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Help / How to Properly Package an .obj

« on: November 01, 2012, 07:44:55 AM »

Ive been fooling around with the Obj to Blb Converter and I just can't figure out how to properly create the object file so that the brick works correctly. I got it far enough to show up in my brick menu, but planting it comes up with nothing but an invisible solid object.

I know that the collision and the visual data must be present, but under what circumstances I haven't a clue. From my vague understanding they need to be in the same .obj file. Seems I got the collision data to work, but not the visual.

I'm running Milkshape if that information helps.

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Off Topic / Store Management Adventures with Mr.Noßody Ep: 3

« on: October 29, 2012, 07:06:11 PM »

Backstory

I work at a grocery store as the Maintenance Manager aka "The Porter". What that essentially is, is the guy who keeps things running, neat and orderly. If a soda machine breaks down, I have to fix it. If a light goes out, I replace it. If somebody dies in the bathroom, I dispose of the evidence. My job is not limited to cleaning, repairs, and overall store appearance. I take the departments trash away, clean the bathrooms and sweep floors when needed.

"Sandy, I need water!"
Episode 3

Unless you live under a rock, you know that the east coast is being hammered by hurricane Sandy. And what does my job go and do? They schedule me outside during the worst of it. Im in an area right out of the evac zone so Ill see the worst of it first hand. So here I am, filling in for someone pushing carts in a loving hurricane. It's raining sideways..

Luckily, people are being merciful and leaving their carts under the overhang. But damn. The cheap ass raincoat they provided works against you and collects rain. It's full of holes and has no front buttons. Genius! A tip to customers that think its a good idea to grocery shop during a loving hurricane: Don't leave your cart in the damned lot, the wind throws them. I'm stuck here watching trees fall, power go out around me, and terrestrial rain pour on my head. Having a good time.

Best part, someone tried to shoplift us too. The store director chased them out the store screaming and throwing stuff. It was hilarious. Damn! As I was typing, the power went out and on three times. Good thing I'm on a phone.

Summary

I'm pushing carts in a loving hurricane and someone tried to shoplift some baby formula from us too.
Power just went on and off 3 times during me typing this.


See Episode 1 Here

See Episode 2 Here

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Suggestions & Requests / Map Image Options

« on: October 28, 2012, 12:30:53 PM »

When you join a server, all you see when you load is the default "Unknown Map" image.

My suggestion is an option for the host of a server to change that preview image to a screenshot from their screenshot folder so players can get a feel for what the server may be about.

I'm really sick of seeing that "Unknown Map" thing.

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Off Topic / Store Management Adventures with Mr.Noßody Ep: 2

« on: October 27, 2012, 10:28:33 PM »

Backstory

I work at a grocery store as the Maintenance Manager aka "The Porter". What that essentially is, is the guy who keeps things running, neat and orderly. If a soda machine breaks down, I have to fix it. If a light goes out, I replace it. If somebody dies in the bathroom, I dispose of the evidence. My job is not limited to cleaning, repairs, and overall store appearance. I take the departments trash away, clean the bathrooms and sweep floors when needed.

"The God-Dammed Madhouse"
Episode 2

Today was loving hell. My local area is expecting a massive storm, so like the mass of hysteria the general public is, everybody is mobbing the store grabbing all they can. (I don't understand why people get perishable items if they expect the power to go out..) By far one of the busiest days Ive seen since Christmas eve. There were people everywhere. I normally have no problem with having customers in the store, but the point where they stand there obliviously looking at the same jar of mayonnaise for 12 minutes is where I draw boundaries.
        
       I normally have with me at any one time either a wide broom, a massive trash trolly (trash bin on wheels), or the Porter Dolly (The cart with all my 'fixit supplies). Each of these demands a hefty sum of space when navigating the isles. Of course, having these stagnant shoppers about makes my 30 min jobs take twice as long, mainly by trying to get to my destination. I looove it when a customer cuts me off then proceeds to go at snail pace, or when they have their cart on one side of them while they stand on the other effectively blocking the entire isle. So great! I swear those bastards are training to be car chasers practicing their blocking.
        
       I also obtained a new record of 8 different spills! Yay! 1: Shattered glass bottle of seltzer water strewn down an isle. 2: Full 2 liter bottle of Coke. 3: Someone puked. 4: Mystery liquid trailed into store. 5: Entire case of beer bumped off shelf by fat mans ass (good work). 6: Some starfish reenacted Hanzle and Grettle by dropping cracker bits down four isles. 7 and 8: Two 2gal jugs of water were dropped on either side of the store at the same time. Shet.

It was a long 9 hour day.

Summary

The store I work at was zerg-rushed by people panicking over a predicted storm that is supposed to land making my job hell. Customers have no shame standing in my way when I'm busy working my ass off making me become more behind. I had to clean up 8 separate spills:

1: Shattered glass bottle of seltzer water strewn down an isle. 2: Full 2 liter bottle of Coke. 3: Someone puked. 4: Mystery liquid trailed into store. 5: Entire case of beer bumped off shelf by fat mans ass (good work). 6: Some starfish reenacted Hanzle and Grettle by dropping cracker bits down four isles. 7 and 8: Two 2gal jugs of water were dropped on either side of the store at the same time.

See Episode 1 Here

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Off Topic / Store Management Adventures with Mr.Noßody Ep: 1

« on: October 21, 2012, 05:17:48 PM »

Backstory

I work at a grocery store as the Maintenance Manager aka "The Porter". What that essentially is, is the guy who keeps things running, neat and orderly. If a soda machine breaks down, I have to fix it. If a light goes out, I replace it. If somebody dies in the bathroom, I dispose of the evidence. My job is not limited to cleaning, repairs, and overall store appearance. I take the departments trash away, clean the bathrooms and sweep floors when needed.

