The Great Tree

janaba1 · Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 11:43 am Post subject:

The film? ... or the possibilities? ... haha ... no, ok, seriously, I suppose
Marten will be in a more fortunate position now to complete this great
project as authentic as possible by being provided with all the decorations,
environments, personalities and whatever requirements needed, but now
openly without having to worry anymore about how to proceed and where
to get the required stuff etc. etc.... Very Happy

Erik · Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 12:12 pm Post subject:

Durin Mephit · Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 3:44 pm Post subject:

With OHB absent indefinitely, I may have to wait a little longer. It shouldn't take too long though.
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Erik · Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 8:04 am Post subject:

What's the current status? Smile

Not to rush you, just inquiring.

janaba1 · Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 9:51 am Post subject:

When I just saw your entry here on the main page, Erik, I thought Marten had
already given an update lol... Smile

So, yeah, not to push or to tease you as well, Marten, but Erik's question is valid... Very Happy

Durin Mephit · Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 5:24 pm Post subject:

People step up, say they can help, then disappear.

I'll work on a 3rd option. Cool

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Leonardo · Explorer Joined: 03 Nov 2006 Posts: 29 Location: italy

Szark · Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 10:00 am Post subject:

I know I don't count ...but I am here still.

janaba1 · Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 11:50 am Post subject:

I hope you're proceeding successfully with your third option, Marten... Very Happy

And I really don't grasp your perception of not counting here, dearest
and very precious Szark... What are we to do with such a sweetheart?...
Maybe we should love him more... /hugs ... Smile

Szark · Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2011 8:37 am Post subject:

LOL I meant as I am only an extra come actor I don't play much of a part in helping with putting all this stuff together. My sense of humour normally gets mistaken for grumpiness even with emoticons.

Janaba you really are a ray of sunshine and a great example to others in how you word you posts.

But my offer of help still stands even though I have distanced myself from Uru for the time being. Recently I have let a few people down, like Leo. I didn't mean to life just got a tad hectic. I just wanted to let Marten know that at least some of us still think about hm and this project. Very Happy

Loshem · Explorer Joined: 21 Dec 2009 Posts: 5

OHB seems to have returned finally. Not sure where he's been but there you go.

Szark · Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2014 1:11 pm Post subject:

man it doesn't feel like 3 years

Durin Mephit · Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2014 11:56 pm Post subject:

It's been three years, yup. In that time, I've gotten a new job, and MacOS X has updated enough times that I have little hope of getting MOSS to run on it.

I just downloaded KNOPPIX and burned it to a DVD. Going to try to get it booted up in an old laptop. I only have a little time every day to play with this, but I'm still trying to get a server up so I can continue.

It'd be so much easier if someone else could just run a shard and do all the admin stuff for me tho.
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Szark · Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2014 8:15 am Post subject:

So how is the new job Marten?

Can I ask why run a shard? And what is it about Macs compared to PCs. I have heard this so often regarding other software so I have to ask why bother.

Durin Mephit · Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2014 11:59 pm Post subject:

Hey Szark,

I got busy again. I have too many projects I'm continually juggling. I enjoy my job, it's still amazing to me that they pay me to do what comes so naturally to me (to be super detail-oriented).

So - in order to finish the videos, I need to film the DRC avatars in settings that exactly match the settings for which I have existing video of volunteer actors representing the original 2003 explorers. That requires that I have access to a multiplayer shard where I can log in with a camera avatar and a DRC avatar at the same time. And I have to have neighborhoods where I can film scenes that match the ones where I did the filming on MOUL(a). I don't want the lamp lighting, for example, to change between camera shots.

I don't have the necessary arrangements on any other shards where everything meets the standards I've set for completing the project. And setting up and getting my own shard running, and a client that will work with it, has proven to be a huge headache.

Windows PCs won't run MOSS or DirtSand, the two open shard options.

Cyan's shard software runs on Windows, but requires an expensive database (Oracle), and it's not open source so that's not an option.

Macs can run MOSS or DirtSand, but because both were originally written to run on Linux and the documentation is aimed at running them on Linux, that is the far easier approach.
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