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| Registered | Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, August 10 2004 10:53
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You could tick off the box that it's taking place in the caves, which are dark, and put surface terrain anyway. I think this would accomplish the same thing, although I haven't tried 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 |
| Nudism in General | |
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written Tuesday, August 10 2004 10:47
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Clothing serves not only for warmth, but also as protection from damage. If you're wearing shorts and you fall on pavement, you're more likely to scrape up your legs than if you're wearing long pants. Clothing of some kind over the most sensitive areas is probably necessary for daily use. Several people have already pointed out that nudity is basically what you make of it (it only has to be sexual if you're a pervert), so I won't bother going over that. Clothes are useful most of the time as an extra layer of skin, but under any circumstances where that extra layer isn't necessary, I see no reason that nudity should be a problem. -------------------- 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 |
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written Tuesday, August 10 2004 00:07
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I will say that British rap (The Streets, anyone?) is rather different. The fact that the man can get away with saying "My gosh" in a rap song is evidence of how different the culture is. Heh. Headache-inducing bass. I'm listening to Rammstein right now. Anyway, a lot of rap fans say that popular mainstream rap in the United States right now is getting old. Gangsta rap is no longer new and edgy; it's cliched and kind of stupid at this point. Ten years ago it was serving a purpose, but now... well, conditions haven't gotten any better, but the bald hypocrisy of writing rhymes that glorify violence and the thug lifestyle while ending each performance with the word "Peace!" and describing the deaths of Tupac and Biggy as tragedies is getting old. People will only hear this so many times before realizing how pathetically contradictory it is. I'm not the biggest rap fan, but I'm told that underground rap, local groups, and the like are much more vital and strong than mainstream rap is right now. The genre is not in peril, even if the particular trends are. -------------------- 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 |
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written Monday, August 9 2004 10:40
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Rap borrows from an ancient tradition of spoken verse which existed in virtually every culture even in prehistorical times. The idea of using the inherent music of language rather than forcing melody on language is an ancient one, indeed. As for gangsta rap culture, it comes substantially from the trend that arose in the early '90s. Artists like Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg pioneered it. Try listening to some rap from right before that, from 1990 or earlier: you'll find MC Hammer and (slightly more palatable) LL Cool J, or the Beastie Boys, or Run DMC -- old school Run DMC is good listening for just about anyone, as they were the ones who brought rap to the mainstream. Gangsta rap (I suspect, and I'm not alone in this) was a direct response to the prevalent trend in rap that immediately preceded it, as best evidenced by MC Hammer. Hammer was glam to the extreme. "Hammer pants" is still a phrase that anyone who was alive at that time will find amusing even today. Hammer was all about dancing and looking flashy and things that not very many people who listened to rap (namely, black people) could relate to. Gangsta rap was a much more raw and much more real response to that. Statistically, black people earn less money than white people. Black neighborhoods are frequently slums -- it's far more common to find mixtures of black and white people in pricey areas than it is to find an area that is predominantly black. Thus, the main audience of hip-hop (regardless of the strides made by, say, the Beastie Boys to bring rap to white people) could identify much more with the utter disaffection and stark reality of gangsta rap. It was true to its listeners; it was reality. That's why they liked it: saying F--- Tha Police was something that every listener wanted to do, but until NWA said it in a song, it was a suppressed urge. Rap became the outlet for the black community to express what was wrong, and there was a great deal wrong. If rap glorifies violence, drugs, disrespect for women, or anything else like that, rap only does this because inner-city culture virtually forces it on them. The easiest way to make money if you're a kid from the slums is by selling drugs. You can start with marijuana and work your way up to cocaine. It's dangerous and illegal, but it makes you more money in a day than you would make in a week working at a legitimate job. That's a pretty damn hopeless situation, and it's that sort of reality that rap has reflected for the past twelve or thirteen years. And as for people for whom this is not a reality (that is, middle-class white kids), generally those people like the energy and strength in rap and hip-hop. Rap is a emotional form: listen to an Eminem song, and whether you like the lyrics or not, you cannot deny that there is passion in his voice. There is a kind of humor, too, which brings together the mix of exactly what rap thrives on: passion, humor, and the ancient tradition of using the inherent music of language. Oh, and I shouldn't omit that hip-hop of all kinds is great for dancing, which is one of the major reasons that it has survived over the past twenty-five years or so. EDIT: Also, Eminem himself said that there was a positive message in his lyrics, and it was "F*** you." I think this is very true. [ Monday, August 09, 2004 10:42: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- 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 |
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written Monday, August 9 2004 10:13
