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Displayed name	Thralni
Member number	5977
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Postcount	3029
Homepage	http://thralni.ermarian.net/
Registered	Saturday, June 18 2005 07:00

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Splitting one PC from the party in Blades of Avernum Editor
Thralni Master Member # 5977	written Friday, April 20 2007 21:58 Profile Homepage #17 Then me thinks a god party will be mostly useless, as a puzzle is a puzzle is a puzzle is a puzzle, and it doesn't matter if it's combat based or not. By just hacking through, you won't win anything in most cases. -------------------- Play and rate my scenarios: Where the rivers meet View my upcoming scenario: The Nephil Search: Escape. Give us your drek! Posts: 3029 \| Registered: Saturday, June 18 2005 07:00
Splitting one PC from the party in Blades of Avernum Editor
Thralni Master Member # 5977	written Friday, April 20 2007 04:02 Profile Homepage #15 I added a notice in the Readme file and a message_dialog call in the scenario start state, alerting people to read the readme file before playing, like I did in WtRM. That way I hope to alert people about the fact that their character will be killed. I generally don't like taking away spells, so I will only do that if it's really necessary. I also don't know why anybody would want to use a god party for TNS... -------------------- Play and rate my scenarios: Where the rivers meet View my upcoming scenario: The Nephil Search: Escape. Give us your drek! Posts: 3029 \| Registered: Saturday, June 18 2005 07:00
Your Attention Please: in General
Thralni Master Member # 5977	written Wednesday, April 18 2007 22:26 Profile Homepage #7 You can cut off the music by simply dragging it. Grab it at the end of the track, and start dragging it towards the beginning of the film. Stop dragging it at the point you want the music to end. If you want to dim the music at the end, you can do so too. However, I have a Dutch Mac OS X, so I won't really know what it's called in English... It's in a pop-up menu, anyways, when you right click on the bar with all the scenes and such in it at the bottom of iMovie's screen. -------------------- Play and rate my scenarios: Where the rivers meet View my upcoming scenario: The Nephil Search: Escape. Give us your drek! Posts: 3029 \| Registered: Saturday, June 18 2005 07:00
Operating Systems in General
Thralni Master Member # 5977	written Wednesday, April 18 2007 22:23 Profile Homepage #31 Boot Camp works very well and parallels is very good too. Some people prefer Fusion, though. The good thing about Fusion, is that you can run Windows from your Boot camp partition. I tried it, but was not very content, so I went back to parallels. But Windows runs fine in all three. The screenshots I posted in this thread of my iMac running Windows, is with Parallels. -------------------- Play and rate my scenarios: Where the rivers meet View my upcoming scenario: The Nephil Search: Escape. Give us your drek! Posts: 3029 \| Registered: Saturday, June 18 2005 07:00
Splitting one PC from the party in Blades of Avernum Editor
Thralni Master Member # 5977	written Wednesday, April 18 2007 22:18 Profile Homepage #12 As lazarus said, the party will be stuck in combat mode, which means that, before a tick passes, the player has to put in extra time to get all characters moving, so that their ap have been used (unless he does "defense" all the time) and the turn ends, and another tick passes. Conclusion: this takes up unnecesary time. Instead of that, it would be a lot better if the party could just move around normally. I don't think a priest with resuurection will be a problem. I'm designing for a level 20-30 party, and I have yet to find a scenario in which one can resurrect at a high level (more than 1). -------------------- Play and rate my scenarios: Where the rivers meet View my upcoming scenario: The Nephil Search: Escape. Give us your drek! Posts: 3029 \| Registered: Saturday, June 18 2005 07:00
Operating Systems in General
