Oh wow. We gotta stop trying to all edit at the same time lol.

Oh well.

If you have a large number of Bosses to add at once, use the "Files" button at the top of the page, which has an option to allow simultaneous upload of 4 at a time.

Then link the files on the appropriate pages.

Hey everyone! Whats up? Keep going with Fraxy and editing with wiki. Lets do this guys! (or girls!)

Hey guys. Kinda got bored tonight, so I figured I'd toss in a little tutorial for making "new" weapons for any of your ships. Hope you all find it handy!

Agh that reminds me, I gotta get around to putting some work into the Editor tutorial page. I... think I'll do it nOW!

Just to give an update I heard from CrossTheRubicon, Fraxy has been UPDATED!! Complete with some new parts to fiddle around with!

Agh, my image set is no longer compatible! FIXING NAO.

Maybe it's just me, but I noticed that Bit Cores do not cooperate well with other cores. Usually when they disconnect, they go off in some random direction and sometimes goes out of bounds. Is there a way to prevent this and keep them close to the main core?

I've found that Bit Cores tend to circle the player, and kinda spiral outward, just like Big Core 2: The solution in both cases for me was to put intermittent "forward" firing thrusters, to keep them in a tighter circle.

Even with this though, I've found that they work better with stationary or slow moving allies.

You COULD do something like "phased out" panel-aim-player connected to a "bit". Basically a turret on an invisible arm, so it LOOKS like a ship following, but is actually just a gun-arm like those on the tetran, or seer.

Just a little suggestion for a next project. For those who don't know how to make Try files, can anyone who's familiar with them help teach us humble souls?

How can an explanation of such be done? I've done some messing around with Try files... at least, I try. It won't show up in the game interface... ._.

Also, when I try to upload .FED file, it won't let me upload and tags me for some "spam filter," for now, I will use my webspace.

I think I'm going to take a shot at explaining Try files. Jeremy P and DrunkenGoomba, do you mind if I use your Try files as partial examples?

Hi guys

Shoot for it, I don't mind.

Sorry I haven't been giving this the care I ought, I appreciate that so many are making good use of it.

Thanks, all, for your efforts and contributions.

Couldn't figure out how to add the fancy tables...

I just added a little bit on it in the how to contribute. I also table'd your stuff... I'm almost done tabling the whole boss page... I'm lazy now.

In the future, you can just right-click and "Add row" to your table.

CrossTheRubicon, thanks for the tabling. I almost finished, but I ran out of steam.

I wouldn't have bothered, but playing around with it, I noticed how much easier it makes it to read the longer descriptions, so I got excited.

No prob. If I get more time I'll do the fighter ones. I found out that the Try commands and what they do are included so I'm trying to find a way to explain the process of making one.

Jeremy P, I am VERY impressed with Boxer because of the opening and closing arms/doors. If you don't mind, could you do a tutorial explaining how you set that up?

I've been thinking, this page could use a "boss design, tips and tricks page", and the abuse of joint-turn 30/60 would be a good opening article.

I need to find a couple spare hours, but yeah.

The short version: Move Act 6 goes 30 degrees clockwise, 9 goes anti-clockwise. After 1000 frames, they both revert to original position. 3 joints stacked will rotate the final joint back and forth over a 90 degree arc.

The doors actually have 2 sets of 3 joints, set on different delays, and opposite move actions, so that they can open up and let you out before the arms retract.

Depending on how you wanna do a transformation, you can also incorporate Panel-aim-init angle, using moveact 13 it doesn't have any "swimmyness" or delay in maintaining it's aim-angle.

But I should do a proper article, because it would be much easier with pictures.

My axis creations carbaxis, nitraxis, and oxyaxis all use joint 30-60 pieces to transform. The only move actions I use are 6 and 9 and they're wonderful. Also some of Areo's fraxy creations transform as well.

Ditto. Only ever use moves 6 and 9, anything else doesn't leave it in one 'form' long enough. Yttrioth, Zirconioth, and Niobioth all use them, though Niobioth the most extensively. The pieces add alot, making the bosses more in depth and have a bigger strategy to fighting them.

I was trying to find a way to get a horizontal movement so that I can improve Heaven's Gate and make Big Core Mk. 3. Unfortunately, I haven't found a good solution. I tried combining a 30/60 with an Init-Aim Panel but that didn't work effectively enough. Thanks for your inspirations and suggestions!

hmm, maybe a tips and tricks page would be an Idea, Im not very efficient at transforming, but I've been experimenting with rolling panels, look at gravcore in drones section, its got a few objects spinning round in an oval shaped revolution. only problem is that the timings for the panels go off in changing ranks, I'll see if I can't sort it out, but my head starts spinning thinkin bout the math

Hey Atomic, glad to see you finally uploaded your stuff. Your bosses all just have an epic feel to them. Especially looking forward to fighting Jormungand, the Metroid, and Idola.

Yea, took me long enough! Im glad CrossTheRubicon was able to fix the boss page after I broke it =P. I'm pretty nubsauce when it comes to editing wiki pages. I hope everyone has fun with the bosses, and, hopefully, I will get some more inspiration for more soon. It's been a dry two months =/.

Odd, Idola had far less health than I thought. The Metroid was epic.

Does anyone know where I can find a better sprite editor than MS Paint? I want to make the little bullets look more like the Gradius enemy bullets. Thanks!

Oi, JP, what happens when we run out of file space?

Oh man... The new version of Fraxy is finally out and the wait was well worth it. Not only were new parts added but new editing features were created. More specifically Part Event editing. I can only imagine the possibilities...

Amg. Where? By 'part events' do you mean...when something dies something happens? If so...SO MANY POSSIBILITIES. MOTHS INCOMING. Where's this version?

Ah. Found it. So now we have a 'remote blast,' a 'slow ray,' 3 'move joints' of varying speeds (I assume), and the whole Events thing.

Oh, so there is a new version of fraxy?

Well, I dunno. I've been scarce on Fraxy vids due to lack of interest... So, um. Ya. I might do some improvements on my existing bosses, due to these... new possibilities.

HELL YEAH. >:D

Ack. Having trouble with some of this new stuff. We're going to need an explanation on Variables. I thought I knew how they'd work...but I guess not.

Wow, heh I was pondering a while back on how cool it would be if the Fraxy Editor had triggers like StarCraft did, and now look. Those move joints just saved me a huge hassle with 30-60 joints as well on my newest project.

You should give Reactor 0 an update with these events, methinks.

Hey Cross, or anyone else playing with the events...say I have a Parts-Regeneration that when destroyed I want to make about 40 different 30-60 joints turn on. All of which are under the same parent part. How would I go about doing that?

Hmmm.... one possible way I believe is to have a chain effect with them all. For example:
1) Part-Regen Trigger - Destroy. Effects - Make 4 Joints active.
2) For those now active Joints, Trigger - Movement(ON), Effects - Make 4 Joints active.
3) Repeat step 2 until finished.

That should work in theory.

Ah. Didn't even think of that. Good one.

Also, have you taken a look at the move joints? I'm sure one of the Acts. is to move and not move back...

Yes, Move Act 1 is to move forward and never moves back. Move Act 2 moves back to the origin spot, but since that is rare it usually does nothing and I think it's of limited use. The one thing I'm curious about is why the Remote Blast glitch happened... I suspect it has to do with the event triggers but I haven't been able to replicate it on anything else except the test.

Remote Blast glitch? I have yet to even try the remote blast, care to elaborate?

The glitch goes like this: The Remote Blast has no events connected to it and is active and the frames are counting yet will only do anything until the Destroy event I set is triggered. I have yet to replicate this in anything else except my tester. If this glitch exists after through testing, it may affect other parts later.

Grr. Things aren't working. Basically I have a Moth. Moth A has a weak spot on the back that when destroyed, detaches Moth B from underneath it. Moth B has a weakspot on each wing that when destroyed, should destroy a panel on the respective wing on Moth A. That part isn't working, and I can't figure out why.

I can't seem to get the new parts to work. It's either because the parts are glitched, or I downloaded the wrong thing.

A new update is available that addresses some glitches found with the new stuff. For example, the Remote Blast glitch is gone.

I honestly think that the Fraxy creators look at this place constantly. All of these changes cannot be pure coincidence.

lol i like this new events bit, I can sort my r9 with a nice little force bit AI muahahahahahahahhahahahahah!!
no seriously this is gonna take time to master, event based timed animations, i've got a new prototype mecha sytlee boss, will post when i figure out why the events won't loop in game but do in editor -sigh-

Grr. The one thing I was hoping would come with these events, having unlinked bosses' events connect to eachother, apparently still isn't doable. Sigh.

you could emulate connections between events using variables to trigger each other and you get 4 to play with, I still don' see why the editor loops events but in-game it does not it's wrecking my head

Be sure you click the check box at the bottom. This will prevent the event from being deleted once it is executed. Hopefully that helps.

nope, and it resets them every time i reopen the editor so i hav to check em each time, ive tryed lookind at the fed fie and its the second iteger value after the part ID, they are saved as looping but reopening resets em again and it doesn't make a difference ingame, im getting confused

im gonna upload the file see if its a processer bug or sumthing if ppl can test it to see if its my laptop or not that would be helpful, uploading now, its called hyperarmor
if its not animating the arms each time it fires then the events still arent looping open it in editor and the events are on parts ID24:launcher and ID73:laser m(event trigger) just re-tick the deletion bit on all the events and it'll do the animations

but only in the editor still

The Fraxy makers are definitely testing the events throughly. There is yet another update released today and I doubt this will be the last one for a bit. This update wave deals with other found event issues.

ah its no problem, with such a complex update there is bound to be teething problems but as u said the other day the developers must look here, so post it and it might get fixed ;P lol

yay latest version fixed looping error. now for sum fun thank you fraxy developers

Do they know we exist?

they must do as cross said its to muchof a coincidence to update each time there is sum one with a problem

ne one else having problems copying and pasting parts with events attached? getting a nice error here :(

when I copy/paste parts with events the events dont go with them.

i'm ussing v.20080330b and i guess its trying to copy the events too but i get a nice error box and then it terminates then i lose like an hours work coz im a dumm ass and didnt save :(

plus ne one whos reading ive just been testing and there is a limit to the amount of events ne thing after the 9th event seems to be ignored, and it goes by order listed in the fed file not order of when they happen :(
is this the same for every one?

Hm. Surely there's a way to set events so that when part X is destroyed, move join Y does Act 1 (moving), and then when part Z is destroyed, move join Y does Act 3 (moving back to origin), right?

that should say "move joint Y" not move join. I think I got the message across though.

