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pictionaryjr
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Posted: 4th Jan 2013 06:54 Edited at: 4th Jan 2013 06:58
Judging - 1/3/2013 11:53 A.M.

WINNER


Entries

Phaelax


Chafari


The Comet First Entry


The Comet Second Entry


Arbahkan


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Posted: 4th Jan 2013 07:01
I don't know if were having the winner post a challenge or for me to do it. I guess we'll let the community decide this.
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Posted: 4th Jan 2013 09:39
wow, Thank-you. There were many awesome entries that I wished were mine when I ran them. Good work all around.

Ok, I'll think up a challenge and put it up here in a short while.
<-deviously plotting.

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Posted: 4th Jan 2013 09:42
I really enjoyed phaelax and chafari's. If it were on creativity. I would have made them the winner, but instead it's the "CODING" challenges.
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Posted: 4th Jan 2013 10:59
Congratulations Kezzla! Well done.

TheComet

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Posted: 4th Jan 2013 11:36
Congrats Kezzla..!!

Cheers.

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Posted: 4th Jan 2013 12:03 Edited at: 19th Jan 2013 13:53
Thanks guys

Well, Thinking about challenge topics, I kind of like the whole idea of picking one aspect of world design and exploring it. For this challenge I will follow suit. We have just explored the ground, why not now look up to the sky?



Challenge 2:

Show us what you can do with sky!



How would you make the sky? It can be as complex or a simple as you like and there are no restrictions other than you are making the sky or some element from the sky. warning! bad pun!->


I want to keep this challenge description as open as possible, if this is too vague then let me know and we can narrow it down to a specific task.

We all have 2 weeks to put something together.

End date and time: Jan 18 23:59 Forum server time.

have fun!
WINNER:

Entries:

Thecomet:


Chafari:



Kezzla:


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Posted: 4th Jan 2013 14:36
Congratulations Kezzla, great new challenge

Cheers Ron.

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Posted: 4th Jan 2013 16:07


TheComet

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Posted: 5th Jan 2013 11:34
Nice sky TheComet....but I'm not sure if it was too much pint of beer I had yestwrday or perhaps I'm geting blind...lol.

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Posted: 5th Jan 2013 18:48
Makes a change from pink elephants though.
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Posted: 6th Jan 2013 03:16
ooo, I was supposed to peep back in here, but forgot...

I was not sure I could do much with the grass one and now the sky, hmm...

Oh Well, let the elites show us how it is done!

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Posted: 8th Jan 2013 08:02
I've been looking into this, although with classes starting, I'm caught up with time.
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Posted: 9th Jan 2013 01:45 Edited at: 9th Jan 2013 22:03
Hi there.
My first attempt try to make clouds with code ...that's what I have so far...






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Posted: 9th Jan 2013 03:41
That looks awesome!

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Posted: 9th Jan 2013 03:46 Edited at: 9th Jan 2013 03:48
@chafari
That is really nice!


I want to try one too but just dont know much about doing sky.
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Posted: 9th Jan 2013 09:47
chafari - Well Done!

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Posted: 9th Jan 2013 13:05
Thanks guys...let's see if more clouds pops up...it looks a bit cloudy


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Posted: 9th Jan 2013 14:28
Quote: "let's see if more clouds pops up...it looks a bit cloudy
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I am trying!
This challenge is a bit harder than I first anticipated...

Your clouds look amazing Chafari!

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Posted: 9th Jan 2013 19:56 Edited at: 9th Jan 2013 20:06
Thanks Kezzla ; I'm on time to add some more objets to my code.

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Posted: 10th Jan 2013 17:21 Edited at: 10th Jan 2013 17:30
all these clouds are sure making it muggy, a code submission is coming, I can feel it in my bunion...


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@Kezzla
Your code is one of the most expected for my, but I got a f...error every time I execute...


Quote: "Runtime Error 1[Broke from nested subroutine.Cannot resume program after CLI usage.]"



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Posted: 10th Jan 2013 20:56 Edited at: 10th Jan 2013 20:57
Quote: "Runtime Error 1[Broke from nested subroutine.Cannot resume program after CLI usage"


very strange, I have no break point and the commands are vanilla, and code copied and pasted from my post works on my machine both indigo and synergy compiler
works on 1.0761 dbpro.

very disappointing to see it not compile on others machines.
I can't replicate the error and so am at a loss to find the specific place it breaks from the routine on your machine.

has anyone else managed to get it to run?

hmmm

well, the exe is attatched to this post. best I can do until I iron out this problem.

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Posted: 10th Jan 2013 21:27
Your exe works ok....pretty nice lightning and rain. My compiler is 1.077RC7 and it gives me the same error in both desktop and laptop.


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Posted: 19th Jan 2013 13:48 Edited at: 19th Jan 2013 13:51
The DBPro Coding Challenge Number 2 Results are in.

Winner:


entries:

The Comet


Chafari:


Kezzla:


I know this is the coding challenge but I feel there should be some bonus awards for achievement.

Bonus award: The Slinky for most outrageous entry

Goes to The Comet.

Bonus award: The Black beret For artistic achievement

Goes to Chafari for an amazing sky full of clouds.

