Yup bumping again. This is epicness at its most epic. Ok weak punchline there but this is very, very cool. I think this is more of a cinematic then a cutscene though. Anyways. Maybe you could have like this library with all the required sprites in one package so you dont have to rebuild the sprite again and again??

I thinK compression is of later concern, how many pages does sad use by know? Also i assume sadce eventually needs to be able to produce this?

Good idea. Also the swapping of sprites (one light then one dark then one light etc) creates a depth effect. the biggest problem with 3D on this limited a screen is that sometimes it is hard to see depth.

Quote from: matthias1992 on December 29, 2010, 03:33:39 pm

Hey there!

You may have noticed that I have visited these forums less regulary lately. Reason, complete loss of interest in calcs. Seriously, all the fun is out of it for me now. I can't exactly say how or why but I am just bored to death by calcs. Maybe because I value real-life (events) more then virtual ones. I might still check this site every now and then but from now on I won't login (likely) anymore.

The biggest reason for me to leave is that it releases some stress of my shoulders. Sorry to blow off that hard but I just feel little obligation to finish anything I started here, not because I don't want but because it isn't real enough for me. I procrastinate anyway...

A huge thanks to all the forum members, I have learned alot!

A tremendous thanks to the staff for their consequent and valuable contribution to these forums.

A enormous thank you to DJ for making me a kind forum member instead of a rude one.

I want to emphasize that me leaving has nothing to do with this forum, it's just a personal choice.

I know this might come unexpected and I migh return after I have had my exams but changes are slight. Anyhow, thank you all for your valuable feedback and help! please don't mourn over this, I never really was a great contributor anyway so

All the BEST!!

Good luck!

Does that mean you're done with S.A.D. permanently?  Or just until I have info I can give you?

Hey I OWE you to finish on that one. It's more that I felt no obligation to finish the things I started myself. Altough I might finish that NLP topic one day...

It's just that I won't be around here anymore for calcs, I won't say never but changes are just slight. As I said, I have lost interest but really, with me that means little I work very impulsively so I might as well make a comeback in a month, two months, a year, a eon...
who knows...

If anyone needs to contact me to finish something I promised to do then contact me at my email:

m a t t h i a s c a l i s @ h o t m a i l . c o m

ok maybe the other pics did not really show the sheer size of this thing. So here is another one. I guess the entire building is about 70x40x35 blocks which ends up in 98000 blocks. These are just wild guesses, I did not want to count them. It's a bit boring.

cool!

I play minecraft too but were is Juju's server? or do I need the paid version of the game to get in there? As for the free version I once build a sort of shrine. Here it is.

edit: I did not make this alone, at first I builded what you see in pic3 (or MC_Hgue2) on top of the remains of a pretty huge building. It was badly grieved so I did not repair it. Not at first. Then this British dude came to help me and we repaired the fundaments of the building + he added alot of interior elements, extended the roof etc. So I did the top part and we repaired the light-brown colored building together. He added all the peripherals you can find the free server here: http://www.minecraft.net/play.jsp?server=6cca0c93f290659f05168f6250b394f7. from there go to guest1. My building is in the far corner of the map.

*bump* probaly I jsut have a crappy LCD but if I set the program on the end of page 1 to Full it doesn't work in the sense that it displays all kinds of garbage all over the freaking place. I did run ALCDFIX before trying, same result.

Any clue on why this happens?

Thank you for your kind words.

Anyway there is something short I want to share with you between the lines. I just had a bit of breakdown, just a couple of hours ago but I noted two things about it. I managed to switch from my depressed state in a very short amount of time. I said to myself: "What is causing me to feel like this?" and by answering that question I could comprehend my problem better. At that moment I realized that it was a mere result and I reminded myself that the result would serve me. Now it took me just a few minutes to figure exactly how that depression served me. It served me because people started to help me because I felt depressed + I now understood what caused the problem and thus I could tackle whatever it is/was that triggered it.

That is the sheer power of this belief. I sincerely have not felt that depressed in  a long long time but by reminding myself of this belief I managed to get into a resourceful, motivated and powerful state.

This is not made up to show you how it all works. It litterally just happened in the way I described above, I am purposely staying a bit vague because of my privacy but I thought I'd owe you this because there is such a simple lessons to be learned from this: No emotion is outside of your control, never.