Aha. Found it. "Change move action." Fantastic.

lol thats the one, check out the two bosses ive done areo, change move action i used in hyperion armor, and condition att frame, injection core changes att frame and play/stop movment, with move frame as condition, i don't like this limit to the events otherwise i wouldnt have released injcore yet it would have lots more features i was using variables and math for doors and spin cycles but had to simplify it all -sigh, i hope that gets lifted soon.

plus make sure u have 200080330a and the 200080330b editor patched onto it, it adds a bug with the hide/shadow/normal bit but the events are alot less buggy.

I basically just had a massive idea for the (main) Moth, so I decided to build him now...I won't upload it for a while because there's actually a story now, for those who read boss descriptions.

And no, I haven't looked at your new ones yet, I will.

they are only simple really just minor examples of what events can do but im working on a rudimentery ai for my R-9a so the force pod will attack seperatly to the ship like in r-type final but will re-attach when the r-9 is threatened. its all move joints and panel aims, triggered in relation to player disance, its coming along well but with only 9 event 'slots' its getting tedious trying to fit all the actions i want to hapen in, luckily you can trigger an event three times as the conditions use an or gate not an and, an option to choose or/and would help.

i just noticed those bosses from jeryn, they all look loosely based on gundams lol. gud stuff, make my hyperion look very much less armed, but at least you cant use shields against hyperion. I think we need more publiciity here on compendium, there seems to be a large veriety on styles and we need more lol ;P

Jeryn, did you post at the other Fraxy wiki, Bossrush The World? I recognize your creations from there. Good stuff.

Cross asks: "Does anyone know where I can find a better sprite editor than MS Paint?" Google "The Gimp", look for a windows binary of it. It's like "photoshop lite", but FREE, and also, LEGALLY FREE. I used it to do the pallette shifting on the sprites in my sprite pack.

Areo asks: "Oi, JP, what happens when we run out of file space?" First I go through the file archives and convert certain 3 to 400k BMP files into jpgs. If that fails to free up enough space, I buy a subscription to PBwiki for a year. This is something I've been thinking about doing ANYway, and it's becoming abundantly clear that it will be worth it: I dissapear for 45 days, and you guys post 4 megabytes of new material.

Moths > File Space

There's another Fraxy wiki? Whar?

There is another Fraxy Wiki made shortly after it came out. However, it is not as active as this one is. No offense to those that are still active there. There are some nice creations in there, Jeryn's being an example. I believe that it was created from some of message boards that posted Fraxy creations. Links are on the site called Bossrush The World.

Bossrush the World is what originally inspired me to make this wiki: When I tried to "get involved" with it, I tried to find the password: Which was apparently tucked away in an archived thread on 'Something Awful', that you can't get into without signing up. I was like "Huh, I bet that little hurdle is slowing down the activity here" and sho'nuff, it sat idle for months. Finally I was like "HELL" and found out that PBwiki is REALLY HAWT, even for free.

So I couldn't help but notice: Epicfraxy has made some kind of crazy Freewebs forum - And linked it in the "other fraxy related projects".

It looks like it may be functional. I signed up. Not that I play fraxy ever... >.>

God you guys are awesome.

Hehe, nice. A forum sounds fun! I just signed up. I think I might do what Bukkaroo did and get a freesite to post most of my old creations in an attempt to save space.

Ugh. I now have two near-complete bosses waiting on a way for when core A is destroyed, all its other mini-cores that it detatched earlier in the fight are destroyed with it.

destroy condition and action should do it shouldn't it?
my outpost uses that type of action to get rid of panels on the outpost, and the event trigger is on two fighters, are u having an event problem?

I have Condition: Destroyed, Action: Destroy Bit Core (there's 3 of them for the 3 bit cores). The bit cores are not attached to the cancer core getting blown up, and that seems to make events not work for me.

hmm try opening the .fed file cutting the desired event and pasting it to the bottom, i've found that some times if a difinitive event is in order before others that would happen first fraxy(and editor) seems to stop the event chain there. another way round could be to make a copy of the cancer core and hide it so that the destroy event is not at the very top of the PartID tree, i had a similar problem with hyperion guard but rearanging the events so that every event happens in listed order (exluding loops keep loops in order of what happens in the loop, so that destroy and stops are at the end, and starts at the start etc.), seems to sort it thats what took the most time for me building H.guard. When I kept adding events i'd hav to re order them (in editor), save, open fed file, check order, close editor and open it again to reset the events list. sucks i know it'll be fixed soon enough -sigh

Ahar! It works. /UploadMoth. Hooray!

i have a question. Do I have to get rid of all my fraxy stuff if i want to get an update?

No, you just have to move your bosses from the Enemy folder into the new fraxy's Enemy folder, and do the same for any custom images, backrounds, songs, etc., that you might have.

and then re config -sigh i got sick of changing my controls evry day wen they first started the updating

oh my word i've just found the best thing ever, download fraxy to a flash drive...... doesn't sound much but now you've got a portable fraxy cartridge for any pc u might come across i love my fraxy-drive lol

and seeing as these guys are japs developing fraxy ive no doubt a psp or ds port will end up in the works soon enough a ds version of fraxy would be absolutly epic

thanks. Fraxy would be AMAZING on the DS

Question - Does anyone know what each Move Act of Bit Cores do? I'm having issues with them running away and suiciding off the map often either right after being detatched from the main boss or after the player dies.

There are a lot of Move Acts for the Bit Core and Cancer Core. Some of the earlier topics talk about this. I found that the main problem comes with the indirect movements in the various moves (Move Act 3 I believe has one) which causes them to move away. I'm working on a solution using events and an additional part to channel the events (since you cannot change Move Acts on the same part).

That would be nice. My idea is for it to either just stay near you or stay near the main boss...or at least not wander off.

I've created two new Bit Cores, located in the Drone section. Through event manipulation, the Bits will not float out of range like they normally would. They should do for now until more direct manipulation is done or a better series of events are executed.

nice, im ripping my hair out lol got a nicenew boss made a big chain of events, took me ages, and sorted its event list and it works perfectly in the editor, but it just seems to malfunction during play. i'll upload it if only so ppl can want to fight it, but can only watch it - sigh, I'll keep on working on it but i think its an in-game bug so I think an update is the only solution

hmmm..... bukkaroo mentioned on youtube that i could 'set some events' onto hyperion guard...................... I feel........ well livid really.... put sum events on.......... ludicrous......... (big hissy fit) -sigh

Eh. We appear to be running out of space. X_X

Lol, dont worry Sharkytrs, I feel the same way. I havent really been able to get a lot of the event stuff to work, so until I do, Im just gonna go with the old fasioned way. Its worked for me in the past, so it will keep me goin for at least a little more.

true but it looks so good in the editor......... :(

THERE. 1 GIG edition is go.

YAY SUPAR 1 GIG

And hooray for no deletion of stuff.

Also, Iodioth updated again. Apparently fixing one bug makes another. I'm not sure how he gained the event to kill himself at 80%, but it's not there now.

The only things that can't be deleted are "old versions of pages" and "Files". Thus, if disaster strikes, we can always revert, and we won't lose stuff permanently. All users still have FULL upload, and page editing ability; and it's GOTTA stay that way. Any other path is a path to stagnation. Btw... sorry I'm slow with the request, it's been a busy couple a weeks.

WARNING!
A Huge Battleship Is Approaching Fast

Code Name: 1GIG 'Fraxy Compendium'

Be On Your Guard!

Hey that's fine JP, it's more of a "if you're bored, work on me!" kinda thing. And yea, everyone being able to edit = important.

Ah new people. I love how different everyone's boss styles are.

Theres been quite a boom of new fraxists lately hasn't there. Fresh Insperation smells nice

A great smell.

Yeah, me and a few others recently discovered this site, though we've known about the game since mid-August last year. So far, though, I'm the only one of us to post the creations we've made over the past eight months. Hopefully, they'll get their stuff up soon as well.

Yeah, I came upon this site while looking for the Fraxy homepage on google (I never bothered to bookmark it for some reason) and saw this link right above it, and then later shared the link over at the Jul ( http://jul.rustedlogic.net ) message board.

Question: What recording programs do you guys use (YT people)?

For my own videos, I set up my digital camera up between me and my computer screen... lulz. It's uncomfortable, but it works. However, the recording from my camera desyncs from the sound, which you may have noticed in my videos.

i use cam studio its free, and pants, but it works, and if u play around bit, quality can be really good.

Hypercam. . .

Well I was hoping for one that caused little-to-no lag... maybe you guys can tell me what settings you use, that could be one of the problems.

ok for cam studio, i use 80% compression quality, temperal quality ratio at 0.75, framerate to max, uncheck auto adjust, and this will get pretty decent frame rate though if its still not good enough then put recording thread priority to above normal, though doing this will decrease windows stability DONT DO IT VIA TASK MANAGER as u will only increase the priority of camstudio's gui, plus fraxy will run slower unless u have an amaisingly hot pc

oh yes to decrease file size use windows media player and use it to code it into a 316Kb/sec dsl speed vid, therefore decreasing file size but keeping the majority of quality/framerate ratio, check my youtube vid for belthasar thats the best i've got camstudio to run (those settings are above), then check my outpost vid, and thats good framerate for mega bullets but reaaaaaly bad quality. play around tho u might find settings to better suit your system

Could someone shrink the banner by about 30-40 pixels on the right? As it is now on my screen, the sidebar is just wide enough to force it under, causing a big empty space to the left of the sidebar.

I'd be curious to see someone play against my creations and record it to see how they go about doing so...

ask around on youtube ppl are up for requests all the time, andrewpatriots and truetacics are good fraxist

Banner revamp'd, sorry for not realizing that not everyone has a 1400 pixel monitor... (about the only good thing about my computer lol)

Looks better now. But what happened to the favicon? And I'll try asking some people to see if they'll try some of my creations.

The Favicon? For me it's still displaying as a Big Core 1; I recently found out how to change it from the original "Peanut Butter". What's it showing for you?

It was showing the Big Core as well, but now it just sorta vanished...

Well, for whatever reason it's back now. And I've sent a message to gemstonehelix to see if he'll play against one or more of my ships.

i think we might need to segragate the bosses page its geting silly scrolling down the list every time i wanna look at new bosses lol.

Maybe we could add an index at the top? A little table with each of the contributors' names and a quick link to their table, using anchors n such. Shouldn't be too hard, right? It could even have a manual ship count with each name. Of course, the drones page would need one too for consistancy.

yes very good idea, but i use opera, and thus have to edit wiki in html, and since I'm not all that good with html can some one else do it? -nudges JP in the ribs -JP falls over -JP shouts at sharky -sharky sad......

Ack! I tried putting in some anchor tags, and somehow the wiki magically ate the entire table. I'm so sorry... If I knew how to undo it I would. At least the images and files are still uploaded. Maybe if we're lucky the original text will show up in the auto update things... Again, really sorry.

