practice parkour properly.

Again, unfortunetly, my strength and endurance is lacking, even lifting my body weight is strenuous. I can't do a complete pull-up and through straining i can manage 1 chin-up, and . But i'm determined not to let that stop me so i've started doing regular sit-ups, half chin-ups, a few pressups , and other small workout excersizes i can do at home.
So my immeadiate targets are to build up enough strength to do the excersizes properly.

And my question is... do you have any sort of tips for a guy like me; possible excersizes, tips for leading into parkour, general fitness, techniques ect.

I thoroughly understand if it'll be a while before i can actually start on the parkour aspirations.

peace; I swear i'm not trolling.

At 9/15/08 10:46 AM, MindChamber wrote: fuck you, you fuckin, fuck fuck,

ya piece of shit.

I agree.

At 8/30/08 01:00 PM, cuestaluis wrote: The first drawing owns, it's just great and very original!!

Damn I haven't drawn in a long time and this worked as practice hehe.

Sort of twisted tribute to Grim Fandango, man I loved Manny Calavera!!

oh, you're amazing, i thought no one knew that game anymore... that game is classic :D
anyway... old pic of grimmy:

At 8/27/08 01:26 PM, Vousielle wrote:

Smudging is part of the process of pencil art. You obviously are talking out of your ass.
I smudge in nearly every drawing I do. Especially if it is meant to be a finished piece. You aren't allowed to talk anymore.

example of smudging graphite.

not entirely true, vousielle. smudging is a technique to use while drawing with graphite. it's not part of the "process", and its not forcibly essential. it's a good technique, nontheless; but you dont Have to use it everytime you finish a piece.

At 8/27/08 11:39 AM, adam2510 wrote: you can sereusly fuck off now... right

all i am asking for is some help in something i know absolutly nothing about and which i am not going to learn a whole new code just to do it

1. i am NOT 5 i am 15,

really? because the way you've been acting so far hasn't exactly shown that; your ability to swear people and your inability to take any advice seriously and learn something gives you a
"reasonable person rating" of -1000, at least.

2. i do not know PHP

and neither do you seem to know anything about html,css, or having a social life.

3. i sereusly need help not tips on how well your hacking skills may destroy my web site
4. go fuck with someone elses site i have stuff i need to do

what, like spend "6 months" on this train wreck of a site? i mean, seriously? six fucking months? we learnt to build basic webpages at school in 2 hours or LESS.

5. if any1 has a good idea on how to do it please let me know

oh! oh ! me, i've got a good idea!
LEARN THE BASICS BEFORE YOU START SCREAMING AT PEOPLE BECAUSE YOUR CODE IS A PILE OF SHIT.

anyway i have tried a few things and i cannot get it to work

i dont want a fucktard (aka wreckages and danielz) war because as i said your fucktards

if no one will help me i will keep asking thats why there are somewhat 60 threads because people FUCKING FLAME THE TOPICS instead of helping

yeah, well why dont you take the hint:
NO-ONE WANTS TO FUCKING HELP YOU. STOP CREATING TOPICS

those who do help i do thank a lot

fat lot of good a retards thank's is

guys could you please quit being fucktards because it makes u look like shitheads (very true)
and also i am not a so called "NEWB" or as you say "NOOB" if you read 2. i do not know PHP you will see why so dont have a go at me

by the way i am not going to validate the html on my site because it is HTML not XHTML

yes, the validator does html too; and not validating it most likely proves that you wont/cant fix the problems in your markup

any questions, answers or fucktard remarks

to those who want to help please do

lol- you are such an ignorant bastard.

At 8/27/08 05:52 PM, VigilanteNighthawk wrote: Most hosting companies will allow you to access cron through cpanel.

hmmm... investigation is required... i will get back to you on that one.

would it be possible to execute something such as a php file at regular intervals?
i've heard of cron, but we don't have a dedicated server, so does anyone know of a soloution?

thanks

At 8/26/08 03:56 PM, BoneIdol wrote: Actually played about with it, this appears to work in firefox but I haven't validated in anything else:

thanks a lot; recently i've spent too much time developing the php news system that i forgot about all this, you are an absolute life-saver :)

and thanks for the bit with the floats.. i'll need that later as well as here.

