The infamous avatar update....

yeh I think planet partners are not letting on since they have to update stuff they will have to be in the loop. It might not be clothes etc HAVE to be updated (probably do though) but perhaps more they will want to just to look good.

I could be that the PP's are the delay too, hadn't thought of that, I suspect not though... dunno. I think the new avatars will probably, (hopefully) work a bit more like some of the more recent avatar creation techs we have seen over the last couple of years. eg http://community.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&bid=827

The main limitation I suspect will be performance if we are comparing to modern games. Take something old even like half life 2, there are only a small number of "custom" characters in it. In Entropia, we could in theory get hundreds of differently customised avatars wearing different clothes in one place.. I suspect this could be a bit of a resource problem... probably memory being the main issue I'd imagine...

I've been suspicious for a long time about planet partners waiting for this. For example ND's planet inititally only really did clothes and armour based on existing models. It was a long time before firewall armour came out. I think they've been waiting so as not to throw away valuable time developing things that will soon be out of date.

It makes sense also as you say for anything to do with avatars eg stuff like sitting etc to be left till a new system is in place.

Surprised me actually that they did the hair physics update and gestures and NPC looking at us etc update... maybe its part of the new system that was developed to retro fit the old one too... or maybe there is some other reason these changes were made....?

Wistrel

PS yeh it might be nice to turn on some more of the ce2 features... it might actually be good for MA to move things up to ce3, if nothing else for the underlying performance improvements - it might get them closer to the idea of a console/cross platform release that they always wanted too...

 

my advice would be never update the card based on a MA alleged update. MS9 did that I think and was waiting ages for ce2 to show. By which point 8800's were not the cutting edge anymore

 

there was one... I can't remember if it was late or early november... think Frank mentioned it.

 

yeh not long now... well possibly

 

Not actually in a rush here really. After Christmas would be fine.

 

Well still nothing on this... I've actually gone back to Calypso too. Always weird when you come back to a place in VR after about a years absence. Its like IRL, stuff changes and not quite as you remember. Strange how these concepts translate to VR.

This time, well there seemed to be a lot more of it (from the view up high) and it seemed colder and foggier (it was just after dawn though I think) oh there was also this somewhat worryingly large moon I don't remember being there....

 

win7 is defo a worthwhile thing to get

 

oh rex ps I went back to Caly for halloween - we never got to do our hunt together I'm sorry

 

hmm eerily quiet over in Sweden... I sense a lack of disturbance in the force. My money is on 2014 for the next big release ;)