I managed to salvage only one row, as it showed up in a recent update e-mail. I tried recreating the Nutman guy's table, but I can't find half the files mentioned in the e-mail. I tried...

Ouch... Can't that page be restored to an earlier update?

jp will sort it hes got admin and everythings backed up don't worry bout it its not like its a malicious attack of anything

I'm in progress now, I currently have the bosses page reverted, but with the recent additions added to it. (Like Ouranos). Quick question - Am I the only one who can revert now? If so, damn, I'll have to look at the permissions options and see if I can divvy it up better.

One more thing: Thoughts on the "User index" sort method? Just tossed it together, is this better, or worse, than the "giant takes forever to load up and be usable" boss page? I've merged our drones into the "user pages". It seemed the easiest way to make our categories "smaller" and more usable: Pretty much inspired by what Peardian tried to do.

That boss page was/is out of hand, it seemed like new users were accidentally deleting it left and right. Heck, -I- had done so multiple times.

lol nice one jp

Apparently, yes JPteeto. You are the only one who can revert pages. When I tried to, all I could do is compare versions. Also, WONDERFUL job at the indexing! If we add creations will the index update with it or will someone have to update the index to match?

The Index is a great idea, though we should definitely keep the universal Bosses page as well.

for those new to the site being able to see every boss would be a must, i mean it would get frustrating looking through by author if u don't know who they are, and could some one edit my description in the index so id doesn't soud like i did it?

CamStudio broke. :(
Whenever I go to the "Video Options" thing, it crashes. So I can't change any of the settings (framerate quality etc). ;_;

lol bad luck, try giving more priority to programs and/or giving it more priority temporarily via task man, coz some times its just a process manigirial problem, close all othe programs etc. if that don't work try hypercam, but i hav no experience with it so i cant tell u how to use it

The index would need to be updated manually, unfortunately, although it WOULD be a simple matter of copy/paste to do so. I was initially inclined to phase out the "bosses" page, but both Sharky and Peardian voiced the concern that the chance to see everything in one spot could be beneficial, especially for new users. So I'm thinking, that at least for now, keeping it would be preferable. I should figure out a way to make it more usable...

Is there a way to directly link the Index to the Bosses page and have it go directly to that author's group?

We tried something like that first, but it didn't work so well. Apparently the interface doesn't like linkless anchor tags very much...

what about agame everyone..............
what if some one suggests a theme.........
every one makes a boss using that theme......
and we see what happens...

Sounds like a good idea to me.

any one else?

We NEEED a THEEEME!

You want a theme? Ok, how about... Star Wars! :P

D: I phail at star wars. . .

Remember folks, Star wars doesn't JUST mean DEATH STARS. You may find yourself wondering: "How DID that AT-AT walker get spaceborne?", but if you waste too much time thinking about it, you'll be bullseye'd like a womp rat on Tatooine!

There's the X-Wing, the Tie-Fighter, tons of ships to make.

lol i meant a bit more specific like, for instance,
a bird like boss?
a two faced boss?(which i'll be releasing soon anyway.)
a tank?
a boss that only uses 20 parts total?
a boss with a minimum of 3 cores?
etc.

star wars has only a few possible weapon scenarios tho, a b-wind, a d-wing, x-wing, and tie fighters all use two forward cannons. but i suppose picking one would work see what every ones adaptation is like

Or... You could create your own type of Star Wars-like fighter or battleship! I think I'll try to make a fighter.

Oooo.... new Fraxy update and it's a big one! There's new part animations, new enemy weapons and parts, and several other changes and fixes. However, let's see if there are any last minute fixes for them to do.

The editor still has the disappearing bullets problem, and the remote blast is completely unusable. It'll probably get fixed in the next update, which will probably come out really soon (hopefully).
Also I added a "Boss Table Template" page that should be useful for people who want to make readable tables. :P

Poor remote blast... it seems plagued.

As expected, 20080505a is up. Some glitches were fixed, not entirely sure what.

hmm lots more turnjoints....... at least they kept 30-60 but they renamed it 15-30, i need that joint for timers, i almost paniced when act 14 said infinity on all the turn joints, but 15-30 has my 2000 frame timer... phew

that reset error is fixed..... yay guyver works now everyone enjoy!!!!!!!

About the Theme of the Month, what is going to happen to the stuff at the end of each month? Will it be removed from that section or will there be a monthly archive?

what's so wrong with the remote blast? haha I'm about to release a boss that has about 4, and they aren't useless, you just have to distract the player with other weapons so they don't notice the reticle getting close to them...

They meant it was screwed up in the update. But the creators fixed it in the most recent update. The remote blast is like the best homing weapon.

ahh, ok

Hey, there needs to be a suggestions page. But anyways. Next month's theme should be "Final Boss". I was watching A70M1C's videos on YouTube again a few days ago, and seeing Eye of Destruction and Idola the Holy made me want to try something really massive. >_> But anyways, I want to see what people could come up with for their own Final Bosses.

You'll have to wait a ways off for mine. :p

By the way guys, when you make Fraxy videos, make sure that regardless of what you recorded it as, have it playback at 30FPS (what Fraxy is "supposed" to play at); it should make the videos look much smoother even if you recorded at 15FPS.

nah i record at 200 frames per second coz my memory is good enough for it, but your fraxy runs at 30fps? half the time my fraxy is running at apx 60 depending obviously whats on the screen

...Are you joking? I can't tell if you're serious or not, thought I doubt it...

Also disregard my post before about recording at x FPS and then playback at 30FPS, I was thinking of something else at the time and all that would do is speed up the recording.

ok. And I like the idea for Final Boss being a theme for the month. I may or may not contribute to that (will probably do it at the end of my PAI series) during the month.

How do i download the bosses and stuff?

click on bosses or user index and choose a boss, click the fed file and save it to your fraxy/enemy folder

i clicked on it, but how do i save it to enemy folder?

A message box should show up when you click it, asking you whether you want to save the file or not. You click "Save", then find the enemy folder in your Fraxy folder and hit the "Save" button. It's... really quite self-explanitory.

I know, but i have a windows xp, and save to disk or open with comes up, and then when i do the download thing it automaticly downloads it to the desktop. wait, if it downloads it to the desktop, could i drag it from the desktop into the enemies folder?

Yes you could.

thx

or even drag it onto the fraxy game window, as long as drag and drop isn't disabled in config

You know, I didn't know you could drag & drop until I noticed it in one of Gemstonehelix's latest videos (the one of him facing my fleet of bosses). In other news, that Megabit boss I made took almost twleve whole hours (most of yesterday) and has almost 400 parts and just as many scripts. It's my biggest boss (not counting the scrapped Halberd01 project). Hooray!

hooray!!!! Plus mechilor is finaly finished, ill post him soon enough, need a bath first lol

Hi guys. Zax here. I need some assistance: Based on experience, which weapons would you rank the least dangerous to most dangerous to face, considering screen coverage, damage, firing rate, and so on... I need this info to build the weapons packages of my drone series.

Are all wiki pages edittable? Would anyone object to me updating the parts information page? I've noticed the 0505a parts have not been added/described

Go ahead, it's a Wiki for a reason. :P

Not contributed to a Wiki before, just makin' sure I didn't need some sort of permission first :-D. Aye will do that tonight then. Ta *thumbs up*

in reply to zaximillian, its sort of impossible to say what weapons are deadlyest, as used in the right manner they can be useless or overkill, take a power ball, hmm extremly usless in my opoinion, too slow to get any danger from them straight up, add low manuverability (IE my injection core, stupidly overkill), or put them on a moving rail (IE Mechilor) and u get a deadly weapon rivaling lasers.

then there is lasers, can be hectic if u can't dodge em right, but give them a timer, and some supporting weaponry (IE Inferno beam on casper and Mk.II on Mechilor) and you have a less deadly weapon more flashy and wider area of effect weapon. so to conclude, it all depends on what kind of feel you want your boss to achieve rather than how deadly a certain weapon is

Okay, Sharky. Makes sense. I'm just trying to scale a large number of drones per Stage more easily. I guess that's what testers are for!

20080522 fraxy update is active guys!!
I'll be updating the parts information list in about an hour once I've checked to see what's new

Update adds Effectors (try them out in Edit mode, beautiful!!) and Grenades (function is obvious hehe)

gotta love those new parts. Especially the effects. We can have sparks come off of a turning/moving joint. How awesome is that? haha

Effectors are just what I need for some of my bosses (like Dark Matter and Megabit). I'll be sure to update them as soon as possible. Also, since JPteeto isn't responding to his e-mail, I'll just say it here. I need someone to delete Mister AAAA-1.fed and Mister Bright-1.fed (not the originals).

Woohoo! I can get back on the wiki, thanks to Screature. Anyways, the new update has given me everything I need for one of my best infected bosses, given that the creator gives me the go-ahead to use him. Lets hope so!

Who made that one and which boss is it, or will we have to wait? haha. Again, loved what you did to atlas, will you be putting those infected bosses up soon, or will that happen at the end of the series?

At the end of the series all the bosses will go up. It's just easier that way. As for the boss, you will have to wait and see. Still has a tone of work to be done to it

Just a few things that came to my attention... 1.) While slightly amusing to watch, I feel I must save some people pointless labor by informing them that & is the code for & and > is the code for >, and changing out the code for the character itself is entirely pointless and has no bearing on the appearance of the page. 2.) Since this is an informational wiki, can we please try to use proper English and such, at least in boss descriptions? I know this really doesn't apply to most members, as many of you have great grammar, but it's somewhat of a turnoff to see words like "ur" and "some1" and other such lazy shortcuts.

Peardian: "[...]informing them that & is the code for & and > is the code for >[...]" <-- Uhh, I think you forgot to replace/separate some characters there...and I agree with the proper grammar/spelling/etc point completely >:\.

Haha, whoops, didn't think codes like that would actually work in comments. What I meant was that "& a m p ;" (without spaces) is the code for &, and "& g t ;" is the code for >. I guess that little mistake just proves my point. Heh.

Finally, Summer Vacation from School! I'll finally have time to work on new concepts and bosses.

Wow! Just downloaded some drivers to use Playstation3 control-pad on my laptop. Along with a program called ControlMK, I'm playing Fraxy using the control-pad. The precision is awesome. Left joystick for full analogue directional movement (and even analogue ship speed!), shoulder buttons to fire/weapon-change/boost (with variable boost strength using L2 or R2 button) and right joystick to move pointer to aim. You should try it! It's a very comfortable way of playing, and being analogue feels like you have more control. Just my thoughts :-)

I've searched and searched with no result. Does anyone know of a program, or would be willing to create a program, that will restrict mouse movement to the active window. It will make things so much easier (no more accidental clicking outside of game window). I'm sure it's easy enough to make a program in VB or something?

