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Nov 7, 2003, 10:29pm

Good idea, the only problem being that actually buliding it would take
up so much cell space. If it was actually implemented I would suggest
not doing it by commands that take up cell space, but an actual "Menu
Builder" interface, like in Visual Studio. But simpler, of course.

Now lag victims might moan about it not taking up cell space, but if
the menu was only downloaded once it was activated... (of course this
would require an "activate menu" command, but that's all).

[View Quote] > Ok dont hate me, but i got this sort of got this idea from "The sims"
> when you click an object it should have a menu as a command
>
>
> Activate menu choice1="1" choice2="2" choice3="3"
> activate1 move 1 0 1 time=2
> activate2 rotate 6 time=1
> activate3 picture picture.jpg
>
>
> something like that
>
> i think itd be really neat then you could have like if i click a tv i
> can have like 10 channels on it and it chanegs it.
>
> itd be REALLY neat

Nov 7, 2003, 10:32pm

I think a Sims-like menu is asking too much. Also it doesn't fit in
with what we have of AW justnow. AW doesn't have flashy menus at the
moment (thank God... can you say LAG?) and I just don't think it would
look good having normal menus everywhere and suddenly this weird
different menu comes up. Cool, yes, but confusing and weird looking.

Nov 7, 2003, 10:17pm

Actually Commie, the GIF patent only expired in America. As you will
find out if you try and downlod the GIMP, it's still illegal to install
GIF support with it in many countries.

So :(...

[View Quote] > I remember AW saying, years ago, about not supporting GIF because
> they would have to pay royalities. But they did imply interest in
> using use once the patent expires, which has happened several months
> ago.
>
> ...so? ;)

Nov 7, 2003, 10:16pm

Me too. It's cool, it's useful, and currently we have to guess using
the cell grid, which is inconvenient if you're building at heights.
With a meter to tell us when we're getting close to the limit, we'll
know when we need to use the cell grid.

[View Quote] > I love this idea.
>
> -Weizer
> "codewarrior" <pete at accelr8r.com> a écrit dans le message de news:
> 3fa1851c$1 at server1.Activeworlds.com...

Nov 7, 2003, 10:09pm

Yes, but if someone was using AWHack or something, they would be able
to shift through it like normal. As for glitching through, it depends
on the bug.

[View Quote] > I said if shift was --off--
>
> ~John
>
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Nov 7, 2003, 10:11pm

Probably much easier said than done.

[View Quote] > id like sprites to face your location not your camera angle

Nov 7, 2003, 10:35pm

All depends on the file format and wether royalties would have to be
paid or not...

[View Quote] > SVG is an open standard from the W3C.
>
> It's very compact, and supports a very rich set of animation
> constructs using SMIL (another W3C standard). These
> animations can be keyframe based spline interpolations that
> are done on the client side, so there is no huge bandwidth
> penalty to pay for downloading a large set of raster images
> as with the filmstrip or 'animate ? ? ?' methods.
>
> This would be an excellent addition to the supported format
> list.

Nov 13, 2003, 7:50pm

The narrator said "shit" in our Biology video. It was about pollution.
I dunno why, but they said "Human and animal shit is left to pile up at
the side of the road." I mean, in a Biology video, I would expect them
to call it feces, but there you go.

But yea, it is a "bad word". I don't say it. If someone said it on kids
TV or the 6 o'clock news here there would be an uproar. Especially if
it was on the BBC. But the BBC wouldn't do anything like that to us ^_^

[View Quote] > here i go again........ is "shit" such a bad word that it needs to
> be on the eject list? I realise that AWCI headquarters are in USA
> but the PROGRAM is world wide.... and it IS'NT an objectionable word
> for petes sake!!!!!! Its freely allowed on kids TV or the six oclock
> news! Is USA and the ppl that programe the bots really so pussy that
> they would allow such a tame word on said list?
>
> One can get away with "frigging" or such but not "shit"?
> ...............thats actually scarey

Nov 13, 2003, 7:41pm

Every time I try to load certain plugins TS3 comes up with "A device
attached to the system is not functioning."

I know it's not corruption or anything, because it's happening with the
same plugins that it happened with on my old Windows installation. I
checked the plugin's website and it is compatible with TS3.

Nov 15, 2003, 10:30pm

Yea, I don't watch it!

[View Quote] > HEY! we dont all watch it just the sad nerds when ur over the age of 8

Nov 5, 2003, 7:12pm

I just want to say THANKYOU ENZO for pointing out that terrain is
slightly higer than ground.rwx. Some people have been crying out for
terrin in AlphaWorld for a while, but can't they see what problems it
caused in AWTeen? Pre-terrain floors overlap with the terrain.


