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Santa's Village
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Santa's Village // Roundtable
Post by TomG // Dec 16, 2008, 11:35am
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Hi all,
Santa's Village has just gone live!
This village was created by Heidi Simonsen, Stephen May, Augusto Michelis and Matthew Collins. It should be turning up on MSNBC later today, and I'll add a link there when that goes live.
Meantime, we've created our own page for you to access it, and it can be found here:
http://www.caligari.com/News/PressReleases/tSVE_SantaVillage.asp
The objects may take a moment or two to load. I may have an optimised version of the page ready later today too, will let you know!
This environment is where we'll be having Thursday Night Live! this week, to get everyone feeling festive! So do come along and browse it in trueSpace Shared Space, as well as having a look at it here in Virtual Earth.
I'm very impressed with our artists, as always, who not only created great models, but did so and solved some particular needs too (such as transparency, and also getting these working as OBJs to load into the Virtual Earth embedded app which uses the VE SDK). That meant it was more than just straightforward modeling. I think this makes a fantastic environment, so my thanks to all four of them!
And I hope you enjoy the trip to see Santa - Merry Christmas everyone!
Tom |
Post by frootee // Dec 16, 2008, 11:47am
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Very well done everyone!
BTW Tom... the date on that webpage should say,
Thursday December 17
Right now it says
Thursday December 15
(that was yesterday!) |
Post by TomG // Dec 16, 2008, 11:55am
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Or Dec 18th even! We'll get there :) Will be optimising the page and will make that change when that goes live, thanks for spotting it as I hadn't noticed!
Tom |
Post by frootee // Dec 16, 2008, 12:12pm
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geez you're right!
Good thing I'm an Engineer, and not a Mathematician! :) |
Post by jamesmc // Dec 16, 2008, 12:27pm
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Cute!
And very well done!
I'm sure boys and girls of all ages will enjoy this live interaction. :) |
Post by TomG // Dec 16, 2008, 1:39pm
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And now the page it was designed for is live, over at MSNBC:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28146841
Thanks!
Tom |
Post by ProfessorKhaos // Dec 17, 2008, 2:42pm
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Nicely done!!!
Love the scenery. I still find virtual earth a bit cumbersome to move about while on the ground but that's no fault of the scene authors. This scene actually made me want to move about and view stuff!!! :)
Glen |
Post by Finis // Dec 19, 2008, 7:11am
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Wonderful! Thanks to all who worked on it.
I can't see the tiny type on the lat-long coordinates. Is it 34 or 84 degrees north? Shouldn't it be at 90 north? |
Post by Délé // Dec 19, 2008, 1:11pm
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I believe there is a glitch in VE that doesn't allow objects to be placed higher than latitude 85. So it had to be lowered a bit.
We could just say that Santa has to move his village around a little bit every year to avoid too many people finding him. :p |
Post by prodigy // Apr 4, 2009, 7:46am
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Lurking the internet i found this interesting blog from a the developer that made the santa tracking..
http://www.mapforums.com/making-virtual-earth-3d-santa-tracker-9366.html
Interesting to take a look all the work behind the Santa's village.. |
Post by TomG // Apr 7, 2009, 4:08am
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Thanks for posting that Prodigy! It was indeed an interesting project to work on.
Tom |
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