That tutorial is 4 years old, just so you know

At 11/8/09 03:52 PM, trig1 wrote:

At 11/8/09 06:51 AM, knugen wrote: Did anyone try this thing out? It's almost unbelievable how he "guesses" right almost every single time :O

Didn't get Keith Chegwin.

good old cheggers...

He was the "special guest" at last years christmas party. He's still annoying

At 11/9/09 05:31 AM, henke37 wrote: Isn't this another way of saying "let's make a collaboration about nothing"?

It's another way for a bored idiot to spend his time

Hey,

For future reference, I've come up with the solution.

Stupidly the class I had attached to the component was NOT extending MovieClip, and therefore no graphics could be displayed!

All I did was added to the class definition "extends MovieClip" and it worked perfectly :)

At 11/8/09 10:18 PM, YavonnaHugstand wrote: I've been wondering, could it be a good idea to segregate the Flash forum? What I mean is to have one section purely for Actionscript, and one purely for animation.

It would make it much easier to find threads, so if you need help with something but don't want to post a duplicate of something already made, you won't have to wade through pages of junk.

Is this a good idea? What are your thoughts/opinions on it?

It's not your decision so it doesn't matter. There has been much better ideas like creating a collab forum to get all of that shit out of here, but it will never happen

What do you do? Let me guess, managing?

At 11/8/09 02:49 PM, Johnny wrote:

At 11/8/09 02:45 PM, CkGordon wrote: Hi, not sure if this is much help from a noob but maybe you could try and fake it by just adding the background "sucking in" animation to the explosion movie clip on a lower layer and masking off everything outside of your boundries? Sometimes the quickest and simplest can achieve the same effect as the complicated. ;)

The lines would only line up a small percentage of the time, and it would be horribly obvious that it had been cheated.

Yea it will look awful and won't be very easy, displacement filter will look cool I think and will take all of about 30 minutes

At 11/8/09 12:24 PM, Johnny wrote: I think you could achieve something like that using bitmapData and either a convolution or displacement filter.

Ah yea that's true, that's better then my idea

At 11/8/09 11:45 AM, knugen wrote:

At 11/8/09 11:11 AM, Rustygames wrote: It's just 20 questions.

Have you been on http://www.20q.net/

I have not before, seems like a good site as well, but I think I'm more impressed by Akinator though. 20q is divided into quite limiting categories, while Akinator often guess right among a huge amount of people with always the same set of questions :)

I do think that A cheats a little though, perhaps by looking up the location of the user's IP for example (he often asked me very early on if the character was Swedish).

Ah that's kinda clever. Macthing IP's to what people are trying.

20Q has many more modes then just the classic, it has a character one too :)

Flex builder is more for application development specifically whereas flashDevelop is just general purpose coding.

FD is free though...

Yea just have a bunch of points joined together with lines and each point moves towards the player if he's near by but each point is restricted.

Good luck

At 11/8/09 07:20 AM, knugen wrote:

At 11/8/09 06:51 AM, knugen wrote: Did anyone try this thing out? It's almost unbelievable how he "guesses" right almost every single time :O

...

It's just 20 questions.

Have you been on http://www.20q.net/

At 11/6/09 10:05 AM, hdxmike wrote:

At 11/6/09 10:03 AM, Mahora wrote:

At 11/5/09 11:30 PM, exzeta wrote: nevermind

I take it you noticed it was suppoused to be "_x"

Yeah probably , hes using shitty AS2

You've no right to call AS2 shitty since you don't know how to use it

Balls screwed that post up

var so:SharedObject = SharedObject.getLocal("myGame");
so.data.myVar = 100;
so.data.flush();

It's simple, just do the reverse. You can also call a function called flush which will make sure it saves it then and there:

so.data.tname
so.flush();

At 11/6/09 01:33 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: made it 6 days without drinking coffee... crappiest week ever I can't live like this.