I'm a little new to program creation. Mind explaining what VB is? I'll gladly learn it.

Visual Basic. It's my favourite programming language. I used to build allsorts of silly programs and games with it. I may build my own program to restrict the cursor movement. "Watch this space" hehe

Hmm, I've always been interested in programming. Recommend any good sites to learn it?

Non in particular. Just look up "VB tutorials" in Google. Plenty of starters there

Thanks.

I went to college and learned Delphi 6............ wat a waist of time that turned out to be in the long run........... -sigh

Got a question... I'm going to be getting a new computer, but it looks like I'm most likely stuck with Vista. Does Fraxy run with Vista or does it not work on it?

@Screature- Ya I tried the ControlMK thing with my ps3 controller and it works fabulously. Thanks for telling me about it.

im running vista its fine
runs well

Python and C++ would be much, much better alternatives to VB (considering at the very least the fact that VB is <i>not</i> free and Python/C++ are).

@Fraxathon, that is

rather that's who I was replying to but what I said can apply to anyone...

I'll look into C++

I studied Software Engineering at uni, but have done no programming since then. Hence I'm really rusty. You're right NightKev, without a doubt C++ is more powerful/better than VB, but I stray back to VB because of it's simplicity, never coding much more than simple 2D games as a hobby. Anyway, I'm going "off the grid" for two weeks on hols. Speak to you guys when I return :-)

BYE SCREECH!!! have a good time

Python: No compiling code, so you can write it and run it instantly; coding a hello world program only requires "print 'Hello World!'" instead of a 25 line program that prints two words. It's definitely better than C++ unless you need a program to run super-extreme fast, there it's beat by compiled languages' run speed, but the difference is completely unnoticable unless your program is very, very calculation-heavy.

Charrox is alive! Fight him in my profile!

Gemstone, I bet you can't beat him, haha... Just foolin', I'm feeling great now that I have finished Charrox.

Ugh. . . 4 days of hard work on a boss and I ruin it by accidently saving over it. I was completely finished and about to upload it too. . .

Man, I feel for you Omoresu. Hopefully it can be recreated.

i've done the same thing, luckily i had it backed up my laptop, Its such a frozen in time moment............

I heard a rumor that the laser animations can be cut off mid-fire. Is this true? My perception was that once the animation was set off, it didn't stop.

Where did you hear this?

yes casper is prime example, just stop the part when you want the laser to stop animation

oooo.... New Fraxy and the main site got a slight remodeling.

Well it's about time they told you what frame your on.

Now that....is just.....cruel. Being sad enough to take time away from my drinking in the sun to say hi to you guys, and there´s a new version of fraxy dangling in front of me with no way of playing it!! :-( *waits patiently til next thurs*. Btw I´d be a very enthusiastic judge on the theme-of-the-month pages. Will have to wait a week before I can do any judging though teehee. Anyway, my sunburn doesn´t hurt any more, which means I´ve been indoors too long. Tatta!

nice that timer makes things much easyer

Whats new in the latest fraxy? I don't see any new parts. Maybe I'm not looking hard enough haha

next we need a slow motion button or frame by frame

not much fas chaged foe editing cept, issues, and a main frame timer in the top right of the edit window

The biggest change that wasn't an interface tweak is a new set of actions for the Spark Effector, which basically cause smaller sparks. And sadly I have been lacking inspiration to make anything, as I have been preoccupied with the release of the beta of Super Mario War 1.8. Maybe playing some random ships will get me back in the mood...

lol I know how you feel at the mo, i've just downloaded COD4 and having a bit of fun on cracked servers

People. I feel like the Fraxy Editor is too complex for me now so I shall retire from the Editor and just stick with my Fraxy Play file. I might make a try file even though it involves editting.

you gonna stop making bosses? that sucks. Iand I know how you guys feel, Peardian & sharky, I wanna start on PAI04, but just don't have any ideas or the drive to find inspiration

I'll certainly help lay out some ideas!

After reading and playing with your bosses, try incorporating sonic guns as a main weapon to build upon. Osiris, which I forget the creator, uses the sonic cannons well. Try something like that.

Thanks. I knew I was gonna be using sonic guns on him, his name being a wind god from Lord knows what religion haha. I just don't know how to lay him out and work in the whole theme of my series. That's where my "creative block" lies.

Well, I finally found inspiration to start making a boss again, but I've hit a major snag. I'm trying to have it so at a certain point, multiple pieces are destroyed, leaving only a few left. But, for whatever reason, even if I use delete (phase-out) thing to get rid of the pieces I want gone, the rest of the pieces that aren't the core spontaneously explode as if they've taken damage. I can get away with removing a few, but any more than that and the entire thing (except the core) explodes. The only explanation I can think of is the parts' vanishing is hurting the pieces enough to destroy them, but it doesn't make sense given that all the pieces being destroyed have -1 durability. I've tried having a backup copy of invisible pieces, but even those are destroyed somehow. I could either end the boss where the excess explodes (which I'd prefer not to) or find away around it.

Well, I must be doing something wrong, because I can't even get a simple "when Movement(ON) destroy self" script to go. Maybe I'm just tired. This is the second day in a row I've stayed up past 2:30 am working on this thing. I need sleep...

Well, they're gonna of course destroy they're child parts with destroy self. You can't even get an even string where they all hide eachother, or "when Movement (ON) draw flag hide self?

or use suicide instead of destroy or delete

You could use some bricks, too, if you can manage. They soak up cascading damages, right?

I would connect all the pieces you want destroyed to a separate core, with all the pieces you dont want destroyed on the main core. Should help to keep htem from being destroyed.

I've already tried those. The parts aren't connected to each other, they're all different children of the core. Suicide, Destroy, and Delete(phase-in) all cause the unwanted destruction. I even tried having a separate core. The parts ended up destroying the second core completely along with all its parts. Unless the editor was just being buggy, even making the parts disappear via Hide flag caused the whole core to explode. I'll try again today and see if I have any luck.

If that keeps happening, with the secondary core, you could choose to make the parts disappear instead of destruct.

Okay, something is definately weird, because even shadowing too many parts makes the whole thing explode for no reason. Whyyyyyyyyy...!?

And yet curiously, if I destroy one, suicide one, delete one, and shadow one, it doesn't all explode. I wish I knew why.

I have that same problem sometimes. But I can't help you because I can't even fix it myself. :/

are any cores at -1 health? this makes them selfdestruct when active

Actually, I found the reason. As you know, if shadow cores have no pieces that are destroyable on them, they selfdestruct since there's no way for them to die anyway. Though a great majority of the ship's shell is indestructible, a few shadow/hidden pieces probably had positive health, and the part I wanted to keep alive was all indestructible, so it was selfdestructing. I'm not really sure why the core itself didn't die. So, I've fixed it now. Hooray!

I just made a semi-obvious observation. As I was picking up power-ups, I noticed that my energy levels weren't going down as much as before even at max power. I know that it was like that in every version but the energy drain here seemed to be much, much less than before. What I'm getting at here is that I think they made the power-ups more effective.

they have coz now if you have lvl 5 regen, you can spam lvl 3 bullets and boost and still slowly gain energy

hey guys. I made my first boss, berserk raptor, and i wanna upload it to this. How do i?

hmm thats a toughie for me as i need to use html, though im sure ppl would be happy to help, try looking at the how to contribute page first tho..... PS welcome to compendium

i did, and i know what to do, but how do i make the table, and put the file in.

There are now table templates in the bosses and drones section. Just copy the table, press Enter twice after the last major section to leave a 1 line gap, and paste it.

if you have an image, click the attach image button, use browse and uppload to upload your pic. Then click attach file, use browse and upload on the boss's .fed file, and put it in the second line. line three you would put By Irys, or just irys, if you want, then the final coulumn is for a description

Omg GiantKillerSnowball screwed up the homepage. :/

lol, sry i invited him

not to worry. all pages have an edit history. just revert back to an older version if someone makes a huge cock-up hehe

Screech! you're back! haha

Indeed I am! I'm gonna stop building random bosses, spend half my time peeling A4 size sheets of sunburn skin off my back, and half building FrFo. Took a while to get it all worked out. Now comes putting hundreds of parts and events together! One word:.......gah! :-(

I'm making (and almost finished with) a boss that has 241 parts and 3 times as many events. So...yeah

i'm taking a short break from fraxy editing to play peoples bosses and aquaria, and acouple of other indies I've found

btw if you guys haven't heard of aquaria, imagine echo the dolphin, but with the depth of zelda games, one word AMAZING.........

is it free? If so, where do you get it? I'd like to try it haha. I love the zelda games, and that sounds fun

technaclly no but just look for the torrent ;P

BTW I do NOT condone piracy, seriously, lol, honest

haha. I may look for the torrent, or I may look up info and stuff and buy it another time

you tube has a trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqY9mDOw-UI , good polished game, takes me back to the glory days of 2d gaming, its well worth buying, tho much more worth the to-cough-ent download

looks awesome. I'll definately look into buying it *cough* *cough* haha

Did I mention there is an editor? its quite in depth tho

wow... sweet haha

Looks like a new version is out! They added some interesting stuff to the editor. Along with three new effectors, you can also advance the editor a set number of frames and control how the alpha effects are rendered. There's also a Wait button to max out your refresh rate. On a side note, turning off the last two I mentioned makes Aurora Bit really pretty to watch.

new effectors are Aura, explosive, and flash-red. I'm not sure how the frame advance quite works, or what the wait button does. Soon I'll probably put the new effectors into the Parts info page, unless someone else does it first

The wait button slows down the frames to normal speed. But if you click off of it the frames will speed up.

wait let me get this straight qoute "next we need a slow motion button or frame by frame" and they actually listened to me? Fraxy needs an bacon sandwich............ its worth a try........

Say, what's with these e-mails from "PBwiki Changebot" about "someone unknown created the page FrontPage"? I've gotten it at least four times now.

I believe that the Fraxy creators look at this board sometimes and read what we suggest. There's too much coincidence for it to be random.

I have also gotten those E-Mails. My best guess is a minor glitch that doesn't correctly state who made the change and instead gives a default/unknown name.

well, it's not fully slo-mo, but it's a start haha

What we really need is a bullet limit increase. I had to limit my latest boss because it would go over the bullet limit like three times over. >_> <_<

What do you mean by bullet limit? When weapon fire mysteriously disappears in the editor?

