AW 5.1 Beta has been released by AWI and features physics which is a landmark implementation for the program. You can check out the changes at the Activewiki and if you are a beta user, login to update your client.
Edit: AW 5.1 is now available to all users in the AW Universe.
Pretty cool. I was playing around with this today, fun
Will need to think of some ideas
Rockslides. Also now I might be able to make my hockey rink more realistic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd-94SR8iXA
This is groundbreaking news for AW. Might be able to get over the ol’ builders block and get super-motivated again.
This feature has been extremely exciting and fun. There’s quite a few bugs and some oddities, but hopefully they’ll be worked out before public release. This has so much potential to revolutionize building like V4s/scale.
Rube Goldberg machines
lol
That’s incredible! When the public release comes out, I might go back to aw again!
Sometime in September.
Does it seem like the new 5.1 beta browser renders faster than before? Just seems quicker overall and I’m loving that responsivess. (Yes, my account was fixed. Thank you Tom!)
I’ve only been using the new browser for a few minutes, but I also did notice that the dialog boxes, when resized over the viewport, seem to trail bits and pieces until you release the mouse button. I assume thats a side effect of making the browser more responsive.
Well, didn’t take long to figure out the collider command, but I am still trying to figure out how to use the addforce command if anyone has some suggestions. So far really cool. (edit: I figured out the addforce command, thanks)
Here’s a little 30 second video of some falling objects.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll2fzpQN3G8
Because I’m a glutton for punishment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gN9c5v04N0M
Check out the playlist also.
http://www.youtube.com/user/chrisw10#grid/user/FFCC424ABC920C2A
None of you guys know who “The Dude” is and that makes me very sad
If anyone needs me, I’ll be in front of the Bellagio fountains…
/seriously, that’s pretty sweet
Mark it zero, dude.
Figures the week I leave to go to NH is the week u guys are on having fun blowing up stuffs!!!
That kind of destruction is beautiful in its own way. I thought it deserved that exact piece of music.
I know “The Dude” :O
I thought your choice of music was perfect. it almost made me cry in the end. at least there were no noug’s injured in the making of that film <3
Many an andrew was
Tons of noug replicas smashed in the rubble.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shVCbelIY8M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAnnJPM9X4o
there was a bridge made of rope that someone made crossing a river or something, I thought it’d be really neat if someone applied some forces to that when you walked across it the bridge would crumble beneath
*waits for someone to make it*
Soon as we get joints, we could build things like rope bridges that swing and react more like real bridges.
Tauntaun had a good one over in Scoperta that used AAA. Could make it a ton better now, obviously, with much more ease.
Is that likely to happen? Getting joints, that is.
Yes. Simple vehicles, an upcoming feature for a new beta release, requires the use of them.
That’s the one I was talking about, I forgot where and who made it!
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Chrispeg says yes. They’re necessary to implement vehicles, which he definitely says will happen. So joints come as a side effect of vehicles.
And so are joints part of actual objects, i.e. within the object file itself, or can it be used as a command somehow?
We don’t know, yet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hmlmFTrpj0
Oh wow, I can’t wait to play around with all this
Ahhh hinges sound excellent
Holy crap, pins and hinges O_O
This would completely beat anything SL can do with physics.
Except synchronizing it with everyone present!
SL has that and it’s terrible!
The consequence of syncing stuff up is stuff breaks!
You can sync stuff up well enough with global tags though. So it’s really a compromise between both extremes.
I mean in the SL sense. SL syncs all movement, resulting in laggy movement for all!
Also, the physics just outright breaks. Try making a chain out of tori and it just explodes.
5.1 is live in the Active Worlds Universe as of this afternoon.
Documentation
New features of 5.1 up to Build 1150
Physics Documentation
5.1 Category page
I wish we could have the info screen in the lower left back as an option. Was useful info.
Change your video settings to Developer Mode. You’ll see it then.
Anyone have any really good displays of what physics is capable of?
The physics has changed quite a lot. The tower I made won’t stand up for long simply by walking on the top floor
Also, go to the right angle offices , or fly around other object-heavy buildings. I’ve noticed that the textures don’t load for some (though the scale does). If the texture is, for instance, back3gnd mask=semitrans13, some objects will have it, while others won’t.
I think Chris reported this to Chris… peg.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6pzifP3wfE