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Clan Discussion / Re: I'm bringing lovey back.
« on: November 05, 2013, 07:07:22 PM »
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Drama / Re: Facechild and Bones4 Degrading Themselves
« on: October 09, 2013, 07:52:55 PM »the "I'm better" mentality is a funny thing.It's not so much that, it's moreso that they realized Sturgeon's revelation, and this is their way of responding to the futility of the fact.
Seriously, nothing ruins your faith in the general public more completely than working on something and listening to the general public's "suggestions" for how to make it "better."
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Gallery / Re: TITANIC (Dock progress pg. 25)
« on: September 26, 2013, 10:21:46 AM »Have you made the flag on the back yet?Nope. We tried once, but we never finished it. Thanks for the reminder.
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Gallery / Re: TITANIC (Dock progress pg. 25)
« on: September 24, 2013, 04:25:26 PM »It wasn't until looking at this image juxtaposition that I realized just how right we've gotten this. I feel like all of our work, research, and scaling is paying off, when we can replicate a photo like this with such accuracy and detail!
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Gallery / Re: TITANIC (See pg. 22 Blast from the past)
« on: September 04, 2013, 09:31:02 PM »Going the other way, you could go the "ship in a bottle" route, stick the Titanic in a "tank" made of water zones surrounding the ship.I don't think that would allow a variable speed on the ship, though.
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Gallery / Re: TITANIC (See pg. 22 Blast from the past)
« on: September 04, 2013, 12:21:03 PM »I'm curious on how you will implement water without flooding the interior. Got some snazzy custom solution?As said before, as it stands right now the interior simply floods whenever we raise the water level to the proper height, and we do not have anything in the works to fix it. We would be interested in any scripters etc. who might have a solution, though.
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Gallery / Re: TITANIC (See pg. 22 Blast from the past)
« on: September 04, 2013, 06:35:39 AM »also what are those things behind the engines?If you mean the white thing, it's the controls for a watertight door. If you mean the black thing, part of the pipes that connect the steam engines to their respective condensers.
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Gallery / Re: TITANIC ( Read the F.A.Q.!)
« on: September 01, 2013, 04:19:50 AM »
Well, here goes.
First up, we have my work placing furniture in what will be the First Class Dining Saloon, largest room on the ship:
The flat brown rectangles will be tables, the grayish blue circles will be chairs, and the white poles will be columns.
The section of the room furthest from the camera (the starboard aft part of the room) needs to be reflected to the section of the room to the left (the starboard fore), and then the furniture can be reflected from starboard to port to finish the room. There were enough seats here for 554 first class passengers to dine! If you look to the left in the image, you will see a piano (with a keyboard that changes color when clicked to give the impression of a cover lowering over it).
Brace yourselves, because this is where things get heavy.
This piano was in the primary First Class dining room, but it wasn't played while people were dining. Instead, it played hymns (such as "Eternal Father, Strong to Save") during a nondenominational Divine Service every Sunday from 10:30 to 11:15 AM. On Titanic's maiden voyage, it just so happened that a lifeboat drill was scheduled to take place on Sunday, April 14, 1912. However, most likely because of the worship service, the decision was made to postpone the drill, perhaps until Monday.
That opportunity would never come, however, because Titanic sideswiped an iceberg (that probably weighed 300,000 tons) late during the night of Sunday, April 14, 1912, and had fully sunk well before the sun came up the following day.
Titanic had a lifeboat capacity of 1,178, but only approximately 700 people ended up in those boats. There was a lack of coordination on the part of the crew (on one side of the ship, the officer on hand had a policy of women and children first, but if there were no more women on deck, he would begin letting men aboard; on the other side of the ship, however, the officer that was present had a policy of women and children only. The captain wasn't seen very often during this time, but it's understandable, given that he most likely realized early on the magnitude of the situation before him, between the lifeboat/passenger figures and the nearest rescue ship several hours away.) as well as the passengers (people were very reluctant to climb into the boats, as many were confident that the ship would eventually settle and remain afloat; even during the final moments of the sinking, when all that was left at the surface of the water was the stern, there was a moment when it seemed to remain momentarily still, and some onlookers from the lifeboats had become convinced that it was going to stay there for the rest of the night!).
There is a definite irony in the idea that giving a church service priority probably killed roughly 400 people. This piano played during that service.