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From what I can tell, line numbers work fine with BBEdit Lite and TextWrangler for the Mac and EditPad Pro and Crimson Editor for the PC, as long as you're using the "Special Scenario Development Application" (from the Scenario Workshop). You can still screw them up a little bit (missing ending quotes, missing ending parentheses, etc.), but they are much, much closer this way. Er, node 26 has a rather odd character right in front of text1. This is probably the source of your "Invalid character" error. EDIT: Er, yes, what Kahless25 said. But it's a weird backwards quote, an un-caps tilde. [ Monday, August 09, 2004 10:14: 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 |
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From what I can tell, line numbers work fine with BBEdit Lite and TextWrangler for the Mac and EditPad Pro and Crimson Editor for the PC, as long as you're using the "Special Scenario Development Application" (from the Scenario Workshop). You can still screw them up a little bit (missing ending quotes, missing ending parentheses, etc.), but they are much, much closer this way. Er, node 26 has a rather odd character right in front of text1. This is probably the source of your "Invalid character" error. EDIT: Er, yes, what Kahless25 said. But it's a weird backwards quote, an un-caps tilde. [ Monday, August 09, 2004 10:14: 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 |
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written Sunday, August 8 2004 22:52
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As this appears to be a spam topic the likes of which GC is familiar with, I would like to post a link to one of my favorite topics ever on any message board. -------------------- 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 |
| improvements for geneforge 3.... your thoughts in Geneforge Series | |
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written Sunday, August 8 2004 20:52
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Woo, that just reminded me of something. The big battle outside the ziggurat in A2, the one where the vahnatai help you break through Empire battle lines -- it would be really cool to have a big battle along those lines in a Geneforge. I don't recall any, offhand. Drayks and drakons and glaahks and stuf battling, with you caught in the crossfire. That'd be pretty neat. -------------------- 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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Woo, that just reminded me of something. The big battle outside the ziggurat in A2, the one where the vahnatai help you break through Empire battle lines -- it would be really cool to have a big battle along those lines in a Geneforge. I don't recall any, offhand. Drayks and drakons and glaahks and stuf battling, with you caught in the crossfire. That'd be pretty neat. -------------------- 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 |
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written Sunday, August 8 2004 17:00
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I was thinking of you as I posted that, Djur. You have beta tested a good handful, haven't you? EDIT: Evidently not. Djur, you are dead weight and you need to leave the Lyceum. Take your thirty dollar donation with you. :P EDIT 2: I can't believe I actually fell for that. He somehow managed to make me forget that he HOSTED the Lyceum (the web site, not the boards) on Desperance for a good while. Djur, what are you trying to pull? Honestly. I cannot be fooled. :cool: [ Sunday, August 08, 2004 17:34: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- 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 |
| Best? in The Avernum Trilogy | |
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written Sunday, August 8 2004 16:50
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I think it's best to start with A1 if you want to understand the plot without having to catch up from being a bit behind. The others are kind of stand-alone, but A1 actually has an explanation of the basic plot concepts of the trilogy. Start with A2 if you don't care about catching up and like plot the best. A2 had probably the best overall plot (although each one individually had decent sub-plots, too). Start with A3 if you want the most bang for your buck. A3 is a LARGE game, almost the size of A1 and A2 put together. It has probably the worst overall plotline, but to be honest, I didn't even notice that until people at these boards mentioned it and I thought about it for a while. A3 is fun, and its predecessor (E3) was Spiderweb's best-selling game. Blades of Avernum will be an even better buy than A3 in about two or three years, but you'll have to wait a while for it to mature. Basically, Blades gives us (the community) the opportunity to make and play 3rd-party scenarios with a VERY powerful scripting engine. Since we already have devoted BoE designers who are by and large making the switch, this will be a great game in a little while, but it's so new that not much is out yet. And that's my rather verbose answer. -------------------- 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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written Sunday, August 8 2004 16:43
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The thing that's interesting to me is that the Lyceum's membership seems to consist of people who have made themselves useful in one way or another: making scenarios, playing LOTS of scenarios, something like that. These boards are not like that: even longtime members are not necessarily useful, possibly because it's much harder to define usefulness with regard to, say, Geneforge. Even now, newbies pretty much only post at the Lyceum after they've finished their first scenario or (in BainIhrno's case) have played something like 100 scenarios. I wonder why this is. -------------------- 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 |
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written Sunday, August 8 2004 16:34
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Alaska. -------------------- 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 |
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written Saturday, August 7 2004 23:34
