KoolMoves is on the top (again) !

[necromanthus]

Probably my best shot on 2004: DOOM Reloaded
http://necromanthus.com/Games/ShockWave/doom.html
Game Control Panel ===> KoolMoves v4.4 !

what's new for demo v0.5 :
- two weapons (pistol & shotgun)
- new sounds
- improved world behaviours
- improved engine (more than 30 FPS on entry-level machines !)
- file size : 264 KB only !

The first enemy is comming soon ...

notes:
- ShockWave 10 plugin is required
- DirectSound is required to get best sound effects

cheers

[necromanthus]

Several displaying bugs were reported for ATI Radeon VideoCards.
If you own Radeon 7000 - 9800, please take a snapshot and email me the JPG file.
Any feedback would be appreciated.
Thanks
;)

[FLASHPULSE]

My ATI 9100 did just fine, looks great Necro. :D

[necromanthus]

Originally posted by FLASHPULSE
My ATI 9100 did just fine, looks great Necro. :D

Thanks JOE,
I need to know your Vcard drivers (Catalyst x.xx.xx)

[FLASHPULSE]

I use the driver only, no control panel. 6.14.10.6436
Catalyst 4.4

[necromanthus]

Originally posted by FLASHPULSE
I use the driver only, no control panel. 6.14.10.6436
Catalyst 4.4

Thanks.
Radeon 9100 is DirectX 8.1 compatible only.
But I presume that you have DX 9 installed. Is true ?

[FLASHPULSE]

Originally posted by necromanthus
Thanks.
Radeon 9100 is DirectX 8.1 compatible only.
But I presume that you have DX 9 installed. Is true ?

That's correct. Direct X 9.0b

[Bob Hartzell]

This seems a good opportunity to bring this up. A person with this configuration -- Windows XP SP1, DirectX9, NVidia latest WHQL drivers (motherboard + video card), no other applications open -- had problems with KoolMoves crashing on resizing the timeline. Is it obvious why that should be happening?

I tested it with my configuration with Opera and Internet Explorer open at the same time using a large animation and see no problem.

[necromanthus]

Originally posted by Bob Hartzell
This seems a good opportunity to bring this up. A person with this configuration -- Windows XP SP1, DirectX9, NVidia latest WHQL drivers (motherboard + video card), no other applications open -- had problems with KoolMoves crashing on resizing the timeline. Is it obvious why that should be happening?

I tested it with my configuration with Opera and Internet Explorer open at the same time using a large animation and see no problem.

KoolMoves was tested on 3 systems:
- Celeron / P4 / P4
- 256MB / 512MB / 1GB
- NVIDIA VCards (MX440,FX5200 and FX5950)
- DirectX 8.1 / 9.0 / 9.0
- WinXP-Pro SP1 (with all hot-fixes installed)
NO crashes at all !
I remember that I had one movie with over 6000 frames !

In my opinion, the main problem in case of crashes are the resident programs (AntiVirus programs,FireWalls,etc).
Another source of troubles are those STUPID Browser ActiveX controls (plugins).These plugins are full of bugs !
Also,a clean system (no registry mess,not too many shared DLLs,etc) is required to get best results.

[Bob Hartzell]

I forgot to mention that he has a AMD processor. Do you think that matters?

[necromanthus]

Originally posted by Bob Hartzell
I forgot to mention that he has a AMD processor. Do you think that matters?

Not at all.
With a powerfull cooler, Athlon processors are working just fine.
As I said before, ask him about the resident programs.
;)

[necromanthus]

10 points (in Europe) or A+ (in US) for KoolMoves.
http://www.koolmoves.com (new layout).
Of course, BOB has nothing to do with all of these ... LOL
:cool:

[FLASHPULSE]

Hmm, not bad, I was expecting it to be completely done in flash. That and I would have made all the text a dynamic text for a cleaner look. Nice to see a new layout. ;)

[necromanthus]

Originally posted by FLASHPULSE
I was expecting it to be completely done in flash. That and I would have made all the text a dynamic text for a cleaner look.

