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Game Modes / One in the chamber - v2.4.0

« on: September 15, 2012, 12:18:44 AM »

One in the chamber
Gameplay
You spawn with a gun, in a bottom print it says you have 1 ammo. This is your only bullet, unless you kill someone. Killing someone (1 hit kill gun) gives you another bullet. Though you can also knife people (right click) to kill them. You get 1 life per round. This game is best played at around 16 players, but can range from 6-24 players. The map is the default "Crysta Castle" with walls (thanks crown). If you want to upscale the playercount you can modify the save to use "Pyramid," just make sure to add more spawns (there was like 6 and it was terrible. everyone would die at the spawn).
Known bugs
•Apparently someone on the server was unable to kill anyone with the knife. Though at the same time this kid was 38k BL_ID, and no one else experienced this, though Ill add this just in case...
•There may be a few errors with the reseting minigame
•When you shoot with out ammo, the sound/smoke emitter still plays/appears.

Credits
Brian Smith - Coding everything
Crown - Idea/Testing
NARG (Rykuta) - Making the Tactical Knife
Rotondo - basically nearly everything in gamemode.txt :P

Requirements/downloads
You need:
Weapon_TacKnife.zip (You can get this from the NARG Download Page)
Download (86.6KB)

Changelog
v1 to v2
* Added lives
* Added /alive (checks whos alive)
* General bug fixes

Please report any bugs. Also, if someone could make a nice picture for top, that'd be cool :)

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Modification Help / Terrain Save Generator (External Program) - Src release page 4

« on: September 08, 2012, 09:45:45 PM »

Terrain Save Generator
Whats a "Terrain Save Generator"
Some of you may remember an old project called "Blockland Terrain Generator" or something of the sorts. This is an old buggy project that used tons of Mac OSX Libraries and was pretty slow. Today I was looking through some youtube videos when I found this need little thing. It was a terrain generator video. I was like "I KNOW WHAT I MUST DO." I instantly opened xcode and set off to fix up and release BTG...
... then I read the code and threw up inside my mouth. It was disgusting. It used overcomplicated math and a terrible Perlin Noise implantation. It's seed system didn't even loving work and it wasn't user friendly. I was like "forget this"
Then 10 minutes later I decided to write it in Python. It was slow. I used really good libraries and stuff, I even used an octree to remove unnecessary bricks, though it still was slow. Generating 100x100 terrain would take nearly 3 minutes. And the noise didn't even look good. So I decided to go back to C++, at a new angle. I rewrote everything (except my save writing library :P) and ran it. It was great. It was user friendly and fast. I could generate a 500x500 (125,000 bricks) map in a minute. And it was easy to use
you simply enter the Max X, the Max Y, a Seed (can be anything. Like "Johny is my friend" would work.) and the name, and it would generate, it automatically places it in your save files. So, it is pretty neat.

Progress
100% Terrain Generating
100% Save Writing
100% Bug Fixing
50%Optimization
0% Windows Compilation

How can you help?
If your on a windows computer
and I know/trust you
and you can compile this (C++)
I would love someone to compile this.

Screenshots
Name: Test Seed: Brian Max X: 100 Max Y: 100 Brickcount: 10,000

Click to see fullsized image.

Source

Bitbucket
Have fun

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Off Topic / new computer

« on: September 04, 2012, 05:43:34 PM »

hey, I'm going to start saving up for a new computer (Im going to buy the parts and build it)
can you guys tell me if this is a good build for it's price?

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU:  Intel Core i7-2600 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($284.98 @ NCIX US)
Motherboard:  ASRock P67 PRO3 SE ATX  LGA1155 Motherboard  ($102.55 @ Newegg)
Memory:  Kingston 16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR3-1333 Memory  ($69.99 @ Newegg)
Storage:  Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($85.98 @ NCIX US)
Video Card:  MSI GeForce GTX 660 Ti 2GB Video Card  ($307.55 @ Newegg)
Case:  Cooler Master HAF 932 Advanced ATX Full Tower Case  ($129.99 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply:  Corsair 600W ATX12V Power Supply  ($49.99 @ Newegg)
Monitor:  Acer G235HAbd 23.0" Monitor  ($139.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $1171.02
(Prices include shipping and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2012-09-04 18:12 EDT-0400)

Oh yea I also used PCParkPicker for this, it's really handy.

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Off Topic / Thermite!

« on: August 31, 2012, 02:00:30 PM »

Thermite is a powdery substance that when lit (by magnesium) gets really, really, hot. It is legal to make (I'm pretty sure!) Anyway, it's pretty cool.

Making it
Thermite is made of Powdered Aluminium and Iron Oxide (Rust). When making this I suggest you use gloves and glasses. And make it outside to be safe. Anyway, Thermite is 8 grams Iron oxide to 3 grams Powdered Aluminium.  Anyway. Both of these could be bought at a paint store. Anyway, mix this, and now you have Thermite. Now if you mix it 4 part Thermite 1 part clay or Playdo, you can actually make moldable Thermite (I love doing this).

