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In the attributes menu there is an option, I believe it's called spawn. Add it to the map in the area you want it to spawn, it will spawn in any of the locations you place on the map. You could also program the sprite to spawn in a range.

If I were to rebuild the engine's sprite system from a single preloaded image split into 16 motions to a preloaded folder containing .gif images of a single sprite (for each sprite) where each gif pic would have a different use, would it slow the client down? if so by How much?

@Rory: > Right now most (or all) Eclipse games simply work simply work like rolling dices to see how much damage you do. There is no skill involved. I am working on such a skill involving system with Elycontria. I also agree with Pinkamena, lots of flashy and wide variety attacks.

Not really a "Skill Tree" more like a skill bunch. Example: You have 15 skill areas, and you have to spend time leveling each on it's own. Say you normally use swords, you will be growing your Sword Proficiency skill, but not your Blunt skill. But there would be more then just combat related skills in there too. Say Animal Control. Obviously with a leveling & point system you would be able to grind and never spend time with raising animals, but could max it in a few levels; But with a system entirely based on leveling each skill as it's own you'd actually be required to spend time in the area your trying to Level. What would you say about this Skill based system then? [Edit] The Skill Based system was my Idea, the Other one was his and based off of the "The Elder Scrolls IV".

Awhh… I had an art history report a few months ago, I should have put this video in my Powerpoint.

My brother and me had a, Debate the other day on which system would be easier to both understand and program. I'm looking to the eclipse community on help with this one. 1) Skill system, which allows players to level their skills, and then those skills grow your character in all aspects. 2) Level system where each stat governs a different skill's power, and upon each level the player gets to add points into each skill. (Skills are not spells, let's just get this straight.) A second discussion we had was if there are 3 types of armor which are created in different ways, should there be more then 1 skill for the three?

so… voting starts or ends on November 8th? Just asking cause the first story was posted on October 31st.

