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Add-Ons / Scaling all particles in an explosion without creating un-necessary datablocks

« on: December 26, 2009, 09:50:43 PM »

I have a bomb (vehicle), and in the interest of saving datablocks, I'm using the standard vehicleFinalExplosionEmitters, and I only changed the projectile/explosion for a different damage type/amount/radius.

Is a way to uniformly increase the particle sizes without creating any new emitter/particle datablocks? If so, could somebody please point me on the right track to finding this as I'm stumped right now.

I tried researching this first, and the only thing I could find was to scale the projectile, however this doesn't appear to change the size of the explosion particles, only the damage that is done, and the physical projectile shape (although in this case there is none, its lifetime is 0).
Creating new emitter's isn't the end of the world, I just like to optimize everything as much as I possibly can.

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Suggestions & Requests / New post rss feed.

« on: December 24, 2009, 02:43:17 AM »

Wouldn't it be nice to be able to track the BL forums via rss. We could have one feed for the entire forums, and aditional feeds for each section so that people who, say, only wanted to hear about new add one, could get a feed of just the add-ons section and not be crowded with off-topic or drama spam. Feeds could also be devided by all-posts, or just new topics.

What do you think?

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General Discussion / Odd console error/warning (bullet physics?)

« on: December 23, 2009, 12:16:05 PM »

I was in a dm today, reading my console, and I saw this:

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Bullet Error/Warning: Overflow in AABB, object removed from simulation
Bullet Error/Warning: If you can reproduce this, please email bugs@continuousphysics.com

Bullet Error/Warning: Please include above information, your Platform, version of OS.

Bullet Error/Warning: Thanks.
As the server had tons of people it, and a lot was going on at once, I do not know what may have caused it. Also, I wasn't really paying attention to what people were doing, I doing stuff in the console. (Messing with the new player list, nothing that could have caused this.)

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Modification Help / Determine a client's viewing mode (1st/3rd person) from a server?

« on: December 19, 2009, 03:50:35 PM »

As a server, how might I determine if a client is viewing the world in 1st or 3rd person?

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Add-Ons / Snow mod

« on: December 17, 2009, 09:52:17 PM »

I got bored...

Suggestion: http://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=93268.0
Result: http://www.mediafire.com/?wygmm3imn3o
Usage: /snow [amount] and it'll start snowing in whatever map you're in. If [amount] <= 0 it will stop snowing.

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Creativity / Shadows in Blockland!

« on: December 16, 2009, 09:25:41 PM »

Thoughts anyone?

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Off Topic / Blockland server time off by about 6 minutes

« on: December 08, 2009, 08:51:26 PM »

Forum.blockland.us seems to be off by about 6 minutes, just look at your profile and compare the "local time" with your most accurate clock.

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Drama / Lack of context

« on: December 08, 2009, 04:20:56 PM »

I was PMed this today, just this, without any context from somebody (who will remain anonymous) that I have never communicated with before.

like the rocket launcher, or the hammer?

That quote is the entirety of the message.
Does anybody have an idea what this person might want?

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Modification Help / How To Ask Questions

« on: December 03, 2009, 06:39:15 PM »

I have become annoyed by the type of questions asked on this forum. Below is a list of a few things that specifically stand out to me:

• Users rarely honestly try to come up with an answer on their own first.
• Users are often not willing to take the time to preform a simple google or forum search.
• Finally, and most importantly, users don't always try learn from their mistakes, much less other's mistakes, but instead just blindly apply whatever fix was provided to them. This then leads to the user not understanding what he or she did wrong and then they wind up making the same mistake again and asking a similar question again.

If users do not make an effort to search for answers on their own first, and learn from their mistakes, do you think they deserve the time taken by those more knowledgeable to answer their questions?

Here is a guide on a good way to ask questions.

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Creativity / Pen-and-ink Blockhead (well, sort of)

« on: November 15, 2009, 02:27:39 PM »

I was going for an "old comic book" style blockhead made out of only greyscale and cyan, and this is what I got:

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Add-Ons / Color Picker Tool

« on: November 11, 2009, 09:20:40 PM »

Color Picker Tool

I wanted one a color picker tool a while ago, back before I learned TorqueScript, but nobody wanted to make one.
So I finally got around to making one myself.
I've had this for a while just sitting there, and came across it again today, so I'll go ahead and release it.

The reason I wanted this tool was because I was working on an old build in a map where the sunlight was orange which was constantly confusing me about which colors to use.

Usage: Simply type /pickColor in the chat while looking at a brick of the desired color and your blockhead will use the spray can that is the same color as the brick you were looking at when you typed the command. This is a server sided script which means it will work for anybody on your server, but only on servers that have this script (assuming that it is enabled in either case). This will work with any color-set.

Download: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?e1frtjydznm

Enjoy.

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Modification Help / What is emap?

« on: October 26, 2009, 08:51:39 AM »

There is a field in many datablocks named emap, however I cannot figure out what it actually does. After a bit of searching around on these forums, google, and GG, I could find no satisfactory description of what "emap" is.

Any good explanation would be appreciated.

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Help / [FIXED] Blockland v13 now runs on Snow Leopard (Mac OSX 10.6)

« on: September 30, 2009, 11:42:46 AM »

PROBLEM:

• Blockland did not run on Snow Leopard when v13 was initially released.

SOLUTION:

• Re-download Blockland:
  http://forum.blockland.us/files/Blockland_13mac.dmg
  

Old problem:

When I try to start BL on a mac, BL refuses to start, it crashes even before creating a console.log file.

To reproduce this bug, simply download Blockland, put it anywhere, and try to start it.

I am running OSX 10.6.1 on a macbook 1,1

If you want a long list of specs, just ask.

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Modification Help / Determining The Mininum Brick Planting Interval?

« on: September 29, 2009, 05:02:46 PM »

Is there some easy way of determining the minimum interval at which bricks may be planted as a non admin on a given server.

I have an idea of how I would do it, but I don't want to skew the responses, so I'll leave it out for now.

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General Discussion / Raining Vehicles

« on: August 26, 2009, 06:37:53 PM »

As I have before I was having fun in my server making odd things happen. This time, the weather was a bit odd. It rained time bombs and jeeps.

This was quite simple to do, the script used may be found here.
The following screen shots (and a bit of expected lag from all the polygons) is what resulted from the use of the above script.