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Physics based destruction sandbox · By slojanko

Update 0.6.5 Sticky

A topic by slojanko created Jul 07, 2017 Views: 845 Replies: 11
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Welcome,

for the past week I've been constantly updating the in-game menu to offer as much functionality as I can put in. The dropdown has been replaced with a dynamic window containing previews of your maps. These thumbnails are small in size and won't require a lot more space than the map itself.

To see these changes you will need to download the latest version because the format has slightly changed from the previous.

The format for settings has switched to a simple json file for easier manipulation within the game. There were also some code improvements which should increase the performance of physics calculations.

Slojanko

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cool, what's the roadmap for this game?

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The final product? 

So I wanna add a lot of shapes you can spawn, to build just about anything that's possible, not just the 5 you're limited to right now. We're talking a full inventory of them. After you're done building, with what could be well above 50 types of objects, you'll be able to choose from a variety of demolition objects: bombs, projectiles, black holes with varying power.

Why am I not doing it right now? Each shape requires me to model between 15-25 models separately. They need to be textured and then I have to do a lot of linking withing the game to implement the working version. The whole process can take up to 1-2 hours if I'm doing a lot of mistakes. A mistake that happens at the beginning requires me to re-do everything after that again.

I've tried reinstalling the game, but whenever I try to load a map it changes the background but nothing shows up and the menu stays there. This hasn't happened before the update but if I make a new map I can't place any blocks and there's just a blue block sitting there in the middle sometimes. How do I fix this? 

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Are you trying to load an online map? Please send me the ouput_log.txt file inside the Sandbox Play_Data.

https://hastebin.com/wupobaqode.sql here's the log file. I'm trying to load online maps, but even with the latest updated it still doesn't work even when starting a new map, I still can't place blocks

I have updated the game to version 0.7.0. If you still see the problem If you do, can duplicate this on another machine or send me how you achieved it?

Still have the problem after 0.7.0. All I do is boot up the game and open a new map and I can't place anything. Online maps don't work either. Don't know if I should change some settings around or what. I don't have another machine to try this on, though

I'm currently putting this project on a halt so I'm not replying as often as I could. Can you just double check the options.ini contains "block_limit" and it's set to 9999?

{"frames_per_second":60,
"block_limit":9999,
"physics_quality":3,
"music_volume":-25.0,
"sfx_volume":5.0,
"show_frames_per_second":true,
"show_block_counter":true,
"mouse_sensitivity":9,
"show_vignette":false,
"show_motion_blur":false,
"show_AA":false,
"show_AO":false,
"texture_pack":"Default",
"experimental_physics":false}

this is the options file

Could you please send me the output_log.txt again? I'll check it again. The current link has expired.

https://hastebin.com/usololowoz.sql