Forum: Marine Aquarium 3 for Windows
08-10-2012, 07:06 AM
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Replies: 78
Views: 116,748
Here's a possibly last update to the old tech...
Here's a possibly last update to the old tech previous version of the mod. Energy into the system now only occurs over the bubble column so it'll take a minute or two to propagate to the rest of the...
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Forum: Marine Aquarium 3 for Windows
08-02-2012, 03:22 PM
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Replies: 78
Views: 116,748
I've been busy trying to get a perspectively...
I've been busy trying to get a perspectively correct mirrored background image onto the water surface while maintaining the original MA3 projection matrix or I would have responded earlier. Sorry...
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Forum: Marine Aquarium 3 for Windows
07-27-2012, 11:19 AM
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Replies: 78
Views: 116,748
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Forum: Marine Aquarium 3 for Windows
07-27-2012, 11:11 AM
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Replies: 78
Views: 116,748
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Forum: Marine Aquarium 3 for Windows
07-27-2012, 11:00 AM
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Replies: 78
Views: 116,748
jleslie, I'm sorry about that. But there's...
jleslie, I'm sorry about that. But there's nothing I can do here beyond what I'm already doing to ensure everything is malware free on my end.
cjmdaddy and Ralph, I read up on multi-monitor...
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Forum: Marine Aquarium 3 for Windows
07-24-2012, 10:56 AM
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Replies: 78
Views: 116,748
feldon34, sorry to hear things didn't work out...
feldon34, sorry to hear things didn't work out for you. I know that others have tried in the past as well and have run into the same sorts of problems. I do have a thick skin when being flamed for...
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Forum: Marine Aquarium 3 for Windows
07-19-2012, 12:25 PM
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Replies: 78
Views: 116,748
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Forum: Marine Aquarium 3 for Windows
07-16-2012, 05:11 PM
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Replies: 78
Views: 116,748
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Forum: Marine Aquarium 3 for Windows
07-15-2012, 04:03 PM
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Replies: 78
Views: 116,748
Hello Mr. Sachs and Patrick.
Mr. Sachs, yes...
Hello Mr. Sachs and Patrick.
Mr. Sachs, yes it replaces the drawing of the background with a 3D model or a skybox or a skydome. This particular model came from Google's 3D Warehouse. It's of a...
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Forum: Marine Aquarium 3 for Windows
07-15-2012, 01:20 PM
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Replies: 78
Views: 116,748
Extending MA3's capabilities?
Seeing as this forum has been pretty quiet for a while now, I thought I'd post about something I've been working on over the years that involves Mr. Sachs' MA3 screen saver.
What I've been doing...
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Forum: Marine Aquarium 3 for Windows
10-27-2009, 11:55 AM
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Replies: 37
Views: 28,092
Instead of a heightmap, I use small bounding...
Instead of a heightmap, I use small bounding boxes by subdividing each non-fish object into a 3D grid along each world axis. Think of a bunch a sugar cubes stacked and arranged to encompass your...
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Forum: Marine Aquarium 3 for Windows
10-24-2009, 10:37 AM
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Replies: 37
Views: 28,092
No calculus required
Sorry for the long post. I just want to make sure that Jim understands how simple this can be.
My technique doesn't require calculus, per se. And it's not an A* path finding or any other advanced...
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Forum: Marine Aquarium 3 for Windows
10-23-2009, 10:36 AM
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Replies: 37
Views: 28,092
I'm willing to help for free
I'm more than willing to send Jim (or Feldon or whomever) the code I've been developing since I first came across MA about a decade ago. I've always felt I owed Jim and this would be one way to pay...
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Forum: Marine Aquarium 3 for Windows
09-17-2009, 06:35 AM
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Replies: 36
Views: 47,434
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Forum: Marine Aquarium 3 for Windows
09-17-2009, 06:25 AM
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Replies: 35
Views: 23,668
Jim, are you generating linker maps of your...
Jim, are you generating linker maps of your commercially released builds? If so, you can use that map, along with the crash exception info's crash address, to at least locate the routine in which the...
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Forum: Marine Aquarium 3 for Windows
09-17-2009, 05:54 AM
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Replies: 22
Views: 20,300
I don't know how similar 7's explorer is to...
I don't know how similar 7's explorer is to Vista/XP's, but you should be able to pin any file to the start menu by using drag-n-drop, as long as you haven't disabled that feature.
To do this, use...
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Forum: Marine Aquarium 3 for Windows
06-23-2009, 10:47 AM
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Replies: 92
Views: 80,396
Techniques for handling order independent...
Techniques for handling order independent transparency have been around for a while, but they all involve running through the model geometry twice, once to establish depth and then again to apply the...
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Forum: Marine Aquarium 3 for Windows
06-04-2009, 09:51 AM
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Replies: 48
Views: 44,333
Jim or Edgar, if you're interested, I found the...
Jim or Edgar, if you're interested, I found the problem here and was able to come up with a work around. I was able to get the beta to crash every time by going to settings->program settings and then...
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Forum: Marine Aquarium 3 for Windows
06-03-2009, 01:26 PM
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Replies: 48
Views: 44,333
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Forum: Marine Aquarium 3 for Windows
05-11-2009, 09:04 PM
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Replies: 28
Views: 26,774
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Forum: Marine Aquarium 3 for Windows
05-07-2009, 12:27 AM
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Replies: 970
Views: 1,038,340
Hi Jim. Been 7 yrs for me! Just dropped by on a...
Hi Jim. Been 7 yrs for me! Just dropped by on a whim and wow the new beta looks and works quite nice. I'm glad to see you finally went pseudo-3D on the coral, they all look great. I'm sure the newer...
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Forum: Marine Aquarium 2 for Windows Archive
03-19-2003, 09:47 PM
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Replies: 139
Views: 85,012
hi all. i haven't posted here in a while but i...
hi all. i haven't posted here in a while but i just had to stop by after receiving the new free upgrade and say:
o thanks Jim for all of your hard work in making SSA a reality,
o thanks Morgan...
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Forum: Marine Aquarium 2 for Windows Archive
11-14-2002, 11:15 AM
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Replies: 34
Views: 17,616
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Forum: Marine Aquarium 2 for Windows Archive
11-14-2002, 11:12 AM
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Replies: 17
Views: 9,108
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Forum: Marine Aquarium 2 for Windows Archive
10-31-2002, 07:16 AM
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Replies: 34
Views: 15,775
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