Thralni Master Member # 5977	written Wednesday, April 18 2007 06:14 Profile Homepage #29 quote: Originally written by macdude22: quote: Hey! You are the dude from MacConsumers, aren't you? How nice to see you here. Hmmm, never heard of them. Perhaps there's someone else on the interwebs that masquerades as macdude22? I'm so sorry, I just checkes, and the guy is called "mac.man25," which is losely related to your name "macdud22." I'm sorry. I often get names mixed up. -------------------- Play and rate my scenarios: Where the rivers meet View my upcoming scenario: The Nephil Search: Escape. Give us your drek! Posts: 3029 \| Registered: Saturday, June 18 2005 07:00
Operating Systems in General
Thralni Master Member # 5977	written Wednesday, April 18 2007 04:57 Profile Homepage #27 quote: Originally written by LF: quote: Originally written by Dr. Johann Georg Faust: Current: http://stuff.ermarian.net/arancaytar/images/desktop/desktop-2007-04-07.jpg I must say, what with all the Mac desktops, XP feels almost feel non-conformist again. :P Yep, almost makes me with I had a Mac with OSX... Almost If you "almost" want a Mac but actually not, why did you take the trouble to disguise your Windows as Mac OS X? -------------------- Play and rate my scenarios: Where the rivers meet View my upcoming scenario: The Nephil Search: Escape. Give us your drek! Posts: 3029 \| Registered: Saturday, June 18 2005 07:00
Shades of Gray is Released! in Blades of Avernum
Thralni Master Member # 5977	written Wednesday, April 18 2007 04:06 Profile Homepage #17 quote: Originally written by Ephesos: I started cursing under my breath. Originally, you would've been able to see the town of Barton in SoG, but then I decided that it just made the outdoors unnecessarily large. Same reaction here when I read the intro of SoG. When I thought about it, though, I couldn't imagine somebody plagiarizing this. It would be a too trivial thing to copy from somebody else, unless there would have been a direct connection to that town, which there isn't, really. Anyways, in hindsight it doesn't really matter. It would have been cool if there were some connection, but it would have been impossible: Upper Barton is a colony erected right after Avernum 2. Of course, it could have been the other way around, but still. it would be a bit weak of a connection. Let's just forget it. No harm intended, no harm done (or at least I really hope TNS didn't make you cut Barton off in SoG, although it was already designed. I would hate myself for it). -------------------- Play and rate my scenarios: Where the rivers meet View my upcoming scenario: The Nephil Search: Escape. Give us your drek! Posts: 3029 \| Registered: Saturday, June 18 2005 07:00
Splitting one PC from the party in Blades of Avernum Editor
Thralni Master Member # 5977	written Wednesday, April 18 2007 03:55 Profile Homepage #7 Okay, thanks. I'll try that. -------------------- Play and rate my scenarios: Where the rivers meet View my upcoming scenario: The Nephil Search: Escape. Give us your drek! Posts: 3029 \| Registered: Saturday, June 18 2005 07:00
Shades of Gray is Released! in Blades of Avernum
Thralni Master Member # 5977	written Tuesday, April 17 2007 06:44 Profile Homepage #13 quote: Originally written by Ephesos: quote: Originally written by Thralni: And the starting town is called "Barton." Inspired by TNS's "Upper barton," perhaps? Barton is the large town you "start" in during the splash screen. It was created completely independently of Upper Barton, though it may be inspired by the surface city for all I know. And Stratton is the actual starting town. Oh yeah, forgot that it was not the actual starting town. But what surface town are you reffering too? Was there in Avernum 3 a town called Barton? And I forgot to congratulate you. So, congratulations. -------------------- Play and rate my scenarios: Where the rivers meet View my upcoming scenario: The Nephil Search: Escape. Give us your drek! Posts: 3029 \| Registered: Saturday, June 18 2005 07:00
Operating Systems in General
