FE Screenshot [Archive] - The Gemstone IV Players' Corner

DaCapn

12-18-2008, 01:11 PM

Post a screenshot of your front-end here. Host your image without setting up an account at http://imageshack.us/. To make sure that this thread doesn't look like one of Methais's full-screen image-cluttered one-line posts, use the second imbedded url option ( Thumbnail for forums (1) ).

This is my wizard setup:

http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/760/wizscreensm9.th.jpg (http://img523.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wizscreensm9.jpg)

diethx... CrystalTears... BigWorm... I'm calling you out. Fuck it... Stanley Burrell too.

BigWorm

12-18-2008, 01:23 PM

diethx

12-18-2008, 01:26 PM

Meh i've already posted my FE. Sec though.

Sean of the Thread

12-18-2008, 01:26 PM

I used to keep mine as dark as possible. Was easier on the eyes.

diethx

12-18-2008, 01:29 PM

I'm not hosting it on your recommended site as I have my own way to do it, and so you're not getting a thumbnail. :D

http://students.kennesaw.edu/~sjacobs9/layout.JPG

Sean of the Thread

12-18-2008, 01:31 PM

Fucking sadly these screenshots have gave me a small urge to play again.

damn.

Suppa Hobbit Mage

12-18-2008, 01:44 PM

Fucking sadly these screenshots have gave me a small urge to play again.

damn.

I'll sell you two accounts...

diethx

12-18-2008, 01:47 PM

I'll sell you two accounts...

I hope you like empty vodka bottles.

CrystalTears

12-18-2008, 02:00 PM

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v412/Jemah/stormfront.jpg

DaCapn

12-18-2008, 02:05 PM

Don't you guys eyes hurt with the white text on those black backgrounds?

CrystalTears

12-18-2008, 02:07 PM

All the colored backgrounds would drive me bonkers.

diethx

12-18-2008, 02:17 PM

Nope, the black text on white background and all the colored backgrounds hurt my eyes. Grey text (grey, not white, the default) on black is soothing.

diethx

12-18-2008, 02:18 PM

Man I like that active spell and the bounties window in SF. MAN.

diethx

12-18-2008, 02:19 PM

Fuck, and there's an encumberance notice.

...

CrystalTears

12-18-2008, 02:20 PM

SF is starting to become appealing, ain't it beeyotch. :D

diethx

12-18-2008, 02:21 PM

Yes. :/

Izzy

12-18-2008, 02:38 PM

SF kicks the wizards ass, hard.

Adequate Picker

12-18-2008, 02:49 PM

I perfer SF as well.

http://www.nwobhm.net/images/avatar.gif

Khariz

12-18-2008, 03:18 PM

I illogically resisted SF for years. Once I actually used it (and turned off the stupid clicky links), I realized how vastly superior it was.

CrystalTears

12-18-2008, 03:20 PM

I like the links. It helps to find the interactive items once in a while.

Khariz

12-18-2008, 03:21 PM

I like the links. It helps to find the interactive items once in a while.

I'll admit that I turn them on when I'm confused about something, sometimes.

diethx

12-18-2008, 03:22 PM

Is there a way to keep that shit from being highlighted? Like I said in that other thread, my issue was that I show arrivals etc only for my highlight list, and SF was highlighting like EVERYTHING (which was annoying in itself).

CrystalTears

12-18-2008, 03:23 PM

You mean the links? Yes you can change the color of the links (if you keep them activated). Mine are the same color as the rest of the text, they're just underlined instead.

diethx

12-18-2008, 03:24 PM

I might try it then. Maybe after the festival i'll download it and play with it.

