[Bobboau]

http://freespace.volitionwatch.com/blackwater/ProXimus/prox_home.html

I have documented ProXimus, it's in my sig, please look it over and tell me what you think. I'll be emailing this to some of my professors so please tell me if there is a better way of saying something or glaring spelling mistakes.
I'll add some tutorials later.

[Mustang19]

Very interesting. I don't make any effects myself, but it looks like a useful program, all you need is a basic knowledge of trig. However, there are a lot of capitalization mistakes... you're supposed to capitalize the first word in every sentence, which you didn't do very often. I wouldn't care, but a proffessor probably would. Otherwise, the writing is good.

[Vasudan Admiral]

Read it right through, and there are too many spelling mistakes to point out, but I don't really care - that's excellent stuff.

My one suggestion would be to give a few more examples and describe what's happening in them for the summations section. That's the only part that didn't quite make sense to me.
(Perhaps some full scale examples of how to do effects would be good too? Ie, kinda a walkthrough for a couple of basic effects to set people off in the right direction.)

All very helpful though - thanks.

Oh, and is the prox download there in any way updated from the last one?

[Water]

http://freespace.volitionwatch.com/blackwater/ProXimus/prox_home.html

I have documented ProXimus, it's in my sig, please look it over and tell me what you think. I'll be emailing this to some of my professors so please tell me if there is a better way of saying something or glaring spelling mistakes.
I'll add some tutorials later.

There is a lot that can be done to improve it before you email the documentation. How much time before then?

[Bobboau]

well I ment to send it out like a week ago, and I can update it after I send it.

and the download is a different file but it should be a copy of the latest, I did update the latest not too long ago with some minor UI tweaks.

[Topgun]

When you said,
"After years of spending my time using different gradients in paintshop pro and photoshop to get the basic effect into form when I knew exactly what I wanted in a mathematical since." I think you meant sense.
 and, when I try to run it I get this message:
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proXimus.exe - Unable To Locate DLL
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The dynamic link library MSVCP80.dll could not be found in the specified path C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\proXimus;.;C:\WINNT\system32;C:\WINNT\system;C:\WINNT;C:\WINNT\system32;C:\WINNT;C:\WINNT\System32\Wbem;C:\Program Files\Symantec\pcAnywhere\;C:\Program Files\Common Files\On Center Software\Server;C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem\;"C:\Program Files\Zone Labs\ZoneAlarm\MailFrontier";c:\vslick\win;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\Tools\WinNT;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\MSDev98\Bin;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\Tools;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\bin;c:\program files\devstudio\sharedide\bin\ide;c:\program files\devstudio\sharedide\bin;c:\program files\devstudio\vc\bin;c:\msdev\bin.
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OK   
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I went and dled that dll, and it gave me a similar message but w/ another dll.

[jr2]

Maybe I'm misreading this, but MSVCP80 would mean MS Visual C+ 8, right?  So you'd need to d'l the MS Visual C+ runtimes.  If that sounds totally wacked and wrong, it's because I'm just guessing based on the file name and my experiences with programs that need MS Visual Basic runtimes.

EDIT: Apparently it's actually Visual C++.  Try the runtimes  here.

Visual C++ 2005 (known also as Visual C++ 8.0), which includes MFC 8.0, was released in November 2005. This version also introduced support for the C++/CLI language and OpenMP. It is currently the latest release.[/url]

[Topgun]

Maybe, but I think it my be do to the fact I am running it on win2000? I will have to try it on winxp to make sure.
I should already have the runtimes since I have visual studio.

[jr2]

If you are running Win2K, I bet that unless you have kept it up-to-date, it doesn't have those runtimes... they are 2005 edition, after all.  If you have 2K SP3 or higher, go ahead and use the link I posted.  Then it should work, I think.  Or just use XP... but then again, those files were released in 2005.  SP2 was released in August 2004.  Unless you got an update, IDK if it'll run because the MS Visual C++ 2005 (8.0) files won't be found.

EDIT:

I should already have the runtimes since I have visual studio.

Which year / version number?

[Topgun]

I tried it on winxp and it works fine!
great work Bob! I can't wait to learn this.

@Jr2: Visual studio 6.0

[Kazan]

how's the PCS2 UI coming along

[Bobboau]

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