• 0

    posted a message on Weekly Cinematic Excercise #2: The Great Beyond
    Quote from TheAlmaity: Go

    Anyone know how to get y4m files converted to something that is useable? I had to add the sound effects externally.

    XVID4PSP is the only one of my programs that can convert it back to .avi.

    Posted in: Cinematic Creation
  • 0

    posted a message on Gradius's Help-Me Thread

    I'm trying to oppose a supply limit on one controllable race while playing as another race, not just build units via another player. Like the BW mission where you can build a certain amount of dark templar. My ideal scenario would have been two separate supply icons. But I'll mess around with the "Unit State: Uses Supply" instead. Thx for letting me know about that.

    Posted in: Miscellaneous Development
  • 0

    posted a message on Gradius's Help-Me Thread
    Quote from intanjir: Go

    @Gradius12: Go

    There is a trigger, set alliance aspect. One of the aspects you can choose is resource spending(distinct from resource trading).

    Already did it. I don't think it works with a non-human player.

    Posted in: Miscellaneous Development
  • 0

    posted a message on Do you consider yourself part of an organized religion?

    http://i50.tinypic.com/ms2jb5.jpg

    Quote from FDFederation: Go

    Also have to mention wisdom teeth. Pre-human ancestors (i.e. Australopithecus) had larger jaws, but smaller cranial volume. In the natural selection of humans, as cranial volume increased, jaw size shrank, so now, many modern humans have problems with wisdom teeth.

    Luckily I never had to remove mine. Rest of those arguments can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_poor_design

    My favorite is just straight congenital defects. Psalm 139:13 says "You wove me in my mother's womb." The bible actually admits that God is responsible for congenital defects.

    Quote from GhostNova91: Go

    I just wanna say that's an awesome thing to do. I had a similar situation but a little bit reversed actually. Long story short I was at work and bought a guy a sandwich and a water because he looked pretty hungry and was obviously homeless. He was pretty much in disbelief and when his friend (also homeless) came in and I bought him one too. Great couple of guys but my girlfriend was so pissed off that I spent more than a couple of cents on homeless people we got in a huge fight she was actually disgusted at what I did.

    I don't eat too much fast food, but I remember my grandma used to yell at me when I used to sneak food to one of my friends that lived in a shack/was basically homeless. The general attitude seems to be that you'll catch a disease or something if you approach a homeless person. :[

    Posted in: Off-Topic
  • 0

    posted a message on Gradius's Help-Me Thread
    Quote from intanjir: Go

    @Gradius12: Go

    Perhaps have a dummy ally player own all the protoss junk and have it give the user control?

    Tried that. Says "you can't spend the other player's resources" even after I enabled resource sharing. :/

    Posted in: Miscellaneous Development
  • 0

    posted a message on Gradius's Help-Me Thread

    Thank you Dr. Evil.

    4) Is there a way to have separate supply for races like in the last vanilla SC mission? I want the player to be able to build a limited supply of protoss units, as opposed to being able to warp in more units whenever he builds more overlords.

    Posted in: Miscellaneous Development
  • 0

    posted a message on Do you consider yourself part of an organized religion?

    Saw this on reddit:

    Quote:

    I live in a right wing pro-Mormon city. I go to BK to grab a quick bite. As I'm pulling in I see 3 vehicles all sporting the usual Jesus/anti-Obama/militant pro-life/anti-everything bumper stickers. All have 3-4 people. A homeless guy holds the door open for ALL of them. They didn't as much as look at him. I could tell the dude was hungry. If you have ever had to live on the street, you know that look. So I ask him " Hey, brother, you need some help?" He looked at me like I was the only person to talk to him in months. Well fuck me if that's not the case. "No one even knows I'm here. I'm hungry, man" he says. I get him a couple value meals and I empty out my old army field bag. New tooth brush, Chapstick, etc. He says thank you, we hug, and he walks off with a full belly. I walk back in to eat and everyone there is looking at me like a hugged a walking piece of shit. I just shook my head, got in my car, and went home.

    I'm not looking for karma. I'm upset. I'm 30 years old. I've seen humanity do horrible things to itself after 10 years in the army. And this. THIS. THESE PEOPLE. These people can't even help a grey haired old man who can barely walk because his feet are bleeding. A man who couldn't even ask out of fear of rejection. WELL THIS GUY DID HELP. AND NOT BECAUSE OF A GOD. BUT BECAUSE I'M A HUMAN BEING WHO LOVES HIS FELLOW MAN.

    thanks for reading

    So sad. Yet typical. :(

    Quote from EternalWraith: Go

    Will have my reply finished to you by tomorrow.

    1. What's the point of posting a preemptive reply? Your actual reply will be sufficient to let us all know, yes?
    2. You're 2 days late. What's taking so long? :P

    Posted in: Off-Topic
  • 0

    posted a message on Record to .y4m in CE
    Quote from JacktheArcher: Go

    @Gradius12: Go

    I plugged in headphones and can hear the sounds through them just fine. Hope that helps.

    I started with headphones and tried going to speakers, not that it matters since the sound doesn't show up in the video anyway. I've also tried changing my default audio output from the client itself. :[

    Posted in: Cinematic Creation
  • 0

    posted a message on Record to .y4m in CE

    Render->Show Helpers->Show Decorators
    Then view->viewport size->custom size and uncheck lock aspect ratio so you can set it to 1280x720.

    Unfortunately I still haven't figured out how to get sounds to play. One day they played, then all of a sudden they just stopped, no matter what I do.