My comments/updates and progress on FF is probably going to slow considerably. I've just got Spore Creature Creator full version and I'm hooked! Don't worry bukky, the Eternal Nonet is still in the pipeline :-)

i'm sort of like that at the minute, got work/C&C3/Aquaria/COD4 so fraxy is on the back burner for now, not forgoten tho

so the CreatureCreator is cool? I'll try it soon then, because I can't wait for spore! I've followed it since the first announcement haha. I don't mind if it gets delayed a little (the nonet), I understand

Are you kidding?! The CC is amazing! Get the demo first, just to see. Full version costs £4.99, but it's worth it. I accidentally bought it twice :-S, however I don't know how to give away my second order otherwise I would (it can't be cancelled so worthless to me). Likewise, followed it since that first 36min video came out around 05

Got the free CC, and it's awesome. Little tricky to get used to at first, but awesome. Not much parts in the free version. I probably won't buy the full CC, just because it won't be of much use when Spore fully comes out. I'm pretty sure the full game has that... Anyway, my first creature is a little guy I like to call the Crabsect. You can probably piece him together from the name haha

<CrossTheRubicon> What do you mean by bullet limit? When weapon fire mysteriously disappears in the editor? <-- Not just the editor but in the game too, if you have more than so many bullets on screen at once, you can't have any more (which is the cause of the editor's no-bullets glitch, but that's because of a coding error).

Posted the wings template used for EV3, EoD, and Eva in the part section if anyone wants to find out how they work exactly.

A70M1C, are you going to make modifications to your creations to take advantage of events?

When I have the time.

I, too, have the Creature Creator, and it is quite fun. I even made a silly Arwing creature. Anyway, I noticed a little bug. Try activating the Turn Flag on a Sonic Wave L. It still works, but looks like a block of gibberish (until you figure out what happened).

Yeah I saw that same glitch too.
So I had to turn it manually. :/
I also got the free Creature Creator and made some weird dinosaur thing. Can't wait till' Spore.

Finally the moment you've all (or hopefully at least some of you) been waiting for! PAI04: Anzu is finished! The first boss in the second of 3 trios in the PAI series! If you can't figure that out, that means there are going to be 9 bosses, and then a final boss. I'll make a video and upload him tomorrow.

"<title>Fraxy Compendium wiki - The Fraxy Compendium is a open for al...</title>" <-- It seems the title tag for the front page is broken. Someone might want to fix it or something.

Okay, so I've been spending the past few hours cleaning up the wiki and making it look nice, since I had nothing better to do today. :P

I expect everyone to be happy now. :D

I'm happy *thumbs up* :-)

Whee, I'm a "California Contributor" now it seems. :P

Erm....how did you do that? Not that I'm jealous. I'm happy being "Screature...Contributor". Just curious...

I guess you just have to have enough frequent edits. Oh, and he got the 300th comment on the front page. :P

Lol, nah. Just register your nick at http://my.pbwiki.com/

That simple eh? You should have left some mystery around it. I'd have spent hours figuring it out :-)

Well that's a little snazzy :-p

Although I now prefer this pic. Oh, sorry for the triple post :-)

Using my WF sprite as your pic, eh, screech? haha I've got PAI03 as mine :D

hmm..... much better

Yay!!! now thats the one

Screatures from Blackpool?!?!? Class, I'm from Skem, lol

Practically round the corner :-D

sharky n screech live near eachother! haha

bout 45 mins away

Well, I registered my name as well. :P And, uh, these Changebot e-mails are kinda annoying. I checked my inbox today to find the 11 of them. And they're always the same. I hope it's not a new feature they've implemented.

...that's odd, it didn't give me a fancy box. :(

log out, then go to the log in page again. on the left is where you would usually log in. on the right is where you log in using your pbwiki account. use that

as for the changebot, you can turn that off

I know you can turn off notification emails, which I don't want to do, but I still want to stop these annoying emails saying "someone unknown has created _________ page"...

And yay now I have a box~

woah, Peardian is in Florida too? weird se where a lot of these people live now haha

OH NOES WE'VE BEEN DISCOVERED! QUICK TO THE BATCAVE! </random>

but... that's in Gotham, so I know where that is too >.< haha

ah well its a good job no one but screature knows where skem is........... safe............... muaahahahahahahaha

where'd my pic go????

back again... hmm maybe I need to setup some cookie procedures for opera..........

Why do you use opera? can your computer not run Internet Explorer?

yes but I prefer opera its much faster and MUCH less memory intensive than its counterparts. Plus I think of microsoft programs as 'beginners guides' to more advanced progams, e.g MSoffice - OPENoffice, MSexplorer - Opera + Firefox, etc.

I might try it if it's faster, IE has been pretty slow lately, same with Firefox

Gahaha, no one should use IE. Ever. Firefox or Opera are the browsers you should use (I recommend Opera because of some problems I've been having with FF, though they don't seem to be widespread so I dunno...).

guess who's using opera? haha

just a not bout opera its faster and more efficient, try using mouse gesture, but it has some incompatabilitys, e.g veoh.com's search engine but just switch to IE for them, i'd say 85% of sites are available in opera. at the minute

Boss page has been updated (FINALLY!), including Z-Gradt, Osiris, Carnivalis, and the Infector series so far (Delta Cannon Cow, Hyperion Guard, UNSC Carrier Atlas, and Eva Animus).

*hugs A70M1C*
*goes to skem to find sharkytrs who think's he's safe*
muaahahahahahaha!
I kid I kid :-)

THANK GOD!!!! haha. I am going to go download all of those right now!

Tried them out, and I love them. Excellent work! The Containment one gave me chills. :D

Would you guys be interested in having a Fraxy-based IRC network? I was setting one up just to see how it was done, then thought "hey, I can actually use this!". However, I need to know if you guys will actually join it (or if anyone here even knows what IRC is >_>).

It's a type of chat, right? I'd use that :D

Fraxy 20080617 is out. Changes include new Effectors (explosive, red shine, and aura), and some changes to the editor, like being able to to start a boss' actions from a specific frame.

Yeah, it's been out for a while, didn't you notice? It came out the 17th. My favorite new effector is Aura, looks like when your ship has over soll

Come to think of it, that could be pretty useful for making something like, say, Over Soll Doppleganger or something. :P

I'll be honest, the concept of time frequently is lost on me. There is hardly a day where I actually know what day it really is. Usually if someone asks me I'll just guess.

Sad news, if I'm interrupting this pleasant chat. I've been attacked by a string of trojans and had to re-install Windows. The only good news is that my Fraxy files survived.

Shucks, I made a speech error!
"Sad news, if I'm interrupting this pleasant chat."

It should be

Sad news, if I'm interrupting this pleasant chat,sorry."

Ok well, for now the chat server will be up from ~1pm-12am (GMT-8), though if enough people are interested, I'll set up a 24/7 network.

not to sound stupid, but how do we get to it, what program do we need :P

/me smacks self. The server will be at irc.nightkev.shacknet.nu and the program you need is mIRC 6.21 (google it, don't get 6.31). To connect type /s irc.nightkev.shacknet.nu -j #fraxy

Also, it's up now.

To connect from a non-mIRC client, type /server irc.nightkev.shacknet.nu and then type /join #fraxy

ok, I'll get that soon. In other news, PAI05: Khons is done already haha. I had his design and how I wanted him in my head, sat down, and just made him. Try him out and tell me what you think!

Sweet, got it, tried it, but noone was on :( I'll check it a couple times a day. People, you best get on it so I'm not wasting my time! haha. Oh, and PAI05 is only on my profile, not the full bosses page

Just join and idle there.

Just found that for me it's 3pm to 3am haha damn time zones messed me up yesterday haha. &@nightkev, yeah, I'll do that Anyway, anyone have any impressions on PAI05 yet, or has noone fought him? haha

Khons is relatively easy in my opinion ,until it turns and shoots the wave of homing lasers. D: Also cool looking design. Great job overall Bukkaroo.

Thanks! My hope is for people to not use shields on him, but they can do whatever they wanna do. I guess you could stay outside the circle, but that's why I have the Gravity wells and the homing lasers... and the spinning haha. I'm glad you liked him! I've started using cores for ornamental purposes, inspired by Eboshidori haha

So I'm very happy about how he turned out visually... not to mention how cool the blade half of the circle look :D

So guys, we need more of you to join the irc.

I figured out what the Wikibot is. It's the manager of the autosaves on the pages, that's why E-Mails get sent constantly and also why it's anonymous.

I'll download mIRC when I get home. Remember in UK I'm roughly 6 hours ahead of anyone in US, so...I'll be on between 18:00-00:00 MY time, 12:00-18:00 YOUR time.

"Unable to connect to server". Is it on 24/7?

nope, not yet. Only half the day. Afternoon for me

Sorry, server is on now. Today I plan on fixing up one of my old computers so that the server will be on 24/7. Hopefully I have all the parts I need.

Just FYI, I am promoting a Boss Builders meeting in the irc on sunday in the afternoon, so everyone that can make it should be there!

...I'm not really sure why, but it sounds like a good idea to me. =)

Cool, just one thing, is that "the afternoon" in US or UK?

And yet that's a great idea. It'd be nice to have as many members of the community in one place at one time. I'm a big fan of communities that work together, hence why I put my name down as a contest judge, why I greet new members etc. I'm trying to bring in some new people, as we only seem to have about ten truly active members, and a large number of quiet contributors. I'd like to see more collaborative activity.

I completely agree with Screach. I'll be there almost definately, We all just need to get sure of the time zones and have a definate starting time so everyone every where, with a little fiddling with said time zones, can know what time it is haha

Perhaps someone could keep a record of the more important points in case timing becomes an issue? I am in the Eastern Time Zone (Global Standard Time -5:00).

I'm on Mountain Standard Time -7:00. Should we go by NightKev's Noon? That seems like the best idea to me.

Whomever is in the middle who is going to attend or the time zone with the most members.

I'm eastern like CTR, and we're about 3 hours ahead of California, where Night is (eg: 11:45 for nightkev, and 2:45 for me/CTR). I say we go off Night's noon

Well, considering the server only starts when I get online... :P (though hopefully I can get some RAM before Sunday...)

I'll try to start the server before 1:00PM (GMT-8 (PDT)) if possible.

Also, today the server will probably be off most of the day, though I'm not sure.

Yeah, server will be off all day today.

Can someone test out charrox? I need opinions on him

Charrox was tedious and sneaky, but that's adds challenge. At first I thought you had to shoot the mouth, but then I found that you had to hit other things to get results. I really liked the design, especially when you destroy the wings. The poor thing must have a sore throat though with the constant flame and the laser. =)

Liked the last part? But yeah, I'll improve on the "wow"

Charrox? The core has way too much health. I suggest reducing core HP by quite a lot and making the core a bit easier to hit somehow. Also, I liked every little niblet of effort you put into it, though. No gaps, no rough edges, no errors in the events, nothing! Thumbs up.

Ah, I figured those front plates would get in the way, but if you don't kill the certain parts, the core has 1million health, hence the "indestructible" part, but I'll reduce the "killable" health level.

