realMyst Master Piece Updated

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Myst was one of the games my family got in 1991. Its graphics were awesome for the time. It was the all time best selling computer game until the SIMS took that title. Parents thought it was great, mostly because there was no violence. Cyan Worlds, Inc. has just released an update of the game. They have re-rendered the world for our newer systems.

Warning: Bad Language

The video has visual artifacts not in the game. I suspect the compression used for YouTube created the artifacts and blur.

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Get the new game for US$12 at Humble Bundle. It is on Steam for $17.

The video does show the new graphics and cover some of the history of the game.

OpenSim Physics 2014-18

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The OpenSim people are working to get a better physics engine for their worlds. Work is coming a long nicely. This video shows a prim torus,made physical, with a vehicle animation script. The track is made from cubes made to look like a steel framework and they are made  physical too.

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This works amazingly well.

High Fidelity 2014-18

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A new post popped up in Feedly on the HF blog. Apparently published 4/24. Gee, just 6 days to get to Feedly, or at least for me to find it. See: High Fidelity System Architecture. As the name suggests it explains how HF will work. The blog has the image I show and you can get a PDF version of the image.

High Fidelity Architecture
High Fidelity Architecture

The blog article is open to comments. People are asking questions and Philip is answering. There is interesting information in there. I also found it interesting which questions he didn’t answer.

 

AvaStar 2014-18

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I see there is a new video out on AvaStar and the Second Life Avatar. It is a mix of promotional information and ‘How To’.

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The current release candidate of the AvaStar plug in for Blender is still avastar-1-1-1057_blender-2-65.

When talking about what AvaStar plug in does the wording is much better. There are numerous things we can do in Blender to replicate what we see in Second Life. But, several of those things cannot be transferred into Second Life.

AvaStar, since the 1057 candidate, does a pretty good job of showing how what we model in Blender will behave once inside Second Life. It is certainly better than the 1054 version I was previously using.

To see Gaia’s videos on AvaStar and Fitted Mesh visit YouTube – Gaia Clary. To learn more about AvaStar and modeling with it visit Machinimatrix.org.