Making "ghost pieces"

You can now make "ghost pieces" for your levels using the WebFCML editor. Ghost pieces float in the air and only allow water and wood rods to pass through them. To make a ghost dynamic rectangle, just set either the width or height of the rectangle to 0.

If you are not familiar with WebFCML, FCML is an easy to learn computer language used to describe a level (or design). Say you wanted a yellow square (a dynamic rectangle) that is located at the coordinates of 15 x 20 and is 400 units wide and 100 units high, and you wanted to write this in FCML. Well, it would look like this:

DynamicRect (15, 20), (400, 100), 0

The 0 at the end means that the object will be rotated 0 degrees.

To get started with WebFCML (an online editor that allows you to save levels in FCML), check out a tutorial that some Contraptionistas put together.

Even more updates

• 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• For unpublished levels, estimated ranks are shown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

New updates

FC Resource hasn't changed much since last November, but a few updates have been pushed to the site in the last few days. Remember that these updates are unrelated to the version of FCR on the Fantastic Contraption website.

• 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