Here's my personal list of what I want to see in AW:

some new objects and textures - but DON'T overwrite!! like when those
objects were added in January... wow that was a MESS. It took many
emails from me to get most of the textures back to normal. At least one
still isn't right. I mean, what do you guys use to UPLOAD?

special commands - now we have 3 axis, which can be used to vandalise,
we might as well add special commands in too...


I don't want to see a skybox or anything. Leave the pretty skyboxes for
non-historic worlds. If GZ was to be revamped I would suggest doing it
by adding custom-made z-objects, but make sure the current one is given
a world (maybe AWGZ2?) to keep AWHS lovers happy.

[View Quote] > a. ok, but not JUST towns right?
>
> b. me either unless it was testing a new feature
>
> c. the UNI message pointed at a vote page for weeks
>
> d. what features???
>
> e. might be fun
>
> f. New avs you want? Sounds good to me, remember back in the old days
> though, before broadband, every av, every seq was a huge dl... and AW
> was the universe GZ Newbies could sit there for 10 minutes and see
> only triangles we had to replace not append
>
> g. 3Axis rotation has been in for AW_LONG_TIME! Tourist has been
> enabled for MONTHS Which special commands?
>
> Terrain will never be an option, AW is huge and many builds will just
> disappear with terrain enabled as objects are often below 0.0A
> same with water
>
> h. I always thought that AW was a platform that allowed users to do
> whatever they thought best and most enjoyable to them. It was never
> our intention to create community, that's up to the people that make
> the community up
>
>
>
>
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Nov 5, 2003, 7:44pm

I think that would require an extremely huge terrain file setting all
cells to the right level. Aside from reprogramming the worldserver
that's the only thing I can see (can you see AWI reprogramming the
worldserver?)

[View Quote] > What about a way to "hack" the terrain (for AlphaWorld only) to move
> it down so it would be "level" with the current AlphaWorld ground
> plane/floor? People that want terrain could get it and it wouldn't go
> through or overlap on current buildings.
>
> Builderz
> http://www.3dhost.net
>
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Nov 5, 2003, 8:40pm

moving clouds make more lag. I'm sure many builders would be unhappy
about it.

[View Quote] > What I'd like to see for Alpha ...
>
> add some moving clouds ..
> put a sun corona in there...
> please, please, please ..put a skybox or sky colors in ..all
> backdrops mess up for me and it really ruins the asthetics of it all
> ..and besides which ..I can only stare at those mountains for so long
> before wanting a change lol
>
> there ya go ...those are the features ..well ..the features I want
> anyway
>
> Ryan
>
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Nov 5, 2003, 8:41pm

I think you guys are getting mixed up between the ACTIVEWORLDS feature
vote and the ALPHAWORLD feature vote.

[View Quote] >
>
> Enzo you keep saying that. You may have requested it, but are you so
> sure that it happened? Surely someone here can verify if this
> happened since it was a universe message.

Nov 7, 2003, 8:43pm

Who cares about the technicalities of it? Spamming, flooding, it's all
the same to me. This thread is about AW, not A!!CT.

Hey, that rhymes...

[View Quote] > In response to your reply to me, A!!CT world is a non profit world,
> InSaNiTy runs a for 'profit" path and world hosting service,
> therefore hes spamming when he advertises his business.
> A!!CT world is a prduct of AW.Inc like AW world or any other world
> owned by AW, infact the license refers to that A!!CT is infact a
> piece of software licensed by AW.Inc. and is owned by AW.Inc
> Therefore its not spamming. Heartfall world hosting is not a product
> of AW nor is it licensed to AW. True A!!CT is not the size of AW
> world, but thats because A!!CT is a world bought from AW.Inc at the
> price we could afford. As for Brock running AWTeen....did Brock in
> fact shell out any money for AWTeen while he was running it? If not
> then whats your point? I said for him to put HIS MONEY where his
> mouth is and do better than me. I'm the head of a community, but I
> put out a lot more than the sum of a $6.95 a month cit to build what
> I have. And I can change things in my world to people's liking
> quicker than requesting it from AW.INC for AW world or AWTeen.
> MrBruce
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Nov 13, 2003, 8:13pm

Let it become official:

A large part of the reason I registered was because I built as a
tourist in AlphaWorld in a combined cit/tourist town. Thankyou.

[View Quote] > awi thinks that if tourists can't build in AW, they have more of a
> reason to become a cit. But in reality by letting tourists build in
> alpha world (not like we can't spare the room or delete them) it
> draws in more tourists and should make even more want to join, it
> also makes alpha world more active and alive, encouraging existing
> users to renew and such. I know many that haven't due to such
> reasons.

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