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@aiden500: > Use the auto portfowarder this is a half assed way out. set the thing up properly once and never worry about it again.

@DDunit: > Why does everyone do angled bodies but straight faces? I don't get it. It makes facial features have more room to be drawn, and also makes said features easier to draw symetrically as you do not have to worry about perspective issues. Faces are difficult to draw because humans have so much experience at looking at them that mistakes become obvious very quickly and are unfortunately very easy to make look "funny" with a few misplaced pixels.

@Ryoku: > Wouldn't it be better if we removed the game editors in the released client? > > I mean not everyone is going to be an admin or mod, and it would cut down on the package size. But keep them in like a developer's edition of the client. > > Would this be a good idea? Independent editors have benefits and pitfalls. If you have an all in one client you only have to have one project file and do edits to one build. As you get multiple editors etc you start having to code features into multiple clients multiple times. For now I recommend either making a single standalone as the only way to edit (which will require substantial coding) or just leaving it with the built ins. The file size reduction just aint worth it in my opinion.

@SnowGear: > Look at my 'personal shop' Link in my sig, I trade coding features for literature and art. You can ask me if your willing to give any good code you've made yourself to me in return. What a wonderful way of handling contributions / rewards. I fully support such a system.

@Harris: > But then they could just screenshot. if you're trying to prevent it from even that, add .png functionality and give all your objects shadows / blurry edges. Makes it damned near impossible / useless to try and rip.

Eclipse 3.0 had a graphics encryption algorithm built into it that could protect your files from all but a very very dedicated person.

Nope, Azure

@Robert: > Awesome, thanks a ton, guys. > > EDIT: Modified a LOT! I didn't get a chance to touch the glacier areas yet, Renzo. But I'll get to that ASAP. For now, is the terrain nice and varied? Is the level of trees good? This is much improved from the original, the balance of trees to other items is vastly better. Personally I would like to see more variation in the cliff faces, and probably would not have used the icy blue cliffs with the snowy terrain. The icy blue I personally think of more like, icebergs, and fortresses of solid ice, not ice alongside an open snowy area. I would also have probably enlarged the central drop pool so it met with the two nearby features (the mound on the left and the valley to the right). The amount of general groundclutter seems good to me, some more variety might have been good, but I understand that these tilesets have limits. Some smaller trees would also work well if you had some, but i believe the RMXP sets were fairly lacking in this regard. Even some small rocks protruding here and there would help break that vast expanse of snow.

ftp + personal fileserver. recommend VentraIP. very good plans.

Nonsense! Easiest way is the following: After a connection with a client is achieved the server sends a "NEWS" packet updated from a file or a remote location. When the client gets the news packet they update the main menu form with The version I have been developing (not CS:DE) does something similar and pulls its content straight from the web. in simple english: client -> connects to server server sends "NEWS" to client client recieves "NEWS" and updates main menu

www.stripedelephants.com/GAMEZ/Items.rar

xppxd 1) obtain your local IP address (not your router address, as this is different again) 2) obtain your WAN IP address (this is the one that www.whatismyip.com can give you) 3) find your router model and make (brand name) 4) go to http://portforward.com and click the link from the list that is your routers model and make 5) it will show you an ad for an automatic tool. ignore it and click the top right link on the page to skip it 6) at the end of the top paragraph on the page that opens, you will see a link for a default guide. choose this. 7) FOLLOW THE GUIDE. 8) the general idea is traffic rocking up at your WAN (world) address gets forwarded from your ISP to your router, and your router then forwards it to your computer hosting the server. You only need the single port the game server is listening on to be forwarded. I recommend 8087. 9) now comes the fun bit, if people still can't connect to you, you most likely have firewall issues. Windows defender + firewall combo are bastards like this. You can change their settings to add an exception for inbound traffic on your port in your control panel. That should sort out any issues. Try it and let me know how you go. If you're still having issues and have two computers, try to connect across the LAN to the other computer, this will determine if it is a firewall or a router issue.

It could be a matter of just different markups on two products. Or maybe he sells more of the higher memory ones and can get better unit pricing on the better system, passing savings onto you the customer. Or theres other specs that are different between the two systems that arent shown there, which is quite plausible.

I also would agree with Robin, Plenty of examples of chat bubble systems out there that you could rip over to accomplish this. The battlemsg system is definitely better left for temporary data like dmg points dealt etc.

Yes this is possible, but would require a fair few changes to work well. Trick is basically adding all the extra choices in a similar manner to paperdolled items, and with the intitial selection sending it to the server with the rest of the characters details when created.

Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

yeah id agree with waves, and i think the color is perhaps a little too purple?

@Sir: > Besides, I think it turned out nice. > Some didn't like it, but I think I might use it. I say go for it, I love clusters of small islands, lets you vary up the theme heaps.

@[Cake: > Chakkra link=topic=61717.msg651989#msg651989 date=1277075371] > > Oh, And as for the spikes: >  Thats a damn good looking spider :D

``` Sub CheckSecondWInd dim RandomNumber RandomNumber = Rand(1,5) If RandomNumber = 1 Then Call GetPlayerHP(Index) If PlayerHP(Index) = 0 Then Call SetPlayerHP(Index, GetPlayerMaxHP(Index) /2) Call SetPlayerHP(Index, GetPlayerMaxMP(Index) /5) Call GetPlayerClass(Index) If PlayerClass = 0 Then Call GetPlayerGender(Index) If PlayerGender = Male Then Call MapMsg(GetPlayerMap(Index)"GetPlayerName(Index) has gained his second wind!", 15) End If If PlayerGender = Female Then Call MapMsg(GetPlayerMap(Index)"GetPlayerName(Index) has gained her second wind!", 15) End If End If If PlayerClass = 1 Then Call MapMsg(GetPlayerMap(Index)"GetPlayerName(Index) has gained his second wind!", 15) End If End If End If End Sub ```

ah irony. Total time logged in: 10 days, 18 hours and 22 minutes.

if server is on same computer, make sure your servers port is the same as the port in the client.

I think the girl and the wolf work well with this feel. A really good "cute" gui.

Love the parallax effect on those maps, works very very well. Nice shots.

@uıןɐpuǝʍb: > Hello Kitty knife fighters What an epic game name. I'd play that.