08-14-2006, 11:07 AM | #1441 |
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Well with the high res textures some of the fish options that might not have been doable before should hopefully come available now. I don't know if it could be a simple checkbox, or if when the light auto-changes at certain times it would fade in and out, or some combination of both. There would be several creatures/fish that would benefit from this option and make a difference.
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12-16-2006, 06:20 AM | #1442 |
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Having holidayed in Hawai'i a couple of times, the one fish that would remind me of those great holidays would be the Humuhumunukunukuapua'a or Reef Trigger fish. I don't know the latin name for it but, for me, it is a symbol of Hawai'i (but then I am English), as we always saw it when snorkelling - I've even got a Red Dirt shirt of one.
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The Humu trigger is already in the Aquarium. It's called the Picasso Triggerfish.
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02-24-2007, 01:23 AM | #1444 |
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I still have 2.0 and haven't upgraded to 3 but if there is still no jellyfish I would like to see them added in the future
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02-24-2007, 10:42 AM | #1445 |
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I've always planned to add jellyfish, but lately I'm wondering how practical it would be. I've never seen jellys mixed with other fish in an aquarium, though they certainly are in the open ocean. I'm wondering if the fish would immediately tear them apart, or if the jellys would poison the fish.
It's true that with an electronic aquarium I have used a little artistic license in mixing critters, but I don't want to stray very far from reality. Originally, I was not going to put in a chambered nautilus because I had never seen one in a reef tank, but last year my local shop had three of them mixed in with the normal fish population until they were sold. They are not really long-lived critters, but we don't have to worry about that.
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02-24-2007, 12:19 PM | #1446 |
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Originally posted by Jim Sachs:
I've always planned to add jellyfish, but lately I'm wondering how practical it would be. I've never seen jellys mixed with other fish in an aquarium, though they certainly are in the open ocean. I'm wondering if the fish would immediately tear them apart, or if the jellys would poison the fish.
It's true that with an electronic aquarium I have used a little artistic license in mixing critters, but I don't want to stray very far from reality. Originally, I was not going to put in a chambered nautilus because I had never seen one in a reef tank, but last year my local shop had three of them mixed in with the normal fish population until they were sold. They are not really long-lived critters, but we don't have to worry about that.
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02-24-2007, 12:54 PM | #1447 |
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My developers? Let me look around the house.....nope, I don't see any developers.
No reason to invent a completion date (as if software is ever "completed"), but I've made good progress this week. At the moment, I'm working on the most distant objects in the background, and they don't need to be quite as detailed as the foreground objects. I still have no idea how I'm going to animate the swaying corals.
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02-24-2007, 02:56 PM | #1448 |
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Originally posted by Jim Sachs:
My developers? Let me look around the house.....nope, I don't see any developers.
Originally posted by Jim Sachs:
I still have no idea how I'm going to animate the swaying corals.
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02-24-2007, 07:50 PM | #1449 |
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Dead coral is hard, live coral is soft. I know what they should look like swaying (not in unison, but in a wave pattern). We had a major discussion about this in another thread, the gyst of which was: I create the objects in LightWave. Lightwave is excellent at creating object morph animations, but the third-party plugin for LightWave which can save in the necessary DirectX format doesn't properly handle the animation structure. The only available instructions for this plugin are in Japanese.
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I'm sure Reichart knows someone. Forward the Read Me to him.
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02-24-2007, 08:11 PM | #1451 |
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Or maybe Celine could help you.
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Originally posted by Jim Sachs:
Lightwave is excellent at creating object morph animations, but the third-party plugin for LightWave which can save in the necessary DirectX format doesn't properly handle the animation structure.
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The PC version has always been DirectX. The Mac version (translated by Jim O'Connor) has always been OpenGL.
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And from peeking at the Mac version, I can tell you that it uses a wrapper to read the DirectX models, rather than converting all 28 fish into OpenGL objects.
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02-26-2007, 08:09 AM | #1455 |
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I just wanted to let you know that this screensaver looks great on giant overhead screens! I used my laptop for a presentation at church where we have 2 - 15' X 15' (approximately) screens. I was letting a slideshow run and the screen saver kicked in. I think they liked the fish as much as my pictures.
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WOW.................... I bet they did.
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Originally posted by waderobb1:
I just wanted to let you know that this screensaver looks great on giant overhead screens! I used my laptop for a presentation at church where we have 2 - 15' X 15' (approximately) screens. I was letting a slideshow run and the screen saver kicked in. I think they liked the fish as much as my pictures.
Last weekend I was at Fry's Electronics and after drooling over the Apple 30-inch displays in the Mac section I wandered over to look at the PC section and there were dozens and dozens of computers running the Marine Aquarium Screen saver, most with that cool blue gravel not found on the Mac version.
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That would be the Goldfish aquarium then, right? The only one with blue gravel is the one that comes with XP MCE 2005.
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02-26-2007, 04:58 PM | #1459 |
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Originally posted by drfish:
That would be the Goldfish aquarium then, right? The only one with blue gravel is the one that comes with XP MCE 2005.
You're right it has to be the Goldfish Aquarium according to Eric's post. As a Mac user I feel blue with envy of the Windows Multimedia Edition version of GA with that wonderful blue gravel.
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Too bad you're not me as I don't envy it one bit. What happened to the clean Apple look? That one looks like a kids version.
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