I was bored one day this year and wrote a small python-based telnet client. It’s extremely simple, but someone may find it useful, even if for learning.
import getpass
import telnetlib
print “Teletak Telnet Client by Raven (EyesOfARaven) 2007″
host=raw_input(“Server: “)
user=raw_input(“Login: “)
password=getpass.getpass()
tn=telnetlib.Telnet(host)
tn.read_until(“login: “)
tn.write(user + “\n”)
if password:
tn.read_until(“Password: “)
tn.write(password + “\r\n”)
while 1:
tn.interact()
I was too. It really annoys me to have to search through text for relevant facts, so I wrote this small script to parse text quickly looking for keywords and save the resultant facts to a second text file. Quite simple, but perhaps useful. You’ll need Python (www.python.org) to run it.
#Scoper v1.0 by Raven (EyesOfARaven), October 10, 2007
import sys
f=file(raw_input(“File->”))
kw=raw_input(“Keyword->”).lower()
of=file(raw_input(“Outfile->”),”w”)
count=0
linecount=0
for line in f.readlines():
linecount+=1
print “Parsing line “+str(linecount)
if not ((line.lower()).find(kw)==-1):
of.write(line+”\r\n”)
count+=1
print “Found on “+str(linecount)+”, “+str(count)+” total.”
else:
print “Not found on line “+str(linecount)
else:
print “Parsing Completed, “+str(count)+” of “+str(linecount)+” lines contained “+’”‘+kw+’”.’
sys.exit(1)
nvidhive: you can call a donkey a cat, but it doesn’t make the ass a pussy
Clever. Made me lol. Read and enjoy.
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Let’s say you’ve got an item that you’d like to be partially visible, fading out to one side. For example, a planet in the sky that is half-lit by a star. You could use a gradient to cover it up, you could color it in, there are a multitude of ways to do it. However, none of these is as simple and versatile as using layer masks. There are many kinds of layer masks, but the two I’ll be discussing are Layer Reveal and Layer Hide, which can be used interchangeably.
Either of these layer masks gives you a second thing to paint on the layer through besides the normal way. This shows up as a black or white (or a combination of the two) box next to the layer’s thumbnail. Black means that the items in that place on the regular layer are hidden, white means they are shown, and anything inbetween designates transparency. With that said, the difference between a layer hide and layer reveal is slim, it is that the layer reveal starts all-white, and the layer hide starts out all-black. It doesn’t matter what one you choose, but it is more convenient to use one than the other in certain situations.
The layer masks are under Layer->Layer Masks->Reveal All (or Hide All).
In order to hide part of something, simply create a gradient, or draw black, in the area to be hidden. Soft brushes and gradients allow for a gradual fade to hidden. Note that you can limit a gradient or brush to a certain area by making a selection before you use one.
This hide/reveal can be used to create reflections, by flipping what you want to reflect, moving it approximately 1px separated from the original, and then using this technique on it to fade the side of the reflection that faces away from the original.
To make things like seen in my Photoshop CS3 icon’s background:
http://eyesofaraven.deviantart.com/art/Photoshop-CS3-Icon-65126343
Great site. I’ve been posting like mad there, trying to build up popularity and get feedback on my work. Check out my page:
I went into Walmart to return MoH:A, and they were difficult about it, eventually giving me store credit. I purchased CoH, so I could play that online, and while looking through the games found something amusing.
They had a copy of Age of Empires II and expansion for $20 in a pack. Older game, still reasonable deal… I had them already, so I didnt care much. I continued to look around, and two games above it was, for $10, Age of Empires I, expansion, and Age of Empires II and it’s expansion! What kind of insane retard priced these games? Spend twice as much and get half! Pfft…
Medal of Honor: Airborne – Great game. Great AI, great level design, great weapon upgrade system, great shading, lighting, graphics, etc.
Two downfalls:
So, the AA comment says what it says itself. As for the multiplayer. There are few servers, which is understandable, but half of them are non-secure, which means that they are hacker-filled, aimbots, etc. It is annoying. It takes about 5 minutes to be auto-matched, and it typically ends up a 1v1. That kinda sucks. All of this aside, because it is minor, the multiplayer still sucks. There is a maximum of 12 players, which baffles me. It’s a pathetic number, which provides for small skirmishes only, which is not what you want out of a game like this, the single-player has about 40vs40 per level. In order to compensate for the tiny number of players, they reduced the maps from the single-player to incorporate only the crappy parts of the levels, leaving out anything fun that might have snuck in there. Not to mention the unfathomable lag (and my system specs are ungodly, with 18mbit FiOS, so it isn’t me).
If you stay away from multiplayer, however, it is an excellent game, 10/10 from me. The only complaints about single-player are the lack of other fronts, like Russia (and such things hopefully can be fixed by an expansion 
), as well as the small number of levels, again which could be remedied by an expansion.
The AI is adaptive, which means that if you play through the first time on expert, without unlocking all the weapons on an easy mode first, you will die repeatedly until you get things perfect. I was stuck on level 1 for about 2 days, and I’ve been on level 2 for about 4 days now… But I like it this way, it’s actually a challenge. Kudos@the AI writers.
This is one of a few techniques, and currently my favorite, for making a three-dimensional grid in Photoshop. It is simple, and quicker than most ways of doing this.
You may see the end result featured in “Core IV Angel”, on my deviantart page:
Core IV Angel on ~EyesOfARaven’s DeviantArt
