Leandro

Had to. Having Doc as my avatar with a badge count is tradition:


Halloween costume:


Futurama and Tiny Toons in the base, thanks to Splasher:


I found the demo NPC code for a bunch of stuff including trees and seagulls, and thus:


Fluctuating avatar size because of the forum transition that took forever:


Mission Architect badges got removed, count went down:


Briefly at Justice for the Hamidon training:


And back on Freedom, kicking Hami's goo:


I forget what the monocle was about. I think it was for getting Bug Hunter:


Going Rogue. In the pits of Bat'Zul's volcano:


And current. No server name, because I have been server hopping all month:


Last time I broke a tradition, it was by not being in the i24 beta, and the game got cancelled. Won't risk messing with any other traditions for a while...

My Radiation/Sonic who routinely kills AVs solo would like a word with you.

The way it's supposed to be. I cringe when I click a "Forgot my password" link and the website emails me my old password in plain text.

Actually, the specific thing that is against the rules is "PIGG viewer programs and/or PIGG file modifications". Splasher doesn't touch the PIGG files at all, and neither do these patches.

There was never a rule saying you can't add files to the "data" folder, and the rednames could have easily disabled that folder in the live client if it were ever a problem.

Yes, this is why I said it was "for screenshots and such". You can use this to make screenshots/videos of your characters (or a crowd) holding protest signs, but anyone else in game will just see the regular protest signs.

I prepared a pack with the 3 signs pictured below: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/37952257/protest_signs.zip

Extract the zip file into the City of Heroes program folder; it will create a folder called "data" if it doesn't exist already. After you do that, restart the client (if it was running) and the following emotes will change:

;protest = "Screw Calm! Make Noise and #SaveCOH!"
;protestloyalist = "We are villains, what's our is ours!"
;protestresistance = "We are heroes. this is what we do!"

Try www.savecoh.com for all the Calls to Action in a single place.

No, it needs to be converted to a DirectDraw Surface, and then have a custom header attached. My program Splasher does that, but I haven't updated it in a LONG time, because under Windows Vista/7 it only work properly with UAC turned off.

I wasn't aware we COULDN'T discuss that. There's a long thread about how to silence in-game sounds in the Guides forum, and when I first released Splasher I had a contest in this same board for people to create their own loading screens, and Lighthouse/Ex Libris/Niviene/Koschej were perfectly fine with it.

The basic 3 are by default in the Textures tab of Splasher. The new ones were easy to find. Here's an updated splasher.csv which includes all 20 signs: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/37952257/splasher.csv

They get a bit squished, not too much, but it's noticeable because the circular Heroes logo becomes an ellipse. A version with the proper aspect ratio would be nice.

texture_library/ITEMS/Props/Sign_A.texture
texture_library/ITEMS/Props/Sign_B.texture
texture_library/ITEMS/Props/Sign_C.texture

They should be in the default Splasher install as Protest Sign A, B and C.

3700... my client crashed repeatedly when I tried to render a video with 4200, so I believe the hard limit is about 4000, probably 4096 (2^12).

Too late. I saw a God of Breaking Wind a few days ago while putting together this video. He shows up right after I move around the hill to set a path.

You got the draft version! The final version is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRsj2DtLCQs

And the associated screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/hRR5h.jpg

Open fillmap.pl and change the two lines:

$densitx = 4; # How close characters are together.
$density = 4; # How close characters are together.

The smallest the numbers, the closer they are togehter. X = east/west; Y = north/south.

Or, you can grab any character over level 10, go to a trainer, and open up a second build with only Hover.

Tha would work if you want them all to be on a "line" with the camera panning around them. Just copy place.cohdemo into camera.cohdemo (or edit the script so the same file is used both for place and camera).

Try using Hover, unslotted.

I always leave the camera control to specifically written bits of code. For the Atlas Park one, the code I used was something like this:

#Set the starting camera location and rotation:
$x = 128; $z= 30; $y = -220; $r = 0.3

# $y is the north/south direction. Run a loop until we're
# in the little park south of Atlas, at $y = 100.

while ($y < 100) {
# Output a keyframe. Delay between keyframes is 1000ms.
print "1000 CAM POS $x $z $y\n0 CAM PYR $r 0 0\n";
# Move the camera south. When y reaches 100,
# it'll hit a tree branch and this loop ends.
$y = $y + 3;
# Rotate the camera slightly downwards.
$r = $r - 0.01;
# Don't let the camera go any further down than straight ahead.
if ($r < 0) { $r = 0; }
# The camera started high above the crowd; move it slightly
# down while it rotates so it faces the crowd, and it also goes
# down the steps.
$z = $z - 0.3;
# Don't let $z fall below 15. That's street level.
if ($z < 15) { $z = 15; }
}

And that's it.