Volume 11, Issue 4 - June 7, 2009
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1. Community Announcements
2. Best of the Forum
3. Weekly Awards
4. The Big Question
Community Announcements-- The Minish Cap engine for the Community Project finally got a reworked version of Goodnight's corner cutting code. The efficiency of the sprite correction has significantly improved, there is no longer a function call to calculate the square root of two, and place_free has been replaced by place_meeting. The corner cutting code is also implemented in a way such that it is reactive and not preventative; i.e. the code is easier to work with as it is less dependent on the rest of the code.
-- Windy seems to have added the ability to leave a comment when you report something on the site. This should help the staff understand what the problem actually is rather than leaving us clueless like a Disney murder mystery. Thanks Windy for the fix.
-- The contest ideas, user badge updates, and rule updates I mentioned in the last few Weeklys haven't been put out yet. To some degree I have been using their inclusion as a Community Announcement just for filler, but they should be getting done or worked on soon. Otherwise, feel free to give ideas in Feedback, we could all use the help of ourselves.
Best of the ForumThe Circle of Life, and It Moves Us All.http://www.zfgc.com/forum/index.php?topic=34378.0Subject for google results when they google their own names (oh yes, it shall be done.).
All of you buttfaces get your asses back here and make this place fun again! >=^(
*cries*
Seriously folks, a site that's been around for little over 2 months with no real advertising has more activity than a forum active for 5 years... If someone gets 250 posts in a month, they DOUBLE our activity o.o... This is sad.
SO! I'm calling all of the ZFGC elites to come outta your holes and get your asses back here and help bring back what this place was all about !
When Will My Reflection Show Who I Am Inside?http://www.zfgc.com/forum/index.php?topic=34331.0I'm gonna be working on a cartoon for ZFGC, and I wanna get a buncha ZFGCers in it Post a picture of yourself, link to an avatar that resembles you, post an art/giftart/fanart of your online persona, draw some caveman-ish sketch of yourself in paint and save it as a jpg and upload it to imageshack to be horribly resized... I DON'T CARE.
A Tale as Old as Time, a Song as Old as Rhyme.http://wii.ign.com/articles/990/990149p1.html
New Zelda!
Weekly AwardsGraphic of the WeekTomPel's Wind Waker Titlescreen
http://www.zfgc.com/forum/index.php?topic=34351.0I messed around with this for the fun of it..
I do have to mention that I did cheat though as I didn't draw everything pixel by pixel.. Your titlescreen really does look cool though and something about it made me want to mess around with it. ^^;
Dev Tool of the WeekXfixium's GM Alternative Room Editor
http://www.zfgc.com/forum/index.php?topic=34366.0Title: Game Maker Alternative Room Editor (GMare)
Dev Tool: c# .net 2.0
Language: English
Requirements: .net 2.0, DirectX 9, SlimDX
Downloads:-NA-
GMare is an alternative room editor for Game Maker versions 5 through 7. Offering more user friendly tools to create rooms quickly and easily. The rooms are created in separate project files which can be shared easily within a dev team environment. GMare rooms can be exported to an image, binary file, or directly to a Game Maker project. Multiple rooms can be put together for export also.
Just putting this up here in advance. Working to get it done this weekend or at the end of next weekend. I also will be sharing a .net library that could help other projects with GM project related data. As it has the ability to read and write projects. Credits to IsmAvatar for her documentation on the various GM project file formats.
Audio of the WeekHyperKnight32's Golden Sun Remix
http://www.zfgc.com/forum/index.php?topic=34352.0Hey guys, it's been awhile, it's been even longer since I posted anything here .
I recently upgraded my music software and a few days ago got a program called Dimension Pro. Here's the description found on the site:
"Dimension Pro is the critically-acclaimed synthesizer that combines real instruments with advanced synthesis, giving you endless sound possibilities."
I also got some expansion packs for it and discovered some neat orchestral instruments, I really wanted to make a Golden Sun track and I found one. Took me hours to learn by ear and get everything right but here's what I've been able to do so far, I feel it's incomplete but this is the first draft:
http://www.box.net/shared/nm4iotpqz0
Comments and feedback would be nice, I think the overall sound quality is better than what I've done in the past ^_^.
Big QuestionLast week's question: What Zelda character should have been in Super Smash Bros Brawl or should be in a future Smash Bros game?
Summary of answers: Saria, Rosa, Vaati, Midna, Ganon transformation, Tetra, and Zant.
This week's question:
Would it be better to make the Minish Cap Engine board for the Community Project public now even though it is not quite done so perhaps we could all try working on it?
Author of this week's issue: 4Sword