change backgrounds?

11-19-2003, 10:27 PM

Is it possible to change the background?

AKcrab · 11-19-2003, 10:55 PM

Nope.

Tiny Turtle · 11-20-2003, 02:43 AM

I'll elaborate a bit on that:

The reason the background isn't interchangeable is that it's just not a flat picture. Jim (Sachs – the creator of the SS Aquarium) has cut it up in several pieces in order for the fish to be able to swim behind some of the coral. Press "w" while it's running to see better how this works. It would certainly be possible to create a second (or more) background(s), but when the Freshwater Aquarium is finished, Jim will resume work on a full 3D background which will be apporimately two times the width of a regular 4:3 monitor/TV, enabling panning of the camera, possibility for fish interacting with the coral and better collision-detection. Also, future creatures like a banded coral shrimp and others will be able to climb the coral and the Percula Clownfish will get a anemone to reside in.

Then again, nothing more than "Nope", huh?

/Tiny Elaboration

GPyle · 11-21-2003, 11:02 AM

That sounds great... let's get going!

;-)

11-19-2003, 10:27 PM	#1
Rodney Avilla Guest Posts: n/a	change backgrounds? Is it possible to change the background?

11-20-2003, 02:43 AM	#3
Tiny Turtle is pleased Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Stockholm, Sweden Posts: 7,365	I'll elaborate a bit on that: The reason the background isn't interchangeable is that it's just not a flat picture. Jim (Sachs – the creator of the SS Aquarium) has cut it up in several pieces in order for the fish to be able to swim behind some of the coral. Press "w" while it's running to see better how this works. It would certainly be possible to create a second (or more) background(s), but when the Freshwater Aquarium is finished, Jim will resume work on a full 3D background which will be apporimately two times the width of a regular 4:3 monitor/TV, enabling panning of the camera, possibility for fish interacting with the coral and better collision-detection. Also, future creatures like a banded coral shrimp and others will be able to climb the coral and the Percula Clownfish will get a anemone to reside in. Then again, nothing more than "Nope", huh? /Tiny Elaboration Thanks to Morgan, Tiny Snapshots is up and running again with "Tiny Järvafält" as the latest addition – Go have a look and tell me what you think. "We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another." /Robert Oppenheimer on witnessing the first thermonuclear detonation in history.

11-19-2003, 10:55 PM	#2
AKcrab Registered Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 233	Nope.

11-21-2003, 11:02 AM	#4
GPyle Registered Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 6	That sounds great... let's get going! ;-)