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Off Topic / YouTube changed it's layout.. AGAIN (but only a little)

« on: October 01, 2013, 03:41:03 PM »

HHGNGF
Now I have to refind my inbox

It's not that much, but at this point any changes are starting to really bother me. It was perfectly fine before

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Suggestions & Requests / Can someone do something with buildable vehicles so it can be a useful add-on?

« on: September 28, 2013, 04:44:51 PM »

Buildable vehicles seems like such a great idea, but there's so many problems with it that seem like easy fixes, yet nobody has bothered to deal with them.

Such as the fact that there is no way to save your vehicle along with a build so it loads with it, or even respawns with the chassis. Everytime the vehicle respawns or the save is reloaded the vehicle has to be reloaded via command

There are no good custom chassis yet, the only set of chassis other than the default don't work well because iirc they have a handful of bugs.

Transparent nodes look horrible cannot do 

And there are all sorts of things that could be added to just make the mod all around better. Like maybe a blue hammer or something that's made specifically for breaking bricks on a buildable vehicle. Bad example, but still, there's a lot that can be done with this. It just seems like this is a great idea that has been proven to work, and then forgotten

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Modification Help / Prop Hunt gamemode packaging

« on: September 23, 2013, 08:56:19 PM »

So I have a slayer setup with a sword and script. I have everything covered, I just don't know how to package the gamemode so that it works with the slayer I have set up, soo

how2do

edit- zapk is making one so I guess I don't need to do this anymore

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Off Topic / I got robbed of my GPA..

« on: September 20, 2013, 09:24:35 AM »

So I may be exaggerating in the title a bit, but essentially that's what is happening.

So Freshman year I took at least five weighted classes, so my GPA got a pretty good boost. Then next year I move out of state and unbeknownst to me, apparently my Guidance Counselor only counted one of those classes as weighted. So I realize this looking at my grades two years later as a Senior and I talk to my Counselor about it -who is a different person than I had here originally. Basically I'm told that it wouldn't be fair to the other students who didn't have that many weighted classes available to them, but to talk to the principal about it.

This doesn't make any sense to me, because thCIAn't just a competition for valedictorian, it's my GPA. Colleges and scholarships care about what my GPA is, it's not just about valedictorian. (My school is pretty small so I assume this is what my Counselor had in mind)

So then I talk to my Principal and he basically decides to do what my counselor decided on. And the worst part is, because only one of them was weighted it ended up being my lowest GPA in all of my High School years. I mean, can't I even have one or two classes count so that it's at least not my worst year?

It probably doesn't matter all that much, but still. It's a bit annoying,
so yeah, /rant

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Environment Files / Cubic earth sunflare

« on: September 09, 2013, 05:06:22 PM »

This Sunflare shows the Cubic Earth I built for this video
(and Nixon halpified)

It's basically for if your environment is set in space or on the moon or something. This is my first sun-flare, I basically just made this after thinking of it a few hours ago. Any constructive criticism is appreciated





Download it here

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Off Topic / What do you guys think of FB Tbh's?

« on: September 05, 2013, 05:35:36 PM »

I know there's a lot of things people hate about facebook and how people act on there, but one thing I've never heard mentioned was TBH's.
I'm kind of tempted to do one just because I'm in the mood to talk to people who really want to know what I think of them, but due to my overactive self consciousness I decided to consult the forums first because I don't want to do it and accidentally have it end up being one of those pet-peeves on someone's list.

I don't know, people sometimes aren't actually honest when they do TBH's and sometimes just list facts that people already know. That's about the only thing that really bugs me about them because it defeats the purpose. What do you guys think? Yea or Ne?

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Off Topic / YouTube is down

« on: September 03, 2013, 06:47:05 PM »

IT'S A SIGN OF THE APOCOLYPSE GUYZ

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Suggestions & Requests / Prop Hunt Gamemode

« on: August 27, 2013, 07:21:27 PM »

Saw a video of PewDiePie's of the gamemode, one of the only ones that really made me laugh

This seems like it would be a great thing to have in Blockland, maybe players can hide as a weapon, vehicle, or block model. TTT seemed like it made a great transition from GM to BL, it's one of my favorite gamemodes now. So I'm thinking that maybe this would do the same

If you don't know what Prop Hunt is, then here's what it is.
Basically two players- the hiders, go around the map quickly trying to find a hiding place, and something to disguise themselves as. They select something and then take the shape of what they clicked on

The seekers have weapons and spawn a little bit after the hiders. They try to kill the hiders

That's what I got from the videos I watched anyways

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Gallery / Reenacting my interrogation of Cleverbot

« on: August 10, 2013, 09:03:44 PM »

Cleverbot in one hard case to crack. Probably would have been much easier if Batman were here

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Suggestions & Requests / Better animated player

« on: August 03, 2013, 03:46:10 PM »

One of the things I like about Blockland is how much character the player model seems to have- something the roblox player model, for example, doesn't have much of. It just kind of wobbles it's limbs and isn't very mobile. However in BL players can rotate their heads around, wave their arms, and look up and down. Although in Minecraft, the head's motion is a bit more independent of the bodies motion. Unlike in BL where you have to hold Z to get it to move wherever

I was thinking, if it's at all possible which I'm not sure of, maybe someone could make a playertype that controls a bit more like the Minecraft player. It would be similar in most things except that when the player looks up and down, the body rotates as it does now, rather than the head.