A new version is up and more stuff is added. A new player weapon, a chargeable Blaster. Also another Game mode is available besides Normal and Extreme; it's called Fun... I wonder how much fun it really is... More is added but that's what I've noticed so far.

cool

2 new effectors, Concentrate, which looks kinda like when you're charging the charge blaster but off-white, and Charge, which IS when you're charging the blaster haha. Each move action increases the size of the effect, and Charge can be blue or yellow, and slowly makes a little ball the the center. And a quick note, a level 1, fully charged charge blaster, with a direct hit, can kill block and rolling cores in 1 shot

The longer you charge the charge blaster, it'll shoot further, have bigger splash damage, and will linger in the spot longer. it lingers! haha If you shoot a fully charge shot at a small ship and kill it, and another one flys over that spot soon, it will also get hurt :D Me likey the new weapon haha

Fun mode gives your initial boost super speed, and your rate of fire is also super fast. With bullet, you shot an almost constant stream, like you can do with events on the enemy bullets. I really like this update haha. Next thing I hope they do is add more plates, wings, and cores.

Your weapons also get super damage in fun mode.... ok enough posts for now xD

last one! haha You can also make free play appear position Fixed, so it spawns above you (like in a stock event), not in a random place. That is a really nice addition. Ok, what is this, my 5th post about the update? I'll chill for right now haha

Yeah... Fun is broken in your favor. This gives a new excuse to create insanely hard bosses now! BWHAHAHA!

I still died on things on ranks 1 though :( haha

Thought we were all congregating on IRC?

at some point... not sure when

We are, but the server isn't on. NightKev is probably building the permanent server or is otherwise busy. Also, some of the members are in different timezones so they may not be available now.

hopefully night puts the server up soon, regardless of if it's 24/7 then or not haha

Server is up now (I bought some RAM, and once it arrives the server will be 24/7 :D).

awesome

If you can't connect to the server or if it kicks you out for some reason (not just because it's offline), tell me here so I can check for bugs and stuff.

I think we should have a gathering like that every sunday, at this wiki's noon (<< look at time on new comments). Was certainly a good laugh yesterday, as a trial. We could have discussion topics :-) (although I'd be surprised if we consistently kept to the topic throughout hehe)

Quick mental math shows me I'm 6 hours ahead of this wiki, which means noon is 6pm for me. If everyone does the same, we'll all know when to join the IRC on Sundays (specifically Sundays, I know it'll be on 24/7 anyway).

I'd love to do that every sunday haha. I wish we could keep with one topic for a while, or even have the topics be fraxy xD. Only thing is yesterday, the second screech left, noone talked haha. I came back about an hour later, and it wasn't much different :P People just need to be a bit more chatty haha

Ok guys, I got a new boss up: Orbit-v3. It's difficult, and it's another one of those "fight til the end" bosses. Try to hit nothing but the core, or the fight will get harder! ;-)

I'm on a roll! Just made a new boss: Maze. That's two to try :-p.

An open request to anyone willing to try beating Maze, rank 100, lvl1 bullets, no shields, normal mode, no deaths. You'll see why it's called Maze. It creates it's own! Getting to the middle (and finding the weak side) is really frustrating!

Ironic, I'm making a maze as well! It's called 'The Maze of Frustration'. If you've played "I WANT TO BE THE FRAXY!" maze files, you'll meet someone very, VERY familiar! (Hint: [])

Although mine's still in the works.

Haha now to roll out the third boss in a row tonight. This one's called "Fortress" and is a tough nut to crack! The palace guards will not let you in without a fight! Enough for tonight :-)

The server is going to be down all of today (most likely) due to technical problems that shouldn't exist.

404 comments! Oh and the server is fixed!

Error, page not found ;-)

404'd haha

Finally close to posting a couple of bosses for you guys. Since the background array script for Project G is giving me fits, I decided to create some bosses in the meantime, both directly inspired from Gradius III. Should be up by the end of the week.

To help with space restraints, I've moved most of my files to the "Fraxy Compendium Expansion". I'll still be boppin' around and attending to every monthly theme! ;D

Uhm, there aren't any space constraints. We still have over 950MB of space left on the wiki (out of a total 1GB possible).

seriously, we have tons of space. Our boss page is a little slow, but we're in the process of fixing that. We can hold SO many more bosses and images and user pages and anything. My thought for the compendium expansion is that is should be kind of a Role Play thing for people who want to, eg. the roster describing us as pilots and our sectors and all that fun stuff. We can also use it for music, which there is already a little of there

Heh, in a way we have something like that on the User Index. We just have to make sure it doesn't get way out of hand.

We should keep everything confined to a single wiki unless space starts becoming an ACTUAL constraint (ie: <200MB left).

I agree completely

Although by the time we get to that point, the wiki's HD will probably have been upgraded to at least 5GB, thus negating the problem. :P

Can we upgrade the wiki space ourselves, or is that up to the "wiki-owner" JPteeto, who hasn't been seen/heard in months......

Anyone can upgrade the wikispace; it costs money though. :P

I'm not really sure how though; the link to do that isn't where it used to be.

Right at bottom on the right of the front page, it says "public, silver wiki". Clicking that took me to the page where you pay for features. There was no option for upgrading to 5Gb, though I don't suppose it matters right now. I for one would be willing to pay a small amount to keep this wiki going and upgrade when needed.

We won't need it for a long while, we're only using about 5% of our total space. I just don't want to think about how long the file list takes to load when we're within a couple hundred megs of the limit *shudder* haha

Sorry the server was down yesterday, but it's up today.

Alright, RAM arrived, I'll put together the computer now. :D

Win2k download complete, now to install it onto the computer and get it connected to the internets.

Sigh; don't have a spare monitor that works. :(

Man, I'm having a dilemma. I have these great ideas for a new boss, but I have no motivation to do it! It's frustrating, but when I sit down to do it, I can't. So I come here for motivation. I need your help.

I felt like that a while ago. I think it was around the time screech went to spain. Don't try and force it! Just when you don't really have anything to do, sit down and make it while listening to music. That's how Anzu came about :D And night, do you need it to have a moniter? You could transfer your normal moniter to the computer and set it all up, and then let the computer sit and do it's IRC hostin' thang and bring the moniter back to your normal computer haha

I was thinking of doing something like that, yeah. Server is up now.

we doing the sunday meeting thing again?

bah, got disconnected from the IRC and can't reconnect :( I'll try again tomorrow

Sorry about the server going down unexpectedly. I had to shut down my computer and totally forgot to tell everyone I was doing that. Oops...

so that's what happened haha

Oh, lol I thought I got kicked or something and got a ban along with it!

Because of the many horridly overdone creations using primitive scripts being made even though there's events, I've decided to make a "Event Tutorial Boss" page. It'll have these many bosses that you can dissect to see how the events work. May anyone be kind enough to put the link on the sidebar? Link: http://fraxycompendium.pbwiki.com/Event-Tutorial-Bosses

I think only JPeeto can edit the sidebar, and no one knows where he is.

I think we can edit the sidebar as it's a page, I don't think we can delete some things though.

Lol just click sidebar and edit away. xD

ugh its getting really hard here... hard balancing school and fraxy time... everything is hell right now here (i mean... im a graduating student *4th yr high* so all the pressure is building up now... too much HWK! even my social life is suffering here... well all of my friends also suffer here) so sorry if i didnt upgraded the phoenix... OH, its upgraded now... *DL* wow
sonic beam? now thats new. and god YES, effects! thats what ive been waiting 4.
and who made that KICK-ASS virudhaka? i MUST KNOW how did you made those lightning and that final transformation

I just had to chuckle at the comment above :-p. Virudhaka? If I'm not mistaken, that's one of Eboshidori's

may i ask ya guyz sumthin...
> whats better on a garuda? 3 pairs of wings like an archangel or just two HUMONGOUS wings?
> still about a garuda... a lance or a morningstar(spiked ball tied in a handle)?
> should i chain a phoenix from a garuda (when its destroyed... *he holds an egg in his right claw* the phoenix will hatch) or should i make a new boss after it.
> whats better? a 1941-style heavy bomber or a yamato-class ship?
just asking...
so whatcha guz doing while im gone?

VIRUDHAKA is GREAT!!!!!!

its the coolest ship that i DLED so far...
its so good... that i cried.

im so speechless about that ship.

Your enthusiasm makes me smile :-), though try not to flood the comments mmkay :-p. Btw, I'd like to be able to read your comments and be able to understand them, and not cringe at spelling and grammar *thumbs up*

hmm... OK. sorry. its just... virudhaka just feels like a
REAL BOSS like in mushishimesama... compared to my ships SCORPIO, PHOENIX and HYDRA... they're sh*t. (sorry for the word)

I'll download and fight your bosses later, maybe give a little review on each. What makes a good boss depends on personal opinion, not skill in creating/fighting them. I'll most likely enjoy your bosses, so never call anything you create sh** :-)

well maybe... cuz i like danmau bosses. so...many...patterns....
well those 3 bosses are designed to be laggy and hard.
and maybe phoenix wont work on your compy.

oh sry... *DANMAKU*

Are you crazy? You have an entirely unique way of making bosses- Huge and hard! I think its awesome!

I was gonna say you love anything huge and hard, but thought that could be taken offensively haha! I mean you Gem, I've noticed, always love fighting the biggest and most difficult bosses. Anyone calls their boss "impossible" and you set out to prove them wrong :-D!

Btw, does anyone know how to delete files from the wiki? For example, I have a few .fed and .jpg files that are old versions of bosses, or one's I don't use. I'd rather delete them than have them just sat there.

wasn't it set by JPteeto that only he could delete files or something?

Anyone pick up the new version yet?

Yup. Only JPteeto can delete files from the wiki since he's the administrator.

A70M1C look at the front page. "Latest version of Fraxy...". I think everyone's picked up the new version by now ;-)

you should check it a little more frequently, atomic haha

gemstone, you fight charrox yet?

Ah, I see. Haha yea I've been busy as all getout lately, but I have the day off today! Watch for the next Infector Episode this evening.

awesome, I wonder what boss it will be.... haha can't wait!

The "Latest version of Fraxy" thing needs to be a bit more noticable. Also, server is up.

Btw, who owns/runs the Fraxy Forums?

