So I heard you guys like 4x Cube Terrain...

[Blocki]

I don't think steep cube terrain looks any good
It looks really awesome when the offset between the cubes is like 0-2 plates

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[Altiris]

DEFINITELY PUTTING THIS ON THE BL WIKIPEDIA!

Edit: ADDED http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockland
Btw could you release this as a save?

[ZSNO]

What's that billion of random numbers in the pgm file mean???

a PGM is literally a black and white image.
The numbers indicate what shade of grey the pixel is.
I just use these numbers directly as height

DEFINITELY PUTTING THIS ON THE BL WIKIPEDIA!

Edit: ADDED http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockland
Btw could you release this as a save?

Maybe if I feel like uploading an 11mb save

[Electrk²]

I improved the picture a little bit

[img width=1000 ]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/45722493/better.png[/img]

adding bloom and random effects does not make a picture "better"

[fred da kiko]

hand made terrain looks better.

[heedicalking]

one loop of slopes takes up all available bricks AND we ski down it. its like we've regressed!

[Brian Smithers]

4x16 Cube
genius
kk brb stealing

[orboro]

how long did it take?

[OzmarBlock]

Oh dang, that is huge

[K3k0m@n]

Did what you said, took 1 hour, and nothing changed in the .zip folder. No new files or anything.

[Blocki]

Did what you said, took 1 hour, and nothing changed in the .zip folder. No new files or anything.

WHat who said

[K3k0m@n]

WHat who said

Okie so I'm releasing the script and instructions on to use this thing.
First you can grab the add-on formatted version here.
Stick that in your Blockland Add-ons folder and enable it when making a server.

To make it do a terrain, open your console and type:
Code:
parsePGM(file location here);
ex. parsePGM("add-ons/script_pgmparser/output.pgm");
This will start to create a new file (that is easier for me to script for) that is the old file name plus _format
The script will read this file and read each height value and place a brick accordingly until it is done.
You can poke at it and make improvements blah blah

Now to the part on how to create PGM files.
Basically I used a program called World Machine 2.
You make your terrain and then for exporting select the PGM (ASCII) option.
Export that and you have a file that is ready to be put into Blockland

[Blocki]

Blockland cannot write in zip files.
The new file is in add-ons/script_pgmparser, it's a folder, not a zip

[Katadeus]

Why would you ever try to show someone a quote in context and remove the link from the quote when you kept the link to their own post

[K3k0m@n]

right so I find a pgm file and on it is a bunch of numbers

what2do now