Lighting it
Lighting it requires extreme temperatures. To light it, you have to use magnesium. Find some magnesium ribbon, or a sparkler that contains magnesium and put it into a pile of thermite. Then light it with a torch and run! WARNING: DO NOT LOOK DIRECTLY AT IT. IT IS REALLY BRIGHT

Next time I make I'll post pictures. Though heres a picture:

then..

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Suggestions & Requests / Back tracing

« on: August 30, 2012, 12:22:03 AM »

This would just be so loving helpful, no one going through collision bricks, no one using vehicles to get into hidden places easily. It'd just be overall a great improvement.

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Off Topic / Designing a new automatic door opening system

« on: August 29, 2012, 10:04:30 PM »

So tomorrow I'm going to Radio Shack to buy:
-5/6 yards of wire (an extra yard for mistakes/breaks)
-Something to attach to my door
-1 or 2 gears
-A motor
-A switch
-About a day or so of work
With this I will make an automatic door opening system
the design is that from my desk I will flip a switch. In side my desk will be 4 AA batteries, this will produce a chage that will be send to the motor. The motor will turn, causing an object to either go forward or backward. This object will be attached to my door. This will pull my door open, from my desk. Anyone here tried something similar or is good at wiring and have tips for me?

Copyright brian smith plz dont steal ;(

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Drama / Triple T Trollers - Exposed

« on: August 27, 2012, 06:32:22 PM »

Triple T Trollers Exposed
How
I was derping around on the forums when I noticed a few topics talking about something called "TTT" or "Triple T Trollers." It's come to my attention that they have been becoming more and more of a nusense, so I decided, lets expose them.
First was getting in, I found out that one of the main trollers in this stuffhole is a kid named "Sirac" or "Kozak" So I asked him, "yo dawg, can i get in on this ttt stuff". And slowly and steadily, he let me in, telling me all this junk. My first step to get in was to troll a server. By trolling a server I would get more info. So, instead of actually "trolling" a server, I set up fake screenshots using clientsided commands to make it appear like I was trolling. As I made more of these stupid photos, he told me more info. It took exactly 2 photos to make this topic. Enjoy, and remember, ban these idiots from your server!

Members
So, currently there are 8 members excluding the anonymous leader which Sirac/Kozak recieves messages from, and me, well Im not really in. Though this is basically the official member list, given to me by another member. The leader is not in this.

War Monger	12551
Sirac/Kozak	16737
Assasin Altair	22666
Meef Meef	18165
OG Krush	7684
Evelkinevel	8119
Blind Guardian	21711
Newcleus	25437

War
For some reason, they decided to declare war on some other stupid clan. It's called FWN. They decided it to do this (I don't know how they'd do this) because they apparently made an entire forum about hunting down every TTT member. #thatwaseasy

Helpers
Apparently not having 8 people was enough, so they decided to have helpers. Intrestingly, Okiver is not apart of this. Though, after doing a little thinking, someone decided that I should ask about someone named Altruist. Intrestingly enough, something came up. He is in another clan called "gay haol" (haha, gaaayyy), which they have close ties with. Altruist also has helped in the past, so has jitank. When I started asking about others joining, he said "we are trying to keep small." They also have this sort of thing they call an HQ, or a hang out place for TTT. It's Slade's server. While Slade knows about TTT, he is not a part of it. I think has not helped yet. There are some rumors about Firecore being apart of this. It isn't true. They were actually happy that you guys believed he was in it.

Terms
This clan has a few terms apparently. I thought this would be good to bring up incase anyone  didn't understand something that they read from a TTT member. Freelance, the only term actually, means "loving up servers fast."

Rules
This clan has rules, believe it or not. Those rules are as follows:
#1 Never post anything about TTT or you being in TTT on forums.
#2 If troll server, do a "TTT has trolled your server" thing.
I guess I broke a rule :3

History
They don't have much of a timeline, but 2 months ago some dolt decided to form TTT. A month later they began trolling other servers.

Hitlist
Apparently they have this thing called a hitlist, where they make sure to attack these people with their oh so scary events!
Randomness - said "TTT is a bunch of 5 year old richard suckers"
Cysero - "Banned everyone from Gay hoal from his server" they hope to crash this guy's server.

Reasons
People in TTT like to troll people on the hitlist, but they liek to think of them selves as heros. "We made TTT to get rid of the bad servers. Sometimes... it's different" Apparently they think of themselves as internet police, making sure they are no "bad servers."

