News Archive/2020
目录
Week 52
December 21st - December 27th
AlwaysGu tried to use BallanceBlenderHelper on macOS’s Blender 2.91. BallanceBlenderHelper is a blender plugin which is created by yyc12345 and served for creating Ballance map in Blender. AlwaysGu use Steam’s Blender 2.91 on macOS, but the plugin couldn’t loaded. Due to this plugin’s developer don’t have any Apple devices and he are not familar with Apple device operation, he couldn’t provide any help for AlwaysGu. So, finally, AlwaysGu couldn’t run this plugin on macOS.
By the way, although this plugin only support LTS version of Blender, BallanceLover test this plugin on Windows, Blender 2.90. It works pretty nice. This plugin author have strong belief that macOS cause this problem, not the improper plugin design.
In common, at the end of the year, the Chinese Balanced Community will summarize the year. In this year, plAer-2 take responsibility for this work. In the past few days, he post some of his report in Chinese Ballance Community(not the final version).
Week 51
December 14th - December 20rd
Zzq_203 released his new custom map: A Little Journey (小小的旅途).
According to author’s statement, this map was finished within 24 hours and it was be used in testing his new mapping working flow. He used his MAplus to create this map and have great efficiency improve in Virtools mapping.
This is a scripted custom map. He said this map is focus on logic but it is easy to solve. But some extra life and point’s position are ridiculous. The most attractive spot is the portal like elements. It only allows the corresponding player ball to pass them.
He also said this is the last custom map for him before his college entrance examination.
MAplus is a Action package for Virtools which is served for Ballance mapping. It contains some useful tools, such as better align tool.
Some community members reply this topic. The people who test this map previously said this map is comfortable, relaxing and feels like the tune lingered in the room. The most of people praise the author for this map’s extraordinary logic design.
It has been more than 2 months since the last custom map release.
The preview of this map:
Topic link: https://tieba.baidu.com/p/7154636016
SiZhong(四中2014届1班) publish his personal record, CHS Level 7, 4923. He said he almost broke the record of BianMu(变形的木球).
Topic link: https://tieba.baidu.com/p/7158655367
Video link: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV15p4y167EA/
Week 50
December 7th - December 13rd
AlwaysGu try to use Crossover to run Ballance on Mac. He can play Ballance on Mac. Also, he ask the speedrun administrator, whether the record which created on Mac with Crossover is valid. The administrator don’t give clear answer, just said it is valid if the game file is not be changed.
Also, he found the Ballance with BML couldn’t be launched on Crossover, it will result in a black screen freeze.
plAer-2 found a new speedrun host platform, TNA. According to website description, it is created by a Chinese and will can be stablely visited in future. It is alluring for plAer-2. He wanted to migrate all Chinese Speedrun Leaderboard to this website. Currently, these data were hosted on Ballance Wiki. He post his advise in Chinese Ballance Administration Group and it raise a sharp argument.
Someone said, BML Mod can upload record in future, especially Swung’s creation is close to usable state. It is increase useless migrate things and learning cost. Somebody considered the stability of host website should be treate carefully. Don’t dismiss the possibility that the host can drop all database and disappear suddenly.
At the tail of this argument. Swung said his score system are on going and hope it can be tested in winter vacation.
Week 49
November 30th - December 6th
yunjuyihao got better record in CSR 06, 1:47.
Video link: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Ct4y1Y7St
AlwaysGu found a youtuber who post Ballance video 10 years ago. It a fresh news in Chinese Ballance Community. AlwaysGu was shocked because the records in these videos are no worse than the current records. He said he is contacting video author and try to get the permission that he can post these video on Bilibili. (YouTube couldn’t be visited in China, at least in common way.)
At the same time, he asked BallanceBug whether these results need to be written into Chinese Ballance Speedrun Leaderboard. BallanceBug replied that he was not sure, because he felt that the current leaderboard is mostly used by Chinese Ballance Community.
Youtuber homepage:https://www.youtube.com/user/siegccpvdz/videos
A Chinese tiktoker stole wb130152’s speedrun video. At the same time, he play it in his tiktok live, and earn money from it. Some community member didn’t want to care about it. But some other people were actively contacting wb130152, sending spies into this tiktok’s fan group to inquire about infomation, hoping to thwart this theft.
This incident has not yet been resolved, and this tiktoker has spent money to hire a group of spamers to increase his fake popularity.
Chinese Ballance Community member said they have enough evidence to prove this tiktoker stole wb130152’s speedrun video.
Week 48
November 23rd - November 29th
plAer-2 post a collecting suggestions topic in Ballance Community, for Chinese Ballance Custom Map Speedrun Leaderboard. He wanted change custom map leaderboard’s accepted custom map. He said his opinion, add some new maps, and delete some maps which were not suit for speedrun.
But this topic seems like nobody want to reply. Only BallanceBug said, “there is another reason, no one pay attention to this leaderboard.”
