The FC Resource Thread

[blegles]

penalty shot badge???

[sk89q]

What?

[blegles]

nevermind

[sk89q]

I calibrated screenshots so that the are much more accurate.

Recently, I made a change so that screenshots only show the viewable portion of the arena, and not the entire level. You can see the entire level on the "Enhanced Wireframe" tab still, however.

If you end up making a level with too many objects and it's corrupt, you can salvage it:
http://fc.therisenrealm.com/tools/salvagelevel

[benstaples]

Hey sk,

I have an idea for the FCML editor.
It's basically a copy of part of my excel sheet I use for generating FCML.

It would allow you to enter an object (eg. StaticCircle) and specify how many copies will be made.
It would also have starting parameters (width, height, x, y, rotation) and an option of what to change for each copy (eg x+10, y-40), it would then give you something like this:

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StaticCircle (0, 0), (20, 20), 0
StaticCircle (10, -40), (20, 20), 0
StaticCircle (20, -80), (20, 20), 0
StaticCircle (30, -120), (20, 20), 0
StaticCircle (40, -160), (20, 20), 0
StaticCircle (50, -200), (20, 20), 0


I've also looked into creating a Flash based tool for creating FCML, with fancy Bezier curves and live preview but it's a fair amount of work

[sk89q]

Well, the future of FC Resource is filled with doubt, question, and bagels, so get in your FCML work this work week!

[Heliwr]

Well, the future of FC Resource is filled with doubt, question, and bagels, so get in your FCML work this work week!

Yikes, I hope not too much doubt! This is not intended as a bash against FC, but I for one would probably not have gotten as addicted to FC as I have if not for FCR. Without FCR or at least something else that serves substantially similar functions I will likely soon be cured, and I don't really want that.

Btw, thanks for contributing your time and skill to make this awesome resource available to us.

Cheers

[sk89q]

Thanks for the comment.

On the subject: I stress "this week." Especially tomorrow.

[OfficiallyHaphazard]

Thanks for the comment.

On the subject: I stress "this week." Especially tomorrow.

Hmm tomorrow must be a code for something

like
Tonight only maybe our resources reek or Wednesday.

[sk89q]

P.S. I was the one that closed this thread. You can catch me on IRC if you care for the reason.

There are no plans (that I am aware of) of adding the functions of FCR into the game.

[sk89q]

It's been a few months, but FCR has had a few updates in the past few days!

• User pages now show join date and some interesting account age information (i.e. http://fc.therisenrealm.com/user?userId=66994)
• Design pages now feature # of ratings, publish status, complete description and author information, save date, and solution status (i.e. http://fc.therisenrealm.com/design?designId=408412)
• Level pages now feature # of ratings, publish status, complete description and author information, and save date (i.e. http://fc.therisenrealm.com/level?levelId=69691)
• The number of ratings for levels and designs is now displayed throughout the site
• Level lists for users now display rating (including My Levels) (i.e. http://fc.therisenrealm.com/userlevels?userId=66994)
• Design lists for users now display the level for each one (including My Designs) (i.e. http://fc.therisenrealm.com/userdesigns?userId=66994)
• Subscriptions and an activity feed

[sk89q]

• New timeline view of a user's designs and levels (i.e. http://fc.therisenrealm.com/user?userId=66994 and http://fc.therisenrealm.com/usertimeline?userId=66994)
• Forum profile information (post count, AIM, WLM, etc.) and avatar now shown on user pages (i.e. http://fc.therisenrealm.com/user?userId=66994)
• The top right find box now does instant exact-match username lookups and redirects to the search page if you enter some text
• You can now rate both quality and difficulty ratings for a level (you could not do this before anywhere due to a bug in FC)
• You can now change your ratings
• Enhanced wireframe view is now on the wireframe tab (i.e. http://fc.therisenrealm.com/level?level ... #wireframe)
• Rating average, count, min., max., standard deviation, and breakdown information is now available for levels and designs (i.e. http://fc.therisenrealm.com/level?levelId=61324#ratings)
• Level ranks are now calculated up to 1000
• For unpublished levels, estimated ranks are shown
• Filesizes of levels and designs displayed on the statistics tab (i.e. http://fc.therisenrealm.com/level?level ... statistics)
• Level designers can look at the solutions report to see who has recently solved their levels
• The list of solutions to a level now has an age displayed for each design (i.e. http://fc.therisenrealm.com/designs?levelId=69691)
• Since it's possible to know whether a design is published, the number of other solutions on design pages no longer blindly subtracts 1 from the total number of published solutions

[weasel]

Because if SK89Q's excellent recent updates to his FCR, I'll put this way up here at the top of the world.

[Iamnowme]

• New timeline view of a user's designs and levels (i.e. http://fc.therisenrealm.com/user?userId=66994 and http://fc.therisenrealm.com/usertimeline?userId=66994)
• Forum profile information (post count, AIM, WLM, etc.) and avatar now shown on user pages (i.e. http://fc.therisenrealm.com/user?userId=66994)
• The top right find box now does instant exact-match username lookups and redirects to the search page if you enter some text
• You can now rate both quality and difficulty ratings for a level (you could not do this before anywhere due to a bug in FC)
• You can now change your ratings
• Enhanced wireframe view is now on the wireframe tab (i.e. http://fc.therisenrealm.com/level?level ... #wireframe)
• Rating average, count, min., max., standard deviation, and breakdown information is now available for levels and designs (i.e. http://fc.therisenrealm.com/level?levelId=61324#ratings)
• Level ranks are now calculated up to 1000
• For unpublished levels, estimated ranks are shown
• Filesizes of levels and designs displayed on the statistics tab (i.e. http://fc.therisenrealm.com/level?level ... statistics)
• Level designers can look at the solutions report to see who has recently solved their levels
• The list of solutions to a level now has an age displayed for each design (i.e. http://fc.therisenrealm.com/designs?levelId=69691)
• Since it's possible to know whether a design is published, the number of other solutions on design pages no longer blindly subtracts 1 from the total number of published solutions

Amazing work, man. Well done!

I just had a question, on the FCResource and on the FantasticContraption website, when I click my public profile, it says my forum account is "ifruti" instead of 'Iamnowme". Any reason(s) why? I found that quite strange...

Anyway, thanks!
Iamnowme

[RockstarM]

Are your Forum names and In-Game names different?

[sk89q]

You entered "414374" for your forum ID in your profile, which overrided the forum account detection heuristic. You can either clear the box and let the algorithm do the work or enter "393618" for your forum ID.

[Iamnowme]

It works now! Thanks, sk!

[sk89q]

• Joint counts (note: if three rods are connected to the same place, this is two joints)

[sk89q]

• Apparent joint counts (if three rods are connected to the same place, this is one joint)

NOTE: The apparent joint count algorithm (129 lines of code) is not mathematically proven, but it seems to work in our heads, and in practice with everything I have tested it with.

See http://fcresource.blogspot.com/2009/06/ ... ounts.html for an in-depth explanation.

[sk89q]

• FIXED: Joints in the center of goal rectangles were not being evaluated when counting the number of apparent joints
• FIXED: Designs with 0 joints will no longer raise a divide by zero error