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Indeed, and especially since in A1 the sliths of Gnass say that they've been exiled for 100 years and the sliths of Lost Bahssikava say they've been exiled for 200 years, it seems rather unlikely that the same Sss-Thsss could've been responsible for their exile and still alive to be killed by the heroes of A1. And peculiarly, the message right before the steel doors in Bahssikava Deeps refers to him just as Thsss -- perhaps Sss is a prefix added on as a title or something? The rumor is that the sliths were exiled for worshipping Grah-Hoth, but that seems to be unsubstantiated. It does seem rather clear that Sss-Thsss had connections to the demon lord, though. -------------------- 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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Indeed, and especially since in A1 the sliths of Gnass say that they've been exiled for 100 years and the sliths of Lost Bahssikava say they've been exiled for 200 years, it seems rather unlikely that the same Sss-Thsss could've been responsible for their exile and still alive to be killed by the heroes of A1. And peculiarly, the message right before the steel doors in Bahssikava Deeps refers to him just as Thsss -- perhaps Sss is a prefix added on as a title or something? The rumor is that the sliths were exiled for worshipping Grah-Hoth, but that seems to be unsubstantiated. It does seem rather clear that Sss-Thsss had connections to the demon lord, though. -------------------- 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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written Saturday, August 7 2004 19:45
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You could just try setting an SDF. For debugging, usually I add a print_str to a state to make sure that it's being called when I think it's being called. Your syntax looks fine, and if you're not getting an error message, that's probably not the problem. -------------------- 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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You could just try setting an SDF. For debugging, usually I add a print_str to a state to make sure that it's being called when I think it's being called. Your syntax looks fine, and if you're not getting an error message, that's probably not the problem. -------------------- 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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written Saturday, August 7 2004 18:15
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GIFTS, that girl is no more a rabbit than a Playboy bunny is in fact an actual bunny. Keep, in what way could you possibly consider that image objectionable? Either you're the single most uptight person I have ever communicated with, or you're seeing something that I'm not. -------------------- 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 |
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written Saturday, August 7 2004 18:09
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GIFTS, you're a complete and total freak. Wearing bunny ears does not actually make a girl a rabbit. Whyte Shadow, that's pretty cool. What is the context of that image (ie why does the guy look so freaked out when it appears that he is about to be kissed by a very attractive girl)? [ Saturday, August 07, 2004 18:10: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- 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 |
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written Saturday, August 7 2004 17:44
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I do kind of assume that there is a large body of water off the map to the west, past Erika's tower. There are already two major bodies of water in Avernum, the one in the north (Empire Archive in A2) and the one in the middle (Sss-Thsss in A1). I guess there's probably one south of the Great Cave, and possibly one east of Formello, too, because those both seem like rivers that have to dump out somewhere. Does anyone else think the geography involved in the Waterfall Warrens is a bit weird? You can go over a bunch of waterfalls (presumably dropping in elevation a great deal) and then head back up to the top without ever leaving your boat or going uphill at all. [ Saturday, August 07, 2004 17:45: 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 |
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written Saturday, August 7 2004 06:06
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Nothing, until you revived a deceased, pointless topic. -------------------- 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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written Saturday, August 7 2004 06:01
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What about them? Treat them exactly the same as any other Spiderweb graphics. You can use them, and mention in the readme that you got them from VoDT or whatever. To reiterate: you can use ANY graphics from ANY Spiderweb 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 |
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What about them? Treat them exactly the same as any other Spiderweb graphics. You can use them, and mention in the readme that you got them from VoDT or whatever. To reiterate: you can use ANY graphics from ANY Spiderweb 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 |
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written Saturday, August 7 2004 05:53
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I am pretty sure you cannot have a custom graphic for a missile animation. If you could, you'd have to include it in your custom graphics, in the .cmg file for a Mac or in the bmp's for a PC, and you'd have to fit them into the same sort of palette as the included ones. You can try it, but I don't think it will work. [ Saturday, August 07, 2004 05:55: 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 |
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I am pretty sure you cannot have a custom graphic for a missile animation. If you could, you'd have to include it in your custom graphics, in the .cmg file for a Mac or in the bmp's for a PC, and you'd have to fit them into the same sort of palette as the included ones. You can try it, but I don't think it will work. [ Saturday, August 07, 2004 05:55: 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 |