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I started recording with my mic and noticed some annoying noise in the file when I played it back. I tried recording with two different mics and am getting the same result. Anyone know what could be causing it?

By default if you tick an element resistance box for equipment it gives you +50% resistance to the element. What I want is a better resistance set-up for equipment.
Here's what I want:

• Being able to set specific percentages, (eg. 10%, 30% etc.), including negative values for equipment (all types of equipment excluding weapons)
  
• The total resistance is all of the equipment together, so if I have a shield that gives 20% fire resistance and an accessory that gives 10% I get a total of 30% fire resistance.
  
• Finally, I want to be able to have multiple resistances on a single piece of equipment.

Thanks to anyone who accepts this

[Creating Shadow Tilesets]

Creating Shadow Tilesets

Introduction

This started with G_G on msn. He was trying to make a shadow for every object on a map and couldn't get so I helped and this is the result. You can look at some examples under the tutorial of this in use.

Tutorial

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Whewn you create your new file, before copying the image, set up a 32 X 32 grip with option 'Snap to Grid' selected. This will help when positioning the tileset.

This tutorial is done with Gimp so if you're using there will most likely be some differences.
First, pick a tileset, I'm using the dark space tileset, and open it in Gimp. Now select the Rectangle Select tool and select the whole tileset (Ctrl + A) then copy it (Ctrl + C). Open a new file with the same width and double the height of the tileset you're using and paste your tileset in, making sure it's positioned at the very top. Create a new layer and paste the tileset into the file again, this making sure it's positioned perfectly under the first one.

In the toolbox you have 2 color blocks (or whatever you want to call them ) Click on them set both their HTML notations to 635c74. Now select the second layer, select the tiles in it and then go to the color menu, select Map then Gradient Map. This should have changed the bottom tiles to shadows.

Finally you need opacity. Go to Layer, select Transparency and pick Color to Alpha... Click OK on the dialog that appears and you're done.

Pictures (by game_guy):
Step 1: Setting up the Grid

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Step 2: Choosing Tileset/Selecting It/Copy

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Step 3: New File/Pasting

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Step 4: Setting Color

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Step 5: New Layer/Pasting/Gradient Map

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Step 6: Color to Alpha

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Step 7: Final Result

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Examples of Shadow Tileset in Use
Examples made by game_guy

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Credits and Thanks

• Hellfire Dragon
  
• game_guy for examples and pictures
  

Author's Notes

Not much else to say really, except here's the tileset I made (the one used in the examples), if anyone wants it.

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So I've been trying to set up my computer as a small server to show a few site designs etc, to freinds without having to upload files all the time. I tried using no-ip which, after I finished setting everything up directed my to myrouter page (192.168.1.1) when I used the domain, so I tried DynDNS, which was actually recommended by my ISP, and ended up with the same result.
Anybody know what's wrong here?

I've been looking around for a while and I can't find a decent flv converter. I'm looking to convert flv files to either avi or mp4 with decent quality. Does anyone know any good converters? Preferably free please

After a long wait Mechwarrior 4 is finally here. It was supposed to be released last August but wasn't due to legal complications. The download went live yesterday (or the day before, I can't really remember) and was being simultaneously downloaded by 10,000 people when the server crashed. There was a total of 100,000 unique hits from around the world before the server crashed.
The server was set back up today and the free release of MW4 is now going ahead again. It can be downloaded at http://mektek.net.

I've been waiting for this a long time now, especially since my copy of the game got severely damaged a few months before the announcement for the free release

Not sure how many Mechwarrior fans are on this forum but if you never played now's a great time to start

I've been searching for ages now and still can't come up with anything decent, does anyone know how (or know of a tutorial) that shows how to use the, I don't know exactly what you call it but as an example, this forum, the address bar shows index.php?action=post when posting a new topic.
Basically, I want to connect to a database and use something like index.php?article=x to display the contents of table x on the page. Anyone know of any good tutorials?

Thought I'd start this little topic full of free scripts & tools If anyone wants anything added, just post.

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PHP Fusion - Nice CMS, I'm using this one for 2 sites right now. Easy customize and there's lots of themes & add-ons for it. The panel system is a nice  feature, allowing you to easily place bits of code across multiple pages, for example and affiliates or advertising box. Comes with basic forums. Forum and support and quick to respond and are very helpful. Very user friendly.

