Home Register Arcade Gallery Chatroom Members Search Today's Posts Mark Forums Read Log In
Go Back   Inside: SereneScreen Fan Forum > SereneScreen Products > Marine Aquarium 3 for Windows
Notices

Reply
 
Thread Tools
Old 05-16-2008, 06:42 AM   #1621
Jim Sachs
Developer
 
Jim Sachs's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2000

Location: Southern Oregon
Posts: 9,768
The initial fish in MA3 will be the same as MA2.6. After I re-do those using the new fish model, then I will be adding others. The ones you mentioned are still possibilities.
Jim Sachs
Creator of SereneScreen Aquarium
Jim Sachs is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 05-19-2008, 05:37 PM   #1622
twkatadin
Registered
 
twkatadin's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2007

Location: Maui, HI
Posts: 4
Well, the fish I posted may be rare in aquariums, but you can always take another trip out to Maui . I see them all the time out here.

PS - Oh, one fish I forgot is the Hawaiian Cleaner Wrasse. I think having one fish tagging along with another and cleaning him off would be pretty awesome. Though probably hell for your collision detection schemes...

Tim
twkatadin is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 05-29-2008, 07:48 AM   #1623
Highlander
Registered
 
Highlander's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2001

Location: Antwerp - Belgium
Posts: 87
Thumbs Down

cant wait
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups !
Highlander is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-14-2008, 12:12 PM   #1624
bearfox
Registered
 
Join Date: Sep 2003

Posts: 9
I'm all for letting the lionfish eat other designated feeder fish. Great video.

Also, I know it would be a really high polygon count, but would a sea dragon be possible? With matching seaweed?

bearfox is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-14-2008, 01:56 PM   #1625
Jim Sachs
Developer
 
Jim Sachs's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2000

Location: Southern Oregon
Posts: 9,768
One problem I've always had to contend with in computer graphics is the believablilty factor. I had planned on a Weedy-Leafy Sea Dragon, but would people accept it as real?
Jim Sachs
Creator of SereneScreen Aquarium
Jim Sachs is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-17-2008, 06:06 PM   #1626
bearfox
Registered
 
Join Date: Sep 2003

Posts: 9
One would hope so. There are a lot of wierd creatures in our oceans!

Any word on MA as a DreamScene style implementation?
bearfox is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-17-2008, 10:11 PM   #1627
Jim Sachs
Developer
 
Jim Sachs's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2000

Location: Southern Oregon
Posts: 9,768
I certainly hope not.
Jim Sachs
Creator of SereneScreen Aquarium
Jim Sachs is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-17-2008, 10:22 PM   #1628
johnblommers
The Architect
 
johnblommers's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2004

Location: Seattle
Posts: 756
Originally posted by bearfox:
I'm all for letting the lionfish eat other designated feeder fish. Great video.

Also, I know it would be a really high polygon count, but would a sea dragon be possible? With matching seaweed?  
I'm for leaving out crazy looking sea dragons and dining lionfish, because the aquarium should be a relaxing experience, not a modern version of the Colosseum.
Reasons people don't watch Star Trek:
60% - It’s for nerds.
39% - The show’s stupid.
01% - My parents were killed by Klingons and it's still too painful.
johnblommers is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-17-2008, 11:17 PM   #1629
Tarkus
Shark Bytes
 
Tarkus's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2005

Location: Las Vegas
Posts: 158
I thought the idea was to make it as realistic as practical, not to help you go to sleep or something.
Tarkus is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-17-2008, 11:26 PM   #1630
johnblommers
The Architect
 
johnblommers's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2004

Location: Seattle
Posts: 756
Originally posted by Tarkus:
I thought the idea was to make it as realistic as practical, not to help you go to sleep or something.  
Realistic is good, of course, but realistic dining lionfish isn't the kind of realism I was looking for, is all
Reasons people don't watch Star Trek:
60% - It’s for nerds.
39% - The show’s stupid.
01% - My parents were killed by Klingons and it's still too painful.
johnblommers is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-18-2008, 01:29 AM   #1631
Jim Sachs
Developer
 
Jim Sachs's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2000

Location: Southern Oregon
Posts: 9,768
Don't worry, the fish will never eat each other in the SereneScreen Aquarium.
Jim Sachs
Creator of SereneScreen Aquarium
Jim Sachs is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-18-2008, 01:49 AM   #1632
johnblommers
The Architect
 
johnblommers's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2004

Location: Seattle
Posts: 756
Originally posted by Jim Sachs:
Don't worry, the fish will never eat each other in the SereneScreen Aquarium.  
Good to know, Jim. We lost a Rhode Island Red chicken to a predator just the other evening. Even the raccoons are visiting us before dark. One tried to enter the open door of the house looking for something to eat.
Reasons people don't watch Star Trek:
60% - It’s for nerds.
39% - The show’s stupid.
01% - My parents were killed by Klingons and it's still too painful.
johnblommers is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-18-2008, 09:06 PM   #1633
davethegecko
Registered
 
Join Date: Feb 2008

Posts: 15
Originally posted by Jim Sachs:
One problem I've always had to contend with in computer graphics is the believablilty factor. I had planned on a Weedy-Leafy Sea Dragon, but would people accept it as real?  
I've saved the above "photograph" of the Sea Dragon as the wallpaper on my many Macs, but for the life of me, even though I know it's a real photo (as evidenced by the Nat. Geo. credits at the bottom of the pic) it's still very hard to believe it's actually a picture and not CG. I'm going to screw up the quote, but once again, "There is more in Heaven and Earth than exists in your philosophy Heratio (or Watson)."

