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At 3/23/08 02:02 PM, UnknownFury wrote:

At 3/23/08 01:59 PM, Senti wrote: HEY! Yous all needin artists, I need some cash so if you got a slick game let me know and If I like the idea I'll be more than happy to supply arts.

KAY

Samples? I have a pretty neat game which I might work on after my current one with soft body physics incorporated and I really don't want to ruin it with my shit art although there won't be much art to do.

I have tons of traditional art but not to many Flash drawings. I'm trying to get enough together to make a little online portfolio of sorts. I'll be sure to let you know when I have it.

At 3/23/08 02:31 PM, crushy wrote: Two Known UOTD's

In such a small amount of time too... wierd.

Coding Help :)

Does anyone know of a way that I can get a random number up to 20 randomly added OR taken away from a variable. So one time I could get plus 12 and another I could get minus 3. Any help would be much appreciated.

Yeah sure:

return(20 - Math.floor(Math.random() * 41));

Knock yourself out :P

At 3/23/08 02:38 PM, Paranoia wrote: Yeah sure:

return(20 - Math.floor(Math.random() * 41));

Knock yourself out :P

What does Math.floor do?

At 3/23/08 02:38 PM, Paranoia wrote:

At 3/23/08 02:31 PM, crushy wrote: Coding Help :)

return(20 - Math.floor(Math.random() * 41));

Heh, that's two things you've helped me with this week, Thanks :D

At 3/23/08 02:46 PM, UnknownFury wrote:

At 3/23/08 02:38 PM, Paranoia wrote:

What does Math.floor do?

Rounds numbers to the nearest significant figure.

I think this is Glaiel at the piano...amirite?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgT9OdVmL 4s

At 3/23/08 02:49 PM, crushy wrote:

At 3/23/08 02:46 PM, UnknownFury wrote:

At 3/23/08 02:38 PM, Paranoia wrote:

What does Math.floor do?

Rounds numbers to the nearest significant figure.

oh okay.

1.49029052 will be rounded to 1?
241242 will be rouned to 200000?

Sweet ^^

Math.floor() rounds down to the nearest integer.

Math.floor(1.99) == 1

Math.ceil() rounds up to the nearest integer.

Math.floor(1.01) == 2

At 3/23/08 03:15 PM, DarkMana wrote: Math.floor(1.01) == 2

ARG. I meant...

Math.ceil(1.01) == 2

At 3/23/08 03:15 PM, DarkMana wrote: Math.ceil() rounds up to the nearest integer.

Math.floor(1.01) == 2

*Math.ceil(1.01) == 2

there you go :)

Okay then. So crushy was wrong? :P

At 3/23/08 02:49 PM, crushy wrote:

At 3/23/08 02:46 PM, UnknownFury wrote:

At 3/23/08 02:38 PM, Paranoia wrote:

What does Math.floor do?

Rounds numbers to the nearest significant figure.

Whoops, sorry got my maths lingo mixed up, it just rounds the decimal places to whole numbers.

At 3/23/08 03:04 PM, UnknownFury wrote:

At 3/23/08 02:49 PM, crushy wrote:

At 3/23/08 02:46 PM, UnknownFury wrote:

At 3/23/08 02:38 PM, Paranoia wrote:

What does Math.floor do?

Rounds numbers to the nearest significant figure.

oh okay.

1.49029052 will be rounded to 1?
241242 will be rouned to 200000?

Actually, it rounds down to the nearest integer:

Math.round(); // rounds to whatever the nearest integer is
Math.floor(); // rounds down (i.e. always returns a lower or equal value)
Math.ceil();  // rounds up (i.e. always returns a higher or equal value)

When you're working with probabilities you should pretty much always use floor and ceil instead of round, otherwise you'll end up with an imbalance. For example, with:

Math.round(Math.random() * 3);

To return 0, a number needs to be less than 0.5, to return 3 it needs to be greater than or equal to 2.5, but for any other numbers it can be .5 above or below:

Math.round(Math.random() * 3);

Chance of returning 0 - 1/6
Chance of returning 1 - 1/3
Chance of returning 2 - 1/3
Chance of returning 3 - 1/6

By using floor and ceil you can ensure equal probabilities all round :)

At 3/23/08 02:49 PM, crushy wrote: Rounds numbers to the nearest significant figure.

How could it round an arbitrary number to a significant figure when there's no arithmetic or function going on?

In terms of significant figures:
3000 + 100 = 3000
10 * 2.05 = 20

... you can't just decide which figures are significant, it's all about the mathematical operation and other number(s) involved.

At 3/23/08 03:24 PM, DarkMana wrote: ... you can't just decide which figures are significant, it's all about the mathematical operation and other number(s) involved.

