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Posted: 18th Nov 2009 22:53
they don't stretch my page.

200000x90000

Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 18th Nov 2009 22:54
1366x768. I wanted 1440x900, but that was a bit out of my price range (and also the HP laptop I'm on didn't offer one with a 1440x900 resolution).


1366x768 is decent though, I don't mind it at all.

Programming is too difficult for me, unfortunately...darn.
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Posted: 18th Nov 2009 23:08
So I downloaded the free DBPro today. 'Twill give me something to do when I come home for the 5 week Christmas break.

I will live forever or die trying.
Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 18th Nov 2009 23:11
Yeah? Well, I'm going to pick up my old interest of creating videos. Why? Programming gives me too much of a headache. :-\


See mah siggy:

Programming is too difficult for me, unfortunately...darn.
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Posted: 18th Nov 2009 23:24 Edited at: 18th Nov 2009 23:24
programming? PROGRAMMING? GET AWAY, DEVIL!!!!! Mah. Back in the days, we didn't need no programmin. all them here computers were made of wood.

me has an urge to play doom 1.


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Posted: 18th Nov 2009 23:36
Quote: "Programming gives me too much of a headache. :-\"


SUCK IT UP

i like orange
Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 18th Nov 2009 23:49
It gives me too much of a headache because I don't quite "get it". I mean sure, I know what arrays are, what variables are, what functions are, yada-yada-yada, but I don't get where/when/why to use them, or why it's better to use them where/when/there/blahblahblah, and you pretty much see where I am getting at, ja?

I understand the syntax of programming, just not the more advanced aspects (I count arrays in that, yes), so yeah.

PROGRAMMIN' GIVEZ ME TEH HEADACHES!!!

Programming is too difficult for me, unfortunately...darn.
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Posted: 19th Nov 2009 00:23
Well maybe I can help give a couple of examples...though I've not programmed in ages.

I think of arrays as almost like having an object number for a variable.


So you might have:

position object 1...
rotate object 2...


I might use a variable to organise my object numbers...so

PlayerObj = 1
EnemyObj = 2
...
So you get
position object PlayerObj...
rotate EnemyObj...

But you might have more than 1 player or enemy object...so you might do an array...(EnemyObj1, EnemyObj2 is pointless)

dim PlayerObj(2) (you have 2 players...so 2 player variables)
dim EnemyObj(10) (you've got 10 enemies)

so you might use a for loop:

for x = 1 to 2
playerObj(x) = x
next x

followed another

for x = playerObj(2)+1 to playerObject(2)+10 [Or 11...try both ]
EnemyObj(x-playerobj(2)) = x
next x

Maybe I made it look a little complicated. Basically - your playerObj() array will be "1" and "2". So playerObj(1) will carry the number '1' in its variable and playerObj(2) will carry '2', so you might use that variable to address Object 1 and 2.

For EnemyObj - you can't assign make "x= 1 to 10" because values '1' and '2' are taken up...it won't be a problem for the variables, but if you use "make object cube playerObj(1),50" and "make object cube enemyObj(1)" and both variables contain '1', then DBP will tell you that object 1 already exists. So the code needs to take that into account. So the first variable needs to be the one after 2...which is 3 or PlayerObj(2)+1. And the final number needs to be 10 more than that...to account for the fact we have 10 enemyObj array values.

Because 'x' will be from 3 to 13, but our array will only allow from up to 10...the 'x' in the array needs to account for this...so in the sum I've take away PlayerObj(2), but -2 would do the same.




Though bear in mind...I've not tested this code and it could total fail you...but I hope it helps anyway (if people see problems in the code, correct me - I don't have the time to play with it now)

Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 19th Nov 2009 00:27
Hey wow, that actually helped me a bit Sepp!

I think I'll try that for developing games in the future. I'm not going to give programming up completely, I just know I'm not capable of becoming a professional at it and don't want to waste time trying to learn a complicated language (C# is proving to be not quite as easy as I was hoping). So I'll keep programming as a hobby I think, and in DarkBASIC as it's the easiest language around.

Programming is too difficult for me, unfortunately...darn.
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Posted: 19th Nov 2009 00:29
Quote: "Though bear in mind"


There's no bear in my mind! I definitely remembered not to leave any food to attract one.

Actually I am a bit hungry. Oh crap here he comes RUN FOR YOUR MINDS

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Posted: 19th Nov 2009 00:30
Quote: "....as it's the easiest language around."

Nah, just open up your favorite IKanMaykTehBeztMMOEvr program and type:

MakeMMO(BestMMOEverLikeWoWButMine)

lol

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General Jackson
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Posted: 19th Nov 2009 00:54
Quote: "1366x768"

Thats what I got
I hate widescreen but thats all they got these days

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Posted: 19th Nov 2009 00:55
This is page 222 of 222, at 5:55 PM.

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Posted: 19th Nov 2009 00:56
lol

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Posted: 19th Nov 2009 00:57
That sounds...ominous.

