cooliris test

new test ;)

best glass test in blender so far :)

Something different today.. after some excessive sessions with sketchup and finding out you can only export to google earth unless you pay 330 €, i thought why not go back to blender and play some.

Result:

i did not spend any time on texturing, its only about glas and to have the pics reflected. ;)

gonna miss ma booville

but life goes on, eh? ;)

scenecaster-test

wonder if this will work ;)

ohh, there you go :)

hehehe, seems to be a bit buggy still, but its nice. i could imagine this will become the tool to give things like imvu or lively the ability to implement user-content. so for the builders and creators among us, it way be worth to have a look into it.

i like the idea, that you can build models in sketchup and import them to scenecaster. so you have a more professional tool to build your stuff, and have it implemented. though i am not really that fit with sketchup, it has some really nice and intelligent functions, but i find it not that easy, to get where you want to.

extending the views....

sooo, one main reason why i love virtual worlds is the following:

you meet people from whereever, who are whatever...

and you judge them by their output, the inspiration they give you, the value your conversations with them have for you.

i think its difficult to come around the effect of being astonished of what and who is all out there, you will be astonished by the similarities you have with people and you will be surprised how far their thoughts can be different from yours as well.

i have been impressed by some people in special and i would like to have those to have a voice in this blog, as i learned a lot by those people and i would be very pleased to have them further commenting on and discussing my thoughts, as this was always one of the big pleasures of virtual worlds for me.

i could share thoughts with totally different people from very different locations in the world and it was always inspiring and refreshing to me, to see what people have in common and where they think different and to see always both sides learning from just exchanging their views.

hopefully this develops into a place of peaceful exchange about "like any useful idea".

ohhh... my dream since i "programmed" winamp visualizations ;)

Music Is Math from Glenn Marshall on Vimeo.

absolutely awesome. ;)

hahahaha awesome kiddie :)

Page Turning Robot - Funny videos are here

and another awesome brain:



i really do love "rain mans" because they show how limited "normal" minds are. i met a guy who could tell me any exact distance between planets, all the names of all known asteroids and it was really awesome, he reflected my questions totally precise.

after thinking about it a while i thought to myself, that it may not be necessary to be able to close your shoe laces alone to be a genious. ;)

videoupdate on phun - now that it works ;)

So i find the videos about phun just amazing, its like in (very) younger days, sitting in the sandbox.

check this out and grin:

Rockets in phun:

Phun 2D Roller Coaster Simulation : Deadcoaster

PHUN: The Not So Incredible Machine

i do hope you like it and give it a try, awesome waste of time. :)

next test on scribefire ;)

blender camwalk

lets see if that works now, seems i can embed youtube on kamikaze, but not on this blog.

Ohhh now it does work :)

yay. blender walkthrough in my dads basement. All setup and rendered with blender by myself.

funny toy for bloggers

you might wanna check out the scribefire addon for firefox, it provides a nice blogging tool.

Sigh, the good old lions times.

Gotta love "FREE" stuff

So i found another game that calls itself free but is not really completely playable unless - yay!- you upgrade your account, in other words, you start paying.

Thx to misch who is a bit ahead of me in ryzom, i can save myself from finding that out myself now. :)

Not a world, but phun ;)

I really would like to recommend anyone to have a look into phun.

What is phun?

Its a 2D physical sandbox, wich is very intuitive and just... fun.

As kids we used to sit in a sandbox, build carparks, castles, battlefields or whatever came to our mind. In phun you may find a bit of that feeling back.. you can experiment with a lot of stuff there, like a watersimulator, motors, gravity, springs, explosions and a lot of things more.

Its easy, nice and colorful.. it should be fun to build some "crazy machines" or whatever together with kids. Soooooo enough telling, go have a look :)

http://www.phunland.com/wiki/Home

or check it out on youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=phun&search_type=

and another world visited...

So after Misch Lameth, well known in Second Life and (perhaps not under that name in Eve Online ;), (look for edudzzaj on youtube for more info) told me, that he was having a closer look into another "free" online world, i decided to take a little look as well.

If you want to take a look as well, follow this link: http://www.ryzom.com/en/

After a first little shock about how big those worlds got meanwhile, i found a quite nice drawn world, with a bit of more mangalike characters and a kind of typical MMORPG gameplay and the typical option to "upgrade your account".

That means to me, that, just like with most MMORPG´s you seem to need to register and spend lots to be really able to compete.

Virtual Worlds visited so far:

Second Life

Openlifegrid

Entropia Universe

Anarchy Online

Imvu

Lively

Apart from MMORPG:

Homeworld (1+2)

Freelancer

X2

so.. what virtual realities?

uhhhhhhm.....

a lot comes to my mind.. i do actually know a lot of things besides what maybe considered as common reality.

to just name some:

• Music
• Books
• Games (like... any, no matter if its childsplay or a serious multimillion $ thingie, it involvevs your imagination, or it doesn´t work for you)
• Dreams, especially daydreams, wich are the ones you are most aware of
• other peoples minds
• politicians, wich do not fall under common other people, but surely are a virtual reality on their own

the three boys in the sandbox, each having a red, like daddy said, bucket, shovel or model-car, meaning each having his own red in mind, wich means nothing but three virtual worlds colliding in the end. ;)

aah!

this is so much not an serious attempt ;)

so far.