The Still New What Did You Last Do Thread

[leileilol]

Valve should remove the custom spray feature already. CSGO is on the right track for that...

Same goes for artwork sections - I see little legit pieces of art and more of a steam-powered tumblr dump. Shit like that affects Valve's finite server resources and contribute to the downtimes...

[zrrion the insect]

I think I've got synthfire completely figured out now. Not just only well enough to make things work, but completely.
Now to never use this knowledge in any of my projects ever!

[0bsidian]

Made a map in 30 minutes. Yay me.

[Ctrl+Alt+Destroy]

I think I've got synthfire completely figured out now. Not just only well enough to make things work, but completely.
Now to never use this knowledge in any of my projects ever!

... What is synthfire, exactly? I'm curious.

[DoomRater]

One of two videos on this elusive and amazingly fun dino fighting game. I wanna play it so baaaaad

[Captain J]

ooh dino-arcade game, i love dinosaurs and the arcade game.

So, yeah... what is synthfire, exactly? I'm curious.

I can assure you that synth-fire is something way more complicated. It's an independent firing system developed by Xaser, which for instance can let you make an extra attack, aviable to you at any moment, or you can make some spiffy dual weapons with it. The problem is that pulling it off can be quite complicated, especially if you count in things like reload, kicking, and tons of other states like that. (I myself still struggle in Trailblazer to implement quick-melee effectively to synth-firing weapons. )

otherwise, just make sure know it was made from xaser.

[zrrion the insect]

It's not that synth-fire is complicated, it's just that synth-fire makes everything else more complicated and hard to read since there's a lot going on at once. If you can understand the parts involved, the combination becomes far less scary. Synth-fire is really just 5(or so) lines added to the regular states, some ACS, some stuff added in the flash state, and a few dummy inventory items. The hardest part comes from the fact that the flash states always draw on top of the regular ones, and so some things may need to be shuffling around to be where you want (which contributes to the unreadableness of the code).

Anyway, I'm so very excited right now. I just caught a shiny!
Holy crap! Holy crap! Holy crap!
I shall train him until he is strong and big and we shall fly through the sky, taunting all the losers who won't ever know the joy of riding on the back of magic in animal form.

Life is good.

[DoomRater]

Huh, Xaser made something like that? I know I did something similar but because I wasn't using fire and altfire for the dual weapons, I didn't need any ACS for the project and they could both still fire simultaneously.

[Marisa the Magician]

Well... weeks after "fixing" an old Vista laptop by just shoving Linux in it since I didn't have any Windows install discs around, the girl came back complaining that Flash doesn't work. I guess I have to find a way to reinstall Windows... *sigh*

[Viscra Maelstrom]

i played a button of Advance Wars today. i hope i never have to meet Sonja ever again in the game. fog of war... *shudders*

[Nash]

Is it just me or is Google Images slow as shit? It's like trying to run Crysis here...

[Project Shadowcat]

Well... weeks after "fixing" an old Vista laptop by just shoving Linux in it since I didn't have any Windows install discs around, the girl came back complaining that Flash doesn't work. I guess I have to find a way to reinstall Windows... *sigh*

Proof that Linux is NOT the answer to all of your computer questions. I like what Linux is trying to do, but there's so many cases of software being incompatible with it that I (and a good chunk of other computer users who are aware of Linux) stick to Windows. Virtually everything that isn't made for a mobile or game console is made for Windows; everything else is an afterthought.

Perhaps if Linux were more considered by software developers, I would move in that direction, but because they're not, I'm holding my ground here, no matter how much hate I have for Microsoft.

[Xaser]

Huh, Xaser made something like that? I know I did something similar but because I wasn't using fire and altfire for the dual weapons, I didn't need any ACS for the project and they could both still fire simultaneously.

Yours was the inspiration for mine. I'll be sure to state such when I actually come up with a proper "release" of just the synthfire system that doesn't originate from Parkour's horrible code.

Speaking of which, I need to actually do that... <_<

[Marisa the Magician]

It's mostly a result of people asking me "You're good with computers, can you fix this for me?". Dammit I'm a programmer, not a technician.

Besides, when I see a Windows install with 99% disk usage and malware of all sorts installed everywhere, I think there is no other choice but to reinstall that crap, and since I only had Linux disk images around...

[edward850]

Besides, when I see a Windows install with 99% disk usage and malware of all sorts installed everywhere, I think there is no other choice but to reinstall that crap, and since I only had Linux disk images around...

It's stuff like this that made it an easy choice for me to stop my work in computer servicing when things slowed down. Also getting sick of people not telling you what the password to their windows login is. (Not that it stopped us, it just wasted time.)