http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.croquet.user hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.croquet.user/2175 Hi, AFAIK you need at least OpenGL 1.3 because of big textures, but that will change to at least 1.4 when Croquet makes more use of shaders. Cheers... thbr tb< at >tcltalk.ath.cx 2008-05-14T20:18:58 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.croquet.user/2173 I've created a small island by reusing the "Croquet(Master)" island. All it does is load in a single character that I'm animating from an external application, so at startup all you have is the avater (say White Rabbit) and this character which (copying Mark McCahill's little video) I snarfed from SL, using Poser to add a couple of extra animations. Why would this take 2 minutes or more to load? Is there some better way of doing this than with obj and bhv files?I'm ready to hack code if there's a solution. Thanks, Matthew mattfuchs< at >earthlink.net 2008-05-12T18:22:40 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.croquet.user/2172 Below are details on our meeting and demonstration session that was rescheduled for today. We'll be joined by Dr. H. Nicholas Nagel who will discuss open art paths and professional 3D content development tools such as Maya, Max, and Blender. Aside from a rich trove of eye candy (see the videos and images at http://ImmersiveEducation.org/events/) we'll have an opportunity to talk about how high resolution graphics can have a significant positive impact on immersive learning experiences. Regards, Aaron ...::::::: HIGH RESOLUTION AVATARS, OBJECTS AND ENVIRONMENTS :::::::.... ........................................................................... Visit http://ImmersiveEducation.org/events/ for this event page, meeting materials (such as images and videos) and additional details ........................................................................... WHAT: High resolution avatars, objects, and environments [MEETING & DEMOS] WHEN: FRIDAY May 9th, 2008 from 4-5pm EST WHERE: http://slurl.com/secondlife Aaron E. Walsh 2008-05-09T17:01:28 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.croquet.user/2171 Hello All, After lurking at yesterdays meeting(and hearing that the SA package is not working with the Cobalt Morph) I tested the Skeletal Animation Package with: http://www.dmu.com/cobalt/CrusoeWeb.zip rather than one of my other Cobalt Images and got a working example. An odd side effect: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYwc_OwOT4o the plane shows the grass.bmp and panel.jpg relative to avatar movement. Not sure if this will help trace back the bug in the Cobalt-Morph. I've been tearing my hair out over this, glad to know I wasn't doing anything to silly. wfpi waufrepi< at >gmail.com 2008-05-08T23:37:31 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.croquet.user/2170 Hello all, Please enter your agenda items here http://groups.google.com/group/cobaltcroquet/web/conference-call-agenda---2008-05-07 for Wednesday's conference call. When: The call will begin 2008-05-07 at 21:00 UTC: http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=5&day=07&year=2008&hour=14&min=0&sec=0&p1=256 5:00 PM EST 4:00 PM CST 3:00 PM MST 2:00 PM PST Darius will lead this call unless Julian or Mark wish to. *Text chat: *We can use this jabber group account: cobalt< at >conference.jabber .org during the conference call and try to summarize the conversation there. We will use a phone-based call for the conference at 1-888-847-3445 (toll-free) with passcode 1 2 6 6 4 6 # [no spaces]. Agenda Items so far: * Review agenda, additions, deletions * Completed o Julian - "Squeak by Example" text to Twain o Twain - Translation has started o John + Style and Structure + NAT Traversal - posted on web page * Old Business o Julian Darius Clarke 2008-05-07T16:01:19 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.croquet.user/2169 Below are details on our in-world ad-hoc meeting and demonstration session that was rescheduled for this Friday. We'll be joined by Dr. H. Nicholas Nagel who will discuss open art paths and professional 3D content development tools such as Maya, Max, and Blender. Aside from a rich trove of eye candy (see the videos and images at http://ImmersiveEducation.org/events/) we'll have an opportunity to talk about how high resolution graphics can have a significant positive impact on immersive learning experiences. Regards, Aaron ...::::::: HIGH RESOLUTION AVATARS, OBJECTS AND ENVIRONMENTS :::::::.... ........................................................................... Visit http://ImmersiveEducation.org/events/ for this event page, meeting materials (such