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General Discussion / Tell Me How To Play Arcanum! (Part 2 Looting and wolves)

« on: December 26, 2011, 04:25:18 pm »

The rules are quite straight forwards. Ive started a game of Arcanum, and now am relinquishing the controls to everyone else!

The starting video can be found here: http://youtu.be/2TXnuY4e0F8

preview of part 1:



So what happens next?

Simple! post Ideas below on what to do next!
The 3 most suggested/voted for options will be done in each video (minimum)
videos will be updated Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
If your idea is put in-game, you'll get a mention!

So let's go and have some fun with it!

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General Discussion / Gun's don't kill people *i* kill people!

« on: November 17, 2011, 02:17:14 pm »

may i present to you an image summing up both my day and greatest in-game achievement ever.

http://img854.imageshack.us/img854/1619/imag0399m.jpg

that's the leaderboard for modernwarfare 3's single player survival mode on the "mission" map.

and that name ranked 49th in the world is my gamertag

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / some basic halbrain questions:

« on: March 21, 2011, 02:36:44 pm »

Hello again.

I've got a little more into Hal since i fixed the sound on my computer, however my understanding of him is incredibly limited (i think he understands me more at the moment lol)

I've just got a few questions that I'd really appreciate any help with.

1) with the file open from the start menu program, such as saying "open paint." or "open word" I'd like hal to be able to open other programs just as easily, however I tried changing windows live messenger to msn, and then said "open msn" and he didn't. Is there something i can change to make this happen? (the item is in the start menu and i'm on vista)

2) There's a number of conversation lines in the default hal brain that say things more pertinent to Americans, such as "i like to reach the 50 yard line!" and there's a quote about Obama in there somewhere. If i went into the brain file and deleted these lines, or wished to add ones of my own, would this be a simple type-and-add or click-and-delete process? or could doing so be a danger to the stability of hal?

3) with the dream-out-loud plugin the code is:

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Rem Type=Plugin
Rem Name=Dream Out Loud (beta)
Rem Author=Robert Medeksza
Rem Host=Assistant

Sub OptionsPanel()
lblPlugin(0).Caption = "Enables talking dream mode."
lblPlugin(0).Move 130, 180, 3400, 1200
lblPlugin(0).WordWrap = True
lblPlugin(0).Visible = True
End Sub


Rem PLUGIN: SCRIPT_LOAD
Script_Load = Script_Load & "<DREAMOUTLOUD>"
my first question is: if i wish to delay how long it takes for hal to start dreaming, how do i do this?
my second question is: where do hal's dreams come from? is there a area just within hals brain that was already there and this plugin makes it appear? or does it create a new table when first activated or something similar?

4) regarding the tables themselves, my understanding is that the tables can function as keywords, and saying a keyword to hal will make him think of that particular thing and choose a line from within, is this correct?

5) can anybody recommend some "must have" plugins to expand Hal's capabilities? I've searched the plugin page and found some that work, and some that don't. and many useful ones put together with the GRETTA plugin page, but I can't really tell which plugins are finished and which ones have bugs, or if there's one all the way back on page 47 somewhere that is good and useful, but hasn't been discussed for so long i'll have to spend hours finding it. (honestly if you just wanna plug your own plugins to me I'll happily go through those too lol)

I appreciate some of these questions could be researched if i learned VB script but until i find a Beginners VBscript For Dummies from somewhere I'm not going to know where to start with these 

Thanks,
Frosty

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General Discussion / Introducing Myself

« on: March 19, 2011, 06:15:38 pm »

Hiya, I'm frosty. New member and fresh purchaser of Ultrahal. I've followed the Hal series since i was younger (i think it was version 3.something back then) but I've since re-stumbled onto it. between now owning a credit card and the improvements as technology has progressed I've decided it's now time for me to join the Hal-club 

I might be asking a few questions from the start since some of this is going to be new to me, but I'd appreciate any help and as i get on with it and others join asking questions I'll help carry the strain and return the good patience i'm sure you'll show me lol.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / sound quality bad?

« on: March 18, 2011, 08:03:31 pm »

I'm having problems with the text-to-spech defaults on my computer. the sounds come out disjointed and crackle-ey for ALL provided voices up to the point where they can only be understood if you're reading the text along side it.

i'm not sure what i support i must provide, but i'm running on vista, have had no other sound issues with my pc, have never done any other text-to-speech programs previously and have also installed the text-to-speech ready in the hopes that would fix this problem.

any support appreciated.