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Displayed name	Kelandon
Member number	4045
Title	Off With Their Heads
Postcount	7968
Homepage	http://home.sanbrunocable.com/~tommywatts03/
Registered	Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00

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Cutscenes in Blades of Avernum Editor
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Sunday, September 4 2005 10:07 Profile Homepage #18 Super-pixellated just means blurry. I use Photoshop, too, but I save everything in png format and then open with Preview and copy and Paste from there. For some reason, this works slightly better than just going directly from Photoshop. Intro pics are typically 450 by 450 pixels. 400 by 400 will look a little small. Technically, you can have something slightly larger than that, but you'd have to play around with it to see what works. Thralni: in Bahs, this is how it works. First, init the ability in the LOAD_SCEN_STATE. `init_special_abil(0,"Set Cut Scene Speed",16);` Then give the party the ability in the START_SCEN_STATE. Then actually run the ability in state 16. (Bahs has an option to skip the cut scenes that I'm omitting here.) Then a text bubble in a cut scene looks like this: -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Cutscenes in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Sunday, September 4 2005 10:07 Profile Homepage #18 Super-pixellated just means blurry. I use Photoshop, too, but I save everything in png format and then open with Preview and copy and Paste from there. For some reason, this works slightly better than just going directly from Photoshop. Intro pics are typically 450 by 450 pixels. 400 by 400 will look a little small. Technically, you can have something slightly larger than that, but you'd have to play around with it to see what works. Thralni: in Bahs, this is how it works. First, init the ability in the LOAD_SCEN_STATE. `init_special_abil(0,"Set Cut Scene Speed",16);` Then give the party the ability in the START_SCEN_STATE. Then actually run the ability in state 16. (Bahs has an option to skip the cut scenes that I'm omitting here.) Then a text bubble in a cut scene looks like this: -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Cutscenes in Blades of Avernum Editor
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Saturday, September 3 2005 21:58 Profile Homepage #15 Standard for a text bubble is 15, but it's probably better is to do what Canopy and Bahs have done and allow the player to change the length of the pauses. Bahs's system works based on having an SDF be set to a number between 1 and 3, and then each pause after a text bubble pauses for five times that SDF's value. More detail on that if you want it. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Cutscenes in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Saturday, September 3 2005 21:58 Profile Homepage #15 Standard for a text bubble is 15, but it's probably better is to do what Canopy and Bahs have done and allow the player to change the length of the pauses. Bahs's system works based on having an SDF be set to a number between 1 and 3, and then each pause after a text bubble pauses for five times that SDF's value. More detail on that if you want it. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Cutscenes in Blades of Avernum Editor
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Saturday, September 3 2005 16:00 Profile Homepage #13 quote: Originally written by Lord Nicodemus: It's that dreaded scenario- an epic. Of course, the standard warnings for a beginner epic apply: you're extremely unlikely to finish this scenario, and in that case, you would end up with nothing to show for all the hard work you've done. If you make a small scenario to start out and then afterwards make that epic, at the very least you'll have the small scenario to show for your work. Just passing along the conventional wisdom. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Cutscenes in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Saturday, September 3 2005 16:00 Profile Homepage #13 quote: Originally written by Lord Nicodemus: It's that dreaded scenario- an epic. Of course, the standard warnings for a beginner epic apply: you're extremely unlikely to finish this scenario, and in that case, you would end up with nothing to show for all the hard work you've done. If you make a small scenario to start out and then afterwards make that epic, at the very least you'll have the small scenario to show for your work. Just passing along the conventional wisdom. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
SCENARIO CONTEST RESULTS!!! in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Saturday, September 3 2005 08:57 Profile Homepage #18 Oh yeah... I forgot to say the most important thing: congratulations to TM, Smoo, Ephesos, and everyone else who placed in the contest! I'm pretty sure all of you gave Jeff a tough decision to make. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
SCENARIO CONTEST RESULTS!!! in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Friday, September 2 2005 21:36 Profile Homepage #9 quote: Originally written by Jeros: Do you get like a prize or something? Money perhaps from Spiderweb? According to the contest rules, 1st prize is $500, 2nd is $300, and 3rd is $200. The rest of the top ten get a free SW game. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