Well I made the latest fraxy update's date red/bold, now it's noticable. :D

EpicFraxy made the Fraxy forum a few months ago. I like the new background. =)

Hey, I actually finished a boss! Weird, huh? It's up on Youtube.

whats the link? wAnna watch!

oh yeah to gemstonehelix...
maybe ure right. i juzt suck at making bullet hell patterns and good transformations... but on the looks of the bosses, they look kinda cool.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=JJtg1oXUcs4

thx ;P

Oh shnaps. I was developing a similar boss except it was a big battleship, not a giant evil monster. It was called "Crossfire" but I scrapped it.

hey guys, i was planning to make a constellation Aquila (GARUDA) and i wuz thinking...
> what's better... a mace or a morningstar?
> 3 pairs of archangel-like wings or two enormous ones?
> should i attach phoenix to this guy? (he has phoenix egg in his hand and when hes destroyed phoenix appears)

I've never heard of Aquila or Garuda. But my opinion would be 3 pairs of wings, a mace, and yes to the phoenix egg idea. That boss sounds good, let us know when it's done!

Oh.....dear.....lord....*facepalm and shame*. I've only just realised "A70M1C" is "ATOMIC" in capitals. I was wonderin why you all called him Atomic! I'll just go sit on the naughty bench until I've thought long and hard about what a bad boy I've been :-/

ok thx im SO gunna make it now...

oh BTW, the garuda is an ENORMOUS half-eagle, half-man god.

haha screech, it's ok! It took me a while to notice as well. I noticed a little while before the IRC where his name was "Atomic" haha

Lol you know, I would have had Atomic too if it was available on Youtube. That's the only reason really why I had to make it this complicated.

*scowls at atomic from the naughty bench*

I think you've served your time on the naughty bench, screech. You can go play with everyone else again hahaha

OKAY GUYS! The June 08 theme: 5-part Boss, has been scored and tallied, and we can reveal that the winner is........go look for yourself! ;-)

Is it just me that can never connect to the IRC? I usually try connecting about 10pm (4pm Florida time)

I dunno, I haven't been able to connect recently either... Hurry up and set it to 24/7 night! ahaha

hahaha Me and Screech accidentaly broke our youtube inboxes with a Re: snake 27 Re:s long! haha But seriously, it's getting annoying. We can't delete stuff... it's just madness haha

but they're starting to fix themselves :D

After getting back from my DC trip, it's hard to get back into the swing of things. I have plans for eight new ships and more, but I keep forgetting about Fraxy altogether. I also almost completely forgot about two message boards I frequent. I'll blame it on uh... airplane food... which there was none of. On the plus side, though, I did make a nifty Star Fox 64 background for those of you who haven't seen it.

Does anyone know how large the playing field is in Fraxy (the size of area around your ship in which bosses won't self destruct (if they get too far away they go boom))?

I know it's slightly larger than the size of my Doomship boss, because if you fly away from it after it spawns, it selfdestructs. XD

The distance seems to be about 2000 pixels. I'm still researching that to better define my bosses' behavior. Can anyone get a precise number while considering hitbox size?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BUKKAROOO! ;-)

thanks screech!

? well then happy b-day bukkarooo.

It's Bukky's barfday?

Well, might as well give him a barfday present.

Happy Birthday Bukkarooo. Here's to another good year!

thanks everyone! I had an awesome birthday! I saw Dark Knight twice and got an iPod touch! if only I could get fraxy on it haha

WTH? thats a GREAT IDEA!

if ony the Ipod had more buttons :(
i could put it on my Ipod video
or maybe better... THE PSP

You'd have to recode it to work on the PSP though, and considering no one has the source code...

Does anyone know how to make your ship's hitbox smaller? I'm talkin....1 or 2x2 pixels. I've become a fan of the Touhou Danmaku series and want to make some bullethell bosses, but the player's ship is still too big for dense patterns. In the same way that your bullet hits different shaped boss parts, would making the player ship sprite smaller also reduce it's hitbox?

it'd be work a shot, but good luck keeping good track of it. I'd just make a little white box in that case. On MS Paint, if you zoom in and turn on the grid, you can see where you could place the 4 white dots in the center

It would be helpful if I could make a new sprite, with the 2x2 hitbox as a white block, and a normal larger player ship around it, but shadowed and "invisible to enemy bullets". Similar to the Touhou games, where you have a small white orb as the hitbox, and the "unhittable" girl as the sprite. I don't wanna have to use a tiny sprite, keeping track of its position amongst hundreds of bullets would be a chore!

Yeah, unfortunately that seems to be another of fraxy's limitations D:

Forget what I said! Screech, take my WF ship sprite and open it in paint. in the middle of the shipd (the little cockpit area) put a white dot. It significantly shrinks the hitbox... I think haha I'm pretty sure it does

I don't think it's possible. The hitbox is permanantly set to approximately 19x26. Fraxy doesn't read the image size, I believe it runs on invisible boxes and bits.

Yeah, the image size is irrelevant, the hitbox is stuck at one size.

Also, server is on today.

Or, maybe not... stupid router.

False alarm, it's working now.

Ugh, can't get motivated. So many good ideas, but i loathe sitting down to do them.

New version of Fraxy coming out soon. Some features include: lives system for try files (now you are allowed to die more than once :P), possible resizing of parts in the editor (if I understand the "google-translated" homepage correctly), and there will be a new non-player weapon.

No the new enemy weapon isn't a shield (as CTR hoped it would be) though I think that's a very good idea (hint hint Fraxy developer[s]) because then I wouldn't have to build a shield out of like 100 parts that doesn't work quite how I want it to due to limitations and... yeah.

... yeah.

Hahaha, the weapon looks like the wave shot from Thunder Force 3. It looks like it has drilling ability and loads of fun.

I put up some Project G development notes on my userpage... I really need some hardcore help now to take the next step, although I can create the ranking system fairly easily. Everything is explained over there.

I was hoping for a projectile nullifier shot for the player. I'm getting VERY SICK of those damn effortless bullet hell bosses and weaponstack bosses.

Projectile nullifier? Sorry to be obvious, but......we have one of them. It's called a Shield ;-)

can't wait for the new update! And I think he means a gun that takes out bullets, not a shield haha

Yeah I guessed that, just felt like bein awkward teehee!

going by the best translation I can get, it appears that the new enemy weapon will be something like a bazooka or cannon. then again, system translations are a bit unreliable. SYSTRAN also says "So unnoticed in ripple..." which would also indicate that the enemy is getting the ripple shot. so we know that lives are added to TRY mode (at least), score modification from TRY mode is possible, the enemy editor is either getting tweaked or something is being added to the enemy definition files (something about window resizing... could be wrong), and at least one new enemy weapon is being added.

I hope the editor change basically adds sizing handles to all the parts! That would be awesome :D

also, part scripts will be able to take changes in rank into account.

I just fired off an email to mon (the developer) that pretty much does three things:

A) letting him know of this community,
B) getting a couple of my requests in (specifically, changing common_03.bmp to a 24-bit image and allowing score accumulation from destroying enemy parts to be altered), and
C) letting him know I'm working on an english-language set of PDF files covering FRAXY (which will be made available from my site, when complete - and it will include in-depth documentation of TRY mode)

I would suggest against emailing him/her yourself, as right now this site should be on his metaphorical radar, so he should see most of what you guys are asking for.

Hmmmm, it'll be interesting to see the response. I feel that they've been looking here for a while. =)

If he doesn't speak/read english, that'll be tough though (as noted earlier, machine translations are notoriously unreliable if you want to get more than the most basic of meanings from text). Also, where is his email even??

I've added the creator's main site onto the "What IS Fraxy?" page. It's up to date and worth looking at even if it's 99% in Japanese. It even has a parts reference page and records of all previous versions of Fraxy!

@NightKev>>it's in one of the readme files. I did end up using the email about 3 seperate times (counting this time). the first one was pretty much saying how much I liked it and throwing a couple suggestions his way, the second one was when I found a bug with the "player status" option in the pause menu that prevented you from respawning in free mode, and the third one was today. He appears to be trying to learn some of the English language while he does the english translations. Obviously, if you can do better, he'd probably appreciate it. I'm not gonna give out his email explicitly (since some people would probably just spam it to no end), but it's there if you know where to look.

Awesome. So I guess this would make you our unofficial ambassador to 'mon'.

Finally! Have some inspiration! I have created a drone that orbits your ship incessantly, blocking your guns and bullets occasionally. Don't bother escaping, it speeds to catch up to you! And if you try to ring it, it flips around to get ya!

Downside is that it requires a healthy chunk of parts to make. Mastering the orbit technique without it going insane was hard.

already got a reply back from mon (didn't expect it within 24 hours), and here's the just of it: *inhale* He's already aware of this community and actually looks here "often ... to correct the bugs and ideas." (which means he's aware of some of our wish-list ideas and the bugs that we're finding), the 8-bit-depth image will have to stay 8-bit-depth due to performance issues with changing it to 24-bit-depth (understandable - I still get lag on FRAXY from time to time despite running Unreal Tournament 3 with few problems whatsoever), there's going to be a few things added to the enemy editor to allow us to take advantage of the points system in TRY mode, and he would actually like to see my manual completed (and I need to explain in further detail what a "text dump" is - PDF files can only be modified by Acrobat, and since I don't know if he has Acrobat, this is the best way I can get a Japanese translation of it).

A link to the developer! Zeta, we salute you *salutes*. How come I've not seen you around here before.... You're not new to this community are you?

Excellent job! *Salutes* I'm glad that he knows of us and and how much we appreciate what he's done. Now that we know he looks here, we should be encouraged more to put our thoughts about Fraxy onto here...

new to fraxy: no. |||| new to this community: relatively.

*salutes* sounds awesome, I'm surprisedhe knows about our community from over in japan

Just one thing, do you communicate in Japanese or English? Does he even know English? Must do, to be able to understand this wiki. Unless he uses a translator haha

it's probably a translator lol

actually japanese people learn to read and write english in middle school.

I didn't know that

Where is the suggestion page again? *eh*

I think it's just kinda all over the place lol

Well, I was wondering if they could have a panel-aim player setting that allows it to track the player perfectly, like, iron-clad locking, cause i need that to build a certain boss, and stacking panel-aim players on setting 7 doesn't seem to do the trick well enough.

What I do is set a looping Move Event for Move Set 5. That one has the highest tracking speed. Unfortunately, the speed can't be changed and stacking doesn't work well...

@Zeta: Just a thought, if Mon can read/write English, do you think it'd be a good idea to invite him to create an account on this wiki, and work with us side by side? He'd be very welcome, and I'm sure he'd enjoy collaborating with a community that loves his game. He could ask us to test new builds or ideas, ask us for input on specifics etc. He'd get rapid and detailed responses from any questions. All the better for bringing people together and improving on an already fantastic game.

