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Nov 23, 2001, 11:31pm

Taken from tonight's tech-talk. It should be noted that Roland was offline
through the entirety of this.

Roland: the feature list for 3.3 is getting kinda scary and long...
Roland: ok, 3.3 features then
Roland: so far, we have:

Roland: * contact list improvements, including custom privacy settings per
contact and the ability to hide online/offline status, block telegrams and
go into "AFK" mode

Roland: * slide detection - meaning, if you hit a wall you slide along it
instead of stopping cold

Roland: * DirectX8 support...which brings a big performance
improvement...about 30 to 50% frame rate increase on older cards, up to 100%
frame rate increase on new cards like the Geforce

Roland: ok, that's stuff that's already been done, more or less

Roland: * skinned avatars

Roland: * terrain

Roland: * ability to rotate objects in all 3 directions (but not in worlds
with registries)

Nov 24, 2001, 1:26am

Miracles never cease! The three most wanted features (IMO): AFK Mode,
Privacy Settings, Telegram Blocks.

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Nov 24, 2001, 1:34am

[View Quote] Yep! I'm personally looking forward to the framerate boost.

Nov 24, 2001, 12:31pm

Wooo, finally, some good things. :) The program itself is finally shaping
up. I hope 3.4 or 4.0 gets some good building enhancements, rotation on all
3 planes is wonderful! Too bad it's only in worlds without registries,
doesn't that mean the AWC worlds can't rotate?

I'm liking the slide detection too. hehe. Christmas time in AW must be a
hootenanny with all the frost.

Nornny

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Nov 24, 2001, 1:22pm

It's interesting how many of the most requested features have to do
with AW's security, which is sorely lacking. Right now, it's VERY
difficult to actually ban someone from a world or the universe, with
dynamic IP addresses and no way to revoke rights in a world.

Personally, I would have liked to see the world rights lists put into
a database format in 3.3. A way to eject a certain citizen is sorely
needed. PPW security, where the owner simply chooses who is allowed
to access a certain citizen's rights instead of having to use a
password, would also be a plus.

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Nov 24, 2001, 2:12pm

[View Quote] Indeed, but they can only do so much at a time. The 3.3 features have given
me some new hope... perhaps in 3.4/4.0 they will include new security
features.

Nov 24, 2001, 5:16pm

Really some good improvements :)

Building inspector just wrote :
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> I was sick when we had trigonometry at school, sorry
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Nov 24, 2001, 5:26pm

Did I miss "Scale", that goes hand in hand with X/Z rotation?

I guess the rotating feature required a new cell database
and it would be a good idea, to have the scaling value at
least already in the database, even if it was not used yet.
One of the famous "FFE" implementations - easy to add
and less trouble later with upgrades of world servers.


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Nov 25, 2001, 3:23am

Hehee... he said hootenanny. *grin*

SW Chris

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Nov 25, 2001, 3:24am

You mean banning by citizen number instead of ip address? Sounds great.

Chris

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Nov 25, 2001, 6:13pm

[View Quote] .... or both. Just some more configurable options would be nice.

Nov 28, 2001, 6:45pm

Welp at least its getting somewhere. The two things I'd like to see:
1) 3-plane rotation WITH registries
2) Fixed move/rotate commands so they DON'T encroach.

Then i'll be überhappy (alt + 0252 me)
Now just to install a refrigderation system on my processor and video card
:-D NO MORE FANS FOR ME! Only the hum of the compressor :-D


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-Governor, PC Addict, Odd Man

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Nov 28, 2001, 10:30pm

Ahhh my face! O_O
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Nov 30, 2001, 1:40am

to ban someone from your world replace the digits after the last period with
0
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Nov 30, 2001, 12:41pm

That doesn't do anything if they are assigned to a different subnet on re-connection. That may even block the wrong IP address -- is xxx.xxx.xxx.0 a valid IP address?

-Agent1

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Dec 6, 2001, 8:52am

that would have a bad effect if you ban a tourist lol


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Dec 6, 2001, 10:14am

Well I don't understand why tourists don't have numbers anyway.
Why wouldn't they need to register (for free) like everyone? that would have solved a lot of problems. Sure, they could create a new
registration when they're banned, but still...
Anyway this isn't going to change now, it's too late.

Fox Mc Cloud

"data21" <dbmiller at kiski.net> a écrit dans le message news: 3c0f4de0 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> that would have a bad effect if you ban a tourist lol

Dec 9, 2001, 2:03am

well its worked for me and thats how aw tells you to do it. i think u always
have the same first 3 sets of numbers. it would only block people using
those 3 numbers. about 1 chance in a million youll ban someone else that
uses aw
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Dec 9, 2001, 2:13am

he MEANS xxx.xxx.000

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Dec 9, 2001, 2:16am

an IP address is 4 numbers (each having a value of 0-255)...
(I guess it was just a typo :) )

Fox Mc Cloud

"brandon" <brandon at fake-email-adresses.com> a écrit dans le message news: 3c12e4db$1 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> he MEANS xxx.xxx.000

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