Vrrrroooooooooooommmmmm! F

[lostinbeta]

<B>Preview:</B>
http://www.lostinbeta.com/experimental/rocketShip.html

<B>Fla:</B>
http://www.lostinbeta.com/experimental/rocketShip.fla



Just having some fun, and I wanted to learn how to make my own realistic turning thingamabob =). And yes there is a reason for everything in this file :sure:




Oh and "Vrrrroooooooooooommmmmm! F " is a quote from maddox ;)

[reverendflash]

cool, it's a bubble powered Valium!

you should be getting paid for these things...

great job... very smooooooooth

Revhttp://www.aulman.com/rev.gif

[morse]

Cool!

Maddox = funny

[nobody]

thats really super neeto!

[lostinbeta]

Rev: Actually thats pretty close :P And I wish I was getting paid for these, but until then they are just to occupy my time and help me improve some of my coding :)

morse: Yes, maddox is funny.

28: spiffy keen! thanks :)

[ahmed]

awesome!! =)

[lostinbeta]

Thanks ahmed, compares nothing to your stuff though, you server-side genius!


Anywho, I edited the first post.

[ahmed]

lol :trout:

nice file, like your scripting-style lol :)

[Voetsjoeba]

Great work dude :thumb:

[asphaltcowboy]

*flies ship* weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee :thumb:

[senocular]

I like how it can go backwards. hmmm how does the rocket do that? ;)

cool lib :)

[Clown Staples]

wheeeeeeeeeee............ I always wanted a bubble powered rocket. I could play with that for hours!

[senocular]

I used to have a water (pressure) powered rocket :beam: I played with it for hours it was red and was shaped just like losts! you filled it like 1/2 way with water, hooked up the pump, pressured it up and let her rip. good times.

[thoriphes]

Originally posted by senocular
I like how it can go backwards. hmmm how does the rocket do that? ;)

cool lib :) it doesn't. that rocket has a sophisticated array of afterburners directed in the opposite direction, so when the pilot goes in reverse, it kills the main rocket engine and activates the reverse engines. if you keep zooming in, you should see them. :P

I had lots of fun playing with that, lib. I was able to practice my parallel parking with it. i realized that i can't even virtual parallel. :(

sen: nothing was more fun than making exploding 2-liter bottles: vinegar and baking soda. i once blew the top off a high-end plastic test tube/vial that was about two millimeters thick. i used dry ice and water on that one :)

science is so much fun.

[asphaltcowboy]

weeeeee! I could play with/ride lostinbeta's rocket aaaaaallll day ;) ;)

[thoriphes]

aw man, i just thought of something. i've gotta make a multiplayer flash racing game. pass variables through PHP, maybe?

i think this will be my next project, screw my site, that can wait. if anybody wants to help, lemme know.

[Jubba]

that would be cool. sending the variables that quickly thru PHP might not be the most efficient thing, but its possible. If you need any help let me know.

[Niann]

Wow nice job... Its only a few floating rocks away from astroid. =0)

Cheers!
-Niann

[lostinbeta]

Originally posted by ahmed
lol :trout:

nice file, like your scripting-style lol

I hope you were being sarcastic (-: I have some of the sloppiest coding ever, but I can read and edit it fine so I don't care :bad:



Originally posted by Voetsjoeba
Great work dude

Thanks!



Originally posted by senocular
I like how it can go backwards. hmmm how does the rocket do that?

cool lib

It's a pill with wings that blasts bubbles and you choose to focus on the fact that it can go backwards? Quite interesting :P But as I said in my first post I have my reasons :evil: But if it will set your mind at ease, I slowed down the reverse and made the bubbles lighter to make it appear as though it was being propelled backwards via "afterburners directed in the opposite direction" as Thor stated. Maybe I didn't achieve that too well :P



Originally posted by thoriphes
I had lots of fun playing with that, lib. I was able to practice my parallel parking with it. i realized that i can't even virtual parallel.

I'm hoping to take my driving test on this =)

And great idea on the multi-player racing game!!



