silentdemonic

I normally wall of text - so Ill try to be brief lol. I run Virtual Box its like VMWare which allows me to run Windows XP Applications from within my Windows 7 setup. Problem is, I use Visual Basic Enterprise and compile the Client Source code and the resulting client.exe then no longer executes on the Windows 7 setup despite the original shipped client.exe working fine. So could anyone give me some pointers as to what is up? The error message I get is : The version of this file is not compatible with the version of Windows you're running. Check you computer system infromation to see whether you need an x86 (32-bit) or x64 (64-bit) version of the program, and then contact the software publisher. So Im assuming that its the way I compiled it - is there some special setup I should have presetup? Thanks in advance.

First a Joke Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0W1ym3yggR4&feature=related and now a serious one :) This is Wing Chun at its finest http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1KD_0U2DoQ&feature=fvw Im just waiting for my achilles to repair and Ill be taking it up. It is by far the best MA I have read and researched just by the nature of what it is based on - countering attacks, unless a style comes up to counter counters and even then it comes down to speed and Wing Chun is based on : Rapid movement Relaxed yet Controlled strikes to the Core :D

This is true but Im always paranoid about what happens when they get up and are looking for revenge and then they can't find you so they come after someone close to you. Thats one of the fears I have about using my strength, the impact it would have on others, unless its fight or die or something extreme. Think I might look into Wing Chun, meant to be an excellent style as it relies on counter attacks and isnt an actual style designed for taking the aggressive stance but more reflecting someone elses. Anyone learning it here?

@EdSabbath: > @TimeBomb: > > > AFAIK there is no lighting, or at least real lighting, because Eclipse uses DX7, not DX8\. DX7 doesn't support lighting, but DX8 does. > > I know it isn't REAL lighting, silly. That's why I want to know how to handle the lighting. It's carried via alpha or color channel somehow. I just dunno which one or if it's direct on the map or a top layer. Tis not a good thing to call others Silly when you have not comprehended the content of what they have said. He said to you that you will need to use DX8 to achieve what you mentioned as it can not be done with DX7. Eclipse uses DX7 which would mean upgrading Eclipse to be DX8 and if you are going to do that you might want to investigate how VBGore done it just off the bat. Currently the light system is contained within a Tileset so toy with that in the meantime.

Unless the wound is fatal you will not die right away and the surge of endorphines you experience will numb most of the pain. Unless of course you are shot in some painful areas namely Stomach (acid leaks out), Brain (can be instant death), Heart (not instant but you will get very weak very fast). So you could at least use your last bit of energy to maul the person to death. To be fair though I make a habit of never getting into a fight unless its worthwhile me going to prison for the damage I plan to do. There is a rule about fighting that one should always remember: Unless you are prepared to kill your opponent from the bottom of your heart you are not prepared to fight them because your mindset will not be atuned to defeating them but rather disabling them in a non-lethal manner. and another saying I love comes from Fist of the North Star: Power without perception is virtually useless, and therefore of no true value

