Escher's Relativity is doable

[tachzusamm]

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Tachzusamm, Karkadann, all your work is incredible !
I just tested this Age, it is really wonderful ! The models/textures are great, and so does all the animations, subworlds, etc.
I was completely lost in there.
+1

Thank you.

There are still minor bugs with camera, but that's not too annoying.

What bugs? Do you mean that it flips sometimes up or down when you are in FP-style mode, do that panning, and rotate your avatar?
Well, that's the "Gimbal Lock" effect I mentioned some time ago, umm, somewhere. When the camera crosses a "rotation boundary" (at 90 degree, which is exactly up or down in respect to the main world), the axis just flips, whichs disturbes Plasma's integrated panning. Unfortunately I fear there's no way to avoid that.

Maybe you should try to increase the camera acceleration/zoom.

You mean in the main world? That's just a setting which can be done in the Blender AlcScript for the MainCamera.

It just misses some ambiance sounds, a calm music, and a sky.

Mee too.
That belongs to the stuff I left to contributors.

I would like to have a look on the blend file, but unfortunately I get an error while depacking:"CRC_Fehler in Relativity\Relativity_087.blend. Die Datei ist fehlerhaft." I downloaded several times and also tried the repair function, but it didn't help.

Oh, whoops. Indeed.
There must be a problem with my Packer, or ZIP format in general.

Here's a version packed as .RAR, which should work better:

Blender Sources (including commented sources of Python code):
Relativity_V1.4_SRC.rar

Tach

[Karkadann]

thanks to everyone for the comments compliments and technical stuff, I could not have done it alone. As far as a release date is concerned this weekend sounds good, although unfinished I think people could get a better idea of what it might need in the actual age. Look forward to seeing you their.

Kark

[tachzusamm]

Okay, just a small announcement:

Relativity is available on the Deep Island shard NOW.

[Karkadann]

Are we going to add it to the UAM with the rest of the fan made ages?
that has got to be the most unusual experience being in their with other people, Tach you did a wonderful job, their still a few glitches here and their but nothing major.

a new ground breaking age and a must see with friends.
again thanks I could have never done it alone

[tachzusamm]

You're welcome. I again learned a lot while doing this, so it was a pleasure.

their still a few glitches here and their but nothing major.

(Source: http://www.chrismadden.co.uk/science-ca ... ivity.html)

[diafero]

Btw, it would be great if someone could design a Relto book cover for this - to make our Reltos more colorful . See http://www.guildofwriters.org/wiki/Offl ... umentation for some information on this.

I can also add some descriptive text below the age name into the book (check, for example, the GEOLOGICA book at the bottom right of the Shelf - that's how it looks like). I can do that for any age, I just need the age author (or someone else to drop me a mail or PM

[Chacal]

Firing up Uru for the first time in months...

[Chacal]

I just spent some time in the Age with Tachzusamm.
It is just amazing.

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President Tach addressing the crowd:

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[Chacal]

I love the implementation, because it is just simple and it works.
The way the 3 planes interact feel just natural, the same goes with the ladders, gates and elevators.
The elevators alone are a work of art.



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[Chuckles58]

I agree, this age is amazing. My wife and I played around with it a while this evening. Cheers to all involved in getting it to this point. I'm looking forward to it being completed.