At 7/18/08 07:43 PM, Envy wrote: Open the channel properties > go to the misc tab > change cut and cy by to 1. If that doesn't work, de-select "use loop points"

what?
I click on channels at the top bar... then what? I don't see a misc tab.

Congrats to all the winners.

But it's sad to not see more of you rdaily posts. I liked those daily posts, and I know it must have been hard, but I think you should have more posts like those more often. They're cool to read - sometimes interesting.

in most insturments, when they play a note, it's continued on for like ever.
The note doesn't stop, and when the next note is played, the first isn't stopped, they play simultaneously (sp?). How do I stop a certain note from playing...

hello. I am completely new to anything audio.
I wish to start making my own songs for my flash creations.

1) Which program should I purchase
2) What is the best way of learning how to use the program
3) What is the best way of developing as an artist.

thank you in advance.

At 7/17/08 11:23 AM, micky315 wrote: a piano cannon that shoots pianos and when it hits an enemy notes fly every where and kill ppl.

piano dmg = strong
note dmg = average
slow fire rate
very expensive

lol... ~_^

mecha=walker done.
mini nuke turret next.

At 7/16/08 11:16 PM, Uropa wrote: A turret that shoots out long metal pikes

-slow fire rate

-heavy damage

-like 10 shots and a long reload time

I'm going w/ a modern theme here, bullets and weird cannon shit.
besides, it's sounds like a regular turret. I need originality here.

hoeloe: k. thanks

At 7/16/08 09:12 PM, micky315 wrote: A spartan laser cannon from halo3 that has very low firing rat but when fired it blastes through enemys bieng able to kill more than 1 in 1 shot!!!

A wonka texas ranger turret that fires chuck norris' at enemys (1 hit ko)

Already have a turret that shoots multiple enemies, therefore this turret doesn't add anything special.

stun tower - already have a stun turret (snowball turret), and already have a sonic wave turret. Combining the two, when they both exist seperately is bad ;-)

walker turret is near completion. Scripting is pretty much done, just enhancing the graphics. I guess I'll just do everything that's been said here that I liked in order until I get them all done.

I'm gonna skip mortar (not taht I won't do it, I just don't wanna do it now), I'll do the nuke turret.
Though you should know, djbdr, that it will not launch a nuke. I will simply use the 'radiation' factor of the missile.

At 7/16/08 05:27 PM, funkycaveman wrote: a good idea that you can control almost any turret if you upgrade it to a level three, then you click on it and you can fire fireballs, electricity or monkeys. depends on the turret, cheers

funky

1) why did you quote me? your post had no relation w/ mine :P
2) ... lol ...

oh and I thought of it having two machine guns like a typical mecha walker would, and in addition a fireball launcher.

This would be a very expensive unit, as it kicks too much ass.

At 7/16/08 05:17 PM, mayoarm11 wrote: k I finished the prism tower, and am now starting on the mecha walker - the turret that walks. I already decided to name it mecha walker, unless its original creator strongly resents the name... hoeloe?

or mecha turret? I think you should decide, hoeloe.

god, this is gonna be such a pain to script... fuck.

k I finished the prism tower, and am now starting on the mecha walker - the turret that walks. I already decided to name it mecha walker, unless its original creator strongly resents the name... hoeloe?

At 7/16/08 02:16 PM, quayquay17 wrote: howbout some melee turrets? yknow.. like close range but high damage

like swords or something spinning..

chainsaw turret? idk.

I have a boomerang launcher... that's melee.

if you do get into passive you should make one that lets you manually fire them at one point... for a boss or sumfin. but i guess if you have nuke theres no point.

That's been suggested, and am considering of doing that, with the user's choice of having manual or pilot control.

and have you thought of traps?

other than turrets that set up traps (like the mine turret that's been suggested), I don't want anything to do with the user manually setting up traps.

At 7/16/08 11:50 AM, ModernMudkip wrote: Expansion Turret: ZZZZAAAP!

