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Old 08-18-2006, 05:58 PM   #21
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Mac version? Pretty please...

(After all, UNIX is supposed to be so easy to code).
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Old 08-18-2006, 06:00 PM   #22
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Originally posted by dhigbee:
Mac version? Pretty please...  
Can't see why not. Jim has to finish the PC version first though so that a coupkle of other Jims (no, really) have something to convert to the Mac platform.

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Old 08-18-2006, 11:32 PM   #23
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That's right. Jim O'Connor is the Mac guy. If he's interested in converting it, the job is probably his.

Jav - I haven't really thought too much about the number of fish available at any one time, but it should be significantly higher than the current number because the tank is bigger and the collision detection should be better. The z-depth of the tank will be a little deeper, but there's not any real advantage to making it very deep. The fish get too small when they are far away, there's more stuff to hide behind, there would be more 3D objects to slow down the frame rate. If it gets too deep, it's no longer an aquarium, it's a reef.
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Old 08-19-2006, 08:48 PM   #24
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A reef would be nice
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Old 08-19-2006, 09:52 PM   #25
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Old 08-20-2006, 10:44 AM   #26
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Thank you for taking the time to read this.
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Old 08-20-2006, 07:39 PM   #27
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Its a long way to a reef from Edmonton Ab... but I would if I could but I can't
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Old 08-20-2006, 07:47 PM   #28
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Judging by your avatar you already got your scuba gear on - I'd say you're halfway there already...
Thanks to Morgan, Tiny Snapshots is up and running again with "Tiny Järvafält" as the latest addition – Go have a look and tell me what you think.

"We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent.
I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says,
'Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.'
I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.
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Old 08-22-2006, 05:05 AM   #29
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Didn't see this question anywhere yet so I'll throw it out there. Will we receive the registration numbers for 3.0 shortly before it is finished? Seems that the rollout for 2.6 did not go quite as smooth as expected.
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Old 08-22-2006, 07:42 AM   #30
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I sure hope so.
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Old 08-24-2006, 12:07 PM   #31
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I was in a department store in Edinburgh last week, they had on all of their PCs on display what appeared to be Marine Aquarium, but it had a different background to 2.x.

Could this have been a beta version? Are there any betas out there, or pre-installed OEM demos?
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Old 08-25-2006, 04:03 PM   #32
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As far as 3.0 goes no. There is nothing anywhere at this point other than Jim's computer, in the design stage.
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Old 08-26-2006, 01:48 PM   #33
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Ian,
Could you describe the background a wee bit more? What was different?

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Thanks to Morgan, Tiny Snapshots is up and running again with "Tiny Järvafält" as the latest addition – Go have a look and tell me what you think.

"We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent.
I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says,
'Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.'
I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.
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Old 08-29-2006, 11:31 AM   #34
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are there some features like zoom/follow fish and more backgrounds/gravel/tanks and switching between like DA?
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Old 08-29-2006, 12:18 PM   #35
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Any BETA screenshots ?
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Old 08-29-2006, 12:22 PM   #36
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No to both questions. There will be one very wide tank, and the camera will be able to pan back and forth, maintaining the same distance and perpendicular angle from the tank. I'm working right at the outer edge of what's possible here, and if you want to follow the fish or change camera angles while maintaining realism, then you'll have to wait for the holodeck of the Enterprise in the 23rd century.
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Old 08-29-2006, 12:47 PM   #37
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hmmm a screenshot would have been nice dough ..... but ok i wait and wait and wait ......
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Old 08-29-2006, 01:07 PM   #38
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OK, here are two screenshots of what I'm working on right now. Welcome to my world.
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Old 08-29-2006, 01:21 PM   #39
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Wow!!!, I can already tell this is going to be the best ever.
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Old 08-29-2006, 01:27 PM   #40
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Oh snap! That's awesome, I never expected to get any kind of preview, thanks Jim!
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