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Mar 25, 2002, 11:26am

Duke Nukems mirrors were actualy just simulated. I used to and still do make
Duke Nukem levels, and to create a mirror you have to have a sector behind
the mirror the same size as the room being mirrored. Basically all Duke does
is copy over all the textures and sprites in reverse and mirrors dukes
movements with a spite too.

Thats all fine and well with sprites, which are 4 polys and 1 vert, the
computer will soon start to die when you start trying it with fully 3D
objects. But then, that said...how else would they do it without rendering
every object a second time? and what about avatar Seqs?

-Robbie

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Apr 3, 2002, 1:34pm

I'm glad someone else knows whats going on, thanks Ima :)

-Robbie

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Apr 28, 2002, 12:18pm

mmmm...particle generator-ness.

It wouldn't be so hard to implement either and would be a huge improvement.
If I was Roland, I'd put that right at the top of my list. It would
certainly be impressive and help draw in those vital new cits.

-Robbie

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May 10, 2002, 6:24pm

> One feature *I'd* like to see (BTW....Why wasn't this thread cross-posted
> onto WISHLIST until now?? Found that to be kinda strange) is mass
DELETION
> capabilities. It's funny though how we can just simply hit CTRL+INSERT
and
> not only duplicate but also place an object in sequential place, but yet
you
> can't DELETE objects in the same manner.
>
> Is it just me not hitting the right keys (like SHIFT+DELETE) or is this
just
> yet another MUCH NEEDED improvement left out of 3.3???

Erm....just thought you might like to know....if you hold control whilst
selecting an object. you select all the objects in that cell....if you hold
control + shift you can select entire builds in seconds. You may already
know this but from what you said above it looked to me like you didnt(?)
:o)

-Robbie

Jun 11, 2002, 2:01pm

Thats a great suggestion Barbarae! Easy to program and very beneficial. I
hope someone at AWHQ sees this :)

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Sep 5, 2002, 6:23pm

Probably the worst problem I have on a slow connection is when adding,
changing or deleting a huge amount of objects, not only am I sending a
packet for every object change, but the uniserver is sending an "OK" packet
back again. This can amount to a huge amount of bandwidth and can make you
go "waiting for server" for a few seconds, requiring you to restart for
updated contacts list and telegrams if its bas enough.

One much better way of doing it would be to have the Uniserver recieve all
the packets then attempt the changes and if its all sucessful send a "all
OK" packet to tel lthe browser that all the changes were successful and thus
halfing the bandwidth and stopping the browser from going WFS.

This could be applied to other common techniques, it would be easier on the
AW servers then as well as helping out us 56k'ers.

Comments?

-Robbie

Sep 6, 2002, 4:48am

world server, my mistake.

-Robbie

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Sep 6, 2002, 4:50am

If one object gave an error the world server sends an OK packet but one
slightly different from the one which says they all succeeded and in this
one the OK packet is followed by a packet for each object with a problem.
This would cause the same old bandwidth floods in some cases but would
certainly make it happen much less often.

-Robbie

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Jul 8, 2004, 8:20pm

I was thinking of making a website to do it, not asking for a feature.

-Robbie

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Jul 8, 2004, 8:21pm

Not sure what happened there, this should of been in community. Sorry!

-Robbie

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Sep 26, 2004, 11:20pm

You download objects from the web server hosting the object path, the world
server merely provides you with the link.

-Robbie

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Mar 2, 2002, 12:05pm

Enough on this topic already, lol...Oriox is a perfectly G Rated website
now. Lets get over the whole morals and issues debated spurred by a link
placed in jest before I even knew where it went.

-Robbie

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Feb 9, 2002, 12:27pm

Hey Guys, this is has aboslutly nothing to do with AW, but thats what this
NG is for!

I've recently got http://www.oriox.com up and running, ths site is still
under contruction but I've began adding news and reviews as I open new areas
of the site.

I was first of all wondering what you guys thought of it and if any has any
tips for getting the word out about a website? Y'know a bit of promotion,
with enoug hsupport I plan to get a whole network of sites up at Oriox and
get together a team of people to help maintain them.

-Robbie (315021)

Feb 20, 2002, 7:12pm

for some reason my version of TS dosen't like XP, I get "This is not a valid
win32 application"...can anyone help? I'm modellerous-less without it ;)

-Robbie

Mar 13, 2002, 2:35pm

UK here *flips off America*

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Mar 17, 2002, 5:25pm

he might not have usenet access.

