trk Needs… YOU!

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At TRK, we hope to bring you the greatest news about the greatest things, but because TRK is only run by one person we want you guys to send in stuff you want to be posted on TRK!  Glitches, amazing updates we’ve missed, Roblox secrets, you name it!  Just send a PM to Havemeat on ROBLOX; I read every message I get!

TriTerrain — Retro Terrain for all!

Close your eyes an envision a common ROBLOX level/place.  Now, what do almost all of these places have in common?  Need a hint?  Think of the shapes, mostly cubes right?  Well, that isn’t fair is it?  Most games have amazing flowing terrain while you’re stuck with… squares?

NO LONGER!

Lets take a look at TriTerrain!  Most games use something called “tessellation” to create seamless surfaces that have a “texture”.  Basically, this is what gives a lot of terrain its “bumpiness”.

"Bumpy Terrain"

Now, compare this to ROBLOX:

"Flat ROBLOX Terrain"

Pretty flat huh?

LETS DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!

(Well, actually, I already did.)

 Introducing…. TriTerrain!  TriTerrain is a program I made to solve this program.  It’s a little bit harder to use than the last couple programs I’ve made, but, if you can use Roblox Studio, then you should be able to use TriTerrain.  TriTerrain gives you some simple tools to generate “flowing” terrain that isn’t flat!  You can also use images to generate terrain based on the image (bump mapping), it is still kind of glitchy but works enough to get a decent result.  Lets take a look at some results:

Just some quick map makes…

Download:

You can download TriTerrain here.

Known Bugs:

-Navigating with WASD doesn’t move like you would normally think, instead, it moves along the axis’s.

Out of hibernation…

TRK has been technically “sleeping” lately!  Things have picked up with my studies and it is hard to work with everything at once!  I will say, however, that I have a new software idea that I think you avid Roblox gui hackers out there will enjoy

I’ve also been getting lots of PM’s about ImgBrick!  I’m so excited that everybody enjoys what I have been releasing!

See you guys soon!

-Havemeat

A new way to support!

Do you enjoy the content that TRK provides you with?  Would you like to see more?  I’ve decided to try out a service called “adf.ly”.  Its a service that shortens links for you (similar to that of bit.ly and goog.ly).  The only difference is that is shows a quick ad in between.  I’ll be doing my links on this site with it now.  There will be an option every time to avoid using the ad.fly version and use a direct link.  Remember though, if you are in a good mood, please click on the adf.ly link to provide me with a little bit of change in my pocket (At no expense to you).

If you think this sounds interesting and you think you want a go at the service, here is a link!

Thanks for supporting!

Till next time!

-Havemeat

Holiday Coma

As out Holiday Comas slowly fade away, I wanted to post some updates!  First of all, Roblox gave us a WONDERFUL holiday season with TONS of gifts.  Congrats to those getting the 8 and 16 bit gifts!  Plenty of fun adventures for us all (Took me about 8 hours straight to get the 16-bit gift)!  I’ve been hooked on Minecraft recently (Just bought a copy) but don’t worry.  I’ll continue to play Roblox and update TRK.  I’m sure my MC addiction will decrease soon =P

I’m experimenting with a couple new projects.  I can’t give details.  Don’t want to disappoint anybody if they don’t work.  Remember, I have places and other social interactions to keep up, so I wont be able to work on them all day long…. =P

I’ll be posting some “tips for success” for you Robloxian P-P-P-POWER USERS!  P-P-P-POWER USERS are players that understand the way Roblox, its scripting, and building work.  These tips for success will include content to help get your places noticed by the public =D

Happy Robloing!

-Havemeat

2010 in review

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is doing awesome!.

Crunchy numbers

The Leaning Tower of Pisa has 296 steps to reach the top. This blog was viewed about 1,100 times in 2010. If those were steps, it would have climbed the Leaning Tower of Pisa 4 times

In 2010, there were 12 new posts, not bad for the first year (well, only a couple of months really)!

