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Personally I think this is the worst idea ever. The Reason forums has LOADS of info and knowledge, built up through years and years. I'm really sad to see it go away, and I can't understand why they've made this decision. https://www.propellerheads.se/forum/showthread.php?p=1579099#poststop

Couple of door sound questions: 1. What is the correct way (or a clever one) to set up a door to have sounds that play upon start of movement in both the open and close directions? Currently it seems snd_open does this for opening, but snd_close doesn't play on start of movement but rather end of movement (upon closing). Great for a KLUNK! closing sound, but not for a movement/scraping/whatever sound. Devs: if this is currently not supported, can it be? Pretty much a needed property. I might just be missing the correct way though... 2. If such sounds are longer than the actual door movement, the sound doesn't cut off properly; instead it keeps playing for the full length, even if the door is open/closed. Limitation, or am I missing the proper way to implement it? I'm sure it can be scripted, but this should be proper canned behavior.

I am working on an implementation that makes AI aware of moving lights and objects which it can see. I wanted to know your opinions about the problem and some possible solutions for it. The problem: AI doesn't react to an object that is grabbed by the player and moved in front of their eyes. I tested it multiple times, even the object is completely lit in front of the AI nothing happens. In fact, you can push them with these objects if you do it slowly and carefully in 1.07 (the new 1.08 has corrected being able to push as grayman told). Related to this, they don't react to candle or lantern light that moves or appears in front of them. You take a candle and completely brighten the front of the AI while standing next to him, there is no reaction. Also from what I have read from the forum, the player can abuse this by grabbing a pile and creating a shadow for himself. The ai isn't aware of the moving pile, so player can move piles around for creating shadows. After creating enough shadow you can walk inside the shadow and AI won't notice this because it can not detect a moving object. I think it is a major problem for AI and I am trying to find a good solution for this. I need feedback from you guys in order to understand what I should or I should not do about this problem. Here's my solution: I created multiple algorithms using different methods in the code. For the moving object awareness, the most simple solution was; if the ai can see the object && that object is grabbed by player && it also moves make the AI face to the entity that is moving and set the alert state to suspicious or searching. I think the AI can handle afterwards because I will just try to make the ai investigate near the moving object. To get rid of possible issues between other ai, the implementation should find whether the object is held by the player. This is the solution I found for light awareness which is similar to moving objects. if the light is held by the player (ai eliminated) && the light moves (I don't have an exact idea about this one) && the bounding sphere of light intersects with the AI viewcone turn toward the lightsource Again if we can only turn the ai to that direction the rest will handled by ai. I mean it is a natural reaction to turn towards where the light comes before going into any states. (I think) I really know how deep and complex this solution can get but again we can find the source of light candle or torch whether ai or the player therefore complications with other AI would be eliminated. I would like to hear thoughts and possible alternative solutions from the community and the team before trying to implement it.

Had a problem with the web server yesterday that led to a crashed table in the forum database. This has now been repaired and things seems to work again. I was on travel so it took a while before I was able to fix it. Merry Christmas!

I'm at work so I can't test this idea, but I was wondering if anyone else had experimented with this. I want to include a movie in my briefing made from in-game shots. I don't really want to have to learn how to set up and use cameras--my energy for learning new things for this map is about spent. What I was planning on doing was use FRAPs to capture in-game footage and then put it together in a video edting software. At the moment, however, I can't get a decent movement speed for the camera. When I'm flying around in noclip mode, the speed is quite fast, and doing a stop-start-stop-start motion is just too jerky. Anyone happen to know if slowing down the player movement speed affects you speed when in noclip mode?