It was with great sadness that the news of Mauz’s passing on March 16th, 2011 was released to the Activeworlds community this week.  If you had spent any time within in the universe at all in the last 15 years you would have undoubtedly heard her name through any one of her number of involvements in the community which included Mauz’s Activeworlds Pages and her famous worlds Hole and Cubed. Mauz also received a Lifetime Achievement CY Award in 2007 for her contributions.

SW City would like to extend their condolences to Mauz’s real life family and friends as well as the rest of the AW community who will undoubtedly miss her inworld presence.

In case you haven’t already noticed, check out the new Activeworlds website. It’s about time eh?

Some new textures and masks have been submitted to AWI intended for use by the new cloth objects. Similar to particle emitters, cloth objects needed some suitable art to go with it.

Masks: These are masks only and may be used with existing textures within AW. To use on a cloth, for example, you’d write: flat23:cloth1m
cloth1m
cloth2m
cloth3m
cloth4m

PNGs: These are the same as the above but are simple white textures with the mask built in. They are white because you can use the color feature to change its color. Be sure to include the .png extension in the texture field.
cloth1.png
cloth2.png
cloth3.png
cloth4.png

It also comes in a slightly textured variant:
cloth1a.png
cloth2a.png
cloth3a.png
cloth4a.png

Starting with AW build 1196, you no longer need to include mip=on for your pictures, as this is now the default. It’s about time eh?!
Now we just need a way to mass remove all those “mip=on” to reclaim cell space

As of this post you only have about 2 more hours before the promo ends. Hurry!

Tom announced a one day sale for December 31st — existing citizens (everyone, because everyone is renewed right now!) can buy a 1 year citizenship for $29.99 that also comes with a small world.  Following that purchase, you can buy a 1 year citizenship for $39.99, which also comes with a small world.  World server license fees will be waived during this period.

Follow Tom on Twitter http://twitter.com/#!/Virtual_Flagg and retweet this tweet for some phat loot in the form of cit extensions or bot limit increases.

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Personally I think these prices are great and its good to see that they’re starting to consider lowering them in events like this.   I particularly like the throwing in of a P-5/5 world… kinda sweetens the deal a bit.

Anyone else gonna take advantage of this? 

The Alphaworld t_awhedge##.rwx objects have been optimized for better performance now accept pictures.

UPDATE: Also just found out that a new variant for the prism prims have been provided by Tsukasa, designed to be used by Shear and Skew: p1pri####s.rwx and p1pri####t.rwx.