The busiest day of the year was October 28th with 56 views. The most popular post that day was the Downloads page.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were robloxjunkies.wordpress.com, WordPress Dashboard, getsatisfaction.com, and en.wordpress.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for therkommunity, the r kommunity, therkommunity imgbrick, therkommunity.wordpress.com, and roblox website enhancer.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

1 - Downloads August 2010

2 - ImgBrick 2 September 2010

3 - A scripting update! November 2010

4 - Halloween CTF: Vampires vs. Werewolves October 2010

5 - About August 2010

I hope that TRK can continue to provide you with some amazing content.  Maybe an ImgBrick 4?  I think some “Hight Maps” are in order :3

Lets hope 2011 can be another great “RoYear”!

Happy Robloing!

-Havemeat

P-P-P-POWER USERS :: WIKI

Ever wanted to write your articles on the Roblox Wiki?

If you have a fluent understanding of Lua and would like to help.  Mention yourself here on MrDoomBringer’s forum thread!

Better hurry!  MrDoomBringer has set the final date for this input for this Sunday (12-19-10)!

Wait!  Why become one?  Think of the benefits!

So far, Wiki Editors get:

> Privileges that no other robloxians have!

>You can help the community!

>Recently, Wiki Editors got the “Glowing Gold Gift of Superuser”!

>Rumored to be able to test special features (NOT VERIFIED!  It was mention by a Wiki Editor)

 

Plus plenty more!

Hot Off The Developers Express! ImgBrick 3!

Thats right!  Already, a new version of ImgBrick is being released to the public!  Whats so different between version 2 and version 3?

First off, if you don’t know what ImgBrick is, check out version 2′s blog post here.

I’ve added a brand new feature.  Yes, only one.  Yes, it will knock your socks off!

Previously, ImgBrick 1 and 2 were forced to make final products with bricks that didn’t quite match the actual color of the original images pixels.  This made some images look kind of low quality… we don’t want that.

The new CCFilter actually utilizes something that I found recently that forces the bricks to have the exact RGB values (exact color in laymen terms) of the original images pixels!  This new find was so exciting, I had to implement it right away!

 

Example of this amazing update!

 

You can download this amazing new program my clicking here!

2010 Gobbler Event!

Its Thanksgiving and it looks like Roblox just gave us a fun event place!  You can see it here! Your job is to survive as a turkey, or, once you have been hunted, become a hunter!  The game is decently simple.  With some spots to hide as a turkey and a musket to fire as a hunter the game is kind of like a form of hide-and-go-seek!

I went ahead and took some pictures so you could see.

Sadly I didn't find this hiding place until after I was hunted.

Wow, I give a whole new meaning to the term "Well Done".

RUN!

Amazing Scenery

Sounds like Telamon was having some problems setting up though.  The badges are currently just given to you when you come in because the place kept breaking and he gave up.  Maybe that will be fixed later.  In the meantime, if you want the badges easy, go ahead in!

Wait whats this?  I’ll probably be releasing ImgBrick v3 within the next couple days.  I’m ironing some last glitches out before I send it on!  You guys are going to love its new feature!

Happy RoGiving!

Havemeat.

Lets talk… UI!

First off, whats a UI?  A UI is a “User Interface”.  In Roblox, your UI is basically the 2D buttons displayed on your screen (such as report, exit, help, and fullscreen).  Looks like we’re getting a new update for our UI soon![1]

The sneak peak shows an amazing, slick and smooth, new UI!  Its less cluttered and smaller.  Know what that means?  More room for scripters to place their own GUI’s!

It probably won’t come out for a while.  Sounds like their are some other nice GUI features coming along with it.

If you missed my citation earlier, here is a link to the blog post:

http://blog.roblox.com/?p=3444

Happy Robloing

I’ll get back with more information as soon as I can!

Havemeat.