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Modification Help / How to make a car with Support_EngineSounds have only one gear?

« on: April 24, 2024, 01:52:58 PM »

For some reason if I give a vehicle an ES_gearCount of "1", it doesn't work correctly, even when I do the gear pitches and gear speeds. I was trying to do an electric car or something with only one gear and any less than 2 gears seems to make it function incorrectly.

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//gear count, will not work if you do not get the count right for ES_gearSpeeds and ES_gearPitches
ES_GearCount = 1;
// in seconds how long it takes to go from REV of last gear to REV Of new gear
ES_GearPitchDelay = 0.3;
//can only shift gears every 0.3 seconds
ES_gearShiftDelay = 0.1; // SECONDS
//gear speeds in TU (1:2 in terms of studs)
ES_GearSpeeds = "0";
//gear pitches, PITCH_START PITCH_PEAK
ES_gearPitches = "0 1.0";
//max pitch the vehicle can ever make
ES_maxPitch = 1.0;

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Suggestions & Requests / Custom Vehicle Camera?

« on: November 11, 2023, 11:26:41 PM »

It'd be neat to have a mod that replaces the vehicle cameras with a custom one for both third and first person. Reacts to forces and rotation and stuff, in third person it's like a chase cam in a racing game. In first person, can "simulate" g-forces or something. Preferably would auto-center when the mouse stops moving after a configurable amount of seconds.

The main thing is the third person aspect of it, to make driving more fun. Would probably be a client mod.

Also, I was looking for a client mod that let you freeze the camera in place that I used to use, while you can still control your blockhead normally, but I can't find it anymore.

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Modification Help / Trying to convert speed to MPH.

« on: November 09, 2023, 05:38:06 PM »

I've done it before but for some reason I completely forgot how. Trying to convert speed into MPH, using the same formula for mid-air kills, whatever the formula for that was.

Like let's say I'm editing a vehicle stat, and increasing its top speed. What's the formula for converting the value I plug in into MPH?

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Suggestions & Requests / Support_EngineSounds improvements

« on: July 29, 2022, 06:54:30 PM »

Gear Shift Sounds	Allows the ability to play a gear shift sound each shift. Especially useful if you want to add a BOV sound to a turbocharged car.
Throttle Let-Off	The engine sound quiets down when the forwards button is not pressed, or maybe also when the engine sound is pitching down to the next gear. Or having it switch to a separate deceleration file instead.
Looping .wav Support	The ability to use looping .wav files if preferred/assigned to the vehicle. If I used Half-Life 2's Jeep as an example, at the start of a sound file it has the car revving into gear, and then once it reaches a certain point, at the end it has loop points for the cruising sound itself. So it'll loop the cruise part but every gear shift it restarts the sound so the "into-gear" part plays, then it reaches the loop point and loops again.

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Suggestions & Requests / Support_Garage Presets

« on: June 28, 2022, 10:09:59 PM »

Just the ability to save and load vehicle presets for vehicles that use Support_Garage.

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Suggestions & Requests / Change steering animation linearity | Gear shift sounds

« on: June 26, 2022, 04:09:01 PM »

Something I found strange about Blockland vehicles is steering animations, or rather their linearity. While steering controls in Blockland are linear, the player and steering wheel animations aren’t. Steering animations slow down drastically towards the center, and sometimes it tends to throw me off when driving at times, also sometimes leading to overcorrection in steering when driving in first person. I was wondering if this was something that could be changeable, so that I could make it 1:1 or more linear to match the actual steering.

I was also wondering if it was possible to do gear shift sounds to pair with Support_EngineSounds. Would make things sound a tiny bit better, or if you want to play a turbo BOV every time you shift depending on the vehicle. It’s probably already possible through code (where you just tell it so that when different speed values are reached it triggers it (with the speed values matching the gear speed values in the ES config), as well as adding a delay so that gear shift sounds can’t overlap each other, and also defining what sound file is used from the preloaded audio database that gets played and what audio channel it’s on) by editing the vehicle data file, but I don’t know a whole lot about programming to do something like that myself, and if someone could figure it out it’d be much appreciated.

Speaking of which, how many audio channels can entities have maximum? Like 3?

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Modification Help / Bricks and rain collision.

« on: June 24, 2022, 11:22:44 PM »

Always found it strange how Zonebricks can block raindrops but regular bricks can't. But I don't want to put Zonebricks on everything in my maps that shouldn't have rain on them.

Is there any way we could have something that makes bricks automatically block rain?

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Modification Help / Possible for cars to go faster than 200 BPS?

« on: June 24, 2022, 11:01:31 PM »

Been curious about this for a while, no matter what speed you set the max of a car to, it always goes only 200 BPS.

According to a speedometer mod that uses the same MPH/KMH system that Badspot uses for mid-air kills/throws, 200 BPS is exactly 155 MPH/250 KMH. Thought that was quite interesting, actually.

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Modification Help / No option to update add-ons via BL Glass.

« on: November 04, 2021, 01:54:57 AM »

I've already reinstalled the game and reinstalled Glass. Whenever new mods are updated, Glass never notifies me to update them. Worst of all, there's no option to update anything anywhere.

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Suggestions & Requests / Poster bricks that actually stick to walls instead of float.

« on: September 14, 2021, 11:11:34 PM »

I wanted to use some poster bricks but the problem is that they're centered, so if you place them up against a wall, they don't stick to the wall, they just float in midair.

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Suggestions & Requests / Some decent-looking house builds/saves to use with NewDuplicator.

« on: September 13, 2021, 02:18:56 AM »

Just useful for building neighborhoods and cities, looking to find some good house builds I can use to paste around and make a suburb out of.

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Suggestions & Requests / Some simple round bricks I'm looking for?

« on: September 12, 2021, 04:30:30 PM »

I'm using 16x round corners for sidewalks using Siba's roads, however I wanted to have a round that's similar but it's just bigger, so I can use it for Siba's bigger curved roads. And/or if possible, I wanted to have a custom brick/round that would have it go on the OUTSIDE of the road as well, so the outside sidewalk can curve around as well (with of course a bigger variant for the bigger Siba road curve too).

Can anyone make these? How difficult would it be?

If anyone is unable to make them, but would like to teach me how to do it myself, I made a thread here.

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Modification Help / How do I make these bricks?

« on: September 12, 2021, 04:27:26 PM »

Does anyone know how I can make bricks? How hard is it to make something like this? Do I have to use Blender or something, or can I fiddle with stuff in Notepad (opening .blb stuff) and get my results that way?


I'm using 16x round corners for sidewalks using Siba's roads, however I wanted to just make a round that's similar but it's just bigger, so I can use it for Siba's bigger curved roads.

And/or if possible, I wanted to make a round so I can make a sidewalk for the OUTSIDE of the road as well.

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General Discussion / Anyone know where that JVS pack is?

« on: September 12, 2021, 03:56:28 PM »

Looking for a specific JVS pack that had a couple switches, and one of them I remember specifically had a key slot thing where the key goes in and turns, then comes back out.

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Suggestions & Requests / Truck trailers and vehicle chase AI?

« on: September 11, 2021, 03:15:59 PM »

Possibly? Or is it literally impossible no matter what due to the game engine or something? :P