Joomla! - I used this before though it's been a while since I used it, about a year or 2 I think. Judging from what they had when I was using it there's a lot more add-ons and themes available for Fusion. It kind of depends on what you're looking in a CMS.

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Simple Machines Forums (SMF) - Easy to use and customise, popular forum. Chaos-Project is run on SMF. Lots of add-ons and themes available and are easy to install.

phpBB - Never used these forums before, so I have no experience with them at all. If anyone wants to fill in something here, post and I'll replace this.

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Ajax Chat - Java client side, PHP server side. Simple chat room that includes the usual things like rooms, coloured text etc.

Free Web Shop - Comes in English and Dutch (I think) Basic shop layout. Categories, shipping management, customer management, discount codes, stock managment etc.

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None yet.

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Gantt Project - Started using this recently. Easy to use, add resources (team members), set tasks (schedule start and finish dates), manage team members ( days off, email, phone etc). Can export/import Microsoft Project files, can export PDF, HTML and other formats. HTML export generates pages such as resources, graphs for task completion etc. Generally this is an easy to use and handy app.

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HTML Basix Form Generator - Quickly create HTML forms that send the entered data to the specified email.

I'll be adding more later

So basically I was looking for a simple seperated inventory. Around 3-4 sections that could be easily configured, either by dummy elements or putting the IDs into the script. I want each section to work just like the normal inventory.

Thanks to anyone who can make it

[Sonic 4:]

An combo for a topic but saves creating 2
Sonic 4:
So looks like SEGA dicided to go make Sonic 4, as 2D platformer picking up where sonic 3 left off back in 1994. So it isn't going to be a shitty 3D title You can watch the video here.

New Vegas:

Bethesda Softwork's has released a trailer for Fallout: New Vegas. It doesn't show much but you do see a faraway view of New Vegas, shining with light unlike most of the wasteland. At the end of the video we see a person in a brown coat and some sort of mask and helmet, who turns their head towards the screen and we here the words 'War... war never changes.' Not much of a trailer but the game is set for release Fall 2010.
Click here to watch the video

So what's everyone think?

[Styles]

Styles
Version: 1.0
Type: Battle Add-on

Introduction

Allows players to cycle through multiple 'styles' during battle. Basically each style sets certain skills to hotkeys so players can swap between attack skills and healing magic (for example) quickly during battle without the need to bring up the hotkey menu.

Features

• Allows quick and easy swaping of skills
  
• Includes a Styles HUD
  
• Just change 2 variables in the beginning of the common event to change the HUD position easily
  

Screenshots

The HUD isn't too impressive and that's really all you'd be seeing

Demo

Download - Mediafire

Instructions

Just copy+paste the common events into your project and set the variables.

Credits and Thanks

• Hellfire Dragon
  
• Blizz for making the most awesome ABS ever
  

Author's Notes

There's one little bug that I haven't been able to figure out yet. If you have the hotkey section of the Blizz-ABS HUD active and you change styles, the style change won't work until you deactivate the hotkey HUD but if the hotey HUD isn't active it works just fine.
Other than that, report any bugs in this thread

Been having this problem for a while now, when I right click it sometimes times right-clicks again... very annoying

Anyone know what could be causing it?

I was looking for something simple really, something that show the mission title, description, location and reward. A layout like G_G's quest log script would be nice, ie, a list of the missions, press enter and get more info, and for the mission menu, press enter again to get transfered to the mission or cancel to back to the list. Oh and something to display status and have unlockable mission as well btw

Anyone think they could do it?

So what/who's your favourite video game enemy? Mine would be the Shadows (and maybe the Novashadow too) from Kingdom Hearts, they're awesome ^_^

I'm looking for a script that allows more than 4 choices. I know the UMS has it but 1, it looks ugly and 2, I don't need the whole script for just one of it's features.

