Thanks. And yeah, Star Wars is a really good subject for creating objects, there are a lot of spaceships and vehicles and characters, ...

Quote from: Hayleia on August 29, 2013, 11:57:39 am

Quote from: Sorunome on August 29, 2013, 11:55:30 am

Also, harry potter is awesome

Lol yeah, I didn't know how to call that sticky band and I remembered they call it "Spellotape" in Harry Potter books, so I just wrote Spellotape. Google Translate says "Scotch tape" but "Scotch" seems like the name of a brand to me.

Well, with normal speeking (in german at least) you use all the time brand names like for tissue.

Well I actually says "Scotch" in French (because it is shorter than "ruban adhésif"), but I didn't know it was the same in English. And yeah, some people says "Kleenex" instead of "tissue" here too.

A while ago, on a topic I don't remember the name, I showed one of my creations, it was a X-Wing (and people complained about the wrong decorations lol). Art of Camelot asked me to make a topic about my creations but I somehow forgot about it, and I only remember now that I see Sorunome's topic, even though mine is not "only" papercraft.

Of course I don't show here all of my creations because it would take too much space, so I only show the ones I think are the best.
And of course, please excuse any English mistake I can make.

Let's start easy, with a tank.

Not really impressive, is it ? Everyone can do this. But this is why I like this one so much, because of its quotient "easy/beautiful".

Then the X-Wing you may have already seen.

As people already said, the decorations are wrong (especially the sticker in front of the cockpit), but at this time, I had red spellotape (sorry, I am reading Harry Potter right now) and I just liked to use it. As for the wrong logo, I just put the one I could remember being in Star Wars even though it is not at all the right one.

Still with Star Wars, an AT-TE Walker.

Its feet are damaged but it is still great in my opinion. You may have spotted the hole on top of it. This is because a humanoid and an astromech droid can be placed inside, like a clone and R2-D2 for example (yes, this thing is meant to be R2-D2).


Yet another Star Wars vehicle. The Millenium Falcon.

You surely understood that logic is not the best part of my creations, and this is why you can put the AT-TE inside the Falcon.
And that is not the only thing you can put inside, you can open the Falcon to have access to a room.

Don't ask me why the General Grievous was in there. And you may have spotted the clone in the pilot cockpit.

Now, without any form of transition, let's Goto Assassin's Creed. So here is... an Assassin -.-

As you could have told by yourself, it is not finished. But it is still articulated in the hips and knees (and arms once they are there).


And nooooow... my masterpiece (for now, none of my finished projects outpass this one). Buzz LightYear !

I know what you're thinking: "not fat enough". And do you know what I'm thinking ? "I don't care !"
Articulated in the shoulders, elbows, wrists, fingers (yes, fingers), hips, knees and ankles (yes, ankles).

(that brass wire you can see on his foot is only there to have it pose while I take the photo, not there otherwise).


Well, that's it. Of course you are allowed to comment, and if you have creations too, you can share them on this topic or in one of yours.

Well, since you didn't say what you used the getKey for, we can't really tell how to improve your input. A For loop helps sometimes and doesn't some other times.
For example, if you want F1 to increment {L1+1}, F2 to increment {L1+2}, ... F5 to increment {L1+5}, then you can see the For loop appear by itself.
But if the actions od the keys are really different, maybe using some ElseIf is better. Just learn how to optimize the ElseIf.

If A=0

ElseIf A=1

ElseIf A=2

ElseIf A=3

ElseIf A=4

End

can be optimized as

!If A

Else!If -1

Else!If -1

Else!If -1

Else!If -1

End

I only notice the ezportal thing now that you mention it lol.
But I still think the white text is readable on the dark blue background.
That doesn't really matter anyway, most people (non-admin people) don't scroll down in the uploader, so they won't notice if the rectangle hits the bottom of the page or not.

Sorry for my question if it is stupid, but what do you time your solvings with to get so much precision ?

1. Is there any way to detect if the user has unarchived programs?

Yes, through the VAT, but that is not really needed.
What you want is basically to know if you have enough RAM for your program to run, right ?
Then use the same GetCalc command that is used in the tutorial. You'll see that it returns when you try to create an appvar if it could not be created (because of lack of RAM). So just do your code like that (where I use random names for variables):

GetCalc("appvNAME",Size)→P
!If
 Disp "Not Enough RAM"
 Return
End
<then the rest of the program>

And you can be more precise in your "Not Enough RAM" message, telling the user to archive variables, or the exact amount of RAM needed...

Another efficient compression method is the one deeph and chickendude showed me. Basically, it is RLE, but with a special treatment for isolated tiles. The only downside is that it only works if you have less than 128 tiles.
So, when you have 8 instances of a 4, you just put a 8 followed by a 4 in your data, and you just used 2 bytes for 8 bytes of data, so you saved space.
But when you have 1 instance of a 4, putting a 1 followed by a for would use 2 bytes for 1 byte of data. So instead of that, you'll store 4+128 (basically a 4 but with an extra bit at the "beginning").
And now, to uncompress, you just have to look at the first bit:
-if it's 0, treat the two bytes like RLE compressed data
-if it's 1, then put one instance of the byte (and don't forget to retrieve 128 from it).