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Green Frog
Join Date: Mar 2002
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Hey Jim I just want to ask how the frehswateraquarium is going? What have you finished to far? I don't want a releasedate...ok maybe I'm going on your nerves with this qustion, then don't reply...
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Pet Shark
Join Date: Nov 2001
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I'm kinda curious too.
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Principal Engineer as SDET
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Was in Auckland, New Zealand, Now in Taipei, Taiwan
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A regular progress news update will be appreciated.....
BUT we not putting any presure on u Jim.... we r just curious ![]()
James C Chen
Principal Engineer as SDET, Connected Services HTC Corporation 88 Section 3. Zhongxing Road Xindian District, New Taipei City 231, Taiwan www.htc.com ![]() |
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Developer
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Southern Oregon
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Still working on building the background. Like the current Marine Aquarium, it will start out with a 2D background. However, it will have swaying plants, and that is rather difficult.
Jim Sachs
Creator of SereneScreen Aquarium |
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the Doc
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Zeeland, MI
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...swaying plants... *grin*
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Registered
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: germany
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Nice to know about progress
That's very nice from you to keep us in touch with the progress of the new screensaver.
Have you some fish species allready done? Can you tell us something about how many fishes will be allowd to insert into one tank? |
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Pet Shark
Join Date: Nov 2001
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Jim, would you say that you are 25, 50, or 75 percent finished?
Patrick
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Developer
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Southern Oregon
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Nope, can't give a percentage. At any moment, I may run into an obstacle which would mean throwing away everything I've done so far, so I could be at 0% and not know it.
Jim Sachs
Creator of SereneScreen Aquarium |
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YT
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Great answer, Jim. I'll keep it in mind and use it for our customers...
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Green Frog
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Germany
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Hey this swaying plants sounds cool, makes me happy. YEAH
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Green Frog
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Germany
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Hey Jim, how long do you take to create a fish in general? And how many polygons has a fish?
I'm just asking because I modeled a bit for a game in the past... |
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Sage
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: West Hills, CA
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Plants. Plants. Plants.
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Bat rays? We don't need no stinking bat rays!
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Registered
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Canberra, Australia
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Heck while we are playing 20 questions, how many poly's does a neon tetra have? They're so tiny and shiny, i cant wait to see how they reflect like the Copperband Butterfly-fish does.
Axle Foley
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is pleased
Join Date: Mar 2001
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Yay! That's me and my younger brother: Shiny Turtle
![]() /TT 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." /Robert Oppenheimer on witnessing the first thermonuclear detonation in history. |
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Join Date: Dec 2000
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The saltwater fish are <cross>~150</cross> 270 polygons.
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Green Frog
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Germany
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WOW, only 150? That's great I think...
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Developer
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Southern Oregon
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All the fish so far are 270 polygons, except the Lionfish, which is 359.
Jim Sachs
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Forum Administrator
Join Date: Dec 2000
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Oops. See, I'm not all knowing or all seeing.
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Green Frog
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Germany
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Hehe ok, I tried to count them and 150 was nearly impossible
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Registered
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Dallas (NYC born & raised)
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Your ideas
Jim,
I saw the wishlist and there sure is a variety. Being an aquarist for the past few years and knowing that you usually work out of your own preconceived ideas, what is the basis for the freshwater aquarium livestock? On the title picture above, I see a molly and an "angel?" I take it then it may be safe to presume, it is to be a freshwater aquarium in the traditioanl sense of the word? Neons, mollies, bala sharks, barbs, gouramis, etc. etc.? I see people asking for arowanas and the like, but are we to assume then that this will NOT house cichlids and arowanas or other fish that in a "REAL" freshwater aquarium mixed with the smaller fish would be quite inadvisable and in most cases would render most traditional fish as "meals?" Just asking for a little incite as to the basis for the livestock? You have always seemed to lean towards the livestock in the serene screen being true to the type that could pretty much "hang out" together and with the cvariety of freshwater set-ups one could build (cichlid, discus, goldfish, freshwater brackish?), wondering if you were going to do that again here? Ok, enough rambling, appreciate the answer in advance.
Dave
"no one is worthless, you can always be used as a bad example." |
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