First up, we have my work placing furniture in what will be the First Class Dining Saloon, largest room on the ship:
The flat brown rectangles will be tables, the grayish blue circles will be chairs, and the white poles will be columns.
The section of the room furthest from the camera (the starboard aft part of the room) needs to be reflected to the section of the room to the left (the starboard fore), and then the furniture can be reflected from starboard to port to finish the room. There were enough seats here for 554 first class passengers to dine! If you look to the left in the image, you will see a piano (with a keyboard that changes color when clicked to give the impression of a cover lowering over it).
Brace yourselves, because this is where things get heavy.
This piano was in the primary First Class dining room, but it wasn't played while people were dining. Instead, it played hymns (such as "Eternal Father, Strong to Save") during a nondenominational Divine Service every Sunday from 10:30 to 11:15 AM. On Titanic's maiden voyage, it just so happened that a lifeboat drill was scheduled to take place on Sunday, April 14, 1912. However, most likely because of the worship service, the decision was made to postpone the drill, perhaps until Monday.
That opportunity would never come, however, because Titanic sideswiped an iceberg (that probably weighed 300,000 tons) late during the night of Sunday, April 14, 1912, and had fully sunk well before the sun came up the following day.
Titanic had a lifeboat capacity of 1,178, but only approximately 700 people ended up in those boats. There was a lack of coordination on the part of the crew (on one side of the ship, the officer on hand had a policy of women and children first, but if there were no more women on deck, he would begin letting men aboard; on the other side of the ship, however, the officer that was present had a policy of women and children only. The captain wasn't seen very often during this time, but it's understandable, given that he most likely realized early on the magnitude of the situation before him, between the lifeboat/passenger figures and the nearest rescue ship several hours away.) as well as the passengers (people were very reluctant to climb into the boats, as many were confident that the ship would eventually settle and remain afloat; even during the final moments of the sinking, when all that was left at the surface of the water was the stern, there was a moment when it seemed to remain momentarily still, and some onlookers from the lifeboats had become convinced that it was going to stay there for the rest of the night!).
There is a definite irony in the idea that giving a church service priority probably killed roughly 400 people. This piano played during that service.
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Gallery / Re: TITANIC ( Read the F.A.Q.!)
« on: September 01, 2013, 03:19:00 AM »dang thats a lot of horses. imagine putting that into a carConsidering that the engines are each approximately four stories tall, the car would most likely break under the weight of the installation. Thus is the nature of the square-cube law: all other factors constant, as an object increases in power by the square of some number, the mass of the object increases by the cube of said number. Still, yeah, that's a lot of horses. Just to move the rudder, a steering engine was used that was probably about 750-1,000 horsepower.
There's an RMS update incoming! Part of it is probably going to be heartfelt, like the Thomas Andrews-related update was.
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Gallery / Re: TITANIC ( Read the F.A.Q.!)
« on: August 31, 2013, 01:01:24 PM »
For some technical details, the engines being focused on in these pictures are four-cylinder, triple expansion steam engines of 15,000 horsepower each. The large, round gray thing that's partly in the frame to the right in the second image, and mostly covered by the main engines in the third image is a low-pressure steam turbine that can put out 16,000 horsepower, and powers the central screw. The way it works is that if the side engines are set to at least half speed ahead, that steam turbine can be engaged to give the ship a total of 46,000 horsepower when moving forward. That turbine runs off of excess steam from the two main engines, and as such makes the ship more efficient than she would otherwise be.
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Gallery / Re: TITANIC ( Read the F.A.Q.!)
« on: August 29, 2013, 09:39:05 AM »I have a question. If the engine/boiler room is under the red water line, and if you added water won't you flood the engine/boiler rooms because of Blockland's water physics?Yes, although I personally wonder if we might be able to find a scripter who might be able to change that.
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Gallery / Re: TITANIC ( Read the F.A.Q.!)