So, I'm looking for something that will allow more than 4 choices and that the display of them look good. SO I was thinking of something like a scrolling choice selection or something along those lines.

ty to anyone who does this ^_^

I need a script that will give each item in the player's inventory a set weight. The play can't pick up items if they are over the limit. How much the player can carry is based off their total STR stat.
I need this to be compatiable with Blizz ABS, picking items up on the map

Couldn't find this anywhere, i searches

[Pros:]

So today, the 11^th of August 2009, Microsoft released their new update for the Xbox 360 dashboard. Aside from some small things like new items etc for avatars, and something about Netflix, they released Games on Demand. This is where you can purchase full games, that you'd normally be going to the store for. ie, Mass Effect. This is the beginning of the whole 'digital distribution' thing they were talking about. They're supposed to be releasing new games for it every week. Hopefully some newer will pop up but for now we just get the older ones like Mass Effect, Oblivion ,Assassin's Creed, Need For Speed: Carbon (I think) and some other ones. I got the update this morning. One I noticed was that he game's price is listed in actual currency instead of MS Points for some reason
You'll have to go to xbox.com to get the game's manuals.

Pros:

• No need to go out to the shop to buy games
  
• No more scratched up disks (common problem in places like Gamestop)
  
• Games are cheaper (apparently)
  
• No wasted plastic game packaging that will destroy the enviroment (for all you eco friendly people )
  
• There's probably more :p

Cons:

• Very limited selection of games right now
  
• Only older games are being put up, could take a while for newer ones to come in
  
• Games aren't really cheaper. The games are going for €30. Since these are mostly old games, you can pick them up for 10/20/25€ in a shop
  
• This will inevitably end up taking up huge spaces on our hard-drives so MS will have to release bigger hard-drives (more money for us to spend )
  
• Again there's probably more

So what's everyone else think?

[3 Card Monte]

3 Card Monte
Version: 1.0
Type: Mini-game

Introduction

I'm having some gambling games in my game, this is one of them. Thought I'd release it
My game is more modern based, dunno when this game was invented but it'd be easy to replace the card pics with something like, uh, chickens, guess which one there's an egg under or something
For those of you who don't know this game, 3 cards are on the table, you're shown a card and then it's put face-down on a table with 2 other cards, you make a bet and pick a card, if you're right, you win some money and if you're wrong, you lose it, simple.

Features

• Play 3 card monte
  
• One simple common
  
• Show's how much the player won/lost
  

Screenshots

N/A

Demo

Download - Mediafire

Instructions

Copy the common event into your game and then make another one on a map, like a man or something, that calls the common event.

Credits and Thanks

• Hellfire Dragon
  

Author's Notes

I love gambling
Also, report any bugs in this thread

Well, I've been waiting around for Action Game Maker, now I just found out it was re-named to Indie Game Maker (IGM) and finally released for $90

Site
Download.com Download Page

1.3GB

Downloading it now to see what's it's like. Anyone else get it yet?
Also, didn't know what board to post it in so move if you want

Enterbrain has released IG Maker (Indie Game Maker) formerly known as Action Game Maker. This new engine allows you to make platformers, action rpg and shoot em up side scrollers. It supports the following screen resolutions (table taken from official site)



Image suport for BMP and PNG formats and auidio support for WAV and AIF formats. It also supports embedded wave loop commands made with programs like Yamaha's Wave Editor TWE

Finished games can be ported to the Xbox 360 over Xbox LIVE

Official Site
Download at Download.com

Okay, I'm only posting the problem here because I can't post in event system troubleshooting for some reason Anyway here's the problem,
Okay I have a commmon event that checks whether or not the state is inflicted on actor 1 and then checks if switch is on, if the switch the on the skill is learned, if the actor doesn't have the state inflicted then all the state skills are removed.

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That's no problem, now here's the problem, I was going to set to up another event to check if the player learnt one of the state skills then turn a switch on and remove the skill, this won't work because the player can't have the skill if their in the state and as long as the event that checks if the player learnt the skill is on it will continue to turn the switch on and remove the skill...
See my problem?

[Quick Message System]

Quick Message System
Version: 1.0
Type: Message Add-On

Introduction

I usually have a message pop up at the top of the screen to inform the player of something, ie "A New Quest Has Been Added To Your Journal" so instead of making it change the windowskin, move the text box and change them back every time, I made a common event to do it.

Features

• Just change a variable to make a quick message appear
  

Screenshots
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Demo

Download - Mediafre

Instructions

If you don't want to download the demo look at this.