Thralni Master Member # 5977	written Tuesday, April 17 2007 06:12 Profile Homepage #23 quote: Originally written by macdude22: AppleGeeks nice! This is my work desktop. Nuffin too fancy. Rotates between a folder of about 100 desktop pictures. Also have a second monitor that is running XP, Vista, or Ubuntu full screen at any given time. Personally I don't care what you use if it works well for you, BeOS, AmigaOne, Windows ME(if you're using this I do care, seek mental help) but if you're family or freinds begging for support all the time I usually cut ya off the support teet at some point and suggest getting a Mac. For most purposes and users I find the Mac OS to be superior, but by all means use WIndows, Linux, whatever, competition is what drives companies and organizations to make better products. I'd hate to live in a world where we only had a lone platform to choose from. http://homepage.mac.com/macdude22/pics/desk.png Edit: Do not stretch the page. Hey! You are the dude from MacConsumers, aren't you? How nice to see you here. EDIT: Oh yes, three desktops, running all on my iMac. When I have the time I could make a screenshot of my Windows Boot camp partition. Vista-on-Mac (Though I removed this already, it's nice anyway) Windows XP-on-Mac My OS X desktop. Nothing too fancy. Just the plain thing. [ Tuesday, April 17, 2007 06:18: Message edited by: Thralni ] -------------------- Play and rate my scenarios: Where the rivers meet View my upcoming scenario: The Nephil Search: Escape. Give us your drek! Posts: 3029 \| Registered: Saturday, June 18 2005 07:00
Splitting one PC from the party in Blades of Avernum Editor
Thralni Master Member # 5977	written Tuesday, April 17 2007 03:52 Profile Homepage #5 I did think about killing the poor guy/woman, but I didn't know for sure I could resurrect him/her without losing his/her stats. If i do use this method, will the character be intact (that is, no stat loss) when I resurrect him/her? -------------------- Play and rate my scenarios: Where the rivers meet View my upcoming scenario: The Nephil Search: Escape. Give us your drek! Posts: 3029 \| Registered: Saturday, June 18 2005 07:00
Splitting one PC from the party in Blades of Avernum Editor
Thralni Master Member # 5977	written Monday, April 16 2007 08:36 Profile Homepage #0 I have gotten an idea of something I think myself is quite cool, but for that I have to be able to split a PC from tha prty in such a way, that the player can't use that PC: it's the exact opposite of what you can do with the existing calls (which is to split one PC from the party and play only with that PC, I want to plit one PC from the party and play with the party). Now of course it's possible (Kelandon did it in Bahssikava), but that's not entirely what I want. If there is not other way I'll do it vua Kelandons method (which is to move a chosen PC to a secluded spot and charm him heavily. It would be nice, though, if there are other ways. -------------------- Play and rate my scenarios: Where the rivers meet View my upcoming scenario: The Nephil Search: Escape. Give us your drek! Posts: 3029 \| Registered: Saturday, June 18 2005 07:00
Operating Systems in General
Thralni Master Member # 5977	written Monday, April 16 2007 08:09 Profile Homepage #10 quote: Originally written by LF: I doubt it. With that said, to save everyone a lot of time... Every OS sucks. Period. That's what the end result of the platform arguments should end in. ...Or at least the would if people were more objective(like that'll ever happen) Nah, I would say every OS has it's pros and cons. -------------------- Play and rate my scenarios: Where the rivers meet View my upcoming scenario: The Nephil Search: Escape. Give us your drek! Posts: 3029 \| Registered: Saturday, June 18 2005 07:00
Operating Systems in General
Thralni Master Member # 5977	written Monday, April 16 2007 07:10 Profile Homepage #7 quote: Originally written by Tyranicus: The first question really should have the option to select more than one answer. Seconded. Though my iMac is my working machine, I have used Windows XP for a very long time when I didn't have my new Intel iMac, but my old iMac G3. Other than that, I hope this topic will be clean of Windows/Mac/Linux bashing. -------------------- Play and rate my scenarios: Where the rivers meet View my upcoming scenario: The Nephil Search: Escape. Give us your drek! Posts: 3029 \| Registered: Saturday, June 18 2005 07:00
Shades of Gray is Released! in Blades of Avernum
Thralni Master Member # 5977	written Sunday, April 15 2007 01:25 Profile Homepage #8 Ugh/ Why does everybody have to stick in these fights everywhere? I started playing SoG because I hoped I would not have to fight a lot. sighs And the starting town is called "Barton." Inspired by TNS's "Upper barton," perhaps? Other than that, it is quite pretty, with some nice ideas. Didn't finish it yet, though. -------------------- Play and rate my scenarios: Where the rivers meet View my upcoming scenario: The Nephil Search: Escape. Give us your drek! Posts: 3029 \| Registered: Saturday, June 18 2005 07:00