Mathari

12-18-2008, 05:23 PM

I illogically resisted SF for years. Once I actually used it (and turned off the stupid clicky links), I realized how vastly superior it was.
I used to hate the clickable links, too, but I left them on for a while once and subsequently got used to them. Now, I love them. They're sweet for immediately seeing exits and items in a room. I'm so into them now that I could barely handle playing DragonRealms (when I still played it) because DR doesn't support all the clickable links. I was all like, "OH NO, WHAT'S IN THIS ROOM?!?" and I nearly died after having to carefully read the descriptions all the time until I got used to things. :)

iJin

12-18-2008, 05:31 PM

I used to hate the clickable links, too, but I left them on for a while once and subsequently got used to them. Now, I love them. They're sweet for immediately seeing exits and items in a room. I'm so into them now that I could barely handle playing DragonRealms (when I still played it) because DR doesn't support all the clickable links. I was all like, "OH NO, WHAT'S IN THIS ROOM?!?" and I nearly died after having to carefully read the descriptions all the time until I got used to things. :)

:yeahthat:

I couldn't stand DR. I nearly died not being able to see objects at first glance.

Celephais

12-18-2008, 05:42 PM

http://www.deadlylight.com/images/latest.jpg

Hooray for making your own windows!

onurb

12-18-2008, 05:44 PM

http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/7202/89213455cp3.th.png (http://img267.imageshack.us/my.php?image=89213455cp3.png)

diethx

12-18-2008, 05:47 PM

http://www.deadlylight.com/images/latest.jpg

Hooray for making your own windows!

Whoa.

Widgets

12-18-2008, 05:49 PM

Whoa.

yes, you can even make custom skins for SF...Another perk about it :)

Though like many say, it does take a few to get used to, but in the end well worth the switch.

Mathari

12-18-2008, 05:51 PM

Whoa.
Seconded.

Ignot

12-18-2008, 05:53 PM

http://www.deadlylight.com/images/latest.jpg

Hooray for making your own windows!

And I thought I had no life. :)

Izzy

12-18-2008, 05:57 PM

http://www.deadlylight.com/images/latest.jpg

Hooray for making your own windows!

Uh, you need to learn me how to do that shit. Please? :yes:

Stanley Burrell

12-18-2008, 06:02 PM

http://www.deadlylight.com/images/latest.jpg

Hooray for making your own windows!

Behold, size 7:

GIVE IT A CUSTOM CALVIN AND HOBBES SKIN OR THE TROGDOR WILL COME FOR YOU IN THE NIGHT.

Looking awesome. D&D Greg would be proud.

Martaigne

12-18-2008, 06:46 PM

http://citrus.martaigne.com/images/shots/citrusscreen.png

Citrus 2.5b on CMUD, with mapper on and spell durations disabled.

BigWorm

12-18-2008, 06:46 PM

You totally forgot to blur your max spirit dude

Martaigne

12-18-2008, 06:50 PM

I'm really not all that concerned about it.

Drunken Durfin

12-18-2008, 07:05 PM

Horay for three monitors...

http://drunkendurfin.webs.com/INeedHelp.JPG

Drunken Durfin

12-18-2008, 07:08 PM

Uh, you need to learn me how to do that shit. Please? :yes:

Seconded. Holy share the knowledge Batman.

Celephais

12-18-2008, 07:19 PM

And I thought I had no life. :)
I had to do something while absorbing exp... anyway, I haven't played in months :(

Celephais

12-18-2008, 07:25 PM

You totally forgot to blur your max spirit dude

I'm really not all that concerned about it.
Heh, he was talking to me, I blurred everything but my max spirit.

Seconded. Holy share the knowledge Batman.
Last time I tried to share it I had some trouble with the install; because it's only been on my computers it's been pretty easy for me to trouble-shoot, but when I gave it to a friend it was a hell of a headache. I'll see about putting something together for people who want to give it a shot, but my time's limited lately.

Widgets

12-18-2008, 07:27 PM

Heh, he was talking to me, I blurred everything but my max spirit.

Last time I tried to share it I had some trouble with the install; because it's only been on my computers it's been pretty easy for me to trouble-shoot, but when I gave it to a friend it was a hell of a headache. I'll see about putting something together for people who want to give it a shot, but my time's limited lately.

Ed (Nishima/Foofie) has a Skin Pack out there for the SF that is published. I forget the exacts of it but I think it changes a few things like the Player Model for Injuries and such.

