the last part gave me a really good insight to creating cutscenes using in-game assets

• parallax + zooming creates serious depth!

congrats!

here's to sleepless nights of diaper changing! cheers!

i imagine a chain reaction following the verdict ... whatever it comes out as

Vista is a putoff for me.

i don't plan on using vista; i'll either use windows 7 or ubuntu

http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer ... spirerevo/

read the above article ... YESTERDAY!!!

quick run-down of the specs:

1.6GHz Intel Atom 230 CPU

up to 4GB of RAM

up to 250GB of HDD space

4-in-1 card reader

HDMI / VGA outputs

gigabit Ethernet

six USB 2.0 sockets

audio in / out

Windows Vista Home Premium / Basic

svelte black and white enclosure

7.1- x 7.1- x 1.2-inches

capable of handling 1080p (and thus, Blu-ray) content

DirectX 10 capabilities

as you can probably guess, i find this very unexciting ... oh who am i kidding, i'm totally stoked!!

i can't wait to get my hands on one of these things, the only thing that would take this level of stok-ed-ness higher would be an ion-based tablet netbook!!! i'm waiting for one to be developed like madness!!

this machine isn't a beast when it comes to processing power but who am i kidding, my daily activities don't require that much processing power anyways! what amazes me is it's ability to handle HD and it's damn compact size!

mmm i believe strongly in the argument that anti-piracy measures affect legitimate customers more than those who acquire software illegitimately. whereby protection is more or less non-existent to the illegitimate end-user, the only ones who end up having to deal with the hurdles of anti-piracy measures are those who actually purchase software by legal means.

as mentioned about worthiness of piracy, pirated versions will present little to no anti-piracy hurdle whatsoever resulting in a product probably of better quality than the original even if it is only due to a lack of an annoying anti-piracy measure.

adding to thomasmahler's list of distribution mediums, i think steam might be a good point of distribution.

> Because of the prefix "sci" I always pronounced it "sigh - rah", though through proper English grammar I believe that any vowel followed by a double letter changes it's pronunciation... in which case it should be "sih - rah"??

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i think SoldjahBoy's got the right idea here

think science and scimitar, one has a vowel following "sci" but the other has a consonant following "sci" and it changes its pronunciation significantly from "sigh" to "sih", respectively. i, myself, pronounce the "sci" in scirra the same way i would pronounce the "sci" in scimitar, "sih".

good one on the event sheet hotkeys!

what does this feature do in construct, exactly? :S

in maya, polys/tris are selected and then weighted as to how much they are allowed to be deformed

not really sure how this would work into 2d images ... hopefully someone can figure out a solution!

Canada has had snow for a while now ... it's a pain to have to shovel right after having just shovelled and the bitter wind is relentless but it's beautiful when time is taken to appreciate it

that's very unexpected ... why would tiled background impact framerates more than sprites?