Finished my story, kinda long. (Time taken Approx. 6 hours. Yes I made it up as I went.) WARNING: this story is graphic and contains a lot of details of gruesome scenes. You have been Warned. The Haunted ~~House~~ ~~Cave~~ Unknown There is a girl, whom was no older then 8 years old. She is sitting in a white room with nothing but a small bed against the furthest wall from the door, and a desk with a single drawer and a few papers crudely drawn on messily laying on top; It is a small room, but enough room for a small child to play inside of. The Girl is kneeling down on the floor playing with a doll; a brown teddy bear with a missing eye-button. The child wears a brightly colored blue dress with a white apron piece stitched onto the front, and an equally colored bow on top of her golden hair; long and straight as if just brushed. You hear her mother call out to her from the floor below, "Alice, are you ready yet?" she said. Then Alice slowly stands up, while still holding the teddy in one hand; now you can see that she is wearing bright colored blue shoes as well. She quickly walks to the door and as she opens it, she drops the teddy bear. She then runs down the stairs in a frantic manner as she calls out to her mother, "Yes, I am ready, are we going?" Her mother replies, "Yes it's already dark, but we need to hurry before Nana gets back from the store, she's getting bread for that soup you like." Then Alice and her mother leave through the front door, but before they even get to the white picket fence in front of the house, Alice's brother Pops out from the bushes, and scares both Alice and their mother. He say's "What's wrong Alice, I thought Halloween was your favorite?"Alice replies to her older brother; whom looks to be around 16 and stands over 5 feet tall "Yes, I love Halloween, but not when you jump out of the bushes, and another thing, don't you think you should go as something other then Santa?" The brother Replies, "Well, It's always made people laugh, besides I lost a bet remember? Anyways, mother you go inside and call me when Nana comes, I'll take Alice." Their Mother replies, "Well alright, just be back before 9." Then Alice and her brother take off down the street. At first they just hit houses for candy, but after a while Alice gets bored, "I want to go to a haunted house!" she exclaims.Her brother replies, "I was wondering when you were going to want to stop this baby stuff. Alright, my friends are renting this place for a haunted house, but it's in a warehouse on the other side of town. You game for walking a few miles? we'll hit houses on the way." Alice replies, "You bet!" So they head off to the Industrial part of town, but They get a phone call, "Oh, uhh… Hi mother. ... Yea I lost track of time, but Alice doesn't even seem tired. ... well, tell her we'll be back before it gets cold. ... Alright, Bye. That was mother, she said we have to be back about 9:30, so we have time." Alice's brother says. As they come up to the warehouse, they both stand in awe at how terrifying it looks. They both walk up a flight of steps to get to the front door, to find out It's open. As soon as they walk into the front door to begin exploring the haunted house, they fall through the floor. Alice says, "What... Where are we?" Her brother replies, "I don't know but they can't drop people through the floor like that, someone's going to complain about a broken hip or something." They begin exploring the maze of swirly darkness, thick tree leaves, and fog, and after a few minutes, they're lost.Alice asks, "How big is this place? It's like we've been waling through a jungle for an hour."Her brother says, "It's only been 2 minutes, but still, if this is a haunted house, why is there no people, no monsters, no..." A loud scream is projected through the long passage. "That's more like it." they begin pushing past all the brush quicker to find a way out. they eventually get to a clearing, but what they see is unlike anything they've ever seen in any haunted house. They find themselves inside of a cave with a large crater in the center, on the ledge below lay a dead body that smells unlike your standard Halloween decoration, a foul aroma like a gutted horse and burning flesh fills the air, making Alice and her brother gag. On the other side of the crater are a few house like structures made of wood, falling apart and broken. There is a bridge to the left of them supported with nothing but two posts at each side. As the two continue to look for a way out of this cave, they find more and more dead human bodies; a scene that makes them even more sick to the stomach. Alice says, "I think I'm going to be sick." Her brother says, "Me too, they've gone overboard with this. We need to see if anyone else is down here. If Elisabeth is here she should know how to get out, I've had enough." They keep looking through this cave and it's system of tunnels. Soon they hear another scream, but this time a voice with it, "Ahh!!! Stay back, I... I'm warning you... Somebody help!!!"Three gunshots go off in the other direction, and a drip of blood falls onto Alice's dress. Noticing the blood, she freaks out, her brother quickly grabs a small flashlight from his coat pocket and shines it up to find another dead body, this one hanging by a rope tied to it's foot. They continue moving trying to find a way out, frantically. As their running down a tunnel the flashlight shines over a bright red object. "What was that?" exclaims the brother as he searches for it again, but cannot seem to locate it, "Oh well, I guess it was nothing."he turns around and finds a man with burnt flesh razor sharp teeth, and a blade in his hand walking towards them, this man however has a sinister look to him, as blood slowly begins to drip from his mouth. The brother quickly calls out "Carl? Carl is that you? come on take off the mask, Alice needs to get home it's late." but no response. The man then lunges at the brother with the blade, but before the blade makes contact the man's head is ripped off it's body by a sharp object passing right through it's neck. As the man falls to the floor, with the blade nearly missing the brother, a pretty young girl apperes. She says, "Frank, what are you doing here? Didn't you get the message I sent you? I told you it was some kinda trap, the people who allowed us to rent this place, their trying to kill us, and since we decorated it like a haunted house, people are comming in and falling prey to their sick game." Frank replies "Message?! What message?" he checks his phone, only to find a message that says "Don't come to the haunted house, the owner of the warehouse set us up, he's built an underground layer into the warehouse with a trap door in the front. It's filled with some kind of genetically altered humans or something. Sorry to cut this message short, but the light is attracting unwanted visitors. -Elisabeth" Frank says, "Well what do we do? there has to be some way out of here." Elisabeth replies, "I've been in here for a day, and although I've killed more then 30 of these things more seem to take their places. All kinds of them too, Light attracts them and sound, almost like zombies without the infection. The only 2 doors I've