Originally posted by asphaltcowboy
weeeeee! I could play with/ride lostinbeta's rocket aaaaaallll day

:love:



Originally posted by Niann
Wow nice job... Its only a few floating rocks away from astroid. =0)

Hmm, good point... perhaps one day I will expand, but I don't know. I am not much of a game programmer, never had an interest in that side, but that may change in the future.

[Alex]

wow, thats so cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mdipi]

whoa! this is awsome! how you think of this stuff i will never know. but the coolest part is how it comes back on the other side!

[lostinbeta]

Hehe, it's not exactly original (aside from the bubble powered pill rocket) so I didn't really think of it, just decided to try to figure out how to do it.

I was going to do a kind of car thing because I wanted to figure out how to do turns in Flash that were rounded off and not just sharp turns. It took me a bit to figure that out (math was never my friend :( ), then after I figured that out I took it a few steps further and just kept slowly evolving it until it became what it is now.

[meteor]

download now .thx a lot lostinbeta :P

[lostinbeta]

I hope you find it useful meteor :)

[andr.in]

wow that's really something! Cool way to use that particle script!
Now all it needs is some asteroids and some shooting! =)

[lostinbeta]

Hehe, yeah, I did use my particle script from http://www.lostinbeta.com/experimental/mouseTrailer3.html , that was part of my inspiration among other things.

If you wanna make some asteroids and some shooting involved feel free, it's open source :thumb: ;)

[ahmed]

lol, i wasnt being sarcastin lost :P

and thor, i PMed you about the multiplayer game.. let me know what do you think :)

[lostinbeta]

Oh... well then thanks :beam: :thumb:

[thoriphes]

[thor too evaluates lost's code...]

hm...you really love that question mark operator don't you? :P

and hey, don't let anyone say anything about how you code. if you can read it, that's fine; everyone has their own style. also, ever thought of using the modulus operator (%), it might help clean your code up a bit ;) (i'll let you figure out where i'm talking about).

[NaliWarCow]

This might be very hard (and more trouble than it's worth), but would it be possible using some of ahmed's server stuff (like the drawing thing he just made) for 2 people at different computers to be able to fly spaceships in the same window?

Then you could make one the cop space ship and the other the robber, and when the cop hits the robber, he wins and the thing resets. That'd be fun :).

[Aislin]

seems like pressing forward and backward at the same time helps the ozone layer. the exhaust is much less smoky! :P

[lostinbeta]

Originally posted by thoriphes
[thor too evaluates lost's code...]

hm...you really love that question mark operator don't you? :P

and hey, don't let anyone say anything about how you code. if you can read it, that's fine; everyone has their own style. also, ever thought of using the modulus operator (%), it might help clean your code up a bit ;) (i'll let you figure out where i'm talking about).

Yeah, I got well adjusted in using the tertiary operator in Javascript and when I found out you could do that in AS I was so happy :) As far as I know it doesn't speed up or slow down your code (I think Flash auto-converts it to a standard if/else during runtime. not sure though), so as you said, if I can read it then who cares :P

And I know what the modulo operator is, I can't check out my code right now, but later I will try and find where I can optimize my code using modulo (since I am math retarded it is most likely that I won't be able to find it, but dangit I will try!), thanks for the tip.




Originally posted by NaliWarCowZ
This might be very hard (and more trouble than it's worth), but would it be possible using some of ahmed's server stuff (like the drawing thing he just made) for 2 people at different computers to be able to fly spaceships in the same window?

Then you could make one the cop space ship and the other the robber, and when the cop hits the robber, he wins and the thing resets. That'd be fun.


If you wanna try, then go for it ;) I personally know I have no chance of getting something like that to work. Server-side Flash was never my strong point, and since I know very little PHP and nothing about mySQL, and nothing about how to have 2 people on 2 computers run this, chances of me getting that to work are slim to none.





Originally posted by Aislin
seems like pressing forward and backward at the same time helps the ozone layer. the exhaust is much less smoky!


Yeah, it is the way I have it coded, I don't really think it is a big enough thing to have to worry about "fixing" it so I left it.

[Surface]

eh... eh... i played that for like 20 mins, before I realized that i might need to say good bye, and move on with my life... its hard you know... so hard to say good bye to the ones you love

[morse]

lol

[lostinbeta]

hehehe

[lostinbeta]

Ok Thor, let me know if I am on the right track...

