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General Discussion / Re: v21 was ten years ago

« on: August 13, 2022, 12:34:13 AM »

t3d can import older dts versions just fine iirc, and dae files are just converted to dts on load
however it uses a completely different material system
materials are objects instead of simply being used to look up textures in a folder, and each material must have a unique name
also weapons no longer use lods as viewmodels since t3d supports proper viewmodels, with movement anims too

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I was aware of the dae to dts converter but couldn't find anything about dts to dae. thank you for the informational post!

Fix'd the animations.
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holy crap thats awesome. could you try the retail player model next or maybe try importing the default gun? I'm excited to see what else you can do with this. I've always felt that a blockland sequel / successor should be in T3D

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General Discussion / Re: v21 was ten years ago

« on: August 12, 2022, 04:54:04 AM »

This is what i suggested a few times in the past, even jokingly, but the idea was always shot down with responses like "No one would want to go through all that trouble", and "You'd have to completely re-do the octree system", and "Some/all of the add-ons would break", and all of those are true, but i feel like if Blockland actually made the jump to T3D, it would have been far more worth it in the end than the shadows and shaders update

Having BL in T3D would be awesome, it totally would have been worth it. "Some/all of the add-ons would break" isn't necessarily true though. The engine still relies on Torque Script, although some default functions may change based on name or variables for the new engine, so it's a matter of what can and cannot be ported reliably. Most script based add-ons should be fine. The main thing is that T3D uses a different format for basic shapes, the DAE format instead of the depreciated DTS shape format. Arguably the biggest hurdle with going to T3D is converting every shape from the game into this format with proper animations and stuff.

"No one would want to go through all that trouble"

pretty much sums it up lol

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Add-Ons / [Script] JVS Door Fix

« on: August 09, 2022, 12:25:24 AM »

JVS Door Fix

Fixes JVS doors loading without raycasting and collision

DOWNLOAD

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Off Topic / Re: do u ever explain this stuff to anyone?

« on: August 07, 2022, 08:23:32 AM »

Don't diss my man Diet Dr. Pepper like that, that stuff got me through high school.

ok i will admit i've had the 'privilege' of drinking a diet dr pepper before and it wasn't bad. probably the most authentic tasting diet soda if we are comparing to original but still a bit off

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Off Topic / Re: do u ever explain this stuff to anyone?

« on: August 07, 2022, 05:30:24 AM »

I worry about the day that I meet someone irl who played blockland, participated in the forums, and our meeting wasn't because we both played blockland.

I feel like as soon as our eyes meet after the realization a loving siren will sound and we'll both be expected to tear the other asunder

On the contrary I feel like if I ever met another Blocklander in real life somewhere out of pure coincidence we would talk about fun times we had on the game, and probably laugh at some of the ridiculousness of the forums.

Even if it was someone that I disagree with politically or have argued with in this place, I don't think I'd take it personally and hate that person in real life unless they were actually just a piece of stuff in general, like a creep or some other type of scum that preys on the weakness of others and makes it their goal to hurt people.

I just summarized this website to someone else as "diet Something Awful"

isn't diet anything already awful lol

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Off Topic / Re: Movie Recommendation Ideas

« on: August 02, 2022, 06:24:52 PM »

fear street trilogy
ashens and the polybius heist
psycho goreman
one cut of the dead
time lapse
odd thomas
john dies at the end
triangle
mr nobody
moon
timecrimes
primer
dead end
ginger snaps

great list of movies! I've seen primer, triangle, timelapse, and john dies at the end. time travel, psychological thrillers / mystery are my favorite genre, I'll have to check out the rest of the movies on that list sometime

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Off Topic / Re: U.S.A. Politics Thread | Social Media working with US Government for the Establishment

« on: July 28, 2022, 10:54:47 PM »

ninja variant lmfao, oh boy what will they come up with next

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General Discussion / Re: Should Blockland go open source?

« on: July 24, 2022, 01:52:35 AM »

probably not. I've said this in some other thread recently but blockland isn't really novel at this point in time. it would probably be less work to create a copycat game in a modern engine than it would be to change anything fundamental about blockland

many older games that have went open source have benefited because it allows the community to contribute to make the game better than it originally was. stuff like adding features the original devs had planned but never got around to, or just fixing bugs in general

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General Discussion / Re: Who here has never changed their avatar?

« on: July 22, 2022, 07:59:55 AM »

same profile picture for years with slight variations depending on the season

as for in-game avatar it's been the same for as long as I can remember lol

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Off Topic / Re: Fishing Thread: All about the hobby/sport of fishing

« on: July 21, 2022, 01:26:24 PM »

fishing and cold beer is where it's at, although it's been a couple years since I got to do any fishing! last time I went my father and I caught some catfish and bluegill at a nice reservoir. using bread and chicken liver for bait. we took a cooler of about 20 fish home that night, flayed and cooked some, vacuum sealed the rest in freezer bags for later. good times. need to get out and go again sometime for sure

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General Discussion / Re: Skill4Life's Pirate Adventure

« on: July 17, 2022, 02:32:13 PM »

this is awesome, looking forward to playing!

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Off Topic / Re: U.S.A. Politics Thread | They're coming for your guns and your rights - H.R.1808

« on: July 17, 2022, 02:30:44 PM »

first they take the guns, next they take the goth girls

no, not the goth girls D:

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Off Topic / Re: U.S.A. Politics Thread | Hunter Biden recorded himself doing drugs, Google covers for Hunter.

« on: July 11, 2022, 07:05:24 AM »

cool ill tell that to the kids that get raped and then die at child birth or the people that get murked by ectopic pregnancies. throw in the people that also go to jail for having miscarriages

I'm talking about voluntary abstinence and you're bringing up child rape and ectopic pregnancies lmao get a loving grip, this is why you fartards lost

e; it's this autistic hyperfocus on the <1% slice of abortions that make you sound like handicaps, I don't even disagree with abortion in instances of rape and ectopic pregnancies don't count as an abortive procedure but nothing you say is rhetorically convincing in the slightest

i mean...he's not wrong...



"Even people who wish to argue that the hard cases justify abortion must admit that these hard cases occur only a tiny minority of the time, and that the vast majority are performed for social and economic reasons"

source

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Off Topic / Re: U.S.A. Politics Thread | Minecraft Java Implements Traceable Chat System

« on: July 09, 2022, 01:06:32 PM »

Just use condoms. They're free, not $5,568

they're not free, not around here at least.... but yeah they are the less expensive (and least safe) option of course

I'm at the stage in my life where I don't want kids due to how young I am, but that might change in the future. Birth control is cheap (idk why people act like it isn't) and condoms are even cheaper.

understandable. and yes, those options are viable

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Off Topic / Re: U.S.A. Politics Thread | Roe V. Wade OVERTURNED

« on: July 09, 2022, 02:31:14 AM »

If I got my gf pregnant, I'd want the pregnancy to be terminated as I don't want children.

If you don't want children, like ever, then the most responsible thing to do would be to get a vasectomy don't you think? Why wait until you make the mistake of getting her pregnant and then have her go through the whole abortion thing?