*makes coffee*

No one cares

At 11/5/09 04:15 PM, BeefJuice wrote: Oh WHOA. Worth the money? Whatever do you mean? lol.

He's right. I'd quit now unless you're serious about becoming a programmer, and if so learn your shit first and you'll be able to do it in a year or 2 :)

At 11/5/09 04:09 PM, Starogre wrote:

At 11/5/09 03:25 PM, adman1993 wrote:

At 11/5/09 02:47 PM, BoMToons wrote: Is today guy fawks day/night?

Yes. Yes it is.

Is it comparable to the US's fourth of july?

I guess so. But we're celebrating a foiled terrorist plot (which is my opinion is dumb), what does the 4th of July celebrate?

Also, the British don't celebrate any holiday as much as you yanks do. Christmas is the only holiday we really celebrate

At 11/5/09 05:04 PM, Archon68 wrote:

At 11/5/09 04:59 PM, Rustygames wrote: I hate how outdated and ignorant your flash is

Good for you, now have a slice of I don't give a shit.

And for the record, you are acting high and mighty about an unorigional idea with bad execution.

I hate how outdated and ignorant your flash is

Gotya, I have the perfect explanation:

Close flash; you're too stupid to use it

Non tutorials, too complex.

You're going to need to know what you're doing. If not an easy thing, especially if you have your sights set on an MMO.

And as mentioned above, 9/10 multiplayer flash games flop, I know, I've made 2!

I think what he's talking about is a pointer.

In flash anytime you assign something it just stores a reference (or pointer) to that variable. Everything does this by default except for primitive data types (IE: String, Number etc). If you wanted to create a pointer to a number I'm afraid you're out of luck. You'll have to come up with some sort of workaround

At 11/5/09 01:24 PM, GustTheASGuy wrote:

At 11/5/09 12:53 PM, Rustygames wrote: I havn't had a formal education and I'm working full time for a top UK gambling firm. Making money through the internet is a bad idea, too unstable for me, I prefer the 9-5.

Not if you live somewhere cheap, like my location. $2k a month is luxury.

That's true, UK it's not that easy though

That being said, Eduardo lives off Rustyarcade.com in Dominican Republic, so I suppose it is possible to live off of the internet!

At 11/5/09 08:34 AM, hdxmike wrote: £18,000 for school a year

Wow, why don't you just live off mummy and daddy if they can afford to pay that much! Also, might want to tell them it's a waste of money, you clearly aren't learning ;)

At 11/5/09 10:10 AM, GustTheASGuy wrote: It's certainly possible to live well without a formal education, especially if you live somewhere cheap and earn money through the internet.

I havn't had a formal education and I'm working full time for a top UK gambling firm. Making money through the internet is a bad idea, too unstable for me, I prefer the 9-5.

At 11/3/09 01:50 PM, jmtb02 wrote: What? There's very little basis in any of these claims.

There is basis. Flash is a trainwreck and it's very hard to imagine it can keep going the same way it has since MX for five more years. CS4 doesn't run in 4gb and crashes at least once a day. To add any more bloat they have to start fixing that preceding, and do you think they'll do that? It doesn't seem they even can, seeing they've been desperately piling more shit on it to sell while the thing doesn't collapse.

Flash might have 1 more version, but then it's over to flash builder ;)

At 11/3/09 02:32 PM, hdxmike wrote: England £18,000 a year . Im moving somewhere warmer hopefully though

You can't live off £18k alone... not really

An idea alone won't get you anywhere. You need to either do it yourself, or pay someone. It sounds like neither are options so looks like you're out of luck

Prepare yourself for a bollacking

At 11/3/09 04:19 PM, Greg-SKA wrote: Ok Thats Nice,You Remade it and All But the Flash Fourm is NOT for Advertising your Flashes, it for getting help with AS, Strting Collabs, etc. So dont do This anymore

I'd rather have shameless as posts then endless collabs of talentless people any day of the week