Indeed.
And talking about the other competitors (the latest poll),let's see:
http://www.koolmoves.com
http://www.flash.com (Macromedia redirecting)
http://www.swift3d.com
http://www.swishmax.com

Result: KoolMoves and Swift3D are the winners.
:cool:

[psychicparrot]

Fantastic work! I only ever got as far as a 3d maze with monsters in before I gave up .. http://www.psychicparrot.com/games/zombieliter.htm

If you need any Shockwave stuff / help (although looking at Doom Reloaded I don't think you'll need any tech help!) drop me a mail!

On the subject of running Koolmoves / crashing, I have an AMD Athlon XP 2700+ 512mb WinXP Pro DirectX9 Nvidia latest drivers on a GeForceFX5200 and Koolmoves hardly ever drops out ... admittedly, there are a few things I know not to do just incase (playing with the internal viewer seems to bomb out alot so I use the "play in web browser" instead ... and running 7 or 8 apps in the background sometimes causes problems un-suprisingly!!) ... on the whole, KM runs really stable.

[necromanthus]

Originally posted by psychicparrot
Fantastic work! I only ever got as far as a 3d maze with monsters in before I gave up .. http://www.psychicparrot.com/games/zombieliter.htm

If you need any Shockwave stuff / help (although looking at Doom Reloaded I don't think you'll need any tech help!) drop me a mail!

Don't give up !
You're a talented guy (or girl: that chick-parrot...LOL)
All you need is to "dig deeper" inside of LINGO (you have to improve the game engine).
About future 3D projects ... I'll keep you in touch.

Now about KoolMoves and stability ...
As I said many times before, is a matter of resident programs and (bad) memory management.
Too many stupid programs (messengers,pop-up killers,addware and spyware apps,buggy antivirus or firewall,and so on) may kill the host system.
In other words: if you wanna be happy (and healthy), keep your house clean !
cheers

[psychicparrot]

Well tbh most of the projects I get for Shockwave are 2d, so I don't get enough time in Shockwave 3d anymore :( ...

Last time I checked, I was a guy ... yep, still am ;) (thanks Necroneconomical! I can see I'll have to change my name to Shirley on here or something!!)

Definately agree with the 'house cleaning' stuff .. trying to avoid junk (things that sit in the taskbar and pretend to do good stuff whilst just using up precious system resources) is a very good idea. I actually have Koolmoves open now alongside 8 other apps with no problems ... in the taskbar I have Messenger and Winamp so I guess that makes 10!

Computers are for life, not just for christmas!

[necromanthus]

Originally posted by psychicparrot
Well the most of the projects I get for Shockwave are 2d, so I don't get enough time in Shockwave 3d anymore :( ...

Last time I checked, I was a guy ... yep, still am ;) (thanks Necroneconomical! I can see I'll have to change my name to Shirley on here or something!!)

ShockWave and 2D is a bad move.
(I had many "fights" with Director team on this subject).
ShockWave can't compete with Flash on the 2D side.
But is able to become the Online 3D leader ...

Talking about changing names,a good option would be maleparrot
:D

[FLASHPULSE]

Originally posted by necromanthus
Talking about changing names,a good option would be maleparrot
:D

Hey Necro, maybe you haven't learned the english word for this but if you remove parrot from psychicparrot your left with psychic. Psychic means fortune teller or able to see into the future, something like that.

[necromanthus]

Originally posted by FLASHPULSE
If you remove parrot from psychicparrot your left with psychic. Psychic means fortune teller or able to see into the future, something like that.

I know that, but psycho-chick-parrot sounds better.
And if you remove "pulse" from "flashpulse" you'll get a tasty piece of meat, isn't it ?
ha ha ha

[FLASHPULSE]

Originally posted by necromanthus
And if you remove "pulse" from "flashpulse" you'll get a tasty piece of meat, isn't it ?
ha ha ha

HA HA, I don't understand sometimes, maybe i need to learn to speak romanian. ;)

[psychicparrot]

That's ok, then .. I thought I read it wrong!! ;)

Romanian? They don't teach that in our schools ...

