AsparagusTrevor's Forum Posts

  • Maybe it's just here in the UK, they always seem to chuck about �200 onto the price just for it being a laptop. If you buy sub-�400 laptops they're usually good enough for gaming if your collection doesn't extend far past Solitaire.

  • Partly the reason why I just do everything on a laptop now. It cost half the price of a good desktop PC, plays Crysis on high at 30 fps and is portable.

    You kidding?!? Laptops generally cost much more than an equivalent desktop PC.

  • Lots of planets have a north

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  • Just a thought I was having with a friend the other day...

    We were discussing how much Media Center for Vista ****** and how cool it would be to make a better one using Construct.

    I haven't looked into it much at this stage, but do we have support for MP3 playback, AVI/DivX, etc etc?

    If not... is this something we can add support for? It would be awesome to make a Media Center type program to replace that ****** M$ one that's shipped with Vista.

    ~Sol

    I haven't got Vista Media Centre set up yet, I've got a TV tuner and all that, I generally used to use it for recording stuff (using DVBViewer), but it's one of the things I haven't got round to sorting out yet after installing Vista. Why is it bad exactly? Is it worse/better/the same as XP MCE?

  • That's so good. Plasma opens up a lot of possibilities for some really cool effects like that.

  • Wow, excellent. It's hard to keep up with the frequent updates and fixes. Great stuff.

  • I never cared what the inside of a computer looks like (ironic since my PC case has a massive window on one side) but that looks nice. The specs are awesome, sounds like a computer geek's wet dream. I spent �1200 on mine, which gave me a great system, but yours is a NASA machine. The twin monitor setup is **** as hell, and bonus points for going with Vista, don't listen to the haters. That comp might even run Crysis on full detail at a decent framerate!! Pretty much futureproof,that.

  • I know I'd much rather live in Australia than here in England. Mainly cos England is a horrific place. I dunno really what Australia's like, but between Home and Away and the Fosters adverts it looks quite lovely.

  • I'm fine with Firefox 3 at the moment, I might give Chrome a try though just to see how it is. I know I'm in the minority but I like clutter, well organised clutter. I have loads of icons on my desktop for example, but it speeds everything up for me cos I know where everything is. Same with Firefox, I have buttons spanning the whole 1680 pixels of the screen, speeds things up for me cos I can just shoot the cursor up to where I want it.

    Something that sounds great about Chrome is the independent tab rendering, I like the idea of how individual tabs can crash without ballsing the whole browser window up.

  • >

    > > i just hate that raggy edge you get with the flame effect,

    > >

    > Use the Soften effect? Or, even better, use just a Blur Vertical. Try that on Deadeye's example, it works really well.

    > Also, after using Blur Vertical, try giving the Plasma object a Combine Additive effect, it makes the fire look really realistic, and blends really nicely on backdrops.

    >

    Crashes when I add those in any order.

    Download this dude: http://www.asparagustrevor.co.uk/stuff/flames.exe, see if it crashes.

  • i just hate that raggy edge you get with the flame effect,

    Use the Soften effect? Or, even better, use just a Blur Vertical. Try that on Deadeye's example, it works really well.

    Also, after using Blur Vertical, try giving the Plasma object a Combine Additive effect, it makes the fire look really realistic, and blends really nicely on backdrops.

  • Well, looks like for my case it is directly related to Vista Themes. If I disable Glass, so far, I am unable to reproduce the crash.

    Also, with Glass disabled, Construct comes back to focus 3-5 times faster with no (Not Responding) in the title bar.

    It happened to me when I had XP x64. Hasn't happened in Vista yet, but I haven't had a lot of chance to test it yet.

  • I've had that error before too, not for a while though. I never managed to twig any relation to anything I was doing, but now you mention the PNG import, it hasn't happened to me for a while and I haven't imported any sprites in a while either.

  • That works really well, looks like a real 3D engine.

  • Yep me too, seems like the debugger's buggered.