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Yer Id agree with that becuase most of my flash I think was sound FX

I'd rather have no sound FX than no background music

At 10/1/08 02:30 PM, fractureboy wrote: Yer Id agree with that becuase most of my flash I think was sound FX

I'd rather have no sound FX than no background music

maybe add little ambient BGM when theres no sfx, that will make it more enjoyable and less silent.

hows you sig?

Hmm, people think BG music is better, but you can really tell the quality difference if its down low, and it would sound a bit empty without sound.

At 10/2/08 12:46 PM, andy70707 wrote: Hmm, people think BG music is better, but you can really tell the quality difference if its down low, and it would sound a bit empty without sound.

Yer I'd have to agree with Funky actually mix it up a bit and Funky, trying to make each beam different is something I can't do on Fireworks

At 10/2/08 01:02 PM, fractureboy wrote:

At 10/2/08 12:46 PM, andy70707 wrote: Hmm, people think BG music is better, but you can really tell the quality difference if its down low, and it would sound a bit empty without sound.

Yer I'd have to agree with Funky actually mix it up a bit and Funky, trying to make each beam different is something I can't do on Fireworks

oh ok, that sucks, have you tried flash?

and about BGM, variate it a bit, in loud bits dont have it but in silent bits have it, if you get what i mean, it doesnt have to be a flat same volume bgm all thorugh out

Thanks Funky I'll try that!

And yer try the background music

When's the deadline?

Cus if you want Andy, I could do another part

well I either want no bg music and sound effects, or bg music and no sound effects, cause it would use too much filesize otherwise, and it would take too long to keep changing the volume according to loader/quieter bits. There is no deadline, but I preferably want to submit it by the end of the year. As for the filesize, there is only 5 parts done, and it is already over the 10MB limit. So what do you suggest, external loading, getting permission from tom, or just making everything ridiculously low quality, or some other suggestion?

I mean quality is the first thing, so dont do tht, you could just close the collab off to ny more people who want to join and people who haven't even made any progress yet, but keep those nearly finished, and ask Tom or ask Funky see if he can decrease the size in some other way

Well, I can't really just close it off, there were some good pieces comming along. And you can't really ahve a collab with 5 people (4 excluding my part) So i'll PM tom and see what he says.

im about to PM Tom Fulp :)

Oh right sorry I didn't know there was only 5 pieces done! LOL

You're About To Email Tom Fulp!

Okay, I PMed him. I just hope he replys soon, I sent a PM to wade in january about my audio portal ban, and he still hasn't replied (when I get soundbooth CS4, I can start making proper audio, but I won't be able to submit it. I got banned for submitting "spam" audio, but it was my first thing I made using audacity and a wave generator.)

Oh good! Yay!

This is actually likle my first ever flash and collabaration!

Heyy Funky on photoshop cs2 (downloaded trial) how would I go about changing the beams one by one?

if you want photoshop, CS4 is out now. And you must be able to do it in fireworks, jsut use the magic want/polygon lasso tool and the painbucket tool. Ill do it for you if you want. Anyway, im off to bed now, so hopefully tom will have replied by the morning.

At 10/2/08 04:38 PM, andy70707 wrote: if you want photoshop, CS4 is out now. And you must be able to do it in fireworks, jsut use the magic want/polygon lasso tool and the painbucket tool. Ill do it for you if you want. Anyway, im off to bed now, so hopefully tom will have replied by the morning.

It does work in Fireworks! Thankyou so much!

Oh and night lol

Yep! And I just got a reply from tom, he raised my uplaod limit to 20MB :D Thanks tom!

20mb Wow!

Now everyone will have a part in it, are both sound fx and bg music gonna be in it now?

wow 20 mb is good! but the load time will be long now, less is better

Yeah, but we still have to keep the filesize down, so still try and optimize your parts, just cause we have 20MB dosent mean we can just make massive parts, because we could still end up using all the space, the loading time would be longer, and we don't want to abuse the system. But yes, we will almost certainly have BG music now.

ok kl so is the menu fine atm? have you got the bios working with it yet?

At 10/4/08 05:40 PM, funkycaveman wrote: ok kl so is the menu fine atm? have you got the bios working with it yet?

Ye, the menus working fine. For the bios, I had another idea, just a simple gallery of users 100x100 images, and if you hover over it, it will come up with some info. I can code and design that myself though, don't wory. Also, it looks like its time for an

Update:

MAIN COLLAB:
Overall percentage: 36.7%
Preview: (.swf)
Filesize:11.9MB/20MB

Intro:
Preloader- funkycaveman- completed (see MAIN COLLAB)
Menu- funkycaveman- completed (see MAIN COLLAB)
Bios- me(andy70707) 5% completed (preview)
Credits- me(andy70707)- 0% completed

Parts:
Part 1- me(andy70707)- completed (.swf)
Part 2- ZooAnimal- 0% completed
Part 3- Alpharius120- 5% completed
Part 4- willobeen- 0% completed
Part 5- HandsomeJake- 0% completed
Part 6- Wolfears2- completed (.swf)
Part 7- Simple-line- 0% completed
Part 8- Uberaptor- 0% completed
Part 9- diaz123- completed (.swf)
Part 10- Zorg-o- 0% completed
Part 11- 51lver- ???
Part 12- P1raten- 70% completed (preview)
Part 13- Eric-Eazy-E-Wright- 0% completed
Part 14- Bloodspill234- 90% completed
Part 15- jeski- completed (.swf)
Part 16- SecretClock- 0% completed
Part 17- fractureboy- completed (.swf)
Part 18- awesomewhitegold- 0% completed
Part 19- open
Part 20- aKier0v101- 10% completed (preview)

Music:
Menu: Shadow Walkers :: [Preview] (listen)
Main parts: undecided

Ye, the menus working fine. For the bios, I had another idea, just a simple gallery of users 100x100 images, and if you hover over it, it will come up with some info. I can code and design that myself though, don't wory. Also, it looks like its time for an

yea ok sounds good, look forward to seeing it in the main part. ask if you want a contribution

ye, ill ask for all the user images when the collabs nearly done, and all the parts are done. Also, to the people already in the collab, you can be making a 100x100 icon.

