Guild Meeting Hall (old)

[BAD]

I did. No post were shown. Perhaps you could show me what you are doing to actually get post data? I may not be an expert, but I do know my way around search engines, and LOGGED OUT I can not find one post from this private forum.

Aloys,

It is a private forum. I think to fix an error, we had to make it visible for a few seconds, and that may have let the googlebot get the forums name.

[Lontahv]

Here we go.
You just have to click the "some items were omitted" thing. And you get: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22guild+meeting+age%22&hl=en&rls=DVFA,DVFA:1970--2,DVFA:en&filter=0

And then it's the seventh down on the page. Then click "cached" and then click "text only" And you get:

http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:uBcq7J8BDZkJ:forum.guildofwriters.com/viewtopic.php%3Ff%3D56%26p%3D9342+%22guild+meeting+age%22&hl=en&gl=us&strip=1

It does seem kind of old so I think you've fixed it.

[BAD]

Ah, I must have skipped over that one. Sorry about that.

[Lontahv]

Happy birthday Kato!

[Kato]

Thanks.

How's things coming in here lately? Anything I can do?

-Kato

[Lontahv]

I've been trying to think of what the link-in chambers should look like--I have a bad habit of making small stone rooms look bad. But, I can't let that hold me up. So, soon i'll upload what i've got and let you have a REALLY good look at it.

[Lontahv]

Here's the .blend file. Now you should be able to look at it in 3D rather than 2D.

http://lontahv.googlepages.com/guild_meeting_age57.blend

[BAD]

Very nicely done.

I can't wait to see it all finished!

[Aloys]

Good idea.
Well at first sight that looks like a clean and well put-together model. Not too many faces (at least so far) which will be important if we intend to have many avatars in there at the same time.

Couple nitpicks:
- I think the central stage is too high. People on the floor level cannot see the people at the opposite side of the room because of the stage. To do that the number of steps should be narrow to one or two (instead of the current 6). And it would also make the central stage bigger.
- I still think that the spectator area is too high. Basically a spectator can't see all the room bellow from a single vantage point. As you mentionned it could be partially solved by setting a high camera looking down on the room, but I just checked and even that would only give a partial view.. Evidence. Beside, I think putting it so high 'isolate' the spectators; and to me the philosophy of this Age should be inclusive.
Actually, I think the spec area should be right above the doors.
- I have some really minor structural complaints (some vertexes here and there that could be spared) but that's really minor, the scene has a whole is good.

About the link in rooms, I have no idea either what they should look like, but that's not important right now. First we should decide exactly what we want to put in there. Also have we decided wether we want to have five distinct link in points or do we include a central 'neutral' link in room somewhere?

Finally; Lonthav you mentionned you exported the Age at some point, which Sequence prefix number did you use? We should register it. (just write a random Age name in the wiki list)

[Paradox]

One main critique from a PyPRP/Blender perspective:
You should never just assign UV textures without creating a material. The Material will let you render the Age using both Blender's internal renderer and the Blender Game Engine so that you can double check everything. Materials are a major part of the new rewrite and give you much greater control over the textures.