found are locked with more then 15 master locks, and who knows what's on the other side, and the other was open but..." Alice says, "Brother, I'm scared, are we going to get out of here soon?" Frank says, "I really don't know. But Elisabeth. What is on the other side of the door?" Elisabeth stands quietly, as if listening for something. After a few seconds replies, "Follow me, I'll explain later! We've been found." They quickly run down the nearest passage, and crawl through a small hole into a back room of one of the small houses. Elisabeth keeps them quiet for a few seconds before explaining the situation further. "Ok, now that their not after us anymore I can finish, but we have to keep our voices down. Frank, keep Alice from looking to her left, it's gruesome." Frank looks over to witness a tragic even taken place a while ago; a dead body on a chair, there is a .38 special in it's hand and a large hole in the side of it's head, A box of ammo lays on the floor with no ammo inside, and a splatter of blood on the wall. Frank asks, "Elisabeth, where are the others?" Elisabeth says, "Carl was killed first, he saw a man crying on the floor, the man stood up and shoved his hand through his stomach. The man's hand was disoriented when it came through the other side, but it was as if he felt nothing of it. I picked up the nearest thing I could find and hit the man with it, killing him, or 'It' is more perferrable. As for Steve, he fell off a ledge, something came from the ceiling and attacked him out of nowhere. And when we thought we were safe, something came through a wall and took Crystal." Frank feels sick, and feels his sister crimp to his side; as though she's somewhat safer there. Elisabeth continues, "The Three who remained took up arms, and decided to fight back. we grabbed anything we could and started fighting back. Amanda was the next to go, as soon as we had killed a few of them more showed up and we were outnumbered. I took a metal object that was laying on a table from inside one of these houses and started hacking away at flesh, I was relentless with my attacks. Unfortunately, Amanda ran up beside me when I was swinging, she had found another metal weapon and I guess decided to join me, I hit her and sliced her neck wide open. She died in less then 10 seconds, but we had won, or so I thought." Frank replies in horror, "That, that's awful, how could you? Why, would you, didn't you think of stopping?" Elisabeth says, "I had not time to react, one second I'm swinging my weapon, the next she's lying on the floor. Besides It won't matter unless we find a way out." Frank replies, "We must make it out, wait... have you tried calling the cops?" Elisabeth replies, "Yes, but unfortunately they just told us we could get arrested for calling the police about a 'haunted house'. Anyways, I was separated from Jim, I don't know if he's still alive." Frank asks, "And Alex?" Elisabeth replies, "Alex never showed, said he caught a cold. Anyways, I can hear footsteps, we should keep it down for a while." They stop talking as footsteps and screams fill the cave. After two hours, the sounds fade, Elisabeth says, "Stay here, I'm going to look for a way out, or at least bring a few more people out of harms way, see that gun? there should be 5 rounds in it still, use them if you have to. It will call them to you but I'll run back if I hear them. Keep your heads down too." Frank quickly asks, "About the other door, what was behind it? also, what if you don't come back?" Elisabeth answers, "Behind the door was a room with a single light, and a giant meat grinder below a narrow catwalk. And if I'm not back in 30 minutes, You both need to grab the nearest weapon and stay strong, Run from here and find a new safe location, they'll find you eventually, just keep running." Elisabeth leaves out of the door silently, and the two now wait. They wait in the small room for 35 minutes before deciding, it's time to leave, so they search the house for the nearest things they can find as weapons and head out. As they leave out the front door, they see Elisabeth helping an injured woman across the bridge as a hoard of the things follow behind, some falling over the cliff's edge others making it across the edge. Frank tells Alice to wait inside the house, then he runs over to Elisabeth to assist her. when Elisabeth makes it across the bridge with the lady, Frank makes a quick decision to cut the bridge ropes, making the things on the bridge fall 100 feet to the crater's bottom. Elisabeth gets the lady inside, then runs back out to help frank. She sees that he's cut the bridge tells him, "You know that will only slow them right? There's a passage on the right side of the crater, it's narrow enough for one person to slide across, but they will climb." Frank asks, "How many of these things are there? I didn't see this many when we came in, where did you go?" Elisabeth replies, "I found a new passage, this one had a very steep tunnel going up, there was light at the end of it too." Frank says in excitement, "A way out?" Elisabeth replies, "Yea I think so, but this lady was in a nearby cache screaming her head off, I couldn't scout it." Frank replies, "Hmm... after we finish these, we've got to try to climb it." Elisabeth then says, "Well looks like they've climbed. You ready?" The two begin chopping, slashing, and killing the 100 or so things that climb up from the crater. As each one is killed blood squirts out from them splashing all over everything around, and after all the things are dead, the two take a look at each other; looking like warriors in a video game, with bloodied bodies and weapons in hand, cuts and torn clothing. Elisabeth says, "not too bad, a few cuts and bruises, but there's some alcohol in the bathroom for that." Frank replies, "Yea, lets just make sure Alice and the lady are safe." They head back into the house, but not before Elisabeth takes one final look around to make sure none of the things see them entering the building. Frank locates the bathroom and finds the alcohol in the medicine Cabinet, he begins applying it with a clean cloth to his wounds so that they don't get infected; It stings, but only for a few seconds. After washing up, he comes down to the living room of the small house, to find clean clothes on a chair. He asks, "Where did these come from?" Elisabeth replies, "Found them in the bedroom, seems a family actually used to live here. Makes me wonder if this cave was actually built here or if the warehouse was built on top of it." The Lady wakes up on the couch, overhearing the conversation, and starts talking. The group stop their conversation to listen to the lady. "So, It's true. I've read many books about an old town that was sealed underground by a warehouse. The books said that it was home to a government lab, that was experimenting with human re-biology." Elisabeth asks, "Human re-Biology, what is that?" The old lady answers, "Kind of like splicing, it's a scientific theory that if you splice specific genes, not any will do, from specific animals and enter them into unborn children, that the children would absorb the new genes and thus become a new race of sub-Human. They were supposed to be used for