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by Tony
April 23rd, 2012, 6:10 am
Forum: Sandbox General Support
Topic: what to do when starting an rpg?
Replies: 25
Views: 5973

Re: what to do when starting an rpg?

Start at this tutorial, it will answer most beginner questions:

http://www.sandboxgamemaker.com/wiki/in ... G_tutorial
by Tony
March 6th, 2012, 6:48 am
Forum: Donate Content To Sandbox And The Community
Topic: Custom Textures: Requests & Packs
Replies: 29
Views: 8133

Re: Custom Textures: Requests & Packs

The glare is OK in some situations, or not so much actual glare, but some shininess. Me thinks me has a grip on that now though. The real trick about using the specularity is to be careful how and where you place lights. Now, that same thing can be used for good effect, but it can also burn badly. C...
by Tony
January 16th, 2012, 6:27 am
Forum: Sandbox General Support
Topic: 2.7.1 - ATI/AMD related issues and workarounds
Replies: 1
Views: 1152

Re: 2.7.1 - ATI/AMD related issues and workarounds

Hirato wrote: have a play with the other ati_* variables.
Interesting.
..."other" ati_ * variables.
by Tony
January 16th, 2012, 6:15 am
Forum: Sandbox General Support
Topic: teleporting to specific spot on another map?
Replies: 8
Views: 2690

Re: teleporting to specific spot on another map?

In the Game's Trigger folder, e.g. data/rpg/games/GAME-NAME-HERE/triggers Do something like this: r_trigger_name "Give the Trigger a Name Here" r_trigger_script 19 //Be sure to send to the correct script and remember script naming convention r_trigger_mdl "ahab/castle_door" //mod...
by Tony
January 4th, 2012, 4:14 pm
Forum: Forum Introductions
Topic: GameLag
Replies: 2
Views: 1132

Re: GameLag

Aye, welcome to the community.
Best wishes,
- Tony
by Tony
January 4th, 2012, 4:10 pm
Forum: Sandbox General Support
Topic: Undeletable file
Replies: 6
Views: 1537

Re: Undeletable file

Yeah, that's odd alright.
I dunno man.
by Tony
January 4th, 2012, 5:13 am
Forum: Sandbox General Support
Topic: Undeletable file
Replies: 6
Views: 1537

Re: Undeletable file

Right-Click the Desktop field and choose: Refresh

IF the file is not really there, it should be cleared up.
by Tony
January 4th, 2012, 12:47 am
Forum: Sandbox General Support
Topic: Slowmo game toggle on and off on mapload
Replies: 3
Views: 983

Re: Slowmo game toggle on and off on mapload

If you mean the speed at which a character or player moves, this will work: r_char_base_maxspeed 60 Change 60 to whatever speed you want. I don't know if a negative value works here or not, but this is one movement script that I've seen. 60 is a speed boost. Put that in the critters cfg of your game...
by Tony
December 28th, 2011, 3:39 pm
Forum: Sandbox General Chat
Topic: Sandbox Universe
Replies: 39
Views: 8956

Re: Sandbox Universe

<img src="http://forum.sandboxgamemaker.com/download/file.php?id=670&mode=view" border="0"> This is not parsing in IE. Try hosting the image on the site itself, and linking to it there. That's your logo image, appearing right before "Welcome". (Or, not appearing, a...
by Tony
December 28th, 2011, 3:10 pm
Forum: Sandbox General Chat
Topic: In search of content
Replies: 6
Views: 2181

Re: In search of content

I have a bunch of skyboxes for folks to use. By a bunch, I mean... a Bunch, I don't even know how many. Over the next day or two, I will go through them and try to pick the most usable and post them. I think it is sensible to only provide a basic set of textures, skyboxes, and such in the basic prog...