LBANET needs to come back !!

[Gizmo]

i was so into lbanet ! i really hope it comes back one day

[xesf]

You may want to look at this https://github.com/realmevx/LBA2HD/releases (made by MevX)

[MevX]

Originally Posted by xesf

You may want to look at this https://github.com/realmevx/LBA2HD/releases (made by MevX)

Although I'm humbled by your suggestion, I don't think my project would be able to attract people like LBANet did.

[MevX]

LBANet also managed to use the rooms of LBA 2, which my project certainly doesn't. And that's just a few of the cool things it has going for it.

[MevX]

How did LBANet manage to import those rooms anyway? It seems like it would be a complicated process.

[Polaris]

Yeah, Rincevent wrote a complete converter, then bulk imported everything from the original games. It was very impressive.

[MevX]

Originally Posted by Polaris

Yeah, Rincevent wrote a complete converter, then bulk imported everything from the original games. It was very impressive.

That does sound really impressive. Do you know if he ever made that converter public?

[Polaris]

Hmm... I know he was encouraging people to test their mods on his engine...
Try asking DarkOnistar, he made a full world for LBANet, or Mazaka151, worked a lot, mainly promoting it. There was also Leoboe, who did the GUI.
Here are some downloads, apparently, there's a map importer.

[MevX]

Originally Posted by Polaris

Hmm... I know he was encouraging people to test their mods on his engine...
Try asking DarkOnistar, he made a full world for LBANet, or Mazaka151, worked a lot, mainly promoting it. There was also Leoboe, who did the GUI.
Here are some downloads, apparently, there's a map importer.

Alright, thank you.

[xesf]

All code is available here: https://github.com/Rincevent/lbanet

[DarkOnistar]

Was floating about and noticed an update in this section.

I can't say I know the inner workings of LBA.net , however most of the maps I made for LBA.net were made using exisiting tools such as LBArchitect.

[LBArchitect - Building maps for LBAnet]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngQQwhZAOws

If memory serves correctly, Rincevent created a map-editor version of the LBAnet.exe which allowed me to add the teleport and climb scripts in the game.

*When uploading the video above I found this too.
[LBAnet: Colozen - Tech Island tour]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8yCcVqhogw
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I think one of the biggest limitations I found was that I wasn't sure how to add new custom tilesets and/or the knowledge of how to create my own tilesets so that I could create some new interesting environments.
I felt quite limited and often improvised with the assets I had at hand.

[MevX]

Thanks for the uploads

Watching the Tech Island video makes me very impressed with the amount of work that went into making a virtual chat room for LBA fans. I have still yet to know if there was any real reasons for LBANet to be pulled, wether it be copyright issue or economic.

[DarkOnistar]

I had ideas to expand further as I scribbled ideas for much bigger islands with Tech Island being an equivalent to Citadel Island.

Looking back the idea was a tech race landed on a colony ship, the musquibees were local and you as the players are clones (lore excuse for there being multiple players with no given side).


The project stopped when Rincevent got a job and family from what I recall, so real life takes presidence.

[gravel22]

Awesome!!!

[leoboe]

If I remember correctly, in one of the last updates Rincevent managed to get LBA2-Maps working (at least for the most part) with the client.
Tools for Map-/Quest-making and even NPC-scripting were working - and DarkOnister did some great things with them. I also remember an awesome Christmas-event we had with custom 3D-models etc.

The project stopped when Rincevent got a job and family from what I recall, so real life takes presidence.

Yep that's pretty much true, although LBANet was already quite deserted at that time.