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At 10/28/09 04:12 PM, ForbidMetal wrote: So what I'm going to do is, see which ones are out of sync and which ones are in sync with event and than change the out of sync ones to stream, should be interesting having a mix of the two :P

wait... when did we stop talking about international vaginas? BLAST! D:<

no but seriously guys... stay on topic. I thought I even smelt a flame war coming on

Right you are, i think asutrailia has some pretty fine cangaroos ;p And monkey-man ran away again.

thats 'Kangaroos' my dear friend

I'd like to add that forbids stereotype, not nuttros is what stands in America currently... but then again, does anyone really care what the majority of us think over here?

At 1Nuttro, you're austrailan right, i'm sorry you cant participate.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

At 10/21/09 03:16 PM, BoMbLu wrote:

At 10/21/09 08:52 AM, ForbidMetal wrote: And pray to whatever false diety you believe in that this doesn't assplode in our faces.

It's going to rape the front page *wink*

you keep saying that... I hope the collab doeskin leave its dick at home.

thwarted again! homework is preventing us from working on this.

hang in there lads

At 10/18/09 08:23 PM, Phobotech wrote: lol, you gave your little brother's account one helluva first post.

now you've gone and made me feel bad.. :(

anyway... once this is all finished this thread will be burried and never to be seen again... so its all good.

wait... hold the fucking non existent phone....

it seems to still export on forbid metals, whom is running windows 7. So we'll just work togethor for the final bits

sorry... I didn't realize my brother had signed in. this is me saying the above, don, flashbound18.

I.... I might cry

and then after.... Im not sure what Im even going to do... like.... with my life.....

At 10/16/09 12:40 PM, BoMbLu wrote: Ok, so, i posted a topic and got a few comments which, i believe, will HELP! Plus, some of the info is completely new to me, and it looks like we've been doing some wrong stuff.
(italics are the comments, the normal font is my thoughts)

Compile the swfs in a different program such as after effects?
This is on Flashbound's lines - would be interesting but for the sake of filesize we can keep it as the complete last resort

This seems like our best bet. I can do this if all else fails.

You could always ask Stamper to compile it for you...
I'm pm'ing stamper once i finish writing this up :D

That's the best case scenario.... but I doubt that'd happen.

If its all in one fla Flash has a limit of 15,000 or 16,000 frames.. It could be that you are past that mark..
You may need to break it up or compile each animator's part separately and have one fla insert it by code.
Hope that helps..
If stamper wont help, i'll read some stuff about 'fla insert by code'

That sounds like the root of our problems. deff. look into that as and I'll help too, naturally. but lets see what mr stamper says first

This is one of the dangers of working with heavy fla's and different versions of flash (even if the person has saved it down, it sometimes fucks up the integrity of the file when you put it alongside native version files)
It'd be good to have stamper tell you how he managed to resolve it. Although i remember he had a really tough time with it.

well we're all across the board on fla versions lol

This one is from Luis himself, i'll ask stamper

Delete the fla file. This usually fixes all related problems ;)

jesus christ... genius! alas our problems are solved! :D

right....

So, i'm pm'ing Stamper and will post his reply once i get an answer :D

At 10/15/09 08:46 PM, picofan27 wrote: Hello people of newgrounds, I am looking for someone to train me to be an awsome flash artist and train me to be a great programmer for all different types of games.

learn like everyone else. tutorials and trial n error. look for a tutorial for something you specifically want to create, and what you learn in taking it will teach you the principles for many other applications. unless you are very very wealthy, the only way to learn flash is by yourself, with the help of rescources (either free or not) online or from a book store.

me? I took as many tutorials as I could find, and over the course of 5 years of experimentation, got where I am today in flash skills.

bottom line: you cant really ask anyone to one on one teach you flash, unless you're going to pay them a hell of a lot. it will take hundreds of hours.

hey guys.. what if we exported our parts as videos, laced the videos together, then rendered in a compact high quality format, imported into flash, and just added the menu.

we'd have to drop scene select.. but that's not the worst casualty that could have happened.

I've been considering this approach for a while... but didn't want to throw it out there until all hope seemed lost, as we might have SLIGHT pixelation.

however, has anyone ever noticed that in videos embedded in flash movies on newgrounds, the pixelation actually seems to add a measure of legitimacy and professionalism? Its the reverse of what you'd think, yes.. but...

