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Games / Killing Floor guest passes [out]

« on: December 28, 2009, 06:29:40 PM »

I bought killing floor recently and it came with two guest passes so I thought I'd give them out here, first come first serve, either post your e-mail or steam name, or if you don't want to post them here pm me. Also if anyone else wants to post guest passes for any other games they got feel free and I'll change the thread title.
All out, have fun guys :D

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Off Topic / Name of a song

« on: October 18, 2009, 07:55:40 PM »

I was trying to find the name of a song but I couldn't find it through google. I can't remember the complete lyrics but its something like "Tell me why why why....other lyrics....I get my *mindblanks*......I get my *mindblanks*.....I get high as a kite I get all strung out...". I also remember something about shoes and cocaine but I'm not sure. The songs played on a is played on a guitar with the singer playing a single note of the song at a time. It's probably a few years old since I heard it on a classic rock station. If anyone can figure out the name of the song I'd appreciate, I'll try to put more information up if I can remember anything else  

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Off Topic / New Laptop

« on: June 17, 2009, 05:00:58 PM »

A while ago I bought a laptop on sale for about 600$ and ever since then I've had nothing but trouble with it, having to send it back 2 times for repairs.  Anyways this time the repairs are going to run me about 400$+ for parts and labor (motherboard) so I thought that I might as well get a new one and I wanted you guys opinion.  I'm not willing to spend over 500$ (well a little over...) but if you have any other recommendations feel free to post them.

The ones I was really thinking about getting are

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834107028

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834146534

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834115556

The acer looked the best to me and the reviews were pretty good but I wanted you guys opinion.

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Mapping Help / Height Maps

« on: April 17, 2009, 07:42:11 PM »

I was going to try importing a height map into Blockland but I can't find the right directory to put them, does anyone know the correct directory?

Solved my problem, create a folder in your blockland directory called "editor" and place inside it a folder called "heightscripts" this is where your height maps wills go.

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Off Topic / Good Video Conversion Software?

« on: April 09, 2009, 11:45:23 PM »

I have a couple videos that I need to convert from .flv to mpg4 for my iPod and I was wondering if anyone knew of any good freeware that I could use.  I googled for some earlier but I didn't find any that looked good and wanted to know if anyone had a recommendation. 

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Off Topic / Aviary(online vector and raster image creation and editing)

« on: March 16, 2009, 12:10:16 PM »

Aviary

    Aviary is a set of web based design products that you can use on any computer with flash enabled they have a variety of different products that range from a vector graphics program called Raven, to a planned 3D modeling software called Hummingbird. There are still a few minor bugs that I noticed (which could be my fault since I'm running Firefox portable) with some of the programs but I was able to create and export a few things earlier.  One of the cool things about it is you can export your creations to a variety of different formats, so if you want to edit it in another program later you can, also Raven exports to .png so you could create a decal for Blockland strait from there :D.  The site also has a blog section where news on upcoming releases are posted as well as a forum for any questions you might have. There is also a section with several tutorials covering their released products that you can look at.

Aviary is on a mission to make creation accessible to artists of all genres, from graphic design to audio editing. We're a privately held company currently headquartered in Long Island, NY, with team members around the world. Our founders also created Worth1000.com, a talented community of 500,000 digital artists that participate in amazing daily contests.

Aviary Tools
Currently only 4 applications have been released with many more in development.

Raven(beta)
Use Raven to create fully scalable vector art appropriate for logos or tee shirt designs. You won't find a similar tool on the web.

Pearooster
Pearooster does so many amazing things that we decided to call it our "Visual Laboratory". Experiment with pixel-based images in completely new ways.

Tocan
Our color swatches and palettes tool will help you find colors you didn't even know exist.

Phoenix
Our image editor has layers, masks, effects, undo history, and all that other good stuff.

Upcoming Tools
They also have some other neat programs that are in development.


Myna
Audio editor

Eagle
Pixel pattern recognition

Owl
Desktop publishing

Penguin
Word processor

Pigeon
Painting simulator

Hummingbird
3D modeler

Ibis
Font creator

Roc
Music generator

Starling
Video editor

Tern
Terrain generator

Woodpecker
Smart image resizer

I did some more digging around the site and found out that you have to pay a subscription fee of $10.00 a month to use all the features in the software.

Aviary has a free basic plan which is a great way to get to learn the tools. We also have a premium Pro plans which allows a lot more control over the applications usage. Our paid plan is incredibly affordable ($9.99 a month), especially when compared with traditional desktop software that can costs thousands of dollars.

For exact pricing details, please see our pricing page.

I don't know if this is old news to any but if you haven't heard of Aviary it's definitely something worth checking out.  Yes I copied some of the descriptions of their site :P

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Modification Help / Objects in TorqueScript

« on: February 23, 2009, 01:59:57 PM »

    I was wondering how would you find out which objects classes are built into TorqueScript and how you would find what methods and properties they have built into them.  Also what would be the best way of finding out what their parent classes they belong to and what child classes they have if any.