Holly-Jolly in General
Thralni Master Member # 5977	written Saturday, April 14 2007 22:09 Profile Homepage #20 I actually had one of the best days of 2007 on friday the 13th... Did i do something wrong? Because yesterday, on the day after the 13th, I had a very bad day... -------------------- Play and rate my scenarios: Where the rivers meet View my upcoming scenario: The Nephil Search: Escape. Give us your drek! Posts: 3029 \| Registered: Saturday, June 18 2005 07:00
Scenario Designing in Blades of Avernum Editor
Thralni Master Member # 5977	written Saturday, April 14 2007 09:41 Profile Homepage #40 Understanding how to make scripts will come in time. People have said it dozens of times: start simple, and you'll learn soon enough. I think that's the only good advice we can give you at this moment. Then when you don't understand a specific thing, we are glad to help. However, coming here and declaring you don't understand the scripts, doesn't help you nor us. So: - Open up the docs and do the basic scenario tutorial. - Read what is said about the different types of scripts (terrain, creature, whatever). I recommend just starting with town and outdor scripts, though. - If you don'y understand something, ask it here. I recommend working in this order, instead of skipping the first two steps and immediatly come here to say you don't understand it. You're not pathetic, you're not dumb, you are a newb, and it's nothing to be ashamed of or anything. -------------------- Play and rate my scenarios: Where the rivers meet View my upcoming scenario: The Nephil Search: Escape. Give us your drek! Posts: 3029 \| Registered: Saturday, June 18 2005 07:00
Outdoor special encounter in Blades of Avernum Editor
Thralni Master Member # 5977	written Saturday, April 14 2007 01:17 Profile Homepage #1 If I understand what you want to do, you have to use a preset encounter. The special encounters are used for different things. However, as I never used them, I can't say what it actually is they are there for. All I can say is that you'd best look that up in the manual that accompanied the original Editor. EDIT: according to earlier mentioned manual: "Special encounters, which are spawned into existance by commands on the outdoor section script." I don't know if you intnded this to do, but I assume you want a group of monsters, say, guard a specific place like the Senarti fort in WtRM (it's that hill in the water with bare, cavefloors)? In that case, you definetly want to use the preset encounter. [ Saturday, April 14, 2007 01:27: Message edited by: Thralni ] -------------------- Play and rate my scenarios: Where the rivers meet View my upcoming scenario: The Nephil Search: Escape. Give us your drek! Posts: 3029 \| Registered: Saturday, June 18 2005 07:00
Prepare For Glory! in Blades of Avernum
Thralni Master Member # 5977	written Friday, April 13 2007 23:43 Profile Homepage #41 I can't remember claiming that the community doesn't like his work. And you're right about the doctor part. But really, scenarios are not as vital as doctors are, you know. Anyway, I think we should stop this discussion. know from previous experience how irritating it can be that people talk about you as if you are not present. yes, I know how hypocritical this probably sounds. -------------------- Play and rate my scenarios: Where the rivers meet View my upcoming scenario: The Nephil Search: Escape. Give us your drek! Posts: 3029 \| Registered: Saturday, June 18 2005 07:00
Prepare For Glory! in Blades of Avernum
