seconded.

We need a Python API section on the wiki.

Im not sure if there is one already, Sourceforge is being slow again. Grr.

Nice. This could prove useful.

forgot how to use google c=

No but I'm not the OP.

For a tools/resources forum, not posting the tool/resource just seems..... odd.

Otherwise, it goes like this:

hey, I found this tool that rejuvenates you and your loved ones by 10 years.

... what, just google it

X_x

Now, about this tool: I was aware of Seam Carving as a technique and a prototype and its later implementation in Photoshop CS4, but not the Gimp plugin. Which again shows why you have to post links to what you're posting about.

Photoshop's implementation lacks some of the stuff that makes the seam carving really useful, such as marking zones that shouldn't be touched or marking zones for inmediate carving.

Also it only has one algorithm for finding the seams. It's there but rather limited. I'll take a look at the GIMP plugin now.

I say it depends on your budget.

I've noticed ATI packing decent power for cheap on middle-range cards, while NVidia's high range tends to be the best but really pricey.

My ATI HD4870 has dual power connectors (high power consumption and heat, but I believe there are some that use 3?) and has one of those big heatsink+fan designs that pipe air out of the case. I thought Nvidias ran hotter but haven't seen the later models.

Edit: At Redmond HQ they say you can finally change motherboard without having to reinstall windows. I don't know if that's true, but they seem rather proud of it.

YOU HAVE TO RELOAD THEM?!?!?!?

Okay. I would have never figured that out.

Will try it out, sometimes you just need manual play.

I don't have Construct installed in this laptop but I did tackle this issue once.

However..... on second thought .... I was reflecting from a flat surface. Still I'm pretty sure it involves ATAN2

I had this huge trigonometric expression only to figure out later that Construct had it built in.

also keep in mind most knowledgeable people (not even hackers) will know which alogrithm you're using by counting digits.

Mix, cut and interleave hashes (CRC32, SHA1, MD5) to keep them guessing. Don't name the files something obvious, then you have a decent check that requieres some effort to crack.

=)

Nice!

I did this for the screen-space trails example.

Used a "bridge" sprite with hotspot at one edge, positioned said "bridge" sprite on one of the "objects" to join, then set the bridge's angle towards the other object and stretched it according to the distance between them.

So it would be actually just a separate collision mask which you'd import from an image?

I had this problem but I managed to kill the temp.exe process (once I figured out it was the one I should kill).

so:

is temp.exe running? (check from process monitor, make sure it's showing all processes from all users, just in case.

does temp.exe have write permission? maybe construct is unable to overwrite it for some reason.

It happened me once with a runtime crash where temp.exe got stuck and I couldn't run any more previews. Again, as said, killing it made everything go back to normal.

This sounds fun.

Make sure to try out the orbiter and gravitation plugins, they might be just what you need.