Author Topic: Creating Colorsets for Blockland  (Read 1966 times)

Colorsets are some of the easier Add-Ons to make. Let's get started.

First off all, create a folder in your Add-Ons folder.


And name it whatever you want... Remember the Add-on has to be in the format Colorset_<name>. For this tutorial, we're going to use Example as the name.


In your folder, Create two new text files.


Name them colorSet and description.


Open description. In it, you will put your information in the following format:

Code: [Select]
Title: <Whatever you named it before, without the colorset_ part.>
Author: <Your Blockland Name, some people choose to put their BL_ID in with it.>
<And an optional description right here>



Now you need to worry about your colorset. First of all, colorsets use RGB. There are two types of RGB. Decimal RGB and Normal RGB. Decimal RGB takes color hues 0.000-1.000. Normal RGB takes color hues 0-255. For example, Color: 1.000 1.000 1.000 1.000 (White), is the same as 255, 255, 255, 255. The first three numbers are red hues, blue hues, then yellow hues. The last number is the transparency, which works the same as the colors. 0 is invisible, 255 or 1.000 is solid. Some people choose color wheels to get these hues, but you can also use the avatar customization screen, like so:



So the hues would be 0.900 0.000 0.000 1.000. Now, let's take the first nine colors, or the standard in the standard colorset, and put them in our file.



That's how you make a row. But what about naming the row? Well, you would tell the row to end by naming it, like so:


I don't have a picture for this, but you can also use the Avatar Customization screen to mix colors, by clicking new, and playing with the sliders.

Now, I don't want to make a whole colorset, you do. So I'll just copy the default colorset.:


Save everything and start up Blockland. Start a custom game and select colorset. Your colorset should be in there:


You don't have to worry about zipping the colorset, unless you are going to upload it to the forums or RtB.

If you have any questions leave them below.
« Last Edit: December 08, 2012, 12:32:30 PM by Miner Blockman »

Nice work on the guide, This should be helpful to quite a bunch of users.

My colorset wasn't in the options where you could enable any colorset you want for the server
« Last Edit: December 09, 2012, 09:29:32 AM by blØckster »

Never Mind. The problem was just a ton of spelling errors :|