Hey sorry Joe I didn't realize that I had the old forum still _link_ed and I didn't see your message I'm going to repost it here and get back to you tonight. Take care.
-mike

Joe Staff Post:
I really like SandBox. Me and some friends play all the time, but we have come across a couple of issues we would like to see changed/fixed in the next version of SandBox.

1. Server time limit
We would like to keep playing together for limits longer than 10 minutes. I have yet to find a way to change that without getting into the source. Perhaps something to add in the server's prompt line.

2. Server sided maps
We know that if the server restarts after then 10 minutes the map is resetted as well. We found out that if we save right before the server restarts, we get to continue our work. We would like it if only the server host had to save (or auto-saving) so that when the server restarts, the clients would receive the map from the server. Auto-saving is also a good substitute, but we don't always want to save.

3. Angle-able water.
We would like to slope/angle water much like we can with land.

4. Advanced Elevator/Platform options.
Elevators and platforms can only go in one direction. We would like the ability to choose 2 or more spots that the elevator/platform would cycle through, and for the option to allow the elevator/platform to noclip while moving.

5. Sound options with entities.
We would like the ability change the sounds created by the jump and teleport entities.

I do realise that some of these may be difficult or impossible to do, I do simple programing in a form of LUA myself.

Thanks for reading this.

- Joe Staff

Hey Joe thanks again for your e-mail.

#1. It is fixed for the next release. For now load the maps using /coop first, so for the village map type /coop village. I think that this answers #2 for you but if not let me know.

#3 Me too Not sure how tough it will be to do but I imagine since it hasn't been done yet that it isn't easy.

#4 Not sure the difficulty on those but I'll relay the message

#5 To change those sounds go in packages/sounds Just switch out those sounds that you want to replace with the new ones you want. You need to keep them the same name. If you want to change the actual names you need to go into the source in fps.cpp I believe.

I hope this helps Take care.
-Mike
PS stop by in the IRC sometime too if you want/need any more help and/or have any more ideas for us

Thanks for replying. /coop worked great, and I wish you luck with the game.

I don't have IRC but I might get it and drop a line.

Hey Joe nice to hear back from you. As a note Hirato responded to your questions in the sauer forum as well with some slightly different answers. If you want to join us in irc you don't have to install a client, you can just use our java _applet_ here Take care and thanks for your interest!
-Mike

Do you guys have a SandBox show room or something? Wouldn't mind showing off some of my bad computer graphics, and stuff I've made with sandbox.

There is this gallery here

I have been thinking about trying to use a different one, what do you think of that gallery? If you send me the screenshots I can put them in there. You can send them to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Also if you are interested I could give you permission to upload them to our moddb gallery or both Let me know what you think. Take care.
-mike