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Off Topic / this is literally the most amazing thing ever
« on: February 06, 2015, 11:11:27 PM »
ok so there was this baseball simulator in japan that allowed you to customize how your character pitches the ball

then this happened

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Off Topic / Betrayal Megathread
« on: August 07, 2014, 10:39:22 PM »
Okay, I just learned a little tidbit of information that I would've been perfectly fine going my entire life without knowing, so I need to vent a little.



A bit of background first: When I was in grade school, both of my parents were working full time jobs, and the school bus didn't run in our area because we were doing schools of choice. Because of this, my brother and I had to get up at the crack of dawn so my mom could drop us off at my Grandma's house on her way to work, after which she would bring us to school for her. She also babysat us most days during the summer for the same reason. I had quite a close relationship with her.

Since I was an infant, she had a dog named Jesse, a big spunky husky that she kept chained up in the back yard. He was a little loud and rambunctious but very sweet and gentle, and I went out to visit him and play with him every single day for 8 years.



One summer, when I was 12, I arrived at my grandma's house at 5 AM and followed my typical routine: pretended to sleep on the couch until my mom was gone and my brother was asleep, went into the kitchen and filled a plastic cup with kibble, and went out the door into the back yard. Jesse never really slept much so he'd usually come out of his dog house to greet me when he heard the door open, but this time he didn't. I didn't think anything of it and just walked over to his dog house with the food. I found his chain snapped and the house empty. I bolted back into the house, basically screaming, and got grandma out of bed and told her what I saw. She told me that he had broken loose and ran away the night before.

Now, this had happened several times before. As my grandparents started getting older they were taking him for walks less and less, and he tended to get a bit antsy every now and then. He was always brought home safely in the end a few days later, either from asking around the neighborhood or of his own accord. So, while I was quite worried, my grandma assured me he was going to be okay, and that was enough to calm me down so I could go back to sleep.

Days passed. Then weeks. Jesse still wasn't home. This obviously upset me, and I had pestered grandma about it literally every day. I made my own flyers and posted them on every lamp post I could, and I had even gone out to look for him myself several times, travelling far beyond the boundaries that had been set for me to play in, all to no avail. Eventually my beloved grandmother sat me down, looked me in the eyes and told me: "Jesse's old, honey. Maybe he knew that his time was up and he didn't want us to have to see him go." I sat there for a second, kind of stunned. I hadn't really thought about that. He was indeed about 16 years old, which is quite the number for a dog, and he hadn't been active or spunky in a very long time. As much as I didn't want to, I said "alright" and gave her a hug, and gave up the search.

I cried myself to sleep that night and a few of the nights that followed. Even though I didn't own him, Jesse was my dog, and he was important to me. We weren't allowed to have dogs where we lived, especially not big dogs. We had one cat, and he was an starfish, so Jesse was basically the only real pet I ever had. And he was gone.



That was almost 10 years ago.

I just heard my parents talking to each other in their bedroom a few minutes ago. My aunt recently moved back into grandmas house with her pit bull Lucky, and my mom was talking about how bad grandma is at taking care of dogs. They were only talking about Lucky at first, but then she brought up Jesse, and I heard a phrase that made my entire body tremble with disgust, shock, and hatred.

I didn't even think, I immediately stood up from the kitchen table, walked into their doorway, and made her repeat herself. Jesse had been found and caught 3 days after he had escaped that night. The pound had called grandma and told her they had him, and asked her to pick him up. She declined. She didn't want to pay the fine to bring him back home.



Post any instances when you felt deeply and crushingly betrayed by someone close to you.

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Off Topic / Blockland won't last forever.
« on: July 27, 2014, 11:32:45 PM »
Idk. I was just thinking, this game isn't going to last forever; badspot WILL eventually drop it entirely. Once Blockland runs its course and these forums get shut down, what's gonna happen to the community?

/discuss

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Off Topic / Should I change my avatar?
« on: June 24, 2014, 02:09:40 PM »
Idk, I've had the same avatar since I joined and I feel like changing it would be blasphemous

At the same time, I didn't make it myself and I feel like I should make something more original

What do you guys think?

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Creativity / Custom Plush Toys Thread
« on: May 12, 2014, 10:35:34 PM »
I'm getting into making plushies and I figured I'd share some of my progress.

I'm making a life-sized, slightly modified version of this OC with a shorter body, a slightly more filled-out (fatter) form, a wider ass, and a bigger head.





This is what I have so far. The lighter fabric looks gray, but it's actually a really nice desaturated green color, like in the reference. You can see my feet in the second picture to give you an idea of how big he's gonna be.