I changed...i>1000 ? i=0 : i++;
To...i = (i+1)%1000;


Close? Or no cigar?

[DariusMonsef]

You cannot access the following Web address:
http://www.lostinbeta.com/experimental/rocketShip.html

The site you requested is blocked under your organization's filtering policy. It fits into the following filtering category(ies) that your organization has chosen to block: Adults Only, ****ography


?????????????????????????????????????????????????? ????????

[lostinbeta]

No clue dude, theres nothing adult or ****ographic on that page. Is is just a page with my Flash movie as it would be published directly from Flash (because thats all I did, published then uploaded)

[Mik3]

good job Ľǒŝţ, but I don't understand the name of it

[NaliWarCow]

I'm guessing the word "flash" might make the filter think it's ****ographic. But then I don't know why kirupa's site isn't blocked also.

[lostinbeta]

IshiXP: Vroom as in the sound kids make when they play with toy cars (or anything that moves fast), "F" as in a grade.

Nali: Or maybe it was rocketShip.. you know how confusing the meaning of that word can be :sure: Or how about "experimental"... that sounds DIRTY!!!! Seriously though, I don't get why it would be filter blocked, there is absolutely nothing on there adult or ****ographic.

[Mik3]

Originally posted by lostinbeta
IshiXP: Vroom as in the sound kids make when they play with toy cars (or anything that moves fast), "F" as in a grade.


ahhhh i get it


Originally posted by lostinbeta
Nali: Or maybe it was rocketShip.. you know how confusing the meaning of that word can be :sure: Or how about "experimental"... that sounds DIRTY!!!! Seriously though, I don't get why it would be filter blocked, there is absolutely nothing on there adult or ****ographic.
HAHHAA

[lostinbeta]

;)

[DariusMonsef]

Lost I'll email my ISP and tell them to unblock your site. THey do this sometimes.

[lostinbeta]

Sorry for the inconvenience Ethan (even though there was nothing you or I could of done to prevent it).

[DariusMonsef]

Dear Customer, this site was blocked in error and is now unblocked. Thank you for bringing this to our attention.

[lostinbeta]

WOO HOO!!!! :)

[DariusMonsef]

Hey Lost, that's a bunch of fun. It does look kind like a flying tylenol, but it's pretty darn cool

[lostinbeta]

Hehehe, flying tylenol :beam:

I actually have no clue what kind of pill it is supposed to be, so I guess that can be open to interpretation.

[thoriphes]

Originally posted by lostinbeta
Ok Thor, let me know if I am on the right track...

I changed...i>1000 ? i=0 : i++;
To...i = (i+1)%1000;


Close? Or no cigar? yeah, that's one location you can change. what i was talking about, actually was when you move the spaceship, when it moves off either the right or bottom edge, you mod the location, and it appears in the opposite side. now the i think of it, when you move off the left or upper, that mod won't work, so you're probably better off with what you have. and also, since i'm a nut for optimization, changing that code you had above is in fact one. if you notice, your first code has a condition that it must have, then it can either take one of two paths, whereas with the modulus operator, it is indifferent with the value, so nothing is tested. this is in fact quite useful when you're dealing with loads of similar conditions.

[[m]]

Wow, look at the turning on that baby! :P

[eyeinfinitude]

hahah this is so cool, out of all the things you've made, I like this one the most lost. Good job. :P

[lostinbeta]

Thor: Thanks! And yeah I thought about using modulo for resetting the location when it passes out of the borders but I couldn't get it to work right so I stuck with that method. I did, as you saw, get modulo working for the levels of bubbles, that was an easy one to figure out. Thanks for the tip-off on that, I would have never thought to use modulo in place of that had you not had me scope out my code. I am real bad at optimization :P

[m]: It's got curves like an hourglass.... oh ... err... I mean thanks :)

EG: Wow really? And here I gave it an "F" because I didn't think it was that great, hehehe, I guess it's just because it's kind of askew from my standard type of experiments (which are usually not so good either most of the time :P ).


I need to be more creative.... I am having ideas on my next experiment, but it's still in planning mode.