« on: August 28, 2013, 12:40:43 PM »when you finish this you should build belfast to launch it fromWe have a part of the Southampton dock, but it's not currently loaded because we still need to correct how the boundary between the red and black parts of the hull are painted. Once that gets resolved, though, work on the port side of the hull will be finished, so it should be safe to load the Southampton dock in again.
the faq says there's an iceberg you guys haveAs of this very instant, 98,358. Hugums heard that modifying an INI file can increase the brick count. If this information turns out to be false, or leads to game crashes, though, I am certain that we could always make a plea once construction officially stalls due to the brick limit, that resources be put into increasing the brick limit with the probable increase in sales that comes with being added to Steam (barring some kind of rejection from Valve, or the game not increasing in popularity as much as one might anticipate, or Badspot not getting as much development money due to being put on Steam because Valve demands something like 20% of the money from each sale of the game through Steam, etc.).
can we see it
also what's the brickcount
As for the iceberg, it was more of a placeholder to show how big the iceberg would have been. it was 3 64× cubes side by side with 32× cubes on top of those. The iceberg had a translucent paint scheme, and was roughly 1,500 studs in front of the ship. These dimensions gave the approximate size above the waterline of the iceberg that sank Titanic, the distance at which it had first been spotted, and the transparency that the newly rolled over iceberg had (instead of white). Unfortunately, Bones4's new color palette does not yet have a translucent, window-like color.
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Gallery / Re: TITANIC ( Read the F.A.Q.!)
« on: August 27, 2013, 10:56:26 PM »
I personally wonder if we could keep the activity up by dividing each major sub-build into individual gallery topics? For example, the steering machinery I built (with Bones doing the springs on the steering quadrant) was something like 400+ bricks when all was said and done, and its workings are incredibly intricate, which I believe is enough to qualify for its own thread.
To keep this thread alive, we should start a joke competition. All jokes must have something to do with the titanic.11 Oscars for what, a remake of a national socialist propaganda film? James Cameron's movie certainly has a lot more in common with that than it does any actual history.
On the Titanic the captain calls a meeting of his officers:
'I have some good news and some bad news. Which do you want to hear first?'
'The good news', replies an officer.
'We'll get eleven Oscars.'
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Gallery / Re: TITANIC ( Read the F.A.Q.!)
« on: August 23, 2013, 07:38:30 PM »
The steering gear is complete!
Titanic needed a 3-crank steam engine just to move the rudder, and she had two on board in case one failed and they needed a backup. However, only one of these would be hooked up to the steering gear at a time.
Here you see the steering quadrant, and how the active engine links up to it to spin it. The seemingly reflective dark gray things inside the quadrant are springs, designed by Bones. Historically, these springs would ensure that if something suddenly hit the rudder, the springs would absorb the impact and prevent it from being transferred to the steering quadrant and thus prevent the engines from being destroyed thanks to a busted gear or a broken crankshaft or something.
Also, in the background of the second image, you can see part of a staircase. That staircase was directly below the docking bridge's staircase. This is related to how in the first image, you can see a white pipe rising from in between the two steering engines and going into the roof: on the other side of that roof is a similar pipe coming down from the wheel on the docking bridge. The docking bridge had a more direct connection to these engines than the wheels in the wheelhouse and navigating bridge!
Titanic needed a 3-crank steam engine just to move the rudder, and she had two on board in case one failed and they needed a backup. However, only one of these would be hooked up to the steering gear at a time.
Here you see the steering quadrant, and how the active engine links up to it to spin it. The seemingly reflective dark gray things inside the quadrant are springs, designed by Bones. Historically, these springs would ensure that if something suddenly hit the rudder, the springs would absorb the impact and prevent it from being transferred to the steering quadrant and thus prevent the engines from being destroyed thanks to a busted gear or a broken crankshaft or something.
Also, in the background of the second image, you can see part of a staircase. That staircase was directly below the docking bridge's staircase. This is related to how in the first image, you can see a white pipe rising from in between the two steering engines and going into the roof: on the other side of that roof is a similar pipe coming down from the wheel on the docking bridge. The docking bridge had a more direct connection to these engines than the wheels in the wheelhouse and navigating bridge!
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Gallery / Re: M4A3E8 WWII Tank
« on: August 22, 2013, 10:47:27 PM »The tank is overall, too small. It is a little smaller than it would be to a real person, but its a lot smaller than it should be to a Blockhead. And if you make it bigger, wheels get easier and you can get more detailed. Other than that, its decent.Making it bigger makes the size comparison moot, because Blockheads are hopelessly fat; if you tried to make it wider, it would become disproportionate with itself, making it all around larger throws off the scale entirely compared to a blockhead's height, and making it bigger might make the road wheels easier to make, but it would throw off the size of the return rollers and drive wheels.