Celephais

12-18-2008, 07:32 PM

Ed (Nishima/Foofie) has a Skin Pack out there for the SF that is published. I forget the exacts of it but I think it changes a few things like the Player Model for Injuries and such.
I've never used any of the skin stuff for SF ... it's a seperate application kind of like psinet, except the windows don't have to be pinned/unpinned.

mgoddess

12-18-2008, 08:08 PM

http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/4818/cylnthiastormfronteh3.jpg

Celephais

12-18-2008, 08:47 PM

Looking awesome. D&D Greg would be proud.
http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u222/GuinnessKMF/CalvinGS.gif

Heh... (sorry just photoshopped).

Mathari

12-18-2008, 09:02 PM

http://citrus.martaigne.com/images/shots/citrusscreen.png

Citrus 2.5b on CMUD, with mapper on and spell durations disabled.
Man, I would so use Citrus if only CMUD and/or ZMUD did not cost money.

Celephais

12-18-2008, 09:11 PM

... Is gemstone free now?

diethx

12-18-2008, 09:18 PM

No, but why would you want to pay for a front end on top of a GS subscription when you can use one of theirs for free?

Mathari

12-18-2008, 09:24 PM

No, but why would you want to pay for a front end on top of a GS subscription when you can use one of theirs for free?
This. Plus grad student budget.

Stanley Burrell

12-18-2008, 09:24 PM

I'm calling you out. Fuck it... Stanley Burrell too.

Arrrrrgh, resized. Here though:

http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/7590/halflingfaggotryyx1.png

diethx

12-18-2008, 09:26 PM

You use light blue for your own character names too? Hahahahaha. Win.

Celephais

12-18-2008, 09:27 PM

No, but why would you want to pay for a front end on top of a GS subscription when you can use one of theirs for free?
Because you get what you pay for... well no wait.. that doesn't apply for the subscription, but the FE certainly reflects the cost. Considering how cheap zMud is (what is it, $15 for a lifetime of updates?) compared to the cost of ongoing GS costs... (I really don't want to know how much I've given in my lifetime to Simu)

Mathari

12-18-2008, 09:31 PM

Because you get what you pay for... well no wait.. that doesn't apply for the subscription, but the FE certainly reflects the cost. Considering how cheap zMud is (what is it, $15 for a lifetime of updates?) compared to the cost of ongoing GS costs... (I really don't want to know how much I've given in my lifetime to Simu)
I think it's $30-$40 for ZMUD/CMUD, but I could be wrong about that. Given the capabilities of StormFront + Psinet, I don't really consider that worth it. The $15 subscription cost for GS is something I try not to think about, but I get at least as much (and probably more) entertainment out of playing GS as I do out of, say, going to the movies, for what is roughly an equivalent price. I don't think I could reasonably look at the cost for ZMUD/CMUD the same way.

Just checked: According to the official website, ZMUD is $34.95 and CMUD is $29.95.

gunmetal

12-18-2008, 09:41 PM

behold the noobmobile and its crappy fletching script

http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/2312/rawrgy9.th.png (http://img237.imageshack.us/my.php?image=rawrgy9.png)

Liberi Fatali

12-18-2008, 10:05 PM

http://i711.photobucket.com/albums/ww116/TABOR21/JD.jpg

Martaigne

12-19-2008, 09:35 AM

Because you get what you pay for... well no wait.. that doesn't apply for the subscription, but the FE certainly reflects the cost.

This.

I think it's $30-$40 for ZMUD/CMUD, but I could be wrong about that. Given the capabilities of StormFront + Psinet, I don't really consider that worth it. The $15 subscription cost for GS is something I try not to think about, but I get at least as much (and probably more) entertainment out of playing GS as I do out of, say, going to the movies, for what is roughly an equivalent price. I don't think I could reasonably look at the cost for ZMUD/CMUD the same way.

Just checked: According to the official website, ZMUD is $34.95 and CMUD is $29.95.

