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Tapewormz
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Posted: 29th Jul 2006 07:32
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No need to turn the other cheek. I wasn't trying to thwart anyone's good efforts. You help people and you're nice about it, and you enjoy art. If I had a critique, my only suggestion would be to try and relax a bit. You alittle on the sensitive side. I'm a fellow canadian here. That's gotta count for something I'd say.

You shouldn't take my comment as a slap in the face. What I was trying to convey in my comment (and obviously didn't do correctly) is that this thread is a little out of the scope of this particular forum. It wasn't ment to defuse, dissasociate, or disband the thread. So don't take it that way. I think you're still sore from the first time I suggested that it may have been misplaced and serve it's purpose better in the art related section of the forum. Ever since then I haven't even suggested such a thing.

You should put together some tutorials for people here. I think that'd be a great project for you, and for people that follow this thread. Show people how to accomplish things like composite images, and how to avoid using effects filters as they're a crutch.

There's some really good software if you're comfortable with naration and presentation. Camtasia Studio is pretty neat for tutorials.

MILKSHAPE3D VIDEO TUTORIALS
http://www.planetquake.com/polycount/cottages/blackboard/tutorials.htm
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Tinkergirl
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I wonder if this would be of use to others here - it's the Model Viewer from the Open MMORPG Project (OMMORPG). It's an exe that can sit on your desktop and you just drag your model onto it to run it and check the model works in DB. Takes a few seconds to get going, mind you (because it's checking to see what the default fps is) but it shows load times, poly count and fps, and lets you rotate and clone your object.

It's what I've been using to test my .X models, y'see. Boomin' strange that the default Max exporter is so 'funny' about what will load it in later. DB 'seems' to be ok, but from what you say, David - just about nothing else can load it! (Not a good thing.)

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David Gervais
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Posted: 30th Jul 2006 15:27
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Speaking of 3D Objects,..



Here is a simple Poker Chip, I will do other color texturemaps as time permits..

Cheers!

P.S. Attached is the .x file and texture.

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Soon to come... (this is a sneak peak at my WIP)



I just need to make a better UV map, the one for these has the face and edges of the card taking the same amount of space..

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David Gervais outstanding looks amost like there really there.

I'm not getting you down am I, Ho Look! another fancy Door?
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Posted: 31st Jul 2006 14:24
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Here it is, the full deck (including 2 Jokers), Enjoy!

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Posted: 31st Jul 2006 20:50 Edited at: 31st Jul 2006 20:51
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Here is a full set of Domino Tiles...



Here is the link for the zip..

http://forum.thegamecreators.com/xt/xt_apollo_download.php?i=956898

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omg, those look fantastic! Great job!!!!! I will definitly use these sometime.


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Posted: 1st Aug 2006 20:19 Edited at: 1st Aug 2006 20:21
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And some game pieces,...



Here is the link to zip .. http://forum.thegamecreators.com/xt/xt_apollo_download.php?i=958042

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Hobgoblin Lord
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Geez you've been busy Dave. What, no monkeys in a barrel? These all look great.

http://www.cafepress.com/blackarrowgames
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Pool anyone? lol Here is a set of sphere objects with the textur maps to go with them..



Here is the link to the zip file.. http://forum.thegamecreators.com/xt/xt_apollo_download.php?i=958350

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Posted: 4th Aug 2006 00:01 Edited at: 4th Aug 2006 00:03
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Some fun playing with textures on a basic simple shape,..

Enjoy!

Here is the link to the zip..

http://forum.thegamecreators.com/xt/xt_apollo_download.php?i=960903
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Posted: 4th Aug 2006 22:49 Edited at: 4th Aug 2006 22:52
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Magic Eggs

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Thats what happens when you look at eggs on crack kids.

http://www.milkpaton.com/
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I made a turret for my WIP scrolling shooter game. Feel free to use it if needed.



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Posted: 5th Aug 2006 22:37 Edited at: 5th Aug 2006 22:38
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David:

I hope you don't mind if I upload all your media into Gsupport, a DarkBASIC program to help media distribution. (which is in much need for new media)

(I won't upload it until you give me permission.)


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Sounds like a nice way to get people some easy access to free media. You have my permission to upload the media I posted, just be sure to take care not to mix 'custom' media with free media. I made some custom media for such games as Gem Clusters and a few other items that were 'requests' like UI buttons for the roller coaster tycoon menu etc. I'm sure you'll be able to discern the difference.

Have a great day, Cheers!
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Thank you! I only got the ones you posted in the 2D and 3D board and the 3D objects on this page. I'll upload them once the gsupport server comes back online (he's on vacation or something.)


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Airship model - free for all to use (please put it in a game - I'd love it to be in a game).

Airship thread with downloads.





8998 polygons and 8 512*512 textures - .X format, works fine in DB.

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Here is a .x file mesh and texture for a moon type crater, Enjoy!

P.S. Almost forgot the link to the zip..

http://forum.thegamecreators.com/xt/xt_apollo_download.php?i=964513

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omg these are frikin awsome (i wish i could even draw a stick guy good)


if time is an illusion than you can give me five more minutes......
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Here is a quick and dirty mountain export from Bryce 5.5 (more can be made if genuine interest is shown. In my spare time that is.)

Attached is the .zip with .x model and texture, Enjoy!

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thought i'd just put a little 2d back into it and add theese. sorry i don't know how to display them on the screen!.
they can be used in a silly game or something ther is a tortoise policeman facing ,left the same one facing right, the tortoise in a police van, a traffic light and a road sign of somesort!

