Author Topic: Tutorials  (Read 1208 times)

Hi, i see that many people have problems with doing things and all. So i made _ tutorials on the things I know how to do on blockland.

NUMBER ONE: MACRO

A macro is a recording of keystrokes and mouse movements that when played over will speed to the maximum. Blockland has its own macro program, recording just the numpad to record building. if you plan on making  flight of stairs, or possibly anything else that would be repetitive and long, use macros. It really helps the build go fast.

So first, go to controls in the options menu. Look under the tab "building". At the very bottom, you will see two macro controls. One is "Start macro recording" and is automatically set to "CRL + NUMPAD 0". The other is "Replay macro recording" and is set to "CRL + NUMPAD 3". Change these controls to whatever you are comfortable with. In this example the record button is o, leaving the playback key to be p. (i really like this because r t y u i are the five emotes, i could use the whole top row)

Now that you have your comfortable controls, lets go to the bedroom (or whatever you are comfortable with). now lay down the first ghost brick, and press o. now that you have just started recording, lets go over the recording rules:
1. do not turn camera over 90 degrees. if this happens, the rest of your macro may turn out sideways.
2. do not click left muse button. it will reset the brick position, but the macro playback will think that brick is still where it used to be.
3. do not press NUMPAD 0. this will close the ghost brick. not good.

now record only with the numpad, a piece of the continuous thing you want to macro. if you want the ghost brick to automatically go where the first brick of the next macroing will be, go ahead and move it there. remember that if you are using an uneven brick (such as a ramp) if you rotated it at all the next macro may have lopsided ramps. to avoid this, rotate your ghost brick back to original parameters. press o to stop the recording.

now that you have your selected macro, go ahead and try it out. press p. now, when you are playbacking your macro, things dont happen in a millisecond. to avoid macro malfunctioning:

1. do not rotate camera over 90 degrees
2. do not click.
3. do not press numpad zero.
4. do not press p until macro is over. this may cause the old playback to suddenly stop, a new one starting right where the last one left off.

there you have it.



NUMBER TWO: ADD ONS

if you havent noticed, which you most likely have, you download add ons before entering your blockland server. things are caused by that, meaning that there are more kinds of bricks, music, events, and more. there are actually two things said here.

the first thing is, how do you download your own add ons? go to the add on section of the forum, attached to a post is the add on being downloaded. now, go to this link and download whatever to the downloads folder of blockland. pretty simple.

a lot of confusion going on is, well, why arent these add ons working in MY servers? heres the reason. well, theres a script in the server folder, in the config folder, in the local blockland folder. it is called "ADD_ONS" double click on it. since this is a script, your computer says it cannot open the file. so open it up in wordpad. now, you will see a bunch of these:

"$addon_whateversname; = 1"

or something like that. anyway, that registers that exact add on to go to your server. and youve got to type a bunch of those to get all the add ons you want into your server.

now even im too lazy to do that.

NUMBER 3: COLOR SETS

now, color sets arent in the add ons section. actually, in the config> server folder i was telling you about, it there. the color set should automatically open up in wordpad.

you see a bunch of code, backspace out of it all. now you will do the code all by yourself. hopefully you know about the red-blu-green system, cause thats what this uses. there are two things you can do.

1. "1.000 0.000 0.000 1.000"
this color is red. remember the last one is visibility.
2. "250 0 0 250"
exact same thing, exept 250 is the maximum.
once you got a bunch of those on a bunch of lines, one on each, type on the last one:
"DIV:reds"
this will call this section of paints red. now you have a whole section, press return 2 times and start a new one to start a new column. remember 10 is the max per column and 6 columns max or colors will be cut out.

feel free to experiment!






look, i was gonna put more tutorials, maybe ill do that later. post any comments here and have fun doing stuff!

bye

There are already stickied topics for these :/

Macros - http://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=18077.0

Add-ons - http://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=40560.0 + What the hell is this editing the ADD_ONS file thing? Just enable them on the Start Game menu?

Regulith, i hate you.

the blockland FOLDER, not the program in the folder.


Regulith, i hate you.

the blockland FOLDER, not the program in the folder.
No you're just handicapped.

Steps to downloading add-ons without RTB:
optional) Learn how to read instructions word for word.
1) Close blockland if open.
2) Download add-ons.
3) Don't be dumb, put them in add-ons without extracting them.
4) Open Blockland.
5) Goto start game, and click add-ons.
6) Turn the crappy add-ons off, and the good ones on.
7) Start the server.

Regulith, i hate you.

the blockland FOLDER, not the program in the folder.

What? When did I say that's what I was talking about?

And what are YOU talking about?