MovingBlocks

VIDEO: Bounce things off all the other things

We have a great many pieces of content in the game, but do not have enough videos to let people know about it! One thing we do well is physics and bouncy objects. Anybody remember seeing crazy videos with cheese wheels or heads of cabbage rolling off a hill in Skyrim? Do that in Terasology, record it, and post it!

Definition of 'Done'

  • Link to a Youtube video that shows some interesting usage of Terasology's physics in amusing ways. You can start the video as "unlisted" if you like or use other video services (Vimeo is still a thing I guess?)
  • Bonus: Write a game console command that bulk-drops items of your choice to make it easier to play with physics

Where to start

  • Make sure you can run the game without lag with many active physics objects - for instance start a Core game then use the railgun on a few mountains
  • Find and set up some sort of video capturing software suitable for your OS
  • When in-game use the give command in the game console (F1) to get things to drop with q
  • Try getting a bunch of blocks or other things and drop them with q on a suitable mountain while having the video recorder running. Does the resulting video seem smooth enough?
  • Try using the "FunnyBlocks" module - it has cheese wheels, bowling pins, etc
  • For the bonus see spawnBlock in CoreCommands (drops a single block in front of you - instead make it drop a bunch, maybe with a tiny break between drops)

Task tags

  • fun
  • video
  • physics
  • playing
  • youtube

Students who completed this task

Arpit Kamboj, Chaitanya, Suraj Datta

Task type

  • chrome_reader_mode Documentation / Training
  • assessment Outreach / Research
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2017