Mr Prince I believe the above 5 pointers to be counter productive in my experience. 1\. Assemble a team - a team is dubious about what is going on especially if its fresh you need some ground work done. This establishes your position as leader as it is your input from the get go as opposed to a split share. Whilst it is a community project - the leaders voice must be final just like a judge otherwise nobody gets anywhere. You need someone to focus admiration and resentment on so that you know who has problems instead of them growing into internal disputes. 2\. MSN or Aim - There are many people out there who hate this form of contact picture someone who has chores at home having to leave mid conversation or the fact that typing on MSN interupts with the work they are doing. I much prefer Forum posts or E-Mails. The contact is there and you end up with more detailed reports and conversation than quick fire responses such as "lol cool" and "that will be awesome". I use MSN and Aim for Social talk and general whats going ons, most will be talking to friends and contacts about other topics then up pops your window and their mindset has to bounce between the two. 3\. Having everyone contribute their ideas is a given with it being a Community project but to do this in a live conversation can lead to heated arguements if two ideas clash, when it is in the form of E-Mail or Forum post there is that period in between to focus and re-read what was said instead of replying on heated emotion. Some people also will suck at idea generation and such people can develop their skills in idea formation by listening to others and taking notes for future reference. 4\. Theme for graphics - this is dependant on the game you are making, I would much rather play a game that came out in a month and released patch upgrades to replace graphics than one I had to wait 6 months for and then settle with no patch updates other than features and bug fixing. Creating updates such as the ones mentioned can be good for your project as it gives you something to do in terms of showing your public you are still working and releasing upgrades. Something is refreshing about that - "I wonder what will be in the next patch". 5\. Not sure if that was a question but I think it is so yeah the intention is PvP. The way I propose fr this project and future ones is the following using Agile development (God never thought something in Uni would come in handy lol). 1\. Game Design Document Completed. 2\. Posting of said Game Design Document for Feedback. 3\. Amend Game Design Document based on Feedback. 4\. Break development into set release periods - delegation of tasks. 5\. Open spots for the team with each role assigned a task which is independant of the others so nobody has to rely on anybody except themselves in terms of producing work. The Leader in all this will maintain that things stay on track via Forum post updates, those with issues can post to the Forum and as for MSN / Aim Contact it can be done to socialise and get to know each other or use the Forum Chatroom. But actual schedule development discussion will be as and when usually expect a peak flurry of posts after each daily update. So given the above - nothing will be starting until that GD is ready xD.

Aye I have my own project working on at the moment - I was mainly starting this up for those who have no team and yet are not suited to other projects whilst at the same time want to be part of a project that would have a short development cycle mainly for the experience of actually seeing something take shape from start to finish. Was also going to document it as a tutorial on how to produce a Game from the initial planning stages right up to distribution - Will likely take the best part of a month start to finish. But I see the burn of the past failures might make this hard to initialise. Hopefully the G.Doc I post later might get the ball rolling and for some to take a leap of faith ^_^.

What did you have on your website in particular? Torrents, Warez, p0rn? Also can you stick to default font color, my eyes kinda sting with that orange. Ty

Out of curiousity could I ask why you would not be involved? Is it a worry it might fail or some other quarry? Im only asking to see if the resulting GDoc may persuade you - dont want to bug you for no reason heh :) and thanks for the wishes of Good Luck. I always wanted to see BR turned into a game. Too true Az, the style of the film was amazing :D also where is the contradiction? Surely you didnt mean the minor spelling mistake of using "was" instead of "wasn't" you wouldnt make a post just for that would you ? :)

ZOMG Kreator you play BG :O wow I used to play that solidly, hand constantly on the pause button to ready my attacks haha. By any chance have you tried Dungeon Siege? It is an excellent game with a fun story line alas I play it solo these days heh. btw thank you both for the kind words - I thought at times I come across as a little too opinionated like I have a reply for everything lol. My thanks to you both ^_^

Well Im not quite sure who was leading those projects but I could probably guess they were 1) Not very good at Mapping 2) Not very good at Scripting 3) Did not understand when to boot someone off the project and when to praise them 4) Had a 24/7 Server so people could work when they wanted 5) Setup the discussion of project BEFORE it started and then have those who agree stay and those who disagree leave there and then 6) Was willing to sort out the Website, Forum and General upkeep of the project 7) Was designing this type of game, in fact I would place money that all community projects were likely Quest orientated and such 8) Responded to criticism in a negative way and pissed a lot of people off in the process 9) Likely posted in the WIP thread from day one saying "Im going to setup a community project - you guys just log in and can help whenever" with no real leadership 10) Most important of all, was**n't*** able to keep the project afloat in the rare case scenario that they were the last one left. Well I fulfill all those 10 aspects and I do not see then how you can say it will fail. On my personal project I give blueprints of maps before mappers map. We work on nothing else until an area is done etc and the one guy who was rude was pulled to one side and told so. So I ask, what evidence other than the mistakes of others as listed above do you have to say this project will fail? By Community project I mean I am willing to accept anyone of any skill level into the project and assigned to a task of appropiate skill level until the Game is done. Also I wonder how many of you are looking at my post count and likely judging me as some kind of noob. How far from the truth you could be - I hope that is not what is backing up your assumptions :) I think better of you all to believe that would be the case. *just for you Az :D

Mr Prince SkyNight care to explain why it would fail?