as images and videos) and additional details ........................................................................... WHAT: High resolution avatars, objects, and environments [MEETING & DEMOS] WHEN: FRIDAY May 9th, 2008 from 4-5pm EST WHERE: http: Aaron E. Walsh 2008-05-07T14:00:32 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.croquet.user/2168 Very easy to create, like you can see at the new lesson of our Manual, available now. Americo Damasceno 2008-05-03T13:32:54 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.croquet.user/2167 Hello everyone, because of the Second Life outage on Apr 25 we've rescheduled that meeting (our "HIGH RESOLUTION AVATARS, OBJECTS, AND ENVIRONMENTS" meeting) for next Friday (May 9th). We're also in the process of rescheduling the Wonderland event that was previously scheduled for today (the high-res meeting comes first since we talk about graphics and the Wonderland rendering engine, and then the Wonderland meeting follows with that bit of high-res conversation in mind). Starting with the Wonderland meeting (date still to be set) we'll start having our meetings on Education Grid servers that are hosted by universities and academic organizations. These will happen using all 3 of our Immersive Education platforms (Wonderland, the open source Second Life viewer, and Cobalt/Croquet). For a period of time we'll continue to have some meetings in Second Life on the Linden Labs servers because the Education Grid servers are very early stage and under active development, but over time we'll transition entirely to t Aaron E. Walsh 2008-05-02T17:46:53 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.croquet.user/2166 How to work having many 2D objects inside a Panel beeing inside an island. By example: how to click a 2D button to read an SQL database and write the results in the Panel. Is the new lesson (not so dificult like the example) of our Manual. Any doubt, let us know here. Americo Damasceno 2008-05-02T12:52:46 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.croquet.user/2165 I am not a Second Life expert but I believe that they have not this resource. A 2D application can be shared if it is inside a Cobalt island. We have now, at our Manual for Creators, the first lesson (2 parts) about the use of Squeak for the creation of 2D shared applications inside Cobalt. We will have many other lessons about Squeak + Cobalt. Enjoy. Having any doubt, let us know it here. Americo Damasceno 2008-05-01T13:03:01 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.croquet.user/2164 There are 3 new lessons available at our Manual for "island creators". Americo Damasceno 2008-04-29T13:45:08 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.croquet.user/2163 Soory but there are some problem in the link. Copy and paste in your Browser: http://www.opencroquet.org/index.php/Island_Constructor/CoBlocks_Island_Constru ctor_Manual Americo Damasceno 2008-04-27T23:38:06 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.croquet.user/2162 Correct (I hope) link: http://www.opencroquet.org/index.php/Island_Constructor/CoBlocks_Island_Constru ctor_Manual Americo Damasceno 2008-04-27T23:36:00 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.croquet.user/2161 If you hate Blender... If you hate programming... And would like to construct Cobalt islands; CoBlocks is for you. CoBlocks is a "prove of concept", not a finish product. We are presenting how a product like this can be made, to facilitate the construction of Cobalt islands. Read the lessons of the manual and try to construct an island using the prefab blocks. There are an "inteligent block": a door that opens when clicked. You can test the door in two islands, in two computers under a WiFi network and will see that it opens synchronized when someone clicks it. You can think that CoBlocks is useless. But imagine AE puting available all the objects of "The Sims" for the easy creation of customized Cobalt islands... The Manual has only 4 lessons and you can find it at: http://www.opencroquet.org/index.php/Island_Constructor/CoBlocks_Island_Constru ctor_Manual Enjoy! Americo Americo Damasceno 2008-04-27T23:31:42 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.croquet.user/2158 Greetings once more; below are details on our in-world ad-hoc meeting and demonstration session today. We'll be joined by Dr. H. Nicholas Nagel who will discuss open art paths and professional 3D content development tools such as Maya, Max, and Blender. Aside from a rich trove of eye candy (see the videos and images at http://ImmersiveEducation.org/events/) we'll have an opportunity to talk about how high resolution graphics can have a significant positive