Prolific News
 

Goldfish Announced!

Prolific Publishing will be introducing a new goldfish-themed screen saver in the coming weeks, developed using the same tools which have been designed to help Jim Sachs in his creation of SereneScreen products.

The new Aquarium has been entirely created by Prolific artists/programmers and will initially arrive as a test version with:

• 3 unique goldfish varying in size and shape
• Individual fish behavior
• Realistic swimming/fin physics and new collision avoidance

I have seen an early version of the GA and despite Reichart's insistance that it is a primitive version, I was simply stunned.

Goldfish don't do much for me and I don't want to build up too much hype, but I think Marine Aquarium users are going to be jealous of the GA for a while (at least until the same physics/behaviors are introduced into MA).



I'd have to say that and that there has finally been a successful marraige between "hard-coded" animation (which prevents the fish from 'snapping to' different animations but instead, seamlessly melding from one to another) and physics/math-driven animation which has, in the past, yielded jerky unrealistic or non-natural results.

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Goldfish - Panda Revealed!

Reichart has posted another snapshot of the Goldfish Aquarium here.




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Flagpride - American Services

Prolific Publishing be adding the flags of the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and Coast Guard to the existing FlagPride Flags of North America product. A free demo of the US national flag, POW/MIA flag, and the five services' flags will be released by April 11th. The five services' flags will be added to the main product within a few days, as well.

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