SCENARIO CONTEST RESULTS!!! in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Friday, September 2 2005 16:25 Profile Homepage #3 I'd like to thank the Academy, and... wait. Wrong speech. I just updated the list of contest winners on the Archive, and the names bring up an interesting point. Only four people have ever won an annual contest: Tarl Kudrick, Alcritas, Brett Bixler, and Stareye. It is humbling to be put in that company. Thanks, Jeff, and thank you to all of the players who have enjoyed my scenarios. I began to develop the ideas for Bahssikava shortly before BoA came out, and it was my first real scenario (discounting that old BoE relic and a utility scenario), and I'm pleased that it has done so well. I wasn't too surprised by its showing in this contest — I expected it to be in the top three. I was surprised by LP, though; while making it, I focused on not making it "good"; any complicated scripting or elaborate town idea got cut before I even began to make it, so that it was as simple as it could be. Apparently this works, too — complicated scripting and flashy special effects aren't necessarily needed to make a scenario good. Anyway, I've been working on a top-secret project for the past few months, which I think it is final time to reveal to the public. It's the sequel to Bahssikava, entitled Exodus, about the journey from Vasskolis into the center of the slith homeland. In some ways it represents a response to ZKR, doing a cave-river journey through dangerous and unknown terrain the way that I think it should be done instead of how ZKR did it. In other ways, it represents a combination of the lessons learned from Bahssikava and LP. I'm assuming that the same people who liked Bahssikava will like Exodus even more, and the same people who hated Bahssikava will hate Exodus even more. And a good time will be had by all. :P I have no idea when it will be finished, as it is already quite a bit larger than Bahssikava and I'm only about 60% done creating the overall structure, but I'm hoping to get it done in time for the next contest, which I assume will go alongside the Lyceum's 8th Contest next June. And finally, I think now is a good time to bring this up: BoA still has bugs, and there are several features that many designers would like to see that seem not too difficult to implement. It would be a great gesture on Jeff's part to give BoA a much-needed upgrade and indeed a Scenario Format 3 with a handful of new calls. I propose that we post new "bugs" and "new calls" topics, drawing on the progress made from the most recent ones, and send Jeff a list within a short period of time. I hope that now that Jeff has seen what we can do with this engine, he will continue to work (as he has at least a few times in the past) on improving the application in small but needed ways. And so, finally, thank you again to Spiderweb for running this contest and to the players for giving me the incentive to make more scenarios. Thanks all! [ Tuesday, January 03, 2006 12:44: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Orb of thralni in Blades of Avernum Editor
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Friday, September 2 2005 13:43 Profile Homepage #269 Uh, no editor has graphic file 504. I think you're misunderstanding what that call means. It's telling the editor that in 2D mode, it needs to display graphic 40 in sheet 504. Any sheet between 500 and 599 inclusive is a custom sheet, so it would be scenario's own custom graphic alongside all the other custom graphics. It's a custom graphic. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Orb of thralni in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Friday, September 2 2005 13:43 Profile Homepage #269 Uh, no editor has graphic file 504. I think you're misunderstanding what that call means. It's telling the editor that in 2D mode, it needs to display graphic 40 in sheet 504. Any sheet between 500 and 599 inclusive is a custom sheet, so it would be scenario's own custom graphic alongside all the other custom graphics. It's a custom graphic. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Scenario Winners Coming Soon ... in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Friday, September 2 2005 13:03 Profile Homepage #17 Just for the sake of amusement and comparison, the Lyceum's 7th BoE Contest had the same deadline as SW's BoA Contest (June 1st). The Lyceum's results were released on July 16th. SW's results will (may?) be released today (September 2nd). It's taken SW almost exactly twice as long as it took the community, although I'm sure the extra time was spent, er, carefully replaying and examining the scripting and looking for all the subtle details in order to be completely fair. Or, you know, dealing with a rampaging toddler or something. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Scenario Winners Coming Soon ... in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Friday, September 2 2005 06:12 Profile Homepage #13 quote: Originally written by Grape slime: Well, I don't know. TM might win, but I never played MA. FYT. