At 7/23/08 10:18 PM, Senti wrote: WAIT.

Was she hot?

Nah, she was fugly :P

At 7/23/08 10:45 PM, mexifry895 wrote: Yeah.
Cash isnt too big of an issue.
My dad says if I could make a legitimate website, he help me try to go public. :p
But then again, that's what he does for a living.

Wow, that would be pretty awesome if you could get your dad to back the whole website. I wish my parents would actually help me out financially...Oh well, I'm not willing (or able to) make a good website that would actually get hits, so it doesn't really matter

Hey how is this looking so far..

Use your umbrella to catch the rain.

Mouse to move umbrella
When watertank is full press space to empty

Scoring:
Blue rain is 5 points

Green rain is 10 points

Red rain is 20 points and emptys your watertank

Emptying your water tank when full is 20 points

Missing rain is -5 points

Flooding your watertank is -50 points

At 7/23/08 11:14 PM, Treerung wrote: Hey how is this looking so far..

Its alright so far. The thing that really bugs me is the umbrella tilting back and forth. It would be better and less annoying if it tilting according to mouse movements.

Yeah I was thinking of doing that..
But there is alot already going on in the game and I think too many details will distract some people from the actual game.

Yeah Im aware of that which is why if you noticed you only get as many points as water you have collected..
Meaning if you collect 3 raindrops you get 3 points

Rather than write code to fix this..I give an incentive getting 11 raindrops which is the amount you need to fill you tank gives you 20 points..

At 7/23/08 07:03 PM, Treerung wrote: I just realised my level icon is exactly the same as Toast..

Then start leveling up. I didn't deposit points since 2005 :P

At 7/24/08 04:09 AM, Toast wrote: Then start leveling up. I didn't deposit points since 2005 :P

Almost the same...

Except for some reason after the redesign my level went up.

Pretty nice game Treerung, the only thing that bugged me was the collisions between the droplets and umbrella; since you made the whole umbrella one big boundary hittest and umbrellas aren't really square at all it's a bit obvious. Also you might want to speed up the umbrella or add an optional keyboard controlled setting.

Gah two people have recently caught up to my level, ZRB and that funkycaveman guy, but I'm a low level anyway since I made a new account.
Oh and Thomas, your level went up since the levels went from up to 30 to up to 60, they had to make the level boundaries shorter ;]

Flash Movie Sponsor Site
I already thought of it, but who watches a movie more than once? If you did sponsor them it would be such a low amount it may not even be worth having a sponsor.

At 7/24/08 04:29 AM, Thomas wrote: Except for some reason after the redesign my level went up.

Really? My level went down. weird.

At 7/24/08 09:48 AM, MrMacro wrote:

At 7/24/08 04:29 AM, Thomas wrote: Except for some reason after the redesign my level went up.

Really? My level went down. weird.

It wouldn't have gone down. Everyones levels went up. Before the redesign there were 30 levels now there are 60.

At 7/24/08 09:54 AM, UnknownFury wrote:

At 7/24/08 09:48 AM, MrMacro wrote:

At 7/24/08 04:29 AM, Thomas wrote: Except for some reason after the redesign my level went up.

Really? My level went down. weird.

It wouldn't have gone down. Everyones levels went up. Before the redesign there were 30 levels now there are 60.

Yeah, even Luis got caught in it :P

At 7/24/08 10:01 AM, Paranoia wrote: Yeah, even Luis got caught in it :P

Ahhh, the good ol' days of the level 1 mod :P

At 7/24/08 09:54 AM, UnknownFury wrote: It wouldn't have gone down. Everyones levels went up.

I believe there were some people within a certain EXP-range that actually did level down, those on the "lower part" of level 9 I think.

At 7/24/08 12:31 PM, knugen wrote: I believe there were some people within a certain EXP-range that actually did level down, those on the "lower part" of level 9 I think.

I remember when I made an other account, it was level 2 to begin with.

Warning: rubbish actionscript ahead

i have a bit of a problem with some code I'm working on, which I hope you guys can help me with. It's pretty much the first substantial piece of AS3 I've ever wrote so bear with me here.

I have declared a few variables for directional purposes, gravity and such like so:

var ax:Number = 0;
var ay:Number = 0;
var vx:Number = 0;
var vy:Number = 0;
var gravity:Number = 0.15;
var friction:Number = 0.9;
var jump:Boolean = false;

I have an enter frame function that, as of now, does little else than calling the function for character movement:

function gameLoop(event:Event) {
	characterMovement();
}

The characterMovement function looks like this:

function characterMovement():void {
	if (inAir() == true) {
		friction = 0.99;		
		}
		else {friction = 0.9;}
	if (jump == true) {
		ay = -20;
		jump = false;
	}
	else {ay = 0;}
	vx += ax;
	vy += ay;
	vy += gravity;
	vx *= friction;
	hero.x += vx;
	hero.y += vy;
	checkGroundCollision();
	checkWalls();
}

There's a function to check which key has been pressed:

function onKeyIsDown(event:KeyboardEvent):void {
	switch (event.keyCode) {
		case 87 :
			if (inAir() == true) {
				jump = false;
			} else {
				jump = true;
			}
			break;
		case 65 :
			ax = -1.5;
			break;
		case 68 :
			ax = 1.5;
			break;
		case 83 :
			break;
		default :
			break;
	}
}

The inAir function checks whether or not the main character is in the air (yeah, really):

function inAir():Boolean {
	if (hero.y < ground.y - ground.height / 2 - hero.height / 2) {
		return true;
	} else {
		return false;
	}
}

Last but not least there's a groundCollision function that checks whether the character has hit the ground, and it sets the 'jump' Boolean to false if it has.

function checkGroundCollision():void {
	if (hero.hitTestObject(ground)) {
		hero.y = ground.y - ground.height / 2 - hero.height / 2;
		jump = false;
	}
}

The actual problem :/
When I press the 'w' key I get different results. Sometimes the character jumps very high, sometimes the character jumps very low. I thought when the W key is pressed it called the EnterFrame function every time, meaning that it would only 'jump' only once (because of the 'jump' boolean), apparently it doesn't. What am I doing wrong here?

Here's the .swf so you can see it for yourself.

I haven't used AS3 like at all, but my guess is that this might have something to do with it:

case 87 :
	if (inAir() == true) {
		jump = false;
	} else {
		jump = true;
	}

I don't really get why you would set jump as false if the character is in the air and the jump key is pressed? What happens if you do this instead:

case 87 :
	if (!inAir()) {
		jump = true;
	}

At 7/24/08 01:51 PM, knugen wrote: I got a new name

Man. i still think it was a horrible idea changing your name, i'm so not used to it, i dont know how to pronounce it and I liked the old name better >=( copyright or not.

Change it back, or else Ill have to change my name to Coolio.

I want to change my name to just "Wurmy" but some meany took it long ago :c

On another note today I finally beat solitaire and minesweeper for the first time ever. How very exciting my life is c:

At 7/24/08 02:12 PM, Wurmy1029 wrote: On another note today I finally beat solitaire and minesweeper for the first time ever. How very exciting my life is c:

Just played minesweeper for the first time in years. Completed it in 104 seconds on beginner.

At 7/24/08 01:51 PM, knugen wrote: I don't really get why you would set jump as false if the character is in the air and the jump key is pressed?

That's the result bad choice for variable naming.

The jump boolean is set to true when the W-key is pressed. The characterMovement function checks whether or not jump is true. When it is true, 20 is added to the y-velocity of the character. After 20 is added the boolean is set to false so the next time characterMovement is called 20 won't be added to vy. By using the boolean I thought it would only add the y velocity to the vy-variable once, when the w-key is pressed and the character is on the ground.

The inAir function only checks whether or not the character is on the ground. Basiaclly it makes sure you can't jump whilst the character is still in mid-air. So that works, I just can't figure out how I can fire the jumping part only once.

What happens if you do this instead:

It doesn't do anything :). Thanks for trying to help though.

At 7/24/08 02:31 PM, SpamBurger wrote: We should have a NG Ashkinsripturs Collab 2 (first one here). Who agrees?

I'm down ;D

At 7/24/08 02:31 PM, SpamBurger wrote: We should have a NG Ashkinsripturs Collab 2 (first one here). Who agrees?

There was a second one planned, but it epically failed.

At 7/24/08 02:31 PM, SpamBurger wrote: We should have a NG Ashkinsripturs Collab 2 (first one here). Who agrees?

ASHKINSKRIPT THREE POINT OH

Seriously though, we should make an effort for it. Not to the extent of actually learning to draw - maybe just something like the massively underrated MGS Funnies collab.

At 7/24/08 03:23 PM, Paranoia wrote:

At 7/24/08 02:31 PM, SpamBurger wrote: We should have a NG Ashkinsripturs Collab 2 (first one here). Who agrees?

ASHKINSKRIPT THREE POINT OH

WHAT NOW?

Seriously though, we should make an effort for it. Not to the extent of actually learning to draw - maybe just something like the massively underrated MGS Funnies collab.

Agreed.

What do you guys think about my no-time-spent-on-it Flash?

:(

COOLS 3DS PARTICLE WHAT

Why is it so smooth?

http://www.dangries.com/Flash/Experiment s/Particles/bitmap3D_twoPics.html

24356? 233442? shit, what was that kids name again?

Remember that person once upon a time, who drew really bad sigs, but someone told him they were great, and then everyone joined in the joke, until eventually he figured it out and left ng? Im trying to find the sig he drew me..

At 7/24/08 02:09 PM, Coolio-Niato wrote: Man. i still think it was a horrible idea changing your name, i'm so not used to it

You will be :)

i dont know how to pronounce it

Why would you pronounce it?

and I liked the old name better >=( copyright or not.

Oh well..

Change it back, or else Ill have to change my name to Coolio.

I can't say that "threat" has any bigger impact on me.. Especially so because coolio is already taken ;)

At 7/24/08 02:31 PM, Xeptic wrote:

At 7/24/08 01:51 PM, knugen wrote: What happens if you do this instead:

It doesn't do anything :). Thanks for trying to help though.

No problems man, hope you work it out :)

At 7/24/08 04:23 PM, x-factor11 wrote: 24356? 233442? shit, what was that kids name again?

The first one I came to think of when I saw those numbers was 23450, but considering your description I guess it's not him?