Sandbox Ultimate Canvas

[Jpec07]

-=The Ultimate Clean Sandbox Canvas=-
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There are a great many Sandbox Canvases floating around out there right now. Most of these are simply variations on the way that the default pieces have been organized. One that I know of has the lasers blocked off, and as of yet I don't know if there is a budget glitch canvas posted (though some of the others probably have the glitch enabled). But no one canvas includes all of these...yet.

Squidhands pointed something out in the Sandbox Tips Thread that I found interesting: only the spawn objects and objective points from the original Sandbox map configuration need to remain intact to enable forge artists to utilize the object limit to its fuller extent.

I also remembered TheCartographer and BuddhaCrane's method for enacting a clean budget glitch (see here), and decided to put two and two together. This Ultimate Sandbox Canvas includes:

• Original Spawn Points - Since as squidhands and pulsekiller found that only the spawn objects and objective points need to remain intact for the OLN to stay at its highest (confirmed by LIGHTSOUT225), the original spawn points from the map have been messily piled into one corner on the ground floor.
• Clean Budget Glitch - Since the rest of the objects could be deleted, I decided to sign in a guest account and enact the clean budget glitch. Every object that can be placed more than one (read: everything except for the flamethrower) has the budget glitch enabled according to the method I linked to above.
• Lasers Blocked - For each of the lasers, a single wall was placed in front of the "barrel," blocking its trajectory effectively and opening up the entirety of the ground level. The only exception to this is on the laser tower closest to the sun: for that one, the fall barrier veers unnaturally far inward and prevented me from getting close enough to use the single wall effectively. In its stead, I utilized two double walls at extreme range, slightly overlapped in front of the laser to block it off. The results are a complete opening of the ground level, so forge artists can utilize the whole of the vast space and varied map geometry.

Picture time (because even a canvas map would be incomplete without pictures)!

Blocked Laser

This picture showcases the method used to block five out of six of the lasers.

Spawn Pile

This picture shows the bowl of the ground level, with the pile of spawn points at the far end.

Entire Field

And just to show off, this is an image from outside the elastic barriers on Sandbox, showing the whole of the skybubble and the ground level.


That Wall'o'Text (TM) out of the way...
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[The1ToFear]

This is great and helpful, but it has been done HEAPS of times before. If you were here like 2 weeks ago you would of been fine, but its been done.

[Jpec07]

...with the works? If you're going to crush my dreams and say that everything I've done on this canvas has been done before, link or it didn't happen...

[Nightfire]

I think this is great, I could careless if other people made this because I'm to lazy to look and this is right in front of me. Thanks!

[Gunnergrunt]

Originally Posted by The1ToFear

This is great and helpful, but it has been done HEAPS of times before. If you were here like 2 weeks ago you would of been fine, but its been done.

wow totally ignore this guy, he's clueless. I've been waiting for a perfect canvas and none of them compare to this beauty. Thanks a ton for taking the time to research the functions of the OLN to make this canvas. This will be taking the spot of the faulty ones on my drive. I can't wait to try it out, and I greatly appreciate it!

[Hyp3roptic]

alll the other ones i've seen failed to properly block the tower closest to the sun, i think you've actually bloked it off fully. nice job. This is exactly what every forger needs :)

[Spartan201]

If only this was out a few weeks ago..It's so clean! I had to get a map that already had towers blocked but delete every object to make a good canvas..Dang it! Anyway, awesome stuff, saw the link in the Sandbox Map Database.
Ya know without the towers the main ground is larger than the sky bubble or close to it.

[Darkastic]

What does blocking these towers off even do?? And so just to clarify, as long as the original spawnpoints and objective points remain intact, the OLN will be fine? Everything else is safe to delete?

[ER1C0]

Yeah this looks amazing. I'll prbly be using this a bunch... but yeah I haven't seen a map that's been ultimate budget glitched (or even reg budget glitched) and laser blocked....

quick question, where did you put all the game variant objects (like the flag, oddball, bomb, etc)?

[Jpec07]

Originally Posted by Darkastic

What does blocking these towers off even do?? And so just to clarify, as long as the original spawnpoints and objective points remain intact, the OLN will be fine? Everything else is safe to delete?

Blocking off the laser towers makes it so that when you go "out of bounds" on the main ground level, the lasers can't shoot you. It makes it so that the entire ground level can be used--not just the bowl. And yes, the OLN will remain at its height with the original spawn and objective points intact.

Game variant objective points are in their default locations--floating in the sky over the main field. This is because I was too lazy to pile them together with the spawn points. Same goes for the variant start points, and variant spawn areas.