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Posted: **Fri Jun 02, 2006 5:55 pm**

[quote="Ailaera"] There is two possibilities. The first being these ages not be included in Live. Or two that there is two versions of the ages. One for UAM and one for Live. This would of course mean someone will need to make the changes to the age as necessary for incorporation in Live. Not a small task.

Posted: **Fri Jun 02, 2006 6:38 pm**

Technically you will be able to join and play Uru Live if you are on dial up. However you will get a lot of lag and download times for Ages will be very long.. But Cyan will not prevent anyone from joining. They are well aware of the situations of dialup users but there's nothing they can do about that.

And BTW, just so you know the physics engine itself will not render UAM obsolete nor will it prevent dial up users from playing.

J'anim: you lost your broadband connection for good? ho damn, I thought it was temporary.

Posted: **Sat Jun 03, 2006 7:04 am**

I've addressed these issues in the questions I sent to Tweek. We'll see what Mark DeForest has to say today - in one hour!

Posted: **Sat Jun 03, 2006 9:06 am**

Replies to some questions:

The physics engine is changing (contracts still need to be signed). Many speculate that they will use ODE (plODEPhysical) from Myst V.

The PRP File format is changing, but they haven't specified if the object formats will change. (We're hoping that it is only a packing format change like the one from Uru to Myst V)

Cyan wishes to support tool makers, because they don't have the time/resources to build all of the necessary tools.

Posted: **Sat Jun 03, 2006 12:18 pm**

He also said that any textures we use will have to be made completely by us, and cannot be taken from the Internet....which would be very challenging.

Maybe he's just talking about copy-written textures, because there are some free texture sites out there that would be great to be able to use.

Posted: **Sat Jun 03, 2006 1:24 pm**

I really hope your right and he's only talking about copyrighten textures. Cause if he means all textures then that would set us back by at least a year. We don't have the artists for something like that, like Cyan does.

Posted: **Sun Jun 04, 2006 10:39 am**

Another thing that was said in the second meeting:

(06/03 20:37:35) Mystical Explorer: What will happen to those ages that we have been working on in Blender and the fan-plugin? Will there be a way to incorperate those ages without redoing them?
(06/03 20:38:43) Chogon: We will definitely have to have some way to convert those Ages. Not sure what that is yet. But those early fan Ages are important.

...so that's good.

Posted: **Sun Jun 04, 2006 11:23 am**

Pfft. I serverely doubt that they will. More like we will add support for the Live format.

Posted: **Sun Jun 04, 2006 3:44 pm**

[quote="AdamJohnso"] Pfft. I serverely doubt that they will. More like we will add support for the Live format.

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