Leandro

Geesh, why do yougive defenders so little credit? My defenders never have trouble soloing. It's slow, yes, but it's perfectly doable. Soloing as a controller in the early levels is way more tedious, and I've done that too.

So Master Illusionists don't give anything more to compensate for all the pets they spawn? Ugh.

Sure, "real life" you say. You know they're all playing Spore nonstop.

Eh, I always loved fighting GMs in Portal Corp. Very recently I left a mission, zoned to the court, and boom! Lattice. I treat them the same as if it were Adamastor in DA or Jurassik in CF: grab whatever team I'm on and promptly beat the <bleep!> out of it.

Hey Positron,

What would help more, a shipment of aspirin or a shipment of coffee?

Best of luck,
Leandro.

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I'm in the same boat as Sophism, though I'm sure I can buy it if I do it through a proxy server. I'm going to wait a while and see if we get a way to buy the thing that doesn't require to bend the rules by using a proxy.

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Bending the rules aside, which I have no problem with in this case personally, you should be aware that using untrusted/unsecured SSL proxy servers (the kind you can find by googling for them), for use in credit card transactions, is a bad, bad idea.

For one thing, it defeats the entire purpose of SSL, which is assumed to be a two-way direct and secure communications channel (e.g. no middle man).

Proxy servers, regardless of how you use them (web/IP) have the ability to log pretty much anything that goes through it, and even if the data is encrypted, it's still stored, and for all you know, it could be rogue, hacked, or just set up for the explicit purpose of gathering sensitive data.

Thankfully most proxies out there are not SSL enabled by default, and most SSL services will either warn or deny you access via SSL should it detect you may be using a proxy, although, there are legitimate places out there you can pay for that offer you that kind of service and anonymity should you require it .

But even then I'd be weary, and in either case, its your credit card information, account information, and ultimately, your decision.

Regards,

Ryan

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Well said on all counts. However, the proxy server I would use to do this would be set up on my own website's server (which is hosted in the US) so the only logs of the transaction would be on my own website host, and they already have my credit card details to charge me anyway.

I'm in the same boat as Sophism, though I'm sure I can buy it if I do it through a proxy server. I'm going to wait a while and see if we get a way to buy the thing that doesn't require to bend the rules by using a proxy.

I just woke up. Congrats Baller, you sure deserved it (if anything, for staying awake long enough to see who won, I passed out three hours before they announced it).

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OK, Today's GTTV episode was supposed to announce the contest winner. No surprise - There wasn't any mention of it.

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It's tonight's episode. See Lighthouse's announcement:

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The Matrix Machinima Contest will announce their winners on the Spike Channel during the GTTV episode that starts at 1 AM Eastern on September 13th. You can also check out the winners online following the show on GameTrailers.com

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Keymapping schmapping. You lazy people always looking for the UI option. In my day we used command lines for everything!

type, in the chat bar:

/bind f12 ++disable2d

then hit F12 to toggle the UI off and on.

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God, if I were Leandro or 8baller, I'd be completely freaking out by now. Like gnawing on my comforter, pacing a hole in my floor, checking my email every ten seconds...

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Eh, that's not how I am. Way too many other things to pay attention to at the moment (plenty of them not good, which explains why I haven't been very active here) than something I have no way to influence the outcome of, much less at this point.

Amanda, though (Fusionette's voice) is extra nervous.

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And damn it all, whoever wins, there had BETTER be a FULL ARTICLE on him/her in the City Scoop (might have to be the following Friday's Scoop, but still)! They DESERVE it!

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If it's mine you better talk in detail about my Fortress of Doom.

And here's my first recruitment poster. This was a quickie 20-minute thing, and I stupidly didn't tell COH to dump the demo frames as TGA so you can see some JPEG compression in it.

http://www.w00tstudios.net/image-dep.../asInline.html

See if you can identify the guest freak.

I hate spending two hours doing something and then just not liking the result. Here's my second entry:

http://www.w00tstudios.net/image-dep.../asInline.html

I still like the concept for the image (what happened after the events in the video), but between clipping problems in Nemesis' arm, the background looking distinctly separate from the main image, and lots of wasted space on the top... I hate the execution. Oh well. I'll go ahead and work on recruitment posters later today.

Well, two hours and fourteen layers later, here's my (first) entry for this contest:

http://www.w00tstudios.net/image-dep.../asInline.html

I wanted to add a description but the description field wouldn't work on my browser, and I realized too late I could have tried in IE.

The image is freak-centric because originally it was going to be just Clamor vs. Nemesis, but Nemesis is so much bigger than Clamor (for the poster I actually enlarged Clamor quite a bit) that I felt Clamor could use some backup. Maybe my next entry will focus more on the Nemesis army.

Great find, Vorac.

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it works on walls outside of base as well right? i wanna use the blue screen for demos and, at least last time I checked, bases don't work with demos

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Bases do work with demos. You have other textures you can replace if you don't want to use bases though.

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hey everyone. I just got a new video editing program called adobe premiere pro and it has a green/blue screen effect which was rly helpful with WoW movies because the model editor had a blue screen but, to my knowledge, coh does not have a model viewer. So my question is this, is there a place that has a plain green/blue wall or whatever or is there another way to do a bluescreen effect in coh?

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Use Splasher to make the walls of your supergroup base blue.

That was an absolutely awesome video, Ash. Great job!

The first line of your costume definition contains all the scales of your character:

0 1978 COSTUME 0 9bd2ff -1.259542 -1.000000 0.000000 -0.500000 -1.000000 -1.000000 -1.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.710000 0.760000 1.000000 -0.350000 1.000000 -1.000000 -1.000000 -1.000000 -1.000000 -1.000000 -0.800000 -1.000000 1.000000 1.000000 1.000000 -1.000000 -1.000000 -1.000000 -0.410000 -0.510000 -0.860000

The number I put in yellow is the model scale. I have no idea what units are used, but change it to 500 and your hero will be about five stories tall.

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Was this captured in situ, or did you manipulate it? You should add it the Terrific Screenshots of Cool thread, because it is.

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Manipulated. Put her character in the BatZul hell map, with the Rise of the Phoenix effect behind her. Exported the screenie to Paint Shop Pro to retouch the colors a bit.

Where's the TSOC thread?

So, the forum is Screenshots and Fan Art, right? I have a newbie friend who joined the game three days ago and made a Fire blaster, and since I can't draw for squat or do any of that fancy "art" people do, I made her this gift screenshot:

Regular 4:3
Widescreen 16:9

I think it needs an extra "finish" maybe a frame or the name somewhere, but figuring that out is already too artsy for me.

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So, out of curiosity, if one of the CoX forum videographers actually wins, where's the party going to be?

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TF on Test?

Hey 8baller, Fusionette just caught her cameo 1:55 into your video now. She's not amused! She left you a comment.

New version with all the 3D wireframes display is ready for download.

Screenshot
Homepage

I had trouble getting the wireframes to display in proper orthogonal view, so I'll have to play with that a little more. I'll clean up the interface and get started with the animation keyframing sometime this week.