TechTalk 10 Submitted Presentations

[chrispeg]

Presentation Paperwork by autor in alphabetical order

Digitell
MaxPoly
PehJota
Siliconmana
SW City / Hyper Anthony
Talian

Everyone who wrote his/her presentation in chat, please send me a quick link, or post in this thread.

Thanks,
Chris

PS: Please use this thread for posting your suggestions only, not for discussing or commenting them, so that we can keep an overview of all presentations.

[SW Chris]

Curious if anybody has feedback on the Adobe After Effects-style object animation GUI that I outlined here, and then explained in further detail here and here.

[chrispeg]

Hyper Anthony's Links

http://www.swcity.net/yabbse/index.php?topic=8000.0
http://wiki.activeworlds.com/index.p...WishlistPortal

Talisans Nine Points

Talisan: My stuff relates mostly to World Features and Zones. 9 wishlist points I would love to see in the browser in some shape or form.
Talisan: 1. World Water: more realistic texturing and ripples similar to myawo.com/art/waterex1.jpg and myawo.com/art/waterex2.jpg
Talisan: 2. World Clouds: ability to create particle emitter style clouds
Talisan: 3. World Terrain: double(or quadruple) the mesh for world terrain and either increase the number of textures to greater than 500, or create a new texture point based terrain system similar to myawo.com/art/terrainex1.jpg
Talisan: 4. Zones: A) allow "visible" zones with and with/out outlines B) allow zones to have uv 1 1 1 and allow an exterior texture C) allow zone shell to have opacity 0.00 to 1.00 D)Allow zones to alter ambient and diffuse lighting values
Talisan: 5. Zones: Allow water zones such as myawo.com/art/waterzone.jpg with heights from 0.00 to 1.00 to be used for lakes, pools, etc
Talisan: 6. Skybox: Allow an .AWG to be used for a skybox and enforce z-order of objects in a skybox
Talisan: 7. World Sky/Light Source: Allow for multiple light sources(suns/moons/etc) with different color/intensities
Talisan: 8. World Fog: A) Allow fog to overlay Background and Skybox, opacity from 0.00(no overlay) to 1.00(max overlay) B) Allow Fog Tinting to be adjusted for World Fog & Zones with intensity 0.00 to 1.00
Talisan: 9. Movement: Ability for world owner to change movement speed for Walking, Running, Flying, Swimming, etc, and in zones
Talisan: Thats it. Thoughts?
Link to 9 points- http://www.myawo.com/tals_5_0_wishlist.txt

Starhearts Three Mover Points

Starheart: 1. activate attached PE's when mover is in motion
Starheart: 2. object with create light linked to mover should move with it (to make a flashlight that works)
Starheart: 3. separate seq available for avatar and mover
Starheart: 4. add an action box to a pickup mover
Starheart: this is more model based:
Starheart: 5. built-in matfx effects in models, or bumpmap support
Starheart: and here is one that can be useful in a SciFI world
Starheart: as I am working on one
Starheart: 6. Gravity - allow gravity to act on the center of an object like a sphere so that you could walk around it, ie space environment.

Siliconmana's Improvements for AW

http://si.pl2.com/d4_projects/aw_imp...Siiconmana.pdf

PeteHetherington's Three Points

PeteHetherington: 1. I'd like to see V4 rights for all citizens. I think it would be a good incentive for tourists to invest in a citizenship.
PeteHetherington: 2. I'd also like to see free tourist access to worlds be re instated. Tourists visiting worlds might make them more likely to buy a cit or world if they could see what others have done.
PeteHetherington: 3. Webcam & video streaming a la yahoo & msn using streaming addon

Digitell Improvements

http://host.virtualbeginnings.com/files/Enhanced_chat_options.pdf
www.virtualbeginnings.com/static/videos/camerazoom.php

Ciena's Two Questions

Ciena: 1.As stated on the wish list, Consider making zones ignore user's visibility range, so that they always render. When zones are used in outdoor environments, the builder needs to build many zones to account for users with shorter range.
Ciena: 2. why not advertise to get more users