First, set a common event like this,

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Next, in the event that calls the common event, use this call script befire you call the common event, $game_variables[ID] = 'MESSAGE_HERE'
Just replace ID with the ID of the message variable

Simple.

Credits and Thanks

• Hellfire Dragon
  

Author's Notes

Nothing really I find this useful for small messages like the example in the Introduction and door unlocked, etc.

Whenever I enter Map002 common event 2 actiavtes. The common isn't set to be triggered by a switch and there's no events on the map that call it. Or on the other map. I can't see anything wrong with the evnt, it's my banking system, and the only script I'm using right now is HoT Dot. I was using rmx-os but I removed because I thought that was causing the problem but it's not. I removed my edited default scripts, menu and scene_end as well. I have no idea what's causing the problem
Anyone have any ideas?
Here's The Project

Could someone make a second MP for me?
I wanted this gauge to act exactly like normal MP but only have it's value subtracted by certain skills. Also a way to increase/decrease it and it's max would be nice
Also I want it to be compatible with Blizz ABS and show up under the MP gauge on he Blizz ABS HUD.

ty in advance

I dunno how many hardstyle and hardcore fans there are here but me and my cousin opened a site for it
We're putting up vids, music and I'll be adding some other stuff later. We don't have to much music up right now (13) but we're adding, well I'm mostly the one adding them he's too lazy, just sends links when we're on msn Anyway, join if you want, then you can submit some music/vids and  after I set up the gallery categories and stuff, wallpapers, avatrs etc as well.

Hard Heart Music

How do I remove the red flashing when the player is poisoned? It's annoying. I checked Scene_Map and couldn't find it

[Swimming System]

Swimming System
Version: 1.0
Type: Game Add-On

Introduction

I saw G_G's swimming script thread and people said it could be evented, I've had no ideas for new systems lately so this is what came of it ^^

Features

• Player can swim
  
• Player graphic changes when in water
  
• You can set it so the player needs a certain item to swim
  

Screenshots

N/A

Demo

Download - Mediafire

Instructions

Copy + paste common event into your project.

Credits and Thanks

• Hellfire Dragon
  
• G_G for the idea
  

Author's Notes
If you want you can put a change player speed event when the graphic changes, I forgot about it

I know everyone has their own likeing for specific controls, especially when it comes to an abs, so I'm requesting a script that will let the player set up their own controls for the game. By default players can only change controls for the normal rmxp buttons, Z, X, C, Arrow Keys etc.
This would be great

Also if someone makes this, it should mandatory for every Blizz ABS game :V

[HP to MP Skill]

HP to MP Skill
Version: 1.0
Type: Extra Skill

Introduction

I was going to requests this as a script but I evented it instead. When this skill is used a message and input box will pop up asking you to enter the amount of HP you want converted to MP. Now there is one problem with script and that's that it can only work for one actor, that's okay for me because my game only has one party member that uses this skill but if you have it won't work, unless there's a call script that checks what actor used the skill, if so, someone tell me ^^

Features

• Just the one, HP to MP transfer
  

Screenshots

Look at instructions

Demo

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Instructions
Create a skill called something, mine is HP to MP, though I need a better name
Set it up like this:

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I don't see a point of having it cost any MP... that would be stupid
Also change the occasion value if you want to be able to use it outside battles

Next make the common event like this:

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And you're done.


Credits and Thanks

• Hellfire Dragon
  

Author's Notes

It should work with an ABS, don't see why it wouldn't, except for the battle animation, just use a normal one, though having a message box/Input box pop up during an ABS battle could really slow things down/get annoying.
That's pretty it ^^

[anyone]

So the only skill shop I could find was SephirothSpawns and that needs the SDK...
So I want a shop that you can buy skills in. I need so some skills can only be learned by certain classes and you buy the skills using a seperate currency other than the default, this currency increases after an enemy is killed so I need it to increase differently for each enemy.

I think the currency and increasing based on what enemy is killed would probably be the hardest.

ty to anyone who can do this for me

And one last thing, I want to bw able to set up what skills are sold in what shop

Google Wave Site (watch the vid)
So what does everyone think of it? I think it's pretty good, nice and handy, you can embed to your site and it's open source.

The vid is very long (about an hour and 20 minutes) but you should get most of it in the first half hour.