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Mapping Help / New Heightmap topic: Where do they go now?

« on: September 22, 2010, 10:35:17 PM »

Alright, I checked, doublechecked, rechecked...

What folder do heightmap PNGs go into? This setting seems to have changed.

They do NO LONGER go into Blockland/editor/heightscripts.

I can't get my 256x256 PNGs, which always worked, to show up in the "Load File" dialog.

Any help is appreciated.

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General Discussion / PAX East- Anybody going?

« on: February 18, 2010, 01:55:52 PM »

I'll be there, certainly playing Blockland and seeing if I can get others to join.

Who else is going?

http://www.paxsite.com/paxeast/index.php

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General Discussion / Anybody playing on integrated graphics? I am!

« on: September 29, 2008, 12:19:15 PM »

Just wanted to share my success with very limited hardware- 15k bricks, minimal lag, running 1280x800x16 on GMA 950 (Intel 945 Express Integrated) with a C2D t5500 at 1.6Ghz and 2GB of RAM.

That means, most likely, those Atom boards can run Blockland well enough right out of the box.

Anybody else having success with integrated graphics? Please stay on topic, this is not the place to ask if you have a graphics card or not, or how to not lag.

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Drama / Ronin accused me of cheating :-C

« on: July 16, 2008, 09:08:33 PM »

I dont much appreciate it.

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Help / Minimum required for console server?

« on: April 25, 2008, 06:22:38 PM »

Just wondering, not so much hardware specs, but the software which is required. Alot of overhead can be freed by switching to Windows 2000, or even Windows 9x (Not that I would) or DOS (Which would be more likely than Win98).

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General Discussion / For those who must always make a new thread...

« on: March 11, 2008, 12:30:29 AM »

Just wanted to share this funny pic :-D
Supposedly, its a new feature Badspot didnt purchase... It's a bit of newb protection.

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General Discussion / Blockland ad on Brickshelf :-D

« on: March 04, 2008, 06:31:56 PM »

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General Discussion / Dedicated BL eating resources?

« on: December 03, 2007, 06:14:18 PM »

I have been hosting a server now for a while, and this was a problem both with Pre-Retail Blockland and Retail:

After building, clearing, building, clearing, and so on, Blockland with a few thousand (5-ish) bricks eats up a full 811,696K RAM.

If I was to take the build, save it, and restart the server, and load the save, I know the rescources Blockland uses would be significantly less. What is one to do with a server which strives to maintain true 24/7 functionality?

Is it possible/on your to-do list to optimize whatever necessary code, or add ownership saving to the saving routine, and or add a small code snippet to allow optimization of an in-progress server?

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Modification Help / Texture help?

« on: July 22, 2007, 04:27:52 PM »

Would somebody be so kind as to CORRECTLY make this pleasent fern's background transparent? Also, explain to me how :-P I tried, but it left a... residue.

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Mapping Help / Paintcan for no-shapeReplicate and terrain holes?

« on: June 23, 2007, 06:23:31 PM »

I'd like to know if it's possible to make 2 tools...
1. A tool for Editor which can 'spray' or otherwise draw an area where Shape replications cannot exist.
2. A Blockhead weildable device which turns a small section of ground both invisable and passable, for making holes!

Either of these would help very much in my efforts for a fun server (albiet currently offline awaiting parts).

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Help / Slow Dedicated networking/block-sending

« on: May 30, 2007, 11:33:01 PM »

Just a Q for Badspot, or anybody who is at least arm-deep in the code....

Is there any way to increase the rate at which my clients on my dedicated server receive bricks?
I have a persistence, say 70k bricks, and the bricks offscreen load before the onscreen ones, and at a rate of maybe 20-40bricks/second... Just an estimate, might be way off..... I go by what I see.

I'd just like to know, because I jsut souped up my internet, and noticed no speed boost for my clients!

I also have some numbers....
When I connect, over LAN, the connection never seems to go over 40k uploading. I have a 5MB upload cap!! LAN should be around 12.5MB!

What gives, in a nice way? :-D

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Modification Help / Spawn without jets

« on: May 21, 2007, 08:55:53 PM »

For my RPG map, I need just 2 questions answered, please:

1. How do I make all players spawn in "Quake" or "No Jets" player mode?

2. How do I disable spawn-bricks?

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Mapping Help / Why is my grass texture all liney?

« on: May 19, 2007, 12:35:44 PM »

I got my own grass texture, and saved it as both a 256 and 512 sized PNG, and nomatter which I use, they look the same.... Lots of lines runing through the image. What gives?

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Mapping Help / Map limit Q's

« on: May 16, 2007, 02:36:16 PM »

Just a few more Q's....
Max map size?
I see the map as being 2048x2048 units....

Any way around the repeating terrain thing? What about just having no terrain after the map ends?
I believe that last one may have already been answered, but I just want to double check.

I want to make a very large "world" type map, and knowing the limits (Q1) and if I can have on-going ocean after terrain ends would help quite a bit.

There has to be some hack that can kill repeating terrain, even if it means NO terrain after the map ends.

Maybe convert terrain to an object?

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Mapping Help / Where to put the .BMP for a terrain....

« on: May 15, 2007, 10:34:15 PM »

Where do I put the bitmap file so the terrain function "Load Bitmap" can see it?