Conclusion
TTT is basically a bunch of kids who have absolutely no idea what they are doing. I hope this clears things up about this group. Thanks for reading. Feel free to ban these kids from your server

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Suggestions & Requests / Gamemode: Random

« on: August 27, 2012, 12:09:56 AM »

Picks a random gamemode. For fun!

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Modification Help / BlockWorld, a clientsided game. - Ingame Screenshot PG9

« on: August 23, 2012, 08:47:15 PM »

I was thinking about redoing TribalRP, I decided it would be a waste of time since the concept of the GameMode is stuff. So I wanted to do something MMO Styled. So I decided to make a clientmod that is a MMORPBM (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Blockland Mod). The game is that you are a little RPG character playing in a little RPG, with everyone playing with you. That means everyone is on the same world as you, if you walk past someone you see them, not really a big thing but they will appear as - a square. So will you, this RPG is entirely in squares. It'll be like a normal RPG. The server is going to be written in Python, the screen is 288x288, since we are using 16x16 squares that fits an exactly 18x18 square size. That may be changable in the future.


The idea is that the Blockland does nothing but display some things they receives from this TCP connection, giving it no stress at all. This way I can have all this complex things going on and the game wont lag at all, i think. The Python Server will be doing lots of work though, managing up to ~Number Goes Here~ amount of players at once, and 1,000 chunks (250 x 250), and 104,976,000,000 plots (18x18 chunks, 324 squares per chunk, with a world of a size at 324,000 x 324,000), and AIs, all at the same time. And possibly chat. Espically one just for managing the billions of land plots :)  I probably got some math wrong here, because I did this all on the spot, so please correct me if you see any mistakes.


Gameplay will be really simple. You go around finding monsters to battle, when you battle a monster you get EXP and carcass parts (bones, flesh, antlers, unicorn blood, etc.) which you can sell. With money you can by new armor/weapons. New weapons for better monsters, more EXP/Levels the new types of armor you can get and the farther from home you can go, Level 1 has to stay within a 1 chunk radius, level 2 stays within 3, level 3 stays withing 5, etc. it skips 1 for every level. The further out the new stores, the new monsters the harder monsters. Pretty simple, right? You login with a username/password (possibly) and can have up to 3 characters (and you could possibly be able to buy more). Classes can have different types of weapons, magic might come later on in the game. When you see someone if you click on them you can see what they actually look like (instead of just a square).


Python Server - More
TCP Client - More
GUI - More
Graphics - Everything

Brian Smith	Everything so far.
Jincux	Scripts/GUIs
Fluffy	GUIs/Networking
Alphadin	Pictures

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If you want to help you can just put in your name, bl_id, what you want to help with (Python, TorqueScript, GUI, Graphics, Sounds, Hosting [doubts], and testing [first there will be 10-20 testers to test out the mod itself, but they have to help with the actual mod too in some way, after it is done, a stress test will be done with 60 people, then 100 people, until we find a good max amount of players online.])

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Suggestions & Requests / "Same as last" Option for Gamemodes

« on: August 21, 2012, 01:07:24 AM »

Basically it would load the last used gamemode, if custom, with the exact same preferences. (and exact same environmental options)

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Modification Help / How would one get the current level of Shaders?

« on: August 19, 2012, 06:26:25 PM »

I know of optionsDLG::setShaderLevel
but that sets it, theres no getShaderLevel. So how would I get the current shader level?

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Forum Games / Time Leaper (Blockland Edition)

« on: August 18, 2012, 12:11:16 AM »

You are now the time leaper. You can jump into Blocklands future/past.
Where do you go? What do you see?

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Off Topic / I'm coming home!

« on: June 22, 2012, 04:43:03 PM »

OK, so theres some program thing my parents signed me up for (and I want to go too), where I go to Africa and basically live with a family for a while. The one downside to this program is that there is no electronics allowed on the trip, there is also no plugs where I'm going, basically it's like nothing electronic, so I wont be here for the next 2 months, because I'll be in Africa. No, this is not a leaving post, this is just a note so people no why I will be absent for the next 2 months.
So, I'll see you guys in 2 months, I'll miss you :) Especially Port though :)

EDIT
JESUS MOTHER forgetER IM GOING SOON HOLY stuff

Edit 2
Ima comin home!
:D

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Games / Suggest me a good game with good Archery

« on: June 21, 2012, 06:39:21 PM »

If there is one thing I love more than feeling like I am really in the game (when playing a game), it's good archery  (in a game). So I've played Skyrim, and it had some neat ass archery, but I need something better. Though I can't find any, so can you guys show me a good game with good graphics and good audio that has good archery.

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Help / I still can't host

« on: June 18, 2012, 01:43:08 AM »

A while I posted a topic that said when ever I host a non dedicated server I crash on Loading Music.
It is still happening
And no I will not remove my addons I'm going to be a stubborn mule and simply refuse to remove all the addons I collected from my years of playing.