Yay framerate

[Bisjac]

i dont get bad framerates when i fill a giant map on simcity 4 :p

but i do lose control and have it all burn up.
:D

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[Sumohz]

I bet that would be great on a tri-core 8800GTX.

[Irk89]

Going slightly off topic here.

With this custom block filetypes and whatnot will people be able to add their own in over time?

I thought I read somewhere that you open up a text doc and type in the dimensions or something and save it as the model file.  I can't remember where I heard that but it's somewhere on here.

[Packer]

MS3D ASCII text Document.
Not very useful.

[Wedge]

Going slightly off topic here.

With this custom block filetypes and whatnot will people be able to add their own in over time?

I thought I read somewhere that you open up a text doc and type in the dimensions or something and save it as the model file.  I can't remember where I heard that but it's somewhere on here.

Its a .blb (Blockland Brick) file. All you need to do to create a primitive is type

BRICK
4 5 6

in a text file, save it as a .blb file, and import it into the game. You now have a 4x5x6 brick. More complicated bricks are more complicated to make. I'm not sure how you do them, I don't understand everything in the file. Needless to say, it will probably take people a while to learn how to make them, unless someone writes a block maker utility.

[Spation]

This whole thing sounds awesome. The framerate issue has been one of my queries about this game in retail, now that it's that high I'm fine with it. I think shadows need to be added and like SpaceOmega said given a switch between on and off.

The .blb file idea is great! Very simple, so for that if you're hosting a server and you have like a 12 4 5 (for instance) will the clients need to spend much time downloading the blb file?

[mocheeze]

Badspot said he's going to make a brick editor so people can make their own. He also said it shouldn't be a problem when people join a server that has custom bricks or colors. I haven't talked to him about this in a while though, so I don't know if all my info is still up-to-date.

[Ronin]

heh...word on the street is that your own creations can be modeled too.

[Jookia]

FUCK, this is the best fps I've seen.

lol @ hole between feet and torso.

[Wizzard1]

Speaking of blb files, how has the savefile been modified?

I wish I had taken up coding, I still might.... That original and current persistance method is just unoptimized unoptimozed argh I hate opening them and looking at all 20 "thisvalue=0" for 95% of bricks :-D

[Terror]

I feel sorry for Kaphix, He had to edit a whole Persistance file that contained more than 1000 bricks just to get it to work on RTB 1.05

[No Karma Loss]

Its a .blb (Blockland Brick) file. All you need to do to create a primitive is type

BRICK
4 5 6

in a text file, save it as a .blb file, and import it into the game. You now have a 4x5x6 brick. More complicated bricks are more complicated to make. I'm not sure how you do them, I don't understand everything in the file. Needless to say, it will probably take people a while to learn how to make them, unless someone writes a block maker utility.

Holy crap, that sounds awesome! I'm getting really anxious as of late, can't wait for the release.

[Pimpin]

Looking at about 65K bricks I get around 85 FPS. (by bricks I mean a huge glob of 2x2x3s)

[Ronin]

Sounds good. Maybe I can live my dream of building a city.

[yuki]

Yay, now we can do stuff that relates to this!