Zooo's Link for His Request

http://www.sino-3d.com//AWForums_mis...ansparency.jpg

PehJota's Link of Zillion "Ideas"

http://forums.activeworlds.com/showt...784#post112784

MaxPoly's List

MaXPoly: 1. UI - Telegram box inlarge text like chat box on scroll.
MaXPoly: 2. UI - Settings - Error check switches for picture ,zip or texture missing.
MaXPoly: 3. UI - Save telegram to txt file in right click menu.
MaXPoly: 4. UI - Lock whisper to in name list when curser in whisper chat fill line, so no chance of miss whisper as long as in visible range.
MaXPoly: 5. UI - Side view in look settings.
MaXPoly: 6. UI - Confirm join /invite Allow setting in Citizen privacy settings in contacts list.
MaXPoly: 7. Terrain - Cell devision switch to make cells devided by 2 meter grids. producing smaller UV settings and finer leveling on selected areas.
MaXPoly: 8. Movers - Pick up movers ability to use many more tag locations and placements for other accessorys then just 1, ability to set 2 shoes or gloves or tools to each hand.
MaXPoly: important is the use of movers for providing a lot of animation
MaXPoly: 9. Movers - Mover eject locked locations to place user in place for eject position to land in next mover waiting or to stand on location not on top of the mover.
MaXPoly: 10. Movers - Mover model sequence effect on avatar type models to provide animation of parts as the mover moves. and way to make it stop animating on wait position of travel.
MaXPoly: 11. Movers - More sound control that trigers on motion of mover or wait in location to change effect of travel feel.
MaXPoly: 12. Movers - A way to increase / decrease mover speeds by user control.
MaXPoly: 13. Movers - If comman actions can apply with in the mover obj even in static waiting position by adding the action field back in obj type.
MaXPoly: 14. Zones - zones ability to link to movers providing enviromental elements to mover use.
MaXPoly: 15. Zones - Block all sound , noise , media , mover sound , switch in zone to kill all outside sounds.
MaXPoly: ambiant sound will not do this yet of mover sound entering visual distance or out side noise triggers.
Talisan: 15b. Add a distance to sounds as part of the sound command
MaXPoly: 16. Zones - Build mode switch to show zones, by default zones won't show in area as building only there placers
MaXPoly: 17. Zones - Zone switch to force camera collision with in that zones area so you cant be set out of the zone and lose the effect it is making by 3rd view to far zoomed out.
MaXPoly: 18. Building - Simple object Prim Builder added to the object edit box, simple generic parts from the prim list in a drop menu would work easly to seed if comman to world path.
MaXPoly: sound blocks sound but not noise
MaXPoly: 19. Building - Scales smaller if possable. Vertex merging by scale to reduce loads alowing larger scale modeling for detail but has its ability to be less as scaled in world.
MaXPoly: 20. Building - Activate action temperant. the ability to click 1 object and animate a motion, then further clicks or commands would add on to that. temp=on
MaXPoly: example: would be like click pushing a block across the floor 2 meters at a click and continuing travel by each click rather return to origional axis point and set amount.

[Kenneth]

I still have my speech presentation on paper that I gave at the meeting, I will transcribe it here:

"Hi Rick, my name is Kenneth, as you know. I have used Active Worlds almost daily since 2000 and I've owned a world almost since then too. I remember having a hard time figuring out what I need to have for my own world. For example, needing a world server, object path - and which ones available plus the option to create my own object path. Then was the problem with not knowing anything about World Rights and Features. So my proposal today Rick, is for a revamp of the AW website with clear and easy descriptions of what is needed to make a world including a step-by-step process of selecting a server, a name, an object path, rights, and some of the features. This way the general public might see this and therefore give the company more business and the Universe more people. Also please include some words indicating a world server can be hosted by other participating companies and also your own computer when the computer is turned on. Thank you."