SoldjahBoy's Forum Posts

  • We say "mint" down under as well... "that's mint!"

    ~Sol

  • Are you trying to make hacker tools with Construct? Naughty, naughty

    let's lynch him!

    ~Sol

  • I'll have to give it a try and see if it works for me as well... I use a program on my flash drive called PSmenu (portable start menu) and I could add Construct to that quite easily if it does in fact work as a portable install! Nice find though, I will give it a go later and let you know.

    ~Sol

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  • Looks sweet from what I've seen from the screenies. Could you please check the "Run without PS"-box and re-upload? Like a second handicap version..

    Sure thing, will do that later tonight though... at work right now and don't have Construct here.

    I'm also working on an experimental graphics change... instead of being anime/cartoon style, I am testing out a digitized photo style instead... will make a vote poll after I have created the character at least to see which one everyone likes better.

    ~Sol

  • It's a text-based game, I believe... similar to those gang war games people used to put in their signatures.

    Yeah it's text and image based... you fight against the werewolves if you are a vampire, and vise-versa. I have slowed down a lot on it though, even though it's a pretty casual game anyway... just been spending more time being constructive.... (no pun intended).

    ~Sol

  • Wow, looking at some of the maths you guys are using is making me want to vomit... I get half way through an equation and I get a vertigo feeling and want to die. I hate you all. No not really, but I really do feel like vomiting O.o

    ~Sol

    *EDIT*

    Drunken David is drunken... nice typing skillz mate, you do better than me when you've had a few!

  • Hey that's awesome...

    ~Sol

  • Runs sweet, looks great.... much better idea than what I was working on for my motion blur effect... WHAT THE HELL IS THAT? *points*

    *steals motion blur cap*

    *runs away and hides in a dark corner*

    my preciouuussssss....

    OK so I've worked for 12 hours today and I'm a bit delirious... sue me.

    ~Sol

  • So I heard I bumped my own thread so Rich will hurry up and make some phat networking plugin thing, so we can all play Car Kill and I can win because I will know all the tricks... until Rich makes some kind of backdoor in the networking code to crash my PC and make me cry... *runs away*

    ~Sol

  • Ah yeah it is old. I was just bringing it back up again to ensure its still an active request

    I keep dropping hints at Rich, cus Rich is da man! Well, Ash is da man as well, but Rich is like, da plugin man and Ash is DA MAN... ah forget it xD

    Can't wait though... full network support via either direct IP connection or windows networking... or mac for those of you unfortunate enough to own one of those atrocities... It will mean I can start working on Car Kill

    I think I will finish my current experiment first before starting Car Kill though... probably wait until v1.0 comes out before doing anything too serious.

    ~Sol

  • LOL old thread is old... we already talked about this, including you haha. It was in the plugin/sdk request section from memory? This is one thing I am certainly waiting on in order to start my "proper" project, "Car Kill Apocalypse" which I made a thread about ages ago with some mock screen shots in there.

    Hopefully once Construct hits 1.0 then Rich and Ash will look into it. I feel that this kind of addition to the program would be essential in order to cover a range of product capabilities... including my idea for a Media Center program, if for example I wanted to have network streaming from other PCs on the network!

    ~Sol

  • Well theres an AVI Object but im assuming all it can play is AVI files. So maybe a video object would need to be made? Or possibly make a direct show object use direct show to play videos (I think it's direct show im thinking of).

    The only way to get around the codec issue would be to install a codec pack on the system. You could package one of the codec packs available like CCCP or k-lite with your app.

    Cool. I was thinking along the lines of having to issue a codec pack with it, mainly because, from what I understand, you have to pay some kind of royalty fee if you want your program to just be able to "play" the required file without any external influence. I use k-lite anyway so it doesn't bother me... in the end I still feel I could make a better Media Center than Microsoft, though I probably wouldn't be able to support TV tuners.

    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?

    Well, it's bad for several reasons;

    1. You can't change the wallpaper without changing .cfg files and stuff manually

    2. You can't easily add or remove folders for the same reason

    3. You can't change menu behaviour

    4. You can't "skip" to the next video in a folder unless you "fast foward" to the end and let it kick off the next video that way.

    Probably a few more things I can't remember just now... but you get the idea.

    It's GOOD in the sense that it works pretty well, doesn't crash etc, but its ugly and you can't easily change/customize it, and it has a few missing features that I would have thought would be standard on something that plays music and videos.

    ~Sol

  • Direct sound plays mp3s etc and I think, everything that wmp supports. The problem would come when trying to get the TV part of Media Center made in construct

    I guess, but you could always use the execute exe option to simply load your proper tuner software anyway... I'm thinking more along the lines of video/music library system with customisable options like background, folder creation and deletion, changable icons and folder graphics... all things that are a royal pain in the ass with Vista Media Center... if you want to do something as simple as change the wallpaper it is a manual job, editing crap, etc.

    Personally I don't use a TV tuner... that's what my TV is for... and this project would be more for personal use anyway, though I would obviously release it etc and at least try to add things that other people might find useful even if I don't.

    So aside from Direct sound playing music, how would I go with videos using various codecs etc? Like I said, I haven't even really looked into it since I'm playing with other things in Construct right now... just thought I'd throw it out there in case anyone knows or it gives Ash/Rich some ideas.

    ~Sol

  • 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

  • So YOU are the one responsible for this madness?!?

    <3

    ~Sol