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Two things here, not sure if they're related. Alpha Team's designer (that awesome Tom Mott fella) showed up on Eurobricks recently and, among other things, said this: http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=85196#entry2457898 I've tried it and a thousand variations and have yet to get anything to happen. I'd say exactly what I've tried, but without any hint as to what it should do, who knows what might be relevant. I think it'd best if people messed around with it themselves. If you want to investigate the game up close, be aware that most of Alpha Team's logic is made up of DLLs, both sitting in the same folder as the EXE, and inside the Bhvr.pac file. The EXE contains relatively little. Bhvr\PE0300.DLL especially might be of note? Also while poking around I noticed UI stuff that seems to show there is/was an in-game puzzle editor. From Etc\UILAYOUT.TXT: //**************** Puzzle Editor Buttons ***************** ToggleButton LockButton 0.95 0.7583 0.05 0.066667 { State UnLocked { Neutral "Unlocked.tga"; } State Locked { Neutral "Locked.tga"; } } ToggleButton ModeButton 0.0001 0.7583 0.05 0.066667 { State GameMode { Neutral "GameMode.tga"; } State PEMode { Neutral "PEMode.tga"; } } Button TBLeftArrow 0.070313 0.091667 0.05 0.066667 { Neutral "ToolboxArrow.tga"; MouseOver "ToolboxArrow_roll.tga" Sound ButtonOverSound; Depressed "ToolboxArrow_selected.tga" Sound ButtonDownSound; Faded 0.333; } Button TBRightArrow 0.882813 0.091667 0.05 0.066667 { Neutral "ToolboxArrow.tga"; MouseOver "ToolboxArrow_roll.tga" Sound ButtonOverSound; Depressed "ToolboxArrow_selected.tga" Sound ButtonDownSound; Rotation( 180.0 ); Faded 0.333; } NoClickButton TBoxBGBut 0.121875 0.010417 0.760938 0.145833 { Color (0.0, 0.012, 0.549, 0.8); } Group TBArrows { Draw TBLeftArrow; Draw TBRightArrow; } The images for the buttons are still present too. I haven't looked into it much, but perhaps there's a way to enable it?

It runs in-game, you can toggle between game mode and the puzzle editor at any time. It doesn't really look any different unless you pull up some specific menus or UI things, but I'll get some screens of that. Edit: Another edit: G toggles whether or not object movement is aligned to a grid, L toggles whether or not the camera does weird stuff with rotation. U does hella weird stuff to models. If you select an animated object you can type the number of an animation to play it - the zombie type that patrols around has an unused idle animation, as does this one (unless there's some situation where they play in-game that I don't know of): Still trying to figure out how to raise/lower objects, or not keep them from having to snap to the ground like units do in normal gameplay... There must be some way, for example, evil orbs are always floating.

Recently, I have been working with an Arduino Ethernet (well, not an official Arduino. It's an Andymark clone that's just as good) that I found buried in my robotics teams many boxes of electrical components. We had never used it before and it wasn't surprising considering we don't have any means of programming it (unlike the Uno, this device requires an FTDI cable or ISP programmer). Currently I am working to find an alternate method to loading sketches onto the board. That aside, I felt that the Arduino ought to be out in some sort of case while I work on it. I attempted to 3D print a case for it that was provided by the manufacturer but the results were sub-par (a case means the whole thing not just a bottom plate). Not currently willing to take the time to CAD a new case, I continued to search for a cheep and quick solution. Then I remembered that there were things called LEGOs! After digging through my part box to find any useful spare parts. Eventually I came up with this prototype. Top View: Front View (Ethernet on the left, Power on the right): Rear View (MicroSD on left, FTDI on right): In its current form, the case works pretty good. However, there are some issues with the design. In order to have some form of access to the MicroSD without opening the case, the board had to be pushed as far back as possible. By doing so though, it becomes harder to access the Ethernet and power ports and some of the analog and digital pins become no longer accessible when the case is open. The hole for the FTDI cable is quite tight as well and may not fit the cables plastic housing. Lastly, the top cover does not feature any holes to give access to the pins on the board. Seeing the issues that this board had, I have designed the following case in LDD. The new design resolves the issues with access to the pins as well as access to the Ethernet and power ports. The FTDI hole has also been widened to resolve any spacing issues. The estimated cost for the parts needed to build this case from Pick A Brick is $10.85 USD. The LDD file for the case is also downloadable at below. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/109508761/LEGO%20Arduino/ArduinoEthernet.lxf Back to work I go!

I was going to rip the player sprites and display them together, but I decided to make a video instead: Notes: Each team uses the same sprites for all its players, but different types can still be mixed together in a custom team. National teams are unlocked after a victory in the World Cup Mode. Themed teams each have two types of players. The "star" types are unlocked later in Story Mode, but they don't appear to perform any different from the standard types. If both teams use the same player type in a match, the CPU sprites are recolored to avoid confusion. This goalkeeper is used for almost every team. The only exceptions are the Martian Teams, which presumably use Centauri instead. Unlike the other players, goalies don't change color if teams are the same.

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Since people wanted more stuff posted on the forums, here's some of the better stuff I've built in LDD. ClawBunny- It's the thing from my avatar. Or I guess it isn't if this is the future and I've changed it, but whatever. ClawBunny Mk4 Old Versions Small Car- A modern take on a Classic Town car. Small Car Cyber Muaka- CyberSlam meets Bionicle. Inspired by old TCG art that inexplicably colored Muaka teal. I tried to stick to real part colors so anyone crazy enough to make this IRL can so it if they want. Cyber Muaka Space Cycle & Crater Crab- Silly little thing inspired by a mish-mash of space-related stuff. Space Cycle

For those of you who own Rct2 on disk, steam or GoG. There is some good news for those who enjoyed it in the past. OpenRct2 is a project that expands the old game by fixing bugs and adding new features such as sandbox mode, day/night cycle, cheats and multiplayer. I have spend quite a bit of my free time building a park in a custom made map and decided to make this post to share it and promote anybody else to post their parks as well This is the park i have been working on called "Zen River Amusement Park" The idea behind this park is to divide the parks into areas laid out with roads in which i try would keep the rides inside, besides the yellow caterpillar ride i think i did a fairly decent job on the park. If i work on the park more in future I'll post new pics of the new rides and scenery i made. Hope you enjoyed and share you parks as well.

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I'd usually create a shiny new topic for D2Cs when they're announced, but since this one is so amazingly boring I'm just gonna shove it here. Anyways, it's a hoth set! *laurel-resting intensifies*