Not sure what Kev'll say to that last name, but WELCOME anyway!

Quote from niall09 :

i have seen Eric He would send Vic 6ft down

Google Fight says so too
http://www.googlefight.com/ind ... d2=Victor+Van+Vlaardingen

It may not require AS MUCH skill as a fully coded application, but come on, the guy's 8 years old. Do you EXPECT him to be a fully accomplished programmer? I certainly wouldn't expect any 8 year old to be. So please, don't give him a hard time.

Talking of clutter, I like to remove all clutter from my desktop...leading me to use this lovely creation, xoblite.

EDIT: the pic isn't all black

Quote from Richie Cahill :

Yea it needs a lot of work, but when you join up you get dumped onto a busy Sim its going to be laggy, the world is streaming down into your PC, its not already preloaded like other online worlds like WOW ect...

The game comes with a built in 3d building program.. obviously the UI is going to be clunky, play at US off peak times to avoid the lag, thats what I do.

believe me, if you know where to look, and give the UI some patience, you can actually have some great fun in there. thats 2 years SL exprience talking.

Amen to that. I've met some people in world I am glad to call friends. Not been in as long as you have, but it's amazing how quickly I fit in. Yes, the UI isn't exactly the best, but I have this to say to the people who don't like it: come up with something better please, the SL viewer is open source, you know
As for the network lag. The datacentres that Linden Lab use are on the West Coast of America. This isn't exactly going to help us Europeans that are logging in from some 6,000 miles away. Average ping to a region for me is about 160ms, and I personally think SL does a damn fine job of compensating for that. I rarely have trouble moving about in world. Try saying the same for something like UT2004 is you have a ping that high.

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Some things built in there are truely amazing. and with the recent addition of Shapes uploaded from Maya.. its about to get even more amazing.

General concensus from the people I talk to in world (a lot of them are damn good builders) is that it will take a while for sculpties to take off...Maya is too damn expensive for most, and the other software needed to create then (Wings3D, Blender) don't exactly make it easy. The whole process of creating a heightmap for it isn't worth the effort at the moment.

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and dont get me started on the furries

Hey, what's wrong with furries? Many of the friends I have made (and I myself, occasionally) are furries. I find the people who are furries are more genuine than the people who spend thousands of Lindens making a human avatar look good. Fine, they may not have human avatars, but remember, it is a human at the other end, please treat them that way

Quote from Termi :

But ... .. .doesnt matter, you all pay for skins, i think its not ok, and thats wat i mean..

So the devs (who are by definition entrepreneurs) can't try and make a little bit of money (and let's face it, they won't be making much at all from the skin downloading service)? If people want to hand their money to ScaViEr to get the high res skins downloaded automatically, it's their choice. If they don't, that's also their choice. The people who don't want to pay for a premium service (noone goes bickering on about people paying more for a better net connection, or a better PC, do they?) don't have to

P.S. (to keep this slightly on topic) the skins look soooo good now, thanks Scawen/Vic!

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Quote from Cue-Ball :

High resolution skins require FOUR TIMES as much bandwidth as the current skins. Server bandwidth isn't free, so they need some way to cover the cost. If you don't want to pay, you aren't forced. This isn't like World of Warcraft where you have to pay $10/month just to play. If you don't pay the fee, everything is exactly as it was before. You've lost nothing.

And it won't make you any quicker, having the higher res skins ( I know, just tried...and I'm just as slow :razz

Couldn't help but notice the 512x512 helmet skin download option...how is this dealt with in respect to the high-res skin download charging?

Quote from mkserve :

I hate you guys

:: goes off to cry ::

OI! *grabs whip* BACK TO WORK! And leave the Nova out back

Quote from Test Driver :

Try http://tremulous.net/, it's an online FPS/Strategy-Mix and uses the Quake3-Engine.

Basically it's about a battle between humans and aliens, the interesting part is that you can also play on the alien side. While the humans use guns, laser-rifles, granades and other technical stuff, the aliens bite, beat, or trample down the enemy.

A very addictive game, i played it for months

Along the lines of Quake 3 engine based stuff, there's OpenArena at http://openarena.ws/

There's also a game called Sauerbraten (http://sauerbraten.org/), which has the rather nice feature of multiplayer map editing, where anyone in the game can edit a map while in play

I know this isn't 3D, but it's damn fun...

http://binaryzoo.com/games/echoes/index.htm (It's asteroids on some messed up steroids :razz

Oh, and then there's Pong on steroids: http://www.plasmapong.com/

w00t! Thanks!

Quote from joen :

What's your email addy? If you don't want to put it up in public you can PM me and I'll send you one

'Tis [email protected]

/me gets down on knees and starts begging for an invite

Ello all,
I have just installed Cedega 6 on my Linux partition and have tried to unlock it, only to be hit with an "Unlocking Error" message. I am running Patch W, which should have fixed this issue. Maybe something to do with the version leap in Cedega?

I also have said CD, but it is in an unreadable state, unfortunately

Moooommmmm! My Trike Broke!!

Hiya all,
I've been having a little difficulty finding the soundfonts that came with my Sound Blaster Audigy sound card, and was wondering if anybody knew of anywhere I could get hold of them. If not, are there any other places that I can get General MIDI compatible soundfonts (must be in SF2 format, as I'm trying to use them in Linux).
Thanks

What's up is someone's stolen my cookies...AND my damn milk!

EDIT: Oh and WINE just ate an unlock...d'oh!

*goes one better and hands round the Jaffas* Gotmilk??

Gives a whole new meaning to the word "blower"...

Quote from Jakg :

Scawen, make the FXO a diesel and I'll personally come to twickenham and kill you. Just a word of warning.

Considering the entire LFS community would hang, draw and quarter you if you did, feel free

Back onto topic...I think the global balancing is a good idea, being a slow as hell n00b in the TBO's I need it to keep up with the RB4's and FXO's in the STCC

CRT or LCD? An LCD doesn't actually use refresh rates per se, they use response times in ms, which is the amount of time the liquid crystal takes to change from one state to another. The 60Hz your computer reports is simply how many frames are being sent to the monitor. CRT's refresh rates are how often the electron guns can scan the screen per second, so that is in Hz

TeamSpeak is a lot better, both client and server side. Much easier to configure and use
And no, Dan, I'm not gonna make any more posts