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Development / Re: 2012/02/05 - Shadows and Shaders vs. Interiors and Terrain

« on: February 07, 2012, 10:50:36 PM »

That specular junk is still burning my face off.

We will be tuning the look. But if you got it, flaunt it. At least for the beauty shots.

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Development / Re: 2012/02/05 - Shadows and Shaders vs. Interiors and Terrain

« on: February 07, 2012, 10:42:02 PM »

Hark! What hero stands on yon streetlamp?

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General Discussion / Re: v21 Update Petition

« on: February 07, 2012, 10:22:49 PM »

I have my own opinion, I think badspot should just continue adding small updates, and in the next 5 years or so he should spend 18 months updatig the game engine. Then they will be able to have both terrain and shadows., making everyone happy.


Its actually sort of silly if Badspot goes ahead with this if more than half of the community doesnt want this, we could easily boycott (NOT SAYING THAT WE WILL).

Check the poll, 75% approval rating.

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Development / Re: 2012/02/05 - Shadows and Shaders vs. Interiors and Terrain

« on: February 07, 2012, 05:51:44 PM »

Lua is sweet but not the topic of this thread. Lua is offtopic.

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Development / Re: 2012/02/05 - Shadows and Shaders vs. Interiors and Terrain

« on: February 06, 2012, 11:21:41 PM »

See new FORBIDDEN TOPIC in the OP:

Vehicle collision.

Sorry, you guys gotta save it for another thread. I will delete posts about vehicle collision from now on.

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Development / Re: 2012/02/05 - Shadows and Shaders vs. Interiors and Terrain

« on: February 06, 2012, 10:56:59 PM »

Here is a picture you might enjoy.

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Development / Re: 2012/02/05 - Shadows and Shaders vs. Interiors and Terrain

« on: February 06, 2012, 10:28:55 PM »

Please explain why my post was removal worthy

Sorry, there is no due process in this thread. But you asked nicely so...

You broke these rules in the OP:

"Let's keep both interiors and terrain AND shadows and shaders." -- Check the thread title for a hint on this."

"Why don’t you keep everything like it was?" Because Blockland is developed by a small team, it is not possible for us to keep every feature in the engine working 100% AND add cool new features.

"Let's keep both interiors and terrain AND shadows and shaders." -- Check the thread title for a hint on this.

Also, your argument is uninformed and biased. Bricks might take more memory, but they are way faster than equivalent interiors. Interiors are tremendously hard to work with. Game types are fun because of the gameplay rules not because of interiors.

I will delete further posts about how we should implement a replacement for interiors/terrain. Having a replacement is a fine idea. But this thread is about shadows and shaders and how interiors and terrains are going away, not about how interiors and terrains are staying.

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Development / Re: 2012/02/05 - Shadows and Shaders vs. Interiors and Terrain

« on: February 06, 2012, 07:56:15 PM »

will you be accepting new default builds?

Does that mean you'll accept builds to showcase shadows? If so I'd like to apply Althur

I'll start a shadow test + beauty thread when we are closer to release. You can post saves there. We might include some as defaults. In the meantime figure out what your prettiest Slate-compatible save will be. :)

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Development / Re: 2012/02/05 - Shadows and Shaders vs. Interiors and Terrain

« on: February 06, 2012, 07:50:43 PM »

I'm excited about these shadows, but I have to say I would be disappointed if lights the player spawned still penetrated through walls.
I would also hope that in this update or a close one, you could change the flare and light amount to allow more lights. I have several reasons for this.
One is my TDM I have been working on for 2 months.

I think you'll be pleased with how your build looks in the shadow update. BTW if you send me a save I can test with it.

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Development / Re: 2012/02/05 - Shadows and Shaders vs. Interiors and Terrain

« on: February 06, 2012, 07:39:21 PM »

I'm all for it, kompressor. I have full faith in this update.

Thanks.

Also, I have added a fan art section to the OP. Let me know if I missed anything good.

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Development / Re: 2012/02/05 - Shadows and Shaders vs. Interiors and Terrain

« on: February 06, 2012, 07:26:14 PM »

A short representation of what is happening right now.

I like this.

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Development / Re: 2012/02/05 - Shadows and Shaders vs. Interiors and Terrain

« on: February 06, 2012, 07:25:24 PM »

Things that are OFF TOPIC in this thread:

Feature requests unrelated to shadows.
Mirrors. -- see above
"Let's keep both interiors and terrain AND shadows and shaders." -- Check the thread title for a hint on this.
Demands for pictures -- more will come.
Unconstructive complaining.

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Development / Re: 2012/02/05 - Shadows and Shaders vs. Interiors and Terrain

« on: February 06, 2012, 04:39:33 PM »

What kind of support are mappers going to be given once the update passes?
Right now it feels like mapping is going to be off limits and we'd be stuck with a bunch of generic slate edits.

I don't know, what's left once you aren't making terrains or interiors?

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Development / Re: 2012/02/05 - Shadows and Shaders vs. Interiors and Terrain

« on: February 06, 2012, 04:34:45 PM »

It sure does, many houses had to be removed to make new ones because of the brick limit

Cool. Well, we'll look into it. We probably won't bump it for only one map. But if there are more people maxing out it makes sense.

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Development / Re: 2012/02/05 - Shadows and Shaders vs. Interiors and Terrain

« on: February 06, 2012, 04:29:48 PM »

here we go!  :> 

(you never replied to my PM when i linked you to it, so PLEASE read it )=

Good build. Does it hit the 256000 brick count?

I did read that post a long time ago, good stuff.