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Hi David G
I used the graphics from the pool balls in a little Dark Physics demo I made thanks


http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=86488&b=8

For those of us with little artistic talent this thread is a great resource

Thanks again

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Wow Tinkergirl I love the airship

@David I also have a request. I'm thinking about doing a hangman game (eventually) using those hangman sprites and the background you did earlier, the one that I think was for the X-fighters game.
Could you make one of those for the "Game over" screen? Like with all the metal twisted, broken, and rusted and stuff. I thought that would be nice to put in when I get around to making the game.

Edit: Actually this is the background I was talking about:


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No rush, David. I'm working on animating Tinkergirl's airship right now. (And I work slow)

Tinkergirl when the program shows me the limb values they're actually all 1 number too high. Just so you know

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Yes - sorry about that. I'm not sure why my code does that, I often suffer from "off by one" errors. Still, I was rather glad I got rid off all the other, unnamed limbs - they were just silly. If you finish animating it, would you let me see?

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bmaczero, for the game over 'screen' do you really want/need a full screen image? I would think a smaller window type overlay would be good/better (imho) More like a dialogue box than a window. it could be used for anything form in game messages to high score, to well, game over messages. I'll post a piece of artwork later.

Oh and I think the only game that used that background was an asteroids type demo/game by RiiDii.

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@bmaczero:
Is this any use to you? It is something I made a while ago but it seems to fit your request quite well. It is 640x480, so, depending on your screen resolution it will either be full screen a need to be centered as a window.
Attached is a .RAR file containing the backdrop and three images for each button: Normal, highlighted and clicked.




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That's not what I was looking for but it is..."Nifty."

I think that would look good, thanks Scraggle

@David what I was looking for was basically that background you put up earlier (the one I showed) but with a "destroyed" look. I was going to have explosions go around it and "destroy" it.

I'll start on the game so I can see how Scraggle's works

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Quote: "If you finish animating it would you let me see?"

Sure but like I said I work kind of slow, I don't get a lot of time to code in an average day. And now I have 2 projects

Edit2: The drive belt...I dunno how to do that. Anyone have any ideas?

Edit3: Here it is! All the stuff in the boiler room is animated, except the belt. (That wasn't too hard). Next maybe some effects like steam...
I also made the camera start somewhere other than under the table

Edit4:See below

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Hm, the only thing I could suggest for the belt would be to move it slightly (to make it look like it's vibrating), maybe with a few very small fast sin-waves, and somehow scrolling the texture on it to get the rotating movement look. Not sure how well it's set up for that right now, of course.

Oh, and rotate camera 0,0,180,0 will give you a nicer start position, instead of looking right at the map. Looks very nice though. All we need now is collision - but that's a whole new bucket of chimpanzees.

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Thanks for that code, I will update the download in a minute. I am currently working on the steering wheel and maybe some steam in the boiler room, but i'm not exactly the best coder here .

Right now the wheel just twitches. Maybe i could make it so the user can turn it.

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Ok I think I'm starting to get a little fancy with the particles . Here's the pretty-much finished project.

The results are:
Animated Boiler Room
Demonic Twitching Steering Wheel
Fire particles on the stove

Anything else?
And does anyone know how do I go about making the particles not visible through walls?

[Edit]Yay! The texture scrolling now works (I made a silly mistake earlier)
I also added a cloud effect I had on my drive, don't know who made it though...

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The download is lacking Belt.bmp and FireParticle.bmp


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Sorry download fixed

Edit:Edit: So there it is. Some fire effects and animated wheel and boiler room. If anyone else wants to pitch in, I'd like to here about it .

Edit2: I use way too many edits, don't I?

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i am back, it's been a while, i've been playin runescape, im hooked to it now.

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Um, bmaczero - those db files (and dbpro ones) are all empty. The file size is 2k and there's nothing in them. A mistake, possibly?

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Urk

Well I remade the zip , the files in it seemed to be blank even though my files were fine.

Try it again?

Edit: See previous post!

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Does anyone have a sprite sheet of a soldier similar to one that looks like this?

http://www.grimwell.com/phpnews/images/InfantryScreen.JPG
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Have a look at Reiniers Tileset. You can find the link in the Free Media thread. In the Old stickies at the top of this board.


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@David Gervais

Hello

I've pinched some of your images for a DBP snippet submission in the code snippets section.

I have credited you in the code and post, just thought I should let you know.


http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=88683&b=6

Thanks for supplying all this great artwork, it's much appreciated as I can't even draw stickmen properly
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Are we dead?

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i hope not this this threads been going for years!


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No, actually its only been about 9 months and 1 day...

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i do have a challenge/request

can somenone make an an animated sprite for me to use has a particle, of when a bullet hits a wall, and dust/sparks come of of it ?

Your signature has been erased by a mod because it's larger than 600x120....
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iv'e got artwork.
a futuristic car

and a damaged version

please somone use them. if you do a mention in the credits would be nice but is not required. please inform me if you do.


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Hate to bump, but,
yes......WE ARE DEAD!


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Woah nice media!!! (My older bro used like half of it)

Thanks Dave!!!

I'm such a n00b (Dark Basic Pro Guy is my older bro btw!!!)
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Hello.
I'm writing a Pac-Man tutorial, and I'm very confused about these dots. First, why are there so many? Don't we only need 1 small one and 1 big one? I can see that some of them are half dots, but why is that? Are we supposed to put 2 sprites together to make a whole dot? That seems overly-complicated. I'm thinking there's a different sprite for each combination of weither or not the adjacent dots exist. However, if Pac-Man eats a dot, all the adjacent ones would half-dissapear! My approach would have been to just copy 1 small and one big, and place them wherever there isn't a wall, but they'd be too spaced apart. I can see from this picture:



that they're less spaced out than 32 pixels, 16 I think.

Can someone please explain this I don't want to let my tutorial's audience down. (Follow th link in my signature)

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The small dots are to show you where you still need to go, the large dots are for power or to allow Pac man to attack the ghosts

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