"When the stuff hits the floor"
Episode 1

Now normally, people use the bathroom when they need to make a movement, but today was special. There I was sweeping the floors when I get called to the cafe (a small dining area next to the bathrooms and in front of the Pizza Shop). I thought, "Oh, someone must have spilled a drink or something." I was wrong. From what seems to have happened, somebody decided the bathroom was just too far away and stuff on the floor under a chair. But that's not all! Apparently someone had stepped in it and had trailed it through half the damned store. Now, the question remains: why the hell did someone stuff on my floor?! Judging by the splatter pattern, there was no pants involved. It was as if someone dropped 'trou, reversed flank and fired the main cannons. I had to scout down all the smears in the floor all the while keeping customers back so they don't step in it too. Boy what a hassle.

Summary

Someone stuff under a chair in the cafe where I work and someone had stepped in it tracking it through half the store. I had to clean it up. They had something with beans in it for lunch.

Now this happened on Saturday at around 4:45 that afternoon. Just felt like sharing.

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General Discussion / Posts being Cleared at random

« on: October 21, 2012, 03:47:00 AM »

So just today I posted in the topic "is there an Expiration Date for blockland keys?" where a few other members were claiming that Blockland was a pay per month deal to mess with the kid. I blew them off and told the OP that the other two guys were joking and that keys last forever unless revoked.

My post was deleted and the topic was put into Help.
I questioned why my relevant and truthful post was deleted for no determinable reason, then later restating what I said before. Now looking back it seems all posts in that thread after a certain point have been cleared including two of mine.

Really? Having my posts unrightfully deleted like that makes me angry. If a post is to be deleted, it should be for a good reason.
Perhaps there was a reason, but at this time I can see one.

Inb4 my topic is deleted...

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Suggestions & Requests / Music Timescale GUI

« on: October 20, 2012, 01:02:26 PM »

If you set the timescale in-game lower or higher then play a song, the song either speeds up or slows down depending on the scale set.

What Id like to see is some way to control this without an edit of the servers timescale. Perhaps a GUI on the music brick itself, or events to set it manually. He'll, make it a stand alone GUI with a keybind that works with the client music players.

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Off Topic / Youtube is asking for my real name.

« on: October 13, 2012, 08:58:05 PM »

"Replace your hard to read username for the name everybody knows you by!"

Now YouTube is making me go through the paces either to, or not to change my username. There is no quick "No" option, if you don't want to change your username, you gotta choose from 6 options why you don't want to.
In addition, there is no "Because I don't want to" option.

God damn, it interrupted my video.
Is this gonna happen every time now?

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General Discussion / Just Experienced an odd "Bug"

« on: October 12, 2012, 02:35:51 PM »

I was on my server taking a DOF megashot with shaders on max. (Scale factor on 6) This process takes about a minute to render. So, I waited it out. The Blockland window became unresponsive like normal, but when I finally came back my character had shouted something and I was dead. When I re spawned, I was stuck crouching.

Ive never had a bug like that before... What?


This is what my character yelled.

God dammit, I am so confused..

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Add-Ons / Fillcan Fix: Face Error

« on: September 30, 2012, 10:43:17 PM »

- What does this fix?
If any of you have noticed, when you have the Fillcan on your player faces break if you attempt to change them. Mainly, in the avatar customization menu, changing your players face would make the icon go blank and would display a random default face when exiting back in-game. This fix fixes the player face issue.

Examples:
1: Avatar not showing correct face
2: Avatar Faces Messed Up
3: Broken Face Packs
- What was wrong?
From what I know, the reason why player faces would break like this is because when using the Fillcan on a player, it would display a random face for effect. The command for it was outdated during an unknown update. Simply going through the .cs and replacing all $face with $randFace would fix this issue.
- Was it worth re-releasing the Fillcan to fix such a small bug?
Maybe not, but I know that Ive had this face issue for a long time and its been annoying. Releasing a fix for it would put this issue to bed for good, I feel that it was the right course of action.

If you disagree, please comment why. If this issue still persists, please say so.

You can get the fixed Fillcan HERE
Credit to []----[] for the actual fix and credit to the main creators of the Fillcan
I did nothing but make the topic

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Suggestions & Requests / Vehicle Locking

« on: September 08, 2012, 01:26:54 AM »

A player toggle that locks your vehicle from players so that they can't enter.
Because we secretly hate them..

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Help / Blockland not Detecting new Graphics Card

« on: August 28, 2012, 12:28:11 PM »

I just recently upgraded my graphics card with a second hand NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT, the card worked prior and was compatible with Blockland but for some reason it doesn't on my machine.

The error that comes up says that no display devices could be fine and to update my graphics card.
My drivers are updated.

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Help / Comuter Re-Boots with Shaders on 'Ultra'

« on: August 24, 2012, 11:56:20 AM »

So whenever I turn my shaders to Ultra, my computer crashes and reboots. Its not a terribly crippling issue since I don't have to turn it on, I just thought it was worth bringing up.

Before I hear it's because my computer isn't to snuff, let me say that it could run Ultra before the last update.

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Suggestions & Requests / Event - IfPlayerGhosting

« on: August 22, 2012, 06:44:52 PM »

Is an event that can recall if a player is currently ghosting bricks possible?

Basically a IfPlayerGhosting that activates if the player is currently ghosting bricks. Would need an If/OnPlayerGhostingEnd. I am not sure which between an If or On event would be most feasible.

If it is possible, I would want it made.

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Suggestions & Requests / Eyedropper Tool

« on: August 15, 2012, 05:45:09 PM »

A tool that detects what color is on a brick and then changes your paint color to it.
Useful for color scales with many similar shades of that color.
No more "What color did I use here?"