----------------------------------- Tony Sat Mar 01, 2003 1:29 pm tony's new avatar ----------------------------------- Would you belive that it was done in MS Paint? I dont :? anyway, this was done by my friend based on a photo so it looks just like me... well... a bit more pixely looking :wink: It doesnt match the site's logo anymore, but since we're moving to a new domain soon www.compsci.ca we'll be remaking the site anyway. ----------------------------------- Dan Sun Mar 02, 2003 4:41 am very nice ----------------------------------- very nice, very nice :wink: i still cant bivle that was done in ms-paint. your frend most got a lot of time on his hands :lol: ----------------------------------- Tony Sun Mar 02, 2003 11:17 pm ----------------------------------- first of all, its a she :wink: second - it was done quite fast... 5-10 minutes? she'll be better then me with CGs as soon as martin will give her some software to use OTHER then MS Paint. ----------------------------------- Asok Wed Mar 05, 2003 7:06 pm ----------------------------------- I made my avatar in MS Paint..... really... I did..... :oops: ----------------------------------- Tubs Wed Mar 05, 2003 7:35 pm ----------------------------------- i made mine in photoshop :D ----------------------------------- Dan Wed Mar 05, 2003 10:48 pm ----------------------------------- I made my avatar in MS Paint..... really... I did..... :oops: and i can spell, ROFL :lol: ----------------------------------- Tony Wed Mar 05, 2003 10:50 pm ----------------------------------- ya man... it might have hepled your story if your avatar was NOT hosted on battle.net, nevermind the fact that its a recognizable character from Warcraft 3 ----------------------------------- Asok Wed Mar 05, 2003 11:03 pm ----------------------------------- ya man... it might have hepled your story if your avatar was NOT hosted on battle.net, nevermind the fact that its a recognizable character from Warcraft 3 Who are you? Jessica Fletcher? :P EDIT: For those of you who are unaware Jessica Fletcher is the old hag on Murder She Wrote ----------------------------------- Tony Wed Mar 05, 2003 11:06 pm ----------------------------------- dont get the joke cuz I didnt see the movie (or read the book... whatever's the case) ----------------------------------- Asok Wed Mar 05, 2003 11:11 pm ----------------------------------- it's a bad show from the 80s designed for seniors. she basically solves murder mysteries, but it's about as complex as an episode of scooby doo minus the scooby snacks. ----------------------------------- Dan Wed Mar 05, 2003 11:50 pm ----------------------------------- noooooooo, but the scooby snacks where the best part :lol: ----------------------------------- Asok Thu Mar 06, 2003 7:23 am ----------------------------------- hehe scooby snacks rock hey dan, would you give me mod for one scooby snack? two scooby snacks? three scooby snacks? :lol: ----------------------------------- Tony Thu Mar 06, 2003 8:28 am ----------------------------------- give me a box of "tony snacks" and I'll think about it :wink: seriosly though, for what topic do you want to be a mod? And we need someone who will actually maintain it, not push people around with his new rant :D ----------------------------------- Asok Thu Mar 06, 2003 4:23 pm ----------------------------------- I can mod everything except for VB (I've used it but not in YEARS). Turing and C++ I'm using currently. C++ I'm working on an MMORPG project in OpenGL. And Turing I'm playing around with because I'm going to Metro Prep so they force it on us. I used to do serious HTML/Java/Flash over the summer when I was doing webdesign. Also what I think would be cool would be a Photoshop forum. Feel free to PM me if you want to talk, or we can keep taking this thread rediculously off topic... oh yea nice avatar ;) EDIT: btw, if you need mod experience click the link in my signature. JSBN (current "leet mod" at SWAT) owns the forum but it's my clan so I mod the forums. ----------------------------------- Tony Thu Mar 06, 2003 6:23 pm ----------------------------------- MMORPG project with OpenGL? You dont know Martin Kess by any chance, do you? Otherwise your skillz sound good 8) C++, eh? Say "hi" to Shannon for me :wink: Maybe she'll name you "little tony" :D bwahahaha :lol: Though I dont know when march break starts at metro... cuz I'm already on holidays 8) ----------------------------------- Asok Thu Mar 06, 2003 10:42 pm ----------------------------------- I'll talk to shannon tomarrow. I don't know a Martin Kess, but then again, I don't get out much. :lol: ----------------------------------- Tony Thu Mar 06, 2003 10:47 pm ----------------------------------- :D great. Tell her I got 56 on CCC. Which is actually better then last year's since its Senior :wink: I mentioned Martin cuz recentry he invited me to join development team of MMORPG in OpenGL. I'll be doing serverside programming and probably a bunch