Devogen

@Chief: > well, i dont even know if ill win nwo cuz people dont like me now :( but I made anotehr anyways… > >  > > all custom amde by me… jsut so you dont think im "cheating" > > :( lols copy much?

Ok here is my entry. The planet, stars, lens flare were all done in 3ds max, the text in cs2 - nothing in this scene is ripped from anywhere at all. 

@Dimx: > I had the similar thing in my game :cheesy: , but i removed it because of the flicker > http://www.touchofdeathforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=34149.msg314189#msg314189 > > The reason it flickers is because the picScreen keeps refreshing causing the form to flicker. > > I would also like o find a way to fix that Hmm Im only running this on a sub standard system and get no flicker at all… wierd.

@AdrianC: > Nah, it'll probably be done by 4.0 Can it be that hard? man i havent really had a good go at it… maybe we'll work on that too.

Lol, she.. i dont blame you tho, even the photo looks like a chick. Robin: > Told him what? That my sources are good? Lets look around the Eclipse forums. Go ahead, do a search of my posts. Try and find a single one where I say 'Essence is good.' i've seen you say more along the lines of "Essence is the best 2d MMO engine out there, it beats eclipse and all the others hands down, ur all a bunch of noobs" i dont know if i can be bothered or have the time for you to go searching through the countless forums you fester in to find it. lmao, end of conversation - i cant argue with a kid who's less than half my age, its not becoming.

looks nice dude, but the font is suxzors.

@Dark: > The bg for the speech bubbles are in there. Just cut then use the alpha color. ar har.. ty

@•Rydinophor•: > lol, google is mans 2nd best friend, mate. I predict Google with be like the Oracle in hitchhikers guide to the galaxy… One day it will be a massive supercomputer you walk up to and ask it any question. Only problem is if you ask it the meaning of the universe... it will give you 199,232,354 search results to filter through.

@Dark: > Client\GFX\tiles10 > > That where you can edit the speech bubbles in any Eclipse Excuse my ignorance, but how is that going to make the chat bubbles transparent?

TBH even the big MMO companies screw this up… sometimes it does link correctly, or there is a big delay in the web info updating your game account info. Funcom is a prime example. I wanted to do a similar thing and am working on a method using PHP3 script that sends a raw text file to the servers IP address, the only issue i have is getting the server to read the right part of that text file.. but its not hard just tiome consuming. , will let you know how i go.

And I'm sure robin told you that himself. Legalities aside, this topic should be locked.

I havent yet seen Robin do anything, ever, you cant find yourself with a dedicated search. Unfortunately its peoples own gullibility that allow themselves to be manipulated by his weedy little frame.

Oh cool.. I take no credit other than googling the code and finding it, im not getting defensive of it, rather saying that i have had zero issues graphically with it. When ee3.0 comes out ill most likely port the lot over to that anyway and use dx too, much more efficient.

I have to post a QFE here. Robin is a little turd. There is no better description. I could go on and on but Spanion said it too well. I have seen robin on all the boards, acting the same way and for what? his google skills? this is Visual Basic, not rocket science. Its called Basic for a reason.

@۩ŞṗάỈᾗἷỗהּ۩: > I used to have layered windows in 7 Nations a long long time ago, I found it reduced performance, quite a bit, but bit is easy as hell to do and works great… This method has zero performance loss. Maybe your method needed some love.

I am a Sith Lord, you can be my apprentice.

Lol… brings back memories... half those 3D models i got when i bought multimedia fusion about 10 years ago... awesome. I thought about going top down 3D for the eclipse... but the walking angle is totally off. Im assuming you guys converted the walking engine to 45degrees?

@Gh0st: > ok soo 2 questions > 1) why does my translucent form flicker so bad when it's overtop of the game screen? > 2) when i switch windows… I.E. from the game to firefox... the translucent box shows up over my firefox window >.< (1) As far as the flickering goes…. ill record a low res video and post it - i get no flicker whatsoever. I currently have all my objects on frmMirage now converted to seperate transparent forms, even with them all open simultaneously i get no flicker. TBH the only thing thats a tad annoying is when you drag the transparent form around it wipes out the main viewscreen until you release the mouse button - lol but if you drag the frmMirage around, it does not wipe - i have pretty much solved this issue but its a bit buggy atm. What sort of graphics card are you using etc? id like to know for this flicker problem - you two are the only ones to have it so far, everyoe else has said works fine. (2) I added code to make the translucent windows stay ontop of all windows, but unfortunately that means ALL windows. Im sure theres a fix there... it doesnt bother me because I gave all the new forms a minimise option, thats how i deal with the issue. Ive made it so when you minimise the main frmMirage it minimises all the other forms that are currently visible also, therefore not leaving them on top. It would be easy to make it do the same when you alt-tab, i just havent bothered yet - but it fixes that problem. If you would like to remove that code, at the top of translucent.frm, remove this code: ``` SetWindowPos Me.hWnd, HWND_TOPMOST, 0, 0, 0, 0, SWP_NOACTIVATE Or SWP_SHOWWINDOW Or SWP_NOMOVE Or SWP_NOSIZE ``` But i warn you, now when you click on the frmMirage the translucent window will lose focus and also be sent to the back - making you close / open it again to see it. Welcome to come up with your own method to that problem, mine was simple finding code to keep something ontop all the time.

People pay other people for scripting?? Lmao

Count me in :P

the flaming hands look cool man.

I use Jasc Paint Shop pro tbh, version 6.

@•uberbear•: > your really good with gfx, i wish i could use you, can i use that .png image, i'm asking permission :P. That took me about 1 minute to do, let me know what you want and ill do a few for you and actually spend some time doing it.. but you are welcome to have that sure.

You know he's gonna ask how to activate admin mode next .. dont ya.

Thats one chunky sword. I cant see much of the blade tho, its a bit dark in comparison to the blue gooey stuff.