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Faces, Decals, Prints / [Face] :egg: face

« on: August 15, 2018, 03:42:49 AM »

By request, the well known face in the form of a face decal

I know someone made one before, but this one is more like the actual image instead of an aliased redrawn version of the face

Download
Face_Egg.zip - 24.1 KB

Screenshot

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Add-Ons / [Brick] Brown Treasure Chest w/ Paintable Lock

« on: August 01, 2018, 05:30:04 PM »

Brown treasure chest with a paintable lock

A variant of the default treasure chest where the lock and the hinges are paintable, and the chest itself is Blockland's default brown color

Description
This chest variant can function on it's own and alongside the default treasure chest brick

As requested by Lord Tony

Download
Brick_BrownChest.zip (16.2KB)
Mirror: Google Drive

Screenshots

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Off Topic / [NEWS] Sweden is up in flames!

« on: July 21, 2018, 06:07:08 AM »

"It has been very dry this spring and summer. Last weekend, it was thunder and lightning. The lightning started three forest fires," Forsgren told CNN on Thursday. "The home guard and firefighters have tried to stop the fire since Sunday. But it's not under control."

The blaze now covers an area of 9,000 hectares (nearly 35 square miles), he said.

Fires are also burning as far north as the Arctic Circle in Norway, Finland and far northwestern Russia, according to Copernicus, the European Union's earth observation program.

Wildfires are ravaging parts of the Arctic Circle, and they’re big enough to see from space.

The wildfires started in early June, and more than 50 have now cropped up in parts of Sweden inside the Arctic Circle, according to the European Space Agency, which has kept tabs on the situation with satellites from space. Sweden doesn’t often have to deal with fires, but so far the blazes have swallowed up $70 million worth of land, according to Swedish news agency TT. The country has asked for help from Norway and Italy, which sent along helicopters and planes to help contain the flames, according to the New York Times.

Other articles on the matter: https://www.thelocal.se/tag/heatwave+2018

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Off Topic / [NEWS] Pretend You're Xyzzy has shut down until further notice

« on: July 18, 2018, 06:54:48 PM »

Never mind, the servers are going down potentially for good in a few minutes. This is no longer worth the effort and risk on my end to maintain. I'm not at liberty to provide details at this time, but one person ruined it for everyone.

*IF* these servers come back, and that's a big if, there will be *no* chat whatsoever, and fill-in-the-blank cards will be disabled. I'm not even going to think about it until at least this weekend. I may also link to other servers people run, but again, not until this weekend.

https://twitter.com/_PYX_/status/1019701048728961024

Rest in peace the internet's favorite Cards Against Humanity game

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Music / Borrowed Time

« on: July 16, 2018, 02:57:42 AM »

A 2 minute loop of the song 'Borrowed Time' by John Lennon

Download
Borrowed_Time.ogg - 742 KB

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Off Topic / The Official April Fool's Day 2018 Thread

« on: April 01, 2018, 02:28:10 AM »

What are you doing for April Fool's Day this year? What are companies, websites, and other assorted individuals doing this year? Post here and i shall compile a list so that people can look back at what a crazy time April 1st was this year!

Blockland related:
The official BLF April Fool's Day thread
Team Peep
Roblox Blockland subreddit
Rotondo's delightfully devilish Discord

the B4v21 discord has had some slight changes:

Non-Blockland related:
PC Gamer's April Fool's Day compilation
Pokemon GO becomes 8-bit
Discord adds in @someone and @supereveryone
Studio Trigger put up an Inferno Cop game that may reward you for getting the highest score
Path of Exile: Royale
Vsauce Michael Says Prime Numbers for 3 Hours
Find Waldo on Google Maps
Google's bad joke detector
Halo Battle R.O.Y.A.L
Waddle Dee's 25th anniversary + Kirby Battle Royale
Mega Man robot master dating game
War Thunder adds Submarines and nukes
Homestar Runner's April Fool's Day
The Angry Happy Joe Show

Other:

several discord channels did things


the blockland content creators discord changed their logo


path of exile discord changed to this


r/tf2


r/civ

pop tarts made a sriracha pop tart, the chocolate whopper from bk, boundary break made a fake new smb episode, some subreddit swaps



also i made cleansed canvas v2 as my april fools prank https://soundcloud.com/craftersshaft/cleansed-canvas-2

researchhub is "hornhub"

check out my cool buildings.


(Click this image.)

improving on cemu_graphic_pack april fools from last year

I updated RogueType to use random forum users names instead of the usual monster names, among some other silly renamed things. I disguised it as an easter update in which all the potions are eggs instead, but I guess that was too subtle because nobody has mentioned the other changes

forgot to mention:

rpcs3's site broke all laws of graphic design




citra introduced a vulcan backend

Additional: Team Rocket took over the official Pokemon YT channel
https://youtu.be/f-TtQ6jR1gQ

...And then blasts off after James contemplates their fruitless efforts to capture a certain Pikachu
https://youtu.be/EbY8Mqz9T0c

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Off Topic / Laptop can't boot into it's OS

« on: March 15, 2018, 03:08:33 PM »

So lately, my laptop's been nothing but problem after problem, saying the power of the AC adapter couldn't be determined, even with a new one that was equal to or greater than the wattage of the battery, randomly locking up and shutting down, the hard drive and the GPU becoming very hot (up to 90 degrees celsius), and the screen glitching and flickering while it's plugged in, and now it can't boot up it's OS saying that there are no bootable devices

So is there something, maybe in the boot or setup menus, that i can do to fix this? Or can i use a disk or external hard drive with Ubuntu or some other OS on it so that i can at least backup my files and send the laptop out for repairs/replacement?

