[Stealth]

the sounds are awesome and all, but i'd like to finish the Galatea first  also the galatea i don't know what it'll look like in higher resolutions... it looks perfect at 640x480 though.

detail may still be good though

i'm not going to worry about the elevator, since no one will notice

someone please do some research to see if we actually CAN have this as a desktop!  it might work as 98's "Active Desktop", but i'm not sure about XP ... which is what i was ultimately aiming for

[Stealth]

also, someone send me bastion GIFs please

[Goober5000]

Originally posted by Stealth
i'm not going to worry about the elevator, since no one will notice

I noticed! Just add a stupid delay.  The guy is not supposed to do laps.

And I uploaded the Bastion gifs to my webspace.  Didn't you download them before?

http://www.geocities.com/ipw47/temp.html

[Stealth]

1)  Regarding the Bastion GIFs...:  Yeah, i forgot about that, i was talking about the FS2 main hall(s) GIFs though... if someone could upload/send them to me i'd appreciate it
preferably via ICQ, AIM, or MSN.

2)  The elevator is delayed WHEN IT FINISHES playing the GIF, but not at the beginning... so as soon as it starts, the guy's going down the elevator, but when that animation's FINISHED (when the guy goes back up the elevator) then it'll delay for about a minute.  actually probably about 30 seconds.

let me know!

~Stealth~

[Stealth]

i am pleased to announce the release the (BETA) version of the following SWF files:

Main hall, just animations:
http://www.3dap.com/hlp/hosted/stealth/galateav5.swf

Main hall, animations and sound effects:
http://www.3dap.com/hlp/hosted/stealth/galateav6.swf

Main hall, animations, sound effects, and background music:
http://www.3dap.com/hlp/hosted/stealth/galateav7.swf
(NOTE:  This is still uploading... will be done in about 30 minutes)

[Goober5000]

Originally posted by Stealth
i am pleased to announce the release the (BETA) version of the following SWF files:

Main hall, just animations:
http://www.3dap.com/hlp/hosted/stealth/galateav5.swf

Main hall, animations and sound effects:
http://www.3dap.com/hlp/hosted/stealth/galateav6.swf

Main hall, animations, sound effects, and background music:
http://www.3dap.com/hlp/hosted/stealth/galateav7.swf
(NOTE:  This is still uploading... will be done in about 30 minutes)

Whoa... I didn't think you were going to put all that in, but that'll be very cool.

I seem to have deleted the PM with your MSN handle, Stealth. Can you PM me again, and with what time range you'll be on to get the FS2 file transfer?  I hardly ever use MSN Messenger, so I'll have to know when to get on.

[Stealth]

I'm going to ask the help of the public for this project... v8 is about to be released... (tomorrow) in which there will be a menu that you can open (popup) that will allow the user to toggle on/off sounds, animations, and background music... this is useful if the user doesn't want to have sound while they're playing MP3s, or another game...

...of course

also the option of an "intelligent" background, which will remember your settings for when you restart.  i.e., if you turn the sound off, the sound will remain off until you turn it on, regardless if you restart or not.

I'm asking HLP members for their input on this one though... we'll see what they say... posting a thread in the public forum

Oh, and Goober... it'll be probably a week till i get to FS2 main halls, since i still have to get the galatea one to work perfectly, and release it, and then get the Bastion, which is at least 2 days work

The links on the buttons don't work though, and there's one bug that i know of in version 7:  If you move your mouse over a door then quickly move it off, it plays the 'sound' of the door opening all the way even though it hasn't opened all the way.  that's a similar problem to what i had with the frames, but sound is different... it sounds weird when played backward

also, anyone who downloads the SWF... remember it will stay a still, unanimated image, until the ENTIRE movie loads (which is about 5.89 MB or something)... i'm going to put a preloader in the next version, till the desktop final release

Thanks
~Stealth~

[Joey_21]

Very nice!

[Sandwich]

Downloading and testing now - great work so far.

About the sound reversing, there should be 2 seperate WAVs, one for a doo opening, and another for it closing - no reason you should have to play a sound backwards.

[Sandwich]

Ok, to set it as the desktop BG, you need to embed it into an HTML file, like this:

Of course, the filename settings can be changed as needed; this is for a SWF file that is in the same directory as this HTML file. Also, change the WIDTH and HEIGHT attributes as needed.

Oops, I forgot a (minor) graphical bug report: the door on the second floor (or is it the first floor? - bah, the floor above ground level, but not the top one!) its animation is placed a pixel or three too high.

[Stealth]

Originally posted by Sandwich
Downloading and testing now - great work so far.

About the sound reversing, there should be 2 seperate WAVs, one for a doo opening, and another for it closing - no reason you should have to play a sound backwards.

yeah Sandwich, i know it's impossible to play the same sound backward... right now i'm using the opening sound AND the closing sound, but i'm working on making a sound STOP when the user rollsOUT... which it's not doing right now

working on the menu

[Galemp]

Are you going to add something that lets us customize what the doors do? Right now it looks and sounds very nice but doesn't have much functionality. If there was a text file we could edit that defined what happens when we click on each room, that would be great.

[Stealth]

read the other two pages dude, that's the last thing i do... i'm working on it right now

there is going to be a seperate text file which has the links to specific files/folders so the user can edit it whenever he/she wants...if they want it to not link to anything, they just don't put a link in the file... it's that easy

...well, that easy for them... not that easy for me that's trying to program it

[Sandwich]

Stealth, perhaps a simple mute track? I'm just guessing here - haen't played around enough in Flash to know what I'm doing yet.

As for how I did the SWF as a desktop, you need an OS that supports either Active Desktop, or just simply supports having an HTML file as the desktop. Either way is the same, you past the above code into the HTML file, save it, and display that file on your desktop.

[Stealth]

mute button would work... it's a command called:

"StopallSounds()"
lol

but it's better to turn off various components, don't you think?

or should there just be a 'mute' and 'play' button

[Stealth]

almost done

[Sandwich]

[Stealth]

does ANYONE know how to link to a folder/file in Flash?

[EdrickV]

Anyone still got GIF versions of the Bastion anis up somewhere? Or a good, free, avi->gif converters? Started making a Bastion DesktopX theme yesterday and need to make bitmap strips out of the anis, but every program I've tried (in converting bitmap frame images to a bitmap strip or converting avi's to gif) has croaked on the golfcart one or won't do it without being registered. (I did get the exit elevator though, it'll bring up the Windows shutdown/restart/etc. dialog box when I click it. My DesktopX won't stop the images and reverse them though, it continues playing the image to the end and then would reverse itself.) And FYI to go from 640x480 to 800x600 (which is what I'm making the theme at) means resizing the images by %125 percent. Fortunately there are programs that can do that on batches of images.

[Stealth]

see a little earlier in this thread... like page 1 and 2.

Goober5000 converted the bastion anis