military operations. But something went wrong, and the Unborn children would cut themselves out of their mothers, and feed on them. the reports say that the eyes of these children were red as blood and shined when light hit them." Elisabeth asks, "What kind of book was that from a horror? too creepy." The lady replies, "No it was the news report of Suspicious 21st century science, the 18th edition. A series of news reports from the 20th century that would scare even scientists today, comprised into a magazine." Frank says, "Okay, creepy. Oh, umm I don't think I've caught a name. Hi, I'm Frank, and that's my sister Alice." Elisabeth says, "Oh, yea! I'm Elisabeth." The lady replies, "Oh sorry about that, my name's Helga, I'm a scientist. And when I saw that this place was made into a haunted house, I just had to see. But this..." Elisabeth says, "We know, not what anyone expected. being deceived by the owner and chased by these things was not how I expected my Halloween to go." Helga says, "Oh, so you rented this place?" Elisabeth replies, "Yea, but me and my friends fell pray to this horrible place. We decorated the outside, then came inside to finish with a few curtain walls, we got stuck, and were hunted one by one. As far as I know, I'm the only survivor of our group." Helga says, "That's horrible, we'll call the police if we ever get out of here." Frank says, "It's getting late, how safe are we here for the night? Alice has got to go to sleep, and I'm a little tired as well." Elisabeth says, "Well, we killed at least 100 of them today, we should have pushed the message that we mean business, and arn't to be taken lightly. I'd say we're good for a few hours, they'll likely attack in the middle of the night when we're asleep. So, you all go to sleep, I'll shout if they attack. Frank, you'll have to take second shift in 2 hours, I've been up for 38 hours now, and I could use a little sleep before we head out." Frank replies in shock, "You've been awake for 38 hours? I'll take fist shift, You need to rest." Elisabeth replies, "No, you look tired..." Frank interrupts, "Go I've got it." Elisabeth heads upstairs to the rooms and takes Alice up with her. Frank peers out of the window while leaning up against the wall, waiting for anything to come out from the darkness. An hour passes but still nothing, but it's hard to see through the fog and darkness, only a few fallen flashlights illuminate the cold cave, flickering in the darkness. But not even a footstep is heard, as if the things had all been killed. It's quiet, the only noises heard now are of the creaking bridge, the wooden doors of the neighbor's house, and of falling rocks. Another hour passes before a loud voice is heard, it sounds as though the police have come to get the lights turned off. The voices continue calling out echoing through the cave. Now footsteps can be heard, almost as if the things have begun running towards the man. Frank, takes a look out the window, and sees a couple dozen of new smaller things climbing down from the roof of the house. He quickly runs up stairs to get Elisabeth and Alice up. When he opens the door, he doesn't find the girls, but does see a single of these new things ravaging through the room, as if searching for them. It looks at the door, to find Frank looking at it. It quickly jumps directly at Frank, but he slams the door shut.A scream comes from the floor below, he peers down to see a few of the small things inside the living room attacking Helga with small knives. One of the things spots him and starts chasing. Frank quickly runs into the bathroom and locks the door behind him.When he turns around, he sees a man standing there with his eyes closed. This isn't one of his friends though, it's a man whom stands over 6 foot tall, with tattered and dirty clothes, a red scarf over his face, and dressed in military attire.The man says, "Hi, I saw you come in through the trapdoor with your sister. I believe I heard an Alice, is the lady..." Frank replies, "What?! who are you, where is Alice?!" The man replies, "My name's not important, just refer to me as The Messenger. The girls are safe. The man who came in just now, let us just say, His soul's been damned." Frank asks in a horrific manner, "What does that mean? The Governor? are you saying your over 100 years old?! Tell me the truth, NOW!" The Messenger replies, "Breaking into my house and demanding answers from me? but your the first ones in a while to survive this long, how about getting out of danger first, before we talk? If you want to see your mother again, please come with me, unless you would rather stay here when the little Imp rips open that door." The Messenger walks through the wall, as if the wall didn't exist. Frank, not wanting to be killed by this thing, walks over to the wall and pushes his hand up to it. There is an intense burning sensation but he proceeds through it. He feels like his body was burning for an hour, but makes it through untouched. He looks around an sees a nice room with a red carpet, black walls with decorative design, a large bookshelf with a hundred or so books on it neatly placed, a desk sits on the opposite side of the room with a few papers sitting on it and a quill pen, and there is an empty chair behind the desk. Frank begins slowly walking up to the desk, but when when he's half way up to it, he feels a heat like that when he walked through the wall, and a bright reddish-orange light hits him on the face. As he turns towards the window, he sees an inferno of towering flame, giant rock pilers towering over thousands of feet, people on fire burning whilst falling from the sky, and mountains that spew lava endlessly, while orange ash floats through the air. "Am... Am I in hell?" says frank scared out of his mind. A voice comes from his left side, "No, well not yet anyways. You see, It's my job to show what your afterlife will be like if you don't change. I'm a messenger, but that world you were in was real. It's a rift in the world, one of which that leads into a crazed Apocalypse world, Unfortunately any whom die within are Damned forever. Having a Haunted house there, was stupid to say the least." says the Messenger. Frank asks, "What of my sister and Elisabeth? are they...?" The Messenger replies, "No, no. they've been sent back to the mortal world. You on the other hand are here, why? What would make a boy, who dresses as Santaclaus for Halloween, be doing here in this place? I'm only here to convince you to change, I cannot tell you the answer." Frank replies, "What do you mean? I haven't done anything wrong." The Messenger replies, "No, you haven't, not yet, But you will be given the opportunity, and with your current record, you will choose wrong. The message has been given, so I'll send you back now." Frank wakes up, only to find that they've just fallen into the hole at the entrance of the Haunted house. He looks around to see the same swirly drapes set up but no thick trees blocking the way this time, just a sign that says "Welcome To Hell". His sister is pulling him in to enter the haunted house with her, he walks into the door to the haunted house with her. and finds himself inside of a pitch black corridor. The End?