At 10/5/08 03:12 PM, andy70707 wrote: ye, ill ask for all the user images when the collabs nearly done, and all the parts are done. Also, to the people already in the collab, you can be making a 100x100 icon.

do i make one to?

i'm signing up!

Okay, looking at your stats and newgrounds page, you look pretty new to flash, but I like your animation style, and you seem to be getting the hang of it fairly quickly, so yes, you can join (YAY! We filled all the parts again!) And funky, since there are 20 parts and the icons are 100x100, I will get 5 along the top and 4 down the sides, with 50 pixels spare on 1 side, so yuor icon wouldn't really fit, but you could make on for the credits if you want. Or we could even have the credits and bios combined, but theres already a bios link in the menu and it would take too long to change it.

Update:

MAIN COLLAB:
Overall percentage: 36.7%
Preview: (.swf)
Filesize:11.9MB/20MB

Intro:
Preloader- funkycaveman- completed (see MAIN COLLAB)
Menu- funkycaveman- completed (see MAIN COLLAB)
Bios- me(andy70707) 5% completed (preview)
Credits- me(andy70707)- 0% completed

Parts:
Part 1- me(andy70707)- completed (.swf)
Part 2- ZooAnimal- 0% completed
Part 3- Alpharius120- 5% completed
Part 4- willobeen- 0% completed
Part 5- HandsomeJake- 0% completed
Part 6- Wolfears2- completed (.swf)
Part 7- Simple-line- 0% completed
Part 8- Uberaptor- 0% completed
Part 9- diaz123- completed (.swf)
Part 10- Zorg-o- 0% completed
Part 11- 51lver- ?% completed
Part 12- P1raten- 70% completed (preview)
Part 13- Eric-Eazy-E-Wright- 0% completed
Part 14- Bloodspill234- 90% completed
Part 15- jeski- completed (.swf)
Part 16- SecretClock- 0% completed
Part 17- fractureboy- completed (.swf)
Part 18- awesomewhitegold- 0% completed
Part 19- RexRobot- 0% completed
Part 20- aKier0v101- 10% completed (preview)

Music:
Menu: Shadow Walkers :: [Preview] (listen)
Main parts: undecided

yea it would take too long to change the menu now, i will have to re-render the scenes again, the credits go at the end of the movie and can be accessed again from the main menu

come on guys, some of you made exelent progress but then stopped, and others joined without posting atall, and then I get a PM from some of them like a month later saying there gonna drop out or there gonna be really slow. Im not gonna bombard you all with PMs again, but please only join if you think you will be able to finish the part within a reasonable amount of time, and you will be able to post regular updates. I would prefer it if you post an update every 5 minuites than once every few months. Infact, funky, you can make a part too if you want, and then I can get rid of another inactive person, probably Uberaptor, or zorg-o

:Infact, funky, you can make a part too if you want, and then I can get rid of another inactive person, probably Uberaptor, or zorg-o

yea ok sure i can, seeing that theres a long deadline i could wrap somthing together, and the other parts arnt the best in the world so i would spend less time on it, but it will still be amazing, i got an idea now btw. it has sfx...

Yeah, okay, sure. You can have uberaptors' part. I still might not add SFX, but when its finished, I might find some suitable music, add it in, and see if you can still hear the SFX ok, and make sure it dosent add to the filesize. Even now that I have a 20MB limit, we could still easilly go over it again, and we don't want the loading times to be too long. Also, I wondered if I get to keep the 20MB limit permanantly, ro just for the next submission. Cause Im almost scared to submit anything until we finish the collab incase I can only use it once. Or maybe toms keeping an eye on this thread so that when I finish it he can take away my 20MB limit.

Update:

MAIN COLLAB:
Overall percentage: 36.7%
Preview: (.swf)
Filesize:11.9MB/20MB

Intro:
Preloader- funkycaveman- completed (see MAIN COLLAB)
Menu- funkycaveman- completed (see MAIN COLLAB)
Bios- me(andy70707) 5% completed (preview)
Credits- me(andy70707)- 0% completed

Parts:
Part 1- me(andy70707)- completed (.swf)
Part 2- ZooAnimal- 0% completed
Part 3- Alpharius120- 5% completed
Part 4- willobeen- 0% completed
Part 5- HandsomeJake- 0% completed
Part 6- Wolfears2- completed (.swf)
Part 7- Simple-line- 0% completed
Part 8- Funkycaveman- 0% completed
Part 9- diaz123- completed (.swf)
Part 10- Zorg-o- 0% completed
Part 11- 51lver- ?% completed
Part 12- P1raten- 70% completed (preview)
Part 13- Eric-Eazy-E-Wright- 0% completed
Part 14- Bloodspill234- 90% completed
Part 15- jeski- completed (.swf)
Part 16- SecretClock- 0% completed
Part 17- fractureboy- completed (.swf)
Part 18- awesomewhitegold- 0% completed
Part 19- RexRobot- 0% completed
Part 20- aKier0v101- 10% completed (preview)

Music:
Menu: Shadow Walkers :: [Preview] (listen)
Main parts: undecided

Yo Andy!

Been wonderin recently, can I make another part because I'm bored with nithing to do and I could bang something together easily, since as though that part I gave you was my first ever completed flash animation, and I'd love to make another, because I'm getting used to it now