*Me runs and hides*

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Posted: 19th Nov 2009 01:14 Edited at: 19th Nov 2009 01:15
Quote: "Hey wow, that actually helped me a bit Sepp!"


No prob mate, it took me a while to realise how useful arrays might be and I suppose my programming would have improved quicker if I bothered to ask people questions. But I'm stubborn like that. There's a whole array of things you can do with them (sorry for the pun) Arrays can have dimensions too - so you can have var(1,5) or var(4,4,6)...I've not used them though, but can think of where they might be useful - perhaps for storing databases into a game save file or something.


Strings can also be used as an array:

dim string$(2)
string$(1) = "Hello...wait...what do I say next?"
string$(2) = "oh yeah...it was um...world?"

n = 1

do
cls

text 0,10,string$(x)

if n = 1 and spacekey()=1 then n = 2 : wait 100
if n = 2 and spacekey()=1 then n = 1 : wait 100

loop

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Posted: 19th Nov 2009 02:55 Edited at: 19th Nov 2009 03:00
Oh my, programming talk. *struggles to understand*




... *flicks lighter on and off*

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Posted: 19th Nov 2009 03:02
HaHAHAHAHAHAH

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Posted: 19th Nov 2009 03:07
Quote: "Oh my, programming talk. *struggles to understand*"

You think you have it bad, I have an AP Physics test tomorrow that is literally on rocket science.

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Posted: 19th Nov 2009 03:15
At least it's not brain surgery.

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Posted: 19th Nov 2009 03:19
A test on brain surgery? That'd be fun.
Especially if it was a practical.

"You have one hour to perform a lobotomy on this randomly chosen victim - I mean subject. The person with the least permanent brain damage in their subject at the end of the hour wins."

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Posted: 19th Nov 2009 03:20
or, god forbid, ROCKET SURGERY!!!

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As it happens I'm doing a joint honours in Rocket Surgery and Brain Science.

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Posted: 19th Nov 2009 03:22
Oh hai Omega. Haven't seen you around lately.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXHaCEhOiWU&feature=related

There is no method to my madness.

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Posted: 19th Nov 2009 04:06
Quote: "At least it's not brain surgery."





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THNPmhBl-8I

^ Had a seminar from the guys that wrote that sketch. They were awesome.

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Posted: 19th Nov 2009 18:29 Edited at: 19th Nov 2009 18:29
Smileyface.

11,079.

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80![b][/b]

Edit: Or not. Darn you caps lock key.

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Posted: 19th Nov 2009 18:41
Hooray. For my homework is done and I can continue with the playing of the left four dead two.

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Posted: 19th Nov 2009 19:47 Edited at: 19th Nov 2009 20:52
LOLOTI (laugh(ed)-out-loud on the inside).


HA! I just started a new internet abbreviation. Win!

Programming is too difficult for me, unfortunately...darn.
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Posted: 19th Nov 2009 21:24
And I just ended your abbreviation. Too bad. Fun while it lasted though, right?

FWIL. Fun while it lasted. Ha, I guess this is kinda fun.

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Posted: 19th Nov 2009 21:25
I prefer ROFLANIP. ROFL at nothing in particular. It's quite fun.

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Posted: 19th Nov 2009 21:26
Isn't that called being psycho?

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Posted: 19th Nov 2009 21:27
Physco? Maybe Im the one who is the schizophrenic physco...

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Posted: 19th Nov 2009 21:29
No, not physco. That's not a word. Psycho. Short for psychotic.

And I'm feeling generous today, so someone can take these points, free of charge.

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You're not a physco? It's so much better than being a regular psycho.

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Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 19th Nov 2009 21:53
I'm a psycho.

OMG I HAVE NIPPLES

Programming is too difficult for me, unfortunately...darn.
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Posted: 19th Nov 2009 22:04
Nipples? Pfft. I have bananas.

General Jackson
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Posted: 19th Nov 2009 22:34
I am more scary than you

Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 19th Nov 2009 22:38 Edited at: 19th Nov 2009 22:39
Yeah? Well here's a screenie of my new desktop! I'm in love with it.



Programming is too difficult for me, unfortunately...darn.
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Posted: 19th Nov 2009 22:52
llamma fish!

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General Jackson
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Posted: 19th Nov 2009 22:53
Why at the very first post is their two people it says should NOT post in this thread?

Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 19th Nov 2009 22:55
'Cuz they broke the rules.


"You know the rules, and so do Iiii....."

Programming is too difficult for me, unfortunately...darn.
General Jackson
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Posted: 19th Nov 2009 22:57
ahh, i see.


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Posted: 19th Nov 2009 23:26
I cant believe it! I just got three new kinds of duct tape, Orange, Turquoise, and FREAKING SHINING SILVER...
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAY.

Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 19th Nov 2009 23:27 Edited at: 19th Nov 2009 23:27
EDIT:


I mean, points.

Programming is too difficult for me, unfortunately...darn.

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