Did you enjoy PPM's Aprils Fool 2006?

Banshee

Considering the recent lack of new poll, let's go with this one.

Did you like the aprils fool prank that we did this year? (PPM Modding Software Solutions)

- Yes
- No

And feel free to post your opinions, discuss it here and... if that wasn't a real prank, what would have happened?

Ickus · General **Joined**: 25 Nov 2002 **Location**: @__@

I found it to be hilarious, people were getting really emo about it. Razz

I personally had a mixed reaction. I was not sure believe it or not, I just stood back and watched to make my final decision.

I considered the possiblity of it actually be true. While I find those programs to be a great set of tools, even shp life looks promising..

I aready have the needed programs that crank out mods the good ole fashioned way.

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SeySayux · Cyborg Specialist **Joined**: 21 Jun 2005

It was set up very well, but futhermore... paying for modding tools... bah. So I cannot say yes, but i can say neither no.

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Mr. Pokey · Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 10:13 am Post subject:

I thought is was great! Always funny to see people get really tetchy about things like this Very Happy

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Fellshyun · Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 10:24 am Post subject:

I liked some of the reactions, people freaking out.
And I wasen't a victim, because I avoid the internet on April 1st.

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stucuk · Geek **Joined**: 27 Aug 2002

I loved it.... tho i was in on it... anyway being evil rocks!

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pd · Laser Commando **Joined**: 19 Jun 2005 **Location**: Gone

The news itself was very funny, actually, and I did enjoy.

But you shouldn't have gone further than the news message and the website.
Releasing the incomplete tool versions with untested new features and the annoying fake trial message was a bad idea... especially since they came a day after April 1st (for most people, I don't know your time zone).

Suiseiseki · Commander **Joined**: 06 Oct 2003

Even in banshees time zone everything was released on april the second.

Banshee · Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 12:08 pm Post subject:

The tools were our way to say you were fooled.

Btw, PaD, I did tested the copy frames and reverse frames (and also the other two). They work fine... what I'm not so sure if it works fine is the undo. I've done a some tests with it and it worked fine, after many attempts... but I haven't tested all situations of copy frames and some rare situations of reverse frames.

Delete frames and move frames and were tested. Move frames worked, but the undo did not work when you moved certain frames from one to another SHP with or without shadows. The code had no way to trigger the other SHP when one of them was undone. I was coding this part, but it's not completed. Therefore, I've greyed the feature. Delete frames was deleting the wrong frames most of times for some strange and unexplained reason. So, I had to cut that one too.

Flood and fill with gradient was tested and worked very well on the vast majority of the cases. On some cases, it might not detect the whole gradient range due to the nature of how Westwood made the palette. They did not made a perfect gradient effect on some areas. In one very special case, it took the gradient that was ahead of it... but it didn't affect negativelly the results.

The new image effects were all tested and worked perfectly on all cases. Unfortunatelly, I've noticed that some of them, if not all, are useless to most of the users Laughing

... at least in the current conditions. But I had some fun with the Uber Noise one #Tongue

. The Poly Mean turned to be better than what I originally expected from it. Square Depth sucks bad.

Sorrow · Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 12:41 pm Post subject:

I think that Aprils Fool should begin and end on April 1st.
This one was late lasted for too long, so I voted no #Tongue

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Crimsonum · Seth **Joined**: 14 Jul 2005 **Location**: Fineland

I haven't read much news lately, so was the whole thing (PPMMSS) not true? only a joke? ok, so I say no, because I didn't spend my time to look "what is this?"

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stucuk · Geek **Joined**: 27 Aug 2002

Sorrow wrote:

I think that Aprils Fool should begin and end on April 1st.
This one was late lasted for too long, so I voted no #Tongue

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Exactly why i told Banshee not to do his standard April fools thing and post 1 hour later saying "its a april fools". The longer something goes on the more likly it is for ppl to belive it. This Hoax lasted about 2-3 days.

Everyone knows everything posted on April 1st is a prank, you need to think outside the box, otherwise u just get the general crap u normaly get with the compleatly obvious ones.

Note: i call it a Hoax due to ppls stupid "It has to be a 1 day boring event thats obvious to be classed as an April fool dispite the fact that there is 30 days in April"

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Blaat85 · Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 5:51 pm Post subject:

I thought it was funny and well thought of.

DeathRay2K · Commander **Joined**: 01 Sep 2002 **Location**: Canada

I loved it, and obviously, believed it. Smile

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Red Dragon · Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 7:22 pm Post subject:

It was quite cool. So many people... But I didn't bother...

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Apex · Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 12:00 pm Post subject:

I thaught it was funny, it was a unique prank that uses up disk space, I love it, cant wait for April 1st, 2007.
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Tesla7zap · Stormbringer **Joined**: 06 May 2004 **Location**: Sweden

I didn't bother to get what it was about #Tongue

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Alex06 · Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 4:51 am Post subject:

It was quite fun...because i knew it was an april fool's. #Tongue

Oh yeah, and colblair1, what do you think is gonna happen in 2007? C&C3 has been cancelled? C&C3 sucks? I'm sure it'll be about C&C3! It's only logical... Laughing