HalcyonSpirit

Ah, yes, I see that now. I couldn't quite understand what you were asking specifically about before... I've been staring at this stupid lab report for far too long, it seems. Fried my brain, it has.

I just looked at the sprite sheet, and from the looks of it, the torso, legs, and closest arm remain unchanged between normal running and running while shooting. For normal running, the head twists left and right as he runs, while when he's shooting, the head remains straight (it's the same head as when he's just standing). And of course, the back arm is shooting, and does not change during the running animation. Also, something else to consider, CS, is whether you want to put in the extra effort to get 4Tan to shoot with only one arm (in other words, when she's facing one direction she uses the arm "further away" from the screen, but when she's facing the other direction, that arm is still used but is now the closer arm of the two). This is something that is not implemented in the X games, so it'd be some extra effort, spriting and coding, to get it to work.

Yea, but something's bothering me about her forehead. It just seems... HUUUUUUUUUGE. But objectively, I'm not sure it is. Probably not. But yeah, the sprite gets approval from me.

Bad week bad week... can't it be next Wednesday? I don't have time...

I have now voted. Good job, everyone! I really enjoyed these entries.

MORE! NEED MORE!!! Something I just figured I'd point out: what was X's chest plate is now, obviously, the orange part of her upper outfit. However, it seems very small, unlike the drawing (in which is covers the whole area around her neck). I think this is in part due to wanting to represent the gray pretzel in the sprite, but it's taking up too much of the sprite right now, especially in the "ready" stance. Also, the shoulders, it looks like when she's in her "ready" stance her shoulder "spikes" (whatever you want to call them) are partly orange when they should only be gray. Maybe I'm wrong, but I figured it couldn't hurt to point it out. I want this to be as awesome as humanly possible. (There's other little things as well, like maybe reducing the size of the wrist cuffs in future versions, but I'll let you handle those.)

I wrote this somewhat on a whim. I had an idea and ran with it. It probably won't be the most interesting read, and quite frankly, I think the whole thing would work better if it was longer. However, I do plan on returning to this setting in future works, ones that are longer and more fleshed out. I've got... ideas.

I've got some money coming in for my college expenses pretty soon (such as food and such). I can part with a meal to support this place. After all, listening to the music from here has kept me going when I had no motivation, it was Mahaboo's LRS&S thread in Offtop that helped me through some of my rougher times (a thread that would not exist without OCR in the first place), and I met one of my closer friends here at VT through this place. I'm in a much more favorable situation largely due to this site, directly and indirectly. So as soon as I get that money, I'll contribute what I can. This place deserves it. I'll let you know when I make the donation.

Go to the Inbox, check the box on the right at checks all the messages in the Inbox, and then go to the bottom and use the drop-down box to mark them all as Read. That'll get rid of the message (it won't even show up in the message count). And since it's spam, you won't miss it.

After what happened here last year? Probably, yeah.

Just something to keep in mind: I have something to submit for this competition. However, work has also caught up with me, so if I were to make a submission right now it'd probably be a rough draft of what I want. I'm going to try to finish it up before the deadline today, but whether that happens or not depends on several college-related factors. So I could use an extension, but it isn't absolutely necessary. Oh, and on a completely unrelated note, I have signed up for a Creative Writing class here at VT taught by Nikki Giovanni. Am I excited? Yes, yes I am.

Just as a reminder to everyone, the last day to make a submission for this month's Short Story competition is one week from today, March 28th. Let's hope we get plenty of submissions! I know I'm almost done with mine.

Man, based on what you guys are saying... by the time I actually get a Wii, a copy of Brawl, and all the friend codes uploaded, I'll be so behind in skill that I'll get my ass handed to me on a silver platter within a minute of each match. SWEET! Can't wait to play you guys, though.

Advice: check your power supply. If your power supply isn't consistent with its output, the power fluctuations can damage sensitive hardware. RAM is especially prone to damage due to a bad power supply.