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Posted: 19th Jan 2013 16:26
Set the next challenge Chafari!

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Posted: 19th Jan 2013 18:58
Wow !! mama mia !! the first time I eh...I feel myself like a ...

Thanks for the Black beret , that's nearly what I use everyday.
Ok for this new chellenge let's do something easy. Let us do the best vehicle we can ...whatever vehicle you want.


End date and time: feb 2 23:59 Forum server time.

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Posted: 19th Jan 2013 20:24
Can you be more specific? You want a drawing of a vehicle or actual physics so we can drive it around?

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Posted: 19th Jan 2013 21:17
Could be 2D or 3D...but I like best something 3D or animated....I just want more people to participate even beginers like me..lol.

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Posted: 19th Jan 2013 22:40
still don't know what you want.

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Posted: 19th Jan 2013 22:59
just code ! don't kill creativity !

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Posted: 19th Jan 2013 23:02
@Phelax
We can make any vehicle we want, 2D or 3D....just a picture or an animation or even better a 3D with all details static or running up and down terrain.


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I just so happen to have been making something that meets the criteria while this challenge has been on. So I might as well enter it!

Procedurally generated spaceships:

It was originally written in DBC but it should run in DBP, please tell me if there are any issues.

Shh... you're pretty.
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Posted: 20th Jan 2013 19:10
OBese87
Nice way to generate spaceships to combine with 2D game...I'll stady your code

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Posted: 20th Jan 2013 20:39
I can't remember: Is the ODE Physics a native DBPro plugin or a user download? >.>

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Quote: "I can't remember: Is the ODE Physics a native DBPro plugin or a user download? >.>"



I'm the same boat ... I don't remember, but I think it came include with an update...any way, it doesn't work any longer with last update

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I had to correct several things to make it work in DBP. Reserved keywords, returned values, bitwise symbols. Still can't get any ships to display, only the background.

But I ran it in DBC, cool ships. Very small though.

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I know that the time limtit is not yet but for health reasons, nothing serious, I'll be inoperative for a period of time. I'll keep on watching your codes, but I won't be able to check them...It seems as if somehow people are tired of this kind of challenge,so if someone want to set a new challenge feel free...sorry !!

Chafari.

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@Phaelax - Thanks for trying. Yes they are small, I'm thinking about making more classes of ship that are bigger.

Meanwhile...
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Posted: 25th Jan 2013 22:28
Obese, I was interesting in the link you provided in the source, but the website no longer has that page and I couldn't find it anywhere else.

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Posted: 25th Jan 2013 23:18 Edited at: 25th Jan 2013 23:35
I got it to work!

Is it just me or is DBP weird? It seems really unstable and will crash because of little things like adding a "print" command to try and debug. Also getting the screen to sync is unreliable, I have to use two syncs in the loop. Is there something fundamentally wrong with this code that is incompatible with DBP? Or is it always this awkward?

@Phaelax - Ah, no I tried to find it but it's vanished. His site is very weird at the moment, it's just a glossary for software terms. Maybe he's refurbishing it and the tutorials will be back up soon.

Meanwhile...
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Posted: 26th Jan 2013 05:19
Quote: "It seems as if somehow people are tired of this kind of challenge,so if someone want to set a new challenge feel free...sorry !!"


I like the challenge Chafari. I would like to enter, we have started back at work i am working from 4:30 pm to 6am then checking my mail and sleeping. repeat until weekend = 1.

I will try to knock something together for the challenge over the long weekend.

I guess the community can cast votes on the winner for this one.

Hope you feel better soon mate.

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Posted: 11th Feb 2013 20:46
Any new challenges?

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Hey, I just managed to get dbp running on windows 7 again
I haven't been coding for something like 3 years, maybe someone of you remembers stick suicide 2? I made that a loong time ago
I always loved the coding challenges and i'm really looking forward to participate again
When the next challenge starts i'll join!
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Wow, this is dead..
I guess i'll have to take things into my own hands and start a

NEW CHALLENGE!

this challenge is about TREES

It doesnt matter how you tackle the theme. I guess it has been there before but i don't care because the possibilities are endless
Show me something realistic, weird, funny, static, moving, 2d, 3d, doesnt matter!

Try fractals for example, since trees are fractal-like objects. This is an old code from me(2007).


I think i'll also do something new for this compo

Some more Inspiration:

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and the deadline is 23.2.13 23:59 Pacific Standard time
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Challenge accepted!

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Posted: 17th Feb 2013 21:00 Edited at: 18th Feb 2013 06:24
Well this was very fun, picked up some new skills as well. It's challenges like these that makes you appreciate 3d modeling softwares. Don't mind my messy coding as everything is all over the place, it's my first time tackling something of this sort and really wasn't sure what the hell i was doing half the time. Somehow it worked out ...





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@Ashingda - looks interesting but your code doesn't run for me. Also is box outline part of a plug-in or something? Even after removing stuff like that it still doesn't compile for me.

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@OBese87
box outline is part of the Matrix_Util plugins.
http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=85209&b=18

I'm not too sure what is vanilla DBPro commands anymore but I'll look through it again.

[Edit]

Version 2 this should work with non-plugins make sure you have latest DBPro update.


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