For starters, many of us who've helped a lot in the past end up answering the same questions repeatedly when they're answers marked clearly in the manual. There's also the phenomenon of people somehow feeling entitled and pushy about asking for help. "Make it for me" and "you're not doing it for me fast enough" are attitudes that have turned me off from checking the how do I threads quite so often.

This.

Plus, in general the spirit just changed. There used to be a time where everyone was helping each other just because of their passion. Now, since Construct went commercial, the clients also come with a more leeching attitude. I'm really happy for Ashley and Tom that it turns out to be a commercial success, but there's not much left that would make the community attractive enough to spend so much time in helping.

I know I can do this if i start the sprite further up the curve but that's not what I want.

Why not? It is the solution to your problem. The lowest point of a sine wave starts at 75% of the period's length. So, if the period is 2 seconds, the period offset would need to be 1.5 seconds.

I've made some small changes to the layout:

- Looks a lot better when resizing now

- Min width 1000px like rest of site

- Author avatar column reduced in size

- Font size slightly reduced for forum names and topic titles

Feedback is of course welcome

It's better now, my eyes start to relax again, thanks Tom !

I know, my chances to be heard by Tom are near zero, but please...

Am I really the only one who thinks this is ugly beyond imagination and confusing? The strong signal colors hurt my eyes (just try to have a look at the quick reply for longer than 1 second...), the font size is way to large even when set smaller. It all is just unattractive.

Compare it with this one:

Clean, clear, well-structured, eye-relaxing, font style and size just right. Why does it need to be so different from a good working layout?

Are the private messages lost, or part of the work that will be done? I'm sure there was a message I hadn't answered yet, but access to pms is prohibited

The website is up again! Since the competitions timeframe was extended until February 24 you should expect that site to break down again at that day

The top three will be nominated at or around March 20, so there's plenty of time for you to help me

How you can help? I'll quote myself:

I decided to take the risk and submitted both tracks. You can see them here (melancholic mix) and here (extreme mix)

On those Bleeding Fingers pages you can vote, like, dislike and comment. Would you do that?

rekjl Thank you very much for your comment! If you still want to help: See above

I was afraid that this would happen and therefore submitted my songs quite early. When I was doing it I could see that about 4-5 submissions were made per second. And the rush was only just beginning^^

I'm sure the site is down due to the enormous participation (the last allowed day just started). I will have a look tomorrow and inform when the site is up again.

Almost 300 views, but only 4 people were willing to help. This community used to be a lot more helpful in the past. Those days are gone, I assume.

I decided to take the risk and submitted both tracks. You can see them here (melancholic mix) and here (extreme mix)

On those Bleeding Fingers pages you can vote, like, dislike and comment. Would you do that? <img src="smileys/smiley9.gif" border="0" align="middle">

Anyone?

Thanks for taking the time and helping me out!

What's your favourite?adv@AnD4D You see, that's the problem. I'm indecisive. I really like both. I started with the melacholic mix, wanted to keep close to the original, but bring in a more sad feel (which is very hard when trying to keep the original, written in D major. major = positive <img src="smileys/smiley36.gif" border="0" align="middle" /> ). It was the title, destiny's door. In my understanding, destiny always has two sides: It can bring you the luckiest day in your life - or the saddest tragedy.

When I was done with it, I couldn't forget that simple sentence: "We?re looking for originality, curveballs and adventurous amphonics."

I started thinking that I may have been too conventional. How original, how adventurous is the melancholic mix? So I went back to start and freed me from any conventional thinking. I started with the wobbling bass line, created from a simple fm synth sound, heavily edited with diversionFX. Then I took the trumpet stem from the original, again crunching it through diversionFX. Another day went into the glitch editing of the solo voice stem. No boundaries, I said to myself, go as wild as you can.

And there I am: two totally different compositions, both with much of myself in them. I just love them both, like a mother loves her children, no matter what.

Good luck, let us know how it goes :)@Blacksmith I will. But to be honest, I don't expect to come far. I'm more interested in giving the best I can. I want to lay back and follow the contest with the thinking that whatever happens it's not that I'm bad. Others just are better.

Extreme seemed to encircle my headI'm surprised. Are there no glitch fans among us scirrans? <img src="smileys/smiley3.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

Please keep on helping by voting! Thank you <img src="smileys/smiley16.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

Thank you for helping me out shinkan, and also thanks to and4d, the comments help me too.

Any more people willing to help? (It's only 2 days, so I have to rush it, sorry)

Hi everybody,

I'm sorry for my absence in the last weeks. Part of the reason was a competition for composers that I entered; the "Beeding Fingers Contest".

And that's why I need your help. I made two totally different compositions from the original, and now I just can't decide which one to prefer. I read in the rules that one may submit more than one composition. But in my thinking, if you submit 2 bad compositions, you have no chance, and if you submit one good and one horrible composition, you could also reduce your chances.

Please take the time for the following:

1. Listen to the original by Hans Zimmer
2. Read this pragraph from the contest page: "Calling all composers! This original theme called "Destiny's Door" created exclusively for this contest by Mr. Zimmer himself is yours to reimagine, replay, recompose or revise to your heart?s content. Below you?ll find a link to the theme plus everything you need to get the creative juices flowing. We?re looking for originality, curveballs and adventurous amphonics. "
3. Listen to my compositions: Destiny's Door (melancholic mix) Destiny's Door (extreme mix)
4. Vote in this poll for one, both or none of them

All of the above only valid until February 19, the last day to enter the competition! So just make it right now ;)

Thank you so much for helping me!