Posted:
Fri Jun 02, 2006 3:59 pm
by Aloys
For stairs, if space is an issue a spiral stairscase is what takes the less space..
The problem with other kind of stairs is that the ceiling is so high that we'd need huge stairs. So I'm afraid only sipracl staircase might fit in. It might look nice though if we do it well.
The idea of glass over the canals is nice. It worries me a bit because right now we still have some issues with transparency, but we'll see. The idea is nice.
And what about a nexus book? We need a nexus book somewhere in there.
Also, what could be in the two other 'towers'; and how do we access them? We might need stairs there too.
Posted:
Fri Jun 02, 2006 4:56 pm
by J'anim Paedet
If we put stairs in the towers, there'd be no room left for people! I think the nexus should link directly to the towers. Perhaps they can function a bit like the Spyroom in Ae'gura? Maybe one of them could house a telescope for viewing the city, and the other a telescope for viewing the sky (depending, of course, on what we choose the sky to look like)?
As for the stairs, I'm going to try wrapping a spiral staircase around the outside of the 3rd pillar. Perhaps that will work, at least for the time being.
About the transparency issues: I'm making sure to test the objects in Uru to make sure they work before I completely construct them, so the glass should, in theory, work. I did a lot of transparent stuff in Terrati Lab (portholes, windows, and the like), and it worked just fine. And when I say "canal", I really mean something about (in Uru perspective) about 1' to 2' wide, not something on the scale of the actual city canals (just in case there was some confusion).
As to the nexus book... well, we could put a pedestal in the center of the glassed-over hexagonal water basin. But it probably would get in the way of speakers addressing the crowd in the theoretical bench area. Really, it depends on where the players link-in: upper or lower level?
Posted:
Fri Jun 02, 2006 5:23 pm
by Ailaera
Did anyone ever get a Ladder to work? That would solve that of course. Also there is elevators in Uru. Teledahn and Gahreeshen are good examples of this. They wouldn't take up as much room as Stairs would.
On the towers if they were larger one could have been done as the HQ for the NTC in Ahra Pahts. Kind of like a Tourist bureau. But they are kind small for even that. Maybe someone can do something like that in an outlying shell.
Posted:
Fri Jun 02, 2006 5:31 pm
by J'anim Paedet
[quote="Ailaera"] Did anyone ever get a Ladder to work? That would solve that of course. Also there is elevators in Uru. Teledahn and Gahreeshen are good examples of this. They wouldn't take up as much room as Stairs would.
A ladder would work, true, and I do have a few in my Lab age, but it would be a technical problem in multiplayer; how would we explain people crossing each other on the way up and down? I do like the idea of elevators, and if I could just get them to work, I would give that mode a try. Unfortunately... I can't. Can anyone else?