It makes enemies grow. This makes then slower and also makes them a bigger target for other turrets.

no. weird. even though this like the easiest thing to script :P

At 7/16/08 11:50 AM, jamboreen wrote: You could just make it so that the Cannon fires automatically once every 6 seconds with a 25% chance of a 1 second stun on the entire map. put a limit on how many you can make like 2 or three.

I just don't like the idea of a single turret affecting all the units on the field, regardless of how much it will cost.

Yeah kinda, the reload is its main factor, and it would cost a lot of money / resources.

Well, I already am making a sniper cannon :P
and obviously, snipers take awhile to reload, so I guess same here...

At 7/16/08 01:22 AM, 1337-Lock wrote: Snowball turret. Sends in a straight line and hits multiple enemys, and after x enemys explodes, causes splash damage and slows them down. For upgrades, the ball can get larger, wich is more splash, and can take more enemys.

well, snowball turret is on my list in the first post, and has been suggested before as well :P

besides, the snowball turret is fine as it is, no need for explosion ^.^

At 7/16/08 09:09 AM, idiot-monarch wrote: Sorry, I meant enemy units. Should've specified that.

monkey mode? lol. Nah, I want to avoid psycological turret shit, like mind-control and stuff like that. It's something to consider for an expansion game though.

mound turret: well, there's already the snow turret that slows down the enemies, so I don't see how this would bring anything unique to the game.

supersonic: I generally don't like the special ability. Because its manually controlled. Like I explained in another manually-controlled suggestion, manual control forces the play to constantly check on the special, and see if the 1 min is up, which causes the player to be distracted from other turrets, and other aspects of the game.

Mag cannon: sounds like a mega-sniper turret. Is that what you were going for?

minefield turret: not a bad concept at all. And once one of the mines explode, it is immediatley replaced. ok, I guess I'll take that.

demon cannon: Well, it's not really a turret. It's like an animal type of thing, that just doesn't move. The way of it leveling is interesting though.

At 7/16/08 09:59 AM, the-death1 wrote: how long is it gonna take you to make this game cause by these post it sounds kick ass and i already cant wait for it to be out

few months. 3 hopefully.

At 7/16/08 08:40 AM, Hoeloe wrote: Ah ok, that's fair enough. It's just that I see far too many of these, they are just getting dull now :P

nah. Even though I'm just making an engine for an expansion of a cool game, it's gonna kick ass.
:)

At 7/16/08 08:38 AM, mayoarm11 wrote: eagle gun: no lol. no animation-shooting turrets :P

I meant animal.

At 7/16/08 07:00 AM, Hoeloe wrote:

At 7/16/08 06:53 AM, mayoarm11 wrote: You have a base to defend, you try and stop enemies from destroying your base by building turrets.
typical TD game...

Why not try something more original and let them be hurt? Possibly give enemy units a 1 in 4 chance (or whatever) of stopping and attacking to turrets. Because, to be honest, those tower defence games are getting samey. These new turret types will make it a hell of a lot better, but maybe some more originality will really push it up there.

This is just a basic DT engine.
I want to make the engine and release it before making anything revolutionary.

I will expand on the basics, and make some cool stuff after the basics - I was thinking of being able to make your own units, and instead of only having a losing option (base gets destroyed), you can destroy the opponent's base, and have missions and all that shit...

so in that case, turrets having health wouldn't be a bad idea at all. But not now...

frenzy turret: ...what? I guess this turret shoots your own units... but like I said, no user units yet.

gene simmons turret: lmfao...
nailgun turret: I was thinking of something similar: sniper turret. Obviously a nails wouldn't do much damage to huge beasts and stuff. But a sniper turret is the same idea, just w/ bullets that hurt and stuff :P
liguid nitrogen gun: that's kinda cool. I'll see what I can do.
eagle gun: no lol. no animation-shooting turrets :P

At 7/16/08 05:50 AM, Hoeloe wrote:

Wait, so they are invincible?

lol.
You have a base to defend, you try and stop enemies from destroying your base by building turrets.
typical TD game...