of 3D modeling. Although we do have someone else with experience. ----------------------------------- Asok Thu Mar 06, 2003 11:08 pm ----------------------------------- ah well what I'm doing is it's an MMORPG/Action basically do you remember Black and White? With the whole signature system? I'm essentially incorporating the mouse signature system into attacks so it doesn't seem repetitive. But we just started it recently, all we have is a graphics engine and now are setting up the classes and the GUI. (Setting up a GUI on a Half-Life mod is much easier than from scratch :? ) We're working more on the programming aspect so models and textures will probably be taken from public sources for the time being. I'm still learning 3DSMax so hopefully after the break I can make some models. ----------------------------------- Tony Thu Mar 06, 2003 11:13 pm ----------------------------------- The good part of moving from SWAT to compsci.ca is that its now Computer Science... So I might share some of my 3DSMAX experience as well :wink: my online gallery http://tony-the-tiger.deviantart.com/thumbnails/ ----------------------------------- Asok Thu Mar 06, 2003 11:23 pm ----------------------------------- 3DSMAX and Photoshop would definitely be cool (I'm limited in both but I'm working on it) I still think the coolest thing about photoshop is the lens flare filter :wink: ----------------------------------- Dan Thu Mar 06, 2003 11:26 pm ----------------------------------- i like using the eye candey moded and use the fiter fire. it is sooo cool. ;) http://www.compsci.ca/compsci.jpg ----------------------------------- Asok Thu Mar 06, 2003 11:39 pm ----------------------------------- nice use of the fire filter! I just have a punch of random pictures of Joe Lieberman's head on fire ;) (For those of you who know little about U.S. politics, Joe Lieberman is a U.S. senator who is pushing for censorship in games and music in order to "protect the children"... I sent him a copy of Postal :lol:) (For those of you who know little about games, Postal is a game where you go "postal" and kill innocent people (women, children, long wait lines,traffic, pretty much anything that would normally annoy you on a given day), actually a lot of fun, there is a sequel being released shortly.) ----------------------------------- Tony Fri Mar 07, 2003 11:30 am ----------------------------------- that must have pissed him off... but hey, we NEED violence. Some poeple just dont understand how relaxing it is to take up a gun and run around killing stuff... I mean you gotta take out your anger on something :wink: and its also very entertaining :D ----------------------------------- Asok Fri Mar 07, 2003 12:08 pm ----------------------------------- I believe games avoid actual violence rather than insite them, it's a vent, a vice, so that one can remain calm etc. ----------------------------------- Dan Fri Mar 07, 2003 4:26 pm ----------------------------------- same here, and as far as i know all the studeys done on vailonte video game have fownd that on avage peloep that play them more are no more vilonte then poleop that play them less. also as for video games efecting your school wrok they fownd that there is litte efect on most poleop's gardes and acualy they fowned there was a slight increas in avage grade for poleop that play video then that don't :wink: . alougth i will admint that there are some poleop that get adctiited to them and go nuts, but for the avage persion this dose not hapen. if you where whoding i heard that stuff about the studeys on a deomenty that was on t.v. about video games and if they where bad. ----------------------------------- Tony Fri Mar 07, 2003 5:56 pm ----------------------------------- naturally people think bad of videogames because they dont understand them. Videogame industry is quite new. And you never hear in news something like "tony was playing in videogames on weekend, but still managed to finish all his homework". All you hear are the bad things so people tend to develop biest opinions. ----------------------------------- Asok Fri Mar 07, 2003 7:14 pm ----------------------------------- well of course, cuz no one wants to hear about u and your homework :lol: A lot of the negative impact is because you see headlines like "Games are now training the military" however what you don't see is "Game Simulators are now training doctors" It doesn't really effect me, everyone can have thier own stance on it, but when somone is an extermist and tries to censor it, that's when I get ticked off. The large argument is "Video Games disensitise our youth" hm... ok valid argument but then again, pretty much ALL media disensitises. There is something people refuse to accept, violence is entertaining. It is the physical conflict of entities that brings out the best, that's the entire conflict behind wresting (well that and girls with big hooters :shock: ) and that has grown into almsot a billion dollar