Aum44

George was one of the many users that lost their user in the forum switch "back in the day," thus his title has been manually set to Expert.

Yes, I have lost my posts when the forum was moved to another server a while ago and now I have to do all the hard work again. Hold on, I just got a new post right now!

He, he, for force field you used 2 while loops one inside the other without wait(1). It was my problem I made one inside the other but in external one I had wait(1) and not worked.
Thanks, very clear script and usable for a lots of things. You helped me a lot.

Hi Dejan,

I have sent you the forcefield code by email a few days ago; I thought that you have got it. Well, it's good to know that it does what you need.

Have a nice day.
George.

Thank you, you helped me a lot. And please reply to my last offer ;-)

Hi Dejan,

I have sent you a P.M.

As great as always !

I have some ideas of topics for your magazine if you would want some one day.
- Enhenced Sword Fight
- RPG with very big worlds (but not MMORPG, just RPG for one player)
just to see how to manage ennemies and big worlds (i already know lot
of ways but perhaps some people have better ways).
-Just another little idea, perhaps you could put a little ART topic in your magazine , with every time someone or a user that would share one of it's techniques
that could be modeling tips, texturing tips, level design tips ,
optimisation of levels for good FPS ,sound tips etc ...

That's all about what i could think for the moment.
Thanks for this enjoyable magazine ( like always ).

Thank you for the suggestions. Sword Combat 2 is on my todo list and Aum44 has presented a way that allows you to create huge worlds. However, I might create a rpg skeleton in the near future. Aum used to include art related tips but the articles weren't consistent enough; that's why I came up with the "Acknex Unlimited" idea where Conitec hosts all the tutorials that are submitted.

Have a nice day.
George.

Great, very good for 3DGS comunity

And a section about 2D painting for
Textures Levels, and painting 3D animated Models ?
Because this is one of the things that can transform a game in a piece of art
(just like some future PC games and consoles) ;
Tutorials series (like Planet Survivor on AUM) about painting realistic skins , high detailled realistic textures for levels would bring
all 3DGS people to make better things ,
and lot of people i'm sure would learn a lot.

I know there are lot of sites, but some series made by experts here and their
tips all that in 3DGS magazine would be awesome.
like the tutorial on WED art construction made by the Great Dan Silverman.
Lot of people have enjoyed it a lot like me,
that 's why some series about painting in practice would also be great,
and people would se AUM for refrence (that 's what i do ) .

another idea, but not easy , shaders.
the problem pixel shaders can change a lot of times, caus of improvments or
Pixel shadser 3D cards version. if thos was a stable subject we could also
find in AUM : THE SHADER OF THE MONTH hééééhhéé,
the complete shader with how to use it and an example.

There was again some ideas in the air.
I don't see any another for the moment

But AUM is always usefull and has already very cool things and that's a lot.

This Topic is my chance to thank you George , Great work on the AUMs . I am still at the beginning of learning c-script and i am still learning from the AUMs

Keep up the excelent work on them .

TheExpert: Aum is focused on scripts; I strongly believe that the best resource for the artists is 3PM, a magazine created by Dan Silverman. It isn't free but I have paid for a few issues and they are really good. "Shader of the month"? That's an interesting idea but I believe that most users will have problems understanding how the code behind the shaders works. I might start a shader tutorial series in the future.
Sorcerer: I'll create the code for a simple car but you will need A6 pro to run it.
Shinobi: Thank you for the kind words. Don't miss the "C-Script workshops" from Conitec's download page; they make a good C-Script tutorial (in my opinion).

I think you are right about art tutorials, the magazines of Dan
seems to be the best, i just hope he will put some
texture epainting tutorials to do amazing textures on animated models.
For shaders why not ?
Perhaps in HLSL code that is more easy ot understand than assembly code.
With very simple tutorials, that could become more complex,
the inconvenient , it would need a maths tutorials before.

Well , i just wait for the next AUM to red it with pleasure as always

Thank you Burt, that's an interesting idea. I'll think about it.

Hiya George, got 2 editions to catch up with here.
As usual, thanks for the great articles.
Cheers.

Hey I don't get how to use the train script. I can't figure out how to make it so it scans for a certain model.

Hi George,
first of all let me thank you for this really great magazin. It helped me a lot by my new game.

And what I want you to ask: Did you got my pm?

Greetings!

Thank you, guys.
Braxton: the code checks the texture of the level block or wmb entity that is below the train. If the texture has a certain name, the train will move along that track. The code won't work if you are using models for your tracks.
Asse: thank you; I have replied to your pm.

Thanks George. Last thing... could the texture be invisible?

I'm not sure if trace returns something if it hits an invisible texture; in fact, we can't have invisible textures, but invisible wmb entities / level blocks.

But couldn't i make a script for the sprite and say:


action TrainSprite
{
my.invisible = on;
}

When you have a .tga texture with a completely black alpha-channel (or was it white?), wouldn't it be a invisible texture?

My method uses the texture that is applied on a wmb entity or on a level block; I'm afraid that you can't use sprites.

Hi George,

sorry to bring that topic up again but the "Infinite levels" code is without doubt one of my favorites from all the AUMs.

So, when the wmb consists of mdls, the code doesn't work - I also checked that.
Do you have any "neat&clean" solution on how to do this, ie. handle a wmb's properties (consisting of blocks & mdls)?

Hi,

You have to use wmb entities for the 9 tiles, but you can place mdl entities along the road. Place them in the air, at their proper position and height and when their associated tile will appear below them everything will look ok. Please check the end of the article from Aum44 for more information.