At 12/28/25 03:15 PM, Nabella wrote:

At 12/28/25 01:25 PM, Luis wrote:i still have my website, although I rarely update it since I don’t need a job anymore. It is expensive to have a website so I’d definitely keep that in mind. Like hosting is usually $100ish and the domain is another $20. So having to pay that every year is a bit of a commitment.

There are free alternatives like Neocities that give you 1GB of space to work with. Unless you're posting your entire gallery there, it should be fine as a small portfolio website or a handy links page.

At 12/18/25 09:11 PM, real-stratrat wrote:hey im andy or stratrat more so known as online. im daydreamanatomy's little brother even tho im taller and bigger than him haha. i cant thank you all enough for the years of support. i knew he had a following on here but i had no idea how deep and amazingly supportive things you all have said bout him on this thread. the influence he had on me our whole lives is basically anything im into he got me into it. got me into slipknot at 13 after hearing it coming from the computer room at our parents house and that changed my life forever. got me into discgolfing and encouraged me all the time to play the drums more telling me that im already stupidly good at em for how little i have played em. Literally he was and is my best friend. brilliant mind and a completely selfless person. taught me countless lessons by being my brother and showing me how even after succumbing to addiction that it doesnt mean your life cant get better or wont just get worse if you just keep growing and bettering ourselves. im incredibly proud to have had him as my brother and will get myself to a place he always wanted to see me at and being happy. i love you kyle. cya in the next life.

At 12/9/25 06:22 PM, Aalasteir wrote:Brilliant idea, what if there was added a randomize button? To the review space.
Giving some inspiration or to quickly increase your review count, there would also be a gambling element when it would come to review bans, if you get too many nonsensical reviews that are not helpful.

People like gambling and people like high numbers, but if they want less risk of getting a review ban, they would edit their review to make slightly more sense. That way, creators can still get feedback and people who are obsessed with stats can increase their stats.

At 11/23/25 06:25 PM, xeiavica wrote:

At 11/23/25 05:03 PM, Gimmick wrote:

At 11/23/25 03:53 PM, xeiavica wrote:What does single-threaded execution mean in the grand scheme of things for flash 8? I get that it means on the primary thread, it has to wait until the task is done to move onto the next one (or at least I think I get it). Lets use GTA 1 or GTA 2 as an example. Say I'm in the car and radio playing, does that mean I can't have other sound effects such as a gun fired from outside or a mission update while driving?

There's the analogy of the "elastic racetrack" that has been used to describe this process. It's well worth the read:

Now granted, Flash is not technically single threaded. I haven't verified this, but I'm pretty sure that if you create a Sound instance and play a loop in the background and then run some very heavy code/rendering, then it will still play the sound smoothly - but that is probably because there's no changes that need to be made to it (but if you were to pause it, it wouldn't pause on time) and it would only really degrade when the entire computer grinds to a halt.

There is also a weird quirk in Adobe AIR where AIR native extensions can technically "wait" on a decision from the user, but still run the application in the background. It's black magic to me - I have the AIR MessageBox extension that someone else made, and I display a Yes/No/Cancel prompt, but I can still continue using the AIR application in the background even though a true single threaded implementation would require the app to freeze completely until I clicked on Yes, No or Cancel. I don't even know how that works since I have not made any specific multi-threaded changes, but anyone who's still interested in AIR can probably try it out for themselves...

...anyways, since you were asking about Flash 8, I guess the analogy would be that the car moves a tiny bit in one frame, and then some other processing happens (e.g. other cars move a bit, for traffic simulation), and then the next frame comes up, and the process repeats. If it takes too long for traffic to move, then the frame rate goes down.

Is there an archive available for the tedpatrick flash 8 link? There used to be images if archive.org is to be an indication, but it appears not anymore.

At 11/22/25 12:01 PM, PsychoGoldfish wrote:

At 11/22/25 11:45 AM, xeiavica wrote:Just going to ping @psychogoldfish directly because the wall of text was getting rather lengthy.

My only concern with flash 8, is resources. There could be possibly several hundred raindrops active, which will put some kind of tax on the program. So optimization is a concern with how many objects/instances will be moving and recalculated at once.

A couple of ways you can cut down on excess calculations is to use a raster image for the rain lines instead of a vector with a gradient. And once you have the falling tweens working, convert the animations to single keyframes. You could even consider just animating them on 2s where you tween it at 2x speed, convert to keyframes, then just make each keyframe 2 frames long.

You probably won't need 100s of drops going, just a few dozen, and the calculations going on should largely be on your reset frame. With the variation in drop speeds and using that timeout when resetting, you'll also avoid every clip doing those calculations in the same tick.

You'll really just have to experiment a bit and see what kind of load you end up with, and play around with what the lowest number of drop effects you can use, while still looking good.

At 11/6/25 02:21 PM, TomFulp wrote:

At 11/6/25 12:42 PM, Kolumbo wrote:

Yeah I'm still feeling things out at the moment... I went with one minute because it encourages the chances of a single user discovering multiple things during a 10-15 minute NG session, however it does kinda feel like each entry has less weight to it when it doesn't command the space for longer. I might try doing one hour intervals next.

At 10/26/25 12:28 PM, detergent1 wrote:

At 10/26/25 12:14 PM, Luis wrote:

At 10/25/25 05:23 PM, detergent1 wrote:apparently http://coldhardflash.com/ was one the websites that existed, eh?

I glanced a book on Flash MX 2004, its first appendix contains seven pages of Flash-related websites, I guess most if not all are dead by now

I wish I kept my flash mx books. I still use mx 2004 to this day.

these are the books I borrowed from the university's libraries btw

I haven't got around actually reading them, which is a bit shameful