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Off Topic / Memes? On my boardwalk?!

« on: September 03, 2011, 07:27:43 PM »

So I'm at Ocean City boardwalk in NJ and I walk by one of the shirt making shops to find these:

Internet, what have you done?!


Also, discuss your meme encounters in reality.

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Modification Help / Content Help: Brick Questions and Lighting Help

« on: August 24, 2011, 10:56:56 AM »

Brick Questions:
I need to know how to make the .blb for content bricks. I open one up and all I see is a bunch of numbers. I've worked out the simple first part and the u,x,d part, but everything past that I don't understand.


Lighting Help:
I've been working on a door pack, but whenever I put the doors in-game, the lighting is completely wrong. I'm using Milkshape and I used the tile texture mapper to try and fix it, but nothing worked.

Here's whats going on with it:

This is one door. One side is opposite in lighting to the other, and not only that, but both doors are completely wrong to the brick reference on top.

Here's more examples:



Does anyone know how I could fix this?

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Forum Games / Shattered Realm -A Forum RP- [Chapter 1: The Quest Begins]

« on: July 26, 2011, 10:59:19 AM »

Story:

Many years ago, the land of Infinia was peaceful and flourished greatly without any troubles... That is, until a mysterious figure cast his power over the land and claimed it as his own. Using the power of a rare and dangerous red crystal, he built himself an army of shadow warriors that enslaved a nearby town where he built his castle. The land fell to the shadows, but the cities remained strong. They fought the seemingly immortal beings and soon the dark king retreated, only to have his soldiers patrol the neighboring lands at night to find anyone foolish enough to wander out alone, making them his slave or killing them on the spot.

Now:

You have been sent from a land that has not yet been reached by the shadows. You are to report to your clan who have relocated to the city of Topu. You are currently unaware of the imminent dangers.

Chapter One: The Quest Begins

This is You:

Current Mission:

Survive to town.


You may create your character yourself using this: , in which case please include a name, or you may simply state the features.

Format:
-Name
-Hair/Hair color if any
-Eye color
-Shirt color and style
-Pants color

Those players who are not chosen may appear later on in the story as another playable character.

Player Status:

There is currently nothing in your Inventory and nothing in your Equipment slots, so I won't bother to show them yet.

Update Speed:
Varying on what I'm actually doing in real life, the speed of updates for this RP can vary from several a day to maybe even two a week. I will try to keep it as updated as quickly as I can.

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Creativity / Novel: Makanix - Various Events [Chapter List Update]

« on: February 13, 2011, 01:25:35 AM »

A short novel I have been working on that has been getting pretty popular. I've been getting a lot of good feedback and I'm continuing to write as you read.

The title of the story is "Makanix: Various Events". The people in the story are all Blockland players, but some of their names have been modified to fit the story. The events in the story are based off of actual events that I have experienced in Blockland, twisted so much you won't even realize that's what it's about.

Due to it all not fitting in a single post, I thought it would be easier to post it on my (undeveloped and rather empty) website.

So far 5 chapters are finished.

You can read the story here: Chapters 1-5

Since this is a long term project, you can actually see my writing style change between each chapter. If you can't stand the first few, hang in there. They get better as you go.


To get my story more lined up, I wrote down the Chapter list and some character descriptions:

Makanix: Various Events Notes

Chapters have changed! The new list is:

Chapters:
1: Aboard the Argos
2: Tom and iEvent
3: Erased and Regenerated
4: Krypt
5:Competition
6: The Voyage of the Lily
7: Ruined Discovery
8: I.U.P.
9: Avialliance
10: Flight Training
11: Mayday
12: The Shadow's End
13: Infinia V
14: Departure
15: The Search For the Long Lost
16: A New World
17: Returning Home
18: Finale



Character Notes:
(WARNING: Spoilers)

Makanix: The main protagonist and narrator. A young 16 year old engineer employed by the clan ARES. Often referred to as Mak, he has brown hair and green eyes, wears goggles on his forehead, a green hoodie, and ripped green pants covered in pockets.

Comrade: The mysterious leader of ARES. A man in his late 40s. Has black hair and wears a gray ARES uniform with a darker gray captain's coat.

Ting: The Co-Leader of ARES. Ran for Co-Leader of iEvent after ARES shut down.

Poiuyt: Also the top row of the keyboard backwards, Poiuyt is a dangerous criminal responsible for Tom's accident. Has stress induced white hair and wears a gray prison uniform. Is currently cryogenically frozen in an ARES prison. Later escapes due to a power failure.

Tom: The leader of iEvent. Due to an incident caused by Poiuyt, he now wears a life support helmet with a monitor on the front that changes with his emotions. Also has robotic legs and hands. Usually wears a dark purple suit with a red tie, but at meetings will wear a light blue suit with a bright green tie, iEvent colors.  Tom is probably around 30, but has no physical age to distinguish this.

Raeyok: The leader of  Krypt. No info yet.

Khoz: A video game fanatic that uses technology to bring game weapons to reality. Competes with Makanix to make better devices.

Dr. Cyan: An inventor that competes with Makanix to make better devices. Wears a lot of blue.

Mack: The leader of Avialliance. No Info Yet.