At 9/20/09 10:50 AM, BoMbLu wrote:

At 9/20/09 10:05 AM, ForbidMetal wrote: He's right yanno Bomblu ;p
Phobo is the oldest

Lol, thought i was the eldest guy here - oh well :P

Hey bomblu, I was looking at your favorite stuff and we're basically the same person! I really should update my userpage...

anyway, as for collab news.. I've been optimizing my parts by forbids standards, probably to be finished Monday. the pirate day movie was a big distraction, so sorry forbid in advance as I won't have them done this weekend.

hey guys, today's talk like a pirate day and I entered the contest:

• 
  Wilson Beard's Cannons by flashbound18

  Click to view.

  Type

  Movie

  Rated

  Ages 13+

At 9/19/09 04:53 AM, BoMbLu wrote: Being the eldest guy here, and the only legal adult, i must say - enjoy it whilst you can :D

But i dont drink.

Unless it's beer.

Then i drink.

D

Flashbound, which transitions will we use?

dude... I'm starting to get the idea that you'd like to use a different transition.
you've asked 3 times now, this being the third, and every time I've said we've made and decided to use that one with the speed racer clip...

so If you'd like to use a different one, please say which, post it, and we'll probably use that instead.

And why did monkeyman run away?

cos he is black? OWO hjiopooooo I qwent to carnival ronight ex cuse my typing, ubt I am working oin teh collab, I know it's taken so long but trust me, it's tough and I'm soryr fot that, It does sound like we all just keep making excuses but really, I'm trying the besxt I can sorry for the cdelays.

BWAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA! (gasp) HAHAHAHAHAH
HAHAHAHAHAHA!

HAHAHAHAHAH!

HAHAHAH!

drunk post! AWESOME!

At 9/1/09 07:43 AM, BoMbLu wrote:

At 8/31/09 04:40 PM, Phobotech wrote:

At 8/31/09 10:44 AM, BoMbLu wrote:
...LET'S RAPE THE FRONT PAGE!

Fuck yes!

I must admit, you give me too much credit bomblu. all props to forbid; a month back I said I was taking a break until school started up again, but forbid, not wanting to waste time, has been working diligently for the past 4 or 5 weeks in optimization. school started again yesterday though, so now I too am back on track.

Also, I keep forgetting to ask, will there be API?

Application programming interface? Like pause, play, sound control, etc? Interesting to ask, we never discussed it. It might be a nice addition to the whole collab, just remember we're working it out with scenes and not one full time line, so i dont know IF that could be worked into the collab. It'd be a
nice touch, though we've got other important stuff to finish before the big-guys consider integrating
the API (if thats wha api means - looked on google :P)

we may experiment with that concept, but experience from my side projects has taught me AS is a real bitch.. so dont count on it.

Thinking a bit about whats left to do in the collab, i dont know if flashbound has all the author bios
and image; if you haven't sent them already then i strongly suggest sending them asap. Without that
info you wont be credited.

yes, please pm me all that. also it makes me feel special when I get mail.

Also, when talking about the 'author name' on each of the animations, we had decided that they we'd
better stick to one style to keep the whole thing nice and neat, and pro. Has anyone made the names
for each of the authors?

we've had that worked out all ready; no sweat.

Transitions anyone? Did we decide which transition we'd be using between each and every short?

correct me if I'm wrong, but I think we settled for the speed racer one. it looks nice too and not too annoying.

Oh and also, this just came to mind now. Since we're still in the process of making the thing, but it's almost done, do you think we should make a form of 'trailer' and post it around here about a week or so before we release it? It might build up some 'hype' or make the whole thing even more pro. When i say trailer, i mean a lot of 'Epic Text' on a black background and Epic Music from an Epic Movie with very VERY short clips (literlay, 2 seconds) once in a while; just finishing off with a 5/10 second joke from the whole collab. If you like the idea i wont mind doing it.

