No, Toast. No.

People should avoid submitting serious stuff during clock week :P

At 8/20/08 12:38 PM, cainine-k9 wrote: spots[2][0] = 0
spots[2][1] = 0
spots[2][2] = 0

However, when I run the code, I get an error(try it yourself) what am i doing wrong?

You're tring to add values to an array that doesn't exist. With the code you used, spots would only contain two different arrays (also, what's with those parameters?).

Anyway, Gust's provided a much nicer looking way of creating 3D arrays - go with that :D

At 8/19/08 04:51 PM, Cryzabey wrote: Do you recall any boss battles that left your mouth open from the shear intensity or "Epicness"?

The last boss in MGS4 was epic, but it was more of an extended cut-scene than a part of the game IMO. Actually, I might make a list of things which MGS4 could have included to make it the best game ever, instead of just a really good one.

The Boss in MGS3 was the best in terms of drawing together all of the game's gameplay elements - that was also really well put together (I love how the music comes in five minures in).

The most epic battle for me will always be Jenova LIFE. It was just so intense how the sad music from Aeris getting stabbed carried through into the actual fight - it's proof that video games have their own category of incredible editing techniques.

Pretty much everything about Ape Escape was great, but the last boss battles in that had that great, futuristic Japanese late 90s epicness thing about them.

Also, I'm giving an honourable mention to the Buddah in Pandemonium 2, for pure insanity value.

At 8/19/08 04:14 PM, TheCriminalDuder wrote:

At 8/19/08 03:18 PM, BritishMoose wrote: Re: Mullet

You look a bit like a dyke now, Duder.

I feel 5 years younger and more nerdy. :C

I need to eat steak and get laid to refill my manlyness.

Yeah, my mate cut his hair for the first time in like four years too. It's really weird - suddenly he looks like a fourteen year old again.

You should have just improved upon the mullet. Think of it like this - you with short hair is your basic Tomb Raider character model - you with longer or more styled hair is the improved, fleshed out Tomb Raider II version, in all it's round-breasted glory. By cutting your hair, you're going backwards in character detail. You need to start accessorising to compensate!

At 8/19/08 01:48 PM, Kirk-Cocaine wrote:

At 8/19/08 01:44 PM, Luis wrote: Yea debit Maestro's are no good and cant be used online anywhere anyway according to bob.

Haha, that's a bold bold statement. I've bought stuff online from Play, Amazon, eBay, HMV and Zavvi with my Maestro debit card. Hell, I even bought a NG top using my card, albeit via paypal.

Yeah, I'm in the same position. It must be a US thing :s

Kirk, if you're getting in touch with Bob then I'll vouch for the fact that Maestro's working on pretty much all UK/Europe based sites.

At 8/19/08 11:26 AM, Blackfang wrote: Store

What do u guys think? I think it like it a lot. i gotta get me some angry faic and tankmen stickers.

I would like it, but I can't buy anything because of the dumb US-centric payment options.

I should have wasted $108 of hard-earned sponsor money on shirts and stickers today, all ready to start uni with :(

At 8/19/08 11:39 AM, Kirk-Cocaine wrote: Bleh, it sucks you can't use Maestro Cards in the store. Still the store looks great!

Aye, I've got something like a hundred dollars worth of assorted shirts in my cart and I can't order any of it from the comfort of my chair :(

You should let people use their Flash Ads income to buy stuff from the store :D

At 8/19/08 08:15 AM, Vengeance wrote:

At 8/19/08 07:47 AM, patu1 wrote: Blah

No other reg ever concidered you a reg, thus you are not a reg. EDN.

I dunno, he's kinda like Toshir%u014D Mifune's character in Seven Samurai - he's gotten regness through pure persistence :P

lolkindofobscurereference

At 8/19/08 02:37 AM, TheCriminalDuder wrote: I got the mullet completely cut today.
The mullet is 100% dead - I have no long hair.

Also... YATTA! :D

lol, I'm confused. Was the animutation the original or what? 'Cos I remember seeing it like five or six years ago.

QQQQ...

At 8/18/08 12:22 PM, Wiiporter wrote:

At 8/18/08 12:20 PM, McCoskrie wrote: How did something under 2.00 (Currently sitting at 1.89) Get first place? Amazing.

Seems the Monthly voters have common sense after all :P

Aye, more than the average portal voters in any case :P

I seriously can't believe how low scoring it was. It's one of the funniest things on the site (it's even got more lasting appeal than the main MGS collab (sorry Stamper :( )

I'm watching it right now :P For like the twelfth time.

At 8/18/08 11:54 AM, TomFulp wrote: TOP FIVE MOVIES

2. Metal Gear Funnies

I knew that'd get the recognition it deserved!