impact on immersive learning experiences. Regards, Aaron ...::::::: HIGH RESOLUTION AVATARS, OBJECTS AND ENVIRONMENTS :::::::.... ........................................................................... Visit http://ImmersiveEducation.org/events/ for this event page, meeting materials (such as images and videos) and additional details ........................................................................... WHAT: High resolution avatars, objects, and environments [MEETING & DEMOS] WHEN: FRIDAY April 25, 2008 from 4-5pm EST WHERE: http://slurl.c Aaron E. Walsh 2008-04-25T14:47:13 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.croquet.user/2157 The direct address to the lesson 18 is: http://www.opencroquet.org/index.php/Island_Creator/Class:_Ordered_Collection Americo Damasceno 2008-04-25T11:37:37 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.croquet.user/2156 If your island (or game) will have an "inventory" or you need to "Save the game" or you need to have a score of the players etc. your Cobalt island needs to access an external Database. We will have some lessons about SQL Database access from a Cobalt island but, to do this access, an "Ordered Collection" is an important intermediary resource. This new lesson (18) is about the Class Ordered Collection. OK. If you don't know what is an SQL Database and you would like to create "inteligent" Cobalt islands or games (and to make lots of money) it's time to go to an University and a course of Computer Science or similar :-) Americo Damasceno 2008-04-25T11:25:08 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.croquet.user/2155 Hello everyone. Below are details for our in-world meeting and demos tomorrow (4-5pm EST). Tomorrow during this event we'll be joined by Dr. H. Nicholas Nagel who will discuss open art paths and professional 3D content development tools such as Maya, Max, and Blender. Aside from a rich trove of eye candy (see the videos and images at http://ImmersiveEducation.org/events/) we'll have an opportunity to talk about how high resolution graphics can have a significant positive impact on immersive learning experiences. Regards, Aaron ........................................................................... Visit http://ImmersiveEducation.org/events/ for this event page, meeting materials (such as images and videos) and additional details ........................................................................... ::: HIGH RESOLUTION AVATARS, OBJECTS, AND ENVIRONMENTS ::: WHAT: High resolution avatars, objects, and environments [MEETING & DEMOS] WHEN: FRIDAY April 25, 2008 from 4-5pm EST WHERE: http://sl Aaron E. Walsh 2008-04-24T19:33:08 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.croquet.user/2154 island. This sounds a bit like 2nd-lifes primitives :) Ok. Please let me repeat. - Cobalt developers create the classes that make up the system - Island developers create CoBlocks and/or Smalltalk classes/scripts to assemble their world. - End users start Cobalt for visiting given worlds This is quite similar to the WWW, where coding the browser, designing the web page and surfing the web is also delegated to these three roles. Cheers... tb< at >tcltalk.ath.cx 2008-04-24T17:25:24 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.croquet.user/2153 Hi, Shin! In future lessons we will present how to work using "CoBlocks". "CoBlocks" (Cobalt Blocks) is something like a virtual LEGO, having "idiot" and "inteligent" objects, to be grouped for the easy creation of a Cobalt island. But the idea is that the reader of this Manual will know also how to create new blocks, having or not inteligence - the blocks, not the readears :-) And he also will have the competence for the creation of islands not having the "LEGO-like" style. Our Manual is not a Manual for "end users" (kids of any age) . It's a Manual for "island creators". That are not Cobalt "developers", like Julian etc. The last are the "technical" people. We are the "non-technical". And for us is this list. I hope that everybody can understand these 3 levels. Americo Damasceno 2008-04-24T15:14:57 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.croquet.user/2152 Cobalt/Smalltalk has some basic Classes. You need to know all their methods/functions for eventual use. At this lesson we are presenting the main methods of the Class String. Very basic and very important! The address: http://www.opencroquet.org/index.php/Island_Creator/Class:_String By the way: Lesson 17 ? Yes! 6 "3D lessons" and 11 "2D lessons". Our perspective is: aprox. 30 lessons... All free! Can you believe? Americo Damasceno 2008-04-24T13:25:30 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.croquet.user