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Faces, Decals, Prints / Face: CD-i Ganon

« on: August 16, 2008, 04:04:38 PM »

The "OR YOU WILL DIE" face of Ganon from that awful CD-i game, often featured in Youtube Poops (search Youtube for "youtube poop ganon" if you're not familar with this; warning, may be nsfw).  Falls squarely in the "so bad that it's hilarious" category.

It was vectored in Inkscape from a low-quality cap, modifed and cropped appropriately for Blockland, and exported from there to PNGs.  I think it looks reasonable in game, but if anyone else would like to take a shot at it, I'll provide the .svg files on request.  Here's a larger (512x512) PNG, which is cropped and modfied as I did the ones in the .zip for Blockland, just because I can:


And the link to the "Face_ganonQUALITY.zip" thingy:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?azzlffs3m2v

Enjoy.

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Help / Dedicated Server: Some emitter effects not showing up in the list

« on: October 14, 2007, 11:14:24 PM »

I just bought Blockland recently.  I know you'll all want to clap, jump for joy, hoot, holler, etc. that some random Internet stranger has just bought Blockland but I must ask you maintain some modicum of seriousness, because I have a conundrum--and it is serious business:

I have a minor, but fairly irritating, problem.

When I run a dedicated (lan) server, certain packed-in emitter effects don't show up in the list, among these being the laser, fire A, fire B, and fog A-C.  Everything else is fine and works satisfactorily.

Curiously, this does not occur when I run a non-dedicated lan server.  I don't know why.  Maybe it's something obvious, but I'm new, recall, so I wouldn't really know.

I searched a bit and nothing like this came up, so I presume it's not a question/problem that's been answered solved.  (The implicit question here:  "Why is it behaving like this and how do I make it stop?")

I'm running it under Wine (which works excellently) on Debian Sid GNU/Linux and I've made some minor changes to the preferences (which I produce--sans passwords, etc.--if that's necessary and cogent to the problem).

Basically, I want to be able to run a dedicated server on that machine and have the emitter effects also.  But if there's something about running a dedicated server that prevents me from doing that, I'll do without.  I want to run a mostly-persistent server on that machine and, since its graphics hardware is, uh, not very capable, dedicated helps on the utilization side.  If there is a solution, though, I would very much like to know it.  Thank you for any attention and help.


A tangentially related aside:  I figured from the FAQ that this is probably alright, but it is my intention to run a (dedicated) server--on a separate machine, in the same house--while also using another copy, on another machine, as a client.  Like I said, I figured this was okay, but if it isn't, I'll stop immediately, of course.