Eder Gira. A travel into a possibly lost world

Long time it was quieet in this blog. Today i present a travel report to two sims, which will go possibly lost in few days. That are or were beautifull replicas of world, coming from another (sorry) game - Myst and Uru. Perhaps the names are not unknown. For me Myst was a king of games at all.

Myst was made by Rand and Robin Miller, who found the Cyan Worlds company. Myst is an adventure game: It is not about to kill someone, there you could never die at all. You touch a special story and have to solve puzlies to reveal this story piece for piece. At the end you also help somebody, but the goal is the way.

In Myst itself you knew just a little part from the story. The biggest part came in Riven, the sequel of Myst (and the most demanding game in story and puzzles, in my opinion.) Than came Exile, Revelation and finally Myst V.

Somewhere inbetween was Uru, there you had really 3D with free avatar movement and you had an avatar at all. And if you found a way online, you could also solve puzzlies, investigate, chat and perhaps foul around together with other players around the globe. Almost like in SL, but with a better graphics and without market system and those two-colored posebals, but no one would miss them really.

The online variant was called 'MOUL' - "Myst Online, Uru Live". As online servers were closed, many players went to SL. And some of them build replicas of worlds of the Myst saga. Two of them i'd like to introduce, Eder Gira and Myst Island. They are very worth to be introduced, as it is so amazing to see, how authentic they were done with very limitd resources of SL.

Target List, Process map

Hello again.

Well, since the core script is tested, too, i can reveal the project a bit, but without much details. The project is actually the sequel of RLV teleporters (thus 'RTP'.) This technology uses the RLV api to move an avatar gridwide most comfortable (locally is also posible.)

Most important extensions: Predefined target lists to scrol through. Extensible architecture via open APIs. The sensor reacts not only on touch and collision, but also on sit, entering scanned area or chat command.

The core script itself performs only the teleport. Scrolling through targets is matter of the target list script. Its job is delivering the target data inclusive global coordinates to the core script. Next image shows the process map of the target list script.

RTP Project: Sensor

Hello again :)

The test of the sensor script is completed right now, thus here is a new clue: The process map of the sensor script.

RLV control process: How relays work

Hello :)

Today a little more progress and a small tip for the RTP project. If you wondered how foreign objects gain the control the RLV-able viewers, here is a picture explaining that.

The mysterious RTP project

Greetings everyone

The first milestone is met. All important scripts are writen and must be tested now. Completing of them and all required scripts will be the second milestone. What is the project about, i'd not reveal yet, i give it just a temporary name 'RTP' (not to mix with 'TRP', the red pile, what is a quite different thing.)

Anyway, i put here the picture of the rough projct architecture:

Update: LMeter 1.5.29, TRP 1.0.24 (vitality feature)

Well, an update again. But a minor one.

The reason is, after any server update in past, the vitality feature stoped to work for my code. Vitality is a feature allowing the scripts run even on places where scripts are blocked. To do so, the script takes the avatar control, that way the script pretends being a vehicle and vehicles are allowed to run even in pllaces that not allow other scripts to run. There is no other solution to make scripts run everywhere.

Product update: BlinkScript

Seems the most popular item is a script that is no more than make the prim blink where the script is installed. First released in december 2009, it is taken stil on constantly rate. Reason enough to update it. The version also jumped from 1.2 to 2.0. Why so much?