Oh, btw, NEW BUILD IS OUT! haha been wanting to be the first to say that for ages ;-)

New weapons: Needle gun, Ripple gun. New parts: Block (just a part), Decorations (4 of them), Plates (7 of them), Shells (4 of them). New core: Head Core! I'm at work, so these are observations only. Don't have time to play/test. Have fun! :-D

Head core is more a decoration than a real core. You can make it the main core, but unless you givbe it boosters and such, it isn't going anywhere. I'm loving the decorations, the 7 new plates, the shells (even though I don't quite get them haha), and the 4 new tips! You missed that screech haha

The needle gun is AMAZING! Like a tiny bullet, but not a vulcan. Attack action 1: Shoots a burst of small bullets Action 3: Shoots small bullets forever Action 5: Shoots small bullets forever, alternating the side of the front of the gun it's shooting... I could word that bette... just go chack it out!!!

*better *check ;-)

4 new tips?! My mistake, I was in a rush to look through parts in the editor while the boss wasn't around >.> <.<

haha I like this new Update, especially the new plates and the needle gun

Note about the Head core: It doesn't flash to show that it's taking damage, and it doesn't flash red. The green light in the middle gets dimmer as it's health gets lower

Hmmm, usually everyone swarms round new builds like hungry wolves. Is it just me and bukky the eager ones today?! hehe

seems like everyone else is busy haha

I think the next update will add movement and stuff to the head core, because on Mon's site, the big part archive, it says the head core hasn't been programmed yet, or something to that effect

Nuuuuu stuffz I must wait until it is fully updated first.

I noticed something about the Needle Gun. I think the sprite for it has been around for a while. Check player_01 at the bottom left corner.

What do you mean, fraxathon?

CTR>>that's not the sprite, the sprite used is (still) in common_03.bmp. it's been that way the whole time.

I love the needle gun lol

@Zeta: Check back through these comments. I made a suggestion that's been flooded out by recent comments.

the extra parameter stuff is pretty decent. with it, it's pretty damn easy to make an enemy that, by it's part setup alone, doesn't look hard until you actually fight it and realize that the power balls travel in a curved line and go twice as fast as normal. :P

...and as far as an invite, I'll leave it with the next email I send mon (which I'm gonna wait until I have a good portion of the PDF manual complete to send - that way, there's something to show for that)

Sure thing! Ta for considering it :-)

extra parameters? did I miss something? haha

I meant new stuff, I must wait until it is fully updated (headcore)

added a page for a listing of my creations as I decide to upload them. the first one that's downloadable is also the first enemy on here to use manually-specified score and Extra Parameters. (bukkarooo look there now.)

WOW, that's rediculous.... mind explaining that? haha Maybe on your page? Or will you save that for your Fraxy manual?

more or less, there's four extra parameters for each part. most of the parts completely ignore them, but almost every projectile-based weapon (except homing lasers - they're different) uses a "rate of change" value, a "start speed" value, a "End Speed" value, and a "rotation" value. the homing lasers have values that are more relevant. Param1 is boolean, Param2 is the speed, Param3 is how responsive it is to you moving (AFTER it shoots), and Param4 is how quick it can move. the specifics on each parameter will be in my fraxy manual. if Param1 is 0 (or not set), everything else is ignored.

also, you have to use an event to do these. however, there's nothing preventing you from using multiple events to do this. :P

Ah, so that's what the new parameters are for. I was trying to play around with them in the editor, but didn't get any visible results and occasionally some kind of error. Of course, I was testing them on a blade. :P

Actually, I keep getting some kind of 19 error when messing with the parameters. Unless someone writes a guide for this new feature, it might take me weeks to figure this stuff out.

Hmm, seems like only parameter 1 is giving me errors.

Wow, I'll have to try those out!

I'm getting Error 19 too.. quits me out of the editor. I'm trying it on the new Needle gun, though. I'll try it on some other stuff later

I was having that trouble as well. It seems to only do that if parameters 2, 3, and 4 arn't set to anything. There is a little example where you download Fraxy if you need help.

I think you need to specify ALL parameters, if you do them at all

Ok guys I'm going to make a simple tutorial on the "extra parameters" because apparently you guys are having trouble.

Okay, link's in the sidebar, but here it is again anyway. http://fraxycompendium.pbwiki.com/Tutorial%3A-Extra-Parameters

hey- new to the wiki- I created a tutorial on making a BG set, (which was in the "Misc Tips" subject for only a few hours), and now resides in it's own PBWiki page here. Is there someone I need to contact for permission to place it on the front page as a full link, or is there somewhere else to place it?

http://fraxycompendium.pbwiki.com/Tutorial%3A-Creating-a-Background

Just edit /SideBar and put it under the tutorial already there.

Also, everyone, there's a "patch" out, dl it! When I google-translated what he said the patch was for, it gave me:

Editor relationship
-- Specific parameter (*, 0,0, *) to correct errors
-- For some strange enemy shells appear to be fixed

Just had to rollback the front page to a previous version. Bukky, the last edit was yours. The font at the bottom (where the comments are etc) was huge, and there were random text additions on the page. I'm 100% positive that was a mistake, did you sneeze while editing the page haha! ;-)

Well, I opened up the editor on accident, but I didn't do ANYTHING in the editor, so I dunno why the page got f-ed up

What's the purpose of the Shells? I don't understand why they're seperate from the plates or whatever. They don't seem to do anything different

They're just decorative parts probably.

Shells have see-thru holes on them. PLATES do not.

oh... that's cool I guess haha And nutman, did you know the Core Fade Effect also happens when a core's direct child is being damaged?

Considering we have no admins at this wiki (where are you, Jpeeto??), and thus no way to do anything if we get attacked by spammers/vandals, is anyone in favor of the creation of a new one (maybe something like a combined wiki-forum, that way we'd get a better forum and it'll be sort of integrated into the wiki)?

Hmmmm I've grown attached to this wiki. It's my homepage....and my home hehe. Creating a new one would kinda split the community. Some traffic here and some traffic at the new wiki. Suppose if you make it clear on the front page here that there is a new wiki, make sure everyone is fully aware. It would take time for people to switch over and populate the new wiki/forum, though I like the forum integration idea. I'm swayed both ways on this, though I could be more tempted if I had your permission to moderate the site? :-)

I'm great with new members, helping them in all areas wherever needed (creating boss pages/index entries/helping with linking files/images etc), I'm polite, I'm on the wiki every day, I'm enthusiastic. Also forwarding bukky and nutman, for all the same reasons :-). That is of course if you'd be requiring moderators on the new wiki/forum?

I have a problem with the new patch. Every time I download it and try to open the file after extracting, I get an error. Anyone know how to not have this happen?

I've not downloaded the patch yet. You'll have to wait til the US wakes up, for help. Being in the UK, everyone else is asleep for over half my day! :-( hehe.

weird... I haven't had any problems with the patch

Mornin bukky! *cough* PAI06? *cough* sorry bad chest ;-)

I'm almost done with his second stage, and I may have 1 or 2 more. The new update really got me motivated. The first 2 stages wouldn't be how they are without the laest update :D

latest*

and I'd be cool with modding a new wiki/forum. I agree with everything screech said

Alright, It'll probably take a day or two to set things up. Also, the FraxyNet IRC server may or may not be down today, I'm having minor internet problems.

@Aquamancia: I've just downloaded the patch and it works fine. Are you unzipping the file, and replacing "fraxy.exe" and "edit.exe" in the game folder, with the two files in the patch? Its a simple case of unzip and replace. Could you tell us more about the error?

I don't notice any significant changes from the patch.

same here...

But, about the new wiki/forum. Though I'm fine with the idea, I don't think anyone is going to attack this site. There's no reason to. and if stuff DOES get messed up, we can just revert pages

There's a flaw your "What if that happens? Solutions" plan, Bukky. I'll tell you and everyone else I can trust on the IRC server.

FraxyNet server is up, fixed the problems.

The new wiki will also need a logo, so if anyone wants to contribute... :D

I don't think there's a size restriction on the logo image size, but try to keep it reasonable, k guys?

+1 on your trust list nutman :-)

Templogo is up, but we'll still need a permanent one. Maybe some bullet pattern using the new extra params? :P

I can also make a rotating logo if more than one person submits something. :D

The new wiki is set up, and if you want to look around you can do so here: http://wiki.genericboard.com

I'm still setting everything up, so if something weird happens, don't worry too much about it.

I can do the fraxy compendium logo, where do you want it appearing?

Oh...I should have read it better, YOUR wiki needs a logo, not the Compendium.

Oh, I can work on a logo. I've got nothing better to do. Any suggestions for the theme, or should I just wing it?

if anyone wants an idea of my work, take a look at a this and a few other things from my gallery- http://daijitsu.deviantart.com/art/D0G-s-head-77311991

shoot, just had an idea- as good as a Wiki is for all of this, I'm finding it hard to keep up with conversations through this basic comment system. Maybe a full-out forum would be better for this kind of thing? It wouldn't be too hard to integrate, I suppose. The forum I usually hang around has a wiki, but everything happens on the forum, with links to related files and such. -just a thought-

daijitsu: see the new link on the frontpage. there will be a forum integration with that new wiki

oh- *facepalm* -boy do I know how to talk when it's already done D:

Improvising a logo with my fancy pattern, aren't you, Nightkev?

Templogo is that, yeah. It's a little too big though, as you can see.

yeah, whatever you make next just keep in mind that it cropped itself to 155x155.

Okay then, logo should be no larger than 150x150.

Well we have a logo, though if anyone still wants to submit one, I'll make it a rotating logo.

I made a new logo, check it out at the new wiki. If anyone could start copying over pages that would be REALLY useful.

well, we're in the proscess of moving to the new wiki, we aren't there fully yet

By the way, FraxyNet may or may not be down for the foreseeable future, because I have no idea why the hell it isn't working.

Thus, temporary backup at aoi.irc.djbouche.net channel #thebard

There is a new patch available today (07/27) that addresses some issues. It replaces the Edit and Main .exes

Quick thing about the uploader on the new wiki. I uploaded up to the 5th boss (Kohns) in the PAIs, but I had to upload each twice before it appeared... hopefully that doesn't mess anything up... There should be a way to re-organize the bosses and change their description. Just a thought

Now there's two of all of them there :P haha might want to fix that, night/arbe

(This will be echoed on the new wiki) The new patch adds a way to remove untimed EXMESSAGES and changes the functionality of EXMESSAGES with regards to system-maintained variables. since Mon took down the previous patch, the Edit.exe from that one is included as well. (and I personally wonder why I didn't point out the EXMESSAGE thingy when I last emailed him <.<)

er, scratch that, looking at the wrong panel. *cough* the July-27-08 patch addresses dissappearing parts in the editor and something concerning the balkan and ripple shots (in addition to tweaking the ripple shot strength)

DISAPPEARING BULLETS ARE FIXED?!?!?! AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! etc

Hey guys if you could help us port pages to the new wiki (if you're having trouble formatting it just copy/paste the source from pbwiki to the new wiki and we'll format it later).

No need, I've got all the sources.

PAI06: Atea is done! get her from my user page and have fun! I'd love some feedback :)