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Thread : The Princess Ark in virtual reality
Started at 03-03-06 05:04 PM by Rhialto
Visit at http://forums.gleemax.com/showthread.php?t=597863
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[Post 1]
Author : Rhialto
Date : 03-03-06 05:04 PM
Thread Title : The Princess Ark in virtual reality

http://www.lajzar.co.uk/img/Snapshot_001.png

This is my latest project. Take a few guesses first, then I'll tell you  :)

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[Post 2]
Author : Hugin
Date : 03-03-06 05:43 PM

Princess Ark!!!  :w00t:

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[Post 3]
Author : Rhialto
Date : 03-03-06 06:07 PM

Bonus points if you can guess which deck was pictured without looking at the deckplans in CoM.

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[Post 4]
Author : Hugin
Date : 03-03-06 07:13 PM

Bonus points if you can guess which deck was pictured without looking at the deckplans in CoM.
The 'main' one? (I haven't a clue!  :D ) I actually had to check with CoM to confirm my initial gut feeling. I'm looking forward to seeing the end result now.

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[Post 5]
Author : Rhialto
Date : 03-03-06 08:14 PM

Like all my projects, this one is unlikely to see fruition  :weep: However, this time it isn't due to my having the attention span of a gnat on speed. This time, it's money.

The thing is (was?) being built within a game called Second Life (http://www.secondlife.com). The basic account (what I have) is free. Having virtual land to build on costs money, and having enough land to support the number of polygons this project requires costs even more money. Not a huge amount, but I don't have an easy way to recharge my credit card, so I can't justify an ongoing expenditure on it.

For those who don't know, Second Life (SL) is a combination of paper doll, VRML, chat room, Internet radio, and has a built-in coffee maker.

There are in-game ways to make money from this project. The most obvious ways would be to rent out decks to in-game shopkeepers, or run a disco on one of the decks.

Is there anyone sufficiently familiar with SL to suggest a way to get this done? Or any rich/interested people prepared to kick-start this?

ps: If you want to see the ship itself in SL, the address is "Doesburg, 149, 204, 271", and the command decks (yeah, with faerie ring at the top deck) can be seen at "Doesburg, 153, 192, 750".

http://www.lajzar.co.uk/img/snapshot002.gif

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[Post 6]
Author : stanles
Date : 03-05-06 07:34 PM

Like all my projects, this one is unlikely to see fruition  :weep: However, this time it isn't due to my having the attention span of a gnat on speed. This time, it's money.

I hope that it gets closer to fruition Rhialto, this sort of thing is cool.

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[Post 7]
Author : Rhialto
Date : 03-08-06 03:02 AM

On a related note, does anyone have some good (preferably hi-res) texture maps for the HW and Mystara? I'm thinking something on the lines of this:

http://pandius.com/myst3d.gif

That's the outer world of course, but ideally I'd like a higher resolution. And I'm needing a HW version too in any case.

This is for a spinning globe that will be placed in the command deck :)

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[Post 8]
Author : Thorf
Date : 03-09-06 12:24 AM

On a related note, does anyone have some good (preferably hi-res) texture maps for the HW and Mystara?

I'd be interested in those too...

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[Post 9]
Author : Rhialto
Date : 03-11-06 04:33 PM

http://www.lajzar.co.uk/img/Princess Ark 20060312.gif

Since I've done a lot of work on this lately, I thought I'd give you a little update image. Now that the entire main hull is there (almost, still 2 guard pods left to add), the vertical exagerration is a little more obvious.

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