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Taylor Rollins

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10-12-2005 16:21

I am thinking about designing a structure where you can walk on the walls and ceiling just as you would the floor. I am at a complete loss. Does anyone have any pointers on how to do this?

Torley Linden

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10-12-2005 16:31

I have no clue how to do this but I'd like to play such a game. It'd be kewl, walking with magnetic boots on the ceiling, even. Especially in mouselook!

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Aliasi Stonebender

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10-12-2005 17:08

Sadly, there's no EASY way to do this... but it can be done, after a fashion.

The idea is to have an item you "sit" on that, like a vehicle, causes you to move. unlike a vehicle, this item would map your keys appropriately, and if you were in mouselook the keys would look right as well.

EDIT: to clarify, this vehicle would cause - say you were walking on the ceiling - to reverse "up", and "down", as well as "left" and "right". or at a 90 degree angle, "up" would actually be a movement in the X or Y axis, etc, etc.

It's a hacky solution, but it's possible through a couple of means.

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Cybin Monde

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10-12-2005 17:32

what about this..

within the walls a replica of the floor/walls/ceiling that are about waist height. make them invisable.. then somehow create some sort of 'attraction' between the attachment and the invisable surfaces.

not sure if it's even "do-able", but maybe it could help give an idea of something that would be. *shrug*

hope this helped.. if not, i hope you get to make it.. sounds cool!

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Sitearm Madonna

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10-12-2005 17:35

There's a funhouse like this at the Four Seasons Theme Park where you dance upside down on the ceiling by clicking on a ball. Dizzying but fun. Maybe you can check with it's owner Jvizzle Jacques

here is ROAM iw link: secondlife://Eaton/128/128/

From: Taylor Rollins

I am thinking about designing a structure where you can walk on the walls and ceiling just as you would the floor. I am at a complete loss. Does anyone have any pointers on how to do this?

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... software packages, acting in society... life creating, and accepted, and widely... spread throughout the world... freeing, liberating... allow... each person individual control and decision making... to create living structure... wherever they are. / Christopher Alexander, 1996

Manipulate Gravity?
Taylor Rollins Registered User Join date: 27 Sep 2005 Posts: 1	10-12-2005 16:21 I am thinking about designing a structure where you can walk on the walls and ceiling just as you would the floor. I am at a complete loss. Does anyone have any pointers on how to do this?
Torley Linden Enlightenment! Join date: 15 Sep 2004 Posts: 16,530	10-12-2005 16:31 I have no clue how to do this but I'd like to play such a game. It'd be kewl, walking with magnetic boots on the ceiling, even. Especially in mouselook! _____________________
Aliasi Stonebender Return of Catbread Join date: 30 Jan 2005 Posts: 1,858	10-12-2005 17:08 Sadly, there's no EASY way to do this... but it can be done, after a fashion. The idea is to have an item you "sit" on that, like a vehicle, causes you to move. unlike a vehicle, this item would map your keys appropriately, and if you were in mouselook the keys would look right as well. EDIT: to clarify, this vehicle would cause - say you were walking on the ceiling - to reverse "up", and "down", as well as "left" and "right". or at a 90 degree angle, "up" would actually be a movement in the X or Y axis, etc, etc. It's a hacky solution, but it's possible through a couple of means. _____________________ Red Mary says, softly, “How a man grows aggressive when his enemy displays propriety. He thinks: I will use this good behavior to enforce my advantage over her. Is it any wonder people hold good behavior in such disregard?” Anything Surplus Home to the "Nuke the Crap Out of..." series of games and other stuff
Cybin Monde Resident Moderator (?) Join date: 27 Jan 2004 Posts: 2,468	or.. 10-12-2005 17:32 what about this.. within the walls a replica of the floor/walls/ceiling that are about waist height. make them invisable.. then somehow create some sort of 'attraction' between the attachment and the invisable surfaces. not sure if it's even "do-able", but maybe it could help give an idea of something that would be. shrug hope this helped.. if not, i hope you get to make it.. sounds cool! _____________________ "We, as developers, are doing the easy part – building the scaffolding for a new world. You, as the engines of creation, must breathe life into it." - Philip Linden "There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you'll be free if you truly wish to be." - Willy Wonka (circa 1971) SecondSpace (http://groups.myspace.com/secondspace) : MySpace group for SLers.
Sitearm Madonna Registered User Join date: 6 Oct 2005 Posts: 535	10-12-2005 17:35 There's a funhouse like this at the Four Seasons Theme Park where you dance upside down on the ceiling by clicking on a ball. Dizzying but fun. Maybe you can check with it's owner Jvizzle Jacques here is ROAM iw link: secondlife://Eaton/128/128/ From: Taylor Rollins I am thinking about designing a structure where you can walk on the walls and ceiling just as you would the floor. I am at a complete loss. Does anyone have any pointers on how to do this? _____________________ ... software packages, acting in society... life creating, and accepted, and widely... spread throughout the world... freeing, liberating... allow... each person individual control and decision making... to create living structure... wherever they are. / Christopher Alexander, 1996

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