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At 8/11/07 07:17 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: Anyway it's a really neat trick. Anyone else have any little tricks to share?

I always wonder what the 9-scale thing did, thanks for that :)

Something useful I've known about for ages but only started using just this minute is the 'brush mode' when you use the paintbrush tool. The button for it is just above the bit where you slect brush size (by default anyway). It lets you change the way you paint, like you can have it so it paints behind pre-existing fills, oronly paint within what you have selected. Useful for colouring inside the lines :p

At 8/11/07 07:17 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote:

Anyone else have any little tricks to share?

Nineslicing and the Brush modes have been tricks I've known for ages. They speed my workflow up considerably.
One of the best tools I have for designing interfaces is, worryingly enough, the Convert Lines to Fill tool.
Convert a nice solid border to a fill, put borders around it, and remove the fill - and voila, a fancy double border. Combine this kind of thing with breaking text apart and you suddenly have some very wierd effects that take a grand total of two seconds to pull off...

My current favorite little trick however are Gradient Masks. In Flash 8 or higher, make a mask with a gradient going from Black 100% alpha to Black 0% alpha, turn it into a Movie Clip and have it mask a movie beneath it. Turn on "Enable Runtime Bitmapping" on both MCs (or do it with code and the setmask function, which is how I do it normally anyway), and we have alpha masking...

So pretty.

At 8/11/07 09:03 PM, Generate wrote: Flash Side-Products

What do you think you really need to have to make your flash the best it can be?

Time and patience.

At 8/11/07 09:08 PM, Generate wrote:

At 8/11/07 09:06 PM, BritishMoose wrote: Time and patience.

True, But I meant, side-programs...

Photoshop or some other image editing software is an obvious one. 3-D programs can help you with certain things, Swift 3-D can export to Flash, so you don't have to import a huge video file to have some cool 3-D effects. CDex is good for ripping music, and Audacity is good for recording and editing sounds. Those are the only other programs I've had to use while creating Flash.

At 8/11/07 09:03 PM, Generate wrote: Flash Side-Products

What do you think you really need to have to make your flash the best it can be? Obviously don't say "Photoshop", as nearly everyone uses it. Then again, you can say that.

Anyway, what do you use, and why? Is it effective, etc! I'm gonna pay attention, as I want my up-and-coming flashes to be as top-of-the-range as possible!

before I was able to get artists for games, and for certain puzzle games (magnetism) I used Swift 3D a lot. It was cheap and easy to use.

At 8/11/07 09:16 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: before I was able to get artists for games, and for certain puzzle games (magnetism) I used Swift 3D a lot. It was cheap and easy to use.

Do you still have that annoying baby mustache?

Ever go out much?

Im just curious what sort of places you all visit, like go on vacation or relatives or whatever.. travel has always interested me and im curious to know where some of you have been to..

At 8/11/07 09:38 PM, Luis wrote:
Ever go out much?

I don't get out much. But I've been to several countries.

Canada, Mexico, England, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
Good times, I'd love to live in Stockholm if I had money.

At 8/11/07 09:38 PM, Luis wrote:

At 8/11/07 09:16 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: before I was able to get artists for games, and for certain puzzle games (magnetism) I used Swift 3D a lot. It was cheap and easy to use.

Do you still have that annoying baby mustache?

yes

Ever go out much?

Im just curious what sort of places you all visit, like go on vacation or relatives or whatever.. travel has always interested me and im curious to know where some of you have been to..

places I've been too on vacations and trips (not counting places we just drive through):

massachusetts (live there)
vermont
new hampshire
maine
new york
connecticut
delaware
maryland
washington D.C.
florida
arizona
california
switzerland

At 8/11/07 09:46 PM, BlackmarketKraig wrote: Good times, I'd love to live in Stockholm if I had money.

Swedes are all nazi deep down inside lmao. Seriously, half of my family is from Scandinavia, half of them can't stand immigrates.

To get back on topic, I own a house in the asshole of Sweden near Hultsfred (nice town with a famous rock'n'roll festival every year).. Either that, I've lived in DC, been in Richmond, Baltimore and NY.. I've also visited shitty countries in Europe such as Spain, Portugal, England and Germany.

RE: Ever go out much

Ok so I made a mistake just asking that because you all are just listing things.. how about when you list em tell us if you liked it or it was a shithole so i know NOT to go there.. or atleast say what you did or didnt like

At 8/11/07 09:57 PM, Luis wrote: RE: Ever go out much

Ok so I made a mistake just asking that because you all are just listing things.. how about when you list em tell us if you liked it or it was a shithole so i know NOT to go there.. or atleast say what you did or didnt like

I've enjoyed every vacation on that list... all were great.

Excerpt florida. I hate it. It's too hot and muggy all the time, and full of old farts.

At 8/11/07 04:09 AM, mynamewontfitin wrote: Concert

Incubus is amazing, have you ever seen the drive music video? It would be so cool to make that sort of thing in flash

At 8/11/07 10:09 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote:

At 8/11/07 09:57 PM, Luis wrote: RE: Ever go out much

Ok so I made a mistake just asking that because you all are just listing things.. how about when you list em tell us if you liked it or it was a shithole so i know NOT to go there.. or atleast say what you did or didnt like

I've enjoyed every vacation on that list... all were great.

