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I have posted a short video on Youtube of the cathedral.
The video quality was not as as good as i wanted, the resolution was far less then intended.

Well , i hope you like it, it is still a good impression of what it will be.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntk_hus ... sZWnnBxuLQ

Simply awesome !

It's a real shame echoing sounds no longer work on Uru, though. Still, I like the background music a lot.
The video quality is fine for a peek at the Age, although to hear anything you must boost the sound volume.

Excellent! This is sheer stunning awesomeness ... Thanks for sharing this exquisite virtual tour of one of your masterpieces, dendwaler, a tour of architectural greatness and magnificence ...

Is the purpose of the beautiful glowing embers to give off heat to the visitors of those huge and cold hallowed halls or will there be real fire later on? This is just a question, I like the softly glowing embers too ... The music is wonderful, but really has to be boosted as Sirius already mentioned, maybe this has to do with keeping the file size down to a certain limit ... Thanks again, dendwaler, and I also like your new appearance on the forums here btw, it's classy ...

Very nice indeed! I'm *so* looking forward to exploring this for myself.

BTW, my guess regarding the faint music on the video: you recorded sound via your microphone instead of the speakers. Hope that makes sense.

It's a majestuous cathedral you built there!!!

I think Ainia is right because it seems I hear you said something and we were hearing yourself clicking on your mouse.

Anyway, the image quality of the video is perfect. I'm looking forward to visit the Cathedral in a short while

wow, amazing!

Lighting could use some tweaking, aside from that it looks great

This will be a marvelous age and I hope a challenge for many explorers Den Dwaler when it finally will become available.
I hope you will now reach that final release state soon.

Thx all for the comments, i only wanted to show some of all the work.
I used FFSplit for the recording, i downloaded it and this was my first and only recording with it.
The sound in game is very good, but i had my settings wrong , as ania said it was the mic instead of the direct audio stream.

About the lightning, .. its far better in reality , what you see here its competely " flattened " in some way.
All the dark parts are brighter here then in game. You can hardly see the difference between the center and the galeries.

And i know i have to add light from the lamps falling on the wall, but it is to difficult for me.
i should have set it up different from the beginning.
The vertex painting does not work here, because there are to less vertices. in horizontal direction.
The area is huge, so i cannot introduce more vertices without performance loss.
What you see in this video is only about 1/10 of the whole.

I am busy implementing puzzles, which is far more work then i expected because i am not so good in scripting.
But i have found a few tricks that works out great.
I hope that i succeed in a multiplayer environment, but i am not sure about how to solve a " spoiler" introduced by a solved puzzle.

Then i have to make more colliders, because i hate that camera that i cannot control in some area's.
Finally when all is on its place , i have to cooperate again with Pojibonzai for the sound.
The sound has to be aligned with animations and needs an exact timing.
When this is all done, i want to work towards publishing the age.
It won't be perfect, but i am sure it will be worth visiting more then once.
My worries go to old videocards, i don't think they will manage this.
I builded this one with an Radeon HD4850.
So that is what the user can take as a reference card. Any card better then this will handle it easily.
The total of the dat files is 426Mb split into 16 prp files.

wel that it for now, i will continue working on this and would be glad if its finally ready.

and to Janaba,
yes you already noticed, my current avatar will be part of a puzzle inside the cathedral