In other words, I, for one, vote for including the incredulable and let the buyer "suspend their own disbelief" Jim.
Praying for a Pufferfish...
davethegecko is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-19-2008, 12:47 AM   #1634
ajlaban
Registered
 
ajlaban's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2001

Location: Monroeville, PA. USA
Posts: 77
Originally posted by davethegecko:
I've saved the above "photograph" of the Sea Dragon as the wallpaper on my many Macs, but for the life of me, even though I know it's a real photo (as evidenced by the Nat. Geo. credits at the bottom of the pic) it's still very hard to believe it's actually a picture and not CG. I'm going to screw up the quote, but once again, "There is more in Heaven and Earth than exists in your philosophy Heratio (or Watson)."

In other words, I, for one, vote for including the incredulable and let the buyer "suspend their own disbelief" Jim.  
The Sea Dragon is real alright. The PPG Aquarium at the Pittsburgh Zoo has a giant display tank full of them!
ajlaban is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-21-2008, 02:04 PM   #1635
debavocet
Welcome to the Quack House!
 
debavocet's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2006

Location: San Diego
Posts: 56
This time I have to agree with Jim and John. An aquarium should be a good balance of fish, invertebrates and corals. I love sea dragons, but here it would be big, flamboyant and too distracting.
This is a tank, not a reef, and the fish should to interact in harmony, not gobble each other up. That leaves room for plenty of other interesting behaviors, such as schooling, or nibbling algae from the rocks.
debavocet is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-21-2008, 04:27 PM   #1636
bearfox
Registered
 
Join Date: Sep 2003

Posts: 9
Debavocet may be right here. Even when aquariums are housing sea dragons, they are put in their own tanks. The lack of movement in normal behavior may not make them very exciting to watch.
bearfox is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-21-2008, 04:39 PM   #1637
bearfox
Registered
 
Join Date: Sep 2003

Posts: 9
@Jim

Sorry if you answered this earlier:

Are there any plans to include an option to use Marine Aquarium 3 as a motion desktop/wallpaper much like DreamScenes in Windows Vista? Would the /p option for .scr files work here?
bearfox is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-21-2008, 11:18 PM   #1638
Jim Sachs
Developer
 
Jim Sachs's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2000

Location: Southern Oregon
Posts: 9,768
I'm totally opposed to seeing my artwork coverd by icons and other desktop clutter, so I'll do anything I can to stop it.
Jim Sachs
Creator of SereneScreen Aquarium
Jim Sachs is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-22-2008, 12:18 AM   #1639
johnblommers
The Architect
 
johnblommers's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2004

Location: Seattle
Posts: 756
Originally posted by Jim Sachs:
I'm totally opposed to seeing my artwork coverd by icons and other desktop clutter, so I'll do anything I can to stop it.  
I'm just as opposed to icons and other clutter on the desktop, that is why there are no icons on my desktop. If I want to put a screensaver on the desktop as wallpaper I claim that right. I paid for the software. Jim you are near the line between the rights of the users and the rights of the creator. It does not sit well with the user when a software developer attempts to control what the suer can and cannot do with that software. Digital Rights Management, copy protection, EULAs etc are not product features. They are a curse upon the user perpetrated by a self-interested software publisher. And we see far too much of that in the software industry as it is.

I think I know where you might be coming from. You don't want your beautiful artistic creation messed with, that is why you don't include features that allow the user to change the aquarium background image or put different texture skins on the fish. Icons and desktop clutter on top of a beautiful aquarium simulation is a miserable thing to contemplate.

So let me try to dissuade you from reducing the functionality of MA products by doing something technical to make it impossible to use MA as a desktop wallpaper. IMHO you should put more weight on the interests of your customers.

Respectfully yours ...

- John, who loves to use MA2 as desktop wallpaper on the Mac
Reasons people don't watch Star Trek:
60% - It’s for nerds.
39% - The show’s stupid.
01% - My parents were killed by Klingons and it's still too painful.
johnblommers is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-22-2008, 12:17 PM   #1640
Jim Sachs
Developer
 
Jim Sachs's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2000

Location: Southern Oregon
Posts: 9,768
I've made my position clear. Anyone who doesn't like it is free to buy another program, or write their own. Look what's happened to Spore, now that users have been given too much control.
Jim Sachs
Creator of SereneScreen Aquarium
Jim Sachs is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply
Go Back   Inside: SereneScreen Fan Forum > SereneScreen Products > Marine Aquarium 3 for Windows



Thread Tools

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is On


All times are GMT -6. The time now is 09:29 AM.


Powered by vBulletin®
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.