Thralni Master Member # 5977	written Friday, April 13 2007 23:12 Profile Homepage #39 quote: Originally written by Thuryl: quote: Originally written by Thralni: What I want to say with this, is that, if Kel is enjoying scenario making, eventually he probably will open that editor up again and start making new scenarios.That is, unless he is so bitter about this, that he won't think of starting again for ever, which I would find a bit... childish? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_cost Maybe Kel has better things to do than design scenarios for a community that he doesn't feel appreciated by. Probably, yes, me too. I could do a dozen other things, but that's not entirely my point. What I want to say, is that if one enjoys something, nobody should make him stop doing that. Let's say you have a garden where you grow your own vegetables. For some time, your tomatoes are very good, but then suddenly, you find one that is just not as good as the others, and people start making comments about it. In the end I would start gardening again, just because I liked doing it. But to stop gardening for ever, just because others said you are not capable or that your tomatoes are extraordinarily bad? I understand his decision and I fully sympathise with it. The problem, though, is that the commuinty, in my experience, does appreciate his work. -------------------- Play and rate my scenarios: Where the rivers meet View my upcoming scenario: The Nephil Search: Escape. Give us your drek! Posts: 3029 \| Registered: Saturday, June 18 2005 07:00
Prepare For Glory! in Blades of Avernum
Thralni Master Member # 5977	written Friday, April 13 2007 22:13 Profile Homepage #37 I was thinking about why I make scenarios. Do I make hem for SW? Perhaps... Do I make them because I enjoy making them? Definetily yes. Here is also the answer to the question: Why do I take such amounts of time to complete my scenarios? Instead of rushing it, trying to get things released for the community, I do it slowly, and thus I can fully enjoy it. If I would be making scenarios for the only reason being that the community needs scenarios, I would have stopped long ago. So do I really care about what the community says? Only some of them. It's nice to hear what people have to say, but it doesn't stop me from enjoying working in it. What I want to say with this, is that, if Kel is enjoying scenario making, eventually he probably will open that editor up again and start making new scenarios.That is, unless he is so bitter about this, that he won't think of starting again for ever, which I would find a bit... childish? EDIT: The irony of the topic title and the actual discussion has just struck me. [ Friday, April 13, 2007 22:19: Message edited by: Thralni ] -------------------- Play and rate my scenarios: Where the rivers meet View my upcoming scenario: The Nephil Search: Escape. Give us your drek! Posts: 3029 \| Registered: Saturday, June 18 2005 07:00
The Nephil Search: Escape in Blades of Avernum
Thralni Master Member # 5977	written Thursday, April 12 2007 04:58 Profile Homepage #9 Wow, I'm impressed... Thanks to you all, guys! I will contact you when I need your help. Until then I will write down your names and adresses. Thanks a bunch. Again, thanks also for your comments. It only makes it easier for me to get working on it. -------------------- Play and rate my scenarios: Where the rivers meet View my upcoming scenario: The Nephil Search: Escape. Give us your drek! Posts: 3029 \| Registered: Saturday, June 18 2005 07:00
Avernumscript Editor in Blades of Avernum Editor
Thralni Master Member # 5977	written Wednesday, April 11 2007 09:47 Profile Homepage #16 Okay, I didn't know you were about to put all that in. I think I might drop textwrangler eventually if all this will be working correctly (The Alint sounds very good). I'm glad you approve of the template idea. It would be very helpfull if it could be put in. Thanks :) -------------------- Play and rate my scenarios: Where the rivers meet View my upcoming scenario: The Nephil Search: Escape. Give us your drek! Posts: 3029 \| Registered: Saturday, June 18 2005 07:00
One spammy post closer to frolicking in General
Thralni Master Member # 5977	written Wednesday, April 11 2007 06:10 Profile Homepage #25 The relation with 2000 and Dolphin's picture is, naturally, the amount of mL of water in that lake. If you take, for example, the number "7", devide it with 2, muliply it with 46 and then add 1235, you get 1396, which is not even remotely related to 2000. For me: -------------------- Play and rate my scenarios: Where the rivers meet View my upcoming scenario: The Nephil Search: Escape. Give us your drek! Posts: 3029 \| Registered: Saturday, June 18 2005 07:00

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