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General Discussion / Re: older blockland user check-in.

« on: September 04, 2018, 04:12:04 PM »

Does my 3426 ID count as old?

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Games / Re: Block Party - Minor Update, Demo Builds Showcase [pg.108]

« on: May 27, 2018, 07:06:27 AM »

Quote from: yehellis3246 on May 26, 2018, 11:16:01 AM

imagine trying to build in that
with the limited controls

Actually, working with any kind of 3D-Content in VR, with properly made controls, is much easier than plain old mouse and keyboard. Reasons for that are depth-perception, proper 3D-aiming, being able to use 'hands' and not being a cylinder with a camera tacked on...

I'm planning to buy a VR-HMD anyway so... VR support is a possibility?

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Games / Re: Block Party - Minor Update, Demo Builds Showcase [pg.108]

« on: May 23, 2018, 12:51:42 PM »

Then how about letting the player have only one inventory for items (ignoring bricks here!), at the minimum being a hotbar, which can be extended to any number of slots? The first 9-or-so slots (configurable) can be shown as hotbar on the HUD, with the remainder (also configurable) being hidden like a backpack, accessible by a keypress.

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Games / Re: Block Party - Minor Update, Demo Builds Showcase [pg.108]

« on: May 23, 2018, 08:58:50 AM »

Random concept/mockup image for brick window... (searchbox looks horrible... programmer art ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

Regarding the inventory discussion, how about...

While not in a minigame you have two 'inventories': The toolbelt (same as blockland, holding any kind of item) and the brick-bucket (also same as blockland, holding everything you can 'plant'). Both inventories can be shown/hidden/pinned on your screen.
While in a minigame you have one inventory, shown as a hotbar, of arbitrary (custom) size and shape.
Accessing the inventory of some object (brick, vehicle, bot, ...) is possible at any time, regardless of minigame.
A player can also have an extra 'backpack' inventory; there are no restrictions here.

Better? Suggestions?

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Games / Re: Block Party - Minor Update, Demo Builds Showcase [pg.108]

« on: May 09, 2018, 10:32:52 AM »

Quote from: DurkaDude on May 09, 2018, 12:59:15 AM

-snip- a single brick is between 136 to 141 bits to send over the network -snip- 200,000 bricks would be around 27MB of info.

So... 141 bits per brick is 18 bytes, which multiplied by 200'k gives you ~3.3 megabytes... and that's without clustering and compression techniques. The binary size of bricks is thus a non-issue, unless one lives on a farm somewhere in nowhere.

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Games / Re: Block Party - Minor Update, Demo Builds Showcase [pg.108]

« on: May 08, 2018, 12:53:33 PM »

Quote from: thegoodperry on May 08, 2018, 12:46:37 PM

ah i didnt know that. when i use unity on mac and export to PC there are almost no issues, i thought it would work the same around mb

Sadly, no.

Creating a Mac-Build in Unity requires a Mac with Unity installed and the project loaded.

No-one in the team has a Mac... :(

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Games / Re: BuildScape [New Screenshots]

« on: April 14, 2018, 01:43:33 PM »

Due to people asking if the game will run on their toaster, we've made a hardware survey to find out just how many people have toasters for computers.

Go here for the survey/poll: https://strawpoll.com/zwskzhgb

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Games / Re: Land of Dran (Public test! Download link on last page!)

« on: October 28, 2017, 05:00:20 PM »

Anybody that is getting a error called 0xc000007b: Replace the file OpenAL32.dll in the games folder with the one from Blockland.

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Games / Re: Blockland-Inspired Project

« on: October 25, 2017, 08:47:46 AM »

Quote from: Yin Yang on October 24, 2017, 10:43:09 PM

-snip- animation would be automatically mapped -snip-

This is what happens when you 'automatically map' animations between models: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fk755V8bq18

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General Discussion / Re: The Return of The 4digit IDs

« on: January 18, 2016, 09:36:22 AM »

BLID#3426

Recently started playing again.

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General Discussion / Re: On the current state of things: Our role here and the use of StaticShapes

« on: October 30, 2014, 04:30:49 PM »

Quote from: Honno on October 25, 2014, 09:51:46 PM

here is a simple format reference:
-snip-

That is really damn easy to interpret. I might just write a small library to parse bls-files...
But it would be written in Java (my primary language, C++-Compilers hate me), which I guess some people here don't like.
Should I?

Done.
You can download the sourcecode here: http://www.mediafire.com/download/o3x96899ej04cma/BLSReader.zip
The reader outputs the parsed data to the console as JSON. Look into the files BLSReader.java and BLSReaderTest.java for more details.
I was too lazy to document the thing, but its so small anybody (even a noob'y-coder) could understand it.

No license on the files contained within the zip-archive, you can do whatever the hell you want with the files!

- Longor1996

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Suggestions & Requests / Re: Animated Prints

« on: September 16, 2010, 12:43:04 PM »

Oh :(

OH, I have see Badspot and say them my idea...
I think he would make a GIF support...

but...
The Idea is very good. :)

(PS: I hope badspot make this support :) )

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