I have got the files, I'll have a go at that. though, lets collaborate bomblu; it is your idea after all. talk to me on MSN

Just some ideas...

click a frame of the music and in the properties inspector set the sync to stream. this enables audio scrubbing, as well as being able to play the song from any point, and the song stops when the frames stop

At 8/26/09 08:17 PM, ForbidMetal wrote:

At 8/26/09 06:15 PM, flashbound18 wrote:

10 second thread luv'n (post in a nutshell)

10 seconds? 10 seconds? ONLY 10 seconds? good luck :/

P

I was reffering to you guys ;]

On another note, don't the new Space Wolves look tastey!

coming out next month.

january/feb necrons and skaven get new codex

my brother in law is X GW staff... so now hes allowed to divulge all of the release secrets without fear of losing a job.

10 second thread luv'n (post in a nutshell)

10 seconds? 10 seconds? ONLY 10 seconds? good luck :/

:P

At 8/15/09 11:47 AM, ForbidMetal wrote:

btdubs guys, clock day is well, today technically... so look out for my flash.

peace.

FRONT PAGE YOU JAMMY BASTARD =D!!!!!

2nd place! WOOO! :D

At 8/14/09 10:48 PM, ForbidMetal wrote:

but seriously dude, careful as she goes.

Well keep a back up of the file, I kinda wanted every flash seperatly so I could work on them without fear of ruining some greater purpose in the collab (like some frame with code or something) but I've already done quite a bit of work, might as well keep going.

I'm glad you told me about control+alt+enter just testing indivisual scenes because when I exported the whole file, it was all flickery n shit :S

well hey, atleast you could export it at all

I wasn't able to get the thing off the ground at all

btdubs guys, clock day is well, today technically... so look out for my flash.

peace.

At 8/14/09 01:28 PM, ForbidMetal wrote: Well I've spent a small amount of time with this file, wanna know something amusing?

So far, ALL I have done is removed the empty keyframes and empty layers in the main timeline, THAT IS IT! I havn't even looked in the symbols yet...

And the file size has already gone from 111mb to 83 mb........

...seriously :P

just don't fuck up the animations. ctrl > alt> enter to test the scenes and make sure nothing is ammiss after you've finished a part.

It's funny, I had done all of stampers optimization, but hadn't worried about layers or keyframes at all. I feel dumb now

but seriously dude, careful as she goes.

At 8/14/09 09:23 AM, maskedone2 wrote: why dont you just release this collab in parts? the limit for the .swf is only 11mb D:

nuh nuh... the FLA is 100 mb. I don't know how big that'd make the swf; and can't know because I haven't been able to export.

forbid, If you want to work on that in the meantime than fine.

Instead of the separate files I may as well upload the collab file so you can optimize all together, and check to see if it works yet

I'll upload to media fire and send it to you when you get online

At 8/13/09 07:45 PM, Phobotech wrote: 8mb? That's badass! Doesn't that mean it's submittable now?

no no no... trojens file is 8 mb, not the whole collab.

the whole collab went from 200 to 100 mb

need more ram to finish

will tackle in September probs

talk about other 40k related stuff until then

At 8/10/09 03:21 PM, Phobotech wrote: Well, since we're all showing previews of current projects, here's a little something in the secret ending of my current project.

ALMOST DONE, I gotta stop getting so distracted...

my god do I wish I could make that kind of art in flash..

what kind of tablet are you using? I could do that efficiently with like, a cintiq.. but I wouldn't dream of doing fbf on such a well drawn character with what I have now! D:

something more....asian....

what does it all mean! D:

forbid, yes there'll be variations. they won't all be random though... It'll be preset by me.

I too am working on agame (and before you point the accusing finger, "so you aren't on a break from flash!" I only work on this project generally at knight)

with that, here's a preview of sum stuff.

good idea forbid.. just keep the thread alive until september

%u266A %u266B just put one foot in front of the other! %u266B %u266A

sorry...

anyway.. fbf is the way I go. my cycles usually consist of 6-7 frames at 24 fps, but I suppose that's more of a run. just have all the symbols of all the character on one layer, and each keyframe manipulate them so that one foot coms up and rotates forwards, than goes back down, than the other foot, while meanwhile the body tilts backas the foot comes up and forward as ti goes down. don't forget to have arms go forward and backwards opposite to the legs.

for walking, (not running) just drag it out for more keys, and be more subtle on the frames. you'll get the hang of it eventually.

bump? I suppose this is my last attempt