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Scenario Winners Coming Soon ... in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Thursday, September 1 2005 20:57 Profile Homepage #10 quote: Originally written by Grape slime: EDIT: typos Surely you jest. Also: Tenterhook. n 1. One of the hooks or bent nails set in a close row along the upper and lower bar of a tenter, by which the edges of the cloth are firmly held; a hooked or right-angled nail or spike; dial. a metal hook upon which anything is hung. 2. fig. That on which something is stretched or strained; something that causes suffering or painful suspense. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Yay! I'm not alone! in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Thursday, September 1 2005 16:13 Profile Homepage #16 I think people would still get it. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Scenario Winners Coming Soon ... in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Thursday, September 1 2005 15:31 Profile Homepage #4 Believe me when I say that I am quite truly on tenterhooks until I can find a dictionary to look up what "tenterhooks" are. Also I'm excited about the contest results. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Bahssikava "Error"... in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Thursday, September 1 2005 12:22 Profile Homepage #1 I know that the script Fly-Retreat occasionally screws up like this, but I have never been able to replicate it and I have no idea why it would. Maybe someday I'll be able to track it down. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Avernum 2 keyboard movement in The Avernum Trilogy
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Thursday, September 1 2005 06:23 Profile Homepage #1 Try turning Num Lock on. I have no idea how or if this is even vaguely related, but whenever people have trouble moving, that's what people say. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Scenario Contest Entries in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Thursday, September 1 2005 06:18 Profile Homepage #31 quote: Originally written by gcmaxxon: Tough choice if I had to choose between Bah and Undead Valley. Woah. This reminds me, by the way, that I'm fairly certain that X'd won't make the cut, and I'm reasonably confident that RoR won't, either, but UV might. I have no idea what it would kick out, though. I mean, Erika's Legacy... -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Scenario Contest Entries in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Wednesday, August 31 2005 15:58 Profile Homepage #26 quote: Originally written by Drakefyre: TM and Kel could have their scenarios combined into one entry apiece like what happened at the first contest. Except that Spiderweb has explicitly said that they won't do that this time around. (They could be lying, but I'm inclined to believe them.) -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Weird Vahnatai in The Avernum Trilogy
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Wednesday, August 31 2005 14:28 Profile Homepage #32 As far as I know, capitalizing "vahnatai" is primarily a boards thing. The games don't do it much if at all. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Scenario Contest Entries in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Wednesday, August 31 2005 14:21 Profile Homepage #23 Oh the suspense! Oh the anticipation! By the way, upon further thought, scratch part of what I said earlier. Either Canopy or Mad Ambition will take top three, but not both. I think BC will be the other member of the Top 3, but it could be DoK possibly. [ Wednesday, August 31, 2005 14:24: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Avernum 4? in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Wednesday, August 31 2005 14:20 Profile Homepage #167 Keyboard movement is a must, or else I'm not even going to bother playing it. Mouse movement was okay for real-time GF, but not turn-based Avernum. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Orb of thralni in Blades of Avernum Editor
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Wednesday, August 31 2005 12:27 Profile Homepage #251 I'm sure you've done this, but since graphics don't reload until you re-open the scenario, you could try opening the scenario in the editor again and seeing if it gives you problems. If not... uh... is the scenario you're editing the same as the one in the Scenarios folder that BoA is opening? This one's something seemingly obvious that I just can't think to check. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Orb of thralni in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Wednesday, August 31 2005 12:27 Profile Homepage #251 I'm sure you've done this, but since graphics don't reload until you re-open the scenario, you could try opening the scenario in the editor again and seeing if it gives you problems. If not... uh... is the scenario you're editing the same as the one in the Scenarios folder that BoA is opening? This one's something seemingly obvious that I just can't think to check. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00

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