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Suggestions & Requests / Re: Track Creation Brick Pack

« on: July 23, 2016, 09:29:20 PM »

What's the polycount on that? and good luck on the collision mesh for that.

296 vertexs, 120 faces total. It looks high poly because I smoothed the faces.

it looks like a cut cylinder (to make it a tube) and then edge-split the bottom edge, then shifting each set of vertices over repeatedly one unit at a time, each time removing another ring of vertices from the moved selection.
the only thing that gets me is the exact alignment on the bottom edge which probably is him doing some math or something.

Haha, Blender has a modifier called "Screw" and it does exactly what it says, it makes a screw out of things. More info HERE

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Suggestions & Requests / Re: Track Creation Brick Pack

« on: July 20, 2016, 02:10:38 PM »

Of course... that was my first attempt at making a loop, here's my second attempt:



The next tricky part is to figure out the collision and test it in-game. This is the size of a whole 64x cube by the way. The track width is 32x.

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Suggestions & Requests / Re: Track Creation Brick Pack

« on: July 17, 2016, 02:12:21 PM »

Here's my rough attempt at making loop-hoop track.. not quite right yet but it's getting there.

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Add-Ons / Re: [Script] Third Person Orb v1

« on: July 17, 2016, 02:08:26 PM »

We must be talking about separate things. If you right click and hold while still moving in a direction, the orb itself jumps around, and it spazzes out. I was talking about that.

Yeah, I notice that sometime. It's not that big deal to me.

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Add-Ons / Re: [Script] Third Person Orb v1

« on: July 17, 2016, 11:38:02 AM »

There really isn't anything to fix anyway, it's just particles being particles

Haha yeah, that's how it looks when it's moving in-game.

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Add-Ons / [Script] Prepper Orb v1

« on: July 17, 2016, 12:53:32 AM »

Prepper admin orb, enough said.

Script_PrepperOrb.zip

Additional screenshots of it in action:

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Add-Ons / Re: [Script] Third Person Orb v1

« on: July 16, 2016, 11:43:42 PM »

Awesome! This is very useful. Here's the addon in action:

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Suggestions & Requests / Re: Third Person View on Admin Orb

« on: July 16, 2016, 11:40:00 PM »

My hero. Locking this thread.

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Suggestions & Requests / Re: Third Person View on Admin Orb

« on: July 15, 2016, 11:06:06 PM »

It's mostly done, but the control for switching between first / third person is really buggy.
Should be complete tomorrow.

That's fine, it doesn't have to be perfect- I will strictly use the tool to preview my admin orb when modding.

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Suggestions & Requests / Re: Third Person View on Admin Orb

« on: July 14, 2016, 10:30:54 PM »

Controlling isn't super easy, but here's what I have so far:
Video

Looks great! That's exactly what I had in mind.

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Suggestions & Requests / Re: Third Person View on Admin Orb

« on: July 14, 2016, 11:19:19 AM »

Hmm, dang.

How about forcing bots go into F8 mode? Is that possible?

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Suggestions & Requests / Re: Track Creation Brick Pack

« on: July 14, 2016, 12:37:02 AM »

I believe the biggest issue regarding this request would be the 64x brick limit. A lot of bricks would be cool to have but would require segmentation. It doesn't make much sense to have a curve like in your first image stuck inside a 64x - that's tiny. Or loops, or tilted curves, anything really.
Which sucks, really, but there's no way around it, unless this could be enough justification for Badspot should lift that restriction, which I doubt anyway.

The loop will require segmentation not only for brick size limit but also for the complex of .dts collision shapes. I can give it a shot and see how it goes.

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Suggestions & Requests / [REQUEST MET] Third Person View on Admin Orb

« on: July 14, 2016, 12:15:03 AM »

Following up on this previous thread: https://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=265411.0 (Couldn't post on it due to being too old)

Has anyone achieved this feature yet? I would like to find a easier way to view the admin orb when I mod it instead of having to relay on other unwilling people or running double Blockland clients.

I've tried a few of camera control addons and they don't work with the admin orb.

Many thanks to Cruexis for making the addon!

done

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Suggestions & Requests / Re: Inverted Crest Bricks (25 and 45 Degree)

« on: July 13, 2016, 11:24:41 PM »

it's because the bricks are designed to not support bricks above them
when flipped it can be changed to not support bricks below them instead

Yup, you have to assign certain grid placements on the bricks, to do that which is easily doable.

OP: I think nobody made inverted crest bricks because they weren't in high demand so brickmakers saw no reason to make them.

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General Discussion / Re: Conan's Modeling and Add-on Development Service

« on: July 11, 2016, 11:53:06 PM »

I already use general's obj to blb; i just haven't figured out how to assign a texture type to a face, nor adjust the UV mapping on a side through blender (though i do know how to UV map). I haven't really sat down and tried to figure out the process yet, but if someone requests something that requires it, I will do it.

Zeb made a pretty nifty tool to help calculate the SIDE texture for UV mapping here.