Excerpt florida. I hate it. It's too hot and muggy

lol. dont come to dc then.

Were you in west palm beach or what when you went to florida.. only places in fla i found to be old people heaven .. were west palm beach and sarasota.

South beach had some good pussy and i dont usually go for snappy latina women... i wasnt trying to be vulgar sorry any women who visit this thread. :(

At 8/11/07 10:12 PM, Luis wrote: lol. dont come to dc then.

Were you in west palm beach or what when you went to florida.. only places in fla i found to be old people heaven .. were west palm beach and sarasota.

South beach had some good pussy and i dont usually go for snappy latina women... i wasnt trying to be vulgar sorry any women who visit this thread. :(

i was in the tampa bay / punta gorda area. It's where my grandparents on my dad's side lived so we had to go there a few times for visits every few years. We can only stay there for a few days before we get sick of it cause of the weather and how my dad and his dad don't get along too well.

At 8/11/07 10:16 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: i was in the tampa bay / punta gorda area. It's where my grandparents on my dad's side lived so we had to go there a few times for visits every few years. We can only stay there for a few days before we get sick of it cause of the weather and how my dad and his dad don't get along too well.

really, you don't like it? i go to tampa every year for a week or so during spring break. i enjoy it a lot, though the weather gets very humid. I don't have family members there, so I pretty much just stay around the hotel. maybe thats why i haven't noticed all the old people!

other than florida, i've been to several other states in the US (basically the ones that have already been mentioned) and some european countries as well.

i just recently visited colorado. i have to visit my grandma in there every so often, and it's AGONIZINGLY BORING. besides that in the summer its very hot and dry. the area i visit (around denver) is a mile up in altitude. very hot! the only highlight of my colorado trip was when i went to warped tour and got bad religion's signatures.

right now i'm at my country house in pennsylvania, a very nice state in my opinion.

I'm not big on travel. I've been to Mexico... That's 'bout it and that was years ago. I perfer to stay at home most of the time in my own little space. The only way I could see myself leaving my town even is some sort of NG Meet-Up I could go to.

RE: Sports

Good topic.
I snowboard, ski, snowskate, and skateboard.
The only team I am on is ski team.

At 8/11/07 10:49 PM, TheCriminalDuder wrote: I'm not big on travel. I've been to Mexico... That's 'bout it and that was years ago. I perfer to stay at home most of the time in my own little space. The only way I could see myself leaving my town even is some sort of NG Meet-Up I could go to.

It would be so cool if Tom had another ng party like back in the day
http://www.newgrounds.com/lit/party1.htm l

At 8/11/07 11:15 PM, Luis wrote: It would be so cool if Tom had another ng party like back in the day
http://www.newgrounds.com/lit/party1.htm l

Damn, I wish I was there!

Sports

I don't do any team sports. Not very big on that kinda thing cause everyone's relying on you all the time and I'm not that athletic so it doesn't interest me.

However solo sports, like biking and hiking and swimming are fun. No competition to them, just a fun way to get some exercise. And skiing, although I haven't gone skiing in years. But I'm big on the hiking biking and camping stuff. It's fun.

I can't run very fast so that eliminates many team sports for me. If I could run and throw harder I might have been good at baseball, cause for some freaky reason I'm good at hitting the damn thing with the bat, but not much else.

Too slow for soccer.

I'm not bad at volleyball cause it's less physical and I have a height advantage. Plus we play it for like 2 months straight in gym class. Kinda the same for basketball, except I don't like basketball too much. People always ask me if I play cause I'm tall, but I'm not very good at it.

And Ultimate Frisbee has the height advantage thing too, plus I can catch it well. It's not really a sport, but I'm good at it.

Anyway sports aren't really my thing. I tried it when I was younger. Everyone was on a little league team or a soccer team as a child, and I was always the one who would end up playing with the grass on the field in the middle of the game, or tripping over the ball, etc.

At 8/11/07 11:22 PM, ShirtTurtle wrote: For me, sport would be fun if it involved thinking creativley when playing. Which means lot's of stuff to interact with in order to win. Which means that sport wouln't just be about physical ability, but it would involve thinking about new stuff to wow the opposition and force a win.

Football is surprisingly strategic. (For you brits I'm talking about American Football). Then again most of the fans of it don't notice the strategy behind plays and such and just focus on the tackling, but of all the well known, football probably has the most strategy involved.

I still hate it though.

Anyway on the subject of other than computer hobbies, how about musical instruments?

Piano for me. And Tuba. The tuba is useless but it's fun to play in a band. On the other hand the piano is such a useful instrument cause of how keyboards can work with midi files and such, and synthesizer sounds. Jazz is one of my favorite genres cause it can encompass so many different styles of music and fuse them with jazz. There's so much variety, and because it's not exactly mainstream nowadays you don't end up with recording label sell the most to the general public crap that comes out of MTV and such. Just plain old good music meant to be enjoyable to listen too.

