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Make slanted bricks
Becquerel:
He wants the bricks to be in a certain orientation where instead of 4 cardinal directions used in the brick grid, he wants them to be 45 Degrees, given that the difference between NESW orientation is 90 degrees between each angle
Wesley Williams:
Although a 4 axis grid would be cool, it would be a coding nightmare and Badspot would have to make it. Also I feel like a lot of people would be thrown off by the new building angles.
Gen. Hothauser:
--- Quote from: Wesley Williams on November 30, 2013, 03:33:09 PM ---Although a 4 axis grid would be cool, it would be a coding nightmare and Badspot would have to make it. Also I feel like a lot of people would be thrown off by the new building angles.
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He doesn't want a new system, he just wants a brick pack that adds rotate bricks
Wesley Williams:
--- Quote from: Gen. Hothauser on November 30, 2013, 06:03:17 PM ---He doesn't want a new system, he just wants a brick pack that adds rotate bricks
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It's impractical because you wouldn't be able to build next to them.
Gen. Hothauser:
--- Quote from: Wesley Williams on December 01, 2013, 02:15:55 AM ---It's impractical because you wouldn't be able to build next to them.
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False - the slanted brick pack could include adaptor bricks so that the slanted bricks could coincide with the normal bricks.
--- Quote from: Wesley Williams on November 30, 2013, 03:33:09 PM ---Although a 4 axis grid would be cool, it would be a coding nightmare and Badspot would have to make it. Also I feel like a lot of people would be thrown off by the new building angles.
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The Blockland world is triaxial, not quadraxial (which only exists in a fourth dimension). Badspot would NOT have to make it - modders could develop it and Badspot could then add it in. People wouldn't be thrown off because a 45 degree angle would not affect people too much - angles smaller than the eye can see would mess people up.
And I doubt it would be a coding nightmare, seeing how it's just simple trigonometry. It would NOT be made because it would take away what Blockland is about - a brick building game. Once angles that cannot be achieved in the real world are added, then the intrinsic purpose of Blockland is destroyed. Same goes for slanted bricks. This is why we have wedge bricks. If the slanted bricks were formatted like the wedge bricks (with the studs still inline with the grid), then these slanted bricks would work out.