Part I - Chapter 1 - Beliefs

"There is danger in both belief and unbelief"
~Phaedrus

Beliefs are exactly what you thought them to be. Things you hold for true albeit in a subjective way. Not everyone agrees with you that superman is real but if you are completely certain about it and you feel and know its true in your guts, then it's a belief. Belief is a personal truth and therefore very powerful. Because, what shapes you more then your own perceptions of the world? What defines you more then your model of the world? It all really knocks down to beliefs. Whatever it is you hold true you must be aware, you must realize it defines you up to the bone. Let's take that superman example again, if you were to belief in superman then probably you'd have half your room filled with posters and stickers and lord know what else...

Your simple belief in superman caused you to make superman a common appearance in your life. I do not care what you beliefs are, I care how they shape you unto what you are.

You see most people tend to have a lot of negative beliefs, moreover these negative beliefs are often about themselves. Beliefs like, I can't conquer my fear of heights, I can't interact socially, I will never get a (girl)friend, I will never succeed at X. All too often these negative self-beliefs fill our minds. Now I won't tell you to stop them, that is a pretty hard thing to do. If I could get rid of my fear of heights that easily then why do I still have fear of heights?

You can however change your beliefs, and you can do it now. There is nothing stopping you from doing that. Well maybe it is your belief that you can not change beliefs instantaneously that is stopping you. But then again remember those are just things, ideas, creations of your own mind and who has ultimate power of your mind? You. If you ever got depressed or felt angry did you ever notice how fast you could go from mad to sad? It takes literally just a second with most people and hardly 10 seconds with the really slow ones, but those are exceptions.

Think of it. You can and have been changing your emotional state superfast and you have been doing it nearly all the **** time. So why on earth would you not be able to change from mad to elated or from sad to joyful? Why not go from negative to positive, from un-resourceful to resourceful. I'll be talking about states sometime else but my point is that change in physiology barely takes a second.

I won't be telling you to belief in god if you are an atheist nor will I tell you to not belief in god if you are a theist. The whole point of beliefs is making you unique, but who wants to be unique because they are depressed and feel miserable all the time? No one.

Now I'd like you to think about this belief I'll be offering you to take in to your system. Preferably exchange it for some belief that you know isn 't of any use to you (anymore). Here it is: There is no such thing as failure or succeeding, there is only result and that result serves you best.

You might say, alright I got that, I am willing to believe that but how about me breaking my legs and being left immobile for the rest of my life? How then can I possibly belief that it serves me? I'll be honest with you, it's hard but if you integrated this belief into yourself before such a thing happened to you, you will be relieved by it. You will find a way it serves you. Maybe it just gives you that snap to throw your old life overboard and start afresh. Maybe it made you see that accidents can strike anywhere anytime (If you are paying attention then you'll probably see that this is a personal belief of mine, albeit not a very useful one...)

Now let's pretend such a terrible thing never happened to you. This way it is of course easier to see the benefits of the belief that there is only result. Let me ask you a question, what does a result provide you with? With data, data you can use to your benefit! This is why there is no failure, only data. Only pieces of information or feedback that provide you with useful lessons.

Results should feed onto your goals. Your objectives in live. Now please take your time to think of at least two things you want to achieve in life. Now I want you to be as specific as possible. You should not just say "I want to be rich" or "I want to be famous". I want you to specify what kind of rich you want to be. Do you want to be rich in a spiritual sense or in the sense of money. How rich? Give it a quantity. What kind of fame do you want to posses? Do you want to be recognized locally or do you want to be a worldwide popstar? Whatever it is I need you to be very specific.

> What?
> How Much?
> What kind of..?
> etc

Please write it down for yourself as specific as possible. Now take some tape and hang it up the walls in your bedroom or somewhere you'll be sure to see it every day. Let me go back to the results. Results are feeding your goals. From now on everytime you say "I failed at X" or "I succeeded at X" I want you to in your mind determine wether that 'failing' or 'succeeding' has brought you closer or further from your goals.

Now that you have simplified the result to be either something that moved you towards or away from your goal(s) you can determine to change what you did (because it moved you away from your goal) or to keep the behaviour (because it moved you towards your goal). It is that easy.

Now that you realize you can never fail, how much more thing would you dare to do? Probably quite a few things. Just for the next two weeks or so notice with every decision you make does this make me move towards or away from my goal?

Now of course stuff like, I decide to go to school today has little to do with your goal of founding your own ICT company in Los Angeles. You'll recognize a related decision when it occurs.

Ok long story short. Beliefs shape you, if they do then you can shape your beliefs to reshape yourself to your own benefit. A important belief to clutch onto is that there is no faillure or succes there is only outcome and that outcome serves you. Even if it is a so called 'failure' it still serves you because it provides you with the data of what you shouldn 't do the next you were to make a similar decision.

That is it for now. Next part will be about states and a bit about beliefs as well. For now, all the best!

If you can change, so can the world and thus can you.