saxon opened this issue on Dec 02, 2001 ยท 7 posts
saxon posted Sun, 02 December 2001 at 6:01 AM
Anyone who hasn't bought this App at it's new crazy price is a twit! It's been reduced to less than $30, go on.... go and get it..... why are you still here?
farang posted Sun, 02 December 2001 at 8:55 AM
I've seen the name but don't know what it does exactly, is it related to Adobe Atmosphere?
saxon posted Sun, 02 December 2001 at 9:06 AM
Absolutely! It's a way of getting avatars into Atmosphere BUT you don't have to understand Atmosphere to use it. Curious have built their own world for you to explore. When you go there, if you've got Avatar Lab you're seen by the other users in the Avatar guise you've built or chosen. So, putting it simply, it's the same as IRC but in a virtual environment. Imagine the chatroom, when it's empty there's nothing to do, but with this you can fly around, explore all the little nooks and crannies and when someone does come in you can chat and pose, strut your stuff and with my animations, make rude gestures! It's great fun. Go and buy it, even if you don't like it you get about forty animated poses from Chris Derochie which you can use in Poser.
PhilC posted Sun, 02 December 2001 at 10:22 AM
Thanks saxon, got that pose and your earlier one. For the enquiring mind, they are not that "adult" just great fun.
steveshanks posted Sun, 02 December 2001 at 2:45 PM
I got it, at that price i couldn't resist LOL, still learning but heres my avatar :o)......Steve http://www.s.w.s.btinternet.co.uk/avatar/sws1.html
jschoen posted Sun, 02 December 2001 at 3:14 PM
I concur, AL is great fun. And creating your own avatars from scratch (Using Poser Pro) is a lot harder than you'd think. And as you know Phil , trying to get the poly count down so it doesn't hang up the browser is no easy task. So I think Curious Labs have done a great job! And at this price (the price I thought it should be to start anyway ;-)) you can't not get it. Just to play around. As to the Quake-like appearance, I agree it CAN look that way, but it also CAN look like "Real Myst". I am a gamer, but not the shoot-em up game gamer. I like the Myst-like games. And with the Atmospher Builder (albeit you have to again try to keep poly counts low) it is amazing what you can do that is very pleasing to the eye. I'm creating a Victorian house in which to explore and bring people over to chat. James
PhilC posted Sun, 02 December 2001 at 4:14 PM
heheh lookin good Steve, we will have to meet up in a world somewhere.