The nice thing about CMUD is that you can use it for ANY text-based game, including free ones that are out there. Even if you lose interest in GS, there's other alternatives out there. It's also more flexible and more powerful than SF or the Wizard. Very shortly Citrus will have all the capabilities of SF with PsiNet attached, without needing a key or transmitting personal data to a central server.

I can understand if you're a broke-ass college student and/or have other priorities for your money, as long as you're not just slamming Zugg's products because they have a pricetag attached to them. People deserved to get paid for their hard work.

CrystalTears

12-19-2008, 09:38 AM

I'll have to give it more of a chance and play with it more. Maybe when PsiNet works for it (because I'm hooked on that shit) and I can get the automapper to work, I'll be happier and will make it easier for me to transition. I just really like SF, what can I say.

Martaigne

12-19-2008, 09:46 AM

PsiNet will never work for it. Jamus completely ignored all of my proposals to make a COM component that ZMUD/CMUD can call to communicate with the PsiNet server. So if you want to stay on the PsiNet network, keep SF.

The alternative I'm currently developing is peer-to-peer using CCHAT which is still in development. I had successful code tests with ZMUD and ZCHAT but since I abandoned ZMUD as a obsolete platform I'll have to wait until CCHAT is released to begin testing on it again.

The automapper works, you just need a map. Which I have. It's not complete but can get you around fairly well. It would probably take a community effort to map everything in the game. Plus side is that I can replicate PsiNet room numbers for people used to PsiNet, and point to info on the foraging website.

CrystalTears

12-19-2008, 09:59 AM

I don't use PsiNet for chat as some of the useless chatter is enough in the game than to need to hear more of it elsewhere. I use it for the self spellups, looting (I love just grabbing stuff), aliases and atlas. I also use Lich for the background scripting it does. So yeah, probably better that I stick with SF for now.

But I use Zmud for other text games, so it's not going to waste!

Martaigne

12-19-2008, 10:15 AM

The beta of Citrus has a nearly-complete Autobuff feature, for which you can configure to use known spells, scrolls, edible and quaffable magic items, rub/raise/tap magic items, wear enhancives, society symbols/signs/sigils, cmans like surge and smastery. Some spells need to be added because I need the messaging for them.

Also, the basic item grouping you see in the screenshot is evolving into a complete classification system which will group your inventory alphabetically by several basic types (gems, herbs, boxes, wands, scrolls, magic items, alchemy components, and misc) with a configurable storage container for each type of item, including jars.

CMUD already does aliases.

CrystalTears

12-19-2008, 10:24 AM

But it doesn't do scripts yet, right?

Belnia

12-19-2008, 10:31 AM

I remember playing a small scale (approximately 100 people on peak hours) free MUD and using MUSHclient. When socketing came out, it was great. We set up a server which would let us control other people in the clan, if they wanted. Like for when they got ambushed in CvC. Poor newbs who still got adrenaline rushes from that and couldn't think straight.

To Mathari: I bet there's some fun potential for remotely controlling a character via ZMUD/CMUD with some of the socket style program ad ons.

petroglyph

12-19-2008, 10:50 AM

I'm starting to feel like the only one who doesn't want my FE to be fullscreen.

http://img266.imageshack.us/my.php?image=picture1ij4.pdf

(Why yes, I am a luddite.)

CrystalTears

12-19-2008, 10:57 AM

Yes but you're on a Mac, and with that you can put the FE windows anywhere and see stuff in the background, which is really cool.

Martaigne

12-19-2008, 11:56 AM

But it doesn't do scripts yet, right?

It does scripts in ZScript, XML, VBScript, JScript, and Lua. What more do you need?

CrystalTears

12-19-2008, 12:01 PM

Okay then you're going to need to help me move my existing ones there so that I can fool around with it. :tongue:

Martaigne

12-19-2008, 12:06 PM

:scared:

Mathari

12-19-2008, 12:49 PM

The nice thing about CMUD is that you can use it for ANY text-based game, including free ones that are out there. Even if you lose interest in GS, there's other alternatives out there.
Yeah, that's true; only problem for me is that, pretty much without fail, I have basically loathed every other free text-based game that I've ever played (and I've tried many). Often it has to do with the typically generic MUD combat systems, but not always. Anyway, my interest in other text-based games is basically nil.