[necromanthus]

Originally posted by FLASHPULSE
HA HA, I don't understand sometimes, maybe i need to learn to speak romanian. ;)

I'm sure you do !
Here is the magic english array: [flash,flesh,flush] .
So ... flashpulse --> fleshpulse --> without "pulse" --> a tasty piece of meat ... ha ha ha
p.s.
The science of psychic is psychology
But a (male or female) parrot has nothing to do with all of these.
ha ha ha

Originally posted by psychicparrot
Romanian? They don't teach that in our schools

Too bad. Is not so difficult (and you'll have a lot of fun).

p.s.2
I love this "brain-storm" about KoolMoves,Flash and ActionScript.
ha ha ha

[techuser]

Originally posted by necromanthus
The science of psychic is psychology
Strange, I thought it was PARAPSYCHOLOGY.

Then we have:
Parapsychology > parrotpsychology > parrotpsychic > psychicparrot > psychoparrot > sickparrot > sickpuppy

techuser

[necromanthus]

Originally posted by techuser
Strange, I thought it was PARAPSYCHOLOGY.

Then we have:
Parapsychology > parrotpsychology > parrotpsychic > psychicparrot > psychoparrot > sickparrot > sickpuppy

PARAPSYCHOLOGY is the science of paranormal parrots.
I like that "sickparrot" ... LOL
But you're a smart guy,I'm sure of that.

Anyway, let's get back to KoolMoves.
What do you dislike at this flash tool ?

[psychicparrot]

And it all started with an article about a psychic parrot in a newspaper, which is echoed here http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_126513.html

Back on topic .. the biggest thing I dislike about Koolmoves is having to open up the properties on an object, then having to click on the colour, then having to click the transparency button THEN having to move the slider .. I use the transparency alot and it's a little bit of a pain to get to! I'd like to see more shortcuts (like keyboard shortcuts etc.)

It doesn't seem to like PNGs produced by Fireworks at the moment, either, which is a shame because I like working in Fireworks (don't know if it applies to other packages and their PNGs).. I get wierd jpg errors when I try to use them (about them being invalid).

I could pick at things, but let's face it .. it's a fantastic program! I wouldn't be without it, now.

:D

[necromanthus]

Originally posted by psychicparrot
The biggest thing I dislike about Koolmoves is having to open up the properties on an object, then having to click on the colour, then having to click the transparency button THEN having to move the slider .. I use the transparency alot and it's a little bit of a pain to get to! I'd like to see more shortcuts (like keyboard shortcuts etc.)

It doesn't seem to like PNGs produced by Fireworks at the moment, either, which is a shame because I like working in Fireworks (don't know if it applies to other packages and their PNGs).. I get wierd jpg errors when I try to use them (about them being invalid).

I agree Jeff.
A custom colors box for each project is comming soon (BOB told me that he's able to do that).
Talking about PNGs, don't forget that only 255 colors (8 bit) PNG are allowed for transparency at this time.
And something more: my favorite image editors are PhotoShop v7 and PhotoEditor v3 (I had no problems at all).
cheers

[Bob Hartzell]

The biggest thing I dislike about Koolmoves is having to open up the properties on an object, then having to click on the colour, then having to click the transparency button THEN having to move the slider .. I use the transparency alot and it's a little bit of a pain to get to! I'd like to see more shortcuts (like keyboard shortcuts etc.)

-> Use the paintbucket tool. It eliminates 1 - 2 steps.

[psychicparrot]

I see! I feel like such a fool!

In that case, is there a way to change the frame duration for ALL frames instead of one at a time? Would help for things like slideshows ..

(I have no idea why I put "in that case" in the above line, since it makes no sense! It doesn't relate to the first "I feel like such a fool!" at all .. hmmm .. maybe I need to think about things a little more!!)

Thanks!

[Bob Hartzell]

Views > List of Frames > Set Tweens icon

[psychicparrot]

Thanks, Bob :D