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Modification Help / Build Optimizer service

« on: April 27, 2011, 12:25:36 AM »

Ive had this script for a while - so now its time to let everyone else use it.

Its simple to use:
1) goto the website on my pc  http://yans.dyndns.org:7777/seaside/blockland
2) upload your spammy brick save
3) click "Optmize"
4) download the result

what does it do exactly?
It looks for bricks of the same kind and color and combines them into larger bricks.
so for example,  2 1x1 bricks nexto each other (of the same color), will be combined into a single 1x2 brick.
Or a line of spam:  16 1x1 bricks in a line will be combined into a single 1x16 brick


Kudos to DrenDran for getting me off my bum and making it into a website.

Bricks with events are ignored (not optimized).
If you have custom bricks in your build, they wont be optimized. 

Update
Added an "options..." button.
There is support for 1 brickpack right now: "BlackDragonIV's Brick Pack"  which you can find on RTB.
You can choose to "deconstruct" your build into smaller bricks to get a better result on the optimize.  Please read the warnings if you pick this.

Support for an "ignore all bricks with this color" feature is in progress.

If you get an error page when trying to do something - click 'Debug' .  and STOP.  'Debug' opens a debugger window on my PC.  i'll see it when i get back, and try to fix the problem.

And some pics of the results

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Help / massive lag spikes when people enter/exit

« on: June 26, 2010, 02:33:36 AM »

ever since the last couple weeks im getting massive lag spikes when people enter and exit my dedicated server.

This starts when the brick count gets above 80k. and then gets progressively worse until its unplayable.

I turned on trace(); and saw every time it stopped at something called resetVehicles.  Which makes no sense, as this is a mining server im running and there are no vehicles to reset.
I tried setting the number of allowed vehicles to zero, but that had no effect.

Ive already re-installed blockland and tried running with default addons -- no effect.
Any suggestions how to fix this?

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Modification Help / TDM spawnpoints

« on: April 15, 2010, 03:07:15 PM »

Im trying to setup a TDM on my server.

what i want to happen is this:

when the TDM starts (or when somebody joins), they are spawned in a 'holding area'  where they go click or touch a brick to choose their team.   Once they choose a team, the player gets spawned in their team area and then play normal TDM from there.

everything works except for the initial spawning.  If a player joins a team with the /jointeam cmd, it works.  if a player walks into my holding area and clicks or touches a team brick, they spawn correctly.  but nobody actually spawns in the holding area (where I do have spawnpoints).

Since my server is also somewhat freebuild theres other spawnpoints scattered about.  some belong to me, some dont.

Now also -- based on Space Guy's instructions, I setup 'setTeamAllied' events on all the spawnpoints i want to use.  for team 1, for team 2 and for team 'none', but the team 'none' spawnpoints dont seem to work.

how can i get them to work w/o having to delete all the other spawnpoints on the map?

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Gallery / Boring saturday

« on: April 13, 2010, 08:50:43 PM »

I was bored last saturday so I got out duplicator and went nuts for a while.

Here is the result:


Save of the build is here if anyone is interested:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/ggjaloolbdo/ColorPyramid.zip

WARNING: 40k bricks

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Modification Help / Documentation?

« on: March 23, 2010, 03:02:48 PM »

Where is it?

Specificly for blockland and all the commandToServer stuff we can override when making addons.
Im not talking about existing addons, or the functions built into torque, but the stuff thats unique to blockland.

Is there a magic cmd in game that will list out ALL the events and server commands?  is there a magic keyword I didnt search for? (searching for "documentation" didnt help).

help and/or links would be great

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Maps / Canyons map

« on: March 20, 2010, 05:09:14 PM »

new map to build stuff on
http://www.mediafire.com/?mmzzmazhyyc

something other than a flat featureless field.  Comes with textures and updated skybox.

Edit: - yes pics would be helpful.

Edit2: - updated map to fix problem with players spawning under the terrain.