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Completely Unrelated / Re: I'll choose myself (programming languages)

« on: 2006-05-16 20:31:32 »

I learned C++ before Java, too.
Well, actually I didn't learn Java, but at university, I'm forced to use it

Currently, I'm programming the Simplex-Algorithm in Java.

I remember one of our professors at university saying:
"Java is better than C++. Java is easier than C++. And Java does not use pointers and dangerous things like that..."

When I was debugging my simplex implementation, Java came up with this:



Funny, isn't it? 

 - Alhexx

127

Archive / Re: 3ds to .p conversion

« on: 2006-05-16 20:22:03 »

We will be able to create new .p files from scratch.
Most of the format is decoded, it will be a bit tricky, but it should not be too hard to write a tool or plugin that can do that.

Unfortunately, I'm extremely busy at university right now, so I don't have the time to take care of that right now...
And there are still sooo many file formats that wait to get decoded...

 - Alhexx

 - Edit -
Sorry fot those large letters... 

128

Completely Unrelated / Re: I'll choose myself (programming languages)

« on: 2006-05-15 17:34:56 »

(...) and definitly learn harder languages like C before you go to easier languages like java (...)

Erm... that does not make much sense, right? 

 - Alhexx

129

Completely Unrelated / Re: E3 Games you most look forward to?

« on: 2006-05-15 17:24:48 »

The game I'm personally looking forward to is Metroid Prime 3.
BioShock sounds interesting, too, however, I doubt that I will ever buy a XBox360...

 - Alhexx

130

Completely Unrelated / Re: I'll choose myself (programming languages)

« on: 2006-05-12 13:23:59 »

After countless of conversations with countless of people I decided to choose a programming language myself.

So, and which language is that?
That's the most important info that is missing in your post if you want that people can help you.

- What language do you know, do you like it? why did you choose it? etc...

I know 3 languages: Visual Basic, C/C++ and Java.
QBasic was the one I started to learn first. It was easy, but extremely limited...

After that, I switched to Visual Basic. It was nice to start with windows programming, however, when programming Ultima, I realized that the language is far too limited for such big projects which I wanted to create.

That was the reason why I started programming in C/C++. It gives you the ultimate programming power - there are (almost) no limitations in what can be done with C/C++.
However, it is definately not a language for beginners. There are a lot of traps in C/C++, especially when working with pointers and things like that, so you really need to know that exactly you are doing.
The first thing I did when starting with C/C++ is: I bought a "C/C++ for Beginners" book from Microsoftâ„¢.

As for Java, I can use that language a bit. I personally hate it.
Java seems like a castrated version of C/C++ to me - mostly like C/C++ but without pointers 


As for a general advise:
I would start learning a more basic and easy programming language (as Python), and later, when you have understood the basics of programming, try to learn another more complex language as C/C++...

I think it's easier to switch from an easy language to a more comlpex one than directly starting with a complex language...

 - Alhexx

131

General Discussion / Re: Sayonara..

« on: 2006-05-09 21:38:48 »

Well, Cadd, I'm sure you have been thinking a while before posting this decision.

Although I'm not happy seeing one of our old members leaving, I still respect your decision.

Good luck with your current and future projects.

I'm sure we'll meet again some day.

 - Alhexx

132

Completely Unrelated / ATTN: Alhexx

« on: 2006-04-27 22:07:15 »

Oh for f**ks sake, that was a perfectly good Dekstop topic.

Here you go.

 - Alhexx

133

Completely Unrelated / ATTN: Alhexx

« on: 2006-04-27 21:40:56 »

I have been sitting for about 20 minutes in front of my monitor and was thinking if I should close it or not.

I did not close it because the discussion was off-topic, I closed it because I had a bad feeling about what posts would come next if I had left it open.
And that's exactly the reason why I did not split the topic - the discussion would have gone on in another topic.

On the other hand, I could've splitted the argument to a new topic and close that one... sorry, didn't think of that.

Did that make you feel good? Flexing those big moderator muscles?

No, it didn't. Hitting those mod buttons is like being a cop and giving someone a ticket for driving too fast - it makes me feel like the most unliked man in the world.

I mean... smart moderator might have found the split topic-button, or something, but it wouldn't feel so good because you couldn't show off your powers, right?

See paragraph #2.

They were probably mean to you in the army, ordered you to do all kinds of stuff (...)

Yes, that's the way it was. Unfortunately.

(...) and now you take it out on other people?

No.
I did not close it to demonstrate my "power" or to be mean to someone, I just tried to do what is one of a moderator's jobs:
Making sure that the members do not start smashing each other's heads.

I didn't close the topic because of your answer, Jari.
The reason was the first line in the next reply. And please do not tell me you didn't see the sarkasm in it...

So, if there is interest in having the "original" Post-Your-Desktops-Topic back alive, I can cut the off-topic argument out and re-open it, although I know that this is not what Jari is trying to achieve with this topic.


 - Alhexx

134

Completely Unrelated / Argument

« on: 2006-04-27 14:27:31 »

As promised, Topic closed.

 - Alhexx

135

Completely Unrelated / Argument

« on: 2006-04-26 16:27:07 »

I'm not going to place my opinion on if it's gratuitious and I would advise you to do the same. This is between them and it should be left that way.

That was the most intelligent statement in the last few posts.

Moderator Announcement:
Either, the off-topic discussion above ends right now, or I will close this topic.


 - Alhexx

136

Releases / NPC Reconstruction Project

« on: 2006-04-24 11:45:03 »

I agree.
I have never seen anything like this made using so simlpe tools.