I always live by the rule that you should never take out your own frustrations or anger on someone who was not the cause of them. Regardless of what happened in your life, they were not the ones to cause such misfortunes so why must they put up / experience the consequences of such.

@Azure: > Ignore her. That's all. If she likes you at all it'll drive her mad for you to ignore her. My Girlfriends **Ex** did that to her - I must remember to thank him :) lol

I would say dont wait it out, as bad as this might seem - I got my current girlfriend while she was on a BREAK with her current man. I happened to meet up with her the morning before the evening they were due to meet. We hit it off so well that it developed into something more and 2 years down the line we still together. I posted here a few weeks back about her and I can say she actually cut down on her habit so hell its gotta be love - ontopic now. If a girl is ignoring your phone calls and not noticing you are there think about why you might do that? Most cases it is because she is generally pissed off with you. You say she over reacted but did you let that expression come to surface. Nothing is worse for a girl is if she thinks she is over reacting and blowing things out of proportion cos its personal to them and you should show empathy. Example : My girl and her current drug habit compared to my loss of mother I could never say she is being silly by having drugs consume her and think that 2 days with no weed is no biggy compared to me losing my mum and vice versa because each persons pain is individual to them. So the first step I would suggest is the Step of sincerity - cut the flowers junk - flowers dont speak. stop the phone calls junk, phones have no faces, WORSE of all do not consult with her friends, doing that is like saying "hey I dont know you enough so Ima dig up dirt on your from your friends" worse of all you are spreading your personal business out without her consent. Itd be like her talking about your manhood if it had a wart on it with your friends so that she could get advice on how to treat it. SURE the intent of goodwill is there but do you want your friends to know about ya lil friend? What you need to do is take a firm stance, head to her house, knock on her door and apologise to her first of all for thinking her outburst was over the top and that you were not thinking of her when you took such a stance it was rude of you. Tell her and look deep in her eyes you love her and that you really want to listen to her and that you wasnt aware how you had pissed her off and you were a fool to do so - that you got so used to her being happy/chilled/insert compimentry word here that the outburst threw you off guard and wasnt prepared for it (this is a suttle mind injection to let her see she was out of character without actually digging at her). At this point with her being there and you having come so far to see her she will respond with either : 1) Talk 2) Shut door on your face (at which point assume its over) 3) Look back at you silent and at this point realise she just stood there and listened to you - thats progress, only you know your girl enough to take it from there. Overview : (shame on you if you skipped to here) Go to her. Do not use a Middleman be it Phone, E-Mail, Fax, Her Friends. Take the one thing that she has loved and may possibly love again - yourself. She can reject your calls, flowers and so forth. But it isnt until she rejects you that you are going to know how she truly feels and if she doesnt then she will be willing to talk as she wont want to lose you. But do not let it come across as an ultimatum - she must feel like its her choice whether to love you or not. I could post some manipulation tactics about how to direct the mind but its not really morally right. xD good luck

@YamYam: > I don't get why you should care what others think about your looks really? Most people just try to talk you down anyways nowadays.. So why bother listening and not instantly punch them in the face? ;D Their blood would splatter on my beautiful face and hair XD lol

Granted but that same low input of skill allows many people to pick up and play it, you can take an Eclipse game and make it dependant on skill by adjusting how you design the game. E.g Sniper Rifle, have people fire it by clicking on a spot, this mimics the setup of a real sniper who unless he has a spotter (forgot the proper name) is a little blind to his nearby surroundings. Likewise have a person able to block certain weapons by executing a block at the time of an attack. Its a system I plan to use in my current game which allows you to execute varied attacks and involves you blocking or countering said attack. Laying explosives/Traps for players to come by, attacking at night time as opposed to day if your weapon loadout is rubbish. I agree that the aspect of controlling a reticule is not there but in terms of the skill and knowledge involved in planning your attack and staying alive I think it will draw out the thinkers and could be a great game with simple pick up and play values.

