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- Where You Live:
- Montreal, Canada
- Job Title:
- Contractor at IBM
- Company or Firm Affiliation:
- Brainhunter
- About Me:
- Initialy interested in creating game componants, it led me to learn about 3d modeling, texturing, shadering and scripting. It also led me to learn some tools like 3dmax, GMAX, MilkShape, Quark, Torque Constructor, Photoshop, ... But lately, by discovering the existances of Virtual World projects at IBM where I work, it got me interested into this new area of business, from a designer point of view. I started to get involved into one of IBM's Virtual World project called Metaverse. I started creating my own VW for that project as my personnal contribution. Through this, I started to get curious about all Virtual World projects.
For the past 6 years, I have been on a voluntary basis, an Autodesk GMAX support forum moderator at www.turbosquid.com
- Website:
- http://none-so-far.com
- Which virtual worlds platforms do you prefer:
- None as I haven't tried all of them to get a preference. I did try the followings :
Second Life
OpenSim
Entropia
ActiveWorld
Metavese (IBM)
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Engines I was looking at or currently am ...
For the past few months, I have been getting to know Second Life, Entropia and Open Sim.
Up until March 2008, I was looking and creating a small Virtual World in the Torque engine (currently used at IBM as Metaverse). I gave up on it as I was getting tired of the inexistance of proper documentations, ambigous community answers, re-occuring problems, missing/odd functionalities (ex:no transparency for structures, lack of animated textures, ...). Licenced software.
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Posted on April 29th, 2008 at 2:00am —
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To publicise our engine AliceServer and what Nice Tech is capable of really.
We have something quite unique but not exposed in any major way to the US market at the moment.
Stuart
Hi! I would like to introduce my company Nice Tech and our new Virtual World platform AliceServer on this site, but am a little unsure how to go about it in terms of process?
Could advise please? stuart@nicetech.co.uk
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Stuart