Friday with Means - December 11th, 2009 - 16 second rough cut

[omegahealer]

Im just wondering, do you, nabz who post "first!!11", "second!!1111!" and some similar crap just a few seconds after new FWMs appear spend a whole day here waiting for those FWMs, desperately pushing F5 buttons?

actually i just turned on the computer and wondered if it had been posted yet

[Tazalanche]

thanks for the dial-up friednly length

Yes. Thank you for the dial-up friendly length. Now can we have the broadband friendly full resolution download link please?

Seriously though, it looks good as is, but I'd bet it looks great without the youtube dithering.

[Villagebike]

Yes. Thank you for the dial-up friendly length. Now can we have the broadband friendly full resolution download link please?

This

[Saregon1]

Very nice, Thanks for the Vid.

[majere]

45st!!!!!11111oneoneone


That looks really nice. I can imagine the final product together with the perk adjustments etc, and if that doesnt attract players back to the game/ new players, I dont know what will.

[wimsan]

Pretty!

[Noxira]

Yessss that is gorgeous. I know if I was a dev over there I'd do nothing but play with the grass collision detection allllll day.

[Colawren]

Imagine what a marketing/video editing guy could do with this...

I am so happy with the progress being made.

The moving grass made my day...I hope it makes yours.

Clicky

Thanks for brightening up my orgs little spot looks cool

[Wrangeline]

Oh, hell yes. That's awesome!

Great work.

[Shareida]

I love your weed, err grass guys.

do we really need such resource using grass in mmo?

We could also save resources by deleting all keepers from the game.

[Corily]

Awesome!

[agentgimpy]

It's amazing what a little good grass can do to your mood.

[Xeralix]

yaaaay good job to all the coders

you made my day
meh want moar v1d30 !!!1!!!!!

[asavulescu]

First of all i want to thank you Means & devs for actually doing something with this old MMO, its def one of my favs and it will be for a long time.

The video looks really neat but i have a coupple of questions:

With the new collision system implemented will this fix the other collision bugs present in the game?
Will the new engine fix the camera bug (for example advy morphs)
Back when you were using Ogre engine (i hope that's the name) you used that neat and new sky texture in the "trailer" vid, will this be still implemented in this new engine?
I remember you said that you will not do an enormous change with the game's graphics engine (ie you won't change every texture and such), implementing grass will delay the release of the new engine?There's alot to cover expecially in SL

Im looking forward for new footage of the new engine and hope it will be released soon, thanks for bringing back AO to life,

See you around
Adrian

[angryturtle]

Can AO get a update site like you did for Conan:

http://livestream.com/xfire_funcom_priv

[meatybtz]

I like the collision detection, its smooth.

You kind of get this odd feeling of the characters hands being outstretched touching the grass as it moves by.

I actually do not mind that its larger than the actual character model (collision box ftw).

Also you revealed something you havnt yet.. you sneaky bstrd! Nice new walk cycle....

also, I like the fix to the cobblestones (fitted stone) ground.

Really, you guys are putting it togeather.

[Neista]

Love the video, pretty impressive update for our ancient MMO

[Phargus]

Neat

So this will be in the patch on monday right?

[gimpmasta]

[v] Turn grass off....

Amg you got a name now!
P.S. great vid can't wait for the game to look like that. Bump for SL screens/vids are you guys working on that yet or just RK ?

[Trgeorge]

Neat

So this will be in the patch on monday right?

Probably x-mas stuff....actually bit disapointed Means didn't offer any tease on this (beside announcing they'll be running 12 days theme again).