Drake7707

No flu shots available here, well not for most people (except those who work at hospitals etc). Swine flu isn't even much more dangerous than normal flu, in the unlikely event that someone dies of it then he/she would have probably died from normal flu too.

yeah, layers are the key , I've been using paint shop pro 9 for years now and I've learned to use layers for everything significant too

hdds have a bathtub graph in terms of faulty hardware, either it's within the first year or after 4-5 years that a hdd fails, yours appears to the the first one.

I've recently got my work laptop with an SSD drive so for optimal use of that I had to install windows 7 and everything works smoothly. I've had the beta installed as a dual boot on my home laptop before and I didn't run into any annoying problems. Besides Vista is a good OS nonetheless, it might be slow on low end pc's but it wasn't really designed to run on those anyway back then. Most problems were hardware and software related and there are still (lazy) manufacturers or developers that refuse to change anything to support Vista but they will probably die off as it won't work in Windows 7 either. Another problem is that since the launch of XP a lot of newbie users are using a computer that barely know how to turn it on and they have been complaining over and over when they had to switch to Vista because they don't get anything about the security layer in place, they probably got it stuffed with malware too and malware + xp is faster than malware + vista.

or the domain of google http://www.google.be gives different results

Aren't their specific interfaces for ASSS modules ? I don't know about the module structure but if they are seperate plugins as dll's then writing one in vb is possible as long as you follow the exact same interface provided afaik.

sfc /scannnow for windows file integrity (if that solves the problem I suggest you back up everything from your hdd because that usually meant a small headcrash and your hdd will get worse overall) and memtest in case the memory sprung a bit out of its socket. I was lucky, I let my laptop fell twice from around bed size high, once in my school bag, the hinge is cracked, my left side case is cracked, my pcmcia port is cracked but everything still works fine system-wise (and with an 17" widescreen my screen either got extremely lucky or it's far more sturdy than I expected).

I was allowed to purchase a laptop up to € 1500 at work from Dell and I chose a Dell Latitude E6500 with 4gb ram, 2.53ghz core2duo and a whopping 128gb SSD (which costs like 1/3 of the laptop oO, not that I'm paying for it but still). It *should* make Visual studio go superspeedy, I'll let something know once I receive it (my current laptop at work has a high 'Compiling' xkcd value)

Testing is one of the most tedious and annoying job to do in a development cycle. You have to create a whole series of different tests for something you didn't even make. Besides gaming as a job is a pretty lousy one, you don't learn anything and when you're laid off you're as helpless as someone who has no experience, yet they have to pay you more than them.

I don't think splines are a good idea for a spaceship, it looks too smooth like it's from plastic or something

this is peanuts compared to WWII, so why all the sighing ?

CLT worked fine on my 2003 laptop. It's 5 years later so computers are 3 times faster now. I mean I'm not adept enough in java to program the GUI in a responsive way when so many things have to be drawn. Sama & I had to use a few hacks here and there in vb6 to let it run smoothly (as in 200% speed increase hacks), I don't think I will be able to do the same in java (well technically it would be easier to use an observer pattern to let the updates & redraws of the map happen, but I'm hesitating about the impact it would have on the drawing speed)

I checked out the article on wikipedia and I find the F# language quite cryptic oO. Well hard to read anyway with all those different characters for operations and abbreviations for iterations, lists, etc.

C# also has a much more extensive GUI support (menu items, dockable toolbars, and all those things that are rather hard to do with subclassing in vb6). It's also much much much more stable than vb6. C++ is better for speed, but it seriously complicates things programming in it, especially if you're not used to it (which is a thing to avoid when you port something ). Java graphics are sadly enough too slow, and in C# the GUI frontend could be made in silverlight, it's not that hard and you could map your map from your browser (or stand alone if you prefer) AND it is cross-platform.

My bookmark (http://forums.sscentral.com/index.php?) seems to be broken, I have to use http://www.ssforum.net . Edit: aaaaaand i just realised I misposted this :/, it should be in Feedback forum

i demand environment mapping & reflections on that render!

I don't know for sure, but i think so, then again, i've never seen any BMX on the streets anywhere, and i passed a lot of bicycles at the train station on my way to school. I should look that up *-)

you'd get a ticket if you were to ride such a bike on public streets here: bell, lights, reflectors (also the ones in wheels) are all required here

This can be easily cheated with mouse_event api

the texture that's supposed to be metal is more of a granite texture than a metal one :/. Try reducing the amount of perlin noise or overlap with 50% opacity with a metal texture.

i instantly thought of the GDI from the c&c series with the warbird sign

Dunno, but if it's for Thirdspace, you could go like this: - Intro of subspace trailer, text: this is what VIE promised us. - Gameplay of continuum zones, text: this is what we've got. Good times. - Text: Now it's time to whip up some real 3D dogfights - Gameplay of thirdspace or whatever 3D subspace/continuum you're making he movie project for, with explaining the differences and new features or something - Title of project, (don't forget the ESBR Rating is subject to change )

make sure the normals are outwards on the wings, if the normal is not specified, wavefront objects use a right handed base system to determine the normals (using a cross product of the 1st & 2nd vertex)

bomb lines are already available in the test map function. Hold 'B' to see them. It would also be useful to have some sort of stamp tool, where you compile your stamp with various tiles and lvzs, then take that and use it as a brush. Those 'stamps' could be seen as 'tiles' too, allowing you to use all the tools with them (or even include them in walltiles). This also partially resolves the auto-tiling. You can do it at this point, but it's somewhat limited: make your stamp on an empty area and copy paste it as selection (cut out the tiles you don't want to if it's not rectangular).