-Robbie

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Apr 3, 2002, 10:23am

Until someone whips up a program that downloads objects and gives the
USER_AGENT as Active Worlds browser. Although I doubt of the few that even
could do that, even fewer actually would. I'm also interested in what Andras
is working on. The browser that was used is dead now, and I doubt anyone
intends on creating another. Especially since 3.3 will be a whole new ball
game.

-Robbie

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Apr 3, 2002, 1:34pm

I'm glad someone else knows whats going on, thanks Ima :)

-Robbie

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Apr 4, 2002, 6:47pm

Heeeeelp, I'm trying to make SEQs for an avatar of mine in Accutrans that
I've made in TS4.2. I've got the hierarchy right but when I want to make the
lower leg bend instead of rotating at the knee joint it rotates from the
center of the piece so the two parts of the leg become detached. How do I
set the points from which the objects rotate in trueSpace before taking it
into Accutrans to formaking SEQs?

And although I know its possible to create SEQs in Accutrans, I'd much
rather create them in Accutrans, can anyone help me please? :o)

-Robbie
ps: sorry for strange choice of newsgroups to post in, we need a modelling
NG :)

Apr 4, 2002, 8:33pm

Hey Ananas! Thanks but I dont see a "green man tool" on my toolbar and I
have everything visible...you are using TS4.2 right? I dont see it anywhere.

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Apr 13, 2002, 12:08pm

Even Rick himself recommends it on the 4th page of comments, lol.

-Robbie

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Apr 22, 2002, 4:59pm

I disagree. Infact AW Renders COB files much better than RWX files becuase
all they did is implement the Calligari COB engine which is much cleaner and
more efficient than the RWX system which is still quite messy in places. I'm
sure Roland is always improving it as best as h can, but since hes always
working on the next version of AW, he must not get too much time to go
through all the older code. Besides, when he does, hes at risk of messing
somthing up (e.g. 3.2 Masking).

The only reason that truespace objects could cause lower framerates is if
they are cobdumped or (like a few people I know) the modeller is lacking an
vital obsession with low poly/vert counts. :)

-Robbie

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May 28, 2002, 4:40am

Erm. dude...by the time someone new comes along and things about doing a
test post. This post of your is going to be waaaay down in the list. Plus,
if they are new, they probably wont even know how to reply to groups.

I think test posts are useless anyway. You should wait until you have
somthing important to post and then you can see if it works at the same time
without using up bandwidth.

-Robbie

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May 29, 2002, 7:32am

Test Test te-

fu *fumble fumble* ck its bro *SHHHHH* ken

-Robbie

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Jun 3, 2002, 6:56am

Actually...better than all of the above:

http://www.dynamicdrive.com

it has a java applet menu system with menu trasitions, semi transparent
menus, it accepts graphics, fully customisable color schemes, its brilliant.

I think its called DHTML Menu III or somthing like that.

-Robbie

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Jun 4, 2002, 8:48am

Hey everyone,

I've almost finished my trueSpace 4 tutorials for making objects/avatars in
Active Worlds. You can view whats compelted of it at: http://ts.oriox.com -
only one section left to complete.

Once everythings finished I hope to expand the tutorial to cover more stuff,
but right now I'm just trying to get the basics done. If there are any
problems, mistakes or broken links, lemme know. :o)

-Robbie
robbie at oriox.com

Jun 4, 2002, 3:28pm

nope. but if you want to learn to make objects for Active Worlds...trueSpace
4 is so much easier and does everything yu could need.

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Jun 4, 2002, 3:29pm

If you would like to make objects for Active Worlds...I would suggest you
stay with TS4 and leave the upgrade. TS5 bring whole new host of menus and
functiosn that are confusing and not nessacery for making objects for Active
Worlds.

-Robbie

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Jun 19, 2002, 5:33pm

Why upgrade to 5 at all? In my opinion there is no gain (when making obs for
AW) to be had by upgrading to 5. And quite personally...i hate 5.

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Jun 9, 2002, 7:57pm

Thats the bug I found but I wasent sure whether thats what it was doing or
whether it was making an antialiased border from the mid-tones in the JPG
(i.e. the browser was compressing the JPG furtherly).

I forwarded this to Grimm since I brought this up with him before and we
werent sure what was going on.

-Robbie

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