Xeo: Co-leader of Avialliance. Later discovered to be Poiuyt.

Sgnir: Pronounced "Sig-ner". An employee of iEvent



The story is still a work in progress. Chapter one has already gone through massive revisions, but the entire story may still have some spelling errors.

You may rate if you want. Feedback is welcome.

Thanks for reading!

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Add-Ons / Daft Punk Helmets [SimpleWell Version Released]

« on: December 31, 2010, 06:54:32 PM »

Daft Punk Helmets
This pack includes both helmets, with and without glow effects, and a bonus helmet that I wore at the party. (Basically as a joke.)

Description
After many requests for these at TomTheGeek's New Years party, I've decided to release them.

The commands for each hat (in order from the picture):
/mxhelm
/tomhelm
/tomhelmglow
/guyhelm
/guyhelmglow

Pictures


Installation
Put Hat_DaftPunk.zip into the Add-Ons folder in your Blockland folder.

Download
Hat_DaftPunk.zip
SimpleWell Version


Thanks to MegaScientifical for simplifying the script for me. His version can be found here:

Download for reduced code version.

Commands:
/mxh mx
/mxh tom
/mxh tom glow
/mxh guy
/mxh guy glow

Thanks to lordician for making one that works with events.
Events Version

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Off Topic / I sell ___ and ___ accessories.

« on: December 10, 2010, 05:37:23 PM »

Originally from King of the Hill. "I sell propane and propane accessories."

Example:
I sell Blockland and Blockland accessories.
I sell pineapples and pineapple accessories.

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Creativity / Makanix Studios Pixel Art

« on: November 04, 2010, 09:45:49 AM »

Just some of my pixel art. I try to make most of my art 75x75 pixels or smaller so they can be used as avatars.

So heres all the good ones I could find on my computer:

Blockhead Playing Music (and variations):



MxCube and Pumpkin Bot:



RoboCake:



Halloween Stuff:



My personal best, I replicated my iPod Touch:


Miscellaneous Stuff:




And because I felt like it:

Requests:
I am taking pixel art requests, but only 2 at a time so I don't get overloaded.

Slots:
1. Monocle
2. Cyanian



Thanks for taking a look at my art!

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Suggestions & Requests / V18 Named Bricks Suggestion

« on: October 18, 2010, 06:12:08 PM »

When building with a group, it becomes a pain eventing with named bricks because it has to be your brick. Or when your build gets loaded and it all becomes that person's bricks. I suggest for v18 that others should be able to use your named brick if they have your full trust. Agreed?

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Suggestions & Requests / Taking Weapon Suggestions

« on: August 27, 2010, 02:15:30 PM »

I've been at a loss for ideas lately and was wondering what the community wants. Please post your Weapon suggestions.

Include several pictures of different angles (Unless it's symetrical) and what that weapon does.

Please no guns... We have enough. Unless it is some crazy unreal gun that we dont have, but really people, we dont need 5 AK47s and M4s...

I also make SimpleWell hats and Tools with events (OnWeaponHit). I am best with Melee weapons. You may know my Omniwrench and other tools I've made.

If your suggestion is made, it will be released on rtb and you will be credited for it.

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Modification Help / Looping Weapon Sound

« on: August 12, 2010, 08:09:33 PM »

I need to know how to make a weapon play a sound, then fuse into another sound that will loop as long as you hold in the fire button, than fuse into the closing sound as you stop firing.

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Modification Help / Horse Model

« on: July 27, 2010, 04:59:24 PM »

Can somebody link me a .ms3d or .3DS file of the default horse? I know Blender can export as .3DS if you also have a .blend file.

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Modification Help / SimpleWell looping animation [Still Need Help]

« on: July 12, 2010, 11:00:06 PM »

So I found out that the animation has nothing to do with the script and I am doing the animation wrong in my model. I learned that animations for HatMod are different from those for weapons.

I use Milkshape and I was wondering what is the correct way to export a looping animation for SimpleWell?

Also, I need help mounting it to other nodes. It is set to HeadSlot, what is the name for pants and body?

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Help / keyboard troubles in Blockland

« on: June 27, 2010, 07:08:06 PM »

This only happens when I spawn in a server or after several minutes of being in a server. On my keyboard, the keys = [ ] \ ' do not work. Also, the ~ key below the esc does not work and the right shift stops working after a few minutes. I've tried re-installing the game but it did not change anything. Please help.

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Gallery / Daft Punk Logo Pixel Art

« on: June 08, 2010, 09:39:01 PM »

This was made by hand, not an image to brick mod, and took about two and a half hours to complete.

First, I found the logo on google. It comes up as the third picture result for me.



Then, I took it into Paint.NET and broke it down into a sharp image with no faded edges.

I changed it red so I could see the pixel grid. It helps with accuracy.

Finally, after two and a half hours of hard work and a pain in my wrist from pointing at the screen counting the pixels, the finished product:


Size in comparison to me laying next to it.

The build in total is 4123 bricks. I tried to use some 2x2prints in spots to lower the count.

You may rate x/10 if you like. Again, there was no macro or image to brick mod used.

Thank you for reading!

Here is the save for those who wanted it: