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Feb 24, 1999, 1:14pm

Hello.

AW is cool, not for it's technology, but it's people. Cybertown/Colony
City are cool, too, but I prefer AW. When the AmigaNG is released I
would love to see AW ported to it. The Amiga community would work great
in enhancing the best 3D community on the Net.

One of the features that I'd like to see in big worlds, like AW, is
channels. These channels would be available all over the world, and
maybe the universe, and work something like IRC channels. Channels
would have their own tab. This would be very useful, especially in
events like VRML2000.

People stay in GZ to stay in the chat area, but with this they can go
all over the world and still chat with multiple people.

JimVideo

Feb 25, 1999, 4:03pm

[View Quote] > It sounds like you want something similar to radio stations.
> With the new SDK, this can be programmed such that a
> "bot" standing in one place can relay the chat to another
> place. In fact, it could relay it to another world or even another
> Universe. In theory, you could stand at the AW GZ and listen
> to the chat from the Tikki Bar in OW.

Not like a radio station, but like a CB radio. I think this will help
the AW community by helping communication between people exploring.
Whisper is good, between two people. Look at how IRC totally dwarfs AW.

When I get into AW I would like to join a channel and talk with everybody
else in AW that are on that channel. The AW browser is too big for me to
run it and my IRC program, XiRCOM.

Then again would it be possible to integrate IRC into AW the way Explorer
is?

Feb 25, 1999, 8:09pm

[View Quote] > 3d Anarchy has done exactly that. They have made a 3d, building and
> chatting IRC client. They are still in pre-first release beta, but
> absolutely amazing so far. You set up the worlds you build as a 3d IRC
> channels. I wrote a lot about them in some previous posts here, but I don't
> know if I mentioned the IRC part. If they are deleted or you can't find
> them, email me, and I'll let you know more.

I can imagine it would be cool to have multi-layer places in the same 3D
"space". The people that you want to see your VR home would get it. Everybody
else would see an alternate location in the same place, like an empty lot. Or
if somebody teleports in rather then using the front door they can have an
entirely different location, but still in the same space.

There is one IRC that includes real audio, a Web page, and more. There was so
much downloading at one time that it was not usable at all with a 14.4 modem.:(

I have a 3D chatroom at www.colonycity.com/home/cyborjim, but I still prefer AW.

Feb 27, 1999, 6:21pm

No, too big as in running any other program, besides small programs like
notepad, dramatically slow down AW. Thanks anyway.

[View Quote] > By too big, I assume you mean screen real estate...
> if so...I would suggest that you need a vPC - Virtual Personal Computer

Feb 25, 1999, 3:30pm

I have a place in America, near 100n 0e:). I'm having fun since the Q
sets have over 100 surfaces to choose from. However, there are some
objects that I think we need, but some I listed just for fun.

Stairs:
Several planks that go up would be good. The regular stairs have
sometimes useless sides, and the spiral stairs don't go with any other
America object.

Rails:
Yes, rails to go with the stairs. With matching rails for flat
areas (like balconies), too.

Fun textures:
Q objects with colors like the radar tower or the spiral
staircase. Fun colors, for fun people. And to make them even more fun,
they can change from week to week. :)

Whole house shells:
You can have prefabricated two or three story homes and/or side by
side apartments. There could be a few dozen of these set up in an out
of the way area, and refer to it as the suburbs. :)

The '99 VW Minibus:
This would be cool as an object or an avatar. Why don't we have
one yet?!? (This is even more important then getting "bike" AV with a
girl rider.)

Inside the Jumbo Jet or Statue of Liberty:
I tried the jumbo jet, but it doesn't look very good. :(

Avatars as objects:
So we can populate our places and imagine that people are there.
:)

A hole is the ground:
So we can put stairs down to the basement. :)

We can have bus bots driving around between populated areas. If you've
see how people chase the blimp at AW GZ then you can imagine people
chasing a blimp bot all over Alpha World. And you should be able to ad
this roving bot to your contact list, so you can teleport to it.

That's all I can think of right now.

*JimVideo *AmigaNG

Feb 25, 1999, 8:15pm

[View Quote] > I would really like to see a command that you can like go up to
> an object and click it and all the objects it is attached to by
> a command become part of your avatar like you run into a
> pole4m02.rwx and you click it and it asks you if you want to
> keep the object and if so what hand to equip it too or with
> some larger objects like rocks and things it requires 2 hands
> to pick up. It would make those shops a lot more fun than just
> handing over fake money and getting nothing except a picture.

Or you can run around in the AWSuperMarketWorld, with your shopping cart
equipped AV, and pick out canned food. The stuff in the shopping
cart. :)

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