It started as the name of my next band, and ended up here instead.
I don't have a specific theme, and most of what you find here are reblogs. You'll see mostly fannish stuff, food, amusements, understanding reality, art, photography, etc.
tbh i think the funniest phenomena that’s been happening in the last couple years is “youtuber, having gone too deep into the research hole, has been made an investigative journalist against their will”
I wish sometimes I hadn’t seen the Wonka movie because I’ll be tryna focus on something really important and suddenly- NOODLE NOODLE APPLE STRUDEL SOME PEOPLE DON’T AND SOME PEOPLE DOODLE
Making mods in Urbek is very easy, and best of all, you can draw in the same style using MagicaVoxel, a very fun and easy to use program. If you want to make a mod simply and quickly, go here.
Otherwise, if you want to make more complex mods and want to understand how, read on.
Let’s first start by looking at what a mod is.
A mod is a folder in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Urbek\Urbek_Data\StreamingAssets You can get to the exact location by looking at where it sends you when you press this button on the game:
This folder must have certain elements.
Look at the 4 mods that already come in the game, ignore the .meta files, you will see that they have:
Folder name, this defines the name of your mod, we recommend: modName_author
Short description stored in description.txt
3D models, in the folder 3dModels
Rules, one or more .txt files that must start with replace, add3dModels, or newBuilding, what comes after that doesn’t matter, it’s only useful for you to organise yourself.
Draw your construction (one tile in the game is 40x40 voxels)
If it’s a corner building it should be to the right and down, you can check it by loading the file again, it should look like this
If you want some elements to go over the edges, you can make it 46x46, for example, and then you have 3 voxels for each side.
Export file as .obj
If you use the old version of magicavoxel 0.92, the file must have “mv92” in its name.
The file should be in a subfolder called 3dModels, inside your mod folder.
Every time you save an .obj file, 3 files actually appear (.obj, .png. .mtl), all three of which are useful. It would looks like that
Types of Mods There are three types of modifications possible. The mods Urbek already has use all three types, so you can learn by seeing what’s in them.
Replacing models This is the easiest one, you can replace some existing models of the game with other ones. You must create a file called replace.txt (the important thing is that it starts with replace, it can also be called replace_testing.txt or replace_firstattempt.txt, for example). First you must recognize the name of the model, check the
Temperate biome rules
and look for the construction you are interested in, in “codeName:” you will see the name I use inside the game, if you want to see the equivalent of the name in English with the names inside the game, go to
In-game names with English names). So to modify the farms look for “codeName”: “campo” in the file.
A few lines below that, in “models”: you will see that there is one called KCampo_2x3. to replace that model, you must write in your replace.txt file
So, for example, one line of the onlyFarms mod says:
campo,KTrigo,KCampo_1x1_mod_mv92
it means: replace the KTrigo model of the farms (campo) with one of yours called KCampo_1x1_mod_mv92 I added mv92 to the model because I did it in magicavoxel 0.92, which is different from the others, I’m very used to that version, but if you do it in any more advanced version, you don’t need to add mv92 to the file name.
Add model You can only add buildings and cars, not roads or nature (or maybe it is possible but I haven’t tried :P ). If you use a mod that adds new models and then delete the mod, there will be problems loading the game where you have already used it.
The file must start with add3dModels and each line must have 4 or 5 values: inGame name of the building, name of the new model, width, length, if it’s a corner. For instance:
cabanha,KCasa0020_mv92,1,1
In case it is corner, you add an E at the end, like this
cabanha,KCasa0020_mv92,1,1,E
Adding construction This is the most difficult thing, the best way to learn is to check in the game rules what each thing means, the only different with respect to existing buildings is the UpgradesFrom field, in case you want the construction be an upgrade from another, it is a vector whose elements have 2 or 3 fields:
original_construction,mode,reference,
For example, if we want our new building to be one of the possible upgrades of the
downtown
house (inGame name: ciudad) as second priority, First let’s check what a downtown house can be upgraded with
It means it will upgrade first to pechonho (religious neighbourgood) as first priority, then ciudad2 (2-storey downtown house), then it appears itself, i.e., if it does not satisfy the requirements, it will downgrade to parking lots, and so on.
