RE: DIrector MX development

2002-11-26 Thread vijay shan
Interestingly the same company was responsible for the port of maya to the mac osx platform. Vijay -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of nik crosina Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 5:41 AM To: The Lingo List Subject: DIrector MX development

RE: Creating sprites

2002-02-21 Thread vijay shan
http://www.mail-archive.com/lingo-l@penworks.com/ (old archives) are where the archives reside. I may bee wrong but this link seemed to work. http://mail4.fcgnetworks.net/archives/lingo-l/ ( these are the new archives) hope that helps. Vijay -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Does P/C support abstract children?

2002-02-17 Thread vijay shan
Your question is kind of confusing but it might just be me. If you declare a script as a parent script it can be instatiated with the new keyword and need not be attached to any physical sprite thats there on the stage, so you do not have to attach it to any sprite like a behavior if you create a

RE: Problem with Font- Very Urgent-Pls help me out

2002-02-14 Thread vijay shan
are you testing on windows 2000 systems. These have some inherent problems with embedded fonts i just went through a round of corrections on a project Iam doing. The only workaround was to install the font in my case. But somenone else might give you a better solution. Vijay -Original Messag

W3d file specification.

2002-02-12 Thread vijay shan
Hi, Does anyone know of any resources for the .w3d format . I would like to get as much info as possible. Iam trying to write an exporter for a custom inhouse tool. I can't find the file specifications anywhere. Vijay [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

RE: File Copying

2002-02-04 Thread vijay shan
Hi, Usually the disk speeds are slow so I would suggest that instead of writing character by character why don't you try to read and write in chunks if you can do that. The reason why installation is slow on your system is that each time you want to access your disks it takes time to acce

RE: Repeat Loop

2002-01-31 Thread vijay shan
The thing with repeat loops is that they consume system resources and wont let any other function to be performed on the computer when this is happening. so you do not want this to happen normally i would use a frame script to simulate a repeat loop works like a charm. Vijay -Original Messag

RE: (no subject)

2002-01-19 Thread vijay shan
Hey rachid since you have an angle if you have speed then calculating points is not a problem at all. lets have a speed of k that the sprite moves at so the new position is x=x+k*cos(angle) y=y+k*sin(angle) you would be substituting the loch of sprite for x and the locv of sprite for y Hop

RE: Movies in a Window

2002-01-18 Thread vijay shan
Please under no circumstances try to open one MIAW from another. Been there done that. It will save you a lot of work if you have a centralized movie script in the main movie which will open a new window. call this script from a miaw. Also don't issue calls to close a miaw from within its

RE: re:angle

2002-01-16 Thread vijay shan
property pangle,pradius,pcenterx,pcentery,ppifactor on beginsprite me pcenterx=sprite(me.spritenum).loch pcentery=sprite(me.spritenum).locv pradius=100 --substitute your value pangle=0 ppifactor=pi()/180 end on enterframe me newposh=pcenterx+pradius*cos(ppifactor*pangle) newpos

RE: mousedown repeat

2002-01-16 Thread vijay shan
Generally i would suggest not using repeat loops in these cases as they consume processor resources to a great extent. just make sure the variable you are incrementting also is declared as a property. Vijay try this behavior. property pflag,pproperty on beginsprite me pflag=0 end on mousedown

RE: Regarding Lists

2002-01-16 Thread vijay shan
Hi, Lists are generally used when one has a lot of similar or same data for different entities, For example, Consider you are making a program where you are taking 1000 peoples ages and then finding the average. Here a list would greatly simplify the job as you would have one variable for

RE: re:angle

2002-01-16 Thread vijay shan
Can you elaborrate a little it would help us in giving you some help what do you exactly want to do? Vijay -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Rachid Mehmed Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 9:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: re:angle

RE: Script Error in Projector

2002-01-15 Thread vijay shan
You might have to include the fileio xtra. Sometimes I have missed puttting the xtra and director won't signal an error until it comes to that partcular point the problem is with scripting xtras since these xtras are not loaded by director at load time one might be gettin this problem only when y