Sports

Bleh, I've tried out every sport.

Soccer (football for you non-americans. :-P)
baseball
tennis
basketball
golf
football(but only because I had to.)

None of them were really for me.

Sports

I don't do team sports either. I just find them kinda cheezy and lame. I used to do baseball and track but I quit sometime in middle school. I'm not really good at the whole "teamwork" thing....
I also used to be into BMX but stopped after I broke my arm and got crazy road rash.
I still love to snowboard and I'm pretty good at it because I'm kinda short. I'm probably going up to Vermont with some friends this winter so if you wanna meet up...... :D
Oh, and last summer I had a little obsession with Parkour but there aren't enough obstacles and stuff around here so I gave that up pretty quickly.. I still thoroughly enjoy watching videos of other people doing it though.

Sports
The only two sports I'm moderately good at are golf and soccer. And even soccer I'm too slow to keep up with everything. I just play defense and when the ball comes my way, I just boot it and hope it goes toward a teammate.

Grr, I hate team sports as well. The part I hate most is when you make a mistake, like let a goal in, and everyone on your team's all caring, like, "Nice try, next time you'll get it." Goddamn, if you want to say that I suck, say it to my face. >:(

Instruments
I play piano. It is fun. Except when I was forced to continuously play at every damn school assembly by the school music teacher.

But to end on a positive note, piano truly is fun. It's useful, and I can make money off of it when I receive this piano-achievement certificate, which means I can officially become a piano teacher. :D Trust me, the pay owns any first job you will get.

..::Swedes::..

At 8/11/07 09:51 PM, Edvin wrote: Swedes are all nazi deep down inside lmao. Seriously, half of my family is from Scandinavia, half of them can't stand immigrates.

Seriously? Stockholm (when I was there) was just like Amsterdam in that it was brimming with people from every culture and country, being a racist there would be rather difficult, I imagine...

..::For Luis: ::..

Canada; boring but pretty.

Mexico; didn't really explore that much but where I was it was pretty much like southern Arizona with fewer white people and a bit more rundown.

England: London is quite nice and has great galleries

Belgium: visit Brugge it's a very cool town preserved from long ago. Belgium is ridiculously pro waffles, you can get waffles anywhere you go in Brussels, they even have them in vending machines.

Netherlands: Amsterdam is very busy, tons of people from everywhere you can imagine, Gouda is interesting but not as impressive as Brugge. The country is perfectly flat so riding a bicycle is easy. The Vincent Van Gogh museum is amazing.

Germany; Lots of meat and beer and gummy candies. I stayed in an army air base in Wiesbaden which was just like a town in the US with a serious military presence. Off the base Germany is alright, trains are exactly on time.

Denmark: Pretty nice, beautiful sculptures, one of which is randomly placed underwater in a canal. Great galleries.

Norway: Impressive sculpture garden in Oslo. The Fjords are breathtaking seriously amazing.

Sweden: I liked it. Stockholm is great to just wander around, it's built on an archipelago so there are lots of bridges and ferries.

That's about it.

..::sports::..

Sports are for people who like organization and being sweaty and gross. I can't even imagine being mildly interested in sports in any way.

At 8/11/07 11:47 PM, mynamewontfitin wrote: I don't do team sports either. I just find them kinda cheezy and lame. I used to do baseball and track but I quit sometime in middle school. I'm not really good at the whole "teamwork" thing....
I also used to be into BMX but stopped after I broke my arm and got crazy road rash.
I still love to snowboard and I'm pretty good at it because I'm kinda short. I'm probably going up to Vermont with some friends this winter so if you wanna meet up...... :D

What mountain in vermont?

Btw to whoever talked about instruments, I play guitar and sing in bands and stuff and I'm a pretty decent drummer, not as good as guitar though.

SPORTS

Yah, I play sports just for town leagues and stuff though because I'm not that good and just like GG said I'm not really into competition.

Travelling

I've never been further than a 6 hour drive from where I live. The furthest (at about 6 hours) was Muskoka, in Southern Ontario. We used to own a cottage there. That place is awesome. In the opposite direction is Detroit, which is a lot less awesome.

Sports

I play tennis frequently in the spring/summer months. Courts are open, free, and a 10 minute walk away, so it's not hard to get there. I'm not too great or anything, but it's fun.

In school I was good at soccer, but that was about it. I couldn't hit a baseball well at all.

Sport

I play Aussie Rules and love my footy. I enjoy watched Federer thrash everyone in tennis from time to time too. I guess I'm athletic - I'm the 3rd fastest in my team (we had a sprint) and probably one of the strongest... maybe 3rd or 4th strongest. My stamina is the only thing that lets me down but anyway, I enjoy it a lot.

Reading

I've been reading a bit lately - mostly fantasy. I read The Supernaturalist by Eoin Colfer in one day... that was a good book. What I hate in books is when the author puts quotation marks in, he tries to pronounce it as he really wanted them to say it i.e

"Ay, cap'n, wa goin' now sah?"

I hate that and ruins a good book for me.

u guys think this is any good?

a futuristic soldier?