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.
11 years ago today, the very first objects of SW City were officially placed 100 meters up in the sky near what is now known as the Scoperta Forest region. Today, the actual small town that was built in this area is only a few stray objects here and there as it was originally constructed under a tourist account but was deleted before it was too late to be preserved. A new SW City Times marking the 11th Anniversary has also been released to newsstands all around the city. Happy 11th Birthday to SW City!!
If you haven’t noticed already, Alphaworld has been sporting a new sky for the past couple days thanks to SW Comit. He has put in his own time and effort to create a new and more realistic sky, sun, clouds and stars for the world, as well as updating the mountain textures. There will be more tweaks to the sky as time goes to make it better, so keep an eye out. Thanks, Comit!
Alphaworld and the rest of the AWI public building worlds had building disabled in preparation for the release of Activeworlds 5.0, which will hopefully meet its release date of December 1st. If you are a regular Alphaworld’ian, there’s still a lot to do like playing SW City Interactive, editing and taking pictures for the SWiki or admiring the new forum updates!
Byte spent the night working on a bot that mips unmipped images: MipBot v.0.3! If you have any mass-mipping to do, be sure to use his handy new bot. The bot details and download link can be found in the release thread.