zooos: I'll think about that, maybe expand on the idea.

thnx everyone.

chicken + bannanna: the game isn't for 4 year-olds
box: ...what? I have no idea what you meant by that, by anything w/ a box sounds weird >.>
rouge: already been suggested.
blockade: no.
pit cannon: I generally don't like the "stop enemies for a short while" concept.
tornado cannon: ok that's interesting, but if I will make that, it won't "spin em off the edge of the screen", but it may hurl them back a few hundred pixels or something.
recovery cannon: I already said that the game does not allow the user to create units of his own, only defend with turrets.
kamikaze: the turrets don't have health, so...

At 7/16/08 04:12 AM, Hoeloe wrote:

Ever played Red Alert 2 by any chance?

lol, yes that's where the idea was taken from. I used to play that game non-stop like 6? years ago.

waaanimation - both your ideas have already been said.

rethought my opinion about the controllable turret - it's not a bad idea actually. A user can switch from having it manually controlled to having it pilot control.

What I thought you meant was having it just manually controlled, which would then put pressure on the user to have it fire at all times of the game, which then would make it a lot harder for him to upgrade other turrets, and so on.

seed-firing cannon - idk... i dont like the minions idea :P
MG turret - I want to avoid manual control of the turrets.
semen hose - yes!!!
pregnant cannon - genius!
chuck norris - lol...
site turret - I may have a tank turret just for NG, and one more for my sponsor or something, but besides that, I'm not gonna make a turret for EVERY site I submit it to. It's a neat idea though, something to consider, at the game's completion.
snowball - It's already on my list of thing I have already done. Mine doesn't have splash, but I don't want it to, so... ;)

thank you everybody, this is going better than I expected.

Here are some ideas I thought of recently, you can feedback, and expand on the idea, or it might give you ideas of your own:

prim tower: shoots prism stuff (lasers I guess). If the tower is within another tower's radius, they combine power, to shoot a prism that is twice the power of a regular tower (this would be seen by the width of prism - gets twice as big obviously).

orb collector (gay name- i'll change it) - in my game there are types of bullets - one is a blue orb. About 10 turrets will use it. So this turret collects these bullets, and sends them orbiting around the turret (like in momentum missle mayhem). when the orbs hit the units, they do 1.5 times damage.

the gravity turret is an interesting concept. I might experiment w/ it a bit.

as for the second creation - the units are small in comparison to the playing field- so having them as 'barriers' is very useless.

nuke: good idea. I will definetely use that.

Force: Interesting idea. It depends on how many different units I make. If the units can easily be classified into 'lighter' and 'heavier' weaponary, then it is definetely something to consider.

thanks everyone. I'll get to work!
but that doesn't mean you should stop posting your ideas. keep em coming!

"Leggit turret":
ok, I guess I misunderstood what you were trying to say. I thought the new position is picked entirely randomally, rather than it coverting a very specific radius. Further on this idea:
do you think the turret should be able to fire while walking?
And as for the design of the turret, I was thinking of like a mecha walker thing. that would be sweeeet. ;)
I don't look forward to scripting it but w/e.

Naplam turret & double minigun: ...double minigun is just weird, and I suppose you would have to elaborate on the naplam turret, b/c I already have something similar to that.

Telepathic turret: no. You can't make units in my game, only turrets. I will make a second version, where you can make units, so that is something I will consider when that time comes (hope it will be sooner than expected ;[ )

confuse turret: meh. doesn't do damage at all, and it's kinda weird ;P

I'll give those mortar and artillary things a little spicing of mine. I'll see what I can do.

The artillary turret can be cool actually... It shoots upwards, then only after a couple of second, hell from above!!!

thanks ssjskipp.

ok but how would that make the turret better?
how is walking a strategic edge?

At 7/15/08 11:33 AM, funkycaveman wrote: one that has a small radius but when an enimy is in it it drains the health

ok... like the one that's found... in like every other TD game? it's ok, I may use it, i'll let you know if I do.

but you guys are thinking small, how about a little originality?