Ah I read The Ship its a different setup though rather than focusing around nobody finding out this is all about kill or be killed should be a lot more fast paced. The reason I thought it would be ideal for Eclipse is due to the simple nature of developing the game and yet the amount of features that can be emulated. It would have that pickup and play charm and each game would always be different with the usage of projectiles and melee weapons it would be one big PvP but with the addition of Danger Zones and such it would force people who like to camp to keep on the move. I would likely want to make a few source edits to remove the names from showing above heads so that people could hide in bushes and such, e.g you are chasing me with a rifle I dive into some bushes on the next map, you walk past and I stab you from behind. Have some diverse weapons e.g Sniper Rifle you fire by clicking on the person making it a deadly weapon, little twists like that which one programmer could do whilst other members of Community based on skill could design those 5 areas and weapons/items to be used. The time function and day/night which Eclipse has by default I feel would suit this to a T. I wouldnt want to play such a game in 3D as for some reason I just dont feel the same Charming feeling within 3D Games, there is something sweet and casual about the 2D Game type. Especially if you were only looking to play 30 minutes at a time - would definately focus on the social elements of the Game such as the lobby/school waiting session before a game starts.

I have noticed there is quite a lot of people who are not in teams or have mentioned a community project. My proposal is this - if you have seen the film Battle Royale, this will make sense, if not here is a trailer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-T7yPJVvXw As brief overview the Films operates in the following way: Group of participants are forced into a Game of survival They have 3 days to kill each other otherwise their explosive collars detonate During the days their are danger zones which if you enter you will die, this is to force confrontation Only one person can be the winner and live on Weapons are randomly handed out at the start A Psycho is included within the 'Game' who loves to kill and is very good at it For more information please watch the film or view http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Royale_%28film%29 As you can imagine there is a lot of potential to turn this into a Game within a short time span. I will be making a Game Doc and posting it in the WIP section soon, the way it will work as a community project is that there will be one large region totally around 45 maps. Within this region will be feature areas (things that make that part of the region 'different') which will be 3x3 in total there will be 5 of these making up the 45 Map area. Each Game session to mimic the 3 days will be 30 minutes long. Each day lasting 10 minutes, 5 mins daylight, 5 mins night time. More details to come in the WIP thread. If you are interested please post any discussion or feedback here, for the time being this is not a WIP Game thread but more a discussion of a community project. This would allow at least 5 mappers to handle one region each. a Few people to do the weapons and balance the stats etc and they could all be done independantly of each other.

Swan Lake Remix http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMtsM34Qtm8&feature=related

THORN START THE RPG :D Im all excited its my first one ever :P nah jk no rush :)

Yeah she loves them kinda games :D we recently completed Saints Row 2, then New Super Mario Bros, currently working way through need for speed Nitro on wii xD I tried to get her to play Monster Hunter on Wii but it phailed.

http://www.youtube.com/v/tMjpw19aqqk Looks like I might be AFK a while lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov7NsqkXatw&feature=player_embedded This Game looks like it will be one of those Gems to play with the guys or Gals bugsy Fire :D

Viciousdead you should try altering regime. Instead of doing 51 push ups 67 pull ups 95 squats try the following: 3 sets of 20 push ups with a 30 sec break in between each set 3 sets of 30 pull ups with a 30 sec break in between each set 3 sets of 40 squats with a 30 sec break in between each set. Once you can do that without the last 5 of the last set causing you any problems for 3 sessions running, up the amount by 10, still doing 3 sets and the same rest period. That will build Endurance and Tonage. Oh and in terms of order, do Squats, Push ups then Pull ups. Apologies if you werent actually seeking or appreciate advice.