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

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

    We were discussing how much Media Center for Vista sucks, 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 shitty 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 sexy 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.

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