Ahem, a significant figure is the first non-zero number when reading from the left:

1 - one significant figure
0.23423 - five significant figures
0.000021 - two significant figures
1200000 - two significant figures

Or if you want to look at it as Flash probably sees it:

1E0 - one significant figure
2.3423E-1 - five significant figures
2.1E-5 - two significant figures
1.2E5 - two significant figures

Thanks paranoia. *Goes through current script and changes all the rounds*

Also, Imagine I have an dynamic textbox contained within a movieclip. How comes when the movieclips alpha is 0 the textbox is still visible? If I change it in the properties panel the text box disappears with the mc but if I change it via actionscript it doesn't. Is it because I'm setting a value to the text box so it assumes it has to stay visible? Ways around this?

At 3/23/08 03:28 PM, Paranoia wrote: Ahem, a significant figure is the first non-zero number when reading from the left:

Damn my tenth grade math teacher.

OK while the programmers talk about their programming stuff.. i have an art quesrtiton..

I recently went on work experiance and used photoshop a hell of a lot more then i did at home.. and the dude taught me how to use the fountain pen tool.. does anybody else use this?

Sorry for a bit of irrelevance..

But I keep seeing this thread now and thinkin bloody hell the Artist showcase is getting popular again. Im not used to this thread having all these pages.

At 3/23/08 03:31 PM, DarkMana wrote:

At 3/23/08 03:28 PM, Paranoia wrote: Ahem, a significant figure is the first non-zero number when reading from the left:

Damn my tenth grade math teacher.

I knew that :D
Whats the equivalent of tenth grade in england? 'cause I swear I learnt that years ago o.O

I learnt that last year.. im in year 10 now :)

At 3/23/08 03:31 PM, adman1993 wrote: OK while the programmers talk about their programming stuff.. i have an art quesrtiton..

I recently went on work experiance and used photoshop a hell of a lot more then i did at home.. and the dude taught me how to use the fountain pen tool.. does anybody else use this?

The pen tool is a fantastic tool and is extremely useful. What were you using instead? It can take a while to master it but its so useful :3

Sorry for double post.

At 3/23/08 03:37 PM, UnknownFury wrote: The pen tool is a fantastic tool and is extremely useful. What were you using instead? It can take a while to master it but its so useful :3

Well I mastered it whilst on work experiance.. I was using the line tool then manipulated it.. like bending the lines and stuff or drawing with my tablet then smoothing it over..
But it hit me the other day that im basically doing what is 10x easier with the pen tool :S

Sorry for double post.

Dw i saved you :3

At 3/23/08 03:31 PM, adman1993 wrote: I recently went on work experiance and used photoshop a hell of a lot more then i did at home.. and the dude taught me how to use the fountain pen tool.. does anybody else use this?

Whew, a break in the NUMBERS. I was about to starting talking about the color red or something...

The pen tool really is an amazing, and possibly the most powerful tool in photoshop. When cutting out images from the backgrounds I used to only use the magnet-lasso tool but after learned how to use the pen tool a couple years ago I've never gone back. The ability to edit an infinite amount of points on a line at any given time to make the EXACT PERFECT shape is something that has proved invaluable.

At 3/23/08 02:49 PM, BoMToons wrote: I think this is Glaiel at the piano...amirite?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgT9OdVmL 4s

ya that's me... I did a better job on route 66 though (had a solo in that one).

At 3/23/08 07:28 AM, dELtaluca wrote: ^^ 3D fluid dynamics simulation, only got the fluid itself simulated, no densities or particles or anything running in it obviously.

I agree that that looks awesome.

Will you upload videos?

Happy New Year

I'm a couple days late but enh.

At 3/23/08 03:46 PM, Senti wrote: Whew, a break in the NUMBERS. I was about to starting talking about the color red or something...

Hmm the color red eh?

Known as 0xFF0000 to us nerds right? FF0000 is a hexidecimal number, which is similar to a decimal number (base 10) which we count in but is actually base 16 instead, so F is actually a number, not a letter. F = 15. There's a 15 in the 16^4 and 16^5 places, so 15*16^4 + 15*16^5 is what FF0000 stands for. Pretty neat if you think about it.

We use hex because it translates to binary easier than decimal. FF0000 can be translated as

1111 1111 0000 0000 0000 0000

a simple 4 digit replacement of hex digits with binary digits, so the computer can think a lot easier than having to perform more intensive tasks of converting our base-10 system to binary.

So back to red I guess.

The color red is perceived when our eyes detect a photon with a wavelength of ~625-740 NM (1 nm = 1x10^-9 m, or 1 billionth of a meter). Fun stuff, even though some colorblind people are missing the appropriate cells to detect that color, or distinguish it from other colors.
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At 3/23/08 04:07 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: stuff

hehe, I love you :3

I actually knew and understood all(I think, if not most) of that up untill 'The color red is perceived when our eyes detect a photon with a wavelength of ~625-740 NM'. My intelligence is increasing. One day I shall be as intelligent as you, bitch. Watch out.

I made something. Please test it. http://spamtheweb.com/ul/upload/230308/7 3295_StockMarketC.php

Can we dumb down a bit..? Im feeling dumb :P All i can do is draw :3