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Nov 3, 2003, 4:32am

I really do not think that vandalism would be a huge problem. It does not
seem like it is a huge problem right now.

Nov 3, 2003, 4:35am

Along the same lines, I think we have proven to AWI that we can be trusted
with move commands. It doesn't seem like AWTeen is full of people
vandalising, and AW consists of a more mature userbase. How about enabling
move commands in AW as well? ;) *knows that this post is pointless, AWI
listening.. what nonsense!*

Oct 31, 2003, 5:02pm

change how it processes objects. make it so the BI "inspects" the building
after the first object was removed and the second object was placed. the
problem is that it "inspects" the building while the two objects are there.

Nov 6, 2003, 11:47pm

a small feature, but it would be nice to be able to detach certain tabs
(contacts, telegrams, teleports.. etc) and make them so you can resize them
and position them anywhere you want.

Nov 14, 2003, 2:33am

just like how it is illegal for a U.S. software company to distribute games
with blood/gore in them to Germany. every company has to follow the laws of
any country they distribute their product in.

Nov 14, 2003, 5:20am

you can smoke a cuban cigar in the united states, but it is illegal to
distribute them. but yeah there are ways to get around it, but I doubt that
AWI would transgress the laws of whatever country it has customers in (it
probably already has inadvertently, but nobody is whiny enough to call their
government)

Nov 14, 2003, 5:17am

is this in alphaworld?

Nov 20, 2003, 3:49am

there's no way active worlds will have a council to discuss what they are
doing. why do you think they split off from the shell company, AWLD?

Dec 1, 2003, 2:56am

I think the purpose would be to make sequences more user-friendly, without
having a mess of astarts

Dec 9, 2003, 11:30pm

for you maybe, but not for most people. I've met so many long-time AW
citizens who have no idea how to use astarts
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Dec 1, 2003, 2:55am

couldn't this be used to vandalize though? someone in another property sets
the visibility centered on their lot, while someone else makes the
visibility centered on their lot.. could be some type of clash

Dec 2, 2003, 2:55am

well, despite the possibility of vandalism (this is off-subject) we've all
been waiting for move and rotate commands in alphaworld for much too long!
the long term advantages to having special commands in alphaworld far
outweighs the possibility of vandalism. besides, it's a good change to give
GET a kick in the butt to start becoming more active in case there ARE more
vandalisms.

Dec 16, 2003, 5:10am

Well, some people have already made things where the object has to move
through you, it would be more flexible if it was just a simple command/s
(create push, which would simply bump the avatar around I.E. elevators, and
create sticky, which would fuse the avatar to the object (unless someone
held shift) allowing the object to push or pull the avatar) it would not be
that hard to impliment. There is already object push to a certain degree,
but you have to keep walking around for the collision detection to occur and
for the object to push you.
With the added commands, one could simply push a button while they are
standing in the elevator, and the elevator would push them upwards (and pull
them downwards as well, as right now the avatars would just remain floating
in the air if the object moved out from under them.)
There would have to be a limit though to make the command vandalism-safe,
since you wouldn't want people vandalizing with objects pushing you 10,000
coords in one direction
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Dec 17, 2003, 1:00am

=0 you would have to assign weights to different avatars. for instance,
virgil would simply fall through objects with gravity on them, while other
avatars wouldn't
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Jan 2, 2004, 7:11am

what about that annoying customs aide bot? what if so many words became
censored that you couldn't talk about certain things? if AWI applied the
same filter from the customs aide bot and put it on alphaworld... *shiver*

Jan 1, 2004, 6:26am

where did they go? I can only ask it here now since it seems that the only
newsgroups left is the "wishlist" section

Jan 2, 2004, 7:03am

[View Quote] no, but I have been away in california, away from the computer, for a week.

Jan 2, 2004, 7:09am

I heard that Lara won an AWTrivia contest and got the right to submit
various objects to the alphaworld object path, what is going to become of
this? I thought they were supposed to be submitted a few weeks ago. Is this
just another disappointment from AWI?

Jan 5, 2004, 5:53pm

open your eyes john, do you see another newsgroup?
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Jan 5, 2004, 5:58pm

how about some 3d foliage?? no more of that sprite stuff, the foliage in
thebeans is great, if only that could be in AW. the current sprite foliage
is 10 year old technology
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Jan 7, 2004, 2:05am

AWTeen already has a mapper, ptolemy used to always update it. and you know
from experience that AW doesn't want dedicated people in positions where
they could make a difference :P
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Jan 8, 2004, 5:10am

active worlds is already capable of putting in reflections, it could be a
performance option, so those with good computers might be attracted to AW's
nice reflections. it could possibly be a command "create reflection
(texture name)" which puts a texture that the object should reflect
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Jan 11, 2004, 8:27am

I saw what orb said in a previous thread, and decided to discuss this, is it
possible with renderware 3 to have patches of fog and steam? how well would
it work? would it just lag people out to have particle effects? (that's what
I'm assuming fog and steam are, particle effects, I may be wrong)

Jan 16, 2004, 1:04am

I am searching through all the available newsgroups on news.activeworlds.com
so I can re-subscribe to the community newsgroup, but I can't find it,
community is not listed. I thought the community newsgroup was back up

Jan 19, 2004, 6:55am

It would be nice to be able to seed objects using only your AW client. Why
must you need a nearby object to seed your own? It seems to me like a
simple idea that has never been implimented. It could solve so many problems
(I.E. an empty private world, and you could simply seed an object in front
of you, or the ability to seed an object in AW without the hassle of a bot,
as some people's computers crash when using bots)

Jan 20, 2004, 12:04am

what codewarrior said, that simple feature could save so much hassle. I
mean, the seedbot no longer works in alphaworld. aren't bots just different
clients under the same username?

Jan 20, 2004, 5:13am

I find it ironic that it's the private programmers not in any way affiliated
with AWinc (or COF at the time) who figured out how to seed objects from
nothing. All this requires is adding in a few lines of code into the
browser, which I assume are similar to the lines of code used in the
seedbots, since those are clients as well.

Jan 20, 2004, 5:04am

the topic was spelled wrong O_O supposed to be "dimension"

Jan 20, 2004, 5:01am

on 3dmark, my fps go well above 500fps at times, but in AW, a program that
has much fewer polygons in view, not to mention the lack of shadows, pixel
shaders, reflections, and particle effects, I never go above 100. There
should be a way for AW to have more support for the current graphics cards.
It would be nice to go in AW in a dense area at 200 meter visibility, and
get high framerates. I'm assuming this has already been discussed, but I
just want to know why this can't be done.

Jan 20, 2004, 9:59pm

but a cinema movie runs differently than a 3d world. a cinema movie blurs
each frame to give the effect of a smooth framerate. In a 3d world, there
is no blurring, so you can see several frames each time the optical nerves
fire off. anyway, I am just talking about improving framerates in general.
I'm not saying that they have to go above 100, but I am saying that they
have to go above 20 at least, in a dense area at 200 meters. and about the
simulation where I got 500 fps, it was fully dynamic, and it had a lot more
polygons than in AW at 200 meters (at gz)

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