I've always wanted to join one of these, I'm working on my story and will have up tomorrow. Is there any limits to the story, a specific length or anything?

Found someone. Locking topic.

I don't want to write a whole bunch of stuff and have the admin say I didn't have enough info (again) so let's make this short. Website: [http://www.elycontria.webs.com/](http://www.elycontria.webs.com/) Eclipse Topic: [http://www.touchofdeathforums.com/smf/index.php/topic,72202.new.html](http://www.touchofdeathforums.com/smf/index.php/topic,72202.new.html) I am looking for a programer to join my Devoted-Development team, this position (Like all on the Dev team) are **not paid**. The game is a Devoted Hobby that will never make money. I'm looking for someone who's somewhat good at programing and can work with EO. I have a few Upgrades I need done to the game, and I have no problem with a programer selling any Programs He/She makes for my game (This restricts game Ideas though) to other game developer teams for Eclipse or other. If anyone is interested Please post or PM me.

I am looking for a Writer. I am a writer myself, and have a Long Devoted story I've wrote/ Writing. But I'm looking to add some Side-Plots to my game to make it better when adventuring through my game's world. My game isn't hosted, yet, although we do have a ready-to-go host. And the Dev are Devoted Developers. If your interested, you can view my game's website and It's progress @ http://www.elycontria.webs.com/

I like your work, especially the red cat. I need a few race sprites for my game, Elycontria. (link in my sig.) Heres what I would like with some description, you can change them as you see fit. These are all 32x64 pixel characters, but If you want to you could make bigger images with poses, too. >! Dragkin: A small half dragon that walks upright. Green scales cover their bodies, while spikes and claws bring fear to your heart, and dark red eyes that penetrate your soul. Learning and Inventing since the beginning of their race, these peoples have grown accustomed to augmentations, to become physically stronger in the heat of battle. >! Slepti: A people created from an experiment their ancestors attempted. They stand upright 6 feet tall, bodies of thick fur and feathers, almost of that of a Sphinx. Dark claws and huge wingspans frighten any. >! Kainvir: Wolf like people who live and die in packs, they have the ability to stand both upright as well as on all fours. Usually blueish-grey, these people can blend in to the thick snow-cover of mountains. Freighting teeth and sharp claws bring about the death of any creature before they can defend. __________________ Last one is optional, Well known in Elycontria, worshiped by the Scolic empire, The great Skulia. She is known to humans as the god of Death. She wears a very provocative wardrobe, black as night, with plumes of soft spiky black feathers. Wielding a large gripper-scythe (kinda like the scythe in Dante's Inferno, but no long handle) she can easily cut into any enemy and send them to her dark world Deritha. If you decide to do this one, Have fun, I would like it about the size of the red cat you have. I don't need these anytime soon, however, I don't have the means to pay you. I do not script and I haven't played Maplestory for over a year. I could however put you in the special thanks area in the Credits (which will play in the intro of the game, and in the end) I WILL let you place these all in your top post to show off though.

Yea, sry didn't read the above part…

I would like a feature, but i fear it's something that would be too complicated, even for you. I'm actually not joking, but you could try to make it for me. (Since good programers are so hard to find.) I have a good description of it on my website, I'll pm you the info on it. JSYK, It's a Full Custom Action-Combat system, complete with the works.