Feral Heart

Some things should be made clear.
1. You state you are a CS and FH member then you should know what CS post publicly regarding FH and its staff. FH staff have never done such a thing in return.

2. FH has never stated that CS was involved in the hacking. Actually what happened was during the hacking period CS staff were posting on FH boards in such a way that was inciting panic in an already volatile situation. As this was being repeated over and over it was pointed out that their behaviour could be considered suspicious. It was from that point it escalated.

3. Based on CS's continued public posting we feel that it's not in FH's interests to send users to a place with such posts. I'm sure their comments discourage users from considering FH. So all we do about this is simply remove posts advertising CS and contact the users involved to explain. We certainly don't ban users due to it as rumours suggest.

Hope this explains

Raz

You didn't answer if they match or not.

Did you get back two IP's?
If not what did you get back?

Did the IP's match?

I might weigh in on this since fire is a rather popular request. Now I'm not saying the following is the best way to achieve what you want. And no I've not tested it but I'm 99% sure it can be done with the right code. So here goes.

A quick google search found me this which should give you an idea for a base texture (note your texture should tessellate horizontally).



Now we want to make it live.

So say we add it 3 times over as 3 passes. The top two layers we want to make transparent but we are not going to mess with adding alpha to the images they are fine as they are. Instead of using "scene_blend alpha_blend" try out "scene_blend add" this will make black and anything dark transparent keeping only the light of the flames. I also suggest setting "emissive 1 1 1"  This basically means the fire emits its own light and does not require an external light source.

Let's add some movement; fire rises and falls so our fire should do the same I recommend the "wave_xform" function specifically "wave_xform scale_y sine" what this will do stretch the texture up and down. The actual code for it would be something like

"wave_xform scale_y sine 1 0.2 0 2"

Where
1 is the minimum scale
0.2 is the transition speed
0 is starting position
2 is the maximum scale

Each layer needs to be different for full effect.
To add some left and right movement use the same format but instead of "scale_y" use "scroll_x" which will have you flames that are moving up and down also shifting left and right.

Hope this helps

Raz

I'm going to double post here ah well...

PEOPLE TELL ME IF YOUR SYNC IS SHOWING ERRORS

I've had little or no feedback for this yet I know people are downloading it.

The latest version fixes a bug that causes the presets to be redownloaded over and over.

And clears up some removal errors if you have a load of stuff in privatepresets.

It;s also faster again!

Let me know how you get on

I actually feel you're judging the ads rather harshly....
I don't use an ad-blocker here.
So I see what you see.

The forum recently had around a 40% reduction in ads.
Most of the ads around the site are simple banners which do not interfere with you in any way.

Then we have the popups your mentioning.
These are rigged to only appear once or twice a day which I don't believe is an unreasonable amount. Especially since some people simply have the login page bookmarked and never visit the rest of the site. These popups use some adblock bypass technology. If people are going to block everything else at least we get one single ad per day played to them. Which again I think is pretty reasonable.

Now this is taken from the ad companies FAQ

Is there any guarantee I will not get malware or virus through your tags?
We are serious about our publisher's property and manually select what kind of ads you display. We never accept suggestive or malicious content from our advertisers. You can also ban specific ads per your request and we will block it immediately.

Again I would say that's reasonable?
If you are getting a specific ad that you really don't feel is appropriate please screenshot it. Copy the link from the top too if you can. And message it to me, I will request its removal.

And if you're wondering about costs? For one we have to be on the Cloudflare business plan.
https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/
This outlay alone doesn't actually include anything to run the actual game, no storage, no servers etc.

I hope now you have a better understanding of why we do what we do.

And thank you for all those who turn off your ad-blockers to support FH.

Raz