Would it work to set up a DevART account?

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Re: Would it work to set up a DevART account?

Postby janaba » Tue Oct 01, 2013 4:30 am

Deledrius is right, Afalstein, yeah, of course, he's the specialist lol, and he knows and explained the restrictions ingrained in the system already extensively ... The KI system was never intended (or not capable to be coded back in the days) to deliver high quality pictures for external use (though they're already much much better than a few years ago) esp. not for a presentation on high quality special artists websites ... That doesn't mean that it necessarily has to be or to remain so ... The KI system was a D'ni (Cyan) invented internal GPS system (and I'm sure control sytem lol) and to conveniently and quickly take and send pictures resp. mere snapshots and messages back and forth and to keep track of and quickly deliver important news to fellow explorers, researchers and friends or even everyone connected ... Of course, you know this, I say it like this to remind you that this isn't meant to be an internal camera, so this wasn't the focus when inventing it ... :P

This KI system is not yet able to serve a higher purpose and thus to be used for purposes requiring high quality in RL ... that's a fact we have to live with by now and should use other systems, e.g. our own OS, Windows, Linux, Mac (don't know Mac's OS lol) or so, as proposed by Deledrius and/or tools, screenshot/video capture tools, to present and transmit from the cavern what we'd like to show to the world on the surface ...

Besides that, your pictures and their perspectives and descriptions are beautiful, Fehnir's House is absolutely beautiful, they're just a little stretched, but I'd wonder if you yourself wouldn't see it and wonder ... Thanks again however, Afalstein, for your input and sharing this with us ... :)
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Re: Would it work to set up a DevART account?

Postby diafero » Sun Oct 06, 2013 4:17 am

At leas in Uru:CC, I a pretty sure the KI takes an actual screenshot. There are some indications to this, for example sometimes I saw the cursor on the shots (until I fixed the KI to disable the cursor before taking the shot), and when I do weird stuff in window mode I actually got parts of my desktop background into the shot. I even saw people using this to "upload" arbitrary pictures into the KI ;-) but on my system I only got garbage this way.
Of course, the resolution and JPEG quality the image is actually saved in are still horrible.
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Re: Would it work to set up a DevART account?

Postby Afalstein » Fri Feb 21, 2014 11:34 am

So, this is annoying.

I've gone through three different Ages (D'ni temple, Crater Concept, Jonae), all beautifully crafted ages that I'm sure would attract plenty of attention. I've taken screenshots--using my computer this time--of all of them.

But I can't seem to get in touch with their respective authors!

EDIT: It seems this might be a problem with my messenger system. None of the messages are showing up in my sent messages. While I'm trying to figure this out, does anyone know of another way to contact mattthornb, jonnee, or jamey?
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Re: Would it work to set up a DevART account?

Postby Karkadann » Fri Feb 21, 2014 11:46 am

have you tried sending them a PM threw the Myst Online Forums
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Re: Would it work to set up a DevART account?

Postby janaba » Fri Feb 21, 2014 11:54 am

Afalstein, matthornb and Jamey are still active community members, Jonnee left the community and the GoW years ago completely for no obvious reason(s) ... :P

You can write a PM to matthornb on the MOUL forums, maybe he'll be stopping by here and answer to you directly, and here you find Jamey on the MOUL forums as well with an additional link to his website with further contact info posted by Tai'lahr ... I wish you much luck further on, Afalstein, just use the search facilities on our main forums to find some of the authors, many have gone though ... :)
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Re: Would it work to set up a DevART account?

Postby Afalstein » Fri Feb 21, 2014 8:45 pm

I have been trying to contact them using the PM system here, but it doesn't seem to be currently working. I've tried to send the messages dozens of times, and not one is showing up in my "sent messages" folder. Meanwhile, I have three messages in my outbox that are for some reason just sitting there. Maybe I'll have better luck on the MOUL forums.
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Re: Would it work to set up a DevART account?

Postby Acorn » Sat Feb 22, 2014 3:40 am

Messages sit in the outbox until they have been read by the recipient. Only then do they move to the "sent" box. So this is merely signalling what you already know - that they haven't been read yet. ;)

Edited - oh, and the MOUL forums work the same way.
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Re: Would it work to set up a DevART account?

Postby Afalstein » Sat Feb 22, 2014 9:24 am

Oh. Huh. I guess that makes sense. I did finally get in touch with mattthornb, so there's that.
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Re: Would it work to set up a DevART account?

Postby Afalstein » Sat Mar 08, 2014 5:49 pm

Images from matthornb's Dni Temple Area One are now up. http://dni-guild-of-writers.deviantart.com/gallery/

I did these with the screenshot function on Windows, as opposed to the KI screenshots I have been using, so the pictures are clearer and better-proportioned. D'ni Temple is a small but intriuging age, and matthornb was kind enough to provide information on its origins and inspiration, and even gave us a piece of concept art.
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Re: Would it work to set up a DevART account?

Postby Deledrius » Sat Mar 08, 2014 9:03 pm

That's a lovely-looking Age, and some very nice concept art, too! Thanks for posting that. :)
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