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Feb 5, 2006, 5:59pm

For those of you who have been entering the world Steel and crashing, I'm
doing everything I can to stop it from happening. I've just recently moved
GZ to a new location and reduced all the textures in the world down to
256x256. However, if you come back to the world you may not notice the
change unless you delete your cache. I hope the changes help. Currently
there is 1 texture that is 2000x1000 and is used in the sun object. I'll
continue to look into the problem, but I'm not able to duplicate the crashes
on any pc I have access to.

Sorry for the inconvieniences.

Feb 5, 2006, 6:44pm

Most video cards can only display 256x256 or 512x512, some newer cards
can display 1024 textures, but a lot of people in AW still have pretty
crappy cards.

Don't worry about the texture sizes, AW doesn't actually display jpg's
as it's a compressed format and not suitable for real time rendering.
What the rendering engine does is download the jpg (a nice small size
for downloading) then converts it to another format and power-2 size (ie
512x512).

So, on one hand, that giant giant texture probably isn't crashing anyone
or causing any trouble, as it is converted after downloading to a
renderable size, but on the other hand, it's massive size is an absolute
waste taking up space on your object path and needless time on our
downloads.

I think at least.

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Feb 5, 2006, 7:08pm

I made 2 changes. 1) sun texture is now 512x256 2) one object was missing a
vertex due to a conversion error, I reconverted it with a newer version of
accutrans, no more missing vertex.

Feb 11, 2006, 3:32am

The world Steel is temporarily closed for a 'rethink'. This will last until
late Sunday evening. Thankyou.

Feb 13, 2006, 5:44am

at least until next weekend. Definite work in progress. Hope you're not
scared of heights.

Feb 14, 2006, 3:41am

I'm curious.. is there a website I can go to find out what Steel is about,
specifically what theme? I am just a world-hopper, akin to virtual
e-grasshopper. ;)

--
Respectfully Yours,
Legion
Chief Executive Officer and President of Operations
Circle of Peace Inc. Management

"Cogito, ergo sum" (I think, therefore I am) - Rene Descartes, 17th century
French philosopher, Terra (Earth)

"Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the
problem." - Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States (1981-1989)

"And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you-ask
what you can do for your country." - John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the
United States (1961-1963)

"So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have
to fear is fear itself-nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which
paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance." - Franklin Delano
Roosevelt, 32th President of the United States (1933-1945)

"Gentlemen, get the thing straight, once and for all: the policeman isn't
there to 'create' disorder; the policeman is there to 'preserve'
disorder." - Richard J. Daley, Mayor of Chic
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Feb 14, 2006, 5:20am

Thanks for inquiring. However the answer is negative. There is no website.
Sorry. The world is an ongoing experiment with a Sci-Fi theme. Currently I
am working on a new world object and working to create complicated
animations which I hope look cool. More like self educating myself on how to
do these things and hopefully sharing the results. By next weekend I intend
to allow public tourist and citizen building within the world for the next
few months. It's my intention to work on the world object and to add
additional building objects during that time. Once I am satified with the
new world object I will re-evaluate the state of the world.

The sci-fi theme I am after is a dark futuristic afterworld where the
atmosphere has been destroyed/contaminated and the planets complete surface
has been built over, leaving no nature. Mans/Beings complete dominance over
nature.

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Feb 15, 2006, 3:34am

Worked late tonight and just want to relax, but made Steel a public building
world. Will try to make a webpage tomorrow with an object and image list.

The world is sandbox mode, no registry. Anyone can build anywhere and right
on top of others builds. I only ask that anyone building be polite to others
and not be destructive with their builds.

I will be moving some of my builds as time permits and will be deleting some
of my builds as they are no longer necessary for the current world object.

No one should assume their build is permanent. If a builder would like to
provide a sci-fi like object to include for building purposes, I would be
happy to review it and add it to the object list if appropriate to the
world. I will be making new objects on a weekend basis and working on the
world object as well. Please send any comments or suggestions for the world
to wardaor at hotmail.com

Thankyou.

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Feb 15, 2006, 11:12pm

I guess I was pretty tired last night. I fixed the rights issue preventing
you from building. Should be fixed now.

Feb 16, 2006, 12:00am

Created a page linked to the world. www.darkestdestiny.com/steel.web which
has a textures and models list.

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