Hi, I play both SL and There and have been a huge fan of all the games of Myst.
These too places; SL and There are and have been the closest alt, existing, 'working'
online game virtual worlds to URU. They have working economies and you can
'build' your 'age' either using pre-made objects (There) or making the objects your self
in real time plus scripting of objects to make them move, for 1 of 100000000000000000's
of examples I could mention but won't.
( Second Life aka; SL )
I personaly like SL the best because pretty much your dreams are the limit when it
comes to creating things in SL, but there is a learning curve and SL has limits.
But what I have seen and visited have been very good. I'm a stickler for detail
and realisem (emersivness).
One of the problems in SL is the MechanaX of making things work like they did in MOUL, work in SL. Another problem is getting the scale of the cavern and its objects
right so things will look like the normal (moul ingame onjects) instead of distorted
versions etc. ie; learning curve.
I wonder if its possible at all to break down MOUL so you would have all the meshes
in one folder (per say) All the scripts in another folder, exclude the phyX use SLs Havok.
1. upload the ported meshes as objects with the textures.
and build Ae'gura.
2. Then port the scripts to havok format to be used in SL scripts etc.
To be used in like touching a linking pad or pressing a button to make a door open etc. (btw the new MOUL hood Garden age Bahro door swirly puzzle ACTUALY WORKS
I did not know that was even possible in SL! simply amazing and hats off to the coder(s) who did that.) and used for any phyX stuff.
I know Cyan has OK'd the use of URU's textures in one SL SIM not sure of the other ones, what I'm trying to say is just how hard would it be to get the meshes out of MOUL and ported to 3Dmax (SLs sculpty object, out of game maker proggy) ???
I suggest that a in SIM URL web link koisik be set up so you click on it your browser will take you to HERE! for example.
The D'ni Voice is the best (in game) way of getting the word out to others, for all things related to URU in SL.
There is even a learning how to speak and write in D'ni, language classes are
on going and easy to join.
Now for the next update to URU content to SL is the much awaited;
The Age of CruX. Which is a Island with a story and mysteries to figure out.