We then set
UpgradesFrom: [“pobla,after,city2”],
In this case it would be equivalent to putting
UpgradesFrom: [“pobla,before,pechonhos”],
And if we also want it to be the first priority for the upgrades of the suburban house (poblaPobre), we will put
The other values of the constructions like requirements, prices, etc, you can check other constructions to compare, for now let’s continue with the lights.
Lights If you have a 3d model that has the same name as your building but also has a “ luz” (with space) at the end of the name (in the same folder) then the game will automatically recognise it as the places that should be the yellow light. If it ends in “ luzRoja” it will be the red lights.
Graceful degradation is the ability of a computer, machine, electronic system or network to maintain limited functionality even when a large portion of it has been destroyed or rendered inoperative. The purpose of graceful degradation is to prevent catastrophic failure. (Tech Target, first result on the search engine)
Literal opposite of planned obsolescence. I love you graceful degradation.
Oh neat the first time I heard of the concept the guy described it to me as “catastrophic functionality”.
He was talking about it in the context of designing robots that would go in and stop nuclear reactor meltdowns, something that would 100% destroy the robot, but they would be designed to keep functioning and fighting the meltdown for as long as possible. He had some designs where over 80% of the robot has died and it was functionally dragging its corpse around by its one working arm because one more minute of functionality might save thousands.
I’ve been having a few bad years mental health wise, and thinking about those robots a lot .
Watch out for any job listings that claim you’ll cruise the seas for American gold, fire no guns, and shed no tears. These are all scams and the job is NOT as advertised. Source: I fell for it and am now a broken man on a Halifax pier
fanfic fandom is just as likely to turn on ‘disruptors’ as the knitting hobby is – witness what happened to the 2 techbros who bought knitting.com, thought they’d be able to leverage that, and were eaten by insulted, angry knitters like a pair of oxen in a river of piranha
I can’t stop thinking about this post from a few years ago that really just makes everything click together about Crowley better than I think anyone actually realizes…
Crowley was The Serpent. He introduced free will into humanity, not by tempting Eve with fruit, but by helping her understand that she could CHOOSE whether she wanted to follow orders or not. Crowley gave her the Gift of Knowledge, not the fruit.
Crowley has all the empathy for the Universe, because he was its Architect. In the Great War of Heaven against Hell, picking a side was arbitrarty, because as he saw it, it wasn’t a real choice that mattered. It was just a contest between two sides over who to gets privilege of destroying it all. Either way, the Universe loses. Only Crowley could see the bigger picture; only he dared to ask the question: Why?
Ultimately, the only lesson he took out of his damnation was that Heaven could not be trusted to understand the difference between what is Good and what is Right any more so than Hell. It was out of empathy, when he told Eve that she shouldn’t need to listen to God, and in doing so, he gave the Universe the chance to make its own choice, to do more than just follow orders. Following God’s orders may be seen as being Good, but if those orders are unjust, then how Good can they really be?
But Crowley is the only one who can see this, because as the serpent, he IS the free will that gave to the Universe. After witnessing the death and destruction of nearly the entire world’s population to the Great Flood, he refused to remain complicit to any injustice that God wrought onto humanity. He refused to follow orders given to him in Uz to kill innocent children and livestock just because God took a dare to make one particular man’s life suck for no other reason. When Crowley meet Jesus of Nazareth, he decided to show and educate the young messiah all about the rest of the entire world and all its beauty, because he thought the kid just simply ought to know. He taught others to think critically when it came to blindly following orders. All because a universe where an individual’s choices don’t matter, where every decision is preordained by cosmic forces until the end of time, is unfair. And Crowley learned firsthand just how unfair that is, to not have a choice in one’s own destiny. This was the gift of knowledge he hoped to pass along to humanity: to ask questions, to address injustice, to be able to choose between doing good and doing right.
The serpent told Eve that we should always have a choice.
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