    Posted in: Cinematic Creation
  • 0

    posted a message on Weekly Terraining Exercise #97: Photo-synthesis 1
    Quote from Mozared: Go

    @Gradius12: Go

    TOO SOON!

    Next week's WTE is about recreating these pictures, this one's just about posting them :D

    LOL

    never mind then, removed, carry on. :P

    Posted in: Terrain
  • 0

    posted a message on Weekly Terraining Exercise #97: Photo-synthesis 1

    Here is my entry.

    Photo:
    http://nrmsc.usgs.gov/files/norock/images/SnowScape.jpg

    Posted in: Terrain
  • 0

    posted a message on Do you consider yourself part of an organized religion?
    Quote from GnaReffotsirk: Go

    A phenomena occurs. It becomes widespread. Somebody starts speculating. Somebody hears about it. Someone makes something up, takes up some accepted mysteries, and goes to execute an agenda.

    Then there was religion.

    Or is it something they don't want you to know...

    I just a read a book about religious persecution in the USSR, where my family is from. My grandparents spent many years in Stalin's camps because they were political dissidents. Anyway, the main character executed a series of escapes and was protected from execution by his communist parents. He also prayed for his captors, even after they beat and tortured him. In the book he also writes that Mary literally saved him from death by heating up his cell, and the communists were utterly befuddled at how this happened (naturally I don't believe him since he was known to have made false prophecies before, but still, his life in the camps was very real). All of this gave him a sort of supernatural reputation, and people started making up stories. They started spreading tales that he was capable of levitation, and they were bringing him his sick children for healing. He himself said in the book that he didn't know where these tales came from and why people ascribed such powers to him. This is exactly how the Jesus myth started. People are simply prone to superstition, especially in such trying circumstances as what the people of the USSR had to endure under communism.

    Posted in: Off-Topic
  • 0

    posted a message on Black Mesa Source
    Quote from Forge_User_23470268: Go

    I'm saving this for next weekend. A weekend of nostalgia!

    That's what I did this weekend, and yes, it was a true nostalgia trip. Overall very well done IMHO. This was better than most games I played, and it was free. My kudos to the devs. I eagerly await Xen.

    Posted in: Off-Topic
  • 0

    posted a message on Do you consider yourself part of an organized religion?
    Quote:

    man made global warming destroying the planet is nonsense

    Nobody said man-made global warming was going to destroy the planet.

    I don't get it. Are you denying that the greenhouse effect even exists? Just look at what happened to Venus and its runaway greenhouse effect.

    Quote from EternalWraith: Go

    Since 1998, more than 31,000 American scientists from diverse
    climate-related disciplines, including more than 9,000 with Ph.D.s, have
    signed a public petition announcing their belief that “…there is no
    convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide,
    methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the
    foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere
    and disruption of the Earth’s climate.” Included are atmospheric
    physicists, botanists, geologists, oceanographers, and meteorologists.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Petition

    From the giant criticism section of the Wikipedia link:

    "Scientific American took a random sample of 30 of the 1,400 signatories claiming to hold a Ph.D. in a climate-related science. Of the 26 we were able to identify in various databases, 11 said they still agreed with the petition —- one was an active climate researcher, two others had relevant expertise, and eight signed based on an informal evaluation. Six said they would not sign the petition today, three did not remember any such petition, one had died, and five did not answer repeated messages. Crudely extrapolating, the petition supporters include a core of about 200 climate researchers – a respectable number, though rather a small fraction of the climatological community."

    All other information seems to indicate that the original Oregon petition was nothing more than a hoax, as there's no reason for scientists to sign some petition by a lone backwater man from Oregon instead of publishing refutations of the science in the literature, bringing it up at conventions, or work through various professional organizations. Sigh. Why does it not surprise me that you would link/buy into exactly this kind of thing? I am disappoint son. You really need to stop reading dubious anti-science/creationist/conspiracy websites.

    Posted in: Off-Topic
  • 0

    posted a message on Do you consider yourself part of an organized religion?
    Quote from EternalWraith: Go

    You question nothing and accept things at face value to fit your rose-tinted outlook on life. Unaware of corrupt agendas such as the US Federal Reserve Bank, etc.
    Rose-tinted world man.

    I thought this was funny coming from someone who believes:
    1) There are angels watching over you, and God will always protect you if you pray. (unless you're one of the millions of people on the planet who die early, or are born on the wrong side of the planet, in that case prayer doesn't work so well).
    2) All criminals receive justice in some afterlife that nobody can detect.
    3) Everybody gets a second shot at life, living in an infinite paradise that again, nobody else can detect. Get screwed over this lifetime around? That's ok, your rewards will be multiplied ad-infinitum in the next life. This has to be wishful thinking of the highest order of magnitude.

    Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.

    - Albert Einstein, obituary in New York Times, April 19, 1955 //

    As for global warming, it is another fact that you're denying. Global mean land-ocean land temperature is increasing. That's a fact. The spike in atmosphere CO2 is also a fact. Then again, it's difficult enough to convince you there wasn't a giant flood that magically covered the entire earth and wiped out all life, so I'm not about to get into global warming.

    Just because I don't believe in God doesn't mean I can't subscribe to stupid conspiracy theories. Hell, look at all the people who believe life on Earth was created by aliens. But as is usual with critical thinking, unless there's some decent evidence for these conspiracy/hoax theories first, my only reaction will be:
    http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/022/948/1255646215375.jpg?1318992465

    Posted in: Off-Topic
  • To post a comment, please or register a new account.