I can understand if you're a broke-ass college student and/or have other priorities for your money, as long as you're not just slamming Zugg's products because they have a pricetag attached to them. People deserved to get paid for their hard work.
Yeah, it's the former rather than the latter. I agree that people have the right to charge for their work, and don't have any problem at all with Zugg's products.

Drunken Durfin

12-19-2008, 12:50 PM

It does scripts in ZScript, XML, VBScript, JScript, and Lua. What more do you need?

Okay...now I am interested.

Drunken Durfin

12-19-2008, 02:12 PM

Okay, now that I have downloaded cMud, is there a "setting up for GS" faq somewhere?

NocturnalRob

12-21-2008, 12:43 PM

i don't mess about.

http://i411.photobucket.com/albums/pp194/nocturnalrob/FEshot.jpg

Martaigne

01-06-2009, 03:55 PM

Spell durations up and running, although CChat hasn't been released yet so there's no cross-client communication as of yet. A quick alias will set the times for your spells, unless they are self-cast. Screenshot takes up a lot of screen real estate so I'm posting as a link instead:

http://citrus.martaigne.com/images/shots/citrus25bspelldurationspng.png

Okay, now that I have downloaded cMud, is there a "setting up for GS" faq somewhere?

In case anyone else is looking for this, http://citrus.martaigne.com/, although the CMUD release isn't public just yet.

Drunken Durfin

01-06-2009, 03:57 PM

Nice...can't wait to get my desk set back up so I can give the new version a spin.

mgoddess

01-06-2009, 06:08 PM

Spell durations up and running, although CChat hasn't been released yet so there's no cross-client communication as of yet. A quick alias will set the times for your spells, unless they are self-cast. Screenshot takes up a lot of screen real estate so I'm posting as a link instead:

http://citrus.martaigne.com/images/shots/citrus25bspelldurationspng.png
Not to nitpick, but your 503 needs to be Thurfel's Ward, not Blur. :P

Martaigne

01-06-2009, 11:38 PM

That was a holdover from old code that Celephais pioneered. Since it's not even a beta release yet I haven't bothered correcting it until I got all the code working.

Gnomad

01-07-2009, 07:10 PM

DaCapn

01-08-2009, 12:59 AM

OSX is just BSD in disguise. You ought to be able to build it from source but I, of course, have no idea how bastardized their flavor of BSD is. If you need .NET 2.0 on another platform, you're pretty much hopeless unless you turn to a VM solution. Lich is solid enough on its own in my opinion anyway.

CrystalTears

01-08-2009, 08:25 AM

How did you get Stormfront on the mac? I didn't think it would work.

Deathravin

01-08-2009, 09:44 AM

Finally got it set up right. Fuck Avalon and YASSE.

http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/7479/picture1xq5.png

Next up, getting Psinet and Lich running on the mac.

edit: forgot Psinet uses .net 2.0; no way am I getting that working. Lich is still a maybe.

Or you could just get a real computer...
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/apple_introduces_revolutionary?utm_source=embedded _video

Gnomad

01-08-2009, 07:08 PM

How did you get Stormfront on the mac? I didn't think it would work.

Wine, specifically by using Crossover Mac (http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxmac/). I'll make a thread about all the details in a few days once I iron out all the kinks.

Or you could just get a real computer...
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/apple_introduces_revolutionary?utm_source=embedded _video

yeah, you're trollin' at around a 2

we're going to need you to bring it up to a 7 or 8

serioustalk:
I have a PC desktop and my Macbook boots into XP perfectly fine but I prefer the OS X UI by a longshot. The worst things about a Mac are fewer games and a shittier office suite but Crossover fixes both of those for me. Plus it's a laptop so I don't game too much on it anyway; that's what the old desktop is for.