If that's not a good enough explanation, I'll elaborate some. here's the main differences from what it is now-

• the head would always point in the direction your looking, as if you were always holding down z
• the body wouldn't rotate depending on where you look, unless you turn more than 90 degrees. Then your head will stop turning so as to prevent your neck from breaking, and your body will continue to turn in that direction instead
• holding W makes you move in the direction that you're looking, not the direction your body is facing

the body turns when the forward button is pressed such that the head and body align when walking forward, but the direction corresponds with the head.

• holding A or D to go left or right wouldn't make you just slide in that direction. Instead it would make your body turn left or right relative to where you're looking, and walk in that direction.

So yeah, it basically moves just like a Minecraft player except for looking up or down, which would work as it currently does. I thought this would kind of combine the best of both types of control to give the player a better feel in general. I'm not sure if this sort of thing is possible since I've never seen any of these sort of things actually done in a playertype before, but if it is I would love to see it done.

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Off Topic / How will the forums change when greenlight hits?

« on: August 02, 2013, 11:33:04 AM »

I'm all for greenlight, and it looks like it'll happen soon. But once Blockland is added to the store and everything, how do you think the forums will change?

I imagine things will just pick up- more of the good things like add-ons and builds, and unfortunately with that would come more of the bad things like complaining, drama, etc. etc.
Also at the moment I guess I'm known by a decent amount of people here, but when that happens I'll probably fade in the crowd until I'm an absolute nobody again

inb4 "we'll get loads of 7 year old dum dums with no grammar and turn into Roblux!!11!"

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Off Topic / When BL gets greenlit, what do you think the forums will be like?

« on: August 02, 2013, 11:32:27 AM »

I'm all for greenlight, and it looks like it'll happen soon. But once Blockland is added to the store and everything, how do you think the forums will change?

I imagine things will just pick up- more of the good things like add-ons and builds, and unfortunately with that would come more of the bad things like complaining, drama, etc. etc.
Also at the moment I guess I'm known by a decent amount of people here, but when that happens I'll probably fade in the crowd until I'm an absolute nobody again

inb4 "we'll get loads of 7 year old dum dums with no grammar1!11!"

edit- For those of you unsure why I would be saying 'when' and not 'if' we get greenlit-

We were #16.  16 games were greenlit.  Now we're #7.

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Games / Battlefront II and AMD Dual core processors just LOVE each other!

« on: July 31, 2013, 01:59:41 PM »

And by the title of course I mean I want to burn my computer at the steak

I have two AMD athlon II x2 240 processors, and I read online all that time that people are having issues with Battlefront II because it's not optimized for dual core processors, but nobody seems to be having the exact same issue or processor as I am. So I have no idea how to fix it

It runs perfectly smooth for a half hour or so and then I respawn or join a new server or something and I suddenly drop to 5 fps, and it doesn't go back to normal even after I exit the server.
I've tried using the supposed quick fix by clicking 'set affinity' and unchecking a processor in task manager so that the game acts like there's only one processor, but if anything, that seems to speed up the process.
I've tried using imagecfg as mentioned on this page but that actually broke my game so that it wouldn't start at all. I just get an error message, so now I have to reinstall the game entirely.
My drivers are up to date and everything too. So forum, WHAT DO??

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Help / Can someone give me the Blockland v20 download?

« on: July 24, 2013, 02:47:12 PM »

Wanted to play in the maps and stuff with a friend, although I found out that Demian's old v20 download he set up apparently doesn't host servers right for some reason

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Creativity / Need musical help - Video birthday gift

« on: July 23, 2013, 02:31:53 PM »

So my sister's 18th birthday is coming up and for once I'd like to do something nice for her. So I thought I'd make a parody of The arrogant worms Happy Birthday song (since she's already very aware of that one.)

I'm not the best singer but for some reason I don't sound so bad if I sing at 1/2 speed and then speed it up to sound chipmunk. Plus it's a little more comedic that way, so I have the lyrics covered. But it still doesn't sound good a capella, I need some sort of instrumental version, or someone beatboxing to replace the instruments or something like that in the background.

I have 8 days (yeah I know, I procrastinated) to get this done, is there anybody on the forums that can help me out somehow?