Bonk

Move it around in the form view of VB6.

I had a look into it (Google is a wondrous thing), apparently you need the GIF98.dll dependency. I haven't tried it, though.

Hasn't anyone noticed that someone as greedy and selfish, who used sweatshops to produce his over expensive gadgets coupled with horrid software has died and everyone is wailing and moaning, even those who didn't know who he was until he died, but then Dennis Ritchie, who wrote the C language, thus is probably responsible for Steve Jobs' success, died on the 8th and not a single newspaper gave a fork?

You could also have an option to train a certain type of NPC and use that for hunting, or attack it. I have no idea how difficult that would be, though.

It's moments like this when Eclipse needs a like button. Back on topic, now it's full of spam, are you thinking of adding pets into Aloria or is the rendering too much hassle?

@Casper: > Hate to agree with such a fuckwit but yeah, seems like the sensible thing to do @Bonk: > **No-one's really adding anything very useful to this thread.** You really should read what I post before either jumping to conclusions regarding the tone of them like earlier, or spamming this topic with further agreement to a post which said that no-one's adding anything useful.

 Anyway, like Serenade says, you should lock it, then unlock it when you need to post a milestone. No-one's really adding anything very useful to this thread.


It's ready when it's ready. He's got his own project to work on, which is going to come first, you realise?

Ctrl + F and search for it. Makes life a hell of a lot easier.

It's done when it's done. Don't be rushing, because programming when it's not done right causes catastrophic bugs and issues.

Oooh, Nelson? I'll pick… Nelson.

I agree with Rob, but you need to take certain things into account. Mostly how you want your game to look, there's no point using something as glossy as CS when you're making a retro with SNES graphics, just as using RMVX graphics with EO looks silly because you need to edit the crap out of them to make them work with EO. If you're not worried about how this pans out, or you're using your own style, ignore this advice and use Rob's.

Nice :) I'd say the sand is a bit too gold and needs a tad less contrast, it usually tends to be paler. The water is a little simplistic and the trees and bushes blend in a little too much with the grass, but otherwise it's pretty cool. You should also try and make the wooden house look more wooden, it's too smooth to really be wood. The grass is nicely done, it manages too look short and like grass, which is always an issue :D The trunks on the trees are very good, they're shaded properly and work well, colour-wise. Overall, very good tiles.

C-C-C-Combo breaker! Darren.

I tried implementing it again, but when I typed it all in, nothing happed. Is there anything specific I need to paste from CS:DE or is it just me being an idiot?

Necroette.

Seriously, Rob, I think I love you. Would you mind if I wrote this up in the tutorials? With credit, of course.

TBH, I'm really not that good at programming, as you can probably tell. I'm going to use a really bad chat bubble tutorial I found that's specific to EO and focus on improving that. Should be fun, right? Sorry to have wasted your time, people. :(

On compiling the client, VB highlights this line, at Font_Default. ``` 'Add up the size size = size + Font_Default.HeaderInfo.CharWidth(Asc(Mid$(Text, i, 1))) ``` D'ya have any idea what I did wrong?

@Zonova: > Wow, i didn't know you were a girl! I'm the boy _and_ the girl in that picture!

Large generalisation, but in theory, everything in CS:DE is the same as EO, except for the graphics. So if I'm not drawing the bubble shape behind the text, will I have to modify it much?

Hey :) I'm trying to rip the chat bubbles from CS:DE, except I don't want the picture of the bubble behind it. I thought I'd gather some information about how it works before copying and pasting tonnes of code. Here's the code I found in ModDirectx8: ``` Public Sub DrawChatBubble(ByVal index As Long) Dim theArray() As String, x As Long, y As Long, i As Long, MaxWidth As Long, x2 As Long, y2 As Long, colour As Long With chatBubble(index) If .targetType = TARGET_TYPE_PLAYER Then ' it's a player If GetPlayerMap(.target) = GetPlayerMap(MyIndex) Then ' change the colour depending on access colour = DarkBrown ' it's on our map - get co-ords x = ConvertMapX((Player(.target).x * 32) + Player(.target).xOffset) + 16 y = ConvertMapY((Player(.target).y * 32) + Player(.target).yOffset) - 32 ' word wrap the text WordWrap_Array .Msg, ChatBubbleWidth, theArray ' find max width For i = 1 To UBound(theArray) If EngineGetTextWidth(Font_Default, theArray(i)) > MaxWidth Then MaxWidth = EngineGetTextWidth(Font_Default, theArray(i)) Next ' calculate the new position x2 = x - (MaxWidth \ 2) y2 = y - (UBound(theArray) * 12) ' render each line centralised For i = 1 To UBound(theArray) RenderText Font_Georgia, theArray(i), x - (EngineGetTextWidth(Font_Default, theArray(i)) / 2), y2, colour y2 = y2 + 12 Next End If End If ' check if it's timed out - close it if so If .timer + 5000 < GetTickCount Then .active = False End If End With End Sub ``` Is anything sent back and forwards from the server? Is there any extra code I need to move about in order to make it work properly?

Another funny video, Cassette Boy vs. The Apprentice. If you've ever seen The Apprentice you'll laugh :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxi6QDwQyLU

Well yes, but it's A.) Another well known fact that there's no-where famous in Britain named Hadrian, and B.) No-one's ever called anything Berlin's Wall or Versaille's Palace. Oh, and watch the video. It's funny as hell :D