Topic: https://tieba.baidu.com/p/7120439393
BallanceBug created a new project, called ballance-map-name-translations on GitHub. According to this project’s GitHub description, this project will translate all Ballance custom level/map names into English or other languages.
Currently, plAer-2 and Swung 0x48 take part in this project and come up with massive suggestions for improving this project.
GitHub link: https://github.com/X12503181/ballance-map-name-translations
Week 47
November 16th - November 22nd
Swung 0x48 released a BML mod called Segment. He post a BML mod file in Chinese Ballance Community and he said, “I create this mod when listening a dull course. Writing this mod is just for improving the skill of developing BML mod. It can be used by speedrunner.” He put this mod source code on GitHub. According to GitHub repository description, this mod can display your gameplay performance splitted into each segment.
Later, he post a topic with some screenshots on Chinese Ballance Forum.
变形的木球(BianMu) used this mod in his new speedrun video and you can get a preview of this mod via watching his speedrun video.
GitHub repository: https://github.com/Swung0x48/Segment
Topic link: https://tieba.baidu.com/p/7094999613
Video link: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV12t4y1e7dL
变形的木球(BianMu) got better record in CSR 03, 2:08.196.
Additionally, He used Swung’s BML mod, Segment in his speedrun. And he used a very difficult shortcut in sector 3, called 龙腾虎跃(LongTengHuYue).
Video link: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV12t4y1e7dL
四中2014届1班(SiZhong) got better record in CSR 07, 2:44.0.
Video link: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1kr4y1F7Kp
Week 46
November 9th - November 15th
This is the first weekly report of Ballance Weekly Report. Its purpose is delivering significant Ballance infomations between 2 seperated Ballance community. I am working for this job and will post this report at the beginning of each week.
Because this is the first report, some events happend before November 9th also will be record into this report.
Burning红云(Burning HongYun) released a preview image of his new level. And he invited some guys to help him test this map.
Topic link: https://tieba.baidu.com/p/7067080044
yyc12345 released a preview image of his new level and he says this map must be a meme map. After that, he invited some guys to test this map and got some pretty good suggestions to improve this map.
Topic link: https://tieba.baidu.com/p/7073660474 (#8)
四中2014届1班(SiZhong) got a new computer and test Ballance on it immediately. Its system is Windows 10 2004. He said, “Ballance only can be launched under the Windows 95 compability setting and the game will freeze in other settings. It can achieve high frames under Windows 95 mode but its so laggy and couldn’t be used to get better speedrun record.”
Some guys, such as BallanceBug, yunjuyihao, gave their own opinion. And Gamepiaynmo replied, “The latest BML has fixed game freeze problem.”
Topic link: https://tieba.baidu.com/p/7090026056
变形的木球(BianMu) got better record in CHS 02, 5799.
Video: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Ly4y1q7e5/
Topic link: https://tieba.baidu.com/p/7091038229
yyc12345 post a new progress of his project, LibreBallance. Also, he said, “some tests has been taken. the monorail may have problem in LibreBallance.” He said he will continue working for this project and it will have a demo release before the Lunar New Year. Demo version will not include any artworks, such as BGM, particle effect and etc, but it will have full game functions. The final version will not be released until Godot release its 4.0 version. He need some time to transfer to Godot 4.0 and make the artworks (Godot 4.0 had big change on render engine, so he make this decision) LibreBallance is a free and libre Ballance remake version(Libre is the typical translation for “free” when it used as an adjective for meanings other than being without cost.) It uses Godot for its game engine.
Swung 0x48 post a new image about his project, Ballance Record. He said, “I hope I can finish this before the winter vacation. I am so busy. The corresponding BML mod and the web frontend hasn’t done it yet.” But it is worthwhile to do this. He said Ballance will have a Ballex-like online score submit & leaderboard after this project is completed.
GitHub repository: https://github.com/Swung0x48/BallanceRecord
yyc12345 successfully built chirs241097’s project, virtools-shimmer.
The goal of virtools-shimmer is to make it possible to use building blocks library built for older Virtools versions in relatively newer Virtools authoring environments. Currently, it can make all Ballance TT building blocks loaded into Virtools 2.5 without warning.
virtools-shimmer: https://github.com/BearKidsTeam/virtools-shimmer
澈零星魂(CheLing XingHun) discovered a new shortcut in Level 6, Sector 5. It can save a lot of time in speedrun. CheLing spend some to time to exercise for this shortcut and produce this video. For more detail about this shortcut, please view his video.
Shortcut video: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV16y4y1z76r?t=97 (97 s)
Topic link: https://tieba.baidu.com/p/7082810226
Chinese Ballance Community Administration Group talked about whether open a Speedrun tournament in this year. Currently, there are nobody wants to host this.
The level start checkpoint published by Burning HongYun
The Big Jump section of yyc12345's map
A Develop Screenshot of OpenBallance
The showcase of BallanceRecord API