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Off Topic / Need advice on what grapics card to get

« on: January 16, 2009, 01:05:21 PM »

I play a lot of games on my grandpa's computer and it plays most games fine.  However when I want to play any source games like HL2, L4D or Portal it slows up considerably especially in outdoor scenes.

  My first question is what would be a good relatively cheap graphics card, about 120$ atm or cheaper that would be able to run source games smoothly.  My second question is how hard is it to install a graphic's card, I've put in things like CD/DVD drives and ram before is it any harder than that?

I did a little research and I found out the computer has the following slots inside

PCI: 2 Slots
PCIe x1: 1 Slot
PCIe x16 (Graphics): 1 Slot

LINK to product page

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Suggestions & Requests / Blockland offline mode

« on: January 01, 2009, 03:32:42 PM »

    I have blockland installed on a computer at my grandma's computer which is shared between me and my cousins.  The problem is that since they are all young I would like to keep them from playing online, however I am not always around to make sure that they stay offline. 

    My question is would it be possible to implement some sort of password system that keeps them from accessing the online portion of the game?

My suggestion is a log-in panel that restricts access to muilt-player for people who share computers with younger siblings.

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Off Topic / Origins of the Tenacious D song classico?

« on: December 08, 2008, 04:52:24 PM »

I was wondering what are the names of the songs that make up the Tenacious D song classico, in particular I want to know the name of the part at the beginning.
[edit]Ping told me bach is the artist but I can't find the name of the song it is.

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Off Topic / Picture request [Rocket launcher projectile]

« on: December 02, 2008, 01:01:53 PM »

I was wondering if some could post a side shot of the rocket launcher projectile, I need it for a project and I am not at a computer with blockland.  If you could take the picture with a background that has a lot of contrast for instance Destruct that would be even better.  Thanks

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Off Topic / Math Problem

« on: September 09, 2008, 07:55:17 PM »

I was wondering if anyone could help me solve this math problem.

"If John starts at zero and adds 3 on his calculator and Sam starts at a hundred and subtracts seven at what number would they meet."

The only way that I could think to do this would be to use a number line but I was wondering if anyone knows
of a easier solution.

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Help / Port Fowarding Issues

« on: April 29, 2008, 03:58:53 PM »

I'm trying to forward my ports for Blockland and I have already set up a static IP for my computer.  However I'm having issues with my router control page.  The guide I'm following says for me to go to expert --> configure and then choose the option NAT.  However I can not find it under configure; so after digging through it a bit I found out how to get to the NAT page. However none of the options on the NAT list look anything like the guide I'm using.  So I was curious as to if any one knows what the problem is.

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Modification Help / Message all problems

« on: April 27, 2008, 06:25:03 PM »

I was porting an older map that has a kill trigger that is supposed to message all that the player died when ever you enter the trigger.  However when ever I enter the trigger only the death message is displayed with out the players name and sense I have very little coding knowledge I decided to post here for help.

Here's the trigger function:

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function BLGrillTrigger::onEnterTrigger( %this, %trigger, %obj )
{
   if (!%obj.client)
      return;
   %messageArray[0] = "\c2" @ %obj.client.namebase @ " just decided to sleep with the coals.";
   %messageArray[1] = "\c2" @ %obj.client.namebase @ " decided to go for well-done.";
   %messageArray[2] = "\c2" @ %obj.client.namebase @ " likes it HOT.";
   %messageArray[3] = "\c2" @ %obj.client.namebase @ " fails at walking on hot coals.";
   %messageArray[4] = "\c2" @ %obj.client.namebase @ " IS ON FIRE!!!";
   %messageArray[5] = "\c2" @ %obj.client.namebase @ " turned into a plastic puddle.";
   %messageArray[6] = "\c2" @ %obj.client.namebase @ " says, 'That's hot.'";
   %messageArray[7] = "\c2" @ %obj.client.namebase @ " decided to go down in flames.";
   %messageArray[8] = "\c2" @ %obj.client.namebase @ " made like Gollum and the One Ring.";
   %messageArray[9] = "\c2" @ %obj.client.namebase @ " is now available in Flame-Broiled or Extra Crispy.";
   messageAll('SomeDumarseFellIntoTheGrill', %messageArray[getRandom(0,9)]);
   %obj.kill();
}


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Mapping Help / Slate Room (Testing Phase)

« on: April 20, 2008, 07:31:13 PM »

I’ve been working on a map that gives the illusion of an interior map without limitations. I’ve pretty much finished it, but I would like to post it here so I can get some feedback on it, and be able to iron out any problems. There is a missing texture error, because two textures were used in the original terrain file. So if anyone knows how to delete a texture from the texture painter, let me know. I know the fog looks a little awkward, but I left it in to reduce lag from rendering all the terrain. I'm aware the name is kinda of lame so I'm open to any suggestions.  With out any further delay I present Slate Room:
Preview
Download

LOL I can't belive I found this topic, I might remake soon because the old one was crap  >_>