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Mar 19, 2004, 2:00am

Castle Version 2.0 is available from Starheart 3D designs :) <--- pretending
to be Microsoft

It has many bugs fixed (all insects in it are dead)

It has a new user interface (meaning new steps and doors)

It is slower then ever ( more verts and more lag )

It consumes more menory then ever ( meaning many more useless objects)

I requires more diskspace then ever (meaning all models are bigger files)

It requires a faster computer -video card in this case ( meaning all those
vert intensive parts are a real hog )

It requires more installation time ( those pesky 16 character passwords
<--kind of useless too)

It is more expensive than ever and a none of the new parts fit the old one
( it is on a 0.12345 meter grid)

There you have it :)

oh and it is more expensive than ever

Sorry NOT - an early April Fools day joke, LOL

Starheart

Mar 19, 2004, 4:51pm

Umm Star...its not April ?? LOL. Take care, and I do love the objects you
are doing for Rome. Some of the best objects I've had to work with in awhile
now. And I do appreciate the way you work with me to make sure that I am
getting exactly what I am asking for. And I gotta admit, that when you do
deviate from what I am asking for...you are generally exactly right. If
Anyone is looking for a good modeler, just take a look at the objects at gz
in VR Rome. Verts are kept to as few as possible, great textures and some
very innovative designs. The columns are all adjustable, so you can make
them any height needed and they are tagged. The pedestals are all ajustable
in height, length and width, so you can go from a 2x2 ped up to any size you
need. All of the arches are tagged and come in several heights and the
marble floors start with a base marble texture and design that allows one to
tag and create picture so you can have 3 different marbles per square or you
can turn it into a mosaic or any picture you desire. The headers on the
arches are all create picture so you can use the one arch and have an
infinate number of marble textures and headers. Very versatile pieces and
everything is built to the AW standard and will match any existing models
you wish to build with. For my money, Star is among the very few at the top
of the creative list in AW. Creativity doesn't count if you can't give the
customer what they want.
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Mar 19, 2004, 5:00pm

OOP...didn't see the last line till after i punched enter :o/ lol
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Mar 19, 2004, 7:25pm

I could not resist. Many times a new software release has unnecessary
features,
more bloat, a userinterface that is changed just for the heck of it.

Tell me the need for the new user interface in XP?
It looks like crap, something colorful for a 5 years old, you know like a
cartoon look

It does not improve productivity, it hides all the good system tools.

And then the professional version costs more for then Win2000 which by
default can support more
then 1 CPU. Oh wile I am at it, the old Pentium 3 could be put in a system
with more than
1 CPU, now the new Pentium4, has this feature disabled, so as to force you
to buy the Xeon.

Another program was Lviewpro. I nice tight little program to have a quick
look
at pics to see what they look like. Look at it now. A Photoshop wannebe.
Has editing and all kinds of stuff that I will never use. Try loading it
now, takes
10 times as long to come up :(

Sorry for the rant.

Starheart

Mar 20, 2004, 12:37pm

[View Quote] > Tell me the need for the new user interface in XP?
> It looks like crap, something colorful for a 5 years old, you know like a
> cartoon look
>
> It does not improve productivity, it hides all the good system tools.

Its for kids, turn it off under performance settings.

- Mark Randall

Mar 20, 2004, 3:48pm

Starheart rocks ... I aspire to be like him some day ... and he's a great
teacher too!

Lady NightHawk



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Mar 20, 2004, 5:12pm

ya i agree! he's an awesome very patient teacher :)
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Mar 21, 2004, 12:43am

sorry, you are missing the point here. I was talking about unnecessary
changes. Making that stupid interface now requires more disk
and I am sure slows done the CPU some more with those slow moving
antics. How amany ppl are actuallt using that stupid paperclick helper?

Here at work it is turned off on every machine.

I know how to turn it off, but can you tell me exactly where the files are
so I can delete them?

Starheart <-----Hates bloat

Mar 21, 2004, 2:50am

i LOVE the Whistler look in Windows XP Beta, i wonder why they removed
it.. hmm..... here is want the ergonomic version looks like on Winamp:
http://www.ebbatson.demon.co.uk/images/winamp/Pastelcolor_Ergonomic.gif
... i am using it on one of those programs to change my entire xp to that
style. (ergonomic version is better, the blue version looks too much
like standard xp)


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Mar 21, 2004, 5:32am

I just don't care for the flat look. I remember when Xwindows
came out for Unix and it had all those nice beveled edges
on the windows. The reason they could do that was because
they were running 1600x1200 resolution on those workstations.

At that time the windows interface was Mickey mouse.

Then when WIn98 was introduced that was a step forward with
the look and the user interface.
But I don't care for the XP flat look. It is not an improvement.,
it is a step backwards, IMHO

Not only that, but look how may keyclicks it takes to get to the
administrative tools, or change the folder options to display the
file extension.

Starheart

Mar 21, 2004, 6:45am

You can uninstall it using your XP installation disk and add and remove
components... However its mainly build into the XP and .NET framework, its
there simply to give different people a choice, which in my opinion is a
good thing, even if i think it should not be enabled as default.

The windows code is very advanced, once you dissable something different
subroutines take over that draw things normally etc (see
windows_2000_source_code.zip).

- MR

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