OK, so let me just make sure I understand. You got the error after upgrading the driver. Then you downgraded it and still got an error. And now you've brought it back up to the most recent driver and it's still giving you an error. If the above is true... well, hm... Do me a favor and check the Event Viewer (Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Event Viewer) to see if there were any errors logged from right around the time it BSoD'd you, specifically in the System and Application sections. That might give a clue if there are. Second, we can't discount the possibility that, by sheer bad luck, either your motherboard or RAM has gone bad and it did so when you did the update by coincidence. Unlikely, but it's worth investigating. If you can, try starting Windows in Safe Mode and run your programs again, including FL Studio, and use them for a while. If nothing happens, it's likely a driver issue. If something does happen, it's either a system or hardware issue.

It could be any number of issues. The new driver could be conflicting somehow with a different driver installed on your system. It could be conflicting with the old drivers you uninstalled if they weren't uninstalled properly. It could be that the new driver has a problem with a specific program that it wasn't tested with. It could even be that it's a one-time, random occurrence (with that specific driver). It's hard to diagnose a problem like this with just one instance to go on (I'm not counting the original BSoD, since that was with a beta driver, and you aren't using it now). Keep track of what you are doing, like the programs you have running, and see if it happens again. If it does, get the information displayed, like the type of error, and if it is displayed, the file that caused the BSoD (sometimes it will display a file name towards the bottom; that is the file that caused the BSoD, though it doesn't necessarily mean that specific file caused the problem). One time means it could be anything. More than one time means there's a problem. Alternatively, you could try rolling back to the driver you had before (approximately, but you updated for a reason, so I doubt you want to do that), or you can try updating some of the other drivers on your system, such as the sound drivers. That might help.

In all seriousness, where is this mix? I can't seem to find it. I can find references to it, but not the mix itself.

That's an nVidia card, right? Have you tried changing the resolutions using the nVidia Control Panel? I have an nVidia card, and sometimes the default Windows display controls won't show the correct resolutions until after I've done it via the nVidia control panel.

Happy Birthday, oh mischievous one! Playing pranks on Kanthos by taking over his computer... tsk tsk tsk.

*salute* Aye aye!

I've been meaning to post in the Requests forum for someone to do this theme. It's been on my "This needs to be ReMixed NOW" list for a while. Looks like I can check it off the list now. Seriously, this is awesome stuff. This theme was beautiful originally, and you've done a fantastic job capturing that wonderful feeling it had and making it your own. I thought it could've used an ending that's a bit longer, but seriously, it's still great as-is. This is going straight into my playlist.

Perhaps I'm in the minority here, but does anyone else really dislike the positioning of the left analog stick on the Playstation controllers? I know I do; I don't see any reason for having it designed that way. The position of the left analog stick for the Gamecube and Xbox controllers is positioned where your thumb naturally rests, very comfortable, especially since you're using it all the time (I find the Gamecube controller's stick position to be perfect, at least for my hands). The Playstation controllers have it down and to the right, which makes you extend your thumb over there - a rather unnatural and uncomfortable position, I think. For something used as often as it is, I have to wonder why it's placed there. Maybe one of you people can explain it to me, because I certainly can't figure it out.

Man, I hate it when these events are scheduled when I'm in the middle of semesters. Or in this case, right towards the end so there's no way I can come because finals are that upcoming week. I really want to go to these things like VGL and MAGfest, but college always gets in the way. So to answer your question, no, I'm not coming, unfortunately. Driving 800 miles (about 400 both ways) right before finals is a bit much for me.

Well, if you downloaded the torrents, it would seem that the last mix posted included in the torrent should be this one, #1600. Dirt Devil is #1685, so you have 85 more to download (assuming you want to download all the mixes that were also in the projects (such as VotL)). So, just start here: http://www.ocremix.org/remix/OCR01601/ and download each mix individually. Just iterate the number at the end from 1601 to 1685 and you'll be good to go.

Congrats to Darklink42, Imagery and Leon K! Looks like we're all getting a prize this time. This is the first time I've gotten anything for my writing, even if it is tied with another person's for Runner-Up. I don't mind. At least this is one piece of good news on this stupid day.