At 8/18/08 10:48 AM, Rustygames wrote: MochiAds pays higher at the moment, you should build an ad loader so you can select between the 2 (whoever gives the best rate)

It's quite hard to compare. From what I've seen, MA users amake a habit out of shoving ads in your face, making you sit through them between levels, and basically forcing people to click on the ads (and leave the games) through frustration.

NGAds have always struck me as being a lot nicer to integrate into your games.

You don't need to use a tween at all. Just set the clip's scale to the amount loaded:

import flash.events.Event;

addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, updLoad);

function updLoad(e:Event):void{
  if((loadbar.scaleX = loaderInfo.bytesLoaded / loderInfo.bytesTotal) == 1){
    removeEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, updLoad);
    // script called on load complete
  };
};

The advantage of learning AS3 is that there're far less noob tutorials that teach you all the wrong stuff for it :)

At 8/17/08 01:12 PM, chickendance333 wrote: please quit posting unless you are joining, or have any question/suggestions.

I DONT CARE IF YOU THINK AS3 IS FASTER

What do you mean 'think'? It is faster!

At 8/17/08 12:33 PM, Toast wrote:

At 8/17/08 12:24 PM, Decade wrote: the stats are pretty good but WHAT IF some site gave away ads and gave developers the whole 100% that would be so nice.

why don't you ask for the ads directly from the same companies that provide ads to mochiads and ng?

I believe that NG's cut from our ad system comes from the ad suppliers' side, so we don't lose anything from the system :/

Also, try to be more descriptive with your topic titles.

At 8/16/08 10:25 PM, I-smel wrote: OK WAIT-

$1 for every 1000 views
$100 for every one hundred thousand views
$1000 for every one million views

I'm pretty sure that's right. Fuckin big numbers fo trippin me up.

Yeah, I prefer thinking in terms of cash per 1,000,000 views, in which case you get some pretty big slices. $1000 per million is the least you should be aiming for - any less and you want to rethink your placement.

Have you activated it?

I've only had the ads in NG sponsored stuff, so I don't know how long it'd take to review under normal circumstances.

God, this discussion pops up every other week, and every time it's the same conclusion.

AS3 is faster, more efficient, and if you're a slacker like me it forces you to be tidy with your code, which is in everyone's interests. It's also not hard at all to get used to if you're decent at coding in AS2 or other languages.

AS2 is less harsh towards incompetence, and friendlier towards more casual coders. It's also got much nicer documentation.

AS3 is better; AS2 shouts at you less.

At 8/16/08 07:04 PM, BoMToons wrote: Def an improvement to be able to see your cut of the deals, but it needs to show the percentage so you can make sure it's accurate and also we need to be able to run reports on our custom events and links.

I think it's just the cut you get after sharing with co-authors and such (so far 100%).

I'd spam this in the Lounge, but somebody locked it :O

The API is looking shiny and new

It's a little OTT with the animation and whatnot IMO, but it's still looking exceptionally promising. I hope they integrate a decent revenue sharing system with audio artists soon...

Anyway, check that shiz out!

At 8/16/08 04:58 PM, Rammer wrote:

At 8/16/08 04:41 PM, ChillyCheese wrote:

At 8/16/08 12:40 PM, sneekyboy wrote: ok i will pm you when im done

Dude, he was being sarcastic.

um, no i wasn't, that idea is GOLD

I represent Adam Phillips. I will pay you $10,000 for exclusive rights to that idea.

Sorry kid, you just got outbid.

At 8/16/08 06:03 PM, Treerung wrote:

At 8/16/08 06:01 PM, Paranoia wrote: That post might have been helpful if you'd explained how the code actually worked >.<

In my opinion that code is pretty self-explanatory..

Go on then. Explain :D

At 8/16/08 06:05 PM, ActionSick wrote: stay tuned for the platformer tutorial collab, itll explain it all

Please keep pointless plugs out of help threads >.<

At 8/16/08 06:00 PM, I-smel wrote: Also I'm totally gonna be a dick here and remind everyone that the definition of a sprite is just an image. So you could draw anything in Flash any way you want and it'd be a sprite.

There's also the awesome Sprite class which was totally missing from AS2 (basically a MovieClip but with one frame) but that's probably not what you were talking about.

Generally people just take sprite to mean character or effect animations which get handled with script (as opposed to backgrounds and shizzle, although they probably count too if you want to be pedantic) - e.g. a coder might team up with an animator, who'd draw sprites for them in Flash.

At 8/16/08 06:00 PM, Treerung wrote: This is some of the code your asking for..
Give your character the instance name of ball.
Give your ground the instance name of ground.

That post might have been helpful if you'd explained how the code actually worked >.<

Also you should double check your spelling :/ Stuff like that really takes away from any illusion of professionalism.

It just writes the data to the person's computer (everything's just stored on the object until you call it).

It should be called automatically when Flash closes, but it's safest to do so manually too.