I don't have my files backed up anywhere else, so if i can't recover my files, then i'll have lost everything i ever had and worked on going as far back as the late 2000s, so it's VERY IMPORTANT that i am able to recover my files at the very least

If it's worth mentioning, my laptop is a Dell Inspiron 15-5555 (of the 5000 series)

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Modification Help / [RESOURCE] Blank.png, but with various levels of specular highlighting!

« on: February 07, 2018, 11:18:38 PM »

The days of dull metal and shiny clothes are behind us! (Requires shaders to see)

This is a small texture pack containing 4 variants of the blank.png texture for the modelers out there who may not want their vehicle, weapon, or clothing item to be so shiny or dull, or maybe want it somewhere in between

Here is an example of what this looks like


Download
Blank Spec Textures.zip - 1.10 KB

Note: Because of how Blockland's shaders handle specular highlighting, this only works with textures that have fully transparent pixels, so the highlight intensity on textures with opaque pixels and the semi-transparent black textures and whiteCheck can't be modified, and you can't trick the engine into using a colored specular on your model

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Modification Help / [SOLVED] Mounted particles not functioning properly?

« on: November 28, 2017, 08:51:13 AM »

I've been asking the BCC discord for help with this, but no one there seems to know what's going on, so i'm hoping people here who may not be in the discord are able to offer any helpful suggestions on the matter

I have these two weapons that mount one or two blank images on them for additional particles, and one weapon, which is an energy sword, has working particles, but they emit in a completely straight line as if thetaMax is set to 0 in the emitter data, but it's set to 0.5, which is a high enough value to cause the emitted particles to noticeably vibrate, but it just goes in a straight line instead, oddly enough, entering 'emitterName.thetaMax = 0.5;' makes it appear as it should even though that's already it's current value

The other weapon, which is a gravity hammer, the particles don't appear at all, the two images used to emit the particles exist on the weapon, but not the particles that should be emitting from them, and once again, an odd way of """fixing""" this one is to execute it's CS file, then they appear and emit as they should

What's odd is that the gravity hammer actually has particles attached to the main weapon image and they work perfectly, it's just the other particle that's used by the two mounted images that doesn't work

I put the particles on a 1x1 brick and they behaved exactly as they did on the weapons, emitting in a straight line, and not appearing at all until i executed the CS file, so it's definitely not a problem with the mounted images and having particles attached to them, i even tried them in a clean installation of v20 and it was the same thing there as well

Here are the particles for reference
Energy sword particle that emits in a straight line, gravity hammer particle that doesn't appear until executed

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Modification Help / Handing out old add-ons from 2007 - 2008

« on: November 26, 2017, 05:56:55 PM »

These add-ons have been gathering dust on my hard drive ever since Blockland made the change to using ZIP files instead of the add-ons folder being a cluttered mess, so now i've decided that i'll just give 'em out to you guys in hopes of giving them more of a purpose than just gathering dust

Here's what i got:
General add-ons


Client add-ons


Skyboxes


Maps


If there's anything you see that peaks your interest, is some old and forgotten add-on that you loved, or is an add-on that's since then been broken and you think you can fix it up, i'll do my best to package it up like current day add-ons and post it here

However, if you just want to browse through the files, or you're fine with digging through the mess of files and folders to get what you want, i'll leave download links to the entire Add-Ons and map data folders here
Version 8 Add-Ons - 38 MB
Version 8 Map Data - 23 MB

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Add-Ons / [Particle] Default Fog Variants

« on: November 17, 2017, 10:43:12 PM »

Three variants of the default Fog A, Fog B, and Fog C particles; 'Dark', which uses the dark cloud texture from Blockland's alpha stage, 'White', which is the default fog, but it can't be colored (requested by Lord Tony), and 'White Dark', which is just the White variant, but it uses the dark cloud texture

Download
Particle_DarkFog - 38 KB
Particle_WhiteFog - 1 KB
Particle_WhiteFogDark - 39 KB

Screenshots

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Music / Let the Bodies Hit the Floor

« on: November 05, 2017, 11:24:31 AM »

Let the Bodies Hit the Floor

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Off Topic / Screen recorders leaving out 2 columns of pixels of my screen

« on: August 20, 2017, 02:36:21 PM »

OBS and Camtasia are only recording 1364x768 instead of 1366x768, even if i set the dimensions to full screen, they'll still only record 1364, even if i'm just recording my desktop, so what's going on here?

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Add-Ons / [Bricks] Vertical Flat Round Prints

« on: April 04, 2017, 05:50:30 AM »

Suggested by maxymax13

These are just the 1x1F Round and 2x2F Round with prints on them, the 2x2F one has prints on both sides and both bricks have a version that's centered

They can be found in the 'Prints' category of the 'Rounds' tab

Download
Dropbox | Blockland Glass

Screenshots

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Off Topic / What April Fools have you seen this year?

« on: April 01, 2017, 04:37:50 PM »

Freeman's Mind 2 - Possibly a joke

Markiplier's return to Minecraft, in 360!

The average Jacksepticeye video and Jacksepticeye receives the very first '15 Million Subscribers' Youtube platinum play button

GameGrumps overhauls itself into the modern era known simply as 'g' and shows off the new generation of Let's Plays, and a second video

ProJared does a let's play of Super Mario RPG and reviews one of the longest ongoing RPGs; Madden NFL

Nerd³'s dad paints a wall and you get to watch it dry!

Ashens does a video on Nerd³'s channel about Jet Set Willy II

I Hate Everything becomes a Minecraft gaming channel

Deviant Art revives the most underrated meme of the 2000s

GeneralKidd shows you how to obtain the rumored and mythical Recon Skull in Halo 3