At 8/26/08 03:03 PM, DearonElensar wrote: Min-height for modern browsers, simply height for IE.

i used min-height in the container element, and now IE works, but firefox is still the same

...and the css is here

hey; i've been building a website for my HL2: Deathmatch clan recently using a combination of html, css and a scrap of php; but the real problem, i'm sure, lies in the css. I have a central container div, which houses everything and also serves as part of the background; and it's height is set to 100%. this works great until the browser window is resized , and you scroll down to see that the container is only the size of the browser window.

has anyone got any ideas? i already have my html and body tags set to 100% in the css.
check it out here
(excuse the text; i didn't write it)

At 8/1/08 07:20 AM, Vengeance wrote:

At 8/1/08 07:18 AM, Eredar wrote: er..

You'd need an enterFrame event handler assuming that the timeline was stopped - which logically, it would be - so the proper code would be:

onEnterFrame=function(){
if(mc._currentframe>=50){
gotoAndPlay(5);
}
}

yeah sorry, i just assumed he'd already had it down on an enterFrame handler :P

At 8/1/08 03:27 AM, Andorox wrote: Ok, I need a code to put in the main frame, that moves to another frame when I hit a certain frame in an MC.

I.e. When the mc hits frame 50, it goes to frame 5 on the main frames. Help much?

er..

if(mc._currentframe == 50) {
gotoAndStop(5)
}

that should be it, you might want gotoAndPlay depending on your needs.

At 7/31/08 03:51 PM, lhikaner wrote: This is the team i created in the game

you need to work on anatomy; you might be going for a style, but their eyes are just huge, and the bodies look out of proportion to me. also, you should try colouring a few pictures or mabye just taking more time and effort in them.. to be frank, they just look like trashy 5-10 minute pencil drawings

At 7/27/08 07:06 PM, shanzerion923 wrote:

At 7/27/08 06:57 PM, SaltshakerClock wrote: It looks like a ton of shapes thrown together.
Nothing special.
I can't tell what it is.
If it had a head, eyes, and definite shape, I'd like it better.

hmph! shows what you know about art, ASSHOLE!

although i can actually see what it is, your "creature" doesnt really look like it has a defined shape; it seems like the limbs do not really fit with the body to me. however, that doesnt mean you can be an absolute douchebag and screw at people after minor critisism.

shows what a great social life you have, jerk.

try the AS: Main for actionscript tutorials; in the "INTERMEDIATE - GENERAL" section you can find 2 tutorials about arrays.

At 7/24/08 08:17 PM, ZealousZephyr wrote: Flash CS4 will have rigging though. :O

really? bastards.

At 7/25/08 07:56 AM, This-Is-Freedom wrote: hey i have used this tablet for quite awhile but i dont submit little shorts i do because i want to make something worth while before i submit something

nice way to think about submission :) i went by that for a while, till i finally got some serious inspiration to produce something longer.

"black objects absorb all light"??? there are different types of reflections...I am talking about the water...a water reflection is a specular reflection simular to a mirror... it has nothing to with color...Reflections occur when the object has a high specular level...A black surface can have a reflection if the surface is shiney...think polished marble...

yes, and i was merely pointing out that matte black would be the only surface that relfects no light, because it appears black because of the absence of colour.

objects appear the colours they are because of the light they reflect. for instance, a red object relfects only the red colours in the spectrum of visual light.

At 7/24/08 12:59 PM, Neolight wrote:

At 7/24/08 12:53 PM, DooDooMeaT wrote: Are you aware that water is a reflective surface...

Are you aware that everything is a reflective surface to some degree?

almost true; black objects absorb all light and reflect none; most just reflect certain colours.

in this context, it's completely irrelevant; like comparing a mirror to a brick. they both reflect, right?

i wonder whether or not you really drew that, or just traced it. i'm going with the latter.

At 7/24/08 06:47 PM, Treerung wrote: Well you practically joined yesterday..
You have no flashes submitted..

should that matter? everyone's got to start somewhere. he could be a professional for all you know.

So you go and spend a good bit of money on a tablet for something that you have no experience in..
Now you want to spend more money on another tablet..

yes, because he wants a better one than he has already; i'd say that was pretty good experience.

Seems really stupid when you look at it this way huh?

nope, you look stupid when you try and screw people over for no reason.

you cant "hinge" things as such, that would require something like ragdoll physics, which is complex coding; you can , however,change the center of rotation for each object so that when tweened, they appear to be attached.

i thought PS CS3 extended could import 3D models?

At 7/2/08 09:07 PM, VSmaximus wrote: You mean cross-shading? Yeah, it was a slop job the whole way through, it looked a lot better in pencil.

i dont see how you can make something look better by having it in pencil... if its the same drawing then the shading'll look like you just scribbled all over it.. which is all i see.

sorry to be so critical :'(