New Content??

[janaba]

Haha ... cool ... I knew eh suspected already that you'd be casting your spells and having
a magic potion brewing in your bubbling cauldron with such a deep silence around here ...

[Karkadann]

Excellent, New content, thank you. Any speculation on which one of the over 100 fan ages it could be?

Perhaps Jonah Hood, I always liked the subterranean jungle look

[Acorn]

Gehn 10 - has a nice ring to it

[Trekluver]

On a side topic, Gehn 10 will have another fan age added. No spoilers from me.

Awesome news! Can't wait to see what it is.

[Tomala]

Just as long as it isn't Gehn 10 Alien Force...

[janaba]

Is there still something bubbling and brewing or has eveything come to a halt
in view of the recent revelations (which weren't all too new for many of you
here I suppose) and in anticipation and evaluation of further developments
and proceedings ? ...

You don't have to answer if there wouldn't be any atm, I just wanted to break
the silence a bit somewhere and see what everyone might be up or about ...

[Deledrius]

Simmering.

[Karkadann]

/Me sneaks up to stove with spoon trying to get a taste

[Wamduskasapa]

Simmering.

Maybe If I turned up the heat I could bring it to a boil!!!

NO It would be best if I didn't - I would probably burn it!!!

[Chacal]

in view of the recent revelations (which weren't all too new for many of you here I suppose)

What revelations?

One thing that's nagged at my mind is just how deep that Library shaft possibly goes...

I found no bottom... See here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrN0H_uYHn0

I've successfully (to an extent) converted two small simple Ages as test subjects, Tre'bivdil and FehnirHouse.

If you put Tre'bivdil on Gehn I will worship you.

Due to the conversion from Havok to PhysX (or to anything, really; this is mostly a Havok-induced problem) not all collision is immediately usable. As it has been explained to me, in Havok these surfaces are all double-sided, so most artists paid little or no attention to the surface normals as they had no need to do so. This is unfortunate as it means arbitrary faces are the wrong way 'round once converted, making them not function as intended. Also, being a question of arbitrary geometry as part of the objects, this is impractical to do any automatic conversion on; it's solely an artistic question, and difficult to address non-visually.
What this boils down to is that without assistance from the authors, or a substantial amount of clean-up work against the exported files we have, it will largely be infeasible to convert even these simple Ages for use on a non-Havok-using client.
What we can take away from this, however, is that all age builders should try to be mindful of the surface normals on their physics objects if they ever expect to use them on the MOULa-era Plasma engine, either directly or through conversion.

Yes, it has to be done by hand. But it doesn't have to be done by the original author. It is easy for anyone who has walked in the Age to guess which side the normal should be, so we could split the work and go over them with Blender or Max.

I think it required deleting the material inside the drawable spans, not just in the PRP. Of course the best way would be to remove every vertex, icicle, etc using this texture, but that's really difficult. Chacal simply set the number of vertices in the icicle to 0 which is quite efficient too.

I just want to remind everyone that I publisheda script for automating that. Since it works on exported objects using LibPlasma, it should work with MOULa prps.