Right now there are 7 pieces in total including his underside (bottom of first picture), which I still have to pin and stitch. The rest of his pattern (sans his head) is finished and ready to be cut out; another 90 pieces in total counting claws and other small stuff. Once I get his belly stitched on I'll be adding the tip of his tail and his wings. I'm stitching him entirely by hand, with very thick, very strong upholstery thread and supersoft Minky fleece.

I've also made a couple small things as practice projects and as gifts, which I'll post later when I have the time to photograph them.

Any thoughts?

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I've owned blockland for upwards of 4 years now and I'd like to add it to my Steam library. Simple enough, I've done this with other games, just go to my library and add game.

However, it shows up as a non-steam game and I can't access any of the related features as I should be able to (achievements, statistics, groups, etc).

It's irritating. Is there a way to fix this?

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Modification Help / Raycasting
« on: April 28, 2014, 09:43:15 PM »
I want a weapon to use raycasting instead of projectiles.

I took a look into some of the weapons that use it and it seems simple enough.

Except, I want an emitter drawn along the vector, and I want it to redirect towards a player if it travels within X units of them. It currently does this using projectiles, but I want this to travel faster than I'm allowed to set the projectile speed, so the only other option is raycasting.



So if I were to shoot this now...




it would arc towards the feet of the bot instantly, and pain would ensue.

Is this possible without a stuffload of low-level coding (ie writing my own modified raycasting function)? If not, is there ANY way to disable the projectile speed cap? I know this is kind of a no-no for ghosting but the extra delay between the shot and the explosion is really bugging me.

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Modification Help / Audio Descriptions?
« on: April 28, 2014, 08:17:07 PM »
this line in an audioProfile Datablock:

Quote
description = AudioClosest3D;

What are all the available descriptions, I know of AudioClosest3D, AudioClose3D, and AudioDefault3D, in order from shortest audible distance to highest

but I need something higher than AudioDefault3D, and AudioFar/AudioFarthest3D don't exist

Anyone know offhand?

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Modification Help / Targeting all players within a certain radius
« on: April 28, 2014, 01:44:06 PM »
I want to apply the whiteout affect to every player within a certain radius when an explosion goes off, but its not working.

Code: [Select]
function SLCZProjectile::onExplode(%this,%obj,%flash)
{
parent::onExplode(%this, %obj); //explode once

%this.schedule(800, "Boom", %obj, 1); //then explode again

initContainerRadiusSearch(%obj.getPosition(),10,$TypeMasks::PlayerObjectType);

for(%num=0; %num<%flash; %num++)
{
%obj.setWhiteout(0.25);
}
}
Ignore the first two lines, they're for something else

Console says "unable to find object: ' ' attempting to call function 'getPosition'", so obviously I'm using the containersearch wrong, but I don't know what about it is wrong

help would be appreciated

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Modification Help / What filter/effect is this?
« on: April 27, 2014, 05:39:43 PM »


This is what it looks like in a spectrogram, its like an LFO/phaser but different, I can't find what it's called for the life of me and I need it

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Creativity / The <WORST> 3D models you've ever made?
« on: April 27, 2014, 03:29:38 AM »
Post any 3D models you're ashamed to admit you created, old or new.

No posting other people's models. Seriously. Don't do it.

A couple entries of mine...



Tesselation? What's that?



Yes tak, this is exactly how faces work, definitely



Just a disproportionate clusterforget of ugly shapes

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Modification Help / Explosion Shapes?
« on: April 27, 2014, 02:40:27 AM »
I'm trying to add a custom explosion shape but I'm having some issues.

If I try to spawn the explosion, well, my computer BSoDs. I'm pretty positive this is due to me having no clue what I'm doing/not knowing the rules regarding explosion shapes.

Do I need any special hierarchy/specific LODs in the DTS for an explosion shape?

What do I name the sequence I want to play whenever the explosion is spawned?

Thanks.

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Modification Help / God damnit wrong board
« on: April 27, 2014, 02:36:57 AM »
ignore me

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Off Topic / Any Audiophiles here?
« on: April 26, 2014, 02:05:55 AM »
Just curious if anyone here has a love for music as deep as mine.

Here's my Head-Fi profile:

http://www.head-fi.org/u/337226/takato14

Discuss serious audio and music.

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Creativity / Watch me model for Blockland!
« on: April 24, 2014, 03:56:47 PM »
I've been contemplating doing this for a very long time. I can't count how many times people have expressed disbelief that I use Google Sketch-Up for making my models. So now, I'm going to work on one of my latest works, version 4 of the Shining Laser Cannon, on stream so people can see how I do my work.

I have some quiet music playing but I don't have a mic, so I won't be talking. I will however be using the chat.

Feel free to drop in and watch, I'll probably be modeling all night.

Takato14 on Twitch.TV

Stream status: OFFLINE

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