Great Job!

 - Alhexx

137

Completely Unrelated / Post Your Desktop

« on: 2006-04-19 17:15:36 »

Maybe we should rename this topic to "Grammatical correct Pets from Hell" or something like that.

PS. I wonder why eyes appear red in photos, because at least my dog's eyes used to look bright green if you pointed a flashlight at it.

Although I do not know much about photography, I think that the environment (where the dog, cat, girl or whatever is) has to be dark.
When you trigger the flashlight using a photo camera, the iris does not react quick enough to close the pupil, and then the color of the inner side of the eye gets reflected, which is red...

 - Alhexx

138

Scripting and Reverse Engineering / Introducing Q-Gears

« on: 2006-04-18 23:24:37 »

Well, I personally have to say that I don't like the idea of having a "new" engine open source... Qhimm already mentioned one reason in his last paragraph.

Secondly:

(...) people are already asking "what kind of custom data will we be able to put into the game?".

When the project is open-source, then it won't be any problem for a skilled programmer to implement functions what will load custom data.

Thirdly:
We have a big "We do not support pirated copies of ..." written in our forum FAQ.
FF7 is copy protected (even if not very well), so what about the free engine? It would be also able to play pirated content, at least if it's open source.
A simple Seek-And-Destroy job on the source code would disable any copy protection routines we would implement...


As for my personal opinion:
I have been waiting months for someone to start this project.
(I cannot start a project like this, I'm simply not skilled enough to write a whole game engine :erm: )
But: We should keep it closed-source.


 - Alhexx

 - edit -
Since we're already talking about legality here, I have one question:

If an engine is able to run custom content, too, is it then "more illegal" than an engine that runs only the original game content?

If yes, then why?

139

Archive / But what about ff8?

« on: 2006-04-12 09:11:14 »

Well, the main problems with FF8 are:

1. There's not that much interest in modding FF8, since it's simply not that popular and most people want to see FF7 get modded.

2. Most of the FF8 file formats have not been hacked yet. We have been working on the FF7 formats for over 5 years now, and as EmperorSteele wrote, the real modding began about one (or a half) year ago...

 - Alhexx

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Archive / The Idiots Guide To FF7Music (JK xD)

« on: 2006-04-10 09:58:05 »

I can't find a Ficedula.dll 1.10.

Here's the latest version of ficedula's library, version 1.51a.

wait a minute, ultima edition doesn't use midi? why does it sound like midi tho?

<Moderator>
 

No support for Ultima Edition here.
</Moderator>

 - Alhexx

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Completely Unrelated / What to do about obsession with computer? USB tech support?

« on: 2006-04-05 08:10:30 »

(...) my mom destroyed my computer (...)

Errrmm, how and why did she do this?

 - Alhexx

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Scripting and Reverse Engineering / Does FF7 use OpenGL?

« on: 2006-04-03 22:00:31 »

As far as I know, FF7 does run only on D3D.
However, in Version 1.02 they planned to run the engine under OpenGL, too.
The opengl renderer seems to be implemented, however, it was never used.

 - Alhexx

143

Completely Unrelated / Post Your Desktop

« on: 2006-04-03 11:52:27 »

Wow, mirex, that's a really nice one!
Where can I download it?!?

 - Alhexx

144

Archive / Possible downtime [April Fools]

« on: 2006-04-03 11:43:38 »

So, maybe now we should un-announce this topic, hm?

 - Alhexx

145

Completely Unrelated / Post Your Desktop

« on: 2006-04-02 15:53:42 »

I don't even remember how many times we had a topic like this before.
Well, here's mine.

 - Alhexx

146

Archive / Possible downtime [April Fools]

« on: 2006-04-02 15:36:00 »

For a "simple" april fool's joke that was a very long and well-formulated post...

 - Alhexx

147

Archive / Creative Side

« on: 2006-03-02 12:25:48 »

Posting a topic like "I need someone to help me" usually does not succeed.
Your post sounds a bit like you need someone to do the dirty work for you.
If you really want that someone helps you, you'll need to be a bit more polite, I think.

 - Alhexx

148

General Discussion / "One" question, if someone can help.

« on: 2006-03-02 12:20:14 »

I wasn't implying I was being the typical jerk that rips off Squaresoft, I DO FULLY OWN the CD, on BOTH platforms, and only mentioned it so that anyone who would try to help me out would know how far patched my version is to help out any confusion incase there was a possible way noted in any version.

We generally do not give any support for the Ultima version, since it is a) illegal and b) it has not only the offical patches applied, but also cracks.
Nobody really knows what patches or cracks have been applied to the Ultima version, so that's another reason why we do not support it.

 - Alhexx

149

Archive / ~Converting A DexDrive FFVIII Save File To PC Format~

« on: 2006-03-01 20:36:37 »

1. Reviving old threads is something you usually get your head chopped off on this board. :wicked:

2.

PSX Savestate -> Convert to PC -> load up in PC FF7 -> use trainer for cheating -> Convert back to PSX.

Why don't you simply try it?

3.

Also i put a Search on "FF7 PSX Trainer" - is there something?

You should put this search into google - maybe you'll find any tools like this.

 - Alhexx

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Troubleshooting / I am having one hell of a time trying to figure this out

« on: 2006-03-01 20:27:29 »

A bit more information would be helpful:

When exactly does it crash?
Does it display any dialog boxes?
etc...

 - Alhexx