industry over the past 30 years. The video game industry is allready a billion dollar industry just over the past 10 years (I say 10 years because thats when video games mave the move the more violent games such as Doom, and Duke Nukem rather than the previously known arcade style games. This was the period of the most rapid growth in the industry) This has gone longer than I intended to, so I'll end by saying. "I have the right to defend myself from evil pixels plotting global domination or making pixels of mass destruction! And if that means I have to fight pixels with pixels then so be it!" ----------------------------------- Tony Fri Mar 07, 2003 7:18 pm ----------------------------------- rofl, ya... pixels of mass destruction :twisted: although its probably possibe to cause some kind of seasure if you play sertain movies on your computer... just a thought though :twisted: ----------------------------------- Vicous Fri Mar 07, 2003 8:02 pm ----------------------------------- I don't know about you, but I like violence in my video games, so long as it's not too realistic eg. I want games about crime in the 50's, not crime in the new millenium ----------------------------------- Tony Fri Mar 07, 2003 8:52 pm ----------------------------------- what about Halo? its a "shoot up those aliens with futuristic weapons" game very popular actually ----------------------------------- Asok Fri Mar 07, 2003 10:44 pm ----------------------------------- I've played halo and I have to say: I'd like it more if it was on the PC. The X-Box controls pissed me off, I like the freedom of a keyboard and mouse. The tripple throddle controls were sooooo lame. WSAD all the way! ----------------------------------- Tony Sat Mar 08, 2003 12:54 pm ----------------------------------- I'd have to agree on that... WASD allows the most control over anything + with mouse precision and acurasy, its just a better game experience. And when the mouse has a scrool that also acts like 3 more buttons (up/down/press) its just awesome. The more buttons the better :D council controlers kinda limit that :? ----------------------------------- Asok Sat Mar 08, 2003 1:17 pm ----------------------------------- It's also a sensitivity thing, the mouse sensitivity is customisable and is also static. It's a lot harder to get throddles to go exactly where you want them because you need to be wight specific on your thumbs which is much smaller of an area than your hand. Basically, mice make more sence when it comes down to physics. ----------------------------------- Tony Sat Mar 08, 2003 1:34 pm ----------------------------------- you know... if we reinvent council controller to provide as much control as WSAD with mouse... we'll be billionares :D ----------------------------------- Asok Sat Mar 08, 2003 1:36 pm ----------------------------------- well you can't because the whole concept of a controller is you hold it in your hands, thus you are constricted. A keyboard allows your hands to move. You can't hold something and move your hands at the same time without coming close to either dropping it, or being exremely uncoordinated. ----------------------------------- jamez Tue Mar 11, 2003 8:59 am ----------------------------------- nice use of the fire filter! I just have a punch of random pictures of Joe Lieberman's head on fire ;) (For those of you who know little about U.S. politics, Joe Lieberman is a U.S. senator who is pushing for censorship in games and music in order to "protect the children"... I sent him a copy of Postal :lol:) POSTAL 2 is in dev :D [PS: Hi im new to the forums :)] ----------------------------------- Asok Tue Mar 11, 2003 11:12 am ----------------------------------- Postal 2 is being released on April 14, I'd get it but Star Wars Galaxies is coming out on April 15, so I'll have to pass on buying Postal 2. btw, Welcome to the forum Jamez ----------------------------------- Tony Tue Mar 11, 2003 12:08 pm ----------------------------------- hey Jamez, welcome to compsci.ca :D I hope you'd like it here ----------------------------------- jamez Tue Mar 11, 2003 2:55 pm ----------------------------------- thx :D im also a regular on the oot forums so i can provide help to people that need it :) ----------------------------------- Tony Tue Mar 11, 2003 7:27 pm ----------------------------------- hey, thats cool... though the only other turing board I know is the one run by plasma (thats his nick... I think)... But they got about a 1/3 of regestered users (last time I checked) and are a bit bitchy about us since we're kind of a "new kid on the block" site. I'm not saying anything bad about them... just that we didnt have a nice welcome when we started the site :cry: Hope you stick around ----------------------------------- Catalyst Tue Mar 11, 2003 8:40 pm ----------------------